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Show WHY UTAH MUST HAVE SNOW Senator Smoot voted to increase the cost of aluminum ware and cooking cook-ing utensils. .On May 5. 1 924. he voted for the "Mellon Plan" to reduce taxes oil large incomes and against llv Simmons Sim-mons t'ubstitut.e .foil- a reduction of taxes oil siuaH incomes. (The records rec-ords show thai only one man in Utah as benefited by this vote, 'while 2,-615 2,-615 smaller taxpayers were injured.) On February 6, 1926, Senator Fmeot voted against the Walsh Resolution Reso-lution to investigate the Fede al Trad Commission charges aga'nst Motion's Aluminum Co. On June 14, 192.6, Secretary Mellon Mel-lon -'published a letter a-ainst the pending FARM RELIEF CiLL. Senator Sen-ator Smoot thereafter' opposed Ill's ' farm relief measure, and on June 29, 1523, was announced in favor of the Fess Substitute, which the Western I farmers did not want, and which ottered ot-tered them no relief. On May 7. 192 1. Senator Smo-t vot'-d. against th? Jones Amendment to r'duce the taxes on corporations lii:'.K:,.g 1'gitimate profi's and increasing in-creasing the tax on profiteers. Senator Sen-ator Pinoot voted for the profiteers Tie1 Senior S; nator gave no active oippoil to Senator Coodine's Dill t'0" tin- pi't-clion of (he West against unfair freight rates, and the Bill was killed. The Senior Senator has. failed in twenty-three years to procure for Utah her title to lands including o'l and mineral lands granted to ibis State by Die Enabling Act for the benefit of our schools. Meantime, 52 per cent of our state taxes are r- quired to support the schrols. O: this subject we quote fiom At orne General Harvey duff's Animal Report: Re-port: "What we need in order to protect these school lands to the state is some actio. 1 by Congress which will definitely and forever fix the state's title to these lands. The matter has time and again been called to the att n-tion n-tion of our Congressional F) 'legation 'le-gation and especially to SE A-TOR A-TOR SMOOT, but thus far they have been unable lo giasp the situation sufficfently to become thoroughly interested in this most important matter." The Senior Senator has ben an ia showing exceptional friend ii p t the Interior Department, whieh i now opposing Utah in her effo. t t procure these lands, and also t'rii nd ship to the great financial intresi who have attempted to profit. Iron oil and mineral lands. He voted tc turn over the gilsonite lands of U:a' to the Barber Asphalt Trust. He a. tively supported the San Juan L'a' ing Bill, which attempted to give va' liable oil properties in Utah to rrea Eastern oil companies and di'icr'mi nated against hundreds 0'' small en , trymjDn in Utah. He dat n t con dennn even the FulVDohe -y st als and on January 30, 192C voter' against the investigation and in favor fa-vor of whitewashing, tiie . Teapoi Dome scandal. Senator Smoot oppos'd rnd -de stroyed the chances in Uio 1. s1 se sion of Congress of the "Tr tV ii Fabrics" hit!. This was a h 11 rh" the sheep industry of this t te lire worked for for 15 years. Jt' wa.3 ' V posed by the textile nnnufaeturri: of the East. His action ,- a i ect1-in ect1-in favor of the Enst and agar Bt hii own constituents. On July- 23, 1919 (C. R 39"4; he likewise vot"d against Ih ' li ve stock interest's of th's rto.f e 1- f vo of the big packing companl On February 12, 19"6, Sena C Smoot also voted lo repeal the estat '. tax section of the Tax Bill and thin' relieve the great estates of this roar try of paying f 1 50,000, 00.0(1 i taxes, which had then accrue ' an was due to the government. Whl' on August 31, 1 922, he had vot against the bill for adjusted con-p-sr sation to the veterans of the Worl war. As everyone knows, the trem nd 011s campaign funds that hnv b e and are being ox- ended are or t. purpose of procuring .-rd rati pi ing this grip by big financial inf r ests upon the throat of this country. coun-try. Senator Smoot has ne.er op posed the expenditure of these corruption cor-ruption funds. On May 19, 1926, he voted ag-ins the Resolution to investigate Sen i-torial i-torial elections. The Re lol.ition, nevertheless, passed, and the inves1 i-gatlon i-gatlon immediately disclosed the expenditure ex-penditure in the Republican P ima-y of Pennsylvania of the greatest corruption cor-ruption fund in history, the major part of which was expended to nm-inate nm-inate Senator Pepper, a surportcr of the Mellon-Butler Ss em. Sen tor Smoot voted to seat the corruption-ists. corruption-ists. Lorimer and Ne berry. For supporting this Mol'on-TCer combination even part'n'ly, Uii.on sin has already eli:i!na'ed Senator l.enro(t, Illinois has elim'ie t d -en ator McKinley, I(cn has cliiii'nateil Senator Cummins, Or g 11 has cl ini-imted ini-imted Senator Sta Ti Id, Colo adj lias eliminated Si'nator .'iciins, 011c of these senators has s.npitel th s combination as has Si nator S.no t. None of these s'aies is injured bj this system as is Utah. UTAH NEE OS SNOW ?Te understands under-stands the needs of the agrcultu al interf'sts and of the of e - brs'neis and industrial intere ts of this s at1), lie lielieves in protection fo ih2 interests in-terests of Utah first. He believes that prosperity like chario- sho-1 1 1 e 'in at home. IT IS TIME FOR A CHANGE. VOTE FOR SNOW, WALLACE AND ItKIKJMSOX 1 -i A OT'' FOH A l-KKK A NO I'i'.OSPI-iOi:, UTAH. Democratic State Com mi te D r-rell r-rell T. Lane, Secretary; D. jM. Draper, Chairman. Copies of Smoot's record, compiled ' by the People's Legislative Set vice,' Washington, D. C. can be o t ined at Democratic Stnte Headuea tcrs. (Advertisement paid for by De:no-eratic De:no-eratic State Committee, D. M. Dr-Ber. Dr-Ber. Chairman.) |