The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-05-22
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sailing under new colors, SO far as
the personnel Of the editorial and
managerial departments are con-
cerned; politically it remains the
same, the chief organ Of the demo
cratic party in the great democratic
state Of New York. 1t is not the
purpose of the HERALD to gratu-
| itously advertise business enter
! prises, journalistic or otherwise; but
there is something in the position
of our eastern contemporary which
! elicits comments from all sources
so that what all do we may safely
undertake.
For a score Of years the ROFId
has borne the banner of its party
through triumph and defeat, en-
| deavoring always to modify those
natural ebullibions Of feelings which
lead to dangerous consequences in
case of the former, and ever ready
with words Of encouragement when
! the dark hour of defeat
sat like d pail upon the democratic
hosts. L does not appear that the
| paper has either borne false colors
or held out impossible inducements,
for it has neither conceded with its
partisans when it had reason to be-
lieVe them wrong, nor nauseously
Iauded them when they proved to
be right. When its party was
training strongly in the direction Of
imitation, without attempting to
command or o'erbear, it steadfastly
and continuously made its opposi-
ton felt, and this, too, without GET
ting outside the traces, until at last
the many adopted the position of
the few and wheeled into line on the
basis Of an infexible money stand
ard. Again, its counseis on the de- |
lusiYe doctrine Of q high protective |
tariff have kept the party midway |
between two extremes. by causing
it to adopt the principle of a tariff |
for revenue only. Its advice
and protestations may at times
seemed to have partaken of ARC
gance or even demagogy, but the
results achieved have warranted
such apparent assumption of au-
5hority.
It will no doubt be humiliating if
lot disastrous to the World, for the
act to be proclaimed throughout
that in Utah abide a
class who are arrayed against its
policy regarding our internal
affairs. For a great paper, ore
whose greatness is attributable to
is length and breadth of thought in
he discussion of national and social
lffairs, to be thus hindered and
lampered, is unfortunate and IN
inely in the extreme. Its useful
less should not thus be contracted
o mere span. It should learn in
is new career that there are lessons
o be gained from the past, and one
If them is that any paper which has
he audacity to announce that
here is class of human
beings III Utah who are
It variance with the arbitrary
methods of a mere fraction of the
population, is on the road to ruin;
t must know, once for all, that
here is but one side to the Utah
question, and that is the side pre-
3ented by the minority; it must
understand that legislative enact
ments and judicial rulings are only
right in so far as they conduce to
the advancement of certain ideas
upheld by select cabaI whose resid-
ence here is too recent and whose
tenure to citizenship is too insecure
to admit of the possibility Of their |
being contaminated; it must know
that an honorable citizen of New |
York ceases to be honorable in
Utah the moment he fails to see
but depravity on the side
of the majority and anything but the
most realistic phase of typical virtue
on the side of the scattering few.
These suggestions are kindly meant,
and the World, in its new estate,
will doubtless profit by them.