The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-02-20
SOME NEWS PERvERsITIEs.


tried to wiggle out of its awkward po-
sition as being the club partner of
the Cosmopolitan Magazine which is
printing the Alfred Henry Lewis "Vi-
per on the Hearth - articles, the "Vi-
per" being Mormonism. But it WASH 4
the Cosmopolitan into Mormon homes
to the extent of it's power by reason
of the clubbing arrangements entered
into between the News and that maya
zine, and now the church organ is get
ting it hot and heavy. And there is
ward position.
The News is also putting itself to
the bad on the matter of the Develop
ment League, an organization made in
this city last week for the purpose of
boosting the State, inviting in new set.
tiers and new capital, and advancing
the development of the resources of
Utah. At least, that is what those
who organized the league thought they
were doing. The News, however.
seems TO think that what they actually
did was to organize n political party.
this party to fight the Americans, and
so, snuff out such vital progress as
has been shown through the efforts Of
that party in bringing Salt Lake City
to the front We do not doubt, how
ever, but that everyone connected with
the Development League will utterly
repudiate the idea that they organized
political party, and that they will
also flatly reject the suggestion that
they are in the political field. 1t has
been favorite dodge of the News,
however, to plead for help in its po-
litical fight, asking this help from the
business men; but these are too bright
to yield to the idea, they see that by do
ing so they would extinguish the vital
spark of progress in the State and
would hamper their own business en-
largement.
Again the News, referring to maga
zine attacks upon Utah, the worst of
which has been made by it's own club
partner, says that the trouble here is
writing magazine articles sent out
from anti Mormon headquarters here
and but for the adverse influence OF
which our celebrated singers would
have gone to New York - OF course,
the man who wrote that knows that
neither Of the statements made is true
He knows first of all that those maga-
zine articles are not sent out from any
anti Mormon headquarters here, and he
knows that the real reason the visit
of the Salt Lake tabernacle choir east
was stopped was the frantic fight that
the Ogden tabernacle choir made to
obtain the honor for itself That fight
resulted In canceling the engagement
for both.
The same paper renews its absolutely
silly charge that Americanism is bad
for the progress of the State as shown
by the census figures But as those
census figures prove that the chief
progress made in the State was under
American party jurisdiction, the plea
of the News simply shows weakness
of mind which leads to statements that
are absolutely dishonest.
Finally, the News referred adverse.
ly to "the part The Tribune and its
owners have taken in inducing other
magazine sensatioD-mongers to turn
their batteries on Utah. - The News,
of course, knows that there is no truth
in this; that The Tribune has in no way
induced any magazine TO turn its bat
teries upon Utah, nor even TO write
upon Utah affairs. This has been
thoroughly threshed ont and set
tied. The News editorial writer
understands this fully and he knows
that in writing as he does on this
question he is simply pandering to pref
udice In n way that he hopes will
make him popular, but which in fact
shows full evidence Of utter mendacity
We may in this connection remind the
editor of the News that it is not healthy
to get "all het up, as he is doing,
in this cold weather. And so. he should
be more seasonable as we'll as more
reasonable.