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Excerpt from Hon. Reed Smoot, Senior United States Senator From Utah: His Record in the Senate Fortunate indeed is that commonwealth in the American Union of States whose citizenship has the clear-sightedness and intelligent judgment to select for its representation in Congress men whose keenness, energy and patriotism enable them to occupy and hold a place among the safer and more progressive leaders of national thought and action. Today, and for a few years past, Utah is one of the commonwealths enjoying such good fortune in a prominent degree. Little more than a decade since, and she was far removed from that highly gratifying and desirable national influence and prestige now so freely accorded to her. This merging into a position of decided vantage as compared with many of the older and more populous States is justly attributed in large measure to the industry, energy and capability of Senator Reed Smoot; in the accomplishment of this work he has had the able and effective co-operation of his associates in the Congressional delegation. In the halls of Congress and in the forum of national comment and discussions it is stated with absolute accuracy that Senator Smoot has a wonderful capacity for work - honest, conscientious, intelligent work, and plenty of it; that he is untiring in his furtherance of measures and methods which he conceives to be based on just and righteous principles, and equally unflinching in his antagonism to that which he recognizes as dishonest, unjust, or hypocritical; that no interest of Utah, his native State, is passed by slightingly, and no Utah citizen, however humble, but receives the benefit of his sympathetic solicitude as far as courtesy and fair dealing make it possible; and that while he esteems the various interests of Utah and her advancing prestige as a State to be a pearl of greatest worth, his breadth of comprehension and official action reach in commensurate degree to the welfare and progress of the whole American people, in whatever land or clime they may sojourn. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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