The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-09-09
GIVE Both SIDES.

A few weeks ago the Herald, Having
received two dispatches on the same
subject, published but one of them.
as the telegraph editor considered that
all that was necessary was contained
in the later and briefer dispatch. The
Tribune thereupon abused the Herald
and it's editor, using its accustomed
gentlemanly expressions, such as are
suitable to the lowest dives, but are out
of place in respectable society to say
nothing of respectable print. The Her
aid mildly explained the matter and
claimed its right to publish or omit ac-
cording to its best judgment. But
the Tribune came back in its usual
style, taking the position that the
Herald had no right to suppress"
the dispatch referred to.
Yesterday morning the Herald pub
lished a regular press dispatch from
Atlanta. Georgia, reporting a meeting
held there on Friday evening at
which Speaker Crisp and Secretary
Hoke Smith made speeches reviewing
the work of congress and touching
on the silver question. They We're
stated to be the principal features of
the evening. Speaker Crisp announced
himself as having always been in
favor of the free coinage of silver
and declared: 81 am in favor of it
now Secretary Smith proclaimed
himself bimetallist but not in favor
of free coinage at 16 to 1 without an
international arrangement and gave
his reasons for it.
But the Salt Lake Tribune, which
denied the right of the Herald to sup
press long dispatch when its sub
stance was condensed into another
but smaller published dispatch, in this
instance deliberately suppresses all of
the one dispatch containing the report
OF the Atlanta meeting which refers to
Speaker Crisp and his free silver views,
but publishes in extenso the remarks
of Secretary Smith on the other side
of the question.
This was deliberately done, with the
evident intent to conceal, as far as
possible, the fact that the Democratic
speaker of the House Of Representa-
tives is an open and avowed advocate
of free silver coinage, and to proclaim
the Secretary of the Interior as a
violent enemy of silver" The hon
esty 10 of this course may be left to
the judgment of discerning public.
The Herald published the entire
dispatch as it came, although the sill
yer remarks of Speaker Crisp were
condensed into a brief graph by
the Associated Press, (Which is "a Re-
publican concern) and the silver re-
marks of Secretary Smith occupy
about a column and half
1t will be seen from Hoke Smiths
remarks that there are two sides to-the
silver question and that, as in most of
these important isues, men of marked
ability may take opposite views in re-
lation to it. 1t is well to examine it
from both standpoints, and it is no
answer to the arguments on the
wrong side to abuse the man that
uses them, call him vile names and
That is the style of our unesteemed
contemporary and it does the silver
cause more harm than good.
The Herald, in treating the silver
question, has aimed to be fair to all
parties in the controversy, and be-
cause we give full weight to what is
advanced against free coinage and
refuse to endorse the idiocy and vul-
garity which sometimes characterizes
the sayings of the Tribune on the sub
ject, we are treated frequently to a
bucket of it's billingsgate. The Herald
is, and has always been in favor Of
silver as money, and expects to stand
by it until it stands once more side by
side with gold without discrimination
as money of the United States.