| Show tt D DOES ES NOT OT READ ARIGHT t In n a 3 two column elaborately bordered bordered article th the I Tribune of or Sunday seeks to explain wh why there is a boycott against I ir in Salt Lake T That t is after the fashion ot of tho the Tribune First set setup up its iLs ts straw stra ma man 1 n and then attack him k v I is 8 a straw s raw man man no no more For there is no no boycott bocott against tho the tho Tribune There 4 has his has not been one The Tho Tribune complaint that a n. line lino Is drawn by b Mormons In Salt SaIl Lake Lake- commercial movements move move- ments metts and that even v n an anti Mormon ormon anU establishment establishment Is tl of Jf ir if iho patronage of or Mormons Is no not at all b borne rno- rno put out b by the tho facts Tho The trouble with the Tribune is 15 that It has suffered Y b bt because ause of t f its harmful In the thc past Un Unless UnIes c s it J chang policy polley it will s suffer ff i- i even mor more inthe in the fut future rc y It jt Is Is not a ques question lon of or Mormon or ox non It Is c. c the tho judgment of oC n men cn In ln n every walk of men of oC e every even n church and ot or no church that the Tribune is doing harm to 10 Utah and amI to Salt Lake b by its its' policy That paper acts like a man trying to to sleep on on on a board He TIc le keeps Ils twisting In tho the hope of or finding finding- a n. more moret v t comfortable position or a n softer spot pot There 11 re is only one thing for the man who sleeps sIeps on ona a a. a board I Get ort off I V 11 J t Find a comfortable bed There are plenty t Climb into it It and sleep like a gentleman No The Tribune Is not tho the lc victim m of a boycott bocott I Some people veople have quit buying that paper and some mer merchants have quit advertising In fn It But the reason is not not that It is opposed to tho the Mormons Business men dont don't care a n great reat deal teal what religious bug the thc Tribune may have Business men may care a a. great deal whether i if tho the Tribune hurts the city and hurts th the state stale And if fC they they believe l It does docs inflict a a. public injury they may t F 4 A I I II withdraw their patronage Especially Is this likely to tobo toI I bo the tho ca caso p where tho the Tribune is not fair as between Its own advertisers pr where It pla plays J I favorites H p tho the advertising nl man of on one favored firm for example to bemoan bernean and ridicule anti and malign another advertiser But above all aU things s. s business men inca will vill probably withdraw W their patronage o from the Tribune when wh tile they that paper does doos not got get pt results for them That Is th the tho mo most t likely reason for quitting n advertising In in that paper No ono one cares what church tho th Tribune supports support But people who like Ilk th the fhe city jopie who have havo Interests hero here have havo a n strong objection to to any policy on th the tho part pait of ot any paper to the detriment cl of or tho eft city and the state And they certainly will ili not support thin Tribune In its harmful policy to the public if it It l the same time an Ineffective Ineffective- business getter goetter The Tho trouble with tho the Tribune f Is that it H does not rightly rig read the signs of or the tho times It Tt thinks some sorno one I Is lighting hUng it because it does docs not like th the Mormons Even Evon tho the Mormons do not care a n penny whether or not the lII likes es them Tho The is going down clown because It deserves to go 10 down Because its own actions havo have condemned it H. Because Its defamation of elt city ant and state stale have havo hurt city and state stale Because o its ability as a n business getter g-etter has passed Because its columns are no longer In interesting That Is all th the tho trouble Let the tho Tribune tell the truth antI and It will vill not have havo cause to complain of It its treatment b by tho the business busine men menor of or if Salt Lake They have havo suffered pretty prett patiently Let it give to the world the tho exact facts n as to Utah Let It condemn crime when hen it finds it here even in the police pollee department Let it try and make male a newspaper instead of or ofa ofa ora a publication for the defamation of Utah And the public will bo ho glad to have hao it remain and nourish flourish amon among us Ul Boycotts BOycott aro are out of or fashion fl The They are arc not tho the weapons of oC Utah men and women women except those little littie I boycotts the Tribune organized within tho the past pait month for tho the damaging hll of or an advertiser who had hall quit their pages Thero There Is no line drawn against people of any religion h by people of or any other oilier religion That sort of charge Is sill silly It may have applied one time If so so tho the time has hns passed Wo We 0 of or tho th living present know nothing of or it except through h tho ho columns of the Tribune And no one wants to know of It even e there I It t hurts tho the whole community And we wo Judge from the tho restless turning of tho the Tribune on its pine board hoard that hat It doe doesn't nt e especially benefit the Tribune |
