| Show TELL THAT one week ago there was a fire in the top floor door of the tribune building and the entire bank of linotype machines were destroyed the publishers of the paper were helpless so far as their own equipment was concerned they could not get out another issue of their paper the day of hand composition has gone by so utterly that it would be impossible for any newspaper of the size of the tribune to prepare in a day tor for issuing by the old method neither the men the material erial the room nor the 0 time could be commanded there are not linotype machines in the city in any way available for the tribunes printing without interruption anten bation and no paper can afford to miss publication for a day it requires months to secure a new mew supply of linotype machines it was impossible forthe for the tribune to continue publication in anything like it its former extent as to size and number ap f of pages amount and form of matter with the means available it was not a matter of casing the money and getting what was required sioney money simply pimply could not get what the p publishers b had to have for a day there was an arran arrangement ge with the herald also a morning paper as is the tribune but it must have taxed the facilities aswell as well as the good temper if df both establishments it was a courtesy on the part of the herald to assist its contemporary doubtless it was a service which the tribune appreciated any one would but that arrangement could not be permanent even the he degree oi of permanence implied in producing the tribune until its new equipment should arrive and be installed nothing but an evening paper plant could be used with anything lile like availability the telegram of course has no plant the office or of the deseret Da seret news was the only one in town which could by any possibility arrange to continue the publication of the salt lake tribune and that now providing for the publication putting its entire mechanical equipment exclusive of the press at the disposal dispo salof of the trib aane for a consideration the situation Is rather an unusual one and will appeal to utah people rather more forcibly than to those whose information as to local affairs is not so perfect for years there has been the bit bitterest teresE sort of battle between the news and the tribune v it conta ings sit cof other papers the news is the property of the mormon church and Is the exponent of that churchs churche doctrine the defender of its faith mt organ of its management tire the authority lyof of its people the fight 01 ol the tribune has been directed against the news against the head of the church and in 31 peculiarly virulent manner against the editor of the paper itself the bead f the church its ih first st president bosteen bos been characterized aia per jurer asa as a Ir traitor altor asa laib lawbreaker as a despot despol as a conscienceless scoundrel as a here is not limit of boundary for tire the epithets that have been employed against that individual As to the editorial conduct of the naw the only phase of that paper mentioned by the tribune e it has lieen stigmatized in win I 1 long forgotten in journalism elsewhere the editor of the news has bas been branded as a mar as a tr trailer altor as ia a violator r of laws human find and divine so frequently so so bitterly hitter tr that no community other than it lake could belati ire ad without the of lifo rody retribution it has been the sort of attack both against prelate and editor which DIL r anthony of the leavensworth Leav ensworth times once made notable and infamous it is the sort which wilbur F r storey of the chicago times followed for yi years ars arid and for which he daane himself to everlasting shame and burled buried his paper so BO that it la is not known among men today it Is not needful rived ful forus forms for us to recall the character of those which the salt lake tribune directed again st the first president of the mormon church the church itself and its the editor of the news I 1 and all in authority people here remember they can never forget por these who have been mercifully spared the reading we may say that the editorial assaults of the tribune against church and paper have been rather the most extravagant ard and limitless in both volume and nature to which the english language has ever been applied in an american newspaper we do not believe we at ewhen we say that the course of the tribune against that church has far passed the limits of decency has been in knutter jutter disregard of truth and has been couched in terms of singularly unexampled ferocity nothing has been too sacred nothing has been too holy for 0 the pe attacks of tie the 1 tribune it lias stopped at nothing it has confessed absolutely no limitations with a knowledge of the forms and ceremonies of the church possessed 1 I bs nune none trot but with a warmth which only blood could produce ind and an appreciation which only intimate knowledge could afford the tribune has made warfare on the news and its ownership which if it had been warran warranted ted la in truth must have provoked pro voJa murder it if half the Trl TrI bunc buric lias bas said were true the he tribune would be because of its utterance destroyed from the face of the earth and every responsible would bave beren shot on sight but here when the tribune in its extremity must lave have help the news plant Is lilar placed ed at its dis disposal dosal we ve do not aut 1 file news can consent to the aran the price received tor for the cental jen tal we are advised ajsa far fair one and such as would have been exacted from any one not unfriendly no advantage was isaken taken by the news aws to dr drive a a hard bargain but we do not see how it could consider the proposition at all coming from the TA tribune bune it have been proper enough with any other afternoon printing establishment there the commercial can consideration alone woula leave obtained dut but in view of uie the past in view of the fact that the tribune alad put itself quite out of the category of the possible had made of itself an ishmael with its hand ha nd against overy every man we do not see how the victim of its limitless le r s assaults could have extended extrude d a iliana liand in helping so faras far is the 1 i 0 io o papers are concerned we do not care a far as the quarrel with the church Is con cerald we have no part I 1 tular ular interest because we are not amen amendable able to ithe the mormon jormon church or any other but as to the public effect of this incident we are profoundly profoundly interested will the tribune when it has been helped to its feet again by the remarkably kindly act of the news resume its intemperate warfare on the mormon people it 11 having been warmed back to life revert to the natural habits of the snake and sting the hand that t has saved it will the tribune maintained in continuous publication public by the courtesy of a rival dare to tell the world that utah and the mormons cormons lack one scintilla of the broad christian manhood the calm nobility the generous courtesy on en which civilization Is bull ded 9 I 1 because because tom kearns tb the e 0 wrier owner of the Trl tribune bune could not compel compel the president of the mormon church to send him nick back to the senate that paper has set no limitation to its ribaldry and abuse it has scattered over the nation and reiterated with increasing increasing violence the charges of treason of lying of polygamy of improper interferences in politics and in business until the world which reads the tribu tribune ne has formed an estimate of utah which not fifty years can wholly eradicate and which has fixed immeasurable harm upon the splendid state we who live here know the motive there is no other will the tribune emite the hand that has saved it or will it say when new with the accessories of its restored re s establishment that utah manhood is as the manhood of other states that there is as much honesty in business as much freedom in politics as much sincerity in religion and as much virtue in all the homes here as in any other place on earth will the tribune tell that intermountain mountain ln republican |
