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Prohibition: Sale by Drink ON APRIL 29, 1886, the Salt Lake Evening Democrat, a daily and weekly publication which crusaded against The Tribune and the Mormon Church for about two years before expiring from lack of financial support, had hailed as a notable news event: "The News and Tribune agree—That worthless dogs should be killed." 1 The point of the Democrat's jibe was exaggerated but not grossly so. For it must have seemed to some newspaper readers of that era that The Tribune and the Deseret News energetically sought out issues to disagree upon, more from a lust for controversy than from dedication to convictions. Any such tendency had completely disappeared by 1911. Thereafter The Tribune and Deseret News frequently took the same position on public issues and both newspapers quite obviously avoided confrontations over trivialities which in the old days would have put them at each other's throat. Newspaper manners had undergone a marked change not only in Salt Lake City but across the country generally. Some differences did remain and on occasion the two newspapers found themselves on opposite sides of a controversial issue seeking to persuade the reading public to their respective points of view. Nevertheless, editorial differences were argued on the issue without assaults on the motives, veracity, intelligence and sincerity of the opposition.
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