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Show SUTHERLAND MAKES THE TRIBUNE TRIB-UNE SQUEAL. At tho Lincoln day celebration on Monday evening congratulatory messages mes-sages were received from Senators Smoot and Sutherland and Congressman Congress-man Howell. Senator Sutherland's message was very pointed and exceedingly ex-ceedingly incisive, but at tho same tlmo dignified and stood on lofty ground. Tho strictures were mainly directed at tho Tribune and were so Incislvo that they appear to havo penetrated pen-etrated tho rhinosorls-Uke hides of tho owner and editors of that paper for they havo been emitting long and loud pig like squeals over since. Mr. Sutherland's message was as follows: "I regret very much my Inability to accept your invitatipn to bo present at tlio dinner to bo given on tho 12th instant to commemorato tho birth of Lincoln and to celebrate tho appearance appear-ance of tho new Republican paper. However, I shall be with you In thought and in cordial good wishes. I am glad you aro celebrating these two events together. Abraham Lincoln Lin-coln was tho apostlo of liberty In the broadest sense, and tho history he mado in that connection is not only tho great glory of the party to which ho belonged, but of the Union as well. The question of physical slavery has taken Its place with the other dead Issues Is-sues of the past, but that other phase of serfdom mental slavery equal, if not greater in its sinister influence, Is still being threshed out In the minds of men. Wo live in an ago when tho influence influ-ence of tho press for good and, I regret re-gret to say, sometimes, for evil, is all powerful. Though tho tendency In this country is to 3tand independent of Improper party, religious and personal per-sonal Influences and to pursue a policy pol-icy which makes for independent citizenship, cit-izenship, yet in particular spots we aro confronted by tho degrading spectacle spec-tacle of great genius selling itself for and lending Itself to deception and misrepresentation. Fortunately, the Idea Is moro and moro becoming crystallized cry-stallized that a newspaper is impressed im-pressed with a public trust and is not a mere means to gain private ends or gratify personal malice. The public will no longer stand for mere personal journalism and the newspaper that would live upon hate and deceit must eventually receive the condemnation of all fair-minded men. I havo an idea that tho old-fashioned ethics of tho common, everyday life ought to be good newspaper ethics. A newspaper, newspa-per, therefore, has no more right to Ho than an individual. Tho owner of a newspaper who hires an editor to He about people whom the owner does not like, is just as contemptible as an Individual who should hire n scandalmonger scandal-monger to go about tho neighborhood detailing false gossip about his neighbors; neigh-bors; and tho editor who permits himself him-self to bo hired for this kind of work Is a little more contemptible than either. "Tho business of a newspaper is to gather news and to publish it fearlessly, fear-lessly, whether it Is of a character to please the owner or not. A newspaper, newspa-per, like an individual, may falsify by suppressing tho truth or coloring the truth to suit tho bias of Its proprle tors quite as effectually as by making positively false statements. I hvo always thought It Indecent for a r vs-paper, vs-paper, for Instance, to publish falso special dispatches purporting to come from other places, when, In fact, they aro written In tho homo office, or to decline to publish unwelcomo news contained in real dispatches sent by its correspondents in order to gratify grati-fy a feeling of innate "cusscdness" on tho part of its owners. Such a policy must eventually end in destroying the influence of tho paper and degrading i tho peoplo engaged In pursuing It. I hopo and believe that Tho Inter-Mouh-taln Republican will never become in. i. -i . such a paper. It will obtain and keep the confidence of its readers in tho proportion that it shall deserve their confidence. It must not bo run in tho interest of any one man, or sot of men, or of any clique or faction. It must open its ears to the just com- plaints of tho humblest member of the community; it must close them to tho unjust demands of tho highest. While Insisting on tho same standard stand-ard of conduct for all, It must stand for equal justice to all Mormon, Jew and Gentile. It must at all times insist in-sist that the Republican party is an organization whoso members stand upon an exact equality that it will welcome leaders but will not tolerato bosses that anyone who is good enough to vote Its tickets is good enough to have a voice In framing them that Is will accept advice from any but dictation from none. "Very sincerely yours, "GEO. SUTHERLAND." ' . i-v |