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Show Editorials for the Laity- . I I THE NAME, THE THEME, THE j WORK. i, Of course Goodwin's Weekly will not I be the same, exactly, that it has been in the past. Many of its readers will miss the peculiarly pleasing style of the former editor a style not matched, so far as this writer knows, in the whole west. Those who have followed his work for a great number of years may be accused of a bias in his favor; and yet it is hardly Ukely that even tho veriest stranger, providing pro-viding ho bo a person of perception, could have read these columns in tho j past without catching a glint of that exhaustless humor, that kindly tribute to friends, or the keen edge of the lance with which wounds were inflicted in-flicted when wounding was the purpose. pur-pose. I But it will be the aim to keep Good win's Weekly up to the high grade of excellence it has maintained through these many years. No two men do their work exactly alike; and it will i be seen, we believe, that the paper has not deteriorated in general, though there will be some difference. Indeed, it will be the purpose to make the paper better serve the essential essen-tial needs of the people of Utah. For one thing, it is the belief of The Weekly Week-ly that there is plenty of native writing writ-ing talent here in Utah. And if there be bits of poetry here, The Weekly will be glad to give them place and their authors money. If there bo men or women who can put a good joke on paper, they don't need send it to New York, or even to Philadelphia, to get a buyer. And if there be "words that breathe and thoughts that burn" hammering at the fountain pen of Utah geniuses, then these aspirations should be liberated in ink and paper, and sold to the The Weekly. If there be Jewels five words long That on the stretched forefinger of all Time Sparkle forever we want to boo them begin to sparkle in these pages; and will try to stimulate stimu-late the radiance with a proper pay. Maybo there is other work for The Weekly. A day or so ago Colonel .Tackling entertained at banquet a number num-ber of big men from tho states to the east; and they learned some things to tho advantage of Utah not especially because of the banquet, but because such banquets, and such men as their host, and such properties as make both possible, are elements in the conditions con-ditions o" Utah. And if those factors be here, then there is recognized reason rea-son for other big men, from their states and elsewhere, to make of this state their working ground; to build hero their fortunes; to bring to Utah the bono and sinew of the nation, and tho capital of the world to the end that the resources of Utah may be developed, de-veloped, and mankind enriched. Copper in the ground doesn't do anyone any particular good. Coal In the earth helps no one. Water that "run down and runs Into the sea" doesn't makn the sea any bigger, and a bigger sea wouldn't help Utah very 11 much, anyway. H So that if there be means by which M the men and the money of the world H can be brought here a little more rap- H idly and a little more readily than has H been the case in the past; and if Tho H Weekly can find and assist in those H means, then that will be the most H grateful work the paper can aid In do- jH ing. H There will be some now features H and some of the old ones will bo re- H tained. There will not be a great a I- jH teratlon in the appearance of the pa- 'H per. It is a pretty good looking sheet. H And It will try to deserve tho contln- H uance of that favor which has made It S live and thrive in the past. IH |