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Show AN INDEPENDENT JOURNAL. The Tribune is truly an independent journal. If it has any partisan feelings it always suppresses them, and when an important question arises it always takes a broad and liberal view of it ; ill fact, just stfch a view a3 ought to be taken by an independent journaL It never praises highly ', it never condemns severely, but is ever temperate,and always just. This is as it should? De, and, disarms the criticism of those who may not see as as it sees. If it differs from one, it differs, so wisely and with such grace and good humor, that the person from whom it differs deems himself wrong and it right. At times it differs from the Administration, Administra-tion, not because the Administration is Democratic, but because it is right, and the Administration wrong. Of late, this independent journal has differed from Mr. Vilas on the question of paying the subsidy of $400,000, appropriated by Congress, to the steamship companies. This very morning it refers to this matter, and speaks of Mr. Vilas in the following mild but complimentary language : The defense of Mr. Vilas, as outlined, will not do. His assertion that it would have required $1,025,000 to have paid the ocean steamship companies full quotas for carrying carry-ing the mails, is simply a small lawyer's pettifogging. pet-tifogging. If he was able to say to the country, coun-try, "I had just so much money at my disposal dis-posal for this purpose. I offered to pro rate the amount amongthe companies, and they refused, and then I made the best arrangements arrange-ments that I could," the country would be satisfied and would applaud his course. He did nothing of the kind. He determined that the $400,000, ordered by Congress for the purpose, should not be used, if by any means he could avoid it by employing ships which, being subsidized by their own governments, govern-ments, will gladly carry the mails of the United States at a loss, if neoessary, in order to keep the American flag from the ocean. So, Mr. Vilas tried, by a miserable trick, to get the mails carried down the coast from San Francisco as baggage. He put the mails on fishing smacks between Florida and Cuba, and when he asserts that he is getting better and swifter service on foreign than he could on American ships, he is simply sim-ply accusing some scores of the foremost exporting and importing merchants of New York City of falsehood. If Mr. Vilas has the first attribute of a broad-minded statesman, states-man, that f eatnre was suppressed in the synopsis of his report, as wired west. Does not this challenge admiration by its spirit of impartiality and courtesy of language ? This moderation is owing to the fact that there are no politics in Utah, and the fact that the Tribune is an independent inde-pendent American journal causes it to ignore politics and uphold a Democratic Administration for the sake of good government. gov-ernment. The above eulogy on the Postmaster-General shows how heartily it supports the Administration, and this support should receive proper recognition recog-nition from the Government. |
