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Show &he Hearst Canard in Ogden. i The story of the solicitors, or back of them, the managers or whoever is responsible for the statement that fill's new morning paper, the Examiner, is backed jjy William Randolph Hearst, is being rapidly circulated and finding believers on every block. There is no merit in the state of affairs save that it is a true index of Bill's methods. Always the lie when the truth would be better. The claim that Hearst is behind the Ogden Examiner would doubtless receive scant recognition rec-ognition from the gentleman interested, and less so should he happen to know Bill. Hearst already owns two Examiners, but neither is located in Ogden. It is sufficient to say that no one here who pretends to keep pace with the progress of affairs can be persuaded that the new paper is to bo anything but a morning edition of the Standard. Stand-ard. s & & There are several reasons why Hearst should not be interested in any petty newspaper over in Ogden. In the first place, when Hearst starts a paper in Utah, it will be in Salt Lake. Next, whenever he gets ready to come to Ogden, he will be found doin" business with Frank Cannon, between wbr lere is a strong mutual i regard. Finally.it -at 9 said that when" Hearst goes hunting ducks he always takes a brass band. If he were interested in any Ogden publication, the fact would have found a snug place next to reading matter in every Hearst paper from Los Angeles to Manhattan. No, dear, the Ogden Examiner Ex-aminer is not a Hearst newspaper. It is just a hermaphroditic edition of Bill's afternoon sheet sprung for the purpose of killing off the State Journal and also to hold the morning franchise in Ogden. So much for the Hearst story. & C ? In passing, it might be well to(!mention that since the exploitation of the Wells case there has-been has-been small occasion for the solicitous reformer to deplore the morale of the city. Wells, it will be remembered was accused not only of providing a rendezvous and supplying artillery to crooks and hold-ups, but of "fixing" jobs and planning robberies. rob-beries. Hewas the proprietor of a saloon, and it Is alleged one of his former pals "blowed" on I him. The lesson in this case is that crime is its own detector. The poor fool who did not get what he considered a fair "divvy" of the spoils, nor a "square deal" after 'his arrest, did more to banish organized crime from Ogden than all the prayers of all the reformers on the Bench. Instead of attacking at-tacking the administration, the reformers might get Miter results by taking up a labor with the criminals. crimi-nals. Indignation meetings count for much but they are not in it with a little state's evidence. t The recent snows recall that this is the season of the ( year when the farmers look wistfully toward to-ward Mount Monte Christo and wonder how deep the snow is in the mountains. They say one foot of early-snow is worth three that falls after January. Jan-uary. Unless the snowfall is heavy, there will be half of many a broadfield summer-fallowed next year. With plenty of water the modern adjustment adjust-ment of crops and products would make any farmer far-mer Independent in a few seasons. There is a good deal, of course, in knowing how. McGriff of North Ogden is the grape man. Said one of his neighbors the other day, "I did not raise enough grain on my farm to pay my taxes." McGriff answered "I quit raising grain long ago. This year three rows of grape vines, paid all my expenses." Not "all farmers are as wise as McGriff. The first crop he raised with water was horse-sense. horse-sense. Then he quit digging the way, our dadies did and made his farm an orchard. It Is better to have savvy than money. Heed ye the story of Mc. & & & Before the old year is uncei'emoniously booted out, we would like to know if the lately cheri-ished cheri-ished dreams of Ogden in which Santa Claus Wells gave us a military organization to be known as Company A artillery is to become the nightmare night-mare of those striking Apollos whose mirrors convinced con-vinced them of their super-military forms and whose orders for the regulation corset had prepared pre-pared for the mailing long ago. Are we to have a military company N. G. U. or not? Has the war in Carbon enlisted the services ser-vices of all officers who could officiate as Godfathers God-fathers or have we once more been shoved off the earth? We want to know. It is our desire to be in every campaign in peace or war. If the Governor doesn't hurry up, we will organize on Bill's coronation day and with the consent of his majesty, call ourselves "The Royal Guards." God save the King. |
