| Show MAKING BAD WORSE Under the heading of They mean it All the Same the Tribune of Thursday Thurs-day had an editorial in which it endeavored deavored to squirm out of its whole cloth and deliberate falsehood about < Judge Hendersons speech at Saltair We clip its opening remarks The rest of the long piece of journalistic tergiversation ter-giversation doesnt touch the question It says I Two or three days ago we chaffed I Judge Henderson a little He was reported re-ported to have made a speech at Sal tar last Saturday in which he copied eapsetS the style of the ordinary Democratic organ and attempted to show the pea peae pIe > there that a greatly modified tariff would help the protected industries As for instasce that a reduction of the II tariff on wool by admitting foreign wools would so greatly add to the I market of the American manufacturers I manufactu-rers that the American wool would I really be higher without a tariff than I with it We treated it as an attempt i on the part of the judge to show that I wool at 7 cents a pound as it is now I would be better for the wool raiser of i Utah than the 17 cents a pound She S-he got two years ago It was merely I showing the absurdity of the judges statement in a few words I The Tribunes idea of chaffing a gentleman who is respected and esteemed I I teemed by everybody who knows him I is to deliberately lie about him I Judge Henderson did not mention or i refer to wool or its price or the effects ef-fects of the old or the new tariff on wool or the protected industries Further he was not reported to have I done so The Tribune cannot find anything any-thing bearing any relation to the sub ject in its own report or in that of any other paper The Tribune as it frequently does when hard up for material on which to base an attack upon a man or a paper invented a report and this is what it said Judge Henderson has looked a little bit sheepish ever since he tried to explain ex-plain to the awkward squad at Saltair on Saturday that a Utah sheepman would do better when he sold wool at 7 cents a pound than he did when he sold it at 17 5 Let the Tribune inquire of a number of respectable Republicans who were among the audience which with its usual exquisite taste it denominates the awkward squad and it will fail to find a man who heard the judge make any reference whatever to the subject on which the Tribune says he has been looking sheepish ever since That paper closed an editorial ojti Friday Fri-day with these words It will be difficult to get us into any position in the world that we cannot readily lie out of We are of the opinion that the Tribune Tri-bune can neither readily nor with extreme difficulty lie its way out of the barefaced bald and unblinking falsehood in reference to Judge Hen I derson Even the paltry pretence that he meant it all will not answer Neither will the excuse that it was I merely showing the absurdity of the judges statement because he didnt II make any such statement or say anything I any-thing like its The best thing for the Tribune to do would be to say as it did when confronted with its blank I and idiotic financial absurdity about national banks destroying their currency cur-rency in order to get rich We knew better all the time That would be a sort of half confession con-fession and might serve as a semi apology for its gross misrepresentation of the judge and insult to his audience But even that is not to be expected from a paper that is in the habit of using its present response when detected de-tected and exposed in misrepresenting people They meant it all the same Failing any square apology the Tribune Tri-bune had better write its own obituary obitu-ary for in obituary articles now lies its sole and solitary success I |
