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Show THE STANDARD'S FORTY-SEOOND BIRTHDAY Today is the birthday of the Evening Standard, as it enters upon its forty-second year. Almost one-half of all those j'ears has been under the management of the present publisher. In 1892, William Glasmaun was made business manager of the Ogden Standard. Stand-ard. Within a year he was made general manager, taking charge of the entire paper and all departments of the same and, naturally, he assumed control of the editorial, news, business, and mechanical forces of the Standard. During the twenty years the present management has conducted the paper, fifty-two papers have been born and have died in Ogden, and, if wo were to count Mr. Lewis' effort and tho blackmailing Citizen, there would be just fifty-four papers that have died during the last twenty years' life of the Evening Even-ing Standard. Evidently the Evening Standard has been selected to be the survival sur-vival of the fittest. Under the present management the Evening Standard has been fearless and bold. It has known no friends nor foes in the conducting conduct-ing of the paper. It has exposed wrong-doing within and without the political party the Standard stood for. In fact, during the first ten years of the Evening Standard, under the present management, manage-ment, we had occasion to criticize and take to task so many Republicans Repub-licans in office life, that Dr. Condon, one of Utah's groatest poets, wrote a poem which said that the Standard "never spared a friend or struck a foe." Soou, however, it became well understood that it mattered not where the wrong-doing in public life was, the Standard was most sure to expose it. As a result, Ogden and Weber county have had clean administrations, and, wo might say, very clean compared with what existed prior to the present management manage-ment of the Evening Standard. Now, the Standard is engaged in helping to settle the great industrial in-dustrial questions of the nation. We have espoused the Progressive Progress-ive cause of Theodore Roosevelt, Senator Robert LaFollettc, Senator Sen-ator Moses E. Clapp, Senator Cummins and the other grand patriots patri-ots who are great enough to take up the battle against the great trusts and money power of the United States. The question before the people of the United States is, "Shall money or the people rule the nation." Tho Standard believes the people should and will rule. No paper in Utah has been more constant, more fearless or more just to its subscribers, or to the people of the state, than has the Evening Standard. In looking over our twenty years' cxperienco with the people of Ogden, we have no apologies to make. If wo were to go over the entire twenty years, we see nothing that wo could not consistently publish again. Of course, the Standard has made enemies, but no fearless, independent man"or newspaper can exist without making enemies. Not long ago a farmer and citizen of Weber county said he "loved the dear old Ogden Standard because of the enemies it has made." Tho Evening Standard is an established institution in Ogden. It is so firmly entrenched that it will stand the test of time. The loyalty of its subscribers and the patronage that comes from all over the United States, outside of Ogden, is so well established that only the grossest mismanagement could force a permanent injury upon the paper. Twenty years of the prime of life of the present publisher has been given to this paper. Ue is proud of the fact that the naner stands among the newspapers in the United States as an honest, fearless newspaper. No paper in Utah has a better, purer or a cleaner record than has the Ogden Evening Standard. True, there are papers with greater influence, with greater circulation and with greater advertising patronage, but, for its possibilities, the Evening Even-ing Standard stands among the best newspapers in the country, and the publisher prides himself on having furnished as good a paper as the population and the patronage warrant. There are very few cities the size of Ogden, that furnish more news and a better paper than the Evening Standard. Even,' now and then we find a man who wants to compare the Evening Standard Stand-ard with the New York or Chicago papers and when that is done it just delights us to compare the millions of people in and around New York with the 35,000 people in and around Ogden City. When such a comparison is made, the Standard appears to even greater advantage than the big papers from the big cities. Even comparing the Evening Standard with our papers in Salt Lako City and taking for granted there are 150,000 people in Salt Lake and its immediate neighborhood, and that there are 35,000 people in Ogden and its immediate im-mediate neighborhood, has not the Standard furnished a much better bet-ter paper proportionately than any Salt Lako paper? We remember remem-ber when Salt Lake was no larger than Ogden. The Salt Lake Tribune at that time published but four pages. Some of the old-timers old-timers will remember the old blanket sheet of the Tribune. Taken all in all, the people of Ogden have every occasion to feel satisfied with their newspaper, and we are justly proud of the people of Ogden and their patronage which makes possible the publishing pub-lishing of such a paper as the Evening Standard. |
