The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-11-01
THE sULLY's REWARD.

THE BULLY's REWARD.
And after all, what has 1t profted the Tribune
its overbearing to follow the sort of fight
they prefer? What have they gained by it? How
has it benefited any one?
We do not speak of their political activity. They
could have worked for the American party without
at all departing from the conduct Of gentemen-a
thing that to have occurred to them. They
could have fought through the years for any po-
litical creed. for any candidate and yet have held
to the behavior in the decent circles they
have invaded with their brutality, their obscenity
their rowdyism, their defiance of socety's conven-
lions, and the rules that civilization has adopted.
They helped TO make Reed Smoot a United States
senator, and then because he would not use his
church influence to return Tom Kearns to the senate
"a place Tom Kearns had disgraced through four
regrettabe years-they turned on Mr.. Smoot with a
virulence that has never been equaIed And all the
methods they learned in street fights, all the Ian
guage they had preserved from their favorte stews
they have employed for the past six years I'm their
denuncation OF a senator who has served every one
in the state who has lived clean life, who has
earned whit of the dastardly abuse these own
ers OF the Salt Lake Tribune have heaped upon him.
And with equal venom they have assaied his friends
The thing would not be so intolerable If they had
not presumed to take complete command of every
avenue of life in city and state and nation. Not
launch industry but they criticise IL
Not a law can be proposed but they pass upon it.
Not a word can be uttered in differing from them
but they assai with the measureless maevolence of
character assassin the very heart of the life
that displeases them.
They have taken to pushing their snubby and
impertinent into every phase Of public and
private life. Without they invite themselves.
Without warrant they pronounce condemnation-as
If the whole world their business.
1t is an unfortunate thing and lamentabe thing
for men of that stripe be entrusted with the
duct of a newspaper business which was forever
honorable till they debased il. There is a power in
the press which with character and ability al
ways have recognized, and which they would not
abase for any consideration But these Of the
Salt Lake Tribune have conception Of that view.
They regard their paper as their power-and that as
their right to use the power wherever and against
whomsoever they WILL
And the matter is the more deplorable in Utah
because it is perfectly known that they neither
of them has the ghost of to sit in judgment
on any one-no matter how low. They perfectly
known to the people of Utah. The crowds that fear
them that knuckle to them, that excuse them, that
paate their ofenses, don't do it because they re-
spect the of the Tribune. They do it because
it is easier 20 run from a skunk than to skin him.
Their drunkenness. their gambling. their notorious
adulteries their established business dishonesties-
these do not qualify them to act mentors to the
morale the community. Their past lily establishes
their right pretend desire for decency in life
or rectitEde in trade.
With a love of revenge, with passion for money
they follow the bent of their natural selvesand in
that following the state with their colossal
hypocrisy.
And the journalistic impotence of the Tribune Is
a natural result of the souls which inspire its man.
agement. Good work cannot be done in evil
cause. Worthy men, however able, cannot forever
make silk purses out of sows' ears.
So that while the Tribune has been one constant
tissue OF vulgarlty and brutality against the Repub-
lican at first and against The Herald Republican
later this paper has prospered with every passing
month With double the number of readers possessed
by the Tribune. this paper has calmly pursued the
tenor of It's way, giving the public better pa
per for a lower price. giving the people the news
working for the interests of the statewide the
Tribune has been scattering to the four winds of
heaven the declaration that utah is a community
of criminals"
And success has marked the decent course-as it
is bound to d. always The neutrality-suspicious. is
the greatest newspaper In the state the best friend
the people, the slave of boss, the servant Of no
power the dupe of no tricksters 1t is fearless and
free and the mad beowings of that bully up street
shall make it deviate whit from the path of duty
the course of honor the habit of clean journalism
Let It be known to all the world that the Tribune
is enemy the people that feed it. foe to the
state that harbors it, to the cause most
important to the nation and traitor with weapons
IN the camp Of good men.
It's infamy has not prospered 1t in the past
Neither will infamy prosper 1t in the future. 1t may
hold to It's course 10 the day Of its breaking. But
either the Salt Lake Tribune will learn decency and
follow it, it win become the costIiest crime that
even clowns have ever committed.
Why de you suppose every gambler and every