The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-07-23
PRESS PARAGRAPHS.

A curious thing about politicians is that
just so soon as they have finger in the
pie they begin to talk of getting there
with both feet Philadelphia Times.
Fifteen glass factories-all there are in
the United States-are closed up and TO-
GOO people thrown out of work in Ohio,
Indiana and Pennsylvania. Cause as
signed, dull times; real cause, contraction
OF the currency.-Denoer NelcS.
The spectacle of the chivalrous and his
toric state of South Carolina-the state
that has made more history of one kind
and another than any other in the Union
running string of gin mills with the
governor as boss bartender, ought to fur
nlsh the inspiration for great Ameri-
can comic opera. minneapolis Tribune.
There is level headed tendency among
the workingmen of Utah in general to
view the position their employees are
placed in in iberal-sDirited manner
and are accepting a reduced scale of
wages to operate as long as The present
stringency shall last. By such means as
of affairs will be greatly relieved. hit.
Pleasant Pyramid.
The story that there is ga combinen
against Mr.. Crisp for the speakership
comes from dyspeptic correspondents.
Mr.. Crisp will be made speaker without
any serious opposition. There will prob
ably be two or three other candidates,
who seek in that way to get places on
committees. But this year little atten-
ton will be paid to matter of that kind.
Crisp will go in utterly unpledged, and
he will do his duty as he sees It, Cincin-
natl Enquirer.
Every special privilege within nation
creates its counterpart in foreign rela-
fl0nS- hhS6TVa Of ho+
glarIng and self-evident Of special priv
leges-a protective tariff. Under the plea
OF helping native industries, protection
merely perpetuates bogus International
hatreds. 1t destroys the brotherhood of
nations. 1t brings arrangements, jeal-
ousles, imputations of evil motives, and
Misunderstanding without end. Worse
than all, war, or the fear of war, always
goes hand in hand with commercial re-
strictions.-The arena.
Two remarkable facts have been proved
by the late German elections. The rapid
rise of the Socialist vote indicates that
the number of dissatisfied persons is very
large, for it is hardly to be believed til at
all those who voted for Socialist candi-
dates endorse the hair Drained Socialist
ideas. But the total result of the cleo
ton implies that the German people.
while giving vent to their dissatisfaction
yet understand that their position with
out strong army is precarious, and that
the possession of this army alone can
save them from an attack by their beIli-
cose neighbors. -1dges6ote Bsapn.
Economics and finance are terms which
it is impossible to separate in thought.
and it is the first of these which ineyita-
bly, influences the others. Whence it fol-
lows that nation economically weak can
never retain its financial credit. which
next to liberty, is the thing most neces.
sary for q nation. The way in which
nation defends its credit in the field of
foreign markets corresponds to the way
in which it defends its own flag ia the
political and military field RasSeqnQ
National.
There is nothing more certain than the
fact that the striking of the silver dollar
from the list OF legal tender coins was the
result of a conspiracy. The Congressional
Record conclusively proves this, filled as
it is with evidence showing that the men
who engineered the scheme fully appre-
ciatcd its far-reaching consequences, and
they were not in the least backward when
a resort to lying became necessary to
carry out the project. If any one doubts
this let him turn to the Record in ones
ton, -ano he will be thoroughly satisfied
that there was conspiracy and that John
Sherman was one of the chief conspira-
tors.-San Francisco Chronicle.
The Siamese question might only be too
elsily formed into very considerable
quarrel between this country, England
and France. This would be misfortune.
but so would be the establishment of
French protectorate over Siam. The task
of averting both will tax the dexterity of
the foreign office, but it must be done
under the penalty of mourning worse in
future. The most satisfactory and, as far
as can DE judged from the published evil
dence, the only possible solution is the
surrender by the king of Siam of the
region to the east of the Mekong claimed
by the French, to be compensated to MIN
by an English guarantee of the remainder
CT his kingdom. -Suturday ReuieaC.