The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-08-25
THE aHrRALDu AID RUx-sEIIINe

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1t is not often that the HERALI
pays attention to the snarls of it,
bucolic contemporaries. 1t under
stands that the average country ed
itor is overburdened with the ides
that the chief duty Of journalism if
to find fault with people and assail
other newspapers. It is the prevail
ence Of that idea which induces SO
many of these eow-county journal
lists to settle all the national and in
ternational questions which arise in
the world. If there should happen
to be nothing wrong with govern
ments or public institutions, the
amateur editor displays his erudi-
ton and general shrewdness by
calling newspapers to task and tell
ing how other journals err in policy
and Judgment. Outside his own
journal no newspaper is conducted
according to the ideas of the bucOic
tripod-straddler. This has always
been so, and we presume it eyer will
be so long as there are editors with
the weight and responsibilities of
country newspapers upon their
shoulders. Believing IN tie I'M
changeableness Of things in this
respect, the HERALD, as remarked,
has made 1t a rule-which has been
EieIated only on rare Occasions-to
ignore the snnppings and snarlings
of its country contemporaries. They
may furnish consolation to the self
important snappers and snarlers,
and can do US no harm, hence why
not allow the thing TO 60 on I'M
nolestedP There ought to be some
cOmpensatiOns and comforts in such
journalism.
What has called forth these
remarks now is a shame
less, abusive and libelous as
sault on the HERALD in
Abe editorial columns Of the Utah
JcIT7aas, a new publication issued
from Logan. 1t makes news item
in the local columns of the HERALD,
concerning detectives and LIQUOR
selling in Logan, the subject for
the editorial, and in a column
article the writer displays nuch i'll
manner and bad judgment, worse
journalism, and employs several
falsehoods, no doubt uttered TO in
lure the HERALD. The youth and
inexpenenee Of the Journal are our
only excuse for referring to its
alander. Perhaps If il knew better
it would have betteF manners and
Ahigher regard for the truth. We
quote some of the Journal mans
HbelS:
We have before noticed, in the COL
, amns Of she HHRALD, articles that were
calculated 10 afford aid or comfort, or
both, 70 whisky meG, end the disbelief
afthaa paper N the policy OF practicable
lky Of prohibition has often been shown
On its editorials. The HERALD il jour
nal that We have Always sincerely re-
apecsed, because Of its independent and
o1tspoken advocacy Of the rights aud in
Aar6asa ~ aho m aaeoa ~ thu r,aov~fo -
&kah. But we are convinced that the
HERALD loses respect and confidence
AnoDg those who support il By its policy
AID :One upon tAe general subject Of the
liquor trAf2c. 1he Selling Of toe mass of
The people Of thia TERROR is 10 favor Of
prohibition, which would be the rule in
nearly every county and n municipality in
4, could the majority have theis way,
and when the HERALD or any other
journal nanifesss . sympathy ID favor Of
the liquor traffic, particularly when il is
carried on in contraventlsn OF probibi-
tory municipal ordinances, il will GER
tAinly lose in reputation and patronage
among the masfes Of the people.
Perhaps the HERALD's past dis
regard Of assaults in thermal press,
has embOldened the Journal TO go
farther in meanness and SANDER
than its contemporaries, and to add
falsehOod to its ill-mannered at
temptS at criticism. Now, the
Journals "we" has not noticed in
the HERALD articles Calculated to