The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-01-20

for our manufactures "cheaply,' and
thus find it profitable to move toward
"a free trade basis also?
The same threats and forebodings
and scares about ruin to agriculture.
to manufactures and to labor, were ut
tered during the period of agitation
over over these matters in England.
And the promoters of tariff reform and
the repeal of the corn laws
were assailed, and derided. and threat
ened in the most violent manner. But
the very opposite of all those predic-
tons has come to pass. England has
fourished. Agriculture has been i'm
proved. Manufactures have advanced.
Wages have been increased. And even
our high tariff neighbor has many
a time admitted that it has been to
the advantage of England to open her
ports to the products of the world.
But it says:
Nov the very threat of a return to
that policy has set three millions of
tramps marching up and down the
United States. and the country is in
congestion and despair"
Is that really so? Why nearly every
day we are told by the same paper
that it is the Throwing away of half
the money of the world that is the
cause Of it all. But then it does not
stick to it's own theories even one day
at time, so it is useless to follow it
further. We will merely place it's own
statements once more in juxtaposition.
Read the last extract above from The
Tribune of Jan. 10; and then read this
from the Tribune of Jan. 16:
To do what Mr. Cleveland has done
to smash silver is a very serious mat
ter because on that hinges very firmly
the life of the country. That is what
has set three millions of tramps walk
ing up and down this country: that is
what has put such unrest, congestion
and despair in the hearts of the
American people as they have never
felt before"
We do not wish to be severe on our
ratified neighbor, but we cannot for
bear asking which was pure dishon-
esty?' Stating that three millions of
tramps Gan untruth in ITSELF were
threat to return to free trade, or as
sorting that it was Cleveland's smash
ing of silver (another falsehood in
itself started those three millions on
their weary way? In pretending to
answer an argument on the 18th inst
our contemporary said:
There are only two classes of per-
sons who will make that statement on
this subject; one is a knave and the
other is a born ass
The temptation is strong TO ask our
neighbor which class the writer of
those numerous blank contradictions
belongs to, but we will not yield to it.
On this silver question, however, we
must give another quotation or two.
The Tribune tells us day after day
that the demonstration of silver in
1873 threw away half the money of the
world. Now it says Cleveland smashed
silver. In an editorial of the 18th it
says:
Great Britain was the first nation
to demonetize silver. That was in
Further down in the same editorial
we find this remark:
I'm England any man having Eng
fish silver coins can get their face in
gold
That is true. But if so how can it
be truthfully claimed that silver has
been demonetized in England, or that
half its money has been thrown away?-
And how much truth is there in the
statement that Cleveland smashed sill
yer, when the silver dollar is worth its
face as money anywhere in the country
except under a special contract to the
contrary, and if it was "demonetized,p
Smashed" and killed" over twenty
years ago? -
These are about enough contradic-
tons in one day. and they should dem
onstrate to thinking people how much
reliance can be placed on the high
tariff and anti-Cleveland organ of the
party in Utah.