The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-29
"PERsoNAL JOURNALISM,

'.PERSONAL JOURNALISM"
The Salt Lake Tribune has mani
tested much soreness recently because
OF some remarks in The Herald con-
corning the official actions of a person
who is recognized as the editor of the
Tribune. Those remarks have been
very mild compared with the slash
ing which that individual boasts of
INDUCING in, when he desires to be
personal and vent the spite with
which he is frequently charged if any
person or paper corners him in argu-
ment.
The Tribune now says concerning
personal journalistic" 1--WE do not
care TO continue that kind of a con-
troversy." All right. We are with
you there, neighbor But the Trib-
une's idea SENS to be that its writers
may attack the editor and manager
of The Herald, manufacture false
hoods about them, assail them day
after day, repeating the lies that
have been refuted and seeking to in
jure them in a mean, malicious and
I SON dAdls llidlAlACL Jc1AAN IL AlC I1SI dlQ
retorts. that is personal journalism
and the Tribune does not wish that
sort of a controversy
No. The sort of a controversy the
( Tribune likes is that which is all on
one side. To lampoon, lie about and
slash" people is it's peculiar forte. But
no one must retaliate or retort in
/ ~ g
controversy.
Now to come down to the facts as
to The Herald's alleged personalities.
We have criticized the public acts of
an arrogant and supercilious person,
in public assemblies to which he was
appointed or elected. He happens to
be editor of the Tribune. Are we to
understand that delegate to a poll
teal conclave, who claiming to be an
out and out silver man, endorses g.
straddle on that important question:
a member of a constitutional conven-
ton of whom much was expected, but
who turns out to be only a jester:
delegate to a silver conference who
proves to be a failure, is above all
criticism because he happens to write
for a public journal? Fudge,
The columns of the Tribune have
teemed with personalities against pri-
vate individuals, ana the editors of
local papers have been assailed per-
sonally by the Tribune for years. Men
who have been thus attacked could
have retorted in kind. and made it
nected with that sheet but have re-
Trained from coming down to their
level.
Now the Tribune has no just cause
for complaint. A very little dose of
it's own medicine gives it convul-
sions 1t ought to have few boluses
which are ready if it desires to re-
open that kind of attack. But The
Herald is ready to drop the ."sort Of
controversy which the Tribune says
it docs not care to continue" but
not to sit down quietly and let the
Tribune lie about The Herald and fall
sify it's utterances and pretend it is
replying to it. and let that paper say
and do as it pleases without exposure.
we QO llOL DGl4SFC lAC4S many
reading people who care whether the
editor of the Tribune is the embodi-
ment of wisdom, or the editor of The
Herald is the essence Of all that is
evil. They want the news and fair
exposition of principles and the topics
of the times. Papers can discuss them
from opposite standpoints respect
fully, if each treats the others fairly.
1t would be better for both the morn
ing papers to pursue that course. The
Herald is ready to do its part, but
will not suffer itself to be imposed |
upon or misrepresented.
1t is time that the tactics that have
been adopted in Salt Lake journalism
were changed. There is no profit in |
principle If an argument is false or
weak it does not strengthen it to say |
that its opponent is a novice or that
he is scrub" If a statement is
true, it does not weaken it to say that
the man that made it never went to
school. Such 'logic" only makes the
reasoner ridiculous.
We believe the majority of the peo-
pie of Utah will much prefer fair ar
gument TO personal attacks, and
calm polemics to fierce journalistic pu-
gilism. If our neighbor wants to quit
its peculiar sort of controversy" The
Herald says: Agreed, shake! But If
not-Well, Lay on Macduff. etc.,
etc.