The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-02-15
ABOUT THOSE HEARINGS.

! temporary continues to hammer away
lat the Senate committee for deciding
mot to hear oral arguments on the
tariff bill. And also to blaclguagd
those papers which support the COM
mittee in their view of the situation.
THE Herald copied some remarks from
the New York Post on this point, to
which the Tribune responds by saying:
The chief editor of the Post is an
IEnglish-ITiShman or an Irish-English-
man, we have forgotten which. We
believe he was hired to come to Amer
lica to fight the tariff"
That of course is conclusive argu-
ment that the Post editor is wrong.
What stronger reasoning could be adj
duced against his position? The great
lam Wiser Than-Thou of a western
territorial paper, believes" that the
head Of a journal in the little village
Iof New York has been hired and that
he is of foreign birth, and therefore he
may as well subside. 1t matters not
that his paper is read by more thou
sands of people every day than the
western sheet is by hundreds, nor that
the metropolitan journal is regarded
as one of the ablest papers in the
United States, editorially, by many of
the leading and brainiest men of the
nation; he is said to be "English-Irish
or Irish-English,' or something of that
sort, and is not that decisive proof
that he doesn't know anything?
But the wonderful logician which
advances vulgarity like that for argu-
ment, is dreadfully exercised over the
main question, which is that Senator
Voorhees, and the Senate committee do
not think it necessary, after the hear
! ings before the House committee, to
hinder progress on the tariff bill by
listening to lengthy speeches from lob
byists and others, on questions that
have already been fully ventilated, but
prefer having suggestions for amend
ments. with reasons for them, pre-
sented in writing. That is an unpar-
donable sin in the eyes of our pecu-
liar contemporary. Let US see how
long it has been in this frame of mind.
When the notice was given that the
| Ways and Means committee of the
House would listen to the representa-
tives of the various protected indus
tries, last fall, our neighbor was al
most in fit over the announcement.
Under the head of, "Abandons it's De-
mocracy," the Tribune of September
IS. 1893, said edftorially:
But directly after the passage of
the repeal bill on the Sherman act, the
House Committee on Ways and Means
gave out that it would for two weeks
hear representatives of American man
ufacturing houses, with a. view to so
framing the tariff reform bill as to
interfere as little as possible with the
established industries of the country.
lOf course that meant the abandon
ment of the Democratic platform; for
lit is manifest that no hearing from
manufacturers could possibly affect
their case, if protection were doomed
lin and of itself as unconstitutional and
a fraud; this hearing is therefore a
desertion of the Democratic platform"
Here is another paragraph from the
same source.
1.-THE protected industries are being
listened to through managers and pro-
lprietors. and respectful heed is given
to the statements and arguments ad-
vanced. The committee shows no sign
of even a desire to carry out the
pledge of its party"
Nearly every day the Tribune as
sailed the Democratic party for giving
those hearings The Herald defended
the committee on the ground that
what the Democratic party was
pledged to was tariff reform" and not
tariff abolition. On September Is we
asked:
''Does not every impartial judge or
tribunal of any kind hear both sides
Iof a question before rendering a decis-
ion? Should not committee charged
with the important duty of framing a
tariff bill, patiently listen to what rep
resentatives of interests ON both sides
have to present? Did the committee
that recommended the passage of the
Mckinley bill decide to do so without
hearing from advocates of low tar
iff?"
Next day, September Is, the Tribune
attacked the committee again, quoting
from the New York Sun as here an
nexed:
Thus we now see protected manu-
facturers hocking TO Washington to
beg the ways and means committee
not to reduce their profits All this
belongs to protection and is an alb
surdity, in view of the sentence of con-
demnation passed against protection by
the American people"
The Tribune added these editorial
comments:
Beyond any question whatever that
is the only Democratic position To
abandon it and consider projections to
have hearings with a view to hurt
protected industries as little as posi-
BILE, or to in any way concede that
protected industries are entitled to
consideration in the laying of a tariff
for revenue only, under the explicit
and triumphant declaration that pro-
lection is unconstitutional and fraud,
is not only an abandonment of the
vital principle involved, but is a pro-
clamatiOn that the Democratic party
succeeded in the election by taking
in the American people through a huge
confidence game"
On the 18th of September The Herald
explained the position of the Demo-
cratic party again and here is a para
graph from its article on that subject:
1.-THE Herald repeatedly told the pub