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Show WILL THE hs em TREBUNLREADERS? Does Organ of the Hierarchy Desire Patronage of Patrons of Tribune. WILL Z. C. M. I. REFUSE j TO SEE TRIHUNE PATRONS Does the Band of 26 Desire Tribune Readers to Buy Utah Sugar? .j. ! According to tlio mortality ! statistics of tho last federal cen- h sus, tho highest mortality was in n I Shrcovoport, La., the doatli rate 4 'r in 1900 being 45.5 por 1000,. Tlio lowest wan in St. Joseph, Mo., 9.1 por 1000. In tlio Latter-day J Saints hospital in Salt Lako City s- during tho month of July thero -I--r wore, according to reports illed r with tlio board of health, twolvo v doaths. Tlio capacity of tho hos- ! pital Is 100. . . f-M-I-H-H-hr-H-n-I-l-H I MI"I"I"l-rI' H is possible that thn Latter-day Saints honpilal management ma- have to answer to the court for tho refusal to allow Tho Tribune to be delivered to patients in that institution who are subscribers. Tho newspaper, after it has been delivered at tho address givon by i pubscribor, becomes tho porsonal property of that subscriber. To steal it is petit larcony; to destroy it 13 larceny. lar-ceny. There arc likely to bo sovcral cases against this hospital, which appeals to nil people for patronage, but which refuses re-fuses its tenants a right accorded them undor the law of purchnsing whntevor is desired by that patient to make him comfortable. The notion of the board of directors in placing a boycott upon The Tribune shows to Avhat extremes the hierarchy will go; shows tho people of tho world what it would do with all had it tho power it onco had. Appeals for Patronage. This hierarchy, which directs and controls this Lntter-day Saints hospital, appeals for the patronage- of nli classes of people, save ono, irrespective of religious re-ligious bolief. The class ofpeoplo that it does not desire is the class that readH The Salt Lako Tribune. In placing a boycott upon The Tribune, in refusing to "allow it to be delivered to subscribers who are patients in the hospital, it emphatically em-phatically declares that it does not want tho patronage of readers of Tho Tribune. This hierarchy, which controls this Latter-day Saints hospital, also owns and controls the Z. C. M. T. Win it say thnt this institution does not want the trade of Tribune readers? Tliis same hierarchy which controls the Lattcr-da' Saints hospital also owns and controls tho Deserot rsTews. Will it say that it does not want tho patrons of The Tribuno to road the News or advertise adver-tise in its columns? This same hierarchy which controls this same Latter-day Saints hospital also is largely interested in tho beet surgar factories in Utah. Will it say' that it docs not want Tribune readers to purchaso the product of those factories. fac-tories. How About It? This same hierarchy which controls tin's same Latter-day Saints hospital has interests in and controls other commercial commer-cial institutions in Utah besides those named. Will it say that it doos not want Tribuno readers to patronize thoso institutions? This same- hierarchy which controls this same Latter-day Saints hospital says to Tribune readers that it does not want their patronage, for that would mean that those readers would want The Tribune sent them at the hospital. hos-pital. The hierarchy, through the board of directors, has barred The Tribuno from this hospital. |