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Show TAKES ISSUE WITH THE SALT LAKE HERALD m Logan, Utah, Aug 9, 1019,, iBI Kditor Logan Republican: 1 In todnys Salt Lako Herald ap-, H penis an editorial entitled "The 1'real-' 1 dent's Message," from which I ox- H tract the. following: H "Public opinion will support any jH movement designed to punish tho j pioriteor. Ah yet, however, this par- H tlculnr demon remains a mysterious H element which tho government with H nil of Its existing machinery has boon fl unable to feriot out. Ho romntus a ghost In tho public mind, constantly H feaicd. felt in vatious avenues of H dally Ufa but seldom seen In the flesh. Piofltcorlng can ho ollmlnat- cd onco wo have found tho prof- H Ever slnco tho tccent agitation at B Washington ovor tho high cost of H living this snmo edltorlnl writer has H wielded his pon In a. frantic endeavor H to "explain" to tho people why It Is M noxt thing to Impossible to lower tho H high cost of living and In prcdlcttug H that It will requlra n long time to H I accomplish anything worth while in H that field of endeavor. H 'Now, I am a subscriber for the Salt H Lako Herald, and ns a nowspaper and H aside from Its editorial pago, I would M say hat thoro la nmo bettor In the ' H state, but why this "refusal" to dls- ' H cover tho profiteer and this "pesslnt- H Istlc" state of mind on tho H. C. L.? H ; Of course wo cannot credit the H I writer of that editorial with being . H Ignorant as to who constitutes at ' H least ono class of tho profiteers, be- jf rH cause he lives in Salt Lake City and ? H , 1 no doubt cognizant of tho retail . M prices both before and after the ad-- vent of the recent Retail Merchants M convention there, nnd wo rather bus- H PC?' L'mt ho also knows what the M generality of "tka. caosutuers know, M I. e, that practically all of tho man",""" " jjH ufacturors, packors, wholesalers and M retailors are tho profiteers, organlz- cd profltcets. H While tho editorial referred to la H most humorous from tho standpoint H I or Its affected innoconco as to who H tho profiteers nro, yot It Is vicious for H nnolhor toason, nnd that Is this: H Such "offuslons" coming from stnn- H dard nowspapois, breeds radical so- H clallsm nnd bolshcvlsm amongst tho H laboring classes. ,It causes orgnnb- H eu labor to dlcount tho public presi H ns capitalistic. It glvo additional weapons to tho I. W. W. nnd pro- motes tho nisoulsts. It docs much H to Injure tho Ropubllcnn patty be- H causo that party (to which, by tho H way, I belong) Is not In sympathy H with such "twaddle." flH Tho lahoilug olemunt or courso H would sl7o up tho gioat amount of H adveitlslng mntlor in tho paper, J5M correctly adjudge that from tho mor- fef chnnts adds como tho major portion WiW or tho paper's revenuo and then E' mnko a shrewd guess as to tho "why StSt and whoreroro" of the editors posl- 1mm Hon on tho high cost of living. , But Ifflp ,tho vllllany of tho mattor llos In tjlo MWB dlshonosty shown to tho public and w$" Its wolfaro. 3wL Now, In conclusion, to thp editor 3Bffl!t of tho Salt Lako Herald wo would ? say: "Get on tho band wagon and Jp ride down tho toboggon slide with TRw tho High Cokof Llvliig, for prices SBuk nro falling, falling foil and wlui '"IBS you say editorially will have but 111- SI tlo tondency to keep thorn up, and' tfiwB when you get to foelng bettor Just Hjl glvo tho brotherhoods credit for stir- SmS " . fS ring things up nt Washlngton-tstnrl- ttgg Ing the bait rolling ffi ' tE a sunsGiiuiKR 'Wa |
