The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-09-14
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DISREPUTABLE WORK.

The Salt Lake Tribune is in pain. Ithas
received a severe shock. In carefully
reading THE HERALD, its daily custom,
for which tits to be commended, it dis
covered on Tuesday that paragraph sent
by the Associated Press to the Tfib did
not appear in THE HERALD. This caused
an attack of the gripes and forthwith it
gave vent to the iii humor which usually
accompanies its frequent experiences OF
stomach ache.
THE HERALD is accused of 'sdisreputa-
BILE work. of s'tampering with the
news,n dishonest practice, - partisan
bigotry, - wandering to persons, - and
a lot of similar things in the usual style
of the Liberal organ when in tribulation.
Now, what is it all about? The press re-
ports of Congressional news contained g
brief synopsis of some remarks by Sena-
tor Pugh, which were still further con-
densed by the telegraph editor in order to
make space for more valuable matter, to-
wit: a long special from Washington
which appeared on the same page. But
that the public may fully understand the
matter, we here insert the paragraph
which our cholera morbused contempor-
airy is SO much panied about and which it
has brought up the second time to the
public gaze:
The message OF the President, calling
the extra session, was declaration in
favor of the gold standard. If the Sher-
man law were Internationally repealed,
such action would cause discomfort among
the toiline millions to such an extent that
it would shake the country. He would
never vote for unconditional repeal, but
would favor any substitute which carried
out the platform of the Democratic party.
Now what is there new or startling or
absolutely necessary to print in that par
agraph? 1t has been said over and over
again by different speakers. And is it
absolutely essential, in order to be rep
utable, honest, bipartisan, etc., to print
every line of telegraph matter that
comes from the Associated Press? Does
the Tribune always dc that? What is a
telegraph editor for if not to use his
pot?
On comparing what il is alleged was
left out of the dispatch with what was
put in, it will be seen that the paragraph
omitted was partly rehash of what
appeared. and on inquiry we learn from
the telegraph editor that he regarded il
as repetition, which often occurs and
which careful preparer of dispatches
will not allow to double up in print.
The truth is our datulent morning con
temporary has found it SO difficult to find
fault with THE HERALD, and has become
so sour over its own frequent discom-
futures, that in its agony OF bowels-suffer-
ing from "a gnawing witbin,' probably
through swallowing its store teeth in
eating its own words--it snapped at this
chance of getting off something nasty
against the paper that has fed it with Its
own .pabulum.
The Tribune has made such mess OF
its own editorial efforts lately that it need
not attempt to edit THE HERALD. The
press dispatches require good deal of cur
tailment, and instead of being ''dlsrepu-
table, to cut them down, it becomes
sometimes an absolute necessity to make
newspaper lively and interesting. And
whatever may be thought of the manner
in which this is done, TIE HERALD has
never yet been guilty of manufacturing
dispatches or clipping old stuff that has
appeared in print in country papers and
heading them as Specials That and
such attempts to besmear THE HERALD as
the Tribune made on Wednesday is really
and emrhatically "disreputable work. -