The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-06

wanted independent action by this gov
eminent without waiting for interna-
tional agreement, why did they not say
that?
But the Tribune affects to think that
the language is so free from dubiety,
| so plain in declaration in favor of the
thing which the trainers of the resolu-
\ ton rejected, that it has no patience
with anybody who thinks the words
capable of any other Specification. And
| it grows abusive and snarlingly satirical
over the suggestion that the language
Of the resolution may have different
construction. Well, let us compare it's
own comments of July with what it
said on June rs. First, here is it's re-
marks on the 5th inst:
There never was any stronger Ian
guage than that used. How would a
court construe it if it were submitted
for Interpretation? What other inter
probation can be given than the straight
words that silver must be restored to
its old position and that there will be
no prosperity until it shall be?
Now read it's own editorial reflections
on June 2S. After quoting the plank
lit said:
This was evidently a compromise, and
$50 much was won only after a long and
hard fight. Taken the way Utahs dele
gates construe it, the declaration is by
far the most pronounced in favor of
silver Of any heretofore made by any
general body of Republicans. It's OBJ
jectionable point is that eastern men
can deny the validity of the western
mems construction.
Will the Tribune now deny it's ad-
mission, only week old, that the weak
ness of the resolution and its 'objec-
tionahle point was that eastern men
could take one view of it and western
men another view? If not, then the
sarcasm it uses as to persons and
papers that have that opinion must be
applied to itself. And if it was wrong
then what assurance is there that it is
right now?
If that paper did not assume such
wise airs and arrogate to itself so much
over everybody and every
thing in its neighborhood, we would not
so frequently show up its laundering
ignorance and reckless falsehood, its
lself-contradictions and its utter lack of
common journalistic consistency and
discretion. It has run along in certain
grooves for SO many years, harping on
one string and repeating itself in the
same strains that it has become very
nearly a monomania on the one ques-
ton of which it claims a monopoly of
information. 1t is banking on past and
dying reputation, and is oblivious to
many living things of the present.
The manly way for our arrogant and
added contemporary over the silver
trick of the Denver convention, would
have been to acknowledge that after
trying to obtain plain and straight
forward declaration as to silver COIN
age, such as was suggested by the
Utah delegation and in the letter from
Don Cameron, the effort failed, the
straight silver proposition was rejected,
and a substitute was adopted framed to
convey one idea to the east and another
and different idea to the west. That it
was the best that could be obtained
from Republican sources under the cir
cumstancse is generally believed; that
lit is what the Tribune now claims for
lit, thereby contradicting its own criti-
cisms, is universally and Indignantly
daDied