South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-10-31
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APOSTLE SMOOT-REPUBLIC
LEADER


And now there rises in the United
States senate as chief apostle of the
republic, that chief apostle Of the
Mormon church, Reed Smoot of Utah.
Yes the same man who, at the outset
of his senatorial career. retained his
place in the senate through a deal be
tween the Mormon church and the
senate machine headed by Nelson w.
Aldrich, now is permitted to thunder
falsehoods into the Congressional
Record in the name of the republican
party.
This senator apostle joins - Nay,
leads-in the un American conspiracy
to nullify the Wilson administration
brave and patriotic plans TO fortify
the United States treasury against the
drains imposed by the war of nations.
And what does the apostle senator,
the servant OF the sugar and copper
trusts and former lackey o. Nelson w.
Aldrich, say?
First, he says the necessity of ad-
ditional revenue is not occasioned by
the war of nations but is due TO the
failure of the Underwood law TO pro-
vide adequate revenue. But he con-
veniently omits reference TO the fact
that the underwood act and income
tax provided the treasury with sur
plus of $4,000, 600 at the expiration,
June 80 last, of the fiscal year 1914.
Second, he charges the democrats
with extravaganza and compares the
appropriations for the fiscal year 1913
with the appropriations made by the
present session of congress for the
fiscal wear 1915. He then blandly
saws that the democrats have in
creased appropriations $4,000, 900.
WHY does he compare the next to the
! last year of TaftS administration with
the first year of the Wilson admins
h. sa,.c. 10
first year of the Wilson administra-
ton with the last year Of the Taft ad-
ministration, and thus discover that
the actual increase is less than SILL
0OO. 900 But taking the figures OF
the fiscal year 1913, why doesn't he
confess the fact that the republican
senate. of which he was then an emil
nent leader, added S76,S59.154 10 the
appropriations as passed by the demo-
cratic house? And why doesn't he
confess that Pres't Taft, for the fiscal
year 1914 submitted estimates aggre-
eating S1.15O. 00O, 00e which the DEM
| ocratic house cut more than $lb,OVV'-
! O5O but which were increased more
than $4,000, 900 by the republican A.
drich-SmOOt senate why dOesh l ne
make this admission and show that
the total for 1914 aggregated Sl,OSo'-
600, 600.
He makes other extraordinary as
sertions. For instance, he says the
expenditures for the Panama canal
We're very much less" this year than
! last. whereas. the appropriation Tor
! Panama canal expenditures IN the
present fiscal year 1919 exceeds the
contemplation for the fiscal year 1914
bv more than $4,000, 600. The speech
teens with such misstatements and
/ he naivelv admits that ne Is opposed
To che income tax. This latter admis-
sion was quite TO be expected mas
much as ne is a millionaire IN his own
right and is a managing director OF
the two hundred or more millions ac-
I oun,rtated bv the Mormon church.
| But WHY Why Why. The an
swer Is as plain as though il were
thrown ON 90 canvas by calcium light
As a last resort Sm0Ot and ms con