The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-11-19
"SUFFIOIENT GINGER.

! CITY the week pTlOT 10 cleCllou udy, u'
Tribune promptly denounced it and pro
tested against the raise. This paper
held that it was an economic question
that ought to be considered separate
from the election, and without refer
epce to the then oncoming contest al
the ballot box. The other papers OF
this city took different view. appear
ing to consider it political question
and waited until after election before
saying anything about it.
y the same time, we pointed out thai
the evident tendency of corporations
that are bnttressed and defended by the
laws and by ,hc orders Of the National
Government is to take advantage of
far as they can. We showed that the ten
dency Of the National authorities was
toward consolidation and monopoly
with all tho evils that follow in the
train of that form of commercial alb
sorption. The bunko tariff bill was
framed expressly to bolster up aud
strengthen the corporations and com.
bincs, The Presidential orders with
dawing the coal lands from entry have
simply the effect of confirming the
monopolies already established and pre-.
venting any interference with them.
Now comes the Smoot organ, which is
the mouthpiecc of the standpat regime.
and which defends the bunke tariff law
ko far as its ignorance will allow. and
which sustains Smoot in his monopoly
crazed career. denouncihg the coal ra lse
now that election is over. and calling
upon The Tribune to help it, The Trib-
uue. however. knowing the character of
that blackmailing sheet. remembering
ITS holdnp campaign against the brew
ers &rd liquor men, wherein ii brought
IN the prohibition propaganda simply
for the purpose of making the liquer
interests put up for it, and knowing the
falsitv, tcn.heartedness, treacherv,
and villainy of that newspaper, declines
to Join with it in its matchmaking
operations. We arc satisfied that if
the coal combine would pay that paper
a few dollars it would switch To their
side as rapidly as it switched to the
liquor side after it's abandonment of
the prohibition cause, when the liquor
men bought it off.
The tribune is still of the opiuion
that it was when 1t denounced the
raise III coal rates. 1t believed that
that raise was sheer and robbinc op.
preston upon this community 1t be-
lleves now, as it did then, that the coal
combine feels that it is lust as good
as any other combine; that as the others
are all helped by the powers that be In
the Nation-arc strengthened by the
standpat legislation and the markets
of the country delivered to them to do
as they will with tbem-this local coal
combine feels free to do: as the others
do. We object to the whole monopolis:
tic programme, both local and general
But with respect to the blackmail
ing scheme of the Smoot organ, We
leave that concern to fight it out on
its own lines May be it can compel
the coal combine to pay it some hush
money; may be not. At any rate The
Tribune Is not in that sort of business
1t has never accepted dollar from any
body whether for hush money, black
mail, or on any account whatever, cx~
cept straig ightforward business. The
Smoot organ has made itself so in
famously notorious, it is so well known
as q blackmailer, that no other Daper
can afford to be caught in its company.
If the Smoot paper would come out in
a square, honest fight against the coal
combine. it would join The Tribune in
thai fight. But The Tribune does not
Join the Smoot organ. because it knows
it would be betrayed the moment that
concern could get the Sugar that it
is after.
The Smoot paper begs The Tribune
to help 1t "to put sufficient ginger