The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-12-28
IN IT'S OWN TRAP AGAIN.


thrust into the local legislative cam
paign, that it has come out again in
its natural vulgar tongue. These are
the kind of arguments it uses: 1.-The
Herald lies shamefulIy.'' etc. 1.-THE
Herald tries to prove" etc, "au of
which is pure dirt" THE Herald is
given shamefully to lying" These
are editorial samples out of the same
issue of the Tribune.
Now let US see how truthful our
neighbor is which advances such po-
tent arguments: 1t refers to the incon-
sistency pointed out by The Herald in
the statement Of President Harrison
that unexampled prosperity had been
the result Of high tariff protection, and
that Of the Tribune that misery, poverty
and continual depreciation of the prices
of products had been brought about by
the decentralization of silver in 1878, and
says:
The Tribune has never endorsed the
statement made by President Harri-
son that the country was enjoying I'M
RxampleG prosperity a. year | ago.
though we do not doubt the sincerity
of President Harrison in making that
statement. and never have.
We might retort in the Tribune YER
nacular. but we leave that as part of
the billingsgate of our gentlemanly
contemporary For proof that its
epithets are peculiarly applicable in its
own case we refer to the Tribune of
Aug 10, 1898, in which that paper at
tempted to draw a. deadly parallel"
placing those words of President Harrf-
son which it now says it never endors-
ed. side by side with paragraph from
President Cleveland's message. as proof
that under Harrison and the high tariff
unexampled prosperity was the conse-
quence. while under Cleveland an
alarming business situation was pro
jected. Did the Tribune endorse what
Harrison said? Here is its endorse
ment:
uhat both the above messages describe
truly and exactly the business situa-
tion at the time each was written If
1T was not the change of political con-
troll from Republican to Democratic
that made the change, what was it?
The Tribune kept up that kind of
talk from day to day, citing Harrison's
false assertion that so high a degree
of prosperity and SO general a diffusion
of the comforts of life were never be-
fore enjoyed by our people, It called
this statement, which it endorsed edi-
torially as true, deadly blow" to the
of the Democracy. And at
the same time it was publishing yards
of editorial stuff about silver. in which
it declared that THE logical sequence
Of the handling of the financial ques-
ton for the last twenty years was just
such outbreaks as made "cities tur-
bulent with riots and the skies above
them red with incendiary fires" 1t de-
slared the silver legislation of the Re-
publican party had caused more mis-
cry than mighty war would cause
If this is not inconsistency, what is
f? In one column, at that time, ii en-
lorsed the statement as true that the
county was enjoying unprecedented
and in another column de-
1icted the misery, degradation, poverty.
ignorance and crime that prevailed
rhe wonderful prosperity was due to
the dreadful adversely to
he silver legislation of 1878. The pros
'erity and the adversely both existed
1t the same time according to the Salt
Lake Tribune
Now it endeavors to escape from
his muddle by saying that The Herald
luoted the remarks of a speaker at a
Republican meeting and then the re-
marks of the Tribune, and that the
lash is the consequence. Why the
peaker was merely repeating, parrot
ike. what he had read in the Tribune.
Every one who spoke at the meeting
m the tariff, on silver, and on the al
eyed effects of Democratic rule were
merely mounting Tribune drivel
There was not an original idea in the
Whole batch of addresses. 1t was Tri-
'une puerility from beginning to end
,xcert a little buncombe thrown in as
! BAH to catch the Mormon vote.
Now, in opposition to the prosperity |
ehich Republican speakers are boast
ng of as prevailing under protection.
We will copy here something more as
o the actual conditions. 1t is from the
resolutions at the Chicago silver CON |
Tention. which appeared in and was I
by the Salt Lake Tribune as !
he effects of silver demonetizstion
wenty years ago:
The ruling Industry of the people |
Who irlhabit one-third the area. Of This |
epublic has been stricken down: prop
rty values destroyed; worRrnen com I
yelled to fly as if from pestilence:
everywhere honest toilers numbering /
hundreds Of thousands are thrown out |
+ employment to eat the bread of /
harity or starve, the products of in |
ustries from the workshop have de-
'reciated in price until production
eases to be profitable; the money of +
ne country. inadequate for the bust