The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-19

specified in our initial letter, and we
again call upon the Tribune, without
further quibbling, to answer the ques-
ton: By what process did they become
the official organ of young Utah?
Where is the document comforting this
honor? BY whom was it drawn up
and by whom was it signed? To an
swer this plain question it is not aoso-
lutely necessary TO preface their reply
with a long. irrelevant essay on "A
Late Spring Snow" Blinking in the
Dawn or some wishey-washey yarn
they are forced to contradict in two
days after it's publication.
The question of their authority
which will lead up to a discussion OF
the remaining charges-is a simple
proposition and should be an easy mat
ter for them to explain, providing there
is the least inclination to be fair, but
we know that occasionally men become
SO completely absorbed. saturated
swallowed up, as it were, with one idea,
that they are totally oblivious to every
thing else, and during this mental
eclipse. never see a point-until after
they have sat on it.
This branch of Young Utah is grow
ing. The names of young men are COM
ing in from all parts of the state every
day. and they, with US, are clamoring
for settlement of this question.
In all candor and soberness. we call
upon the Tribune to stand up and face
us, for we do not propose to retire
from this contest without obtaining
satisfaction in one form or another.
Five or six thousand young men, rep
,resenting every nook and corner of
our state, are not to be trified with
and If, in the Tribune management
there is yet remaining one latent. spark
of courage, we ask them to show it
now. Out upon this cowardly evasion,
this eternal shutting. They can no
longer escape the wrath of those whom
it is their daily occupation to insult,
and we demand they reach down their
own files and be manly enough 10 an
nounce their willingness to stand by
them.
There is one more item in the Tribune
answer which calls for notice on our
part. 1t is stated by them that these
letters of Young Utah" are being
written by the editor of the Deseret
News. Indeed! This is certainly a
compliment to the real authors, but as
it was not intended as compliment,
we owe and offer no thanks to the Tri-
bune.
In addition to the official denial of
the DeSeret News, we will add that
thus far it has not appeared necessary
to seek any aid, for we had nothing to
combat.
The statement that young Utah is Sc
curing the service of any other person
is false; at the same time we should
be pleased to learn that the Tribune
had called in some competent adviser
some help-for this "long-felt want" is
becoming painfully manifest to many
others besides
YOUNG UTAHNS.
In addition to the names of Young Utah
already published in The Herald from
| Huntington and elsewhere, the following,
from the places designated, desire to swell
the list, which is still growing:
Bountiful. Davis County, March Is.
To all whom 1t may concern:
This is to certify that the undersigned
representatives of Young Utah in Davis
county do of their own free will and
choice, enter d vigorous protest against
the Salt Lake Tribune for its malicious
misrepresentation concerning the people
of Utah. And we wish to emphatically
deny the Tribunes oft-repeated claims
that it represents the class of people
known as Young Utah." And we Heart
lily endorse the sentiments of our Salt
Lake friends as published in The Salt
Lake. Herald of Feb. 20, 1899, wherein
they say the Tribune does not represent
Young Utah " etc