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Show h The Tribune crowd arc about the K i cheekiest hunch above ground. It 1 poses as a booster of the city and K t ' claims for itself and its party the crc- L- dit for the prosperity and the advance Hi' which the city has experienced for a H: while. A's a matter of fact the Trib- H ' 1 line for the past four or five years fc' lias done more to retard the growth K.i of Salt Lake that all other causes HIm combined. It made a business of JK-p slandering and villifying the city and p state. It made a contract for two U? ' ' years to send 2,000 copies of the pa- HT f per daily to the cast for distribution Wtt on condition that those papers would ra contain all the vile slanders of this H. ' state that the fertile brains of Tom f . I Kcarns' hirelings could invent. It L.'jl made decent rcscpcctablc people bc- fj.i ! lieve that Salt Lake City is the sewer of the country, the worst place on j the map, a place where no decent man would bring his family to live and a place where investments were "I unsafe. It sent broadcast for years J everything calculated to keep invest- ' ors and respectable home 'seekers away. It left nothing undone which would hurt the city and the stato and injure their good names. It has been a banc to this state for years and now it has the cfrontcry, the pure unidul- tcrated gall to claim the credit for the city's advancement. It, however, j can't fool many people. |