The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-01-07
a LupIcRoUs coMPARIsoN.

We have to refer occasionally to
our morning contemporary because of
its frequent attempts to place US and
our friends in a false light Its latest
effort at a comparison like many. of
| its former flights in that direction is
far-fetched enough to be funny al
though not conveyed in anything like
humorous fashion.
The endeavor is made to show that
the Democratic party is responsible
for 1.-The closing of the. factories and
the general ruin which it is alleged
came upon the country coincident
with their attaining to power" And
to do this it supposes that a merchant
vessel is moving home from a long
and profitable voyage" and in the
night pirate comes alongside and
captures the ship. THE pirates scowl
upon the merchantmen crew and
whet their knives to cut the threats
of their prisoners; mo company on
earth we are told, would insure the
sailors lives if paid dollar for dollar
of the risk, and yet the pirates have
done nothing, nothing destroyed, no.
body killed. The idea is again put
forth that rates of insurance would
be high and companies would be JUS
tilted lin refusing to take risks on the
lives of the merchant sailors" The
conclusion is that This is a faithful
photograph of the situation of the
Democratic party toward the ship of
state"
Just fancy, if you can, a merchant
man at sea in possession of pirates
wanting or expecting insurance, and
the sailors looking to insure their lives
in some company out in nid-ocean!
Perhaps the Tribune has an idea that
marine insurance companies have sta
tons out at sea, or agents blowing
the main ready to insure vessels in
distress or mariners in danger. Or
does it imagine that Old Neptune has
gone into the insurance business and
takes risks" when they are of ordin-
airy safety?
But throwing the insurance chunk
of wisdom overheard, let us look for a
moment at the attempted comparison
between the peaceable Democrats and
the cut-throat pirates-creatures of
the Tribune's disordered Republican
Imagination. The Democratic party
were placed in command of the ship
of state by the owners. a large ma
jority of the partners in the company
voted the party into charge and placed
its chief man at the helm. Where
then is the parallel between it and the
pirates? Where do the scowling and
throat-cutting threats come in? AS far
as they are concerned are not the Re-
publicans doing the scowling and
threatening and attempts at throat
cutting? They then are the pirates
/ if there is anything piratical in the
matter, for it is they who are attempt
ing to get on board the ship of state
and failing that, to prevent it's peace
full passage and destroy its captain.
AS drawer of comparisons and a
compounder of chop logic commend us
to the Salt Lake Tribune. The charge
about the CLOSING of factories" and
the general ruin is quite consistent
with its imaginary photograph of the
piratical attack and the out-at-sea in
surance company. There has been no
general ruin" in the country. There
have been a number of mills closed
but they shut down before the Demo-
cratic Congress met. They suspend
ed under Republican tariff and
silver legislation. Most of them
opened again with the prospect
of Democratic action. The panic
of '93 was not patching on the panic
of 70 and the country is rapidly re-
covering from its effects while the pros
trating results of the panic Of twenty
years ago lasted fully five years. The
Tribune is at sea on this subject and
its yarns and SMILES are only fit to be
told to the marines