The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-10-14
To the Editor of The Herald:


q a R. GOODWIN Cof the Tribune)
AE has apparently not yet found
I'VE grace and strength to enable
him to keep his good resolu-
ton, of which he made public pledge
a few days since He promised to
never state untruths about me, or 9TH
ers, knowing them to be such. 1t is
possible Mr. Goodwin's mind is so con-
stituted that, while he readily detects
foreign lie walking around, he has
difficulty in recognizing one of home
manufacture. 1 appreciate Mr. Good
wins hard position, 1 really do Just
think of the different views he has had
TO express, the conflicting editorials he
was required by the conditions of his
service to write, during the past few
years But yesterday, he wrote of
Bryan as the great tribune of the peo-
pie; today he pictures him as a dema-
gogue OF low type, and, as an evidence
of good faith, even criticises the shape
OF his head. Then he thundered
against the trusts and money power
argued for bimetallism and the rights
OF labor, and declared against a foreign
pollcy which is violative of the prin-
c1ples of this government. Now, he
supports the trusts, abandons silver
and shouts for the spoilation and sub
lection of other peoples. 1t is not every
man who could do this. Such a change
OF skin in the very eye of the public
necessarily requires on the part of the
performer peculiar qualities which
stamp him as an extraordinary man.
Mr.. Goodwin seems to infer that by in
direction I intended to intimate that
he had q retainer. In this he is in err
ror- ! never supposed he had the re-
tainer from the administration, yet,
did speculate as to the depths to
which he might have descended
had he received the honorarium.
win The question 1 am discussing is
too large for him, under his present
environment and instructions. He
turns with a Sneer from the story of a
great tragedy to the tale of skunk.
He can answer the cry OF a despair
ing, dying people, with talk about in
frmities of temper and a, packed jury
in a libel case He can meet a charge
of pledges violated of a faith broken
by the administration. with a false
whine about hauling down the flag"
and the killing of American soldiers"
He pleads for slavery and oppression,
as in the old days he was wont to de-
claim for freedom, and all, may the
saints preserve US, in the name of God
L have dragged him out from behind
his fmpersona1 journalistic 'we,'' in or
der that every one might understand
there is no divinity which doth hedge
IllLIl 10 sphere
OF ordinary advocates, but that he is
simply a hired writer, whose principles
are regulated by the instructions of his
employers He has maSqueraded long
in the dress of the other days, and in
which the other Goodwin spoke to the
people. Is it possible that he never
was entitled to wear it? I have strip
ped off the hens skin, and the ass
ears most clearly indicate the Good
win of today. He has for these many
years blown up a bladder of infinite
which only needs to be punctured to
disclose his insinceFity and emptiness.
The part of a man in the great battle
for human rights is, it seems, not for
him to take. He is more at ease in the
testers cap and bells, and with them
leave him.
Constitution and Government by
Force.
We hold these truths to be self-evident
that all men are created equal; that
they are endowed by their creator with
certain inalienable rights; that among
these are life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness That to secure these rights.
governments are instituted among men,
deriving their just powers from the con-
sent of the gOVerned--Philadelp July
4, 1776.
The spirit of the above declaration
pervadeS and vitalizeS every word of
the constitution Of the United States.
That great instrument is to be read,
said the supreme court, in the light of
the Declaration of Independence. For
seven long weary years our fathers
waged a war in defense Of the rights
revolution was that Of the equality Of