Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1895-04-18
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We do not know what particular
uankora 0r mUnoy.luuden Mt Evaus
% Weber count referred 20 in hi' rec
msrEs yesterday when he told the
mentors OF the Con ttuiDngl Com
v-uti1n that suCl men were Boosting
81 tholf control, not only oil Oh, Cham
boz u Commerce, lut OF tho urTa.
papers Of this city, by reason oi money
advanced. It's 90 bo regretted th'i
iu giving publicity TO a statement nI
o. much importance be should usye
been permitted 60 shield himself from
further responsibility Tor % by The purr'
lie explanation that "s1ms 90 them"
made the claim referred 70. Whom
man takes occasion In the proseucc OF
representative mon Of the whole Terri
tory TO repeat faisehood for which,
when challenged, he simply dsclaims
authorship, there ought 10 be SOME way
OF requiring from him coni,ssIon OF
the authority Tor the rumof h0 spisals.
Failing to furnish this, or to prove iis
truth, he ought 10 roe the need Of dee
iug what these same purohasablc anu
poworliss newspapers aru generally
willing 10 do-reiraot and apologize.
But whoever Mr. Evaus's iuiorman's
anu authorities arc, they have before
them another warning against the
folly Of talking unwsely. We arc
bound t3say that the bankers asa class
are not given 70 thatiOlly. They donol
do much bonsiing-ihoy do not need /
itIn their busincos; and the lees adyof' /
tlsing they gcl Of tue sort Mt Evan 10 |
providing Got them Ia this connection |
the better thOy like IL. As with sue
ccssiul men Ia other lines oi business,
they sometimes have ideas which are
valuable and which u impaired 90 the /
public arc Of great benefit IL the |
uttcring Of these 10 10 control the
newspaper which piina them, then
by the same token, lawyers control tho /
newspaper, Tor they are quoted quite Rs
much as anybody olsti AMI the same
logic would place any number oiditior'
ont persons In control. All Of this d
absurd-and yet We are sais Ia saying
u IL tho cxtsnt, aud tao whole extent
OF the control OF any bank VI banker
or anybody else except IL own man
agomeni, over any present Newspaper
In salt Lake Guy.
In tho nature Of everyday business,
courtesles must Of necessity DO asked
aud extended. But under no cIrcum-
chances that have ever hero been heard
Of nave such courtosIcs NJ Mt. Evans
qlludcs to carried with them the obll-
cation Of power or control. No Salt
LaKo newspaper would enter into such
o contract or abide such an arrange
ment; no Salt Lake banker would
want u. Furthermore, the Salt Lake
bankers know quite a. we'll m the
NEWS does, ami probably great deal
better than Mr. Evans does, that
these courlesios are not all on
one side by any means. They
mover are; and yet they arc rs com
mon and customary NJ the current Of
tho Jay'a business ITSELF Tho banker
who boasts Of his "oontroln Of any
newspaper must, therefore, either bu
very ungratolul or have n very short
memory; for his associates will easily
recall instances wherein the press hap.
peued to seo aud seize patriotic uuty
when a failure 10 do 40 would have
meant havoc and perhaps ruin, pri-
marily to him and his class, and OF
course ultimately 10 many others.
No, tho monoylenders DO not con-
troll the Salt Lake newspapers, nor do
these newspapers Cainoe none OF them
IL edited by nihilists) devote their time
and space to ceaseless iuyeo,lyc
aud dire mutlerlng against the leglti.
mate business Of banking or money
loading. Neither class, We are happy
TO believe, has 10 depend for existence
upon loud mounting or lnconsidorate
demGg0gy. They try to get along
harmoniously IA friends anu fellow.
citizens, believing that the Interests Of
thelr respective constituencies are best
subserysd In not only allowing butevcn
encouraging each to mind bis own
business In manner calculated 10
secure the approval and support OF all
iair.minded ana honest friends.
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