The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-11-21
SHERMAN EXPLAINS.

1t is Away. a good rule not to name
a child for a living person because
that person may turn ont to be entirely
| different from the idea of him or her
entertained by the fond parent who
gives his or her name to a child. A
persons record is never made until
dead. After that it cannot be marred
or mended
These reflections are suggested by
the position of Senator Sherman on the
result of the late elections, and our
commentator of an interview of his.
He was reported to have said: Il do
not regard the present result as an
endorsement of the Mckinley bill or a
demand on the part of the people for
radical tariff legislation. If L
should see that any duty was making
"a monopoly, 1 would take that duty off
The Republicans went to an extreme on
the question in 1890 because they had
absolute control of the government -
That was the talk of man of con-
SENTATIVE ideas and common sense, of a
man of experience who knows that ex-
tremes in politics do not long find favor
with the people. What he said, or is
reported to have said. was taken up by
some of the leading papers of the
country and favorably commented upon.
The New York Times devoted long
article to it but was rather dubious as
to the Senator holding to the views ex-
pressed for any considerable length of
time. 1t expressed the opinion thai
the quoted assertions of the Ohio Seua-
tor were ''Mr. Sherman's opinion for
one day only" and that no one could
tell what his views as to this question
will be tomorrow" 1t then gave some
quotations from his speeches in Con-
gress on the Mckinley bill tending to
show that its opinion of the great
Ohioan was warranted. This editorial
of the Times seems to have walked the
Senator up and he is out with a de-
NAL of the first interview He says:
There is nothing in any statement [
have made about the election or the
Mckinley law that can be construed
in any way as a reflection upon the
distinguished Republican whose name
the act bears. On the contrary, I look
upon the recent election as an indorse-
ment of the general protection policy
OF the Republican party and the Me-
kinley act as the best expression OF that
policy this country has ever seen. 1t is,
perhaps, not perfect; few tariffs are.
but its whole tenor and purpose must
meet the sanction and approval of Re-
publ1cdns. When it comes to the ques-
ton of scheduies-the details of such a
ma On
ence of opinion as to how high or how
low certain rates should be placed.
There were items in the Republican act
upon which some thought the duty too
high. but every man in that great party
considered the Mckinley act, as a
whole, as representative of the general
policy of the party that enacted it into
law. The last election must justly,
therefore, be accepted as a general in
dorsement of the principles of the Nc
Kinely act and of Republican ideas and
policies, and a rebuke TO the motives
that actuate the party now dominant
in national affairs.
If this interview is not repudiated,
these must be taken as the distin-
guished Senator's views of the meaning
of the result of the recent elections. at
least pro tenn. The pleadings may not
be through with and we shall not be
surprised to see a surrebutter filed by
the Ohioan.
The reporter who is responsible for
the first interview is willing to affirm
that he correctly reported the purport
and language of Senator Sherman. 1t
seems to be another case of Tom Reed
and his Ann Arbor interview
We believe that people are generally
pretty correctly reported in the papers
and that they do not fully realize the
import of all they have said until they
see it in type, then they are often aston
ished if not astounded. Interviews in
the press cannot be taken home and
pruned and polished for publication as
speeches delivered in Congress are be-
fore being printed in the Record. This
great many explanations
about interviews.