The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-07-14
THE ONLY NEWSPAPER.


The Tribune is the only fair news
paper in Utah. But newspaper which
Is not fair is not fit TO be called a
newspaper Mt all. Therefore in this
sense as well as because it is the only
paper that prints the news, The Trib-
une is the only newspaper in Utah.
When The Tribune has any contro-
versy with an opponent, it always
prints what that opponent has to say.
No other paper in Utah does this.
When the April conference of the
Mormon church put forth it's Declara-
ton, Th5 Tribune printed it in full so
that It's readers could comprehend fully
the criticisms which VIC made upon that
document. When Brigham II. Roberts
| delivered his long, scandalous TRADES
in the Tabernacle in reply to the r.
view by the ministers of Salt Lake of
the April conference Declaration, we
printed these Roberts speeches; both
that in the afternoon and that in the
evening. The Deserct News printed the
April conference Declaration and al
so the Roberts speeches, in full.
When the Ministerial association Of
Salt Lake City made its Review of
the April conference Declaration, The
Tribune printed that review in full.
The Deseret News, although it had
great deal to say against that Review,
has steadily refused TO print it, The
/ News always refuses to print what it's
opponents have TO say. 1t habitually
misrepresents The Tribune S positions,
and never gives any complete state
ment of anything that we say but al
wavs wrests, twists, and tortures the
language in an evasive effort TO give
a false impression of what il was that
we really said Oh any given subject.
And so il does. as a rule, with any
opponent.
The other papers are all in the same
category They refuse TO print the
position Of their opponents; some of
them following the bad example of the
News in misrepresenting or Carbling
what their opponents say. setting up
men Of straw only TO demolish them in
order to give the appearance Of vic
tory, whereas defeat is really their por-
tion.
And speaking of the Roberts
speeches, we may remark that The Trib.
unc had competent stenographer TO
take those speeches. The afternoon
speech was a very long one, but the
stenographer who took il is ready TO
swear to the accuracy Of his report.
He is an experienced. expert steno.
grapher, whose position depends upon
the accuracy of his work and it is i'm
possible that he should be anything else
than alert, expert, competent. and eX-
act. We find IN comparing his tran
! script oc that speech with the report
| printed in the Deseret News. that there
are many differences, many omissions,
many changes of phraseology and many
different ways Of putting things. That
! is TO say, the speech that was printed
in the News as of Roberts on that Sun
/ day afternoon in the Tabernacle was
I not the speech that he actually dcliv-
I cred The probability is that the News
! had a manuscript copy of that speech
prepared beforehand, and from which
! it printed its report Elder Roberts,
in making his address, undertook TO
! speak eXtemporaneousIy and no doubt
! followed the line of argument as close
! ly as he could remember it as he had
written it out. But the differences arc
very marked, and were 1t worth while
TO print the two versions side by side
many curious differences would be seen
We do not lay this up against Elder
/ Roberts or against the News. II is
something that may occur at any time
that profcssedly extemporaneous
speaker undertakes to follow from
memory the headings and lines of ar
gumeut that he has embodied in his
argument as already written out But
we make this explanation In order
that anyone who has noticed the diff
ference between Tho Tribune report
and the News report of that address
came about.
Returning, however, TO She main
proposition that The Tribune is the only
fair newspaper, and therefore the only
newspaper in Utah, We wish to en-
phasize the point that the newspaper
which habitually refuses to print the
argument or fairly state the position
of its adversary i'll an argument, oceu-
pies decidedly low plane as compared
with the standing Of newspaper which
habitually prints either i'll full or in
fair summary what its opponents have
TO saw. And that is the difference be-
tween The Tribune which always "ives
juat treatment to an opponent and the
other press in Utah; and especially
is it the difference between The Tribune