The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-02
Salt Lake City. March 81
II of The Herald:

Dd1I LAKE Ollys MdICu OIL
To the Editor of The Herald:
The Tribune is on the run. The star
was made on the 2Sth inst, and Young
Utah now have only to continue ap-
plying the probe, and its present shut
fling gait will soon increase to YER
liable Stampede.
We invite public attention to The
spectacle the would-be organ Of Young
Utah presents on the above date in its
back-handed reply to our letter of the
18th; and especially we draw attention
to the significant fact of the Tribune
distemper, being due solely TO an over
dose of its own medicine.
The desperate effort of the Tribune
management to conceal their spite and
chagrin under the taunts and defiance
of Young Utah the past few weeks has
been plainly manifest. OF course, il
was policy for the Tribune to conciliate
us il possible, but, as the public Will
remember our last letter was mostly
made up OF extracts from Tribune edi-
torials, and this was too much.
They are sick; they are very sick;
1t was 1.-The last straw"
Natnralists inform US that notwith-
standing the whale sometimes reaches
seventy feet in length and weighs,
when full grown, many tons (mosdy
blubber). yet in a relative sense it has
a, very small throat. And it would ap-
pear the Tribune IS constructed on very
similar lines, for, in addition to its
chief composition being Identical with
that of the whale. it is also handi-
capped with the same inconvenience
in the region of the throat. AT all
events, it is now plain to be seen that
the Tribune's epiglottfs is such that
when it comes to swallowing the vile
concoctions mixed by its own hands,
in its own reeking mortar and bearing
its own label and trademark. this is
too much, too muchi
Young Utah is growing saucy."
Young Utah is getting groggy."
Young Utah need trained nurses"
Young Utah snarlers.'
Young Utah serfs," etc.
These are specimens of the Tribune'S
logic and now it calls US bringing
slaves" and threatens to precipitate a
local earthquake IF very much more
of that stuff appears"
Tut, tut, tut! ''Oh, wad some pow'r
the giftie gle US etc.
To briefly review the Tribunes tao
tics inspires no other sentiments but
pity and contempt AS a sample, if We
accuse it of being mendacious, unre-
liable and cowardly, and defy it to
deny the charge and defend itself, it
assumes an outward demeanor of calm
ness and submission, knowing these
opinions are so generally shared that
it is useless to debate the question, and
for answer it prepares an elaborate
essay on climate and vegetation.
If we taunt it with publishing delib-
crate falsehoods, with wholesale abuse
and SANDER, it will crafty ignore it
and point TO the supposed wickedness
of a third party, who in no sense is
connected with the discussion.
If we insist the Tribune has presump-
tuously claimed 10 be the champion
of Young Utah, and at the same time
is daily insulting cur manhood by ad-
vertiSing US as slaves, SerfS, etc, and
we demand q. cessation of its infamous
attacks, it affects an air of injured IN
nocence, strikingly at variance with
its real character. and seeks to pacify
our wrath by murmuring, Why; bless
their souls. the Tribune never assumed
TO be the organ of Young Utah. All
their charges are false
If we renew our offer to prove every
allegation preferred against it by ref
erence TO. its own files, and ask it for
the fourth time to stand up like man
and face US, it crawls into the obscurity
of its own conceit and announces that
THE executive officers of The Herald
branch need strong tonics and trained
nurses.
If our evaporation at its cowardice,
inconsistency and hypocritic6l cant
leads US to warn it of our determine
ton TO expose its perfidy-if not with
its consent, then without tit rolls up
its eyes and points with impious finger
20 the cross, reminding US how much
the Savior had to suffer. And when
routed from this sacred retreat, it tries
to hide behind the "camelhair raj
ment" and leather girdles'' of John the
Baptist.
This is a brief and true synopsis of
Young Utah's experience with the
would-be dictator Of the Tribune
during the last few weeks and now,
because we, in the exercise of our free
dom as Americans, give some extracts
from its editorials in our last letter,
the Tribune is very sick, and it serves
full notice that If very much more
of that stuff appears, it will assume
the authorities of the Mormon church
desire a renewal of the old fight and
the old conditions upon Utah. OF
course, the words liar" and coward
also occur along with its terrible
threats but these pet phrases are not
directed to Us; we are merely "cring-
ing slaves that's all. Liar will
doubtless come bye and bye, but at
present is being reserved for some spe-
cial occasion when extra proof is
needed.
9 . .
In the present instance the Tribune
is merely paying its usual compliments
to the Deseret News. and though the
immediate and direct cause Of their
affiiction is the Young Utah" letters,
for which the News is in no way re-
sponsible, yet, true TO their inward
nature when probed and veXed. the
Tribune attacks those who laugh at
their contortionS, as well as those who
provoke them-hence the News cannot
hope to escape.
In this same letter March PSI the
Tribune boasts OF having copied the
circular letter sent out by the four
employees of Heber j. Grant, begging
for few names etc, and then it
says: we know that more of young
Utah refused to sign in this city than
signed, and many who did sign, did so
lest they might lose their situations"
Right after this we find: NOW, about
the falsehoods of the Tribune. 1t does
not publish falsehoods." Indeed! why,
in the few lines quoted abOy.e, and
preceding this astonishing statement
which is in itself a fabrication, there
are four separate, distinct and willful
falsehoods.
Falsehood No. when they affirm
(as they have repeatedly that the
writers of these letters are employees
of Mr.. Grant, it is falsehood. Not one
of those referred TO as the executive
officers of young Utah" owes his stu
alton to that gentleman; he has no
jurisdiction over US, and not one of
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