Show AV EIt TIE TIFE PAPER I-APElt GOI GOES S TO PRESS Pilate a asked What is Js truth 1 If It Ithe he lie had been privileged to sit is a local room of ot an American newspaper after atter tho the forms went to press pres ho he would have c found round the answer to his everlasting everlasting ever ever- lasting question There the men drop all pretense and speak out with absolute ab- ab solute plainness Tho The exigencies of or ortho tho the profession require them to be silent very er often as to interesting incidents that might have been bean in incorporated ill in- in the story they wrote Th They y know the facts stripped of ot all 11 pretense And the tho man they Indorse in tho hour after the tho paper goes to press Is not only fortunate but undeniably un un- un- un deniably worthy Newspaper correspondents at Washington Washington Wash Wash- ashIngton ash ington unite in commending Senator Smoot The They recognize in him a man manof manof manor of or great ability Ho lie has done Jonc tho difficult an and 1 unusual thing of or masterIng mastering mastering master master- ing the tariff question Champ Clark recognized his own lack of or Information information tion and ho is by no means meang Ignorant when he ho said ald that Serano pay Payne e knew knew more of ot tho the tariff question than any other man In tho the House It Is 13 not an un uneasy easy task Long ago ngo Bill Bm Morrison t f Illinois tried to get through with a horizontal reduction of ten per cen cenon cent centon on every every schedule and he lie was laughed out or of congress by men who realized the strength of ot McKinley's declaration that the Morrison bill was the tho product of or lazy men Nothing so complicated as the tariff exl exists ts in American hl history tory Scarcely any schedule stands alone Change In In nearly ever every one affects conditions Ji In I others So that a acquaintance acquaintance ac ac- ac- ac with all alJ is necessitated And it is a n colo colossal gal task to master these multifarious details Senator Smoot has mastered l them Newspaper correspondents know that and the they know he is fair fall an and 1 honest alert all the tho time lime equipped with data which few tew other men command And Anti the they speak well weB of or the Utah man in those hours when pretense and dissimulation dissimulation dissimulation dis dis- dis- dis simulation aro are thrown aside He hn has won tho the approval of tithe time fourth estate after aCter the paper goes to press |