Show THE TRIBUNE A YELLOW SENSATIONALIST SALT LAKE WILL LOWER THE STANDARD OF ANY PAPER THAT COPIES We are sorry to note that that excellent The Washington County copies quite extensively from the Salt Lake Whether it is a falsehood or anything printed in the Salt Lake Tribune carries with it an offensive odor of falsehood and that is extremely nauseating to 95 per cent of the people in Utah outside of Salt Lake In Salt Lake City are a Utah-haters who delight in reading the Day after week after and year after the columns of the Salt Lake Tribune have been filled with sordid slanders that have injured every woman an I child in every part of our There is not an institution of or anything public of any but has been injured and loathsomely slandered by the Salt Lake The Tribune's slanders have ranged from goat fever in to polygamy in Cache denying the Gentiles the right of franchise in Salt Lake City to over people it the Mormons have murdered to satisfy blood In all parts of the everywhere and all the the Tribune has been gnawing like a pestilential cancer at the very vitals of until there is not a young man or maiden in our beautiful state that has not been slandered and humiliated by that Even the President of the United States did not escape the Tribune's drivel when he was visiting The Tribune article on the Salt Lake Route that the Washington County News was overdrawn and sensational in every and was written more to injure the Salt Lake Route and also to notify the outside world what they must expect in floods and freshets if they come to this country or travel on the Salt Lake The following is one of the Tribune's sensational statements Barclay and a distance of twenty there is nothing left of the road High up on the sides of the fifty feet from the river can be seen what was steel which weighed ninety pounds to the bent like Others were cut in two as if they had been sawed in Ninety pound steel rails of the quality the Salt Lake Route bought do not bend like pipe stems under water nor were they in two as if they were sawed in such wild and weird statements were made to pander the sensational sentiment of some of the Tribune The Utah Independent is willing to wager that there were not five broken rails or over fifty so badly injured but what they could all be used again on the main We are willing to wager that not one-half of one per cent of the rails have received the least The Tribune then further states that 93 miles of track was completely washed and that it would take ties and tons of rails to repair the More From the furthest point north to the last point south where the damage was done to the Salt Lake Route is less than sixty instead of as stated by the in wide parts of the flooded valley are many miles of track that is it was only in the narrow portion of the valley that the most damage was We predict that before June 1 through trains will be running over the Salt Lake Route on the old right of through the flooded If the Washington County News desires to maintain its excellent high and keep the good will of its many it better not copy from the Kearns American |