| Show AN OPEN LETTER TO THE COMMERCIAL CLUB Number 8 i I We were asked the day by a prominent gentleman from Beaver why the Salt Lake Commercial Club did not take some action and deny the injurious tracts and falsehoods of the We told gentleman that those of your club who did not stand in and advertise in and help that sheet in its campaign of slander were afraid of Were we If we were kindly let us know and we will make a The Tribune has been throwing mud and assaulting this State for many and it has so frightened away that Utah fell behind every other intermountain state in the advance of although she had better advantages and offered better inducements to settlers than other You are pretending to Utah and yet you have sat with folded arms while the Tribune has assaulted you and our in a. most ungracious and brutal When the Tribune-said that Utah a community of als you were When that sheet stated that Utah schools were run by you kept When the Kearns morning defamer stat-l ed that there were more skeletons in the homes in h than anywhere else in the you sent out a. twenty-cent wheat When you I that the Tribune was sending out hundreds f thousands of Tracts which proclaimed to the world thau- the Gentiles of Utah shall soon be protect-ed by the power of the United they will either uffer or exile at the hands of the hierarchy t When the Tribune I case demonstrates all the elements of a reign of terror in is an empty word while these things can before the is a devilish satire while these things can is as remote us as it is the Zulu tribes while these things can you boosted the Tribune by putting advertisements in its columns and appointed Frank I. one of its editors as a member of your publicity Were you afraid of the Tribune because you helped or does its policy meet with your approval cannot be silent on the scurrility of the Tribune and boost I am going to give several lectures throughout the One will be in March and one in March Shall I tell the people at these lectures where you stand in regard to the If some boys were breaking the windows and besmearing your beautiful building with would you board up the windows and try to whitewash the mud or would you arrest the You are v trying or at least some think that you are to board up Utah's windows and whitewashing the Tribune's mud with twenty-cent wheat instead of stopping its stone throwing and mud The following editorial in the Herald-Republican of March is food for thought for you and the Tribune paper yoa IT IS DYING HARD THE DEATH DAMP OF SLANDER MAKES THE TRIBUNE In the hurly-burly of legislative sufficient v attention has not been paid to the peculiar situation which the Salt Lake Tribune finds That whose owner six years ago said he would disrupt the Republican party in Utah and would send his enemies flying across the state and has reiterated that statement every fifteen minutes has become neither the thing nor Forced by rapidly decreasing business and circuit tion to cease its vicious attacks upon the state an its it has lost the support of the while enough of its inherent devilishness remains to repulse the confidence of the A Wishy-Washy In its attempt to create a paper which should merit and receive public and still satisfy the whose hatred of Utah and its people is in no wise the Tribune management is succeeding in getting out each morning a wishy-washy newspaper with no decided opinions about with sporadic attempts to and sporadic attempts to The lack of sympathy between the news and opinion departments of the paper is easily read between the and the vanishing backbone has disgusted those while opposing its former rather admired its A Mormon for Kearns always maintained that he fight ing for and that his paper would never reverse its can have my home and my he they can never get my and they cannot shut its In the old days it was the Tribune habit to have at least one Mormon for breakfast each if two could be there would be a several mornings go by each week when the Tribune is forced to partake of the chorus girl's breakfast nothing It has adopted this policy in deference to the wishes of its the who declined to do business a paper which was fouling its own Cuts and Slashes and Bites And the Kearns principle has gone Once in a while the irreconcilable who sets in the chair of the but who has been relieved of any actual authority except on his own breaks forth with one of his characteristic cuts and runs amuck and bites every in the business and advertising departments of the paper is sent out to make the rounds of the merchants and assure them that the Tribune really doesn't mean that they cannot help and that they will try and see to it that it does not happen he chortles with because these newfangled ideas do not please and the appetite for Mormon breakfast food is so firmly that it cannot be The Tribune Now Is Neither Fish nor So the whirligig of time has the Tribune where it is neither nor good red herring Its former which actually believed what the Tribune is falling because its hunger for lurid stories about the and the pioneer happenings of half a century is ago not being fed The supporters which the Tribune is trying to the both Mormon and are coyl because they know that the leopard has changed its that the sheep they see is only the wolf in disguise that will sooner or later turn rend Kearns and His Vipers and Tribune That the guise of friendliness for the state is mere- ly assumed they can gather from the Kearns inter-view in Los the sporadic attempts on the Tribune editorial page to renew the vigor and the campaign of slander in great responsibility for which lies at the door of the Tribune and They know that the change in policy was for business to attract back into the paper those purchasers of advertising space- who disapproved of the Tribune policy and refused to put money into the coffers of the paper that i injuring the j But the Kearns is still His wound J still and he still means to have his i Gentlemen of the Commercial if you 1 really desire to help why don't you come out and give the Tribune a decent and then j start in the direction to help our Yours V. 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