The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-09-27
THE TRIBUNE BEAST.


our readers with sort of wild beast show
from the Tribune, in addition to the regular
bi-weekly drubbing we have lately seen fit
to infict upon the creature. Well just
trot the educated pig out and show what he
can do as an Introduction:
The cowardly batherskite and ignoramous
who unloads in our morning contemporary his
daily dose as he receives it from the .terary
bureau of the Golden club
Soft, now, lovely brute! What is the
Golden Club! Where does it live, and
what does it do.
Now weprod the animal again, and mark:
This blatherskite who knows no more about
the question than negro on the Congo knows
of the Free Mason's ritual flaps his wings all
over the paper.
You see our animal hasn't yet learned
how to use q metaphor, but he is making
progress. AS yet, however, we havn't
touched his tender spot with our CAD He
gives these exhibitions on merely ordinary
occasions; but observe now he spits venom
when we let our tariff knife into his vitals:
AND this slave stirs in his endowment robes,
strains his eyes up out of the narrow horizon
in which his worthless life has been passed and
dictation OF Others when if any magnate of the
Mormon church, from a common teacher up to
the President of the Mormon church. were to
take snuff he would be bound by obligations be
would not dare violate TO sneeze the roof OFF the
Office that he is in.
To be sure 1t was, in the mind of the
Tribune scribe, the worst, unkindest cut of
all, when in addition to the usual tariff
drubbing we gave him, we quietly laid bare
the tickle heart of his silver BOBBY. He ac-
cepted defeat with only few grimaces on
other subjects, but he thought we might
have spared him on silver. His howls and
contortions show how deeply he is
wounded
The reader naturally thinks our beast
has done his worst in the foregoing, but
such is not the case. Hear his dying
seueal:
He whose manhood was emasculated while
he was yet in his cradle; he who never since
he had any intelligence, has breathed a
breath except such as slaves breathe;
he the ignorant coward and blather-
skite and liar, to pretend to talk about
decent people. He is disgrace not only to the
Mormon church but to humanity itself; and he
is not fit 10 breathe the same air or walk the
coAAlC oSACcb Will NtCSHI people,
How does that strike the reader as a
high tariff and silver argument? Any one
that cannot see after that that the demon
citation of silver permitted all industries
except farming to flourish in this country
must be an emissary of the Golden club
and hired by British gold. And this polite
blackguardism, let it be remembered, is d.
rected against a writer for THE HERALD
whom the Tribune scribe has never met in
public or in private, and whom the scribe
has never seen, to the knowledge of this
writer
OF course we shall make no part cular re-
ply to these frothy vaporings of frantic,
immortal iackass who knows no better.
Below we once more annihilate his films v
arguments, however.
In 1850 the value of the total agricul
tural wealth IN TIE country was nearly four
billions of dollars; in 1860 it was nearly
eight billions--an increase of lO0 per cent
In 1870 the value was eleven billions
increase OF 40per cent. In 1880 the value was
only twelve billions-an increase of only Q
per cent
The Tribune states that this decline of %
per cent, in the increasing value of apri-
cultural wealth from 1870 to 1880 as com
pared with 1850 to 1860 was caused by The
decentralization of silver in 1873, by reaso
OF which silver declined 30 per cent Mari,
the point agriculture declined 90 per
cent, because silver declined 30 per cent.
because, as the organ says, swhen
silver has been at 30 Der
cent. discount measured by gCld
the farms Of the country and the nro
ducts of the farms have been at exactly the
same discount,
The reader will please observe that 90
per cent. and 80 per cent, are exactly the
same.n
We remarked that if ''farms and farm
products have been measured by silver ras
the organ asserted, then all other products
have likewise been measured by silver. and
must have acted precisely like farm pro
ducts, advancing or falling with them. We
challenged the Tribune TO show that such
lad been the case; and instead of doing
this the weak Thing says it did give the
proof-last January OF course, that is q
crusher, and we have to stand from under.
However, in order to prove that all pro-
0ASSo 2SoS oAAA ASAA OAdOblJ aS silver cid
from 1870 to 1880. it manages to find two
which it publishes with a great flourish
and much circumstance, as follows:
in 1880 the average piice Of wheat in Chicago
was si.05lE. In 1853 it was S. cents That is. q
dollar in gold last winter bought 10 per cent
more wheat than it did in 1850.
similar showing is made for cotton,
But how a decline of 10 per cent, in the
price of wheat and cotton from 1880 to 1855
proves decline of 30 per cent, in all pro-
ducts from $50 to $780, is not quite clear.
Notice what the organ says
In all the northern states from the Mississippi
TO the Atlantic farms declined in exactly the
ratio that silver declined There is not an ordi-
nary article of manufacture, either in this coun.
Try or in England that has not suffered exactly
the same decrease as silver did as compared
with gold.
Ana the proof Of this wonderful state
ment Is that wheat and cotton declined 19
per cent, in another period altogether. not
included in the decade from 1870 to 1850.
rSilver was demonetized in 1873. We
gave figures covering the decade from 1870