The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-02-14
AS OTHERS SEE US.

ybe Eeoo Gazette Uses "a <tza&e <
IeS~ 9enaarSs a6oo{ t6e Salt Lake news
papers that war with each other and
il drives home some truths that have
been obvious 70 the people here for
long time. Among other things. il says:
Every time we pick up the salt Lake
papers, which is nearly every day for
We are interested i'm the lusty city to
the east OF us. we are constrained to
comment upon the harmful influence
the newspapers OF that city must have
upon the growth OF the community
which gives them sustenance. Instead
of working together for the general
undo each other and seem to he willing
to resort 70 any measure to gain advan-
tage over one another.
Newspapers can be of vast aid in
the upbuilding Of a community. But
when they engage in warfare such as
that which is now carried on by the
salt Lake press they become a positive
source Of evil They divide sentiment:
they kill all chance of pulling together;
they frighten enterprise; they are
thorn in every mans side.
no higher encomium upon the posi-
bilities of Salt Lake can be paid than
to say that in the face Of the obstacles
created by warning press Salt Lake
has prospered and grown steadily.
Some day. when the last of the bloody
warriors Of the press has been gathered
to his fathers, there will be peace in
the fair Utah city. and then It will
greatly flourish. But in the meantime
the newspapers are seeing TO it that
Roadway Is made only in the face Of
unnecessary odds"
If the Gazette man will look over his
files of The Herald. he will see that its
policy comedies with his belief exact
ly. This paper has been run on the
theory that the first business of a news
paper is to get the news and print ii
straight-all OF it. In public affairs il
has not hesitated TO express it's con-
victions on every subject OF Importance,
but it has not let it's political opinions
bias or distort it's news reports. 1t has
tried to be fair TO it's opponents as well
as to its friends. 1t has kept i'm view
the value to the state and
city OF such a presentation Of their adj
vantages and opportunities as would
attract population and capital. Tt has
never assumed that any large part of
the people OF Utah are unfit for citizen
ship. nor that. people who dissent from
its opinions must necessarily be i'm
beetles or dishonest
on the contrary. The Herald believes
and has always believed, that the prob
lens which beset this state will be
worked out by the people of the state,
and that the attempt to promote per-
sonaI and political ends by abuse and
vituperation win only defer the settle
ment OF controversies which every
citizen deplores and would
gladly see ended.
As for the other newspapers OF Salt
Lake. The Herald believes this city has
better news service, better newspapers
in size and quality and general stan
dards than any city of It's class in this
country 1t is n misfortune that the
complications OF politics. the ambitions
OF individuals. have involved some of
the newspapers in what seems to us a
prcftless and injurious warfare; but
for all that Salt Lake is going ahead,
as the Reno editor observes. and it is
In way 10 work out its destiny salts
factorily in spite OF this handicap.