The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-12-30
IMPOSSIBLE CONDITIONS.

In a paragraph nearly a column lont
the poor, bewildered organ of higl
tariffs tries to get around the fac
that while calling The Herald a ''liar
it stated the positive untruth that i
had never endorsed President Harri
sons falsehoods about the unexamplet
prosperity of the country IN 1892. VIZ
lquoted its words of endorsement az
well as the remarks it published from
Harrison's message. It is no use fol
the Tribune to wander all over creation
to divert attention from the main fact
1t is this:
The Tribune, when confronted with
the fact that it had printed President
Harrison's boast of unexampled pros.
lperity as the result Of high tariff, ant
at the same time its own assertion
that poverty, wickedness and crime had
increased in a fearful ratio caused by
Republican silver decentralization
declared:
1.-THE Tribune has never endorsed the
statement made by President Harri.
son that the country was enjoying I'M
exampled prosperity year ago"
To prove that it had, we copied the
paragraph from the Tribune of Aug
ust 10, 1893 which followed Harrison S
remarks and Cleveland's in parallel col
umns Here is what the Tribune said
Now we presume no one will deny
that both the above messages describe
truly and exactly the business situa-
ton at the time each was written. II
it was not the change of political con-
troll from Republican to Democratic
that made the change, what was it?''
Our angry and vituperative contem-
porary can't get around this if it makes
a two-column solid paragraph about It,
The Tribune endorsed Harrison's re-
marks. then declared it had never done
so. For what reason? Why could il
not acknowledge the endorsement? II
is what the Tribune has claimed several
times. 1t is what Republican Varian-
ties are stuffing into the people now.
This is the reason why:
The Tribune has proclaimed right
along for years. that the country was
going to utter ruin, degradation and
destruction through the demonetiza-
ton of silver in 1873 1t admits that
was the work of the Republican party.
All right. But it has also taken the
ground that poverty, distress. increase
of crime and insanity and the bank
ruptcy of the agricultural classes were
prevailing. and at the same time the
country was hourishing wonderfully
and increasing in all kinds of material
wealth through the high protective tar
if tax!
That is the blank contradiction which
our neighbor has to face Which is
correct? No use to swear it never said
so. We have produced its own words;
they are not Harrison's. If the country
was as distressed as the Tribune has
pictured, hundreds of times, through
Republican decentralization Of silver. the
statements about the wonderful pros
perity brought by the high tariff are
abominably false, and are used on the
stump and in the press by Republicans
to hoodwink the public and delude vot-
ers.
We will not dispute about the cause;
that is not the question. 1t is the
facts. The distress existed no doubt.
This year it increased. 1t has all been
under the high tariff and silver policy
! of the Republican party. Every stump
orator that denies that copies the tao
tics of Ananias. We do not care much
about the Tribune's standardization
they occur nearly every day. We do
care about the deception of the public
over this matter and that's why we
refer to it again.