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Show 'third; which should result In the railroads rail-roads being forced tw choose between two oVls vacating their headquarters in Salt Lake and establishing their offices in Ogden, . Either the Salt Lake Tribune is hoping hop-ing to convert the present rate investigation inves-tigation into a farce, or it Is equally guilty with the Ogden paper in trying try-ing to kill the goose that lays the golden egg. THE OLD, OLD SONG OF THE TRIBUNE. Thc Salt Lake Tribune is deficient in versatility. Whenever the editors of tat paper arc incapable of infilling infill-ing a sting on the Standard, they report re-port to that old sing-song.' "Bill Glas-maan Glas-maan owns a Republican and a Democratic Demo-cratic newspaper." The Tribune has no evidence on which to base this charge, but it goes on repeating the accusation ac-cusation in a senseless school-boy way of badgering. A column or more of space In the Tribuae this morning Is devoted to an attack on "Bill Glapmann" for an article ar-ticle appearing In t:ie Morning Examiner Exam-iner over tho signature of A. R. Row-man. Row-man. Mr, Bowman's offensive editorial editor-ial Is a statement showing that the railroads of Uta'i do not pay a fair proportion of tho taxes of the state. Now what has an editorial written by A. R. Bwman and appearing In the Examiner to do with "Bill Glasinann" or the Str-nriarH? Rut the Tribune's statement that Weber county would kill the goose that lays its golden Cgg, and tho further declaration that Ogden owes its bread and butter to the railroads and would starve to death cre the railroads to resent this attempt to establish a more eqmuble rate of taxation, is rc-du-ced to a huge joke when, on turning over the pages of the same issue of the Tribune, the reader dlncover3 that Salt Lake, ostensibly aided and abetted abet-ted by this same Tribune, is laboring to destroy these railroads by demand-ing demand-ing a reduction In freight rates from eastern points to Utah. While the Ogden paper, we take It, is simply laboring to equalize the assessed as-sessed valuation of all property In Utah, including railroads, and bv so doing can cause no great injury to be inflicted upon thc railroads, the Salt-Lake Salt-Lake Tribune Is advocating cutting' down the revenues of all trunk rail-roads rail-roads operating In Utah at least one- |