The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-11-26
TEE sMooT TRUST souEAL.

Il ne tfHSl organ SaNc uuo ycobe''o9
a very loud and long "squcal.' That
paper has been diliGcnt in fostering the
trusts. ill defending tic tariff bill,
which establishes and fortifies the
trusts. 1t has played in with the Gin
terests" all the time. Now, all at once,
pcntant thief, in a pretended attack on
the trusts. and TO claim that The TrIb-
upc is owned by the ''coal trust. y The
Tribune is the only paper that Instant
" and always fights every oppression
and every abuse. and it has done all
that it is possible for it to do to pro!
tect the people against the operations of
the robbng trusts This is so well
known that it is only necessary to call
attention TO it 10 emphasize the fact.
But the Smoct organ is Just as well
known on the other side of the fence
representative, the servant of monopoly
and greed. 1t stands in with the sugar
trust and tho salt trust locally, and
must stand logically with the coal trust.
| Nationally il stands in with every trust
that is built mp and fostcrcd by the
bunko tariff bill; and all of them are
so built up and fostcrcd by it. For
concern like that TO undertake to come
out now as trust fighter or trust
buster is such an anomaly that
| every ono naturally inquiries what the
Inconsistency means. Of course, it can
L,,I hot hDt
the organ is pursuing It's old tactics
precisely as developed two years ago
in its fraudulent prohibition fight
through which it was able TO bleed the
liquor interests of this State.
1t is absolutely unscrupulous; Iurid-
minded seallywag OF a yellow journal.
II tells and repeats day after day
st yrics about The Tribune holding up
the liquor interests or the gambling in
tcrcsts or one thing or another, for
money, cmbelllshing its stories with
fanciful Instances and silly adornments,
the whole thing being fabric of IT'S
evil Imagination, absolutely false from
beginning to end, The Tribune has
never in the whole period of its exist
cncc taken ono dollar of hush money,
or bribc-money, or any kind Of money eX
cept in honest and legitimate business,
This is thoroughly we'll known TO all
this community and because of that fact
The Tribune has standing and an in
fluencc that otherwise would be alto
gether Impossible and that the black
mailing. conscieDcelcss Smoot organ
could never hope TO gain.
With respect to the arbitrary raise of
half dollar ton in coal, The Tribune
denounced il rs soon as The raise was
made. II is the only paper III the city
that did so. The Smoot organ says that
we only denounced it once. We'll, if
that paper bad denounced it even once
before election it would be entitled to
that much credit. II failed to do so.
but after election it hatched up black
mailing scheme whereby il bopcd TO
hold up thc coal combine and the trans
its usual tctics the Smoot organ tells
a childish story TO the effect that the
American party leaders urged The Trib
une TO make the raise in the price of
coal a ''party ISSUE and that "the
sub5boss' thought so we'll of it that
there was one editorial published by
The Tribune declaring that the increase
was not iustifiablc, ''hut. says The
Smoof mouthpiecc, $50 soou as the big
chief III the management saw 1t there
were things doing in The Tribune of
ice There were no more editorials
against the coal trust and The American
party leaders were told that The Trib
unc could no; support any attack upon
tho coal trust, so that campaign Issue
was dropped - That whole series of al
legations and circumstances being abso-
lutely fictitious. There was no such
plea made by the American arty lead
crs. There was no pressure brought
10 bcor upon The Tribune, either for or
against The protest against the raise
III the pr of coal was made on the
sole initiative of the editor of The Trib
une without consultation with anyoue.
/ He knew as matter of course and of
fact That he WAS right, and proceeded
accordingly. There was no s. big chief
business, o. calling off, Of The attack
upon the coal trust, There was no re
monstrancc There was no hindrance.
The coal raise was arbitrarily an
nounre5 and put into effect on Novem-
her lst. The election, was on the Sth-
That would leave only one week in
which all of the appeals, the consulta-
tious, the "callings Of aud all that
sort Of thing would have to be done.
Rather a short time to form campaign
plans or get action for Or on election
| Issues.
The whole "squcal' - Of the Smoot
organ is absolutcly and cbiIdishly false
in every point and in every detail. save
only as to the fact that The Tribune
/ protested against and denounced the