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Show .REED SMOOT, UTAH'S SENIOR SENATOR IS BIVEN SREflT OVATION Points to tho Plain Untarnished Record Re-cord as the Answer to the Charges of His Traducers. If He Has Not Made Good to the People of Utah and the United States, it .is Not the Lack of WorK and Effort, For He ; Has Given the Trust His Life. Senator Reed Smoot, Utah's distinguished dis-tinguished statesman, and tho one senator In tho - national oyo mora than any other living man, the senator sena-tor for whom an ex-l'resldent of tho United States traveled across tho continent to make a single address, u distinction never before accorded a United Stales Senator, nnd tho ono , man that Senators nnd Congressmen i dcclaro to bo tho man above all men In the United States that should bot returned to tho Senate, opoko to a carhclty houso at ho High School Saturday night. It wns a stormy night but notwithstanding tho people camo from far and nv and listened to tho report of their travel servant. ser-vant. Senator Smoot Indulged In no ptr-sonaltcs, ptr-sonaltcs, declaring In adv.uico that It he had not made good 'u the minds and eyes of tho pcoplo, It would not make it so by Indulging In mud slinging. If his record was not such that tho people could approve, ho could not help It for ho had dono the best he could, ho had given tho trust imposed, his very life. lie told of conditions contenting himself and tho Mormon pcoplo when ho first went to the senate, of tho sterling character and friendly assistance of tho lato Thcodoro Itoosovclt, and of tho victory won for the state of Utah and declared that If ho had not m.ido millions of friends throughout tho United States during his years of official of-ficial llfo It was because ho did not posesss tho abllty. As to that ho waB perfectly willing for tho poople of his stato to judge Ho said tho great war cost J214.000.000.000 and that no country coun-try had yet nttempted to pay oven tho Interest on tho money they owo tho United States, and somo of tho countries that owo us will eventually havo to have tho debt cancelled, bo- itfliifm tfinv PATinnt rAV. Ho said tho war cost tho United, States, together with $10,000,000,000 of loans, tho sum of $30,000,000,000 , an amount eaual to tho cost of run-1 A ning our government for a period of A 139 years during which time wo had 4 fought foreign and domestlo wars, and practically built our great commonwealth, com-monwealth, , I Ho spoko of taxes, citing thoso that were irritating and that should bo repealed, eayng that somo of tho taxes cost as high as 60 per cent to . collect. ,, ' Ho declared that beforo tlu war, thoro wero 443,000 employees at Washington, D. C, and that now thoro nro 775.000, nnd brought tho great houso down by saying vncn Warren O. Harding Is elected Prctf-dont Prctf-dont of tho United States this will bo corrected. . Tho way war contracts wero handled, hand-led, tho cost-plus plan nnd tho power placed In tho hands of tho president "greater than that oyer given any. vm in nil world" was discussed. Two questions had boon handed him. First, "Did you voto against tho federal farm loan bill." Second. "Did you voto against tho lederai Reserve Bank." Ho went Into tho history of both bills and said ho voted vot-ed for the farm loan bill but against tho joint stock banks. Tho federal reserve bank bill was explained from i the time President Roosevelt honored Si htm with an Invitation to go abroad : and study tho question. The cora-M cora-M mission roportcd that tho results wero incorpoartcd In a bill known as tho Aldrlch bill which Sonntor iia-con iia-con of Oeorgla filibustered to death. When President Wilson camo in tho bill almost word for word was introduced intro-duced oxcopt thnt InBtcad of a strong central bank, Uko tho Bank of Ens-land, Ens-land, tho Bank of Italy, and the. Bank of Prance, tho chango was mado to twolvo regional banKB throughout tho country. Ho was opposed op-posed to twelve different sets or officials of-ficials as well as tho attempt to minimize min-imize tho powor of n strong central bank, and thus gave It his disapproval. disapprov-al. , , On tho Lcaguo of Nations ho declared de-clared that ho voted for It with fifteen fif-teen rcsorvatlns, alons with twenty-thrco twenty-thrco Democrats, that Senator Harding Hard-ing did MtewlM, una that bo would do tho same again. Ho drove tho most telling point In the entire leoguo discussion during tho campaign cam-paign directly homo when ho said I "wherein their Is any doubt as to whether or not the C ?. .? i Vi protected the Republic i-dlroi In giving tho doubt to tho bulled States." i Ho read President Wilson's statements state-ments against foreign alliances just beforo tho war, excerpts from Governor Gov-ernor Glynn's speech when Wilson was nominated, which declared that entangling nllianccs "would glvo us a war abroad each tlmo tho fighting cock of tho European weather vano shifted with tho breeze. It would make all tho other nations tho wards of tho United States and tho Untied States tho keeper of the world. Homo tried to bo policeman of tho world and went down. Portugal tried to J bo policeman of tho world nnd went idown; Spain tried to bo policeman of tho world and went down; and tho United States proposes to profit by tholr examples." Ho declared that articlo 10 would nover pas3 tho United States Senate or bo approved by tho American peo-plo peo-plo without American reservations, and that tho United States would always al-ways do hor duty to tho extent of going to war when necessary, but that tho United States would never go to war until the constitution Is lived un. to nnd tho Amcdlcan Con-'gress Con-'gress so decides. Ono of tho mots illuminating features fea-tures of tho address was tho com-jment com-jment of Herbert Hoover beforo tho commission of which Senator Smoot jwas a member, when that distinguished distin-guished gentleman was asked to explain ex-plain tho four banks said to bo functioning func-tioning In Armenia. Mr. Hover said j"Tho Agrlcultudal Bank Is located In .that part of Armenia upon tho soil of which decent men can mako a do-Vmit do-Vmit tlvlnc hr farming. This bank and this section was given to Italy. Tho Copper Bank was in that section of Armenia whero great quantities of tho red metal are found. This bank was given to Franco. Tho Oil bank was In that section of Armonla from which comes great supplies of oil. That bank was glvon to England, tho other bank called tho Bankrupt bank was what was left of Armenia after Italy, Franco and England had milked tho nation dry, and this Is tho bank and sectlou of Armenia to bo given to America as a mandato. over tho financial and humanitarian Interests of which tho United States should net as a wet nurse." Mrs. Emma Lucy Oatos Bowcn rendered ren-dered two vocal selections and after tho address tho vast throng wont to tho gymnasium whero tho Women's Republican club, presided ovor by Mrs. Lottlo Well, served refreshments. refresh-ments. Dancing was also ono of tho fcaturos. |