The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-10-23
Says Payne-Aldrich Tariff Bill
Is Best Ever Enacted
Into Law.
PERTINENT QUESTIONS
FIRED AT THE SPEAKER
He Is Forced to Admit That Re-
publican Platform Is
Ambiguous.
Special 10 The Tribune.

Special 10 The Tribune
PROVO, Oct. oo.-Apostle. Senator
Reed Smoot and Assistant United
States District Attorney Fred A. May
mard were the principal speakers at
Republican mass meeting held here to.
night. Judge Maynard delivered a sort
of a preliminary address TO that OF
Smoot, in which he oulogized the apos-
Ex-senator and his "ofice boy Suth.
crlund Judge Maynard declared that
Snoot was the greatest fnancicr In the
United States senate. At the conclu.
sion Of Smoot IS address n series of
questions were fired ut him by persons
in the audience, until be sat down, de-
clariug that the Republican platform is
ambiguous. Smoot spoke as follows:
"Mr Chairman and My Fellow Citi-
zeus: | wish to speak on two questions
This is the most important election In
many years. ] want you, my hearers,
TO vote on principle, and not on the per,
soualitv Of men The tariff bill Just
passed is the best tariff bill ever passed
by any congress. I will admit. how
ever, that there are mistakes IN that
bill. but there never was bill passed
by congress but what there were mis-
takes in it, I want to say TO you when
a man has studied the tariff and listened
to every side, all interested, he ought
to know more about it than man who
has given il no thought, but who has
listened TO the carping of fault-finders
and yellow journals. ] have studied the
thrift question for three and one-half
months. -
Smoot then went into figures and
quoted by millions and billions. When
Smoot referred to the fault finders be
at times became go excited that speech
seemed 10 leave him In defending the
tariff bill and his statement that the
revision was downward. he stated that
importation had increased SlS0.000,000
under the present tariff bill over the
Diugloy bill.
Dig at Champ Clark.
The apostlo.senator told his audience
to elect such men as Champ Clark of
Missouri and they would have "things
cheap aud nasty Smoot said that in
travelling about Utah he wondered why
we did not have factories and manu-
facturing plants here as they did in
New Jersey.
"The other question. said Smoot.
'ls the liquor question. | want TO cur
tail the sale of liquor 10 the least pos
sible limit. | would like to sec it con
trolled entirely by tho United States
government. | call your atten tion to
the resolution passed by the conference
of the Mormon church. | voted for it,
but | want 10 say TO you that prohihi
ton is not in that resolution OF in any
Of the church works We are not 60
ing to rob a single. solitary city OF its
right to license or prohibit the sale Of
intoxicating liquor. Prohibition could
not be enforced in Salt Lake City,
Senator Smoot spoke Of the low dives
in his home city rs evidence of the fact
that prohibition does not prohibit. In
relation TO the deal Of the Republican
party with the liquor interests, Smoot
declared that if il was the last word
he uttered, the charge is falsehood.
1.-THE Tribune charged the deal,' said
Smoot. land a lot Of the Democrats
took up the cry and reiterated il, :"
Smoot referred to tho promises made
by Frank j, Cannon and the American
party two years ago. Smoot said he
tried his best to defeat the American
party two years ago and he declared
that he was going 10 try TO do the same
this year.
Questions by Holbrook,
When Smoot had concluded his dis.
course J.. Holbrook of this city began
hrlng questions at the apostle senator
In regard to discrepancies in the Re-
publican platform. Mr.. Holbrook called
Smoot s attention to the fact that in
one place the Republican platform dis
tinctly stated that cities OF the first,
second and third class should be units
while all territory outside OF those cit
les should have statewide prohibition
while in another place the platform dc.
clares that the territory outside OF the
critics OF the first, second and third class
should also be considered as a unit and
be allowed to vote on the liquor ques
ton. Smoot s reply to the question was
that the platform was ambiguous.
George Startup also asked the apostle.
senator some questions which he could
not answer.