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Show M fJOUKVUIMIO .SLOl'illlS or MSI'iiMi. HI Next to Salt J,ake City, our ambl- HI tlous neighbor at the Junction of the HI national highway a Is untitle J to the BH chief illstlncllon ns tln( newsiaptr MV cemetery and Journalistic rocky road t of Utah. Itlsa tsther ItutlfTercntyiur B) fur starting uewspajuira Iheru when I only two or three which have In every luttauce coino to Btay mrke their apwaranct, fling Ihelr banners to the breeze, boldly proclaim their principles, prin-ciples, and then start in with sltcvcs rolled up to mould, carve and pollali publlo opinion. Aud they all ti stay as long at they can. Full soon they dud out that they did not begin with money enough and that the aherlil la too persistent and Imporluuate a fellow to bs held at arm's length contlniisll). The Standard with Its lmmedlalu predecessor the Herald hat llveil longer than any other paper ever started In . that city. It has bad Its upa and t downs, "standing oH" dull periods, fl trliuuilug 1U sails to correspond wllti H! thu amount of active air, and keeping a sharp lookout for ihoula, taudbjra I and lcebtrgt. Vet It la only fair to any fl that when these were luuud and btttir H time catuo for u seaaou, thu I ' pattuus of the paper hmu had . all tho bentflt of the changed L conditions; they have, in faot, bouu given a horau Journal greatly ahead o( ? auj thing they havo fully jalj for and wo bellevo they appriclato It. I Theto remarks nru called out by two I Jouruallslla events lu the lunctbu ollj. I The I"uU, the Democratlo uran, seems H to havo struck Ihu fatal sonj In its I cjtier; ll einplojee ur somu ol tlitm aro I if destitute clrcumstsncis nnd adverllso In the Stamford (ur old clothes or any kind of neslrtnnn; and I thu tale ol wcu Is comewhst ll jolnl I anything of thu klud Mu bavi I n lieardoflatily.lt was not supposed Hint j theiWwat a money-raaVIng expirl- ' ment or that It was losing nonoy at a I gnater ratu than Its backers tould I stand. It was man degreta from I Ulug au Inferior t reduction, In (act 11 I tnuietlmta nnd particularly io tiler In its career evinced considerable ability I aud enlerf rlsi. Its going hence will I lvnm Uv Standard alone iu thu IklJ I ajaln, aa It has been many thins btfon; I lt,howeer, exhibits some ayinptoiui I ' of the tlnauolal maelstrom by which It I and many others In thu country havo I been whirled about of lute, by coming out on jS'ew Vear's day In imarto I form, Instiad of thu octavo I stylu which It adopted a year or so ago. I There aro now suveu columns to the I page Intleadoltlx at formerly, aud IhoJ I ' matter Is nil home set, which clrcuni stance msk lh iloolnullon really hut In I hi matter of site, and not much of that. Naroleoif said the tbreo tblngi molt needed (of carrying on a war warn tint, money; tecond, money; nnd tblttl, money. The same might properly prop-erly be sail of nowsaper, nrtlcu larly of dally ones, nnd olslly In ellbrr of the. del Js named, whrra tluro la si much coinptUtlou and cuttrprbe already om hand. |