The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-03-01
OLIVER IS DOOMED,

This man w. j, Oliver appears TO be
determined to ruin fair reputation.
In all his fifty years Of life Mr.. Oil
yer has been recognized by that large
part of the larger public which has
been familiar with his proceedings, as
a man of integrity and ability-bonest
and truthful, energetic and successful.
OF all the men who made bids upon the
Panama canal, he and his proposal
were most satisfactory. Other men
either asked too high a percentage of the
total cost; or were themselves tainted
with improper conduct or relations, or
more fatally tainted with a suspicion
existing in the mind of the Chief Ex-
ecutivc Of tho Nation OF their holiness.
Mr., Oliver secured the country over
and found other men like unto himself,
and the supposition universally enter
tanned throughout the United States
was that the canal would be built and
would be all the better because it would
he built by spotless men. In this view
Mr., Oliver spent some money, he says
100000, in organizing corporation all
of whose stockholders passed the final
approval of the White House; and Oil
vcr and his friends fondly imagined
that this enterprise would but add lus
ter to his already splendid name
And now this man seems willfully
and maliciously bent upon running his
fair fame, and handing down to his
postcrity a heritage of shame. He is
compiling the history of his relation TO
this case, including all the correspond
encc with the White House, and pro-
poses to publish the same. AS prelimr
mary or IN index TO his formal showing,
he declares that President Roosevelt as.
sured himself and his friends that he
WAS 10 have the contract; and that. act
ing in good faith upon such promise, ho
engaged in the large expense and labor
attendant upon the desired prepara
tions,
Nothing but blind and besotted,
wiIlful and reckless insistence upon
self-rnin could prompt Mr.. Oliver to
engage in such contest Has he no re.
membrancc Of the experience of Henry
NJ. Whitney, of Massachusetts,? Has
he forgotten former Senator and former
Secretary William f. Chandler? Has
the rapid rush of events in this country
ebliterated from his mind the memory
of Dear Maria2
Mr.. Oliver should know that it is ap
immutable fact, from before the world
was, that any one whose recollection
of events and utteranccs differs from
that of the Chief Executive is Of the
race Of liars and the truth is not in him
Furthermore, it has been given out
cold by New York newspapers which
have close information from Washing.
ton, that misstatement of facts is not
essential to induce u charge of false
hood. The man who, having had reln
tions with the White House, emits an
unauthorized statement-even of facts
lis subject TO denunciation as a liar;
because. under the new and rigid rules
which have authoritatively been con.
structed by the White House to estab.
lish the personal equation and the eth.
icRl relation existing between the Ruler
and the Ruled, an indiscTo tion % uttcr-
ancs, however literally truthful, be.
comes, by the ipse dizit OF the Ezecu-
tive, a lie.
With this foreknowledge Mr Oliver,
former honorable American citizen,
seems inexorably destined 10 be cast
into the outer darkness with Engineer
Wallace, with .judson and Harmon, with
Bcllamy aud" Maria. with Governor