Show ADDRE ADDIW is 38 OV PAST PRESIDENT AV P EPPERSON AT MEETING OF UTAI UTAH I 1 STATH PAIE SS association AH NEWHOUSE HOTEL SAM SALT LAKE CITY UJ ira ji 11 october ath 1923 members of tho the utah state pross press association since our meeting lik in nepal thero there has not bern been much of interest to report to you As you know your president made a promise that ho he would attend the mooting of the municipal L TA egue at hober city in july as aa tt ir delegate from Kays kaysville ville city this was wag done sad and he had the satisfaction of curbing further effort on tho the part ot of that body to secure legislation to reduce the legal rate for ad in weekly newspapers this matter reported to you through the association bulletins I 1 havo have some borne well defined ideas concerning policy tor for A weekly newspaper which I 1 to impart to you as aa I 1 retire from tho the ot of preal den of this association I 1 cant hope abeso ideas will be adopted by all the members of this association but I 1 am confident that it would bo be best both for the publisher and tho the community in which he lives it they would so do I 1 want to say to you that I 1 base these opinions upon long dug experience having been a country newspaper man most ot of the ilmo for forty eight years the advice I 1 want to give you Is this DB BE POLITICAL not offensively so BO but nevertheless agress avely political everything every thing you to doal dal with la Is poli political Lical either directly political or quasi political when n you pay a freight bill or purchase a railroad ticket pay tor for your auto license or pay tor for gasoline pay your women help post a letter or dumdi your paper in fix tho tha post pay your taxes smoke a cigar pipe or 01 cigarette make out your income report collect a legal tax bill pay tor for your phone and in fact act almost everything you are called upon to do ts Is governed by politics ono way or another and yet you are advised to keep your paper out of 0 poll politics bics tics us usually bally by those who are most moat interested in politics not from political principles but as a means to io gain an end what you ot through legislative on enactment act you got get through politics and what the other follow fellow gets away from you he gets through politics I 1 say eay to you be pol political and if you win you have a right to expect a respectful hearing from those you havo have helped to be win also from those you opposed simply because you etwood tor for somo something thing today in utah tho the country press cresis has more political influence than tho the dally daily ress dress because there are country agers papers in the state that hold aud and express political opinions while the dally daily press Is recognized as aa being spineless and sycophantic next year I 1 would have every member of thia association attend his primary and take a hand in the proceed inta demand and go to the county and state conven convention Uon ot of your choice in short get into the game in the business of running this state of utah dont let office seekers public utility als lawyers bishops presidents denta of stakes and preachers lie the whole thing in the political game the game came through which your town county state and nation Is run but I 1 hear bear some of you yon say cay I 1 dont caro care to go into poll politics bics tics p politics olt are rotten granted politics aro are just as rotten ns as the people who run politics and it io fe your mission to purity rud it you would purify you must do it from tho the inside not tho the outside out eldo it you would have influence in politics and politics Is no nothing moro more than public business you must got get in if you are in you have some influence it you are out you havo have none I 1 firmly believe that honest treo free and untrammeled in 18 oust what utah needs today to day tor for her best development when I 1 say aay honest politics I 1 mean that a man should bo be as honest in his political opinions us as he bo is in his ecclesiastical opinions think this matter over bro brethren thron it I 1 the biggest I 1 continued Conti hued eted on page eight ADDRESS OF W P EPPERSON A continued from page one tion you have before you you are servants of the people and every few months the people aro are called upon to go to the polls and vote veto to perpetuate a political system we havo have the largest audience of readers in the state dally daily papers not excepted and wo should verily itis it Is our duty advise them in the exercise of their franchise be something more pan than a space apace seller for political advertisements put across your own ideas they thay will be more nearly right than those of the campaign manager or the candidate tor for office you cant go wrong it if you look out tor for the flu financial interests of your readers as after all that la Is all politics amounts to and it to Is the big thing in this day and ago 1190 from a material standpoint tomorrow I 1 will cease to bo be your president and let us hova a stronger and moro more wisely aggressive man will follow me in office I 1 thank you for the conil confidence dence you have reposed in me and tor for tho the honor conferred upon me As the years go by you will prosper as you deserve and demand utah has a great future tho the roso rose dawn of great progress Is breaking in fit the east salt lake city is getting greater grater and smokier each winter as it will continuo continue to do until those wio who can afford decent reside residence conditions will hie away to the count country places tho the proper place tor for man to livo II 11 0 and have his being again I 1 say to you newspaper publishers stand tor for something loso lose or win let the salt lake dallies dailies continue spineless be you like the clear rushing dancing trout streams which flow through your good homo home towns W P EPPERSON |