Show INSANITY OR SENILITY There is something seriously out of gear with our morning contemporary Its memory seems to be seriously impaired im-paired its irritability Is pitiful its language Is abominable and its disposition dispo-sition to become personal carries it away beyond the common courtesies I of journalism while its inability to perceive its own contradiction and inconsistency in-consistency indicates with the other ymptoms a tendency to violent insanity I In-sanity I The attack it made on the Illustrated I Illustrat-ed American caused very vigorous condemnation on the part of people of all shades of politics and the mild corrective of The Herald was milk and water compared with the blistering denunciations of many decent folks who were ashamed to have that days Tribune in their homes But what The Herald said seems to have stung our contemporary into another fury The Herald or rather some one who is assumed to be its editor is treated to some spurts of Tribune malice and a number of extraneous matters are run in for tbo purpose of placing The Herald Her-ald in a false position Some extracts i from the American are quoted whidh are very unjust to certain silver Senators and then the Tribune says There is npthing in the foregoing which The Herald thinks Is very serious ser-ious The whole tenor of the tirade Is to coijyey the impression that The Heralds Her-alds objections to the Tribune assault as-sault were defensive the American J > < WI j f c < t rii < while they were simply in deprecation of the Tribunes vile and indecent language lan-guage Here is what The Herald said in full The attack of the Salt Lake Tribune Tri-bune on the Illustrated American is one of the vilest things in modern journalism It is not justified by anything any-thing that the American has said or pictured and is unfit to be taken into any respectable family Its language is unfit for repetition In saying this we do not endorse the strictures of the American on the silver Senators by any means It is not very long since the Tribune was endorsing the American editor when he was publishing publish-ing sensational falsehoods about an alleged al-leged uprising of the Mormons He was considered by the Tribune then as the chief among ten thousand and altogether lovely Now because he praises Cleveland and berates the silver sil-ver men no words are too scurrilous for the Tribune to pour out upon his journalistic head The Tribune people ought o be ashamed of that libellous tirade We have not heard a single comment from anybody that is not equally condemnatory con-demnatory and a great deal more emphatic em-phatic as to the vituperation of the Tribune than anything The Herald has said We do think the strictures of the Illustrated American very serious se-rious They are villainous and libel lous They are entirely unjustifiable But they are gentlemanly and sweet in comparison with the slimy and malodorous mal-odorous scurrility of the Tribune in response re-sponse That is no defense of the silver Senators it is simply a successful success-ful attempt to get down lower into the mud than the American dipped and fling more offensive missiles If by Birds of a Feather the Tribune classes itself with the American we concur only the former is the darker foul In reply to what The Herald said concerning the course pursued by the Tribune when the American published some vile sensational and false illustrated illus-trated articles about Utah our rattled contemporary says our memory is bad and yet after wandering from the main point remarks with its usual fatuity All that we said in praise of what the American published was that the statement was substantially correct That is the gist of the whole matter What the Tribune admits now that it claimed was substantially correct was a tissue of untruths manufactured manufac-tured out of whole cloth furnished evidently by some person here and made up from old exploded Tribune I sensations which were touched up and painted in flaring colors by a hand unfamiliar with this region and the position occupied by several prominent individuals pictured in the romance The falsehoods that story contained were just as villainous as the present attacks on the silver Senators and the Tribune proclaimed them substantially substan-tially correct That is enough As to the darts at the editor of The Herald they only provoke a smile because be-cause they do not reach the mark and are flung with such evident loss of temper and in such a bungling manner man-ner > that they show the Tribune to be in that condition of mind with which it js usually afflicted when run into a corner When argument with a paper fails its common and blackguard way is to villify and throw mud at the person per-son supposed to have placed it hors de combat It Is a question whether its condition is that of insanity or senility |