Show UNFAIR TO ITS BEST FRIENDS Without a doubt in thi this demand for opposition to a reduction of or freight rates for Utah men the tho Herald Is unfair unfair un un- fair fah to its best friends There Is a perfectly established case against the railroad companies They have by bj- rate and route and andI I I regulation laid a HI penalty on the tho business business busi husi- ness men of or the tile state They have havo made It impossible for Salt Lake L. Job bers hers and aull retailers to compete with dealers and jobbers a thousand miles mile beyond this legitimate territory Yet the Herald opposes the re uc tion of or rates rates' to a o of equality with other cities An And the only onh rca rca- son soil assigned for that opposition is it found round in the statement that tha AV W A owner of or the Herald also owns one of the railroads that servo serve Salt Sail alt Lake c and built It with his own money Ills His own paper in insolently demands demand that ho be be upheld lit fir his bis policy ol 01 charging Salt Lake Lale merchants more than merchants in other cities clUes have to pa pay That paper cannot for a mm min inin 4 ute explain or defend the tile rates These arc beyond apology And every eer f movement to hi bring ing the railroad com corn panics pallies to justice to get for the local local merchants that simple square deal tc tv which the they are aie entitled is fought b by the paper which those merchants have hao for years ears been generously supporting There are two other roads In tho the combination The result Is that Utah IB Is at tho the mercy of their rates And tho ho Herald in making the fight for its owner who owner vho is also the th owner of a n ai stands railroad i all road stands as champion of all nU three the enem enemy of tho tile men on whoso whose patronage it has lived through all tho the thoe years ers e rs of Its Us life To permit Its owner a n continuance of ot unfair and unjust discriminations the tue Herald would fasten permanently on this community a system of freight Creight charges which cannot be borne A system 85 tern tem of or freight charges which gives gl i every eelY other city cHr the advantage antage of Salt Lake The Tile light fight of the Herald is the tho tIght light of the three railroads What iho tho Herald Her aId ald is doing is to advocate ocate giving Chicago ChIcago Chi cago merchants an nn advantage over Salt Lake Lako merchants That is the simple fact And It Is a n poor ioor return for tho the countless kindnesses that paper has 1 rev ret from the business men of or Salt SnIt Lake c |