Show VOLUME TWENTY ONE THIS issue opens volume af of the deseret EVENING NEWs the first number of the daily edition having appeared on november 1867 the is is the pioneer paper of the pacific slope the publication of the weekly edition having begun on june 1850 the next journal in point of age west of the missouri river riv er is the alta california which was established in january 1851 fur for a considerable time the alta claimed precedence iff fir point of age but has long since succumbed suc cumbe d to the fact that the isser assertion tion was an error the career of this journal is before the whole comin community unity not even excluding the oldest inhabitant its aim has been to vindicate truth and justice and counteract error and wrong the in measure asure of success it has attained in that most creditable direction must be left to the judgment of its numerous readers it would be unbecoming on our oar part to make any assertion in the premises in this age uch such a thing as journalistic modesty is I 1 almost an unknown or invisible quantity the extraordinary assertions t ons that are made in that regard by many newspapers are in our view exceedingly distasteful on the same ground that pes personal onal egotism is a most objection objectionable ablo quality it is impossible to en entirely separate a journal from the aspect of individualism it will be fouled as a rule with journals as with men that those who indulge in self laudation require that kind of material to make an impression in any quarter of the presence of intrinsic greatness so far as the Is concerned it proposes to struggle on in the lace jace afan opposition with which few journals have had to contend leaving the j judgment as to how its mission n h has s been performed in the hands bands of its friends who will doubtless be considerate in passing it in entering upon a new volume we simply express a hope that this jour our oal nil will continue to receive the sentimental and substantial support of the lovers of justice and truth |