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Show SMOOT REPLIES TO BRIGHAM H. ROBERTS Senator Reed Smoot yesterday Issued the following statement witlr rererence to the attack made against him by Ungham H. Roberts in an address at Nephi Saturday Satur-day night: T will state tliat-a man of straw was erected by Roberts and he then proceeded pro-ceeded to demolish it. In my 'short talk'at the luncheon at the Commercial club last Wednesday, in speaking of President Wilson's labor record, I read an excerpt from his speech delivered de-livered at a, banquet of antistrike and antiboycott advocates as follows: "I am a fierce partisan of the open shop and everything that makes for individual liberty and I should like to contribute anything that might be possible pos-sible for me to contribute to the clarification clari-fication of thinking and the formation of right purposes of this kind." I then added that this statement was made by Professor Wilson when he was not running for a political office, of-fice, but about the lime he was making mak-ing an application to the Carnegie endowment en-dowment fund as a retired, broken-down broken-down university professor. I then read from Woodrow Wilson's "Constitutional Government of the United States." giving his views on child labor, and also from what is known as his "Baccalaureate Address Before the Graduating Class of Princeton Prince-ton University." Then added that if the laboring men of Utah knew his record on the labor question I could not see why one of them would support sup-port him as a friend to labor. F stated that, considering his record. rec-ord. I knew 110 reason why Utahns should cast a vote for him after calling call-ing attention to the Hillstrom case, also to tlie fact that be would have imposed a 2-cent tax on the production produc-tion of copper and, if he had had his way, sugar would have been upon tlie free list, as well as tlie products of every industry of the state. |