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Show h 1 L VVIIKKB SLANOKH HI KTI. Whatever pblicy a newspaper niay pursue it dons at the peril of its popularity popu-larity at home. If it lie regarding the men and thing in tho community, if it bear false witness, if for u partisan advantage ad-vantage it deny the good and exaggerate exagger-ate the evil existing in a city, the people will soon discover the fact and resent it. They are resenting it in Salt Luke. They feel that certain jnurnala. maintained by the patronage of tho public, wilfully and maliciously and persistently misrepresent the public and injure the interests of those who have every right to expect fair treatment treat-ment of them. Hut the outside world Is not so well informed concerning tho motives actuating act-uating these journal in their ruinous policy. It judges them by tho light of other paper which put their best foot forward when it conies to an estimate of their respective towns. The j outside world looks in vain for another instance whore one part of tho community commu-nity is described bv one of its own journals as a horde of plunderers and the other part by another of ils journals as a set of traitors. And in eonsciiieneo the conclusion is reached that the situation situ-ation in I'tah is forbidding even more than is represented ami that therefore tho investment of capital and tho est ib-lishinent ib-lishinent of industries here is a perilous venture. The injury wo thus bus tain is incalculable and unpardonable. in truth, there is no part of the Cuion where pence and plenty, industry and thrift obtain more than here. Nature has been bountiful in her blessings to us and the labor of man and the capital capi-tal of tho investor are nowhere better rewarded. The tongues or pens of the characterless slanderers alono keep us from achieving that degree of prosperity prosper-ity and development to which all our citizens aspire. |