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Show CHALLENGE TO A DEFAIV1ER. j The Itcseret News, no longer able to disguise Its feelings over tho magnificent success of The Tribune JL under its present management, last evening frothed with the rabies and threw a cataleptic lit three col- Q uinns in length. (f Tho burden of Its wall Is that since "Colonel" Lannan, as It chooses to call him, sold The Tribune. It has X never paid any dividend and thnt as a business venture it has been a complete failure. The New.s presents S . no facts nor figures upon which to predicate a reasonable deduction. It Jumps at conclusions as a maddened T '- bull will lunge at a red flag. 5) The News states that It Instructed its traveling men "to ascertain In forty-five leading cities and towns t of the State" Just how low an ebb The Tribune circulation has reached. It then pretends to state the re- JL suits, giving figures that, If obtained at all. doubtless came from Mormon sources, from forty towns Including TT Preston. Sugar City, Rexburg and Franklin In Idaho, and such well-known Mormon strongholds as Farming- S S ton, Lehi( Mendon, Santaquln. Charleston, Ixgan, Falrvlew, Kphraim, Kanoah, Kamas, lona, Pamwan, (J' V Coslini. HenJ.imin. Grantsvllle, Tooele, Garland, Dev. -ret, St. George. Pangultrh. and Wellsvllle, in I'tah.' J . From these spurious figures which are presumed to show tho relative circulation of The Tribune nnd y V News In these Mornvn strongholds only, It Is argued that The Tribune has lost subscribers and ergo, It la S losing mom i I y Fjor, deluded, disappointed News! Ton have used such logic on your dupes so long that you delude ra 4 yoursr-if into believing it Is sound! v ' Never In Its history has The Tribune been strongly supported from the towns you have named, nnd no Ljj one so well as you knows why. The hierarchy dries not desire the Mormon people to read of Its peccadillos V nor of Its Juggling with the tithing funds and with the truth. J () Rut there are other towns in Utah than Kamas and Kanosh, Pangultch and Parowan, Spanish Fork and v x Santaquin, where The Tribune does circulate, and that, too. extensively. It Is loyally supported In these X. f towns, too, by the good men and women who are loyal to American Institutions, and their words eommenda- tory of the policy of The Tribune are bright rays of light from districts that have so long been benighted q () by ecclesiastical darkness. .t-y .t-y For the benefit of the News, notwithstanding Its puny and spiteful attempt to misrepresent the facts, and y for the Information of the thousands of friends and readers of The Tribune, we can show that since July 1, C1 X 190-1, when Joseph Llppman became general manager, The Tribune has done a larger business than at any S () time In its entire history. y y Its circulation today is greater than It ever wag in the palmiest days of Judge Goodwin and P. H. Lan- 1. nan, and its advertising patronage is so far In excess of any of Its former records that It Is not a surprise gj that the Deserct News is thrown Into a fit of jealous rage. Y It Is to be regretted that the News spent so much of its valuable time in gaining alleged data that have y . no possible bearing on the issue. If it desired to settle a question so vitally a public one as its belabored w effort in this ease would suggest, it should have come squarely to the point () (J) The matter of circulation or of financial success is not to be adjusted by unsupported nor by Illogical () y dedUi lions. It Is a matter for arithmetical demonstration. The Tribune is willing and desirous to give to T 1 the public a demonstration of the fact that, as usual, the Deseret New.s is lying. ( Under fair and byslness-Uke conditions The Tribune will submit all of Its book", papers, vouchers and 3) bank accounts to a committee of five, consisting of such gentlemen as ex-Governor Wells, L. S. Hills of tho v T Deseret National bank, M. H. Walker, Frank Knox and W. Mont Ferry, for the purpose of determining S J. whether or not since July 1, 1904, to the present time. The Tribune has done a larger business both by way of subscription and advertising than It has ever done in a similar period In Its entire history. J d) If the books today do not actually show a larger bona fide subscription list and a larger advertising y 5 patronage than The Tribune has ever been able to show, The Tribune will pay Five Thousand Dollars to i () the Deseret News, to be distributed for such charitable purposes as it may see fit. If on the other hand the T books shall show a larger bona fide subscription list and a larger volume of advertising than It has ever been able to show before, then the Deseret News is to pay to The Tribune $5000 (cash, not tithing scrip), to be T distributed by it for such charities at it shall designate. x W This offer is to be accepted and the terms to be agreed upon by Wednesday, April 19, 1905. y Now. miserable craven, sneak, poltroon and arch-liar of lntermountain history, come forward and show () y the public of what material you are made. And remember, too, that The Tribune employs more men and y pays larger and better salaries than any other paper In the State. That it employs none but union labor. That (5 It pays cash and demands cash, not tithing orders nor carrots! That It prints more telegraphic news, both 9 X Associated Pres6 and specials than- any paper in the Intermountcun country, and that its readers comprise 0 V the most intelligent and progressive citizens of the West. 2 Is not the wish that The Tribune would lose Its circulation father to the thought that It has lost Its pat- J) ronage? t) j The Tribune dally prints 30 per cent more matter than any other paper In Utah. It pays four men on Its & y staff more money than the News pays its entire editorial and rcportorial force, and yet It is making a better T $. financial showing than all the papers In Salt Lake City combined! Only last month it paid a larger dlvl- i dend to Its stockholders than tho Deseret News has paid In dividends in Its history! (5) Z) Does that look like financial failure? X T It's up to the Deseret News to make good. y ft 2 |