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

to 1860. The Tribune asserted this loss was
due tothe fall of 30 per cent. in silver dur
ing that time and, with boyish innocence,
proved it by showing that corn and cotton
were IL per cent, cheaper in 1889 than in
iooo. 1t would be wonderful if among
thousands of articles a few could not be
round that might appear to fluctuate with
SILVER; but the two the Tribune gives are
Aor period not under discussion at all, and
not exactly with silver even then. No one
Knows better than this same scribe that
curing the past month silver has
nuctuated from about los to 1l9,
dropping again to 113, without
ANY such fluctuations in the price of sugar,
ooots, Hour. stoves, hats and thousand
other articles. Can there be found in this
city a merchant who will say with the
Tribune editor that the stock of goods he
was Offering for sale made the astonishing
jumps and tumbles that silver made from
DAY to day Certainly not. The Tribune
says land and land values, and s'every ordi-
nary article of manufacturer rise and fall
exactly as silver does, and that whoever
disputes it or asks for proof Of it is "a
scrub" "fool'' and an ''ass'' for the sheet
says it published ''the proof - last January
and Will not publish it any more
But the grand final point is that if all
articles rise and fall with silver, then farm
ing should be as prosperous as other occu-
patlons are, which we have shown is not
the case.
Says that sheet:
During the last ten years the government OF
the United States has paid out 81 800, COD O00
rms has been put III the cities and the railroads
| OF the country, not in the farms. because farm
products were falling all the time under the
shrinkage of money
! month ago this same sheet said
this money had been sent abroad to
pay the war debt, and sent, moreover,
at exactly the same rate that the balance
OF trade was in our favor" Which of these
contradictions does the sheet believe?
Just above, it said all the produ cts fel
with silver; now it says only the farm pro
ducts. Which does it mean
Says the sheet:
The measure Of money in Il country is the
/ measure OF prosperity CT the people, and &C
cofalng TO prosperity comes either intelligence
civilization, improvement or their opposltes.
According to this India is the most pros
porous and civilized country, France com.
Ing next, with this country and Britain
trailing in the rear.
In regard to the profitable commerce en-
joyed by Great Britain, the sheet saws
She takes the worlds raw products, takes a
small per centage of them, after infusing British
brains into that small part, sends it back. and
with it pays her debt, and has the rest as her
profit. And she gets rich; but it is not by i'm
porting more than she exports
This muddy paragraph contains its own
REPUTATION. 1t says Britain receives raw
products an then sends part of them away
again in the shape of manufactured goods,
yet that this export is not less than the
import-that the part is not less than the
whole. Just above this choice paragraph is
statement that England gets for $50, OOC
goods that cost $4,000 yet that the impor,
is not greater than the export-that s70,0OC
is not greater than $780, Excepting
those it copies from TIE HERALD, nearly
every statement the sheet makes on the sill
yer and the tariff question are as idiotic as
the foregoing. But enough is feast