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Show CRITICISM OF THE STANDARD. Salt Lake Tribune is worth reading in its editorial dpinio'n when the editor is free to express himself, but on censored matter tho editorials ed-itorials are not much better than ti'ash. "Whenever Pinchotism is treated on, the reader loses nothing if he closes his eyes and casts the page aside, because on that subject the Tribune is not true to : the people and cannot be while serving the special interests which have tried so persistently and for selfish ends to break down national na-tional conservation. Ilere is a comment from the Tribune bearing on this question : The Ogden Standard Is also of the opinion that tho old trespasses upon tho public land, the putting In of piratical sawnillh fo destroy th6 timber, and the general butcheries of tho Western forests Continued until Plnchot's time, and that it was he who abolished that trespass, butchery, and wastefulness. If the Standard expresses that opinion as Its Judgment on the facts and merits of the case, it shown Its Ignoiant pervorsity If it does It merely as a showing of its carping at The Tribune, wo wish it joy. As a matter of fact, it must kno-w that those old conditions of trespass tres-pass and waste were stopped long yoais before anybodj' ever hoard of Pinchot. There is no desire on our part to indulge in carping criticism of any one. "We accord to the editor of the Tribune a worthy place among the most capable writers of the country and we recognize in the editorial columns much of merit, but we draw the line at that point where the Tribune's policy evidently is dictated by motives unworthy a paper so ably equipped to perform a great mission with the people influenced by its editorial comments. We know when an editorial rings true, and when the hoUowness of sophistry is sounded. The editor of the Tribune, if free to admit the whole truth would join us and lift his hands in depreeaCion of the attacks which have been directed against that able, fearless leader 01 men, Lfifford Pmchot, and his conservation policy. fr in uiLi.il. in ijii Jim iiimi.il.iLillliiini,, i in in ii.jj.. .1 .- i it t |