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Show - .TO THE PUBLIC- Custom very properly requires a newspaper to declare itself in its first issue. . The necessity or desire-ability desire-ability of its existence, the field it designs to occupy, its specialties and its political bias; besides many other matters that may be deemed of interest or importance to those who ire expected to make it, by their i patronage, a financial success. In f- conformity to the popular custom, - and because it if honorable to show one's colors, and that no person shall be able to misunderstand the purposes and policy of this paper, we give the following outline of the whys and wherefores: Uusurpassed in native wealth, San Pete County labors under financial v disabilities which we purpose to remove re-move by fully Worming the public of the true sure of affairs. Our l - County is"$Yin all that goes to ; make a popuhon wealthy, is second sec-ond to none in the Territory in the abundance of opportunities, developed devel-oped ' and undeveloped resources. Convinced that the railroad facilities, facili-ties, which are an imperious neces-' neces-' sity to our proper advancement, - will be sooner attained by the judicious judi-cious investment of $10,000 in a newspaper devoted to the business interests of this County, than by giving giv-ing f 20,000, ashas been proposed and . pledged, to a railroad corporation V - - as a bonus, we take our place among " the permanent institutions of this County;and these are theR egisver's only apologies for being born. The t people of San Pete County, and more especially the business men, ! have patronized and helped to build up various newspapers not identified with us, in the vain hope that they would reciprocate by ranking our natural advantages as they deserve; - r but repeated disappointments have ,7 . convinced us that "fate helps . those who help themselves." This paper will, therefore, be devoted to ..the business interests of this County, ,t r; the fostering of entetprise, the en-" en-" ' " couragement and directing of capital cap-ital and the "registering" of our V financial importance; and we expect to be "big" enough to fill the County and "slop over" a little. To this end we shall have a paid sub-editor in sev-eral sev-eral of the towns of our County, and earnestly urge upon representative citizens of other places to take ad- .... 1 Vantage of our columns to give their locality just prominence. A feat-, feat-, V are will be made" of Scandinavian v : news.translated by a competent-person, for" the JUgisjkr. We expect ij to conduct our enterprise entirely with Saa Pete County ability, and if this paper fails to 1 accomplish the purp oses for which it is designed, we heartily in vite some other paper to do so; for we art thoroughly convinced that the chrysalis state Oi' San Pete County is past. Devotion to what we consider our legitimate field, will not, however, debar us from dis-. dis-. "cussing - public questions' of direct interest to the majority of our readers, or which directly affect af-fect our County or her citizens. Questions of public interest may be !' - freely discussed through the columns of the Register, and though this paper is identified with the People's Party, all persons shall have a fair hearing so long as they confine themselves to gentlemanly methods , Id their discussion. We claim the ' rieht. which is at once Ihe nreropative " of the newspaper, and the safeguard safe-guard of tjhe people, to criticise th public career of any person, and to praise or censure as the case may demand. So far as we shall be , We to inform ourselves, we will " tell the truth, of men and measures, without regard to previous impress-Jons, impress-Jons, or personal prejudice. We extend the .fraternal . hand to all persons engaged in like avocations, and expect to be too busy in keeping .the promises herein contained, to ' : ' ; liavt time to engage in recrimina-rf recrimina-rf prions, personal J abuse pr other disgusting dis-gusting features of accepted journalism; journal-ism; but if any. paper attacks us, we .1' will" endeavor .. tomake the public sorry for said . paper. A certain space will b reserved for literary productions of special merit, and J 1 "i no patent matter will be used. Of .., course we want your patronage, and ' the patronage of all wide-awake progressive people who believe in encouraging home enterprise, and developing home resources, and who are able to read and pay for a paper; and these include the great frrity of the people of San Pete. ... ... |