The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-07-02
VERY ODORoUS COMPARISONS.

That professional bilious sorehead of
Journalism, the Tribune, yesterday, indulg-
ed in some comparisons setween itself and
The HERALD, but the writer of them must
have felt like sneaking up dark alleywhen
the morning HERALD arrived and afforded
him chance to see lust what a comparison
meant. The Tribune circulated in Salt
Lake consisted of eight pages, THE HER
AID twenty pages. The Tribune contained
the tail end of certain mysterious articles
continued from page 1871 but what page
II was no one in Salt Lake has any idea of.
IL transplres, however, that four page
supplement- was sent to Ogden containing
certain misty impressions called cuts of
Salt Lake buildings, but more resembling
the painting of London in fog. The com,
mencement of the mysterious articles afore-
said was in this supplement, but as the
puol1shers had natural repugnance to cir
culatlng 1t at home, their readers are left
In the dark as to what the articles were all
about. Through and through the mart
gagld sheet, yesterday of all days. had the
appearance of a hen with one of its wings
clipped, and could the courtly soul OF Mr..
LANNAN, who, by the grace of THOMAS. now
sits among the other heavy thinkers of the
worlds fair have read those comparisons
and seen the two papers of the date of
July l, 1890, he would have been very apt
to be carried to his room with
rush of fat to the head
Mr.. JOHN w. MACKEY's bondsmen in the
same issue have the unblushing gall to talk
of THE HERALD's having copied the Tribune
in some of its ideas. Only the same sort of
mental aberrationthat Systematically for
gets butchers, grocers' and saloon keepers,
bills, could excuse break of this sort. 1t
seems to US that it is only few months
since the Tribune changed its form. style
make up-everything but the spots that de-
note its skunk like origin-and became so
nearly like THE HERALD in appearance that
but for its own unmistakable hospital and
disease advertisements and the
lottery swindles with which it is filled. it
would almost have been bought over the
counters for THE HERALD. We have
sort of remembrance that THE
HERALD first began to feature the Sunday
issue OF the paper and that the dramatic
and musical DEPARTMENT. inaugurated was
followed by feeble imitation in the organ
of the slums. A vague impression rests
with US that it was not till The HERALD
had the national weekly bank clearings
wired to Salt Lake from Boston that it
struck the Tribune that there was popular
demand for that sort of information. We
may be mistaken, but we have an abiding
conviction that during the recent real es-
tate activity, THE HERALD set the example
of publishing the daily record of real estate
transfers, and that the Tribune, some
months after the Times had done so, fell
into line in that regard. 1t is a matter of
such recent occurrence that we suppose
even the Tribune editor will not have for
gotten it, that THE HERALD inaugurated a
special telegraphic service from Omaha and
Denver, and when it had been running a
fortnight and showed no signs of abating,
that the Tribune despairingly made gulp
and wrote its name second once more
But why multiply instancesl The facts
are notorious and the community is so far
from being hoodwinked by Tribune claims, |
that THE HERALD can very well afford to |
submit the case to the public with an apol- |
ogy for any show of argument.