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Show THE JOURNAL SOLD THEM OUT Is Declaration of Richmondito. Another Spicy Letter on an Important Subject. v Richmond, Utnh, March 30, 1912. Editor Republican: I -notlco my article In your paper of tho 2Cth Instant has brought forth an explanation from ourJournnl friends relative to tho charges they mndo against our follow citizens on tho Logan Condensed Milk Factory sale. And. what an explanation It Is. Did you rend It? if you havo not you ought to for it is cortalnly in a class by Itself. In briof it says to tho people peo-ple of Richmond "Wo uold you out. Mr.. Hanson camo In hero with an ar-ticlo ar-ticlo accusing you, and without any reservations or restriction, or labels, or intimations In tho least, wo pub-llshed pub-llshed It on the front pago of our pnper, aud what for why for money of course, for it was simply a paid ad." I notice tho Journal Is nnxlous to shift the responsibility on to some ono'ln your office, and says "but whethen It was or was not makes no difference, the patty who' wrote It knew Just ns well as wo do that tho article that It attributes to the Journal Jour-nal was Blmply a paid nd,.nnd nothing more." Of courso It makes no difference; differ-ence; the Journnl sold us out, and thnt is all thero Is to It. Why and how should I know that It was a paid ad, and from tho fact that It is, does that not make tho porfldy of tho matter nil the moro manifest. I do know that when tho Journal's retire- sentativo -was horo ho mado great promises as to what they wero going, to do for Richmond, and "Busy Ben" has been a good hUBtlor for tho Journnl Jour-nnl on tho grounds that wo must "Boost Hlchmond and Prosper," but If wo nre to Judgo their Intentions by their deeds, It looks like thoy do not ca'ro how thoy boost us Just so they got the money. 'Now ns I Bald In my provlous ur-tlclo ur-tlclo Richmond boasts ot tho Industry Indus-try of'iher cltlzensf Her Condensed milk plant is our prldo. Without It me might as well go out of business. The pay roll from this factory moans something to us, and wo have contld-rill, contld-rill, A. L. Hyer, Brigham Pond, Mar-tin Mar-tin Pond, Nowoll Bullon, C. E'. Merrill, Mer-rill, Georgo B. Lockhart and others who havo tho direction and' success of the Institution at hand, and when the Journal snys that theso gentlemen through "unfair competition" practically practi-cally killed off n local company "during "dur-ing the year 1911," It Is bad enough, but to have the nerve to follow It up by saying "It was simply a paid ad" It adding Insult to Injury. It would bo interesting to know Just what they charged to sell us out. This matter was discussed thoroughly thor-oughly nf$cr their "paid ad" appeared and was compared to an article on the snmo data and on tho same sub-cct sub-cct In tho' Logan Republican, and officials of-ficials and patrons of tho plant could not help but noto the difference. Tho quostlon thnt now arises Mr. Editor Is a pertlnont one. Did you not have tho samo privilege to sell out? If you did not It would bo Interesting to know how our Journal friends get such a stand in? It you did why did you not do it? if tboro Is any Justification Justi-fication at all in accoptlng money from ono Institution to knock another anoth-er 11 certainly looks as though you would bo Justified. I notice tho Journal man reads me a lecture "about hiding behind a non do plumo, Well I haven't sold out yot. 1 am simply recalling a few matters fn history which our Journal Jour-nal friends do not dony, so It makes but llttlo.dlfforonco whether I wrlto over a non do plumo or not. You are at liberty to give my name any tlmo you may deom it nocesHary. RICHMONDWB, For tho benefit ot our correspondent wo will say thnt wo had no opportunity oppor-tunity to ell you out, not even nn opportunity to run, a "paid ad." The atws concerning the sale ot the Cache Valloy Condensed Milk Company's plant was, convoyed to us by one of tho company's employees. It was typewritten ty-pewritten and was signed by the said employee Wo called up tho factory nnd nsked If tho article was to bo printed ulth tho nnino signed to It, and was Informed that It was not, Wo then asked if it was desired that tho article bo printed as an Interview, Inter-view, nnd wns Informed that it was simply submitted as n nows Horn, to wUlch wo replied that It would bo necessary ne-cessary for tin lo change it as it contained con-tained mntter with which we ucro not familiar, nnd which wo Could not provo in caso of contest. Wo wero told to ubo It as wo saw fit, which wo did. Tho next morning wo round that tho nrtlcle appenrlng in tho Journnl was an exact copy of tho typewritten copy submitted to us. Howovor, this Is no fight of ours. It is betweon you and your people and tho Journnl worthies. Mr. Hansen called In on tho morning of February 22nd and thanked us for tho nrtlcle, and purchased pur-chased somo papers to bend to his frLmls. In our following Issue wo took occasion to say In editorial which by tho way was not a paid ad either what wo thought of tho deal and tho matter rested. For your benefit nnd tho benefit of your friends and ours wo aro running tho two articles in pnrallol columns In this Ibuo tho Journal's "paid ad" and our nows story. Ed. |