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Show Gladstone now finds that the stoppage of the mints in India has wrought untold and undreamed of ruin. We are in a fair way in this country to find out that the repeal of the Sherman purchase act is off the same bit of cloth. The total wiping out of the influences behind silver mining, min-ing, at least in the west, bad as tLe Sherman law confessedly was, was the dealing of the young west a staggering blow. Her recuperating powers are . great and she will eventually recover, but how much better would it haye been for her and the cation as well had the price of silver been kept up until the final policy of the nations had been ascertained ! It was like cutting down the tree ere the fiuit had ripened, in the expectation that nature would continue her process under the unnatural un-natural conditions tbe robbers had fixed. Heretofore the republican party Is chargeable with this great crime. Hereafter democracy will have to take the blame, it she does not at once set about the task ot restoring the good old fashioned money of the party. India should prove an object lesson of worth to the madmen behind this repeal re-peal scheme. Ha is cruel who tampers tam-pers thus with the unfolding west, and the big future banging upon her rapid and perfect development. The Herald often gets the Tribune into a hole but the devilish thing wont stay there. There are other themes than Journalistic consistency which we would commend to our Salt Lake friends at times. Changing conditions plays the duce with newspaper history and no where on earth do conditions change more rapidly or radically than in this blessed Utah of ours. This is a new country and some latitude is necessary nec-essary until a newspaper has felt itB ground oyer. It is true the Tribune has been here over twenty years and ought to know its mind by this time, but perhaps it doesn't. The deadly parallel is often used but like the boomerang it often return s to plague the thrower. TnE Enquirer was very much distressed, dis-tressed, a while since, because Messrs. Irvine & Barney baing memberB of the council furnished goods for the use of the city under contract. Monday night Mr. E. J. Ward had a bill allowed. He is also a member of the council. It is astonishing how quickly the Enquirer has learned to tolerate such infractions of the law. It saya not a word in condemnation. con-demnation. What is good for Ward was not good for Irvine & Barney. Verily is consistency a "jewel of worth iu these latter days. The Tribune and Deseret News have found a company of anarchists in Salt Lake. The Herald wants the readers of those papers to eprinkle Bait On the item before it is swallowed. Thinks it is spoiled. perhaps. It does seem a little fishy. The pure unsoiled west is no good ground to sprout anarchy in, as we look at it. We are inclined to think the Herald is right in this matter. If there should be anarchy in Utah at any point it will be very promptly stamped out, never fear. The Ogden papers are still wrestling with with free wool. It would be well for them to recall the fact that Utah has others besides the wool interests. The Cedar City Record is a splendid little country paper. We trust it has a big patronage. It fully deserves it. There has been a wonderful snow fall eo far this winter. This briDgs hope of big crops next summer. Congress seems determined to shut down on the sugar bounty heresy. Rattier Steep Than take in any other rorm is what many people think and Parks' Tea is made for just those folks. It cures constipation con-stipation and though not a cathartic moves the bowels every day. Sold by Smoot Diug Co. |