The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-07-05
SMOOT, HIS WORK.

The Saturday Evening Post some
time ago made happy forecast OF
what would happen in the SENATE, at
the last, on the tariff bin, when 1t
said;
That is what Is being done with the he
tariff bill. 1t is being nursed along uhtl
the votes arc in sight. until the items are
all satisfactory, until everybody has been
placated; then; bing! and through IT uSSa Wl''
go for the final reconstruction, reha 3iiltii-
ton and rehash in conference whlcn IS
the real battle ground. anyhow, InS JnS
gentlemen who are putting, n tar>m Pali pnIi
through the Senate Of the United STATES
are not amateurs. They know how. Am
ateurs are given the noise jobs and tae m
outside work-witness Smoot-put the
wise old owls get the desired results
That forecast is so well borne ont
by what is happening that 1T deserves
far better TO rank as prophecy than
anything cited in behalf of the bogus
local claims to prophecy so prevalent
here, and it wasn't made by any. Of
tho bogus gang, either; not even by
Smoot. But it is exactly what is hap
pening.
Tn the same issue of the Evening
Post that contained tho above extract
there was an appreciative estimate OF
Smoot. which we reproduce herewith,
ms follows:
We have had but one apostle in me
| United States Senate. and we ulru
| mighty hard TO keep out the one we
| have; but now that he is in beyond per
| adventure-tbe same beinG Reed Sln9o''
| of Utah, apostle OF the Mormon church.
! he is being utilized to the fullest extent OF
| his resources-that is, being Wiling
young worker. he is allowed to work ms
| head of while others more eNperlenced,
| and thus more conservative with thelr
energies. sit in the background and pull
| whatever wires are 10 be pulled-ho'
more, TO be exact. than are observed in
| q flock Of grand pianos.
Smoot went on the Finance Commiltee
| when the committees were reorgani5ed
| The Finance Committee has charge OF
making the tariT bill for and OF the SEN
| ate. Jumping lmpetuously at MS TASK
Smoot displayed a knowledge OF WOOL ana
| similar schedules that made it apparent
he might be led 10 a knowleageouS posi-,
| items In the bill-and they led him. They
| led him, YOU may he sure Of that. Being
i a glutton for punishment they put Smoot
out in front of the whole affair so far as
the devious gentlemen are concerned who
want the tariff showed UP on this or
showed down on that For weeks, when
ever one of these infant-industry owners
or protected plutocrats came around and
| endeavored To mix il with Senator Al
drich. or Senator Flint any other who
was doing the fine Italian In the back
| ground that person was told: See
| Smoot"
Smoot has been the buffer He has been
out In the foreground. No matter what
| has been wanted on any tariff subject,
from false whiskers to silk stockings. It
has been always See Smoot.' lie has
| been the man on whom the hordcS Of
visiting tarifiians have fallen. and he has
| stood out there and fought them all off.
| Really, II was not much of joke, al
| though they all said ii was one on Smoot.
| to be the front for that Finance Commit
! tee. but Smoot was so eager for work, so
much inclined To labor that they handed
| ii TO him, and the whole community is
waking up to the fact that this tall
zen. He has developed more in the past
| three months than he did in his first six
| years in the Senate. They cannot hand
him anything he VIII not do. and they
| have discovered that he is a genius at
| the tariH business, sort of natural
| born tariff sharp, so to speak, Hence,
| the corridors of the Senate office build
| have been echoing for weeks with "See
Smoot,' and Smoot has been there. the
| cold, gray rock on which the tariff hordes
| have dashed and fallen away broken, or
| broke. as the ultimate result may be.
Now. though in some respects all too
Gattering, that is not to be objected to
| by Smoot S friends. 1t is, in fact. an
over-estimate of the Apostle; but then,
when the glamor of high office is before
the Washington reporter s eyes, he is
dazzled and is apt to overstatc, es-
pecially If there is any special reason
for his so doing. At any rate, we are
quite willing to reproduce this, which
is really the most spirited estimate of
Smoot that we have seen, and shows in
what a conspicuous and thorough man.
ner he carried out his role of standing
as the whipping boy"
We see that some of Smoot s worship
pers here are springing the idea that
Senator Beveridge will not be able 10
draw up properly his amendment to
the tobacco part of the so-called tariff
bill, and that he will have to get Smoot
to draw 1T for him, The righteousness
Of this notion is accentuated when we
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