The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-12-15

30 tStAoo2 4utHtiou OH >stHi LILY, sun
day or Tuesday, we VIII give full credit
to it.
We said we thought the Standard
could be fair if it tried. This was in
answer to its courteous remark that
THE Herald could not be fair if it
tried Our tender treatment it calls
'.erawfishing." If we felt inclined to
retort in its own style we might retail
late by saying. s'that is simply lying, =
but we will not come down to the
Standards level, nor pay further at
tention to its vaporings unless it comes
up to the plane of argument instead
of crawling down in the mud and
throwing dirt
The animus of the Republican party
towards Utah can be seen in every
platform of the party from its incep-
ton up to, but not including, its last
utterances. 1t has been manifested in
committees of both Houses and in the
open Senate and House in Congress.
the Utah papers for thirty years. The
people of this territory had to defend
themselves against it all that time and
until a very recent date. And that was
the spirit of the attack made by Morse,
of Massachusetts, which Delegate Raw
Inns so manfully rebuked.
The same feeling caused that fiji
clustering which the Standard denied,
and for publishing which it assailed
The Herald. although the same dis
patches were in the News and the Tri-
bune. The change of front in the Re
publican ranks was due to the plead
ings of men who knew the situation
here and feared for the result in Utah.
Idaho, Wyoming and other places in
the West. 1t is useless for the Stand
ard to deny that which all Utah knows
to be true
In the debate Harter, a well-known
goldite Democrat, opposed the BILL on
the ground that two silver Senators
would be probably returned from the
new State. But he had no old anti
Mormon virulence to vent and no old
Republican venom to inject into the
controversy, such as can be found on
page after page of the Congressional
Record. Mahon of Pennsylvania (not
of New York as mentioned in the dis
patches) is a Republican. SO is Powers
of Vermont, and so are the Maine men
who voted against the bill Mahons
amendment was framed in the same
vein as Morse's TRADE; Powers was
more moderate, but both were founded
on the prejudices still fostered against
the people of this territory. The fact
that only the more temperate motion
prevailed speaks we'll for the altered
tone of the opposition
Now that the Republican party ap-
pears to have changed front, we have
no disposition to rake up the old griev-
ances and stir up the old embers of
hate. If that party will unite with the
Democratic party in Congress-in the
Senate as in the House-to give Utah
the rights which have been so long
denied, and in this territory to help
organize a grand and glorious state,
we do not wish to renew old conten-
tons. But papers like the Standard
must not provoke these unpleasant
"reminiscences if they want peace and
harmony. 7
The main thing now is to work for
the common purpose and, while main
tanning such views as to public policy
as seems right to differing minds,
strive together on ground that we can
occupy without contention, for the es-
Establishment of a commonwealth that
we viii all be proud to claim as our
own.