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Show THE DOLLY PIMPLED "HEMORRHAGE" KIDS 1 "A buuch of kids trying to run n newspaper in accordanco with tho, ideas of a lot of political highbinders. " That is the estimate whicli ono man has niado of tho Ifcrald-!tc-publican al'ler witnessing he frantic efforts of a few persons lo injure The Tribune. In fact, it is really funny to watch the course of that aggregation down from the time Iho "Mouth" was established "to put The Trib-uue Trib-uue out of busine.Ms." to the latest move to bribe and deceive Tribune , employes and persuade them to divulgo business methods employed lo make a successful newspaper. It is about Iho limit whon General Manager Halo followed nowa-' nowa-' boys, hoping to t:i.o up their packages, and when ho called a trusted employe of. The Tribune lo his otlice and shamefaced lj' tried to bribe him. That s his idea of running a newspaper it would seem. Anyhow, the young man can't help it. If ho wero not 1 i r 1 3- in his methods ho doubtlessly wouldn't bo employed, for thero ia no newspaper man in Salt Lako who will say that ho is retained' because of experience. And he must make good some way. The Jlerald-Uepiiblicaii threatens to explode a groat sensation in a few days! And it is said to havo cooked up a lot of stuff which it calculates will prove tho relative standing of the ' 'Hemorrhage" aud Tho Tribune in Sail .Lake. . As if this would prove lo anyone that The Tribune is not a great and popular newspaper and that the "Hemorrhage" isl 'For forty years The Tribune has heard the howls of tho wolves who would rend it. lVr forty years The Tribune has fought a battle in Utah which needs not be fought in any other stale in the Union. No newspaper ever had stronger friends. And no newspaper ever hadv greater pulling power for its advertisers, population considered, than has Tho Tribune. It has weathered many a mighty storm. Tt was never stronger in ils history than todnv. It was never trusted moro by its constituency than now. And there never was a time when the wideawake business men of Salt Luke, and Iho general advertisers of the nation, had moro faith in the fact that "Tho Tribune delivers the goods!" We really I'eel sorry for the discomfiture of our scnrlet-hcadcd contemporary. No newspaper in tho country over received such a drubbing-,' politically, as the " Hemorrhage ' 5 received a few days ago. No newspaper i-vcr deserved it so much. It was so vile, so untrustworthy, so vicious, I hat it disgusted those who had tried their hardest to uphold up-hold it. , ., , Patrons worn lost by tho hundred, and many of theso came straightway to The Tribune and gave their reasons for il. Some ol them said (hey could not afford to have a newspaper that -paraded immoral and vulgar things as did the "Hemorrhage" come in contact with iheir voung sons and daughters. Some of them knew tho vicious attack which was inado upon Mavor Hransford was purely personalthat tho criminal who controls (he" editorial columns properly hated the mayor because the mayor refused to come to tho front 111 a financial way and help jii covering an embezzlement of one of the criminal "s degenerato sons. It that was not what actuated those vile attacks it would be interesting to have the criminal editor .explain what did actuate him in his disreputable disrepu-table work. The same men who are in charge of the LIcrald-lf epubliean wrecked the Inter-Mountain Republican and made it the laughing stock of the com'niunitv. And they are wrecking the "Hemorrhage" with even "router rapiditv than 'was tho decline of tho newspaper which Smoot established wiih the fond expectation aud public boast that Tho Tribune would havo to abandon its course or Smoot would put it out .of business. , . It cost the promoters of the Republican $11)2,000 tor their experience, experi-ence, covering a period of three years. Aud in addition to (his an indebtedness of $-10,000 was pileil up, which was barely offset, according ac-cording to the auditor's report before the consolidation, by the ma- Clll"Iiiy"the closiug days of tho life of the ''Mouth," the public was rcaled with all soils of circulation claims. Ihat had no foundation in fact. It is said that a report was made to the promoters of the Herald deal that the "Mouth" was giving away about -1000 papers daily. -.So jumbled wore the accounts that, on a general check-up, it was easy lo liolievp thai the "Mouth's" subscription list was moro of a habihty thnn an asset. The "Mouth's" "experts," who had succeeded in having the "Mouth's" backers put up until they were about all broke, aro said to have tried to make Jackling believe the subscribers having cost $S) a head, justified putting in the subscription list on that kind of a basis. But Herald purchasers wouldn't havo it that wa'. and there was a hitch in proceedings. The deal between the Herald and the Republican Re-publican was expected to be pulled off two or three weeks earlier than It was, but authentic announcement of the approaching consolidation so disorganized the Herald, and the "Mouth" was already m so deplorable de-plorable a condition, that representatives of Mr. Jackling, reputed to-be to-be the purchaser of tho-Herald, Avero persuaded to permit the' Mouth to move over into tho Herald quarters, begin the publication of tho hyphenated newspaper, and try to stem the tide of public disapproval. Jt was held Ihat an adjustment of the interests could bo had later. But there never has been an adjustment and the new company has never been organized. Tho Uerald-Repiiblicaii is not a corporation and has no liability. The accounts wero merged, and in hundreds of instances two or more papers were and now