The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-08-24
THE DOG RETURNS TO HIS WON'T.

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write a history of THE HERALD. Why,
almost any one familiar with its rise and
progress who has sufficient industry, the
necessary data at hand and the literary
ability. 1t would not be a small task either,
| for the reason that within its career baby
girls have become the I. thers of girl
babies, nations have been changed as to
their boundary lines and form of govern
ment, and great events in the way of disas
ter by food and field, gigantic crimes, de-
structive wars and startling social and
mechanical developments have been
brought to light. More than this, the or
gan itself has been born and grown to its
present proportions, condition and circum-
stances.
Little did we think when brief outline
of its career was given in these columns
the other morning-a sketch which por-
trayed the concern in all its varied phases
from the beginning up-that it would re-
sort to the drgumentum dd h0ninem and ask
if similar thing could be done in our own
behalf Most assnredly it can be done,
and it shall be, occupying but little time
and space in the task at that
In June, 1870, three men who had lately
been engaged on daily publication here,
one that had gone down because it had
ceased to represent any definite principle
contrary to the expressed wish of the trio
referred to, decided to start up an alto
gether new and distinct enterprise in the
shape of morning paper and call it THE
HERALD. The times were quite propitious,
for although business was somewhat slack
Just then, the Franco German war was
about to burst forth and there was but one
daily-the Euening Nelus-in the city. 1t was
begun and the first number stated the
policy which was to govern it, and from
that day to this it has never deviated from
it for an instant. 1t was, in brief, the
whole people, their rights and nothing
more; our immediate friends, their
rights and nothing less. 1t encour-
aged everything that was worthy of
it whether originating with one side
or another upheld what it conceived to be
justice with reference to every cause and
every man, had good word for all legiti
mate enterprises by whomsoever projected,
and a ceaseless current of opposition for
anything wrong, whoever might be the per-
petratOrs 1t published all the attainahle
news by telegraph and mail, and its edi
torial utterances were so unerring as to
times and places, so positive as to the prin-
ciples involved and so incisive and unmis-
taxable in their method, that the paper was
a success from the word go. 1t was en-
larged twice within six months to accom-
6a, &c
from the first has been steadily growing
til it finds itself now the greatest journal
in all respects between Denver on the east
and San Francisco on the west As pre-
viously suggested, the same principles
which controlled it in the first number con-
troll it now. 1t was never false
to its friends, never unjust to its
enemies, always on the alert for
passing events, ever determined to
support itself and earn all it got, and
never at any time or under any circum-
stances was it fearful, hating or uncertain.
There, you have The HERALD's history in a
nutshell.
But we hope the organ does not imagine
for moment that the brief reference to
its o.il /, progress and present career was
all or even a fair showing Ofits record. Vastly
otherwise. Enough was shown, however,
to make the CALLED Jade vince, and true
to its instincts it gathers up the refuse of
the barnyard and throws it by the hand
full. A grand master in the art of vitupera
ton and vulgarity, it strains every point to
be more vile and contemplate if possible
than ever before For a few days, in
referring to public topics concerning which
it was at variance with this paper, it used
respectable language and even resorted to
something approaching argument; but it
was not for long. The bastardy in its
blood would out; the strumpet came back
to her paid-for embraces; the dog returned
to his vomit.
Nothing in all the annals of journalism in
the United States or elsewhere, as far as
has been heard of here, can at all approach
this detestable thing which impudently
calls itself newspaper. Mendacity is its
pride, Obscenity its pleasure, misrepresen-
tation its stock in trade and SANDER its
chief reliance. For nearly a score of years
it has, in one way or another, maintained
footing by pandering to mems depraved
tastes and stirring up strife by misrepre-
sentation, knavery and deceit. Processing
all things that were honorable and would
bring the people into closer communion
and enable them to reach better under
standing, it has on every occasion when its
selfish purposes could not be subserved
stood between the peace-maker and the
peace he sought to accomplish. Anything
that was Mormon was bad, everything
arrayed against that faith was good. And
yet it poses as a missionary! A mission
airy for what! To improve man kind and
enable him to reach higher
plane by being shown how noble thing
it is to forgive and forget! To reach his |
better nature by showing him what feet
ing thing is life and how poorly it is spent
when oppression of each other is it's chief |
By teaching tolerance and
through that grand text ITO |
err is human, to forgive divine!" By |
showing how differences of opinion may |
and should be reconciled by the exercise of
gentle charity which falleth as the dew
from heaven? All, no. Its mission is and .
has been the reverse of all these. To gain
place and power for its cohorts it would
ride roughshod over those who entertain
views of religion and politics at variance
With it's own, and would have them
stripped of every vestige of
civil rights, disfranchised, expatriated,
heir cases improperly influenced when on
rial for real or imaginary offenses, and
heir religious faith and method of worship
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Violence itself.