Show I I I I I iso SO THE PEOPLE MAY KNOW I DURING D this gladsome holiday season when wIlen peace on onearth onearth earth good will toward men is i or should be the motto of ofus ofus us all when we love Jove our neighbor when the mind still turns r re reflectively to the beautiful ul thoughts though that have been d dbr by br Christmas s Chri poetry and it The desires to join in this universal of and therefore rises to remark And that remark is that this paper is neither m mation nor Ye would not I seize our stuffed club md and wait in tie dark uk alloy p for HI the tOl corporation that we might swat it in the midriff nor would we pat the bad corporation on the back und and wi wish h it a happy New Year The is the exponent of the square deal st lost und and all the time Ye We are for th plain people the high and the low the rich and the poor And AmI we mean to maintain our ur ns as tile the champion of th the people and to them when the they need defense This paper has no apologies to off r for the fight it mad to reduce the price of coal That increase in price at the out outset outset set of winter was m an injustice it was highway robber robbery Th needed An 11 able champion to protect their iut Had the rise in coal conI just and righteous this paper would not have interfered Ye We were convinced that it was wa not right and the notion action of the coal coni companies ill ill surrendering and reducing the price is conclusive evidence that our position Lion tion was the just juet one md and that we land had time the forces of right with us when we began our fight to get et a Square deal from the coal i combine for the people of Utah Therefore we girded up our loins went after t th coal trust with an all the energy of which we were capable and fought just as dignified n a battle as waa wa possible under the circum circumstances stances W we did fell feel however that all rul rules were off and it WAS our privilege to bite gouge and stick our finger in the other follows eye eo if necessary to win the fight We Ye have havo no apOlogy to offer for what we did the way we did it or the results we achieved We Ve made no personal attacks we mentioned two or three men nien during the progress of the battle but that was merely in tile way vay of criticising their official cial actions We Te did not consider it necessary to apologize at that time and nothing has occurred occUlTed since to change our mind Ve never saw 8 suit stilt of sackcloth that we thought would lit fit us and never neer met a pile of ashes in which we would care to sit AlSO leo sackcloth and ashes would not be a fitting out outward war ward symbol of our inward feelings since the end of the coal conI fight not been unduly puffed up but wu we do feel that we something of real benefit to the people and Jt iiI has hns mado the still small voice within us sing comic songs at th tb evidence that the people appreciate what w were lc e to do for them hem aided and abetted by the No corporate or individual influences have or can affect this thid paper neither will this paper battle with the cor corporations corporations merely because they are corporations Standing for the square deal ns as we do the corporation or person that gives the people a square deal will get a square squar deal from us The H is owned au and published by Tile The Publishing company compan Tue rhe stockholders choose the directors and the directors fix the policy of the paper The directors fixed the policy of The can as it has been outlined here have done so from the thc begin beginning beginning ning and there is not going to be any auy change in that policy This paper favors no special interest is against no special in interest terest It is for a square deal for everybody all the time and means menns to work towards toward that end chief and foremost it means to see that the people of Utah get a square deal We are not so tenderhearted that we will permit aPI appeals of any cor corporation corporation or individual to prevent us giving them just what they merit neither are we so anxious for a fight that we will tramp on peoples toes or kick them in the for the pure joy of a scrap The fears no one and courts court tile the favor of no one The company which owns this paper will continue to the mOSt fearless the most popular and tile the best newspaper in the in country No we have bave no apologies to make for our attitude during the coal conI fight or for the methods we used to win We Te wanted to win we did win and we are ready for another r battle when whenever ever eyer it becomes |