| Show lIICT101I1AI altIIIIXT An xtraordhmo < conflIct Is I on Inner In-ner < onllrit to the dispatches Fourln large retail mercantile house Including dry goods clothing anti do paront stores have comblneJ In an effort 10 force the dally papers nf they city 10 mnk n heo the-y reduction In ad vertbal nat rates The papers ate unit call resisting the dmand and the firms In theOomhlne have withdrawn all I their advertisements The meldnt may have some argument argu-ment nol Apparent nn the surface but the prima td I showing places them very much In the wiong If they can coerce the press In financial matter they can In idltorlal policy Do the lousiness mail ot Denver want n forces that can be controlled by a comblna Ion nf II dozen buninere houses > Would not puh n press hr n curse try the tr-y The success of this om loin oul 1 a nI8I11OIn rnlmlty In Colorado thief city sand to the whole plate It would man a demorali motion uf advertising rates which might cripple rome of the pipers Innnrlallj but It would also mean n demorallzi lion of the prev I In respect to Its liberty liber-ty and Independence a matter of InfinItely I In-finItely greater consequence The Denver pope should never think of surrendering to much an attack The wlllulrnwal of the ndiertlslng iiatron age of the firfns In the combine means to thORe nrms the loss of a mackerel I ta Me a rprat but the capitulation by the papers would man the loss to them of Influence and clnulatlon the elements that mnkn spac In them valuable The N ws fcols that the Licnci papers will and ought to win In this unexampled contest I I |
