The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-31
SMOOT OF UTAH

| New York Globe:
lie has Il long. sad face Ike horse.
! His mouth folds down at the ends as
| though he were a smlttcn saint He has
a general hromn OF crushed truth about
| NINA NeraCity sundne. one might say
| He is lean and lank and 1.-THE and long
| suUoring-and he encourages people TO
| come and tramp on him, and beat him
| up, and generally act Hs though he were
! the Uriah lIcop OF the senate. And when
| they get quite through with these pleas
| ant exercises they suddenly discover that
| Reed Smoot. the Mormon, Is considerable
| OF man, And that the beating IS ant
to be nm uppleasantly two-sided affair
repul9ivc To the finer feelings For after
years OF knuckle bending and CrIngInc-
Smoot has finally found himself. TO every
ones surprise he IS senator AIdrch's
right hand man in the tariff dcbatc-and
mas pr9yCn himself quite equal TO that
responsibility. More than once hc has
defended his chiefs position when the
c"iei apparently couldn't defend himself.
Smoots sudden development OF intel
icctual strength and courage has Ger
tlaainnE nanded the senate ono hard far.
cyer since the determined attack upon
ms right TO hold a seat In the senate
,pec9use ne is a Mormon. Smoot has acted
MiIld t, OF low spirited and humble During
tnc o!tter light which finally resulted
tnToush political bargain-ln his being |
itcd Ser.,mcatcd as a real senator. Smoot |
haro hharo'E nad n word To say for himself He |
pore with him the general air of a dog |
Inal nad been caught killing sheep. Not |
even the senate pages felt they had 10 do !
att ,.rT hnnor. Hc talked low and apollo !
sSucallN, ana he didn't resent at least |
openly, the nasty things that were told of |
,hlnl. and he selected a seat In the very |
insa nsd TT"" or the senate and pussy footed |
into u IL seemed as though the man |
nood mad been crushed out of him. He |
Ii lad not word to say upon the Moor He |
kept f,1o ms eyes cast down. sheep by his
courage. But all the time he was learning
ms little book. 1t appears that AIdrIch |
nSa gaiI|sd .Is Si9oots real character before any
on the senate finance committee Bcver.
idge and Dolliyer and other shining |
Wbns gh1s Wgmt sSn, to , the mat for it at once,
lioor, their teeth caught in each Others
WOOL. Aldrich quietly named Smoot for
.n,,,d .mH bost.'on. He knew that Beveridgc
scrappy TO be easily handled on that com
mittee. He wanted "A man there who
would neID and not hinder him In his
VOTE Work OF constructing a tariff Bill fIc
Plcked Smoot-and every one got one fine.
large laugh. >'
It's good thing they dd-for they
nt non neutrality-suspicious. they didn't
know-that Smoot has been the RESPONSE
PIE Pc mead OF the Zion Cooperative Instltu
,,,si t,on, ,ne great store which handles the
per, He didn't get that place through
aavor. out because he earned il. He is
,,eS, ucau Oh one OF the greatest retail |
businesses In the world. and. as the head
't such business should be he is postcd
'n every detail of trade He knows as |
i%lnch % about manufactures as the manu-
acturers do, and. although he Is yoiceless
'hd auInp on other matters he has a
urprising grasp OF commercial affairs
Lila EI an an equally astounding vieor in either
clendlnG his position or assailing that OF
ne otner fellow Aldrich has been turn |
ng over to him the delegations who daily
One TO demand tariff changes. Smoot
iINr1 III,
nd always alert. lie has relieved AldrIcb
J mass of detail that would otherwise
ave ciogsed progress on the bill,
otherwise he's the same old Smoot.
ie is still seated in that last row, still
.inl. Gimnie. stu apologctic. Untl some one.
llSled by his air Of being ardently sor-
owful, treads on the tails of his coat
hcn Smoot rises up and smites him. He
m "a very long on rhetoric. but he has
is nnsers tips. In the lorty-sevcn years
mas lived he has gained a solidly prac-
cal cuucatlon, No one who doesn't
now now ms ms book thoroughly has any bust
orn IN salt Lake City and never got
inside The bounds OF Utah until he came
inc senate More than once he has
nobtrusively tied the grass In front OF
me senate lcader-and then driven that
ader' unsuspicious. down the dangerous
an inc other senators are beginning
watch Smoot now, That djsconsoIaf. |
r doesn't prey on their sympathics as il
ice did -
lie probably never told a funny story
laughed at one In his life Fhc onIy
lc tlIat is ever told OF him has In do
lth speech he once made To an assem-
OF swedish farmers on the boundaries
Utah. Smoot made his best talk and
tccd that they all sa; silent eyccpt
e old man. When Smoot sat down This
l man got UP and began TO talk in
'cdlsh Inc farmers checrcd wildly -
y N cat L.
the platform regarded him curtously |
What's the matter" he asked Isn't |
a good spccch?"
Sure 1t is" said the other man :.u's
ur speech, YOU know The old man is |
to them"