The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-11-26

while they were simply in depreciation
of the Tribune's vile and indecent Ian
guage. Here is what The Herald
said. in full:
THE attack of the Salt Lake Tri-
bune on the Illustrated American is:
one of the vilest things in modern
Journalism 1t is not justified by any
thing that the American has said or
pictured and is unfit to be taken into
amy respectable family. It's language
lis unfit for repetition. In saying this
we do not endorse the structures of
the American on the silver Senators
by any means 1t is not very long
lsince the Tribune was endorsing the
American editor when he was publish
ing sensational falsehoods about an al
legged uprising of the Mormons. He
was considered by the Tribune then
as the chief among ten thousand and
altogether lovely. Now because he
praises Cleveland and berates the sill
yer men, no words are too scurrilous
for the Tribune to pour out upon his
journalistic head The Tribune people
ought be ashamed OF that libellous
trade
We have not heard a single comment
from anybody that is not equally con-
demnatory and great deal more en-
phatic as to the vituperation of the
Tribune, than anything The Herald
has said We do think the structures
of the Illustrated American very "se-
rious.' They are villainous and libel
lous. They are entirely unjust.f1able
But they are gentlemanly and sweet in
comparison with the Shiny and NAL
odorous scurrility of the Tribune in re-
spouse. That is no defense of the
silver Senators, it is simply a success
full attempt to get down lower into
the mud than the American dipped,
and fling more offensive missiles. If
by Birds of a Feather the Tribune
classes itself with the American, we
concur, only the former is the darker
foul.
In reply to what The Herald said
concerning the course pursued by the
Tribune when the American published
some vile, sensational and false illus
trated articles about Utah, our ratified
contemporary says our memory is bad
and yet, after wandering from the
main point remarks with its usual
faulty:
.'All that we said in praise of what
the American published was that the
statement was substantially correct"
That is the gist of the whole matter
What the Tribune admits now that it
claimed was substantially correct"
was tissue of untruths manufac-
tured out of whole cloth, furnished
evidently by some person here and
made up from old, exploded Tribune
sensations, which were touched up and
painted in faring colors by a hand
unfamiliar with this region and the
position occupied by several prominent
individuals pictured in the romance.
The falsehoods that story contained
were just as villainous as the present
attacks on the silver Senators. and the
Tribune proclaimed them "substan-
tally correct" That is enough.
AS to the darts at the editor of The
Herald, they only provoke a smile. be-
cause they do not reach the mark and
are flung with such evident loss of
temper and in such a, bungling man
ner, that they show the Tribune to be
in that condition of mind with which
it is usually afflicted when run into a
corner. When argument with a paper
fails, its common and blackguard way
is to villify and throw mud at the per-
son supposed to have placed it hors
de combat. 1t is q. question whether
its condition is that of insanity or
senility.