The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-03-25

p .ss nature of its purpose is
'ne Before the Revolution the tn
nublished were mainly de-
pers n pa tbe colonial heart
te hTT,nng5lish crown, and to the
the Enk : national patriotism
en GGrnntion Gr of the Constitution
be aaup; app;ng Of our present. gov
sse newspapers were LOT 4
tnneetbpieces inc of the polittIlcians 8
au ppolitics was as bitter as
N TneIp mt the subservient edl-
ocd. Dd pd' il was through them
on folnu f,;ans were enabled to
b s.S pOl,''Srs wars. and they rebelled'
.bs era when the news
e saTSS lSe personal property. OF ITS IS
pa "; .d;.or with an ambition 10
~ .,:s;.s sal.p This type fourished
D pc1l.,sSd pc1lasSes. and during its con
,se editors moulded the me puI. pmnI.
- spt and shaped the pubhg pol
gTN' gIN rirh s all-powerful in politics,
Rep NY NY" was still thing which
tPspeih hut few of the masses;
sl'0 4 printed news only as
cen'' and excluded from IT'S col
me, aA all that would interest
reafly or ~ women. Then the
pe0ple W :S. ,r,ncippl mis-
Tr rI.tlScring and publishing the
y |, es.; ,esi,,;cs was still most import
ror fon and each prominenG pa
|cFeye,' ..oTpann of one of the
..r;ss, ;ss fighting for its own SAINTS
s,, nnn scoundrels without let or
owl I'astly comes the great
rN' ,owspaper of today, printing
n I'D with it something for
.mher ~ her of every family. 1t
j;rely interest in politics at
% %;rstead Of being tied TO any
~ eu' nartv's apron strings. is
'H.u ~ entirely independent as to
|.d measures
a.rslopment of the American
ssr Is best shown in the evolu-
ibe handling of news. When
Z NJ Henry Harrison, ninth Presi-
W. United States, died a month
. 'b bsd taken the oath of office IN
IA was succeeded by John Tyler,
N ~ greatest newspapers in the
J tod ali il thought worth while
H. death of the President IN a
4 W :; a column. 1t didn't men,
a. tart that Mr.. Tyler would
4 A kim. evidently assuming that
E.ar ought to know who was
k.Sdent' A few weeks later the
n Columns hlazed with comment
'fylsr, but the news said never
!, Lincoln was assassinated the
! New York newspapers next
Il published four columns about
s Herald s display headline vas
;rgIe word "Important. - Six
r1sr later, when Garfield was
NJ FIRST DAYS news was given
4 York in thirty.six columns OF
d matter, No portraits were
4 Of the President, and the only
1fion was a diagram of the rail
nation where the assassin at
bis victim. After another
wears Mckinley was shot at
!. 0pe New York newspaper
-sruinQ had twelve pages of mat
|e.srning tine assassination. IN
4 iTenty.one halftope engravings
tirtoon depicting the grief Of
6.ksl nation.
member. 1885, there was a great
New York which destroyed 500
} worth of property. Until that
7Aen fires had been reported at
vas with a mere statement of
nnbu OF buildings burned and
'nlue. James Gordon Bennett
he story of the big blaze and put
'''hnman interest," features, de-
z the work Of the 6remen, the
With broken hose, and incidents
the spectators. That was the
Ing Of the 'story in detail. - 1t
300 copies of the paper, and by
vas printed agnin the next day
|dditions. In 1871 this same pa.
tOted page TO the beginning of
1at FIRE in Chicago, and a year
Hound FIVE pages Of matter to
lbout the great San Francisco
patton.
. toe yacht America won the cup
!, which no European ever has
'hs 10 recapture, the New York
disposed of the race in less than
"a OF column. The last time
z vas run a Sunday paper found
'gss Of news in it.
the growth of the news has
Toe facility for getting it. The
alsd Press has become the great
8Fgtbering agency in the world,
The telegraph came New York
Employed swift yachts TO meet
coming from Europe; carrier
; we're sent from Halifax, where
<au ships first landed, and pony
g, were maintained between
.WE and the capital. During the
y var q Baltimore newspaper or
pony express from Baltimore
Orleans and got its war news
l,sad of the Government service.
st use to which the telegraph
" was to carry news for the
In lS4e Henry Clay made
ou the Mexican war al Lexing-
Y IL was taken eighty miles
'nhau, and from there tele.
10 the New York Herald,
Pnnted 1T next morning in full.
,ne hrst speech ever sent by
W. lls publication caused n YER
,Tnsation. In that same wear.
\ " oregon boundary question
4, ournlng issue and trouble with
was expected, the cry of
bss |tvlf forty or 6ghtp caused a
snol ,a OF papers to charter a
,St Doat 10 get the latest news
s,.s n lincoln was killed more than
4 ers elapsed before the comment
Il, european press appeared in
In neWspapers. When Garfield
Az AZ 'ne Associated Press furnished