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Show B Hi The Trihtine9 'Piracy. B u!K 77k? Journalistic "Burglar Caught Again, B Jpllj Good morning, Mr. Tribune! B J, So all the exposures of your newspaper buca- BB w, neering have been of no avail. You still persist B 1 tsj j in the thievery of stories from exchanges and the jB 3f I' displaying of tliem as "specials" tb the Tribune. B ' J', Other pirates whose sole profession is theft B r usually show some little tact in plying their nofar- m M lous trade. But you seem to be as devoid of taot K (Jli ns you are of journalistic decency. B H Your latest theft is the most conspicuously jB ', ljf daring that you have ever displayed, and Indicates BB ? j that you do not read a certain contemporary of WKL -j yours commonly known as the Herald. B ij. We are now reaching the climax. On June BB 17th, the Herald published a story from the Spo- B I , kane Chronicle, giving it credit for the accom- jB - modation. On the Monday following, you, follow B ;J ' ing your instincts of piracy, published pre- IB ilfi cisely the same story. The difference was that W when the story appeared, three days late, in the B 1 columns of your plagiaristic almanac, it was dis- IB M ' played In the form of a "special to the Tribune." B L ! The story was an exact reproduction of the inter- BB ik view in the Chronicle of Friend Lucas, containing B his threat to throw Salt Lake out of the Northern B Pacific League, which was copied in the other B morning contemporary three days before with B ; credit. Nothing more conspicuous in the way of B ! newspaper robbery was ever perpetrated in this J. section of the universe, and the public in general, 1 and baseball fans in particular, are referring to I your overt act of newspaper criminalogy in terms f! ,; of derision and contempt. f ij No words of censure would be adequate to de- I scribe the expressions of ridicule which have ' been lurched at you since this pitiful evidence of ' newspaper degeneracy Jaecame the target of de- jBH ;;,' ' rlsion among the paper raeding public. Yoiuhave BIB simply slipped your foot in the quagmire, and are BBb sti11 reek,nS with the limbo in plain view of the MB contemptuous populace. Bb ' :j "Beware of Greeks bearing gifts," said one fB i jj 1 of old. By the same token, beware, say we, of the B M poor old bespavlned, piratical Tribune, bearing B ; "SPECIALS." JIi' - Another thing. Why did not the Herald, which Is perfeotly familiar with the Tribune's fraud, expose the misdeed? Is it possible that the intimate relations between the directorate of the two papers places them on a mutual protective basis, and paralyzes the hand that otherwise would smite? Echo answers. |
