The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-01-10
Off Again.
Editors Herald:

Your contemporary, the Tribune,
has long enjoyed a reputation for
questionable veracity, and its recent
achievements in falsehood and in
vective have detracted nothing
from its merited but unenviable
notoriety in this regard. But for
some reason its assertions nowadays
are not only fraught with their
usual unreliability, but they display
a degree of stupidity that is really
quite alarming. Take, for instance,
that very labored article of a few
days ago, in which the police are
called upon to break up the gamb~
ling saloons, when but few short
months before another very latored
article in the same paper advocated
such institutions as better ere
formatory agencies for the
youth Of Utah than churches
and schools, or even than the
Tribune. Still, so far as the latter
portion Of this remark is concerned,
there is 10 one acquainted with the
paper that would take issue on that
point. There can be- no question
but that a gambling den, even of
viler nature than any here, would
exert much better moral influence
over young man, or an old one
either, than a constant reading of
the Tribune would; but after all,
the youth who shuns both of these
"reformatory agencies" and adheres
pretty strictly to the teachings of
his parents, even though they may
be Mormons, will perhaps in the
end come out about as high in the
scale of morality as ii, he had
gambled and read the Tribune all
his life. 4 friend of mine, the other
day. in commenting on the cham
eleon-like principles Of the Tribune,
cited as a reason for its changing
the color of its opinions SO often,
that it had been quite unfortunate
in not being able to retain a re-
porter for any length of time. Said
he: "The editors and reporters that
have been employed on that paper
since it's inception, if collected to-
gether, would fill a penitentiary. 1t
is unjust to expect anything rell-
able from it because if the reporter
of to-day manufactures statement
out Of whole cloth and that is pub
lished as truth, it would devOlye
upon the man who will be employed
next week, if cornered, to substan-
tate the other mans assertions. Of
course he couldn't do that. Then,
too, out of so many men
it would be strange indeed
if an occasional one should
not have the temerity to attempt to
approximate towards the truth in
that case see what everlasting con-
sternation would be wrought among
those who dictate the policy Of the
paper; why the very foundation
upon which the structure is built
would be in danger"
Perhaps the latest evidence that
the fellow who is now editing the
local page is totally Ignorant of |
what has gone before him, is a |
paragraph which appeared yester-
day morning in relation TO the |
coming municipal election, wherein |
it is given out that Mayor Jennings |
was disfranchised under the Ed |
munds law and was unable to take |
the oath prescribed by the Commits |
sion. It would be wearisome to your |
readers to attempt refutation of |
this in view of the fact that every |
body who has lived in the country |
for six months knows that Mayor |
Jennings did take the oath
prescribed by the Commission and
was registered. If his name was
subsequently, stricken off the list !
that was no fault of his; it only
shows that somebody has exceeded |
his authority. For information on |
this subject it would be we'll for the |
latest Tribune scribe to read up the |
files of his own paper, say in August
last though after all, anything he