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Show M When the managers of a newspaper B with sdmc circulation and more pa- H tronage than the actual circulation H warrants permit it to become a vc- M hiclc for the gratification of personal H spites, they show at once how little M they know of journalistic ethics or M that knowing, they arc too far lost to H common decency to u.se 'he knowl- M edge. The evil is more pronounced HJ when the object of tl-c paper's malig- M nity is a man who happens to hold M high and responsible station in the M community and has the unqualified M L'ltccm of a majority of the people, M while having no real enemies outside H of that paper's offic: and 'he coterie of which it is the ccnlic, these gen- H crallyjbcingj a corpqral'o guard of H strife-breeders, wlo, having no tcler- H ance for difference f opinion, have H l-Town up so saturated w:lh h.ilred H and all-round meanu':ss that nothing H 111 nature seems good to them. H Such a paper is the Salt I ake Trib- H ijnc. In. unprincipled excesses it has , vt , f , . ' T I i. lio model and no shadow. Its oppo- sition to men or measures is' not H gauged to any line of principle or H doctrine on its own part; enough for H it is it that the. reigning power for H no other reason than that some one H Mithin its fold dislikes some one else, H and then nothing is 100 vile to say of H him or any cause r enterprise in H which he may be interested. Nor H does the sheet stop at words of abuse, H insult aqd defamation, caricatures of H the most villainous character, made H as gross and unfitting as a depraved H imagination can conjure up arc used unsparingly and whii but a tithe of I th,c pervlty naturally resulting from such infamous practices is visited in a personal way upon one of the gang a howl that must reach to the empyrean empy-rean goes up from the whole pack. It is their way. The writer has individual knowledge knowl-edge of the fact that the utterly indecent in-decent and relentless manner in which President Joseph F. iSmith is being, and under nearly the entire time of the Tribune's present regime, has been assailed, is a boomerang of the most gratifying efficiency. The high-minded high-minded Gentiles of Utah, who arc-greatly arc-greatly in the majority, almost to a man deprecate that paper's course most thoroughly. They arc for fair fighting when fighting is to he done, but see no cause for hostilities just now, unless it be such as ibe Tribune invites in a personal way. They know-perfectly know-perfectly well that all such statements state-ments as that Mormons arc seeking to deprive Gentiles of bushess and thus press them out of the community communi-ty arc wanton falsehoods; the same a- to statements that the establishments establish-ments of new enlei prises in which 1 rominent Mormons are interested has also that object in view; likewise as to the utterly silly chatter about Mormons not being allowed to sell land to Gentiles, a thing that is going go-ing on every day -ind almost every hour in the day, and not even .so much as a word of displeasuie being visited upon the grantors Perhaps it is true that selling land to enemies is looked upon with disfavor, and it so this paper lends it the fullest and most unconditional endorsement. What sane Mormon, for instance, would think of letting his land go if he knew it would be the means of another an-other Tribune (or .something like it, since it cannot be exactly duplicated) starting up? As preiously suggested, suggest-ed, within its rapidly narrowing circle cir-cle arc found all the enemies the Mormons have and tiich aref enemies r ol Utah itself. o |