The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-05-02
A CONTRAST IN METHODS.

The Herald yesterday morning pre-.
sented its readers with some good eX.
tracts from The Tribune's news col
umns, with our appropriate editorial
comment thereon, We congratulate
our contemporary on having for once
given good, square piece of news with
some editorial sense.
The proposition the Herald undoubt-
cdly designs TO enforce in this is that
The Tribune prints the news. That is
precisely what ii does. 1t is matter
OF public recognition and congratula-
ton every day. The fact is, that The
Tribune is in all its general features, the
only real newspaper III Salt. Lake. The
Herald IS quotations from The Tribune
show conclusiyely that The Tribune
was keeping track of what was going
on in the matter of the street railway
strike, We printed all the details, the
incidents, and whore the fact showed
that there were few people guilty of
disorderly conduct we said that they
should be arrested and dealt with by
the law for that disorderly conduct
This, however is quite a different thing
from the Herald s haripg headlines and
hamboyaut howls that "the city was IN
the hands of mob, - that people were
being assaulted and beaten at the will
Of toughs, that property and life were
In danger, that there was no protcc"
tion from the police department, and Il
lot of stuff of that kind, calculated to
show that life and property were in
peril in Salt Lake City. We are glad
peril in Salt Lake City.
We are sincerely glad that the Herald
has brought forward in this way
these clear proofs Of The Tribune g
ment upon it, and at the same time
has confessed that that is all that it
can urge in excuse of its own disorder
ly, riotous headlines and editorials
The Herald. during this strike, en-.
phatically showed itself to be an enc
its prosperity. The claim that because
a few eggs were thrown and a few
youths were guilty Of mischievous mis-
chief, that the town was in the hands
of mob, that life and property were
imperiled, and that Salt Lake was not
able 10 protect person and property,
! was such a glaring eNaggcration, such
vicious mjsstatement of the facts,
that we do not doubt but the Herald
writhes on being called TO account for
its misdecds, It was perfectly right
for The Tribune to call the Herald
down upon its glariug falsehoods. I'm
doubtedly others have done the same,
and we assume that rcmonstranccs
have been made to those In charge of
the Herald for its misconduct in all this
matter. The Ncnsure visited upon tho
! News by the street car men at their
great meeting in the early hours Of
1 Wednesday morning, where the News
was so severely and properly denounced
( for its tone throughout this fight, may
fairly he taken to heart by the Herald !,
| because q part of this dcnunciation and
this ceusure undoubtedly belongs 10 it
as well as to the News.
| Illustrating the situation, We may
! cite the case reported yesterday morn,
ing. where two persons were injured
! IN street car crash at Fourth South
and State streets on Tuesday night.
/ The Tribune printed the facts in this
case, leaving them to speak for them
selves. 1t did NOT say the street car
! service i'll this town was so rotten that
it WAS dangerous for anybody to ride
! on the street cars; it did not raise a
howl that the officials Of the street
car company were responsible for that
crash and should be held blamcworthy
because those people were hurt. And
yet that is precisely the same sort of