The copper era and Morenci leader., 1914-04-17
ARIZONA SENATOR Is GIVEN CORDIAL
 WELCOME HOME
Hon. Marcus A. Smith Was Principal Speaker at Jefferson Banquet in Phoenix Monday Night-Lauds Ma tionaI Administration and Tells of Good Work Accomplished.

Hon. Marcus A. Smith, senator from Arizona, arrived in Phoenix on Monday of this week and was the principal speaker at the Jefferson Club ban quet that evening, which was attend ed by four hundred prominent demo- crats of the state.
 Speaking of the arrival of the Ari- zona Senator in Phoenix the Gazette says:
 Looking as fine and fit as could well be, Senator Mark Smith came from the frozen east today to talk to the Jefferson club tonight and incl dentally to refresh his senatorial m memory with view of what the sun looks like.
 The lobby of the Adams was filled with people anxious to greet the sen ator, and it was hard for anyone to monopolize his attention for more than half minute. He had a cordial hand shake and a personal greeting for every constituent who was in attend ance and knew everyone who was there. President Orme of the Water Users association had the right of way for about three minutes, and after that the senator did his best to answer hundred simultaneous greet ings and three times as many queS- tionS.
 In an interview, Senator Smith said:
 q feel that the administration has done much for the country at large and for Arizona in particular. In the face of direful prophecies and of pre- dictions of ruin, President Wilson has developed his plans, which were the plans of his party, and brought them to a triumphant and successful con clusion.
 An Honest Tariff.
 ''As to the general condition of the country financially and otherwise, the careful readers of the daily press are as competent as I to give a correct and the currency bill, the two crown ing features of the present admins tration.
 'The tariff has been revised, and revised downward. Tn that work. no honest plea was lightly ignored. On the other hand, that powerful con- federacy of special privileges which had fattened on the perversion of custom house taxation did not dictate a privilege, a line or syllable in that revision of the tariff. It was a re- vision conserved and enacted into law in the interest of the whole country.
 Already the benefcient influence of that revision is manifest. The politi- cal laboratory has moved out. The mechanical laboratory has moved into the trade and business of the United States. The partnership between spe- cial privilege and the government has been largely broken up. Our exports of manufactured articles have vastly increased. Our imports as well, but not to an equal extent, and the coun- try is to be congratulated on the mag nificent outlook now opening up be- fore us.
 Tt is to be hoped that from now on the tariff shall be left out of politics and that this good work of revision may still go on until all unnecessary handicaps on trade shall b e forever removed. The tariff has been large ly withdrawn as a debauching in1u- ence in the politics and business of the country.
 Currency Reform.
 For a long series of years it has been known to everybody that the United States had probably the worst banking system in the world. The control of the circulating medium of the country has been so long held in the great centers that bank reverses have occurred with every little breath of panic. That currency has now been divorced from spectators. When the present currency law shall get into nnal operation, It seems that panic will become thing of the past. People or banks with good credit can now get good money without dancing around the magnates of Wall street.
 Trust Question.
 ''The trust question we hope to han dle with the same degree of reason and judgment htat has been applied to the tariff and the currency meas ures. It is gratifying to know that within a little over one year the pres ent administration has done more to relieve the people from the impression of the money trust and the tariff ben efciaries than has been done in any twenty-five years of our legislative history.
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