Show SOME SOE NEWSPAPER nO Thero Thoro are arc new newspapers In this city that havo been robbing tho public with padded printing bills and excessive JIve sive charges for tor man many years Some still charge the city more than they do individual advertisers because they have ha a p political dr drag on the ctt city Some Sorno still make malto display of money values s acquired b by robbing tho the public in in printing bills They have ha taken a fortune In excessive and shamelessly illegal rates for tor public printing In the past twenty years car Their bills arc aro 01 record and they stand tand as solid proof oj ot a a. persistence in loot that should shame tho the pirates of ot tho the Barbary Barbery coat coast And papers are attacking The Tho for tor charging twenty five va cents an inch for tor publishing tho delinquent de dc- dc- dc tax W list t for tor Salt Lake coUnty Tho Tribune Indeed has tho the hardihood hard hardi hoo hood to attack The Republican for tor that rate while charging and collecting collect collect- ing a s. s DOLLAR A AX AN INCH l for tor city advertising Their attitude has all aU the die semblance of thieves who can not get set honest publishers pub pub- Ushers lishers to Join them The Tribunes Tribune's regular rate to advertisers ad ad- is far below the price charged the city and the advertisers themselves them them- selves pelves know knOll it ft Tho The county count delinquent list was as taken by Tho The Republican at ata a a rate a little lower than commercial advertising because tho the largo large nm amount of or- or it was an tn n inducement to a a. lower rate Papers that rob Tob and have ha robbed tho the city and count county year after year without challenge point out that two years rears ago aso The Republican printed prIMed the tile delinquent list for tor ele eleven en cents an anInch anInch aninch Inch and last year ear charged twenty twenty- five Two years rears ago The Tho Republican was struggling for tor a foothold In Ill Salt Lake uke It believed the prestige was worth something The list was published pub pub- at a a. big mone money loss 1058 to this paper in competition with hostile papers that were willing to stand al almost al most as great a loss loBS simply to prevent The rhe Republican receiving any recognition even from Republican county count officers Wo We printed the list for eleven cleven cents tents an inch and lost more money than we received for tor tho the Job job job-as as would an any paper that should do It for that price It was ono one of tho the sacrifices a a. new ne papers paper's management felt was war war- ranted mated Tho The Republican Is established nol now and doesn't have to do business at a a. loss Th The rate charged tho county for the delinquent list of or 1908 is below belot the regular advertising rate and yet there Is a. a margin of or profit in the work But it is Ie not an unfair profit It is proportionately proportionately proportionately pro pro- just Juet about the tho sam same samO profit derived front from the tho smaller volume of ot business secured in a 0 month from mercantile mercantile mer mer- cantile houses or real estate firms firms firms- or other patrons Tho The an dollar rate the Tribune is getting from tho the city is ie robbery robber pure puro and simple and everyone one connected connected connected con con- with the steal knows this fo for forthe forthe the truth So is the cent an Inch rate charged by that s same mo paper pape for tho the same rome sort of ot advertising dragged out of or tho the city cily of offices tic ea The Republican is doing business o otho on tho the square haa has never taken an unturned un un- un- un I turned penny from the county or th the state state or or an anyone yo no else clao on earth And An we would suggest to the Thieves' Thieves Combine Combino Com Com- bino bine on Printing Loot that they ma may maya a assail Tho Republican till they ar are blue in the face acc and they will wUl no not destroy that still existing official record of ot their own dishonesty the dishonesty th only dishonest which shames the publishing business of ot Utah |