Show A journalistic COURTESAN utah april 1 has endeavored to make it clear that the lines of good run closely parallel with those of evil and that the very beet bilings aro most easily perverted ir to evil thing oar of covern ment require popular intelligence this is the true and only ground of free institutions hence the greatest good in u political point of view is the great newspaper which is at once the creator conservator and distributor of popular bence but if the newspaper holds its illuminating power subordinate to capital if it is sordid iu its propaganda ii it makes it dicker before it proclaims its gospel if it blows hot or cold according to the fishes that it gathers into its net if its praise or blame is by monetary considerations all its powers for good are liable to be converted into an enginery for evil every newspaper roan recollects that in the opening of the last II arrison campaign when the whole intermountain region stood in the mood of earnest inquiry when the states were all making a desperate desp protest in behalf of the sliver cause when party bonds were snapped asunder like lotton cords at this juncture the attitude of the tribune was inquired after with considerable interest for it was asserted that the tribune sulked sullenly in its tent but when at last it opened its guns and began thundering every intelligent man in utah knew that mr llyde of the tribune bad made bis bargain and got the promise of his awag he was to send out some papers as a cover but he was to beet some oral much thereof as utah should contribute to the national fund there was here a clear profit of over now see the infinite meanness ot it utah had divided on party lines but the tribune run local ticket against those very re publicans public ans mormon and gentile contributions it barcal ned to rake in 11 if anything could exceed the flagrancy of euch gall it conid not be the stealing of coppers from a dead liggera nig gera eyes months ago the tribune was extremely solicitous the whereabouts of the it had good reason if equity Is bound to recognize claims which are bottomed on a species ot newspaper degeneracy that is a great menace to the publeo welfare cat the point of importance hero is that it was craven ine annese for ahe tribune to gobble after the free will offerings of republicans whom it villainously antagonized and defeated in electing their man but an equally vicious procedure was the booming of the international conference as a beacon light of hope for the silver men when as it eaid recently that any man might have known that the was a fraud and a farce in its recent screed on it denounced his international conference scheme as a thinly disguised delusion and yet the tribune did more than all other agencies together in tho intermountain region to boom that very dluzon of moreover it had a stecial man at washington whose letters laj spread upon its editorial page it has been understood in that the silver men contributed to the support of that special correspondent lie worked with the silver men of washington for a time but on being offered alq a day by secretary foster to come to the treasury department and boom the conference for the edification of tb silver men of the west he deserted his silver associates at washington and thereafter hi cuckoo songs were sung in the tribune to the delectation of the silver men who might otherwise have felt disposed to pursue a different course in the campaign when tho tribune says that it endorsed the proposition of the governor to meet the incoming horde from california at the state line as a matter of natural protection to tho people of this territory it knows that it lies like a dog for it stated all along that their destination was washington that they were orderly that they were a living petition that they should be sent forward that they were bound to go the tribune janows that yest was not acting as governor of the people of utah but that be was acting at the dictation of a CUCKOO junta at washington thy whole was mean and contemptible and utterly unworthy a paper claiming to be republican in fact the republican party of utah through its central executive committee immediately resolved against such a hybrid conspiracy it Is rather to read the tribune testimonial of THE that they are understood to be liars so well in this territory that the influence of neither of them or both of them is worth a smooth quarter of a dollar to any nan or ang cause on earth note that it Is mr llyde not dr jekyll of the tribune that thue reveals the inner workings morbid personality jekyll is worth nothing 0 o any men for he speaks the broad language of general intelli bence and would not corrupt truth to bring private gain to any man but when jekyll is transformed into hyde he is worth considerable to any man or any cause however ignoble when slavery was in vogue the candidates for the auction block took especial pride in the act that they were worth more ban j others the courtesan of any tenderloin district lakes similar pride in her money worth and so far nathis species of deot ism is concerned we are willing that such an old political prostitute as alie tribune should plume itself on what it Is worth to any man or any cause it is not long bince the tribune believed that it was a profitable investment to print the most ludicrous and scandalous caricatures of the mormon tabernacle worship ane sermons were grossly travesties travestied traves tied the prayers lampooned and fostering mothers were ridiculed as of natures nursery bottles when writers and newspapers protested they were denounced as jack cormons mormons Mor mons it was well that the tribunes were driven away from the tabernacle and if the tribune is now acting more decently it Is simply because mr lias learned that it layf better to be decent than to be filthy in this connection we dont wish to be understood as intimating that the Tribune is rither worse or belter than many another venal newspaper but we make the point that no paper which wishes to thrive by being worth whether much or little to any man or any cause those words spring from a sordid conception of newspaper work if a paper goes forward in alio true spirit of its mission it would think of itself purchasable quantify if the Tribune will kill ita mr and go on with its respectable spec table ability us a of news and sound economic truth we should ayel free to bid it godspeed god speed but if it clutches a bribe in one hand while holding out a tract in the other we want none ot it note that we ikuko no charge not even smooth quarter ot a dollar for these brotherly counsels if they are worth anything to any man they go without money and without price |