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Show RAPACITY OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Of courso everybody understands tho purely disinterested (?) motives of tho Salt Lako Tribune, Herald and Telegram in opposing tho bill which has been passed by tho legislature requiring re-quiring tho Associated Press, so far as this state is concerned, to furnish Its news report to nny person who is willing to pay for it. As it Is now, tho papers receiving tho report ln Salt Lako havo a monopoly. No other person per-son can got tho report unless they consent, and of courso they won't consent. con-sent. Thoy want to keep the monopoly, monop-oly, like every other person or .corporation .corpor-ation who has a monopoly. This stuff about tho Associated Press being a voluntary association, making no prof-Its prof-Its and so forth, is more subterfuge to evade tho law. Tho Horald Itself had a very bitter experience with tho Asosclated Press some few years ago. it was beforo tho United Press had been crushed out of business by Its rival, tho Associated Press. Tho Herald had been receiving receiv-ing tho Associated Press report, but decided to make a chango and tako tho United Press news servlco Instead. Tho Associated Press objected strongly, strong-ly, and delivered its report to tho Herald Her-ald every day and charged up to tho Herald company tho prlco of it, about $120 a week, although tho Horald did not use a lino of it. This thing went on for nearly a year. Then tho United Press went out of business, and tho Herald was compelled to fall back on tho Associated Press for its news service. ser-vice. Tho Associated Press, howover, had the Herald In a tight placo, and refused to deliver tho report until tho bill against tho Horald for tho Associated Asso-ciated Press report for tho tlmo It had been using tho United Press report was paid. Tho result was that tho Herald had to pay a good fow thousand thou-sand dollars or go out of buslnos for lack of a telegraphic news service. |