The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-02-11
NO USE IN DoDGING.

NO USE IN DODGING.
It becomes necessary almost every
day to refer to the course of our morn
ing contemporary and show up its in
consistent positions. This in conse-
quence of it's attacks and misrepre-
sensations. A day or two ago it was
lampooning the Democrats in the Sen
ate and abusing Senator Voorhees,, be-
cause he had stated that oral hearings
against the Wilson bill would not be
permitted before the committee, and
that objections and arguments would
have to be presented in writing. The
Herald showed that is was not long
since the Tribune was ridicuHng and
abusing the House committee on Ways
and Means, for allowing opponents of
the bill to appear and make oral ar
guments in favor of their views.
Filming itself in hole, as usual, it
commenced to dodge and squirm. and
taking advantage of statement in
The Herald that VOORHEES, had eX-
pressed his opposition to having a
horde of DIRECTORS and obstructionists
before the Senate Committee" it flies
away from the point of contention,
and referring to Mr. w. F. James,
says: He is one of that horde that
this Democratic sheet describes" 1t
then goes on, in it's ordinary deceptive
and dishonest style, to make it APP
pear that The Herald is opposing the
interests of the miners.
Now, observe that The Herald was
simply stating what Senator Voorhees,
had intimated. No reference was made
to any gentleman representing Utah
or any other part of the country. Also
take notice that nobody but the Tri-
bune has classed Mr.. James with a
horde of obstructionists. We do not
suppose he will thank the Tribune for
such a pretended defense nor for its
slur in calling him "a roustabout." We
consider Mr.. James an able advocate
of the interests he represents, and
that his views ought to have been
given, if they were not before the
House committee when it accorded
those verbal hearings which it is an
nounced will not be had before the
Senate committee. 1t is to be hoped
that he will present the matter with
which he is familiar in writing, and we
have no doubt it will receive full at
tention
AS to the mining interests, how much
have all the platitudes and repetitions
and exaggerations of the Tribune
helped their cause? Under the
full influence of so-called pro-
lection the mining industry has
declined in Utah until it has
nearly collapsed. And if the high tariff
were continued there is no telling how
soon it would pass out of existence.
But to come back to the point of
original discussion, from which the
Tribune has veered off, with a slap
in the face to Mr. James which it
tries to blame on The Herald. How
much of the jewelry which belongs to
appears on the brow of
paper which ridiculed the House
committee for permitting hearings on
the tariff and now abuses the Senate
committee for declining such hearings?
And how much truth is there in the
assertion that no opportunity has been
the advocates of the miners,
when oral hearings were listened to in
one House and written arguments will
be received in the other House?
There is this also to be considered:
These matters have been debated over
and over again. The Senate will not
go into debate on the Wilson bill
blindly. The discussions on the Mills
bill and on the Mckinley bill have fur
nished data as good as can be had and
the figures and reasonings and pleas
on both sides of the question are all on
record. There is no use in .1nisrepre-
senting the matter and no use in dodg-
ing the truth.