The Salt Lake Tribune (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-Current
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
3,616 issues from 1904 to 1914, published in Salt Lake City, Utah, digitised for Chronicling America.
In 1871, three ex-communicated members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints launched the daily Salt Lake Tribune. The first daily edition appeared on April 15, announcing that the new publication would “be a purely secular journal,” making it “the organ of no religious body whatsoever.” The new paper had emerged from the ruins of an earlier venture called Utah Magazine, which failed when Mormon officials urged a boycott, calling the periodical “directly opposed to the work of God.” Undaunted by the demise of the weekly magazine, the Tribune founders intensified their opposition to the Church, which controlled the influential opposition paper, Deseret News.
By 1873, the Tribune was struggling financially, forcing the original publishers to sell to three newspapermen from Kansas. These transplanted Kansans quickly turned up the heat in the paper’s conflict with the Church establishment, focusing especially on attacks on the Mormon practice of polygamy. The Tribune‘s anti-Mormon stance was illustrated by an August 30, 1877 eulogy of Brigham Young, who had died the previous day. The late president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the Tribune proclaimed, “by the system of terror he adopted, by his arrogant assumption of Divine power, by his unscrupulous use of the ignorance and credulity of his followers was…able to kill all dissensions in the fold.” Such editorial assaults struck at the very heart of Mormonism, and Church newspapers were quick…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Chronicling America
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
- Rights
- The Library of Congress believes that the newspapers in Chronicling America are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions. Newspapers published in the United States more than 95 years ago are in the public domain in their entirety.
- Credit
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities
- Who can read it
- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
- Archive
- Library of Congress