Show NOT FRANK ENOUGH Wheni a mistake is made a newspaper newspa-per ought to be frank enough to admit it That is quite right But it is very funny coming from the Tribune We have never known that paper to practice prac-tice that simple and admirable precept unless compelled to do so and ithenj It has never done it in a frank and honorable hon-orable manner That paper in an article from which the above is taken endeavors to cover up its own egregious mistakes in refer ence to the legal tender qualities of the silver dollar a subject JIll which It has given editorially two or three entirely contradictory opinions The Herald has no occasion to repeat the positive proofs it has offered that the Tribune is In error even in its last l explanation which Is nearer tflie truth thaT it ever reached on this question before But we will eate once more that the authorities au-thorities we quoted are beyond question ques-tion We gave the exact language of i the law of 1873 which will be found in the Revised Statutes of the United States in sections 3513 and 33S6 They are stated in the margin to be reproduced repro-duced from the act of February 13th 1873 The Tribune has made one more blunder on this matter and is frank enough to admit it Its latest statement as to the legal tender quality of the silver dollar is exactly contrary to its former assertion asser-tion that silver dollars were not legal tender for customs dues but that silver sil-ver would have to be changed for gold to pay duties with It has never as yet acknowledged that it was wrong in malting the former statement although al-though The Herald has several times exposed its palpable blunder All we have to say further on this matter Is When a mistake is made a newspaper ought to be frank enough to admit it I |