Show I Comment P t t on Utah zah Senator or ori I i EDITORIAL OPINIONS ON MR SMOOT R I Leslie's Weekly I IH EAT AT and other details of a a. anshin Washington ton summer H were ero forgotten when Senator Smoot of ot Utah a regular Republican fired ired a verbal broadside at atthe atthe I Ithe the pet administration measure Mr Ir Smoot has taken front rank amon among tho the most t thorough tariff students In the Senate Jl I National Tribune I IS E ATon RUED RIED SMOOT of or Utah has amazed his S SENATOR colleagues In tho the Senate and won a a. nation nation- wide reputation b by his wonderful In industry In gathering gathering gath gath- ath- ath ering up and dl digesting er e every cry material fact tact relating relating In ing to the tariff system and the tho vigor visor and skill with which hp ho used In debate to the confusion confusion contusIon contu- contu sion of oC the supporters of oC the present bill The Democrats Democrats Democrats Dem Dem- could put up uI no man to meet his smashing I attacks and m controvert his facts No complex item over caught him unprepared a and d the the Democrats simply had to vote oto him down own by iron rule of caucus cau cau- cus When Senator Smoot made his strongest effort cHort against the exceedingly harmful agricultural schedule schedule sched sched- ule and particularly the wool which willbe wIllbe will willbe be enormously enormously- injurious to Utah ho made and Is Js making a stiff fight all along Iong the tho line IIno Ho Ito has hns pointed out the marked Ignorance and unprepared unprepared- ness noss of oC the Democrats for such a momentous work of or r revising the tariff Their whole course has been characterized ed b by raw Ineptness To support the tho pretense of reducing the cost of oC living ll the they have ha hacked away blunderingly blunderingly- at everything c that 1 promised to make political capital Starting St in with a n aplan aplan plan of ot making a separate hilt bill for lOF each schedule th they y have now crowded everything o into ono one g bill Into which is also jumbled an Income tax lax on sales salos of oC cotton for r delivery When Germany revised her tariff she called In in- thousands s of ot otmen men having ha expert knowledge of every o Industry alii and Interest affected Our tariff tinkers on th the other othel hand el c every ono one who attempts to them exact act Information as lobby lats who should be he scourged etl from tho the temple V When ten all the other governments of ot tho the world o ha come to adopt specific duties the Democrats return to tho the old discarded corruption breeding nd ad valorem system s The Thc senator referred to legislation to exclude de Chinese etc enc while this bill proposed d to admit pig Iron and ana r oth r of oC their products free freo o of oC duty China no now controls the pig pl iron market on th the Pacific Pacific Paci Paci- fic eO coast at and under this bill hill will add steel te 1 ingots et etc and when tho the Panama canal is open will control control con con- the trade on the Atlantic coast CORst There are re large mills now in operation In China and Japan and tho the question q in tho the future will be that of competition com com- competition 1 petition with the th starvation wages of at Asia Ala instead of oC the low rates ot of Europe The bill will primarily Il and Immensely benefit tho the Europea trusts and ana combinations which t will dump their surplus products on the United States Tho The House bill had an antidumping cIa clause se but butth the tho th Senate free traders cut It out Senator Smoot quoted from the testimony Of ot the cane ane sugar BUgar refiners to show short that they admitted 1 J that putting sugar on the tho free reo list would kill the beet and cane Industries in this countr country In which o over r is Invested but would help the salo sale of foreign sugar refined b by tho sugar trust and others He showed that sugar was cheaper now than it was wa when on the free tree list proving that consumers would gain nothing from tram the great grett loss lose that would be inflicted on the farmers am and others engaged In producing ng sugar but the tho canners who o have been maintaining an extensive e lobb lobby to get s-ct the duty removed would be enormously benen bene bene- n In a a. genuinely deliberative body Senator Smoots Smoot's arguments would have pre prevailed prevalle ailed for the they were eie un un- un- un answerable But Bill in n the tile matter of tariff the Senate Senate is not a deliberative body It is simply some borne 53 3 j men of rr free e trade antecedents and education who I are determined at an any cost to pu push h th the country as I near nar free fieo trade TH as R possible un na fl 1 I Ameri American an Sheep Breeder EN ATOR ATon S SHOOT SMOOT has been dubbed a n fossilized c SE SENATOR reactionary all and called a n. lot of ot other unhappy names but Just the same this stalwart Utah representative representative Is a wise counsellor In time ot of tariff distress dis lIs- tress No one at nt Washington knows knous better tho the needs s of at tho the farmer than this working hard legisla legisla- tor Mr 11 Smoot is always alwn's dependable able In en cies cles Proposed tariff legislation affecting the In Interests Interests interests In- In of at farmers and stockmen finds him busy at work among amon the leaders on both sides urging safe safo and ind aane measures In wool tariff legislation tho the Utah senator has hns always alwa's counselled conserva conservative tl o fiction action Ills His thorough knowledge of at wool growing and nud wool tariffs and und their effect on both industries I Ic c coupled with his keen jud Judgment ment of or men and patties paries pat par I ties ies make him an invaluable worker for tar American sheep husbandry Further Senator Smoot Is Js as aslean lean clean a as a whistle and while the sensational magazine maga- maga zine and dally daily press p-ess frequently take a whack nt him ilm for foi his firm flim adherence to the principles of or protection protection pro- pro nono none but yellow writers accuse him of or disloyalty dis- dis loyalty to the th peoples people's interests Senator Smoot is isn isan nn an n all right friend of ot tho the sheep h Industry |