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Show WHEN A PAPER LOSES PRESTIGE. Not to be captious, but simply in a spirit of fairness, we desire the Salt Lake Tribune to explain why' every k'nd word In behalf or Senator Keed Smoot la omitted from its news pages. The Tribune has a story of Glfford Pinchot's reception in Ogden and that distinguished gentleman's speech at tho Tabernacle, but all reference to Reed Smoot Is omitted. Glfford Flu-chot Flu-chot paid a beautiful tribute to Utah's pen lor senator. Coming from so distinguished dis-tinguished a gentleman and one so free from the charge of being a tlat-torer, tlat-torer, it was entitled to reproduction, but not one line of thai praise ap-rears ap-rears In our Salt Lake contemporary. Now this Is the view we take ot such discrimination: A paper convicts con-victs iUself of being narrow and provincial pro-vincial when an enmity can prompt ii to be unfair, and deliberate offenses of-fenses of that kind make such a paper untrustworthy, When a paper to freely confesses bins that It wriles ltseir down as being be-ing afraid to accord au opponent in public office an impartial hearing, then that paper haR lost hair its usefulness use-fulness as a public gjdde and pre- ceptor. in fact its columns are wholly unreliable la determining the personal person-al worth of any one. |