Show MANAGES TO GET ALONG The Republican organ boastfully remarks re-marks that it pays out more money to its employes than all of its contemporaries combined If it had said interest money it would probably Lave been nearer correct cor-rect THE DEMOCRAT pays the best prices I of any paper in the city The Republican Re-publican organs matter is to a great extent set for 25 cents per thousand ems THE DEMOCRAT pays the regular union rates forevening papers namely 45 cents and has only two 35 cent and no 25 cent compositors on its pay roll It moreover more-over pays them in cash and without with-out obliging them to take onethird or onefourth of their wages in tithing house orders which cannot be cashed for more than fifty cents on the dollar It is not the custom of the DEMOCRAT to comment com-ment upon the business matters of its contemporaries but when such an unblushing un-blushing whopper is perpetrated it feels itself justified in noticing it and relating a few truths i in regard to itself It is true that the Republican organ has managed somehow some-how to get along It would be strange indeed if it had not Established by generous contributions largely by Democrats Dem-ocrats when the present management assumed control it was the most influential influ-ential and best paying paper between be-tween the Missouri River and San Francisco It was then what it professed to be a nonpolitical independent inde-pendent Gentile journal Under its present management it has degenerated into the mOlt bitter and venomous partisan parti-san sheet west of the Mississippi river Such a policy naturally disgusted a large number of parsons and especially Democrats who had previously previ-ously been its most generous supporters and patrons tA number of gentlemen determined that the organ should not continue to sail under the false colors of independent journalism while constantly vilifying in the most offensive manner Democrats and Democracy so they formed a company and started this paper THE DEMOCRAT has had to struggle against an alliance between the Republican organ and the Mormon papers to squelch by professing to ignore it Tne almost daily allusions of each however to matter appearing ap-pearing in our columns without mentioning mention-ing the name of the paper plainly indicated how copiously they were bleeding inwardly Their efforts to emulate the heroism of the Spartan boy were rendered ridiculous by their squirming endeavors to conceal their agony and the cause of it In the meantime THE DEMOCRAT has not been ignored by the people It has been steadily progressing during the past year until it is now upon a paying basis and is as firmly established in Salt Lake City as is the Herald or World in New York To effect this not a dollar has been contributed by anyone outside of THE DEMOCRAT Company In fact it may be said that there have been no contributions as every member who helped to sustain the paper during its I struggling period were reimbursed by the issuance of stock which could be sold today for the price paid by the purchasers purchas-ers It is safe to assert that it did not cost onotwentieth part of the money to place THE DEMOCRAT upon a paying basis by the owners that was contributed outright out-right to place the now Republican organ in the same position Our circulation has more than trebled since the first of last May and during the present month we have been obliged to refuse a large number num-ber of advertisements for want of space This difficulty wiil however be overcome next Monday when THE DEMOCRAT will be enlarged to a 32column paper We are in fact inclined to the impression that THE DEMOCRAT will manage somehow some-how to get along The people of Utah and the surrounding States and Terri torie have somehow come to the knowledge of the existence of the paper despite the efforts of the Republican and Mormon city press to conceal the fact from the outside world |