The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-07-03
A LONG FELT WANT.
And the Reasons Why 1t Was Filled.

Robert j. Burdette, having re-
lated his experience with young
and struggling daily, l move that
other brethren presen. relate their
own little history. I think is
sometimes g relief to unburden The
soul by a confession
toyed Tith daily once which
was incorpora,s d to I'll Icng felt
want | did net know it was loaded
Inere Wss a ri. I'll daily that had
been running two yeas and we en-
Tered the arena, hoping to win
an easy victory over this paper
ana pee me great power In
the west. We made it our bnsine
to boom everything that was loom
able and to sneer at the lack of en-
terprlse of cur adverssry- We got
specials by mali, press report by
slow freight, AID showed 8 style of
fearless enterprise that was the
envy and the admiration of many
large metropolitan journals. we
thought that our adversary wouldn't
last mora than a month after elec~
ton, but Thanksgiving came and
found the Evening Squawker still on
deck. The editor would come and
borrow print paper of US and then use
it to call us the slime 5edecksd, and
putfid exponent CT sill more bane-
full political fact on. we would Dor.
row font OF brewer of him and
| characterize his paper rs the wailing
foundiing, dying in the p isonous
vapors of the deadly swamp of pol
itical filth, wherein il. had chosen its
bed, edited by the bitter foe of the
laundEess and Lindley Murray,
man who had evsded jus ice tor
forty yesrs, and, not content with
the outrage of all mora eense, had
declared war en- the spelling book.
Thus re Kept up spHited con
test for long time. Sometimes we
co al n't get our paper ont Of the
freight office, AID sometimes he
couldn'T, but We would loan each
other the la quire we had and
keep friendly, while through the
columns OF our respective pape, 8 we
spoke OF each other IN language
which might have been construed
as reproachful TO some people.
1t was an exciting time. One day
the Squawker would offend q sub.
scriber, and he would come over to
ug, aud the next day We would un-
Willingly tread on The toes OF enc OF
our great array of subscribers, and
he would 60 over to the enemy.
The editor of the other paper and
myself saw that it was going to be q
war of determination. We ground
our teeth and our sneers and sailed
in. At the end Of the first year he
had discharged his servant girl and
my paper owed ME $500 salary. At
the end OF the second year he had
blown in his fine brick residence
and I had taken my salary as police
justice and thrown 1t INTO the IA. a.
c1ous NAV of my little hungry long
| felt want.
One Gay the little, muddy, measly,
long suffering features of the Even
ing Squawker failed to appear. We
kept asking the office boy why the
| SquaWker didn't come. He didn't
know. Finally he went to the pub
LEGATION Office. The door was locked.
A map 'pof Dakota was hung ever
one window and a printers towel
over the other. The Office boy
raised the map end stole in. The
uncertain light here and there
Dr. ke in struggling rays through
the threadbare places in the
towel. On the desk lay a letter
from the advertiser Of q Collie
Eraser. in which he offered 10 take
column in the Squawker a year,
| following pure reading matter and
with 1900 lines of reading notices
to be strung along through edito-
rails from day to day, in bold faced
type, and in consideration therefor
to furnish for two years to the edi.
tor or his order fifty bottles of the
Collie Eraser at publishers price
delivered on board the cars.
Every thing about the ofice
showed that the work had been 60.
ing brayely on when the summons
came. In fact the summons lay
there on the desk among other pa
pers, along with a writ OF attach
ment for $253,S5 This shows wba
a hold paper gets on its subscriber
and also what hold the subscriber
gets on the paper. The sheriff ha,
been subscriber to the Spuawke
ever since it started, but we didn'
know his attachment for the pape
was go great.
We won the day, bnt at what
sacrifice. The smoke OF conflIc
cleared away and showed that tn
victory was not worthy the carnage