The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-07-18

wool prices have advanced; that wages
have increased since the passage of the
Wilson law. and that they decreased
under the Mckinley law. But if these
facts are true wherein is the "decep-
| tion?" Our irritable neighbor says it
is in the inference that the Mckinley
law caused the depression and the Will
son law caused the increase. Well, the
inference is its own. The same in
ference may be drawn by other folks.
But The Herald has not affirmed that
proposition. 1t has quoted the facts
and figures relating to this subject in
reply to the assumption of the Tribune
that prosperity was the consequence of
the Mckinley law and its predictions
of woe and calamity which were to be
the certain consequence of the reduc-
ton of tariff duties. Those facts and
figures prove the Tribune to be utterly
and completely wrong in both PROPOSE
tions.
Notwithstanding the numerous
proofs to the contrary, the Tribune re-
peats in the same article the false
hood which it has itself several times
denied. 1t is this:
This country was exceedingly pros
porous until the day before that panic
came and it came directly from across
the sea-
That statement is made in reference
to the 1893 panic to show that the Nc
Kinley tariff had nothing to do with
it. The Herald has never stated that
the Mckinley bill caused the panic.
1t has stated that if legislation was the
cause of the terrible troubles that
came upon the country in 1898 it was
Republican legislation, because, as our
neighbor has several times affirmed,
there had been nothing but Republi-
can legislation for a period Of thirty
years. There was no Democratic legis-
lation until after the panic was in full
force.
But is it true that the country was
so wonderfully prosperous up to the
very day before that panic came? The
Tribune shall furnish the answer to its
own false assertion. Here it is:
why is it possible then for hosts
of men from half a dozen different
points to take up the gloomy march of
the unemployed? They can all find
the reason by taking up the files of
any newspaper and studying the fall
ling prices which has been the rule
for the past ten years. The producers
as rule are always in debt When
for ten years prices continue steadily
TO fall, hundreds of thousands of them
reach point when they can no longer
give employment to other men. This
is what come upon the country and
hence the land is filed with idle men.
The cause dates from 1873 The cul-
mination was last October. Tribune
April 9, 1894
We could produce scores of para
graphs from our forgetful contem-
porary showing that the masses of the
people, the agricultural and laboring
classes, had been growing steadily
poorer and more dependent for fifteen
years before the panic of 1898 smote
the nation. And the sole and onlv
cause to which it attributed this aw-
ful 1mpoverishment, and the labor
strikes and other troubles which were
sure signs Of adversely among the
working people, was the demonetiza-
ton of silver in 1873.
Ignoring all it has said en- this mat
ter, the Tribune, in order to make =
point IN another direction, now de-
clares that there was prosperity I'D to
day before the panic came, and that
the cause of it came from across the
sea- The trouble with that paper is
that it cannot remember BE Cay what
it said the day before, or it is SO reck-
less in regard to the truth that i cares
nothing for consistency tut merely
rushes on blindly and in wrath to cast
doubt upon facts and figures which /
demonstrate the error OF is position. |
For deceptive Journalism thee is
nothing to equal il in all the Tinted
States, and we doubt if it can be /
matched in that regard by any paper
under the sun.