White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-03-04
A TOWN STUFF

1OoN olNTG.
The deficient star route mail sci
vice has retarded the growth OF tn
outlying regions of Utah, Idaho, ORE
gon, Wyoming, Colorado and Nevada
portions Of which are directly trif
utary to Salt Lake, for so many year
that memory runneth not to the con
trary, the injury to business not be
ing to the jewellers of the isolated re
gions as much as to that city itself
yet the Salt Lake Tribune, which
poses as the leading newspaper o
The intermountain region, has never
once so much as lifted a finger II
opposition to this outrageous injus
tice.
The long and short haul clause oil
the interstate law has lain
inert for the whole of thirty-siN
years of its nominal existence. mean
while doing harm to the internoun
tain country for the benefit Of the
coast that in dollars can only be
measured in billions, yet that same
newspaper lets its financial weather
vane, which is blown in the same di
rection as that of the far western
railways, interfere with it doing its
duty to the people in that vast re-
gion whose interests it processes to
serve.
A c~oast-to-coast automobile high
way is built at the cost of many mil
lions of dollars and 1t proves to be
the most used of all transcontinental
highways; and not only that, 1t
serves a region that has done moro to
make Salt Lake what it is today than
any other place of like distance and
population. yet when a bunch of
crooks put over a plot to Illustrate
this national enterprise by denying
it a right of way through Utah, the
Tribune not only does not expose and
defeat them but actually supports
them in their blackleg methods.
These and numerous other things
in the interest of its supposed con-
stituency this Salt Lake organ has
handled in a negative way or refused
to handle at all in behalf of the peo-
pie of a territory thousands OF miles
in extent and whose situation Is such
as to need all of the assistance pos
sible in their struggle against gov
eminent impotency corporation knav-
cry and political jobbery for the right
to carry on an unequal battle for the
u~nalienable right of existence.
Yet the other day when the man
ager of that newspaper was arrested
for violation of a law that he has
known was on the statute books OF
Utah for two years-the lava against
smoking in public-the Tribune can
find columns and even whole pages
Of space tc spare to fight that law
and to ridicule and belittle the men
who are sworn to enforce 1t.
Not that the law is not silly
enough as so many Utah laws arc
but why did the Sal. Lake publication
not find space to fight it when it was
pending for passage? Why can il
not find SPACE to say wen three lines
against this outrageous mail service
Why does it remain impotent in the
struggles of the people against this
railway oppression? Why does II
oppose the rights Of the people OF
Nevada--especially those of Ely
who have spent pillions of dollars
for the upbuilding of Salt Lake-by
using its influence against the Lin
coin highway, and actually charging
at advertising rates for anything IL
has been asked to publish in the
highways behalf
These things it cannot 40. They
are petty and unimportant or op.
posed to it's own finacial interests. II
has not the space. But It has the
space to spare and the money 20 pay
for cartoons to make its brave fight
in behalf of humanity when its man
ager was arrested for violating the
law by omoking In a public place
a freak law, but n that was never
noticed until the head Of the finan
cial department OF the paper vas not
locked up but was told by an officer
to appear at the county attorneys
Office.
II the law was a freak and so vi
cious why did not this great engine
of publicity, the name of which would
indicate that its purpose in life is to
protect the plcbian from the arbi
trary power of the mighty. discover
its vicious character and expose il
before?
This is small town. penny-ante
stuff
THE UNDERTAKING ISSUE.