The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-10-22
LET THE TRIBUNE sUBsTANTI
ATE IT'S ASSERTION.
The Tribune says;

The president of the United States
several months ago sent a commission
TO Europe to try to induce the great
powers there to agree With the United
States upon an arrangement to restore
silver. They went on an implied invi-
tation and an implied promise on the
part of Great Britain.
The president did send a commission
to Europe several months ago to see
what the powers would do regarding an
International agreement on the ques
ton of silver; whether that commission
made any definite propositions to any
European government no one knows
except those governments and the gov
eminent at Washington.
Our contemporary says that those
commissioners went on an implied in
vitation'' and an implied promise" on
the part of Great Britain. Where does
our contemporary get its authority for
saying that the Wolcott commission
went to Europe on an implied invita-
ton" from Great Britain? So far as
we have ever seen there was no invi-
tation from Great Britain, implied or
other, and we should like to he in
formed why our contemporary makes
the assertion. The matter is surely i'm
portant enough to warrant in giving
the grounds for its assertion: we do not
say that it is not true. but we believe
our contemporary is the only paper in
the country that makes it.
If that commission went to Europe on
an implied invitation" from Great
Britain, presumably it would not have
gone without an invitation. This be-
ing so, what becomes of the theory that
the president sent that commission
abroad in pursuance of the promises of
the st. Louis platform? Would those
great promises have been left untitled
had Great Britain not sent that i'm
piled invttation?"
Our contemporary remarks above
quoted we're made last Monday morn
ing. Let US see what it said yesterday
morning. Here it is;
1t was expected all through the cam
paign last year that Mr. Mckinley
would, if elected, treat silver precisely
as did his predecessor. 1t was so. in
substance, announced by the gold press
y
as he was inaugurated he asked the
permission of congress to appoint com
Ilissioners and to extend certain pow
ers to them, to try by new congress
or by negotiation TO adjust the silver
question with the nations of the old
world.
Was that ''implied invitation" from
Great Britain lying on Mr.. McKinley's
desk waiting for him when he entered
the White House as president, March
last? 1t must have been, if our con-
temporary's statement of Monday last
and its statement of yesterday are to
be reconciIed.
1t can hardly fail to strike any one
who viii read the above two statements
that the second one entirely refutes the
first. and makes it plain that the first
is nothing but bold assertion. In fact,
our contemporaries assertion about the
Wolcott commission going abroad on
an implied invitation and an implied
promise on the part of Great Britain"
is but part of it's general scheme to
make the people of the state believe
that the Mckinley administration in
tended TO do something for silver, and
TO make them further believe that Nc
Kinley would be aggressive on the
matter. Mckinley aggressive in behalf
of silver? Never!