Show OUR EIGHTH YEAR with this atine THE closes it year and beitans on volume eight properly peaking STANDARD ie its fourteenth year aaflie paper now issued was founded fourteen years ago aa alie CODES u but beare ago the name ot this paper was changed to THE STANDARD in loot ins over the files ot this paper lor the last beare we notice that time and aaen leave been published a majority ol 01 threatened to daughter thia paper in days limited all the way from thirty daye to eix months but further inspection shows that all have gone where the woodbine twin elli and THE STANDARD alone like the cat always came back abtin the next day during those years a core or two of papers have sprung into existence and like mushrooms all disappeared ar ain it a gereon should read the obituary in alie files of TUB of all these dead papers he would think that it must havo been an awful burden for STANDARD to have been the only mourner and to have performed alone the last ead rites over the grave of each and everyone 0 them that however is a mistake because in a later issue STANDARD seemed to lament the fact that there were no boore papers to die in olen the files 1 chow eliat gumbei of times desperate attempt were made to force THE STANDARD to write its own obituary the battle often was keen and telling but like its namo would suz gest TUB STANDARD alway wad found in the front ranks with its columns fluter ing in alie breezes the hardest blow however was that riven by democracy four vears ago when THE STANDARD from a peopled party paper to justly arnn justly hundred we may say almost thousands withdrew their patronage and many have not to this day returned to the only newspaper news piper in the city As the present owners had no interest in the pacer at that time we can not speak of the gerits of the case while that was the severest struggle the paper experienced yet the assistance that was created by that same opposition caused the paper to assume renewed vigor and it has been marching onward and upward with rapid strides to the present time why THE STANDARD should alore be selected from among sixty odd competitors to lire and speak of the past is beyond eur ken but we it is because the paper always had but one motive in view and that was to bericho be richt it may havo erred it may have wronged some people but never intentionally tio nally and in living today in the most prosperous time of THE STANDARDS existence on our birthday we renew the vows mado respectively fourteen and seven years ago namely that we ahall not intentionally wrone any man and that wo shall ever defend justice and right and that the weak the poor and the under dog shall ever find a haven of refuge in the columns of TITS STANDARD and it Is pleasing indeed to know eliat our actions of eoven years has been such nic STANDARD is a recognized power in is more priceless pric elees than cold it is we have gained knowledge to perceive and strength and vigor enough to overcome all obstacles that may ever be thrown in the way and in opening the year of 1895 and the eighth year of THE STANDARD we do so feeling eliat we are bet wilh the good of this earth and pray that the same may rest on all mankind new years day and as thie paper in alie past lias always suspended publication on that day in order to give the employed emp loyes the chance of a needed recreation we therefore have not the heart at this time to break alio rule of a holiday on the first day of the year therefore THE STANDARD will nol appear tomorrow the deep chicanery and rank of the Ke publican in utah es elsewhere beenie to all who become imbued with its influence and enter into it ill a party of expedient rather uin of princ ale it will repudiate today whytt it advocated yesterday and tomorrow what it to up press otia r it is thing to be despised by sincere and women who at methode and deception Salt lake herald we reprint the foregoing what an inconsistent paper tho herald ie it aronea every in utah and it does it knowingly too we aek the herald to tell where and when republicans have practiced chicanery end deceptions will the herald please name one principal that the republican party advocated yesterday and repudiated today eliy can not the herald be fair and just |