Show A word to our oar As it is ir made evident to us from time to timo time tit it tile the object and put pin pose of our pa piper pt 1 I are arc to a consider considerable ible extent misunderstood we propose e fairly and squarely to explain c the stand that we have hae taken the grounds mccu pied by tile the ti horn oln the beginning L and which it expects to in maintain fintain so long is as the necessity ace sity which prompted the inception of its P publication publication shall exist tho the reason why we do this is ia because some people do not wein seem capable of comprehending the fact th ita it a jour nil ni such as tho the VEDETTE can be other thin an experiment instituted a view to in biking aking money ind and to be dropped d should it appear tint thit the money is not forthcoming this in m vy iv hold very true trite of the trade of a huckster bucz ster the anne s or of a gi grocer ocer or the tenure and pay of agge assessments ments on it a mining claim but there i is yet left in this woi id something higher and nobler thin than any of thee abe e ind and in which the amount of good lone done and not the amount of c cash i h fingered fin zered is to be made the criterion of the success of the experiment in this thi view the wis was w is beun begun be I 1 un viz viz first and pir paramount amount to all other objects to establish a thoroughly loyal journal in this territory none of your shaky baky milk and water this thit that and the other journals eazer to hint bint a disloyalty ilk loyalty which they dire d ire not openly express but a thorough going I 1 piper paper firm in its loyalty ind and true trite to our glo glorious rions government A depond object or of the paper lias has been and will continue to be the dev elopement of the territory and its resources 4 mineral agri cultural and financial which developer nent is ig not to be accomplished v N without the dig dis semina tion of useful and popular knowledge among imong the masses maes whose right it 1 is to have the eunity of learning what is going go ms un on in the world around them that they may kiy thus have nn an opportunity of seeing how other communities ampro improve e and what they lick lack to keep p pace ace with the onward march or of civilization again this piper wit was established and has heen been conducted as 1 to its typographical P execution 11 and otherwise by soldiers m mn men n thoroughly competent in their business ubo ho can command simein time in C ili forni 1 at th it bain esq the highest ruling prices who atre shown by volunteering at 13 per month that I 1 hi hiher higher her object th fit in mere pecuniary adv intake ha has s influenced fluen ced them ind therall they all deem is intelligent lafen men th it short of active service in tile the from which circum st not their onn will deb if ir them they c innot annot better tib serve the cause of their country thin ill in by afy thus thug de voting their time talent ind and energy to the objects above set forth viz the propagation of loyal sentiment and the dev elopement developement of a regenerated re ener abed utah I 1 we tike take pact pleasure siire in stating additionally that when uben the time of the present hands hand shall have expired and they dball return to civil life other soldiers sold ierg printers too will be here to 0 keep up tile good work let then no one lay jay tho the flattering unction to his soul that the ArL LETTE will be discontinued from any such buch cause I 1 the pleasing portion of the work is ig that we have succeeded ind and are now succeed succeeding im in both our objects to an extent beyond our most sanguine anticipations tho the people are dis dig enthralling enthral im ing themselves they are looking out for their own interests inter cuts on their own account the they are I 1 lying plans in accord ince with the chango change that is 1 even now nov elking place treason open or concealed is obliged to be ver very y guarded ina and secret in its utterances and th ill e community sees through the objects of those who would rain fain keep them as has been hitherto lone done in a I 1 worse condition than that ot of slaves on it ii Soli thein plantation our piper paper is extensively patronized zed and still more extensively read real in the territory Teni tory and it has hap given abroad a true view of the condition of 0 affairs inthis terri territory to such ry as would not have been allowed to come to light in the course or of twenty years had not the existed the two faced cant of dilettante letter writers who under the to sensible people t rent veil or of temporary sojourners sojourn era in this city write in the interest int erett of thu the powers that be i swa through ugh and appreciated at t ua proper value and in short success cess his has chowne downed d our in every respect ct understand then once for or all ye ortho orthe rabid persuasion that you yon spite not us its suit gult houi selves in withdrawing dra iving your support from the that wo we le cognize 11 no such woid or thing us 19 patronage in our that if you tal take it wu we give you tile the woith of your money ind and if you refuse to do 0 o we know full well that you will read it its coltin columns ins in some ma manner arid and whether or no they I 1 ire re producing cing their effect upon ind and around you this is 19 our stand and the object of our paper we are successful lid in it ind ami not being a firm gotten up lip with a money making rr vie view we can afford to publish the until ill all our objects shall hivo h ivo been accomplished after the accomplishment of which desirable result we anity or may not as ai suits suit ourselves conti continue rille tile the VEDETTE but with the publication until that time nothing that you can do will in the smallest lest degree interfere we are above patronage and indea independent adent of every consideration but the consciousness of pursuing faithfully ful ay a just and noble acme |