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But there is a singing in the Smoot heart when a new tariff bill approaches. Here he finds his earthly happiness in absorbed Service to U. S. business.
No man voices more potently the demands for super-protection for U. S. industries and manufactures than Joseph R. Grundy, Bristol, Pa., worsted maker, cash collector extraordinary for the G. O. P. (TIME, Feb. 18). In Miami re- cently Senator Smoot was asked about tariff revision. Replied he: "I don't know. I haven't seen Joe."
The Senator agrees with Mr. Grundy that Prosperity can flourish and blossom only in the garden of Protection behind a high tariff wall. To cultivate that garden, to keep its wall in good repair Utah's senator is prepared to give his all. With dutiful zeal he pleads for high duties on sugar and wool. With the political zeal of a stalwart Republican he demands protection for—
Manna, marmalades and malt,
Sarsaparilla, sand and salt; etc.
*A "facts and figures" campaign speech in Philadelphia caused a good Republican audience, provoked by his schoolmarm manner, to boo Senator Smoot.
* Cover portrait drawn by Philadelphia Artist Vladimir Pertilieff.