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Show A LESSON FROM EXPERIENCE. The old saying that a fool and his money are soon parted finds apt illustration illus-tration in the establishment of those newspapers which are brought into existence ex-istence solely to satisfy personal ambition, ambi-tion, or for the furtherance of individual individ-ual ends. From time to time papers i are started, and even Catholic papers, which their projectors assure a waiting public are designed to fill a universal and crying need. The history of these papers is usually brief. A few months if precarious existence and they pass away, while the people who have paid their Hubscriptions in advance are without with-out their paper or their money, and the irresponsible promoters of a needless enterprise turn their attention to other schemes. The Intermountain Catholic addresses these words of advice to the Catholics of the intermountain country, confident that it wAl prove beneficial, even should they be unheeded by ajiyone who feels that he, -too, can supply this "crying need," which has existence only in his own stupendous imagination. There is room in this western country coun-try for one high-class Catholic journal, which The Intermountain Catholic aims A to be. Experience has proven that the field which the Colorado Catholic oeeu- jiit-u nur iii'ietu yt-a.r, anu wnicn is now filled by the Intermountain Catholic and Colorado Catholic as one paper, offei-s opportunity for only one paper. Three times within the past ten years Catholic papers have bc-en started in oi "position to the old established journal jour-nal of Colorado. The number of people relying on the representations made, paid their subscriptions in advance to I these publications, not one of which lived more than six months. These incidents in-cidents are given to the consideration of the Catholics of the "West, so that Ihey may net be fooled a fourth time. ia week we pointed out to our readers what we believed the ideal Catholic paper should be. The Inter mountain Catholic will maki every effort to attain to that Ideal, and asks consideration for itself solely on the ground of merit. It seeks no sentimental senti-mental support, but goes to the people as a Catholic newspaper, fit for the Catholic home, and deserving of Catholic Cath-olic patronage. ' |