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I i I PASSING J OF OP THE TIlE TRIBUNE Few papers have ever been beci lilt hit hit hitas a as hard In a a single year car as has tho ho Salt SnIt Lake Lalie Tribune in the year sear ear 1 1006 1906 06 Lato Late in 1905 tho the publisher of or a ChI Chicago aso daily dally paper iL t I said A A new Republican paper would Have ha ave difficulties In f J Salt Lake City The Tho Tribune Tribune has ms established Itself In a t rather peculiar position with Iti thin the people there and the they j seem to support it Jt in spite of or the fact that It It abuses It-abuses abuses k th them m. m I dont don't understand them Maybe labe the they are aro peculiar e i But tho the Tribune certainly flourishes and yet et It rarely hase hasa has j i a good word wOld to sa say of or its people and certainly cerk Is an unkind unkInd un- un Une kind critic of at its lis own state r Within viti tho ho past week a Salt Lake man a n. n lawyer lawer of prominence and wealth one of the leaders of the bar In Inthis Inthis this city stated stated and and that without the tho slightest attempt at reservation that reservation that the tho Salt Lako Lake Tribune had reached in his Judgment the lowest plane plane- possible to a 11 news news- paper UJ n Any man who ho agrees with the Tribune no matter how ho bad he ma may be how hO iov dangerous to the com community will be sustained praised and glorified by that paper t c Ll c- c An Any cause that squares with tho tIm Tribunes Tribune's policy no f matter how harmful that cause causo may be how unpopular y iy with tho the people how manifestly improper will bo be supported sup sup- ported b by the Tribune And Al any man who docs does not subscribe himself their friend and obedient servant willbe will willbe be assailed with all aU malignity An Any cause causo that Is opposed d to the Tribune policy no matter how good how much desired by the people will be attacked and ridiculed and misrepresented and vilified b by that paper That is as aslor lw lor low as a paper can n get gel Each man spoke the truth at the tho time The The position of the Salt Lake Lako Tribune a year ear ago was unique There Thero was nothing else se on earth just like Jt iL Not a news item could go 10 into the paper without editorial coloring Not ot an editorial made tho the slightest pretense pre re- re tense to fairness It was not a question of ot the thing hap hap- pening The Tho Tribune would assert It If Ir the Tribune mak- mak ers believed belle a point could be gained by distortion of the thet t facts And it had been going on so 50 long that people ac- ac f the condition as one of tho the things that poor frail v human nature would have to put up with with like like cyclones and spinal meningitis and muddy roads The Tribune WO would ld assail a public official and then go brazen brazenly with bullying tone into his office and receive a courteous treatment A sort of or deference was paid to representatives of tho the paper by the most prominent people in Utah Utah Utah- Just be because causa it was the Tribune And people would bu buy the paper because they were afraid of it and would advertise in fn it for the same reason And Jf If they could not agree with its policy they went forward in an apologetic apolo apolo- getic manner They deferred to the Tribune Within that year the Tribunes Tribune's pretense of or running the national administration has come como to be recognized rum as wholly unfounded It II p promise of place and power has been unredeemed Its threats of oC punishment have havo been futile Its arrogant claims of political power in thoc tho the c county were riddled by the tho election Its 11 defeat in the c choice of school trustees has added much to the general discrediting 1 ng Its malignant attacks on the best citizens ha has has worked as a boomerang and hurts tho the Tribune more moro than the people assailed Its determination to make George GeorgeS S St Sheets ets a political issue has lost it the support of its best friends Its resolve to perpetuate its ita dominance In the city and the tho state has offended men and women women whom 1 It c can n not afford to lose It I t F Nowadays tho the Tribune representatives arc are excluded from many public offices for tho the reason that occupants of oC those places know the they will not be treated fairly and they do not feel under any obligation to seek seck by the favor thc they know will wUl In any case caso be withheld People no longer believe belice tho Tribune It Il takes ules the lowest lowes place In tho Hit of or Salt Lake papers Whatever cr cause caus It advocates IB is doomed with a handicap Whatever man manit manIl it Il pral praise cs Is looked on omi with suspicion Whatever cause i It opposes wins What man It assails is lifted In the estimation estimation estima- estima I tion of ot the people Down In Washington the Tribune which was really really influential a year ago ngo is treated with utter derision I Ihas It has lost tho the confidence of men and women all alt over th the East It has been detected in lying in unfairness In horn homo defamation And both at home and abroad tho the Salt SaIt Lake Lak Tribune is known as the unsavory paper with a n destroyed opportunity i And It can never get back what it has lostin the y year year ar S I tL-I I I |