The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-12-29

/ by force of reason either; its strength,
| such as it is. lies in bitter denuncia-
ton of its opponents, in vilification
and abuse. Usually it's assaults are
made upon Democrats and Democratic
measures. but when it assails members
! of its own party who do not agree with
| it's position it pours out the walls of
| its wrath upon them and the doctrine
| they advocate with much the same
savagery that it assails Democrats.
The other day, for instance, it at
tackled the free silver men in the Sen
ate in the following characteristic
1 fashion. under the caption of Free
| Silverite Meanness'
The free silverites showed the essen
tally unworthy character Of their the
cries by attempting to force a free
silver proposition upon the Senate on
! Friday and Saturday as the only con-
dition under which remedial legislation
! could be effected To make use of the
msfortunes of others for ones own
advantage has always been regarded
! as an evidence of a brutal nature. "A
weak cause may seem to require the
bolstering Of mean methods and tricky
| tactics but good cause stands upon
! its own merits, and asks only FOR
| free field and fair fight.
Senators Vest. Stewart, Allen and
others of the same ilk appeared to have
no apprecis ton of the proprieties of
the occasion. No one expects an ex-
! hibition of genuine modesty, much
! less delicacy on the part of those VINO
| have abandoned themselves, body and
mind. to the free silver madness. They
saw in the misfortunes of their coun-
| try only an opportunity to exploit and
promote their vain and discredlted
schemes.
| 1t is to be hoped that the right
minded and truly patriotic senators of
| both parties will take occasion TO
properly rebuke this disgusting obtru-
sion of personal interests upon the
nation In the hour of its financial peril,
when it needs a self-sacrificing devo-
ton on the pt~rt of every private citi-
zen and public official. 1t is unfor-
| tunately true that the free silver ele-
ment has a disturbing disproportion
of representation in Congress, but
/ this affords no justification for he
brutal manner in which they awaited
themselves of the opportunity of ad-
vancing their private interests at the
| expense of the public welfare.
In the opinion of the Mail and Ex-
press it would seem that the only
statesmen free from brutality and
/ meanness. or who possess modesty,
/ delicacy. right-mindedncs and patri-
otism are the men who favor the sin
| gle gold standard. That kind of talk
begets no respect, either for the cause
| in the interest of which it is made or
for the paper or men who utter it.
It has the smack of the craven bully
about it. It is redolent with intoler-
! ance It is void of sense and reason.
/ It procIaims the writer to be without
| that modesty or delicacy the lack of
which he intends to deplore in free
| silver men 1t is without patriotism.
| for it tends to beget sectional strife
and render alien to each other citi-
zens of the same country because they
! differ upon a question of finance.
The abusive attack on the free sill
yer men in Congress is the more to be
condemned because it was utterly I'M
called for The financial question has
suddenly been brought to the acute
stage by increased Withdrawals OF
gold from the treasury on account OF
| the war scare" and the unwise spec
! ial message of President Cleveland
calling attention to the state of our
/ government finances, and by indirec-
ton seeking to thrust upon Congress
and the country his own financial pol
lev. Certain free silver senators, be-
/ lieying that the financial difficulties
of the United States treasury and the
| industrial and business disasters that
| have come to the country under the
ATTEMPTED enforcement of the single
gold standard could the better be re-
| lieved. nay, even permanently cured
by the reconciliation of silver ana us
! future free and unlimited COIN
age than in any other way, IN
troduced bills looking to the attain
ment of that object, and the Mail ana
F,xnress attacks them in the savage
manner seen in the editorial quoted
| above. Newspapers devoted to the
support of the single gold standard
will vet learn that abuse is not ar
g11ment: that savage denunclatlon is
not convincing; that manifestation OF
had temper wins no converts; and that
only consciousness of a weak cause
induces men to resort to such con-
temptible methods of controversy
ASKED HIS opinion as to the action
of the President on the Venezuelan
matter. Bob Ingersoll replied that. in
his Judgment, the President acted in
haste and without thought. This
proves conclusively that Bob still
/ naads nraving for. Let the Endeavor-
ers try again.
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