Show LOOKING BACKWARD WITH this number of the broad ax As we shall have completed our first year of journalistic life one year acro ago g without friends money subscribers or advertisers we is issued no I 1 of vol I 1 anti and launched the little craft on the perilous sea of journalism with democracy the free coinage of the honest silver dollar and the interests of utah as our rudder and sail we have thus far survived the rocks and storms and today our little craft is in making aking weekly voyages to the people of utah and many of the other states bearing messages of truth and liberality to its numerous readers during the year we have enlarged 0 our paper to four times its original size and our list of supporters has grown beyond our most sanguine e expectation we started with less than one hundred sub scribers bers now we are arning learning ne the one thousand mark while we have made no money through the enterprise yet we have kept free from debt and have as true and devoted a class of readers as one could wish we desire to express our oar gratitude to the many noble men and women of utah who ha have ve stood by us in our struggle to establish a clear cut independent P eident democratic newspaper of general circulation |