The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-12-25
UTAH PRESS ASSOCIATION.
Meeting Held In This
City Yesterday.

City Yesterday.
The committee on permanent organi-
cation of the Utah Press association
met yesterday in this city and transac-
ted the usual preliminary business, all
the members of the committee being
present except Mr.. Tomson, who was
unavoidably detained from being pres
eth.
It was the sense of the committee to
make all arrangements for a meeting
in Salt Lake january 20 next to this
end. The matter of arranging for hall
and entertainment was left to j. B.
Rawlings, John e. Hansen, John James
of the News and others.
The following address was drawn up
and approved:
AN ADDRESS.
To the Editors and Publishers OF Utah:
Greeting:
Several efforts have been made to
organise an association of the news
paper men of Utah for professional
and fraternal purposes. AS you doubt
less are aware, a goodly number of edi-
tors met in Lehi on Sunday, Dec. II 1888,
formed a temporary organization and
appointed a committee to draft plan
for a permanent organization of the
Utah Press association.
The benefits which will result to
Utah journalism from the binding to-
gether of the newspaper men will be
many and far reaching, and therefore
the move to found the association
should and doubtless will elicit the en-
thusiastic support of every editor and
publisher to the end that an inf1uen-
tial and dignified organization may be
built up. Fortunately for Utah, a new
day has dawned in our mountain
walled home, and a new and happier
order of society is taking root, to grow,
blossom and bear fruit such as has
never vet been seen in this territory.
The great influential factor in helping
to bring about the long desired change
has been the newspaper. While polit-
ical parties have seemed to be in the
lead of public sentiment during the per-
iod of transition from the old regime to
the new life, they have but followed
where the newspaper led. We have
seen recently how the adherents of po-
litical parties have been kissing and
making up, burying the past, grasping
each other by the hand in a brother
ly way, and making pledges of friend
ship and partisan adhesion for the adj
vancement of the interests of the side
which they respectively espouse. In
thus forming friendly and fraternal
ties the members of the respective po-
litical parties are at the head of the
procession and so have set the
ism an example which we should not
hesitate to follow, so as a matter of
putting ourselves in touch with the
spirit of the hour-a spirit of peace and
good WILL of fraternity and progress,
it is our duty to form an alliance and
become helpers in making permanent
and strong the new bonds of friendship
trio
cemented more firmly as the years roll
on.
From a purely professional point of
view an editorial or press association
will surely rebound advantageously to
the makers and headers of our papers.
By association we would become better
acquainted with each other and a
kindlier feeling would prevail among
us-of itself that would have a great
tendency to stop the streams of editorial
personal abuse which so frequently de-
luge the columns of our newspapers,
to the disgust of the public; association
would also tend to raise our ideals in
the sphere of journalism, and make us
ambitious to elevate the standard of
the newspaper in the public estimation
as a medium OF reliable news and in
formation, as well as a political and
moral power in the land. Among the
objects which should at once latter
permanent organization shall have been
effected) claim the attention of the asso-
citation, are the following: Favorable
legislation regarding the publication of
legal notices, tax sales, ordinances,
etc. Bidding on public printing, abb
stracts, briefs, etc. Railroad trans
portation, editorial excursions, etc.
Buying paper in carload lots at whole
sale prices and distributing it in such
a way as to make the cost price much
less than now. Securing a better feel
ing and more sociability among MEM
bers of the newspaper fraternity
These and many other properly come
within the purview of an editorial and
press association.
You are therefore invited to come
forward and aid in this praiseworthy
move, by giving US the benefit of your
experience, Counsel, and moral and
fraternal support.
Thus you will assist in dignifying
your profession and making more in
fluential as an educator of the people
the great modern civilizer the Ameri-
can newspaper.
We therefore beg of all concerned to
meet with us in Salt Lake city on
Jan. 80, 1894 to perfect said organiza-
| ton E. A. LITTLEFIELD.
Chairman,
Secretary,
| A. N. ROSENBAUM,
w. L. WEBB,
J. B. RAWLINGS