The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-15
REPUBLICAN BUREAU Editing.
a Marvellous Sympathy of Thought,
Action and Works.

81 Paul Globe: We have made COM
ment upon the appsarance- in the editor
ial columns Of many of our Republican
exchanges all over the northwest of
identically the same matter. word for
word, issue after issue, together with
the statement of other less servile pa
Ders Of their rejection of this matter
duly prepared in the literary bureau of
the Republican national committee. We
have intimated that this was a fraud
upon the readers of those papers, in so
far as il gave them to understand that
II was the EDITORS own production. and
we have said that, in our Judgment. it
was a fraud by the editor upon him
self. We now observe that it is a fraud
upon the whole public, conceived by
this bureau and assisted by these edi-
tors, because its purpose is to create a
public sentiment on false foundations:
in other words, to deliberately mislead-
the public.
Just now ii, is imperative for the Re
publican party managers that the peo-
pie of the country should believe that
there has been a sudden sunburst of
prosperity consequent upon the passage
OF the Dingley bill. Mr.. Mckinley was
proclaimed as, the advance agent of
prosperity, and the Democrats were
roundlv denounced as the cause of the
financial depression. When the old pol
icy of enriching by taxing was restored,
prosperity would come, and not before.
Therefore, when the restoration is ac-
complished, 1t is absolutely necessary
that the people should believe that the
flood gates of wealth making and dis
tributing has been opened. For such a
purpose nothing could be more handy
than one central editorial bureau. in
which the prosperity matter could be
prepared, and a lot Of country papers
which would run it as original matter
To credit it to its source would give it
the character of what it is. an adver-
tisement. So the bureau furnishes the
matter and the editor lends it his indi-
viduality. and the game is PLAYED.
The St. James Journal is struck by
the remarka bic unanimity of editorial
opinion appearing simultaneously
among some of its exchanges. We sus-
pect here is q chunk of sarcasm in its
comment that now that the tariff bill
is passed and prosperity has resumed
her beneficent sway over the land, the
harmony and perfect accord in the Re
publican rarity has developed into some
thing marvellous. 1t is one grand sym
phony of thought, action and even
words" 1t then quotes from the issues
of the st. James Gazette, the Lake
field Standard, the Heron Lake News
and the Mountain Lake View, all of
July %, editorial after editorial identi-
cally the same in words, thought and
punctuation. The Journal will find in
all these and, had it access TO them,
in the issue of hundreds Of other organs
of that party for the week following,
one grand, sweet concord of song about
the return of prosperity, the opening
of the mills, the good times here at last,
change after change rung up upon the
theme. but each connected with the
enactment of the Dingley bill. That is
the one sufficient cause, and all the
tokens of prosperity are the effects.
When this bureau editing first began
to be so apparent we had it in mind to
schedule the papers using it, taking an
editorial and following it with the
names of the papers in which it APP
peared; but it soon became apparent
that the task was too extensive, too
many Republican papers We're doing
it. Some few re-wrote the matter, re-
tanning the thought, while, to their
credit be it said, many ignored it. We
have no further concern in the matter
than the exposure of what is a clear
fraud: but we may be permitted to add
that no editor can afford to lend him
self and his paper to any such scheme,
no matter where originating. He loses
his own self respect and, inevitably, he
loses the respect and confidence of his |
readers. He deceiveS himself if he thinks |
he can long deceive them; for no man
can Ions be, in or out of his paper, what !
he is not without detection. The sac
rifice involved is not that may be in ex-
pectatiOn as a reward.