The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-01-31
SMoOT rs CoRNERED.

We print on another page this morn
ing under the head, HSenator Smoot
and the Wool Tariff very direct
and pointed reference to Smoot by Mr.,
| Robert Beakie, director of the Carded
| Wool Manufacturers association OF
the United States. II makes very inter
esting reading for Utah people.
As we have heretofore shown, Smoot,
doubtless under the direction of Aldrlch b
turned decided cold shoulder towards
the carded wool manufacturers of the
United States; and one of those manu-
facturers reported Smoot as asking
them, "Why don't you go into wors-
teds, as / am going TO dof'
1t appears that Smoot doesn't know
anything i'll particular about the wool
tariff except along q very narrow and
| rather shallow rut The Carded Wool
Manufacturers association has been ar
raigning the present Congress right
along for its failure to provide the
promised protection for their industry.
They quote tho Republican national
| IL,
hearings in which this protection was
| promised, call attention to the fact
that tariff favors are conferred on
some and tariff burdens imposed upon
others. and directly arraign Congress
as responsible for the adulteration of
clothing All this in folder which
also gives pictures of the Aver mill at
Lawrence, Mass, the largest worsted
mill in the world, showing that 1T can
import its raw material at duty or
from % to 40 per cent. The Airing
ton, another worsted concern, can also
import its material at duty from
25 to 40 per cent. The same is
true OF the Wood worstcd mill
in process of enlargement at Law
renee, Mass. On the other hand,
there is a picture of the Provo Woolen
mill at Provo, Reed Smoot president,
whiSh has been idle for several years
and is deprived Of imported raw ma
terial by duties Of from 100 10 700 per
cent. The same is true of the Mer.
chants Woolen mill, at Dedham, Mass.
and of the Hecla mill, at Uxbrldgc,
Mass. All three of these are shut off
by prohibitive duties Of from 100 to
700 per cent. The same folder makes
an exhibit of cotton worsted, / l-3 per
cent worsted and 9s 2-3 per cent cot
ton as compared with cotton goods with
shoddy filling, and in all this it di-
rectly charges Congress for the use Of
shoddy in clothing.
In the showing made against Smoot
by Mr.. Bleakie. as printed this morn
ing, Smoot, of course, is absolutely de-
molished so far as the argument and
facts are concerned His information
is practically no information at all,
whereas Mr.. Bleakie has the facts in
exact form.
The surprising part Of this showing
by Mr.. Blealie, however, is where he
quotes Smoot as saying IN reply to
an intimation that the country would
90 Democra unless Congress acted
in good faith on the tariff matter.
"Let the country go Democratic; what
do ! care if it does7' The pertinence
Of this reply is far better understood
in Utah than anywhere else. AS mat
ter of fact, it makes no difference to
Smoot how the country goes as far as
political divisions are concerned If
only the American party can be kept
from carrying this state; and no mat
ter whether the legislature is Repub-
lican or Democratic, Smoot will be sent
to the Senate so long as he retains
the favor of the president Of the
church; and it makes no difference to
Smoot what any political party is
called so long as his grip on the church
political machine is secure.