The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-05-03
RESPECT THESE TEARS.

/ The Logan Journal has added its
/ tears to the briny stream of sorrow
that flows along the narrow track our
morning contemporary made as it lit
out for the goldbug camp the other
day. There is dole in silverdom; gloom
hangs over the mountain states like a
London fog; the very skies have wept
and the wind has walled in its despair.
Then why should ridicule be turned
upon the grief that signs above the
aching void the late departed Tribune
leaves? And why should the natural
and irrepressible tears, the salt and
scalding tears that gush from loving
! hearts as friends do part, be likened to
the saurian drops that crocodiles are
wont to shed above the fossil remains
of their antediluvian forerunners? II
isn't right. 1t isn't generous.
The editor of the Journal was one of
our neighbours pupils in the financial
school. For years he hung upon his
tutors every word, and when the
power of wealth and the dishonesty of
goldbugs were the topics treated
copious notes were taken and these
truths immortal were deeply craven
upon the tablets of many a devoted dis
ciple's memory. The editor of the Jour-
nal was q Republican up to the time of
the St. Louis convention and, when
Bryan was nominated at Chicago, he
did the only thing that consistency
could have suggested. But we will al
low the Journal to tell his story:
VincinS arguments tnat the editor of this
paper accepted bimetallism as the princi-
pal issue of the campaign of 1885, instead
Of the tariff, ana. seeing that the only
hope for the success of the paramount is
sue lay in the Democratic party; voted
that ticket for the first time. and has con-
tinued voting for il ever since. Viewing
the DinSley tariff from q Frank j. Can
non standpoint, and having i'm view the
coming anti-imperialistic, anti-expansion
pronunciamentO of the Democratic ma
tional convention of 1900, favoring the
same principles for which the revolutions
airy fathers contended, il seems to US that
the lover of human liberty and human
rights, can see those principles advocated
by but one party-the Democratic Hence
we thank the editor OF the Tribune for
our conversion and deplore in like meas
ure his retrogression-
Nor can the Journal fathom the mo-
tives behind this seemingly sudden
change of front on the part of our
morning contemporary. 1t ruminates
like this:
In 1896 the Tribune's candidate. William
j. Bryan, received 6.512, Us votes as against
1.l04,179 cast for William Mckinley not
withstanding all of the unfair methods
the power Of concentrated wealth and
the palpable bribery used in favor of the
latter. What has occurred since-unless
ii may be 4 case of auto or direct sugges-
ton which had its inception in the BUSH
ness managers subsequent trips to the
seat of power-to convince the editor that
the cause of silver is hopeless. we cannot
imagine.
And the Journal likewise resents our
neighboi heartless treatment of the
nourners who go about the streets in
sackcloth and ashes, refusing, like
Rachel, to be comforted.
1T availeth nothing for the Tribune
to sneer against its erstwhle contem-
poraries in the good cause" says our
mutually disconsolate friend, the Jour
nal. Yet what it availeth no man
knoweth. for. in the language of our
lamented monitor, the power of aggre-
gated wealth passeth understanding.