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Show SHOULD NOT CRY, Misery likes company, and so the Salt Lake Telegram is attempting attempt-ing to class Ogdcn with Salt Lake in crime. The Telegram1 contains a column article, declaring Ogden to be overwhelmed with crime, and in the same issue there is a long story of bewailing because Governor Govern-or Spry has said Salt Lake is a robber's roost aud a murderer 'o paradise. Now, tell us, Mr. Telegram, why, if you feel free to brand other cities as in need of a cleaning up, you have any right to object to the public announcement made by Governor Spry? The Telegram declares it is outrageous to defame the fair name of its city and then it proceeds to defame Ogden, proving that the Telegram would not hesitate to do exactly that which Governor Spry has done, if it were to the advancement of the interests represented by the Telegram. But it is laughable to observe how the Telegram is squirming and writhing under the present unsavory reputation of its city. We might have condoled with the Telegram and expressed sorrow that Salt Lake had fallen by the wayside, had the Telegram itself not confessed that it too stands ready to be an "unmitigated liar," to borrow the words of Prof. Woodruff, in defaming Ogden. Within the past three months there have been less serious crimes committed in Ogdcn than in any city its size in the United States. Salt Lake has had its cutthroat sensations and its startling murders ; women have been robbed and girls outraged, but during that period there has not been one offense in Ogden equaling in horror any one of the half hundred outrages reported in Salt Lake City. It was ' only a short time ago when three men held up one of Salt Lake's secret gambling dens and a murder resulted, and yet the Telegram has the consummate gall to overlook that disclosure of a city's hypocrisy as to freedom from dens of rascality and discover in Ogden Og-den something to hold up to the outsider as vile and disgraceful. The Telegram's attitude not only invites Governor Spry to expose ex-pose the corruption in Salt Lake, but justifies such a course. J |