Show TIlE S 'S FOURTH YEA YEAH YEUL I. I On the tue evening o of February twelfth nineteen hundred and six a company compan of men assembled In the Utah National Guard armory at nt a banquet and gave crave pleasant Godspeed Godspeed God speed to The Tho Mountain Inter Republican lican which t was wag that day dW launched i on tho the journalistic sea Friday nl night ht last tho the fourth banquet ban ban- was tonS hold held on tho the recurring date and a 3 company compan of which any management manage manage- ment must bo proud assembled to Join in tho feast which signalizes the completion completion com corn of or three years cars of honest newspaper news paper work and md the begInning of 01 another another another an an- other year rear car It Is Js a little Interesting to look back bock backover backover over oer the brief history A good many people misunderstood the tile purpose of ot the paper The They were misled b by enemies of tho the enterprise Sonic Some declared It the personal organ of or Reed Smoot then and now a a. senator of ot the tho United States from the state of Utah The paper was unkindly de de- de- de scribed as an nn enemy to progress a a. weapon of reactionaries a purposed block tumbling In the advancement of ot Utah a n. purposed blight on enlightenment enlighten enlighten- ment and a L direct attack on tho the American home homo Today people who have havo given gi fair ob observation to tho the course of ot the paper find It Is la not controlled nor dictated to b by the Mormon church but that th It n is fair to the people of that faith oven even when that allegiance to honesty honest becomes costly and subjects one to hurtful misunderstanding inG Tho The paper h ha has simp simply held to the tho course of ot fairness fairness fair fair- ness and Justice Insisting that Mormons Mor Mur- mons were entitled to er e every right ac accorded accorded ac- ac cor corded ed other people and no more Instead ad of being a personal organ organo o Senator Smoot this paper has hns been the thc advocate of or the principles an and a supporter of ot the candidates of or f the whole Republican party parl never once se seeking to dictate political action helpful to Mr Smoot largo large stockholder stockholder stock stock- holder t. t though ho be and to the disadvantage disadvantage dis dt- dis- dis advantage of or an any other man In the party There has been from the first day lay layThe The The Republican Republican was vas Issued but one rulo rule of conduct within this OWl offic Make I ke it and keep it an honest Republican Republican Re Re- publican paper That Is absolutely absolute the he only guideline that has been s1 n and thid tho the only on one that has been fol tol- fol- fol lowed o Aside from that It has haa been beena a n newspaper giving a better report of or the days day's doings than an any other In town 1 printing the contributions of the strongest tong t and most approved writers known to lo journalism at a a. price smaller smaller smal smal- ler er than that charged harge 1 b by an any other paper aper And The Republican a against a very er hard hord opposition has won its cv way a. a y It Jt Is a pleasure to put the tho memo j of oE this latest banquet away with the ther r recollection of the days clays and the nights that that havo have intervened since the first firs one It Is a pleasure to 10 know know and and it Is an n honor that honor that The Tho Republican has has' been hoet host to those people who at the Ken Kenyon on Friday night And nd the tho best return urn W wo we can mak make is to repeat The rule of or the paper pape will be Just what that it has been from th bc beginning It will be a Republican newspaper It will be for tho the people for tor tho the state for tor the party It I LH 18 under the tin thrall of no co corporation o ono ot of no no special Inter Interest st of ot no gang It 1 Is 11 the most free paper In the whole mountain count country It Is IB interfered Interfere l with less les than any other because It ItIs Itis is not Interfered with at all aU Anti AnU If tho the approval of or the people be ho regarded regard regard- ed ell a ay as which T wo we are arc content to believe then believe then the course of tho the paper hat has been right In tho the past past past-au ns it certainly will remain right throughout through through- I out all tho futuro future |