| Show HIS HS PRIVATE PROPERTY Of or course courso a newspaper Is a business Institution Its object is to make mako n a business success to lo avoid loss 1058 to earn a u profit And yet el there Is a n underlying ing that The first purpose of or every true truo newspaper Is to serve e the people peo pee pie If there Is no demand for tor it H. H the paper should not start Tho Republican lican lIean W was S started because the party part had no paper and aud needed one Republicans Republicans Republicans had a right to a newspaper advocating advocating ad ael the Interests of that party part In the city the county countr tho state and tho nation The Tribune fought the Republican party everywhere rom from from Washington down to tho the precinct committeemen And And tho the Herald was called a Democratic paper Palmer It could not be he expected to lo supply the needs needa of or Republicans And ton ten thousand subscriber sub sub- scriber are the time testimony to today lir that there was demand for The lican HeaD But when a paper plainly tells tell the public that It Il is n a private enterprise published in iii the interest of an nn owner an and that his Interests and not those of or the patrons are to be bo advocated by that paper then people who take that paper and anel people who advertise all in it are paying tribute to one who Is bound to oppose them On December C G tho the Herald announced an an- that it was Vas tithe the private ate property property prop prop- erty of or Former Senator W W. A. A Clark Its poll policy C is guided guidell by what is good for or him and not by what Is best for its patrons The railroads into Salt Lake of which this same Former Senator W. W A. A Clark Clarl owns one are charging Salt Lake and Utah men more for freight than they ther are charging busness business busi bus ness men of or an any other city under like conditions of distance and haul Our people are being discriminated against It i if is unfair to them and the injustice hangs bangs like a n. millstone about their necks I If thc they were not the tho splendid creatures ere tures they the are aro they could not maintain ma a city hero here at all If the they had bad simple Justice from Crom the railroads they would make this Salt Lake a city of or half halt a n million Tho The Republican urges fair treatment treat treat- I ment mont of ot the tho people by the railroad comp companies The Tho Herald plainly refuses refuses re re- re fuses to make argument in lu that cause canse It sustains its owner in his railroad policy That makes it sustain the action action action ac ac- ac- ac tion of all the lines lilIes Because it Is a private and not a n. public enterprise I it works against the people and for tor forthe the ho private owner who Is unfair to the ho people If It it permitted its private ate owner to topa pa pay the expenses of its running there could bo no complaint But the Herald Herald Her Her- ald aid takes the money moner o ot of subscribers It takes the tho money monor of advertisers It lives on the people And then It abandons their cause Then it turns against them and fights tIghts for the cause that is antagonistic to their own Former Senator W. W A. A Clark Clarl owns time the Herald but ho he makes the support it And then he makes it fight the very ery people who have o been giving him money as subscribers and ad advertisers There Is a certain degree of Insolence Inso Inso- lence in making n n. newspaper at patrons patrons patrons' pat pat- rons' rons expense through a number o ot of years and aud then telling them tho the first firs day elar when It has bas a n chance to lo tight a battle for them that it Is the tho private ate property of Former Senator W W. A A. Clark I |
