Show OUR ANNIVERSARY This issue of ot the DESERET EVENING is the first number of or its eighth twenty eighth volume Twenty seven Twenty sears Jear ago today a Jew ew subscribers In inthis inthis this bIB city who had bad expressed themselves them selves elves willing to indulge in the luxury of a daily paper were served with wito our first copy The number of ot subscribers was very small so 80 small in fact that the problem of ot supporting a dally daily paper ou out of their patronage appeared to AO be one for tor which there was no no soJu tion But the subscription list grew and so BO d did d the paper But the most moat interesting of or this papery papers past are not of ot a pecuniary character Its columns have bave recorded the toe daily developments of the growth of this commonwealth which is now about to enter upon the glories of ot statehood and from them might be gleaned a very com com- complete complete complete history of that growth during twentY seven years The story as drawn rom these o columns would not need any coloring of ot 11 fiction cUon nor exaggeration exaggeration t to read marvelously Then TheD too the paper has hai given its Ita readers the of the world day by day as u the electric current has brought information of ot them to this r remote mote mountain region and if a constant reader could but remember all 11 he has bas seen in these columns his memory would be a wonderful ency ency- encyclopedia encyclopedia a of or modern history But fighting falsehood has been almost I ost as much apart a part of this papers paper's work as recording facts For year years and aad nd years the weary work ot of exposing the mendacity of ot the enemies of the j 8 people pf of t Utah went on 00 in its ita editorial rooms At times limes the flood of ot false false- falsehood falsehood I hood bood seemed greater than than any human power Ower could stem or even perceptibly check but out the pap paper r had bad a duty to per per- perform perform form and it did it courageous courageously ly Jy It put upon record the facts and the truth with exposures or of their opposites and left the result to the future The NEWS has lived Jived toe to see ee e the day when there is little call for tor from it in this line when there is 11 comparatively little disposition being shown especially in our own country to slander or misrepresent its oo co enoy ncy and for such a state of ot things It feels most thankful At twenty eight it is ie said that ayoung a young oung man acquires his maximum physical strength and the SEWS NEWS bo hopes to exert during If its twenty eighth r year a greater power for tor good than it itI I has baa ever exercised before itI I |