The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1895-05-06

THE HERALD's LAST sCREED.

saturday morning Jne SAT- Lake
Herald contained a leading article
which for abusiveness, coarseness, dis
regard of facts, for puerillty and ignor-
ance, at least of fundamental demo-
crscy, is.just little ahead of anything
We have yet seen in print. Semi crazy
remarks is ponderous argument, we
grant, and it Is at the same time con-
ducive to very high order of demo-
cratic harmony, especially when levsled
at another democratic paper. The
whole trouble with the Herald is that
it has such an overweening vanity that
it readily persuades itself that it is far
above the possibility of making mis-
take, and it knows it all. Others, es
pecially those who question it's judg
ment or dispute its statements, live too
near the asylum. At the inception of
this discussion these tactics amused
rather than angered THE DISPATCH
but to be sat upon day by day by this
sort of over-the.ridge brutality and as
surance is sure to wear out the patience
of a saint, to say nothing of one who
has grown gray in the service of de-
mocracy and who views all departures
from the true and tried principles of
the party as dangerous and threaten
ing. A few weeks since the Tribune
spoke Of rivalry between The DIS
PATCH and the Herald on the question
of the organship. We suppose the idea
was simply bit of pleasantly, but
alas, since that day the Herald has ne
elected no opportunity to nag at The
DISPATCH. The Offense was not ours,
but the phials of its wrath have been
poured over US daily ever since. It's
own acts and comments have
produced all of the discus
sions. Had TEE DISPATCH questioned
nothing, taken its spankings with the
true turn-the e-other-cheek spirit, there
would haye been harmony and to spare.
But THE DISPATCH doesn't have to
take all this aDd will not, unless its
mentor knows far more about demo-
cratic principles and history, to say
nothing of policy, than the Herald does.
Its ignorance of both party history and
principles is very dense, SO much SO
that we shall finally abandon the
thankless task of trying to teach it any
thing; permitting it to remain in bliss
full ignorance OF the fact that female
suffrage is only another name or form
of prohibition, and prohibition is sump-
tuary legislation; and still further. that
democracy is. and always has been,
opposed to sumptuary laws, in the con-
crete as well as in essence.
Does the Herald mean to say that
the democratic delegates to the con-
vention supported woman's suffrage
because it is a part of the democratic
creed2 If 90. then may we ask what
they think Of those republicans land
they comprise them all nearly who
stood SO manfullY (?) by the measursr
THE DISPATCH has managed to obey
the laws, all laws, wherever it has
worked and it can live in and obey the |
fundamental laws of Utah in this re-
gard while it may never be able to call |
this principle pure democracy. Will |
the Herald permit US to ask what. in
law, is the difference between voting
for the constitution and state officers
at the same time and if WON en- NAV |
vote for state officers, why they should
not vote for the constitution? This is
worse than we had thought it was.
When standing before such logic as
his, the thought obtrudes that possibly
he Herald made a mistake in the |
article all uded to ana that the editor of |
hat paper is entirely, rather than only
half crazy, as he claims for the editor
of THE DISPATCH.
Very little that is new can be said |
on the silver question ''says the Herald.
Pardon again, but one lusty argument
from it in favor of reconciliation at a
ratio of Is to l, would be new, entirely
new. A paper so knowing as the
Herald is on every point in the funda-
mental laws of democracy, could not
sil to know all about the "motive and
'urpose' of The DISPATCH, nor could
t fail to predict the outcome of each
With unfailing certainty.
'THE DISPATCH is fighting the party
Vhen it is making its little squirts at
be Herald" For elegance, elevation
nd truth the quotation is unequaled.
)f course the Herald would have all
be Utah democrats swallow that
Iraught. 81 am the state. II you
ight me, the Herald, you fight democ-
acy." Was there ever before such pre-
umption2 or was presumption ever
cared upon weaker foundation?
The Herald owes an ample apology
0 the democracy Of Utah tor this al
1ost objectionable exhibition of ig- /
ORANGE, presumption, bad temper, {
ad taste and bad democracy. If the
arty would eyer again win victory in
Jtah it must have another organ +
neither it be The DISPATCH or not, Q
nd it is not for either the Herald or
HE DISPATCH to say which.
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