The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-04-21
SUNDAY SALAD.

DUNIJA i DA1AD.
The determination of the Tribune TO
abandon the local department of its paper
and confine itself merely to the
dispatches and editorial remarks on
current topics is a timely one, and
one that will meet with the frank en-
dorsement of the public. 1t has been
growing evident for long time that the
most desperate efforts of the Tribune could
not keep pace with THE HERALD, and its
course in throwing up the sponge in this I'M
reserved way, and owning itself beaten, IS
the only manly one to take, and we are
confident will meet with proper apprecia-
ton.
The naive remark of JudgeGoodwin in the
recent examination into the inmost affairs
of the Tribune that they had not paid Mr..
Mackay his money as it fell due, because
of late ''things had not turned out as we
had anticipated" foreshadowed the whole
thing If the judges frankness had equalled
his capacity for borrowing he would have
said that the biggest ssknockdown of all and
the one of all others most unantcipated,
was the chance Of THE HERALD's looming
up over them and knocking one end of
their revenue into smithereens. Any one
acquainted with the recent history OF
newspaper revolutions in the neighboring
territory of Idaho, and any one who looks
over and compares the advertising patron
age of the two papers on this beautiful
morn can understand all the real plaintive-
ness that turks beneath the judges remark
about 'things not turning out as we had
anticipated
The Tribune should introduce new feat
ure into its market report-the daily tiuctu-
atiens in the current value of certain en-
dorsed bills; just now, as we can testify
from ocular demonstrations, the market is
somewhat glutted, with a decided tendency
towards more turning up; values are apt to
sympathize strongly, during the next few
DAYS, with report from the judicial referee.
We suppose we may now look for the
mighty hand of John w. Mackay to make
itself manifest in the fight against Utah's
obtaining statehood. If Mr.. Mackay hap
pens to stroll into the office of the New
York Herald next week as the editor IS
opening his exchanges, and picks up copy
of the SALT LAKE HERALD of yesterday or
the day before, he viii probably learn more
about his Utah investment than he has been
able to elicit either from Mr.. Lannan or
Judge Goodwin for many seasons
past. That affecting remark of the
Judges about selling out at two bits
on the dollar if Utah should become state,
was perhaps not uttered without the hope
that it might reach Mr. Mackay's ears, and
prepare him in some measure for the in
evitable that awaits him. If Mr.. Mackay
takes the scare-as it was hoped he would
it win all help to gain another decided
opponent to Utuh and the Mormons.
The columns of The HERALD are open if
Mr.. Lewis desires to offer a reward for
Colonel HOLSTER.
There is only one man in the west more
interested in the pending examination be
fore Sam Lewis than Goodwin and Lannan.
His name is Edward Austin.
What is the matter with a two-bit popu-
scribe!
u would like to know said member of
the chamber of co nmerce, ''if the secre-
tary, Mr.. HOLSTER, is paid $50 per month
to bolt off to Montana on his own particular
business on the very day when AGO eastern
parties are here to inyestigate our resources.
If he is the man for the position, he was
paid to be here, and it makes no difference
whether he skipped to avoid testifying as
to the status of his Tribune, and its scribe
impecunious, or to make a deal on some
private specll. ! do not see that the cham
Der can pay $50 a month unless it gets the
time of the man it hires, at least at the
time it needs him most, if it needs him at
all"
That was a very pretty remark made by
G. c. Goodwin, under oath, that if Utah
had statehood the Tribune would not be
worth two bits, but not so touching as the
further statement that he would not sur
render his interest in the Tribune to satisfy
his debts. In view of these assertions, how
very effective for the editor of the Tribune
to preach honesty to community dis
tinguished for paying its debts. The Judge
also declared that he did not own dollar
of anything that could be touched to satisfy
his creditors. OF this stripe are they who
complain forever because the men of means
do not respond to every demand Of the i'm
pecuniOus.
Another very touching episode in this
connection was the further intimation that
if this sort of thing continued, i. e., the de-
mand that he should pay his debts, he
would leave the territory inside of two
weeks. This would be public calamity,
indeed. What the great moralist; he who
guides the erring! He, the great and shin
ing light who illumines and dispels the
dense ignorance and immortality of this
section! That he should leave US, and all
because some ignoble son of Mammon will
insist upon the only editor paying what he
owes Forbid it, We Liberals! Perish the
debit Perish the man who demands his
payments! But leave us our editor!
Said Goldsmith: 1--WE think we pay
every debt of virtue by praising it," Re
cent developments indicate that certain