The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-22
MAKING BAD WORSE.

Under the heading of They mean it
All the Same the Tribune of Thurs
day had an editorial in which it en-
deavored to squirm out of its whole
cloth and deliberate falsehood about
Judge Henderson's speech at Saltair
We clip it's opening remarks The rest
of the long piece of journalistic ter
giversa ton doesn't touch the question.
1t says:
Two or three days ago we chaffed
Judge Henderson a little. He was re-
ported to have made a speech at Sal
tair last Saturday in which he copied
the style of the ordinary Democratic
organ, and attempted to show the peo-
pie there that a greatly modified tariff
would help the protected industries.
AS. for instasce, that reduction of the
tariff on wool by admitting foreign
woods would so greatly add to the
rers that the American wool would
really be higher without a tariff than
with it. We treated it as an attempt
on the part Of the judge to show that
wool at cents pound, as it is now
would be better for the wool raiser of
Utah than the II cents a pound which
he got two years ago. 1t was merely
=
statement i'll a few words.
The Tribune's idea of chatting a
gentleman who is respected and es-
teemed by everybody who knows him.
is to deliberately lie about him
Judge Henderson did not mention or
refer to wool, or its price, or the eff
fects of the old or the new tariff on
wool or the protected industries
Further, he was not reported to have
done so. The Tribune cannot find any
thing bearing any relation to the sub
ject in its own report or in that of
any other paper. The Tribune, as it
frequently does when hard up for
material on which to base an attack
upon man or a paper. invented a
report and this is what it said:
Judge Henderson has looked a little
bit sheepish ever since he tried to ex-
plain to the awkward squad at Saltair
on Saturday that a Utah sheepman
would do better when he sold wool at
z cents pound than he did when he
sold it at II.
Let the Tribune inquire of a number
Of respectable Republicans who were
among the audience which, with its
usual exquisite taste, it denominates
''the awkward squad" and it will fai
to find a man who heard the Judge
make any reference whatever to the
subject on which the Tribune says he
has been looking ''sheepish ever since
That paper closed an editorial on Fri.
day with these words:
1t will be difficult to get us into any
position in the world that we cannot
readily lie out of.
We are of the opinion that the srri.
bune can neither readily" nor with
extreme difficulty '1ie" its way out OF
the barefaced, bald and unblinkina
falsehood in reference to Judge Hen
derson. Even the paltry pretence that
he meant it air will not answer
Neither will the excuse that it was
merely Showing the absurdity of the
judges statement" because he didn't
make any such statement or say any
thing ike it. The best thing for the
Tribune to do would be to say as il
did when confronted with its blank
and idiotic financial absurdity about
national banks destroying their cur
rency in order to get rich.
I'VE knew better all the time"
That would be a sort of half con.
fession, and might serve as a semi.
apology for its gross misrepresentation
OF the judge and insult to his audience
But even that is not to be expected
from paper that is in the habit OF
using its present response when de-
tected and exposed in misrepresenting
people: They meant it all the same y
Failing any square apology the Tri,
bune had better write its own obitu-
airy for in obituary articles now lies its
sole and solitary success.