are delivered to one patron. Tn a single apartmint house, The Tribune is informed, more papers aro loft daily than there aro oecupnnts. Scores of instances aro related where persons are being supplied with a copy of the " Hemorrhage" without requesting it and without payintr ior it. In Tdaho, flic '"Hemorrhage" agents have approached Tribuuo subscribers sub-scribers and offered them V free copy for two years if they would agree to not lake The Tribune during that period. Here in Salt Lake sonic shameful abuses are reported Persons who never ordered the paper, but in whoso yards tho paper was left. -havo been presented with bills and threatened with suit if they did not pay. And one of tho most prominent business men was bulldozed a few davs ago for a back subscription account , even though he had written across the receipt, for his final payment that the subscription sub-scription was to be discontinued more than two mouths ago. Knowing . his rights In refused lo bo bullied. Others are telling about getting bills. And it would seem that the policy of the "experts" in charge of the "Hemorrhage" is to throw papers in tho yards of homos, allow the account lo run two or three months, and threaten tho reader if lie does not sol fie. Just how general are such cases The Tribune docs not know, the Tribune employes arc too busy supplying the public with a splendid, up-to-date and carefully edited newspaper, and in caring for tho increased in-creased business a fact that must bo apparent to nil who havo followed fol-lowed The Tribune to go into tho details concerning tho affairs of a contemporary. No employe of The Tribuno has tho time to waylay llorald-tfopublicau carriers." t'o attempt to debauch Herald-Republican employes, nor to care whether tho llerald-Eepublicnn has a bona lido circulation of any sizo or eharactor. Merchants, following the consolidation, wero told they must submit sub-mit to an advance in rates. But very quietly and effectively they answered bv giving the bulk of their business to nowspapers that havo always attempted to deal with them on the basis of mutual infercst. These merchants know that it. is an impossibility for a Mormon Republican nowspapor to mergo itself with a Gentilo Democrat newspaper news-paper ami hold any considerable amount of its patronage. And. of course, tho Herald-Republican has uot been able to do this. If it had been conducted as an upright, yet vigorous, champion of the waning cause of Sniootism. it would have fared better than it has. Vvhcn tho banner bearing every semblance of tho somewhat classy old Uernld was pulled down and the horrid-lookincr newspaper, mechanically, me-chanically, was substituted, its columns recking, with libels and vindictive vin-dictive mistiness, of course the people of Salt Lako in large numbers declined lo accept it. ' . An eastern ropresentativo of a great advertiser visited Salt Lake rccbutb, spent a woek sizing up tho newspaper situation, and doubled his appropriation with The Tribune. Ten days ago a largo const advertiser ad-vertiser spout three days iu inquiry and investigation, and before leaving announced to a local business friend that lie could not afford to niuTco an appropriation lo the Herald-Republican until it liad established es-tablished itself as a newspaper, had a company behind it (hat; could guarantee permanency and cut out its duplications aud ils thousands ' of unpaid subscribers. Ho said ho did not know such a newspaper would bo in existence six months hence, and said he proposed to reach the morning field through Tho Tribune. Never in the history of Tho Tribune havo the business men of Still Luke so liberally supported ils columns tis they do now. They know that it has an exclusive field among men and women of Salt Lako who are beslablo fo buy what the merchant has to sell. Unusually Un-usually large puporrf are required now because Hie policy of The Tribune has been that when it has a large amount of advertising flic papor is enlarged lo meet that increase,' so (hat advertisers aud readers may all be the bendllciaries. A number of fine new features havo bqcn contracted for his winter and wo guarantee, to the readers of The Tribune some of (he most interesting mailer ever printed in an American newspaper. And il is gratifying to know that Salt Lakers and people in the progressive towns of Utah, Idaho and Wyoming are beginning lo appreciate-The 'Tribune's light for Iho advancement of these states more than tho3r ever have appreciated it in the past. Of course, the pace set by The Tribune is a hard one for an op-' ', posing newspaper. The 'IJribune employs trained workers in every department. It does not make of a newspaper a sort of kindergarten affair. No more loyal set of men and women were ever on a company's payrolls than those who serve, in season and out of season, the. iu-1 iu-1 crests of the public through this greal property. Of course, their labor in, some cases is made unnecessarily difficult by tho malicious lying and backbiting of .jealous contemporaries. The business men of Salt Lake and representatives of fhe general ndyVrlisers of the country, who are patrons of Tho Tribune, know that hoy, haw never been denied access lo Tribune records or any infor-niat'du infor-niat'du that they would bo justified in any sense iu seeking. The only (rouble with a local contemporary is, fhat it has miserably mis-erably .failed to discover Iho key that leads fo tho methods employed 1 in making a successful newspaper. And failing fo establish a paper that has yublic confidence, its makers employ considerable energy and limited ;Mil:ly .along disrcpulablo lines, aud gratify themselves by UHoilntg 1,; d.-juble-dcaling ana perjury |
