The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-07-14
STRIKING A BALANCE.


conceived the purposes, plans anc
programme of the Tribune. 1t is
far from the HERALD's Intention
to injure or misrepreSent any man
rinstitution; and when its columns
contained such assertions as that
It's Gotemporary was wanting in up
rlghtness of department and re
speetability of principles, it was
perhaps lending itself to a scheme
so wild and unfounded as to amount
to a yagary. We are sorry for this,
and hope that the future may con-
tain fer Us sufficient years to unable
Us to atoce for the injury already
done.
Ii IS sad to be compelled to throw
up the sponge at such a Slime; but
il is much better to do this than to
attemp5 to probing a difficulty
which contains for the HERALD
naught but present discontinue
and ultimate defeat. We can't
SHRINK that our intentions were alto
gsther wrong, and yet it is
better to let 1t go to the
world that we were not only
lad, mistaken and vile, but even
corrupt, than to attempt to reply to
three long columns of loaded non
pareil pr diem. 1t can't be done.
Life Is too brief. We surrender.
Good night.
There seems to be a slight differ
ence between the styles Of compost
ton in our nsighbOr's articles Of
yesterday. This is perfectly nat
ursl, however, since no one man is
likely to undertake the aTduous
task OF knocking the HERALD out
o. time. A portion of the senti-
ments referred to are couched in de-
cent, respectable language, and
show a desire to present a defeE-
sive case rather than Vilify or ira
,duCe "a opponent: the other part
keeps up to the old and unyaryirg
standard Of that paper by the use Of
such elegant expressions and choice
,epithets as are in themselves a com
psste exhibit of the lOw-li7ed ma
ture OF the man who resorts to
them. The former may or May not
be the work of one who honestly
differs; the latter is beyond question
the offspring of a blackguard.
Before retiring from the field, it
might be proper to briefly review
the matter in dispute and concern
ing which so much has been said
on both sides. When the Almighty
in His infinite wisdom placed man
upon the earth with the injunction
TO increase and multiply, lie must
have taken into consideration the
inevitable results of what branching
out, engaging in different pursuits,
inhabiting different sections, in
heriting varying dispositions and
being subjected to conflicting Cir
eumstances, would be-to array one
portion of the common family
against another portion if not all
other portions; to make us see
things differently; to cause US to be
more or less contentious, Wilful and
Stubborn in accordance with our
circumstances of birth and breed
ing. 1t was not TO be looked fer
that all would be harmonious and
lovely, but it was probably hoped
that In seeking a solution of the
differences separating US, all might
be Just and considerate. Those who
are in a position to enforce tkeir
peculiar ideas with greater force
shan others, were expected to use
that power with a due regard fol
the rights of the others, not making
it an engine by means of which
oppression and the sitting of opposi.
ton might be cOnsummsted. As
Stunning for the present occasion
that this view of the situation is the
correct one, we will ask swhat do We
find in Utah as the basis Of the con
tention now going on2 Has there
ever been or IS there now a disposi
ton on the part of a certain limited
number of agitatOrs to deal in a con
ciIlatOry spirit With those who SEE
6t to oppose them and theil
methodist If so, when and where
has such disposition been manifest
except in purely individual cases,
On the other hand, when and whert
was the olive branch SO frequently
extended by the majority of on