Inter-Mountain Republican | 1909-06-15 | Page 7 | Confesses Its Own Baseness

CONFESSES ITS OWN BASENESS The Tribune goes to a good deal of trouble to say that its attacks on ou Senator Aldrich l and other men who are fighting for a just and equitable tariff bill hill need cause canse no alarm BECAUSE BECAUSE BE BE- BECAUSE CAUSE NO ONE TE BELIEVES THE rIlE TRI TRIBUNE UNE This is the gist of that papers paper's defense of a course rarely equalled in ill in in- famy To ro attack the men who are arc daily struggling for lot a law hn of the greatest value to Utah and the mountain region is base enough To 10 defend those attacks by publicly announcing that NO ONE BELIEVES TES TIlE THE TRIBUNE stories is doubly base Yet that is precisely what the Tribune has done dolle Frightened by the storm of prot protest ct its course in the tariff debate precipitated the Tribune slinks into a corner cornel and declares declares de de- alarm clares dares there is no cause for If hr not why Wily not 1 There can be only one reason If the Tribune could be le effective in iii confounding Senator Aldrich l removing Senator Smoot and silencing Senator Lodge surely there would be cause for alarm For what is the Tribune fighting in this attack on the finance committee of the senate It seems to be he trying to overthrow overthrow overthrow over over- throw Senator Aldrich and his supporters It certainly seems to be working for the very things that Senator Dolliver and Senator Cummins are working for And l Dolliver and Cummins Cum CilIa mins are ato opposed to Aldrich and Smoot Aldrich AllriCh and Smoot and their friends prevented the repeal of the duty on lead They prevented the repeal or reducing of the tariff on wool And And they saved so much of the sugar duty as is believed necessary necessary essary essaIy for the life of that great business They accomplished this in spite of the fight made macIc by Dolliver Dolliver Dolliver Dol Dol- liver and Cummins and Democratic Bailey and Pitchfork Tillman Tiliman And if the Tribune possessed any credit or tion at all in Washington the Tribunes Tribune's daily articles coming corn com corning ing right from a region vitally interested in lead and wool and sugar would have been immensely helpful to the free trade We Ve make Blake no complaint of any influence exerted by the Tribune That paper laper has no iio influence In Washington y the Tribune is on record as a lying and scurrilous sheet without without without with with- out influence at home But we do complain of the tile continued continued continued contin contin- publication even by an aiX impotent of articles intended to hurt this community LF IF the Tribune had any character B IF it had any influence B IF ll it could harm by opposing or help by supporting its supporting its its work in the past two months would have resulted in vast damage to Utah IF it had bad effectiveness it would have driven the strongest Republicans out of th the Senate Sen Son ate ate and and th the tariff on every article essential to the tile prosperity prosperity prosperity prosper prosper- ity of the mountain region would have been utterly doci de- de ci 1 i We Te quite agree w with h the Tribune that there is no cause for because we understand understand-as as does every one here Jere and at nt Washington that that THE TRIBUNE HAS NO INFLUENCE L But that does not make more excusable the daily attempts to destroy the incomes of Utah men The rhe boy hoy who shoots at chance passers in the streets and makes the defense that the passers are in no danger because his ainI aim is bad is in the tile position which the Tribune has assumed as as- for itself But none the less he lie deserves the same vigorous vigorous vig vig- orous oils spanking which friends of Utah have been administer administer- administering ir ing v nt O t to t ti the Tribune rp 9 J. Ji i v W j a i 0 J