The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1908-11-02
SHOOTS "M0UTH''
BADLY TWISTED
Glaring Inconsistencies Are
Pointed Out in the Issue
of Sunday.
HEADINGS CONFLICT
WITH BODY OF STORIES
Clumsy Attempt Is Made to
Manufacture Little POliti-
cal Capital.

Consistency is rot one Of the strong
points of tho mcndaCious Smoot
HMouth. In fact, this alleged news.
paper is not troubled in the least by
its many Inconsistencies. no matter how
glaring they may be, This is easily &C.
counted for, however. by the course OF
Misrepresentation and living by which
il has nssiduously stultified itself
throughout the political campaign. and
is therefore not unusual,
Not loss than Eve or six of these
glarinC Inconsistencies appeared in the
Sunday morning issue OF tho 4" Mouth. -
On page 5. column 2. in treating of the
purchase of the Metropolitan hotel
property by local syndicate. it pro-
claimed in flaring headlines that the
" deal is first of series, many OF which
are under way, and down IN the body
syndicate will be active in It's chosen
Gne.' and % already the syndicate has
options on other pieces of valuable 10
cal real estate and several further deals
are now actually pending.
On page :. columns l and :, the
Mouth - takes another tack and
shrieks in big headlines that Cuisines
is waiting for the election Labor
Market is Better is another head.
" General Impression. However, is That
This is Merely for Election Purposes. -
IS still another head. General bust
ness conditions throughout the week
can best be described as at a stand
still. y is the ''lead' 70 the story which
treats of general business conditions To-
callv.
Cog is Slipped.
Down in the article, however, the re.
porter slips cog and saws that "'rail-
road earnings are estimated 8 little
heavier than formerly: - Gin retail cir
cles the week has been, q fairly good
one; - the hardware trade, which has
been heavy tor, months past. shows but
little decllne;' 'clothiers, both of the
ready made variety and the merchant
tailors. report fairly good week: -
groceries. both wholesale and retail,
show a steady demand and some large
shipments are being got ready TO go out
the first of next week, - and "all In
All spirit Of optimism prevails in all
lines of trade, notwithstanding the COM
parat!ve dullness Of conditions at pres.
ent, but IN real estate circles things
have been very quiet. Apparently
the reporter who wrote the story did
not write the head and the "hcad.
liner did not read the story. There
fore the chaos
But this mass OF Inconsistencies is
crowned by. the most glsring Of all on
page 10, columns S. and j. DESPITE
the Mouth s - determination 30 have
hard times and dullness in business. tho
city and county building man slips in a
big bead announcing Banner Year for
New Structures; Record This Year VIII
Exceed Last by Three-Quarters of a
Million" This article. in the lead, con.
hdently asserts that ''the week Just
beginning is expected 10 establish a
new record for the last quarter of the
wear 1908. The permits for tho week
ending Saturday amounted 10 $4,000,
bringing the total for the year TO near
" 100000 more than the record for
the whole of 1907
As usual, the Mouth got of on
the wrong foot. That's all.
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an infiamed mucous membrane, is rad