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Show RLGRET. In beginning its career as a newspaper news-paper the Register made a resolve, and gave it utterance, that in pur- " suing the even tenor of its way, it would not forget that it owed a duty to its readers to keep the tone of the paper up to such a standard which would forbid it to step out of its onward course for the purpose of chastising every Ulnatured cur that might' snurl at it, because curs fol- ' low the bent of their nature and can not help it, and it is a source of 1; ratification to them to be noticed. It makes them believe that their . snarls are of consequence in the world, and though when turned up-cj up-cj they may take flight and escape under some shelter of such a character char-acter that the chatiser could not stoop to follow, there they will continue con-tinue to snarl, and lay the flattering unction to their souls, if they have any; that they are keeping the other :it bay. That we even depar cd from our m, ik-i l.-iKt wcfk. evpri hv a rcfrr- "- r - . J ence as tg what we might, do if the snarling should be kept up, we now regret, when in our moments of reflection re-flection we come to the only conclusion con-clusion we can legitimately come to, and that is they cannot help it, and their snarls don't hurt anyone but only exhausts the little vitality in the . animal's organism. A newspaper,that is worthy of the name, is a frainer of public opinion, and that opinion should be of the highest grade. It .should be an educator and a civil-izer civil-izer and not an organ for the dissemination dissem-ination of filth and abuse. When it descends to this, it is prostituting its high calling, ami shows conclusively conclu-sively that it is engineered by the wrong mind and public opinion condemns con-demns it. Such a course as this may meet with the approval of a few, but they are not the minds that sway men and make them think, but of that calibre that laugh because others do, and then wonder why they did so. . Again the Register declares its stand. It is called forth to fill a want, San Tete is in need of a newspaper, news-paper, and the object of the promoters promo-ters of this enterprise is to fill this want, and no other. It intends to act as a medium for the conveying of thought, and that upon subjects ,of interest to the community: wherein it can by diffusing infor-malion infor-malion build up the business or usefulness use-fulness of the county it will do so, but it is not a character destroyer or a puller down of the reputations 'i- 11 : ',bt fnrrtJ01frmrfm-"'lt V?nT ti'ot'Tje- '" "l7Caif!r;"rf may and has the opportunity, opportu-nity, say smart (?) things for the purpose of flattering its own vanity ,,and making the rabble laugh. In conclusion we say to all those having no higher aim in life, if you have nothing to heap upon us but personal abuse get it all off at one good rally. We have no answer for it. We do not intend to supply any of the slirue that reptiles fatten upon. We have matters of more importance to occupy our minds and life is too short to be frittered away in investigating an echo. We may be charged with cowardice, but we can stand it, when we bear in mind the sourse, and if we don't cry .put the curs won't know whether we are hurt or not. We will go on, trying try-ing at least, to honor our calling and perhaps succeed, while the curs keeping at our heels may wake up some fine day and find that even the bone that was in their kennel has disappeared and they are minus power . or patronage as they were before of honor or reputation. Adieu, scandal-mongers, reputation reputa-tion sniirchers, and character destroyers, de-stroyers, you will never hear from us again personally, because our course is upward and onward and hence we will soon, very soon, leave ' you grovelling among your native 1 elements and be as much above jou as we will be above your reach and understanding. ( |