The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-10-31
THE BELOW OF THE BULLY.


THE BELOW OF THE BULLY.
Day after day the Tribune tells its constantly di-
mnishing circle of readers that The Herald-Repub-
lican is vile sheet that it is nasty" that it is
abusive, and brutal in its comments
We read these Tribune charges without anger, be-
cause they don't hurt. The Herald Republican goes
to twice many people does the rribune-and
they every whit good people We will not
say they are any better, excepting they
der better influence. They get this paper instead
of the Tribune. And all of these people know The
Herald Republican is not vile sheet They know
is not nasty" They know It is not abusive,
when it speaks in plain terms Of men who them
selves provide the condemnation by their course
provoke quarrel by their cussedness.
And these same readers of The Herald Republican
knOw-for some time other in the years they have
read the Tribune-that that paper is all and
than it charges against its advancing triumphant
competitor. They know the Tribune is unfit to go
into the homes of decent people, that its influence
is for bad; that it proceeds from vile and wicked
and detestabIe which all the wealth of the
world cannot gid into responsibility that the
paper made is bad the men who respon-
sble for it.
1t is not the intention here to claim any milk
and-water policy for The Herald Republican 1t is
the proud promise of this paper tell the truth
about any whom comment is demanded by
pupHc interest OF lHe worth OF a pubic leSSOn we
never have slandered any one, and will We
shall not even Islander the Tribune; and there are
two good reasons for that: Nothing unpleasant
that could be said of that paper and its owners and
its makers would be SANDER but the truth. And
in the second place. Islander Of any one never has
had place in The Herald Republican, and shall
have none
But the impression of the Tribune that it is en-
titled to do all the fighting in this section of the
VINEYARD is
whole lot. For the first six months of the life of
the Inter-Mountan Republican its pages glowed with
universal kindness Nothing could disturb the set
tied purpose live peace with neghbors so long
that course were possible. Brt every day of that
time the paper, its its frends-and the peo-
pie who held to the notion that they had a right to
subscribe for it to the quitting of the Tribune
subjected to such measureIess abuse as has
never been equalled in any paper the continent
In multiplied columns of editorial in ''doctored"
stories, in kilograms forged in the office. in
pretended quotations from visitors in the city in
cartoon, in private speech the street-everywhere
all the time the Tribune abused the Republican and
every one even remotely favorable to it.
No event too public incident too sacred
cause too necessary divert that pirate of pa
pers that buccaneer the of life that guerrilla
in the marshes along the road Of activity its
ruling passion for intolerant lying and sanderous
antagonism to a better paper and its friends.
Now, the owners of the Republican established
reputable business and conducted it in a reputable
manner. They believed there place here for
honest newspaper Representing the principles of
the Republican party. and working every day for
the good of ell the people. It's owners didn't care
cent TO what political party the people of Salt Lake
belonged-it for their political social and COM
mercial interests in every Of its labors It
didn't care straw to what church the people be-
longed-it was for them in every right guaranteed
nv he fifufio nd cd hx-t
of manhood and womanhood.
We believe understand these people and the
problem that must be solved here-a problem which
is bigger than any political party and deeper in
import than any question of church. On that doc
trne the paper aourished On that basis it won its
way to the hearts and the confidence of the people
In four years it has achieved a position unchal-
lenged by any competitor. And on that fair and
honest doctrine it viii go foryard-forever!
The Tribune is a bully That is It's character
and reputation. Its policy has been to club into
compliance with fits demands every man in Utah
And their patience under the consistent hurting of
missiles against them has been one of the matehless
testimonies to the good temper the moderation the
self-control OF Utahs worthy citizens If they
had been the of people described by the Tribune
they would have burned that papers establishment
to the ground thousand times and spoken with
violence their protest against the ISLANDERS that pe
tured them criminals by inheritance and traitors
by choice 1t is to the everlasting credit Of the peo
pie of Utah that they have borne the abuse with
unfaiing good temper. confident that in the future
of the state prize more rich than retributon is
awaiting the true friends of the commonwealth
But The Herald-Republican is not going to sus-
pend publication even for the accommodation of the
Tribune. And it is not going to be buled or beaten
by that paper into any course 1t thinks unyise. or
out of any course it believes to be right The Her
ald-Republican is the best newspaper friend the
state of Utah has We not afraid of the Tribune
nor inclined to dodge one of the bricks it hurls in
direction. We shall continue the making NJ
fearless and free newspaper and beat that bucea
neer of journalism to the end of the chapter lust
as we have constantly, triumphantly and admittedly
beaten it through the changing seasons Of the mast
four years.
This has been fearless and free newspaper ask
ing for itself nothing but Justice and its rights We
believe realize the problem of the people of Utah
and beyond the selfish and vengefu buster Of