The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-05-12
JOURNALISTIC DEPRAvlrY.

contemporary printed an editorial
article under the head "That
| SANDER" in which it charged the
HERALD with originating and first
putting in circulation the scan dial
with which pretty nearly everybody
in the west is now quite familiar,
through the exertions Of theTri6une.
The accusation was simply lie and
the man who made it a liar. The
HERALD emphatically expressed as
much and our contemporary after
squirming and squealing good deal,
admitted. rather ungracefully it
must be confessed, that it had lied.
The matter should and would have
stopped there had it not been for
the depraYed character of the down
town sheet. 1t could not rest. 1t
had induced the HERALD for
once to reply to its cowardly
ISLANDERS, and the organ fairly
raved with delight. 1t is not
often that the HERALD has been
led from its straightforward, up
right course, even long enough to
kick the ours that snap at its heels
through jealous spite at its sue
cess in winning and retaining the
confidence, esteem and respect of
the community. Only great prove
cation induced the HERALD the
other day to thrust down the black
throat of it's utterer the wilfdl false
hood that he Ihad told. The organ,
having been convicted of lying,
could not rest. In the case of the
scandal it tried to break the force of
the damaging story by lying; being
convicted of lying it endeavored to
cause its readers to lose sight of the
facts by assaulting the HERALD.
For days it has been keeping Iup a
fusilade against this journal, and
not content with attacking the
newspaper has assaulted the editor in
q most Yillainous, libelous and cow
ardly manner. Personalities are
sometimes allowable and necessary
in journalism, but only the low-bred
whelp, the jackaI, the meanest of
mean things, the basest of towards,
the heartleSs brutes of the press,
will go into the domestic circle and
try to bring pain to the hearts of
pure, and noble women and innocent |
children. We have thought that |
if it were possible Cor men to crawl |
so low in the scale of morals, they
certainly could not find a harbor in
journalism, or shelter in the edi-
torial sanctum. Journalism is in
deed degraded when It feeds these
Infamous wretcheS with coward |
hearts and unclean hands. The |
Tribune need not think to coax the
HERALD to its level of debasement
and immortality. Sooner than it |
will wallow in the filth upon which
its contemporary fattens, it will
break the presses and cast the type
into the street. The scurvy editor
of the Tribune, that cowardly assas-
sin of character and base assailant |
of women, need not fear retaliation |
on the part of the HERALD. He
may go on in his despicable course,
if it is possible for him to sink
lower in the slough of editorial i'm
If he can he may
make himself more contempti-
bic in the eyes of decent
men and women, who now loath |
the fellow, whose very features !
and form are indelibly branded |
with tale of boyish depravity and |
pollution and later immortality and !
debauchery. The Herald is through /
with the uncleau thing who is al
libel upon all that is honest, manly, |
noble or decent, and a fraud upon
the race to which he processes to
belong. The fellow awakens our
pity rather than excites our anger,
for it is sad. to see one in human
form whose moral nature is so hor-
ribly deformed.
And if his vulgarity, libels and
personal attacks cannot annoy, they
certainly are harmless in all other
aspects. The reputation and name
of the editor Of the HERALD are safe
from injury at the hands Of the
thing of moral depravity presiding
over the editorial columns of the
Tribune.