The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-08-10
NO MISQUoTATIoN.

The Smoot paper yesterday morning
got on one of its wild tantrums about
an alleged misquotation of Apostle
Senator Smoot by The Tribune; the ba
sis of the charge being that we mis-
| quoted Smoot in the particular which II
presents, as follows, in referring tc
Smoot's reply to Senator MARITIME OF
New Jersey, who asked about the clos
ing Of the Provo wooden mills:
smoots reply was, The mills have
closed because there Is a Democratic
House, and the whole industry Is demor-
allied by threats OF free trade
II was clearly Shoots Intention to
convey the impression that the Provo
wooden mills had been closed down since
and because OF the election of the Demo-
cratic House. and since the efforts be-
gan to revise the wool schedule.
The misquotation being in the
first paragraph. and our comment there
on comprising the second paragraph.
If it were true that The Tribune had
misquoted Smoot in this matter, 1t cer-
tainly would have to apologize to him
for it. But The Tribune made no mis-
quotation, as is apparent from the AS
sociated Press dispatch, which we quote
as follows;
Senator Smoot denounced the attacks
on the wool tariff as unjustied by facts.
He said that Schedule K had been made
the scapegoat of the tariff agitation,
Senator MARITIME of New Jersey produced
a circular showing that the Provo WOODEN
mills. OF which Senator Smoot Is an off,
Ger. had not been in operation for sew
eral wears
'Tf the Payne -Aldrich woolen tariff
won't keep your mills running, In heay.
ems name what do you want?" asked
Senator MARITIME.
THE mills have closed because there
is a Democratic house. retorted Senator
Srnoot land the whole industry is de-
moralized by threats OF free trade.
The quotation Of Smoot that we made
is precisely the quotation as given us
By the Associated Press, so that, if
Smoot has been misquoted at all, it was
the Associated Press and not The Trib-
une that misquoted him. We direct at
tention to, and emphasize this point
from the fact that we decidedly object
to being arraigned for falsihcation,
when the only Justification claimed is a
faithful quotation from the Associated
Press report, the same report, in pre-.
cisely the same language, having ap-
peared in the Telegram and in the
Deseret News of this city on the even
ing of July 27th. The Tribune believes
that the Associated Press gives correct,
faithful reports in its accounts OF
everything that it touches, There is no
supposition that the Associated Press
has any desire to misquote Smoot The
Tribune certainly has no desire to mis-
quote him, or to misquote any one else;
certainly Smoot will scarcely have the
hardihood to charge the Deseret News
with misquoting him or desiring to
do So And in this case, we certainly
did not misauote, for we gave the quo
tation of Smoot precisely as the Asso.
ciated Press gave it. and exactly RS
other papers had printed. it,, the News
included. That clears our skirts com
pletely of any charge Of misauotation.
We believe in the faithfulness OF the
Associated Press, and rely upon its
reports implicitly The Smoot paper
challenges the faithfulness of that re-
port, and SAYS that, in printing it, we
misquoted Smoot and are guilty of
falsohood. We pass this charge up to
the Associated Press, as its business
and not ours
But the Smoot paper quotes from the
official account as printed some davs af