The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-10-20
THE TRIBUNE AND SILVER.

yer paper The Herald IS. II is g sii-
yer paper through and through, at all
times and under all circumstances. Is
our contemporary answered?
The Tribune then goes on and talks
about the Wolcott commission, saying,
among other thing:
Now, we VIII suppose that the result /
were 10 depend upon the opinion of the /
people of the United States as mani (
Tested through the press. and especially
ny the press Of tho silver states, what !
would be the result? Would il not be !
fair TO report that il was evident that (
the Salt Lake Herald. having no other
party slogan that the men of Utah /
would listen for a moment to, depends |
upon silver for a battle cry for its next |
presidential campaign, and that il was
clear 1t would prefer never to have sill |
yer restored unless it could be by the !
Democratic p2Fty2.
The important thing is to have free |
coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to |
l, while it is matter of Indifference |
through what party it comes. The |
Herald never has believed, ana does not !
nov, that the Wolcott commission will /
accomplish anything for the restoration !
of free coinage. Would It not have /!
shown lack of principle to have said |
what it believed the commission would |
accomplish when it had no faith in It? |
The Tribune has confessed to have /
great faith in what the Wolcott COM !
mission would do for silver. but it's
reasons for the faith within it do not |
justify that faith. Our contemporary
is the only professed silver paper in the
70,
that processes any faith in the mission
of the Woleott commission. And this
is a very strange thing The Denver
papers that are Republican have no
more faith in what that commission
viii do for silver than The Herald has.
Our contemporary charges that The
Herald is not advocating silver in the
present campaign from any principle.
Its own lack of principle may have
prompted the charge. but whatever it
was that did it is untrue and without
! foundation. And the query naturally
suggests itself, what is the motive that
prompts the Tribune TO be so Jealous a
supporter OF the Mckinley policy to-
wards silver when it opposed that poll
! cy with might and main last year? If
il is TO bring about the free coinage of
! silver by international agreement why
! did our contemporary not make that
part plain TO the people of Utah last
year? Why did it break loose from its
ancient political mornings, q most COM
mendabIe thing it is true. and support
Mr.. Bryan? It simply did it because
it did not believe that Mckinley would
! do
then accepted the St Louis platform
for what it said and meant; now it
would have the people believe that it
can be made to favor free silver. 1t is
common belief thct the very strange
course of our contemporary on the sill
yer question since the advent of the
present administration, and its ardent
championship of the administration
international bimetallic pyrotechnics.
has been prompted by consuming de-
sire to bask in the sunshine of the adj
ministration's good graces. Be this as
it may, its championship of the WoIcott
commissions mission has been a source
Of wonder to the people.
The Tribune says the object of The
Herald's advocacy of the silver CUES
ton in the present campaign is that it
may possibly ''kindle the prejudices
of few silver radicals" And when did
cur contemporary cease to he a silver
radical? And more important still.
why did it cease to be a silver radical?
That it has ceased to be a silver radical
is but too apparent And what has so
suddenly and so mysteriously allayed
its silver Dreiudices, those prejudices
which have been its tower of strength
in the past? And how long since did
the term silver radicals become OBJ
probrous il the silver mining west?
And when it comes to talking about
principle, wouldn't it be just as well
for our contemporary to taboo it alto
gether?
1t is all very well for our. contenpor-
airy to charge The Herald with lack OF
principle because it insists that the sill
yer question is involved in the munic-
ipal campaign in Salt Lake City. but
VIII our contemporary tell US whether
it is because he lacks principle that ex-
President Harrison says that the voters
Of New York City, now in the very
midst OF municipal campaign. will
not fail to inquire how the candi-
dates for mayor OF Greater New York
stand upon the financial question? VIII
our contemporary tell US whether it is
} because he lacks principle that Score
: tary of the Interior Bliss declares in n
letter to General Tracy that the con-
test Of 1886 has been renewed all over
the country" Has our contemporary
so sooa forgotten that the great con-
test of 1896 was over the question of the
free and independent coinage Of sill
yer? If it has, it should consult its
own files Of a year ago. The silver
, question is in issue in the municipal
campaign in Salt Lake City the same
as it was in issue in indianapolis, the
same as it is in issue in New York CITY
: today. the same as it is in issue in
every city, town and county where an
election is pending today. And it can't
: be eliminated, for it is another ire
pressible conflict
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LAWYER.