Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-09-27
SHOULD BE PUNISHED.

Slanderers of Agents OF the Gov.
eminent Recognition OF Cuba
Lamont TO the Rescue-POlitical
Prospects in Utah The Mora
Claim.
Regular Correspondence of the STANDARD.
WASHINGTON, d. c., Sept. 90, 1895.
When a man gives information to
an enemy in time OF war he is regard
ed as q public enemy and upon proof
of his guilt he is executed and buried
in traitors disgraced grave. But
there is no way to punish those who
prove themselves to be still worse en-
emies OF the country by trying to pre-
cipitate financial panic through mis-
representation of the condition of the
nations finances and OF the inten-
tons of the administration. A pri-
vate individual can, through appeal to
the courts, have the man who seeks to
injure his credit and commercial
standing by making untrue and par
TALLY true but misrepresenting state
ments punished, but members of the
administration have no way of reach
ing the men who, solely for a partisan
purpose, are daily writing and circu-
lating attacks upon the credit of the
United States in the shape of misstate-
ments concerning the Treasury and
the intentions of Secretary Carlisle.
Men who are bringing on financial
panic do thousand times more harm
than those who betray an army on the
eve of battle, and there ought to be
some way ofpunishing them as traitors
of their country. If that is not feasible,
Congress should at least so legislate
that the government, through the
heads of the executive departments,
should have the same right to have
newspaper writer or editor arrested for
criminal libel as the citizen now has.
With such 3 law upon our statute
books the present partisan mis-
representations of President Cleveland
and Secretary Carlisle in Republican
newspapers would not be possible, and
the probabilities OF financial panics
would be decidedly lessened.
About as near half Of the administra-
ton as could be got at attended the
dedication of the battlefield of Chick
amagua as a national park. Vice
President Stevenson and Secretaries
Lamont, Herbert, Smith and Attorney
General Harmon going, and Sec.
retaries Olney, Carlisle, Morton and
Postmaster General Wilson remain
ing in Washington. Secretary Carlisle
expected to have gone, but circum-
stances, aided by unpatriotic mis-
representations, made it advisable that
he should remain at his post.
A gentleman who has recently been
in Florida on business said: "Senator
Call in advocating the early recognition
of the Cuban revolutionists by this
government, speaks for a very large
majority of the people of Florida. This
sympathy for the Cubsns is worthy to
be classed high, too, when it is remem-
bered that Florida is yearly becoming
q greater rival of Cuba in the produc-
ton OF tobaccoused in the manufacture
of fine cigars"
Secretary Lamonts action in ad-
vancing out of his own pocket the
money to make up the shortage in
paying the June salaries of the officers
and men Of the army is unprecedented
but highly creditable. Had he not
done so they would have had to wait
for Congress to rectify the error tn t
made the shortage before they could
get their salaries.
Senator Vest Indignantly denies the
authenticity of the recently published
interview which made him announce
q change OF front on the silver ques.
ton, and says he is still for free coin
age at 16 to l, AZ he has always been.
Hon. ]. w. Judd, U. S. District At
torney for Utah, is visiting Washing
ton. He says: "There is much in
the situation in Utah to make the
Democrats hopeful of electing their
Dthtc tlCkcb duu tWO ". .. OcuatOTs.
believe that it is not putting it one
whit too strong to say that our chances
of success are fully equal to those OF
the opposition. Utah has enjoyed two
successive seasons OF good crops, and
the condition of business is satisfactory.
The people are feeling very good over
the return OF better times, and that
will inure to the benefit of the Dem
ocracy. II we carry the Territory this
year it Is almost sure thing that it
will 60 the same way in 49,"
The general impression seems to be
that the lawyers OF Mora displayed a
monumental cheek when they filed q
protest against the action of Secretary
Olney in accepting a settlement of the
Mora claim without compelling Spain
to pay the interest from the date of the
claim. Secretary Olney will take no
notice Of the protest. He did not act
in this manner as the attorney or
collector for Mora, but as the rep
resentative of the United States gov
eminent. So far as this government is
concerned the settlement was final.
Dem.
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