Show THE UTAH INDEPENDENT'S FIRST ANNIVERSARY The Utah Independent is one year This dated commences its second or In reviewing the year's history of the Utah I see many days of real pleasure and and varied hard The saying is that newspaper that can keep its' head above water for the first twelve has learned to swim and has reached a sure footing on solid Over one-half of newspapers die before they are three months One large railroad man in Salt Lake City will not contract advertisements with any newspaper that has not attained an age of six Careful people hesitate before they pay a subscription in advance for a new Advertisers are slow in patronizing a paper that has not attained an age of stability and A new newspaper has to withstand a financial strain and a pressure equal to a run on a and if lives through the it made its debut on a solid platform of public When I started the Utah one year I had had no previous experience whatever in journalism or in the management of a I had never written for any publication letters on the Utah situation in a Salt Lake paper that was a power in this state during the life of its John My letters in were quite extensively copied in other papers a fact which gave me a slight standing among the people of While the Utah Independent does not claim to be perfect fact there is no perfection south of the Pearly it has steadily improved from the first 1 waa very fortunate in securing the or of J. H. a veteran editor and a very scholarly and vigorous who contributed many of ie good articles found in the This for many weeks to Paul will edit Doors in the a ment just added to the These Studies' promise to be the most instruct and interesting of anything similar character ever public in the great During the coming year Mr Wanda A. abbreviate a society and will be connected the editorial and you ci j expect many spicy writt ups from her capable I every department of ft Utah Independent will be it We will take more pain in our which w j somewhat neglected during i past J A great pressure was to bear on me early in the yearl the state-wide prohibitionists they- insisted that I strict ten perance should state-wide through tl columns of the was informed that I had much t gain and nothing to lose if I joined as many of my si scribers were ii some of my friends withdrew their tion because I would not join The Utah Independent motto is that friendship nor pelf shall influence it from doing its plain and to do right because it is will always be using temperance in all and domineering and over-zealous in While most of the prohibitionists are clean and are trying to make the world they do not get at the root of child is the father of the Educate the children to be temperate and the saloon will die a natural death in the next All prohibition or sumptuary laws are steps backwards in liberty-loving free nation and are acknowledgment's that our public and private schools and the home training of our children are so that we have to invoke the law to restrain or regulate the unfinished or Wrongly educated The subscription list of the Utah Independent has gradually increased since first came from the and today it probably has the largest circulation of any weekly newspaper in There is probably not one postoffice in Utah but what receives at least one over copies are sent to regular subscribers in other The Independent subscription list could probably have been doubled if we had resorted to the questionable methods of guessing lottery voting cash dish premiums or any other A boom usually turns out to be a and in the long run does more harm than The Utah Independent gives value received without any trimmings or as over one hundred unsolicited testimonials that we have published during the past year have In I de- sire to thank my friends and sub- scribers who have stood by me dur- ing the of the Utah In- and I will try to pay you in a measure by improving the Independent in every Tours V. S. of planets has the most The because f she is constantly changing |