Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-01-08
TRYING TO HEDGE,

| IRWIN To hEDHEF
From a story current on the streets
| and from the appearance Of its pages
| II seems that the Salt Lake Tribune Is
/ hedging, beating a back track and
| trying to get down among the people
| of Utah; in other words. 1t is trying TO
| become decent The Tribune claims
! that the other Salt Lake papers keep
showing up the Tribunes record. and
| TO defend itself from these attacks it
cannot get down on the level" De-
cent people are discovering that TO read
the Tribune. with all its revolving
falsehoods. innuendoes and ISLANDERS. is
real injury. hence the Tribune sub
scription list is diminishing daily.
Business men are discovering that to
advertise in the Tribune is an actual
detriment. Merchants in Salt lake
saw that their business increased rap
idly after they withdrew their adver-
Using from that sheet. People who
have been slandered by the Tribune
land every boy and girl. and man and
woman IN Utah has been misrepre.
sented vllhed, and injured by that
paper). know that when they patronize
firm that advertises in the Tribune,
they are indirectly putting money into
the Tribune Golfer People do not Xix,
10 boost an enemy and a traitor. or to
my.
Ebert Hubbard speaks Of pivotal
points and the law of diminishing re-
turns In his "Philistine," and Little
Journeys" The Tribune reached its
pivotal point the day the so-called
American" party elected Ezra Thomp-
son for mayor of Salt Lake. Ever
since that date, the Tribune has put
forth extra effort. and has received for
gt,Ia fr.Fe
Thompson resigned He could not
stand the depravity OF the Tribune par
~ and the quicksands into which IL
was rapidly leading him. The next
great effort OF the Tribune was TO md
a Democrat who could boost the So
called American" party. They found
such a person IN John S. Bransford. Mr.
Bransford was a stanch Democrat with
a little American" party attachment
and IL was only by roping in a great
Democrat as an effort that the Tribune
got a little American" party attach
ment mayor FOR returns. Look at the
diminishing returns TO the politicians
who advertised in the Tribune at our
last election The so-called "Ameri-
can" party was completely swsmped.
while the Democrats lost thousands OF
votes simply by allowing the Tribune
10 advertise the Democratic candidates
on the SO-HdAlcu american party DALI
lots Great effort small returns The
Republicans would not advertise In the
Tribune. nor on its so-caIled "Ameri-
can" party ballots. and they received
large returns At the school board
election In December, all candidates
who advertised I'm the Tribune met
with overwhelming defeat Great ef-
fort diminishing returns. A great
majority OF the people Of Salt Lake
are utterly sick of and Disguised with
the TTibune's hierarch- hunting and its
continued ISLANDERS. About all they
can see IN the Tribune is polygamy.
There has been more polygamy I'm
he Tribune than there was from the
time the wisest man. solomon, with
his seven hundred wives down TO
September. 1890, when the Mormons
abandoned Il. Too much Of anything
rs "a great plenty There are thou
sands Of people in Salt Lake City who
see advertisements In the Tribune and
knowing tho policy Of that paper to-
ward the people OF Utah are naturally
distrustful ~ IT, All who advertise ina
the Tribune as an effort get diminish
ing returns as a result Ask the peo-
pie who once advertised in the Trib-
une and who are now advertising In
other papers.
DEATH-BED REPENTANCE.
one day last week (which was the
first for years. there was not one
word Of anti-Utah or anti Mormon rot
I'm the Tribune. The Tribune is TOO
late with les remorse; IL is a death bed
repentance Tho Tribune locks the
barn after the horse Is stolen Many
self-rcspocting people stopped reading
the Tribune months ago There are
only two classes OF people who real
lv love TO read &c now: one is the
jack Mormon of the Hans Freese. the
Roy. y. j.. Clemmenson and Theresa
Stalker kind, who really love 10 hear
the Tribune SANDER, Willy and heap
nfamy upon their own fathers and
mothers, sisters and brothers. friends
and relatives. the schools and the
state OF Utah. The other class, who
like To read the Tribune. with its
nauseatng and anti-Utah details is
the oFer-religious. 2N4 Gentle who
believes in a literal sure thns for-
yer-and-over-b hoitomless t.
10 which an Mormons and sinners win
be cons lgned
IL A DILEMMA
When the Tribune stops SANDER
ms Utah and the Mormons 10 viii
lose its last friends. Tho Tribune. 100