The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-08-22

ITSELF AGAINST ITSELF.

We shall nave to spring the deadly
parallel on tie Tribune once more be-
cause it is so ready to try that device
when it thinks 20 score a point against
the Democratic party. In each effort it
has essayed it has recorded palpable
failure.
In Mondays issue returning to its
previous vomit against the administra-
ton, charging it with the responsibility
of the prevailing distress, it once more
finds fault because the President did not
last March cali Congress together and in
message declare that s'silver should be
recognized as money to the full; that
American manufactures should be favored
as against the cheap labor of other lands;
that no raid was contemplated or would
be tolerated to rupture established trade
relations and oouditions.'' Instead Of
that, it says: "The Administrator did
not rise to the occasion,'' but, ''acted
precisely on wrong lines; demanded the
ldemonetization of silver and renewed the
threat OF murder against American in
dustries. -
Passing by the positive and wilful false
hoods in the latter part OF the Tribune
harangue, let us quote its own language,
when the Boston Herald intimated some
thing which it construed to mean de-
parture from the tariff reform plank OF
tle Democratic platform. 1t denounced
this as one OF 1.-THE immoralities of poll
tics" and said it was utterly immoral,
reprehensible and despicable.' Also:
1t Is amazing that a paper OF the
standing of the Boston Herald should seri-
ously argue that the President is under
no obligation to carry out the pledges of
form. If this view of the Boston Herald
should become the accepted one in Ameri-
can politics, then political campaigns in
this country would mean nothing at all.
For if a party is not TO be judged by and
held up to its declarations during cam
paign in which it may win success, then
there is no party accountability and the
people then have nothing 20 hope or fear
In the event OF the success or defeat Of
any party. Heretofore in this country,
as in others, it has been the accepted rule
that party going before the people and
winning an election on certain ayowed
principles, was bound by its pledges 10
larry out those principles in case it had
the power to do so.
One more quotation from the same mo
ale editorial, August IA:
We do not believe that the mass of the
Democratic party or the Democratic ad-
ministration will consent to a desertion
of their declared principles such as is de-
manded by this Boston mugwump paper.
II would be scandal in American political
party responsibility to suppose for a mo-
ment that consent could be had to such a
constituencies programme.
Now if what the Boston Herald sug
gested was so utterly infamous and des-
picable, - how much better is it coming
from the Salt Lake Tribune and from va
rious Republican sheets in and out of this
territory? Also how can the Presidents
announcement that tariff reform will have
to wait until the financial question is dis
posed OF be such sthreat" and a
''menace' when it is admitted that a
failure to carry out the policy OF the tariff
reform platform would be infamous, i'm
moral and a prostitution of American
politics?
Our nelghbor is unfortunate in its sug-
gestion of the deadly parallel and also in
the possession of very poor memory,
which, according to an old adage is par
ticularly damaging to the class to which
it belongs.