The Kansas herald of freedom., 1858-07-10
The Herald Of Freedom.

Two more numbers of the Herald of
Freedom viii close its third volume. Now
is good time to subscribe, so as to COM
mence with the fourth volume. Though
money! is scarce, yet it is money saving
investment, the paying of two dollars for
such a paper as ours. There is hardly
pre- emption claimant in Kansas, who
would not have saved twice ten dollars, if
he were regular reader of the Herald Of
Freedom. Many man has lost hundreds
and even thousands of dollars by way of a
valuable claim. with Improvements,
which he would probably have saved, else
would not have taken it underthe circum-
stances, had he possessed the information
we have reported from time to time in
regard TO the decisions of the Land Offices,
and the department at Washington.
Many persons seem to think that the
\. 7. Tribune or Missouri Democrat pos
sesses all the information they desire, but
dear bought experience may teach them
another lesson. A Kansas newspaper,
properly conducted, culls from those jour
mails, and thousand Others, all that is
valuable to the Kansas reader, OF to those
interested in Kansas news alone, and
leaves those general subjects outside of
Kansas, fer outside newspapers to publish.
We have observed several of our Kansas
newspapers, publishing column after
column of matter, no way identified with
Kansas history or politics, to the almost
entire exclusion of local news, thus placing
themselves in competition with eastern
newspapers, without the facility of equal
ing them in late news, quantity of matter,
or price.
The Herald of Freedom comes in compe-
tition with no other journal, either in the
Territory or out oft. While it is "a Free
State newspaper, with Republican SYM
pathies, yetit is INDEPENDENT on all SUBJ
jects-not neutral-and dares to denounce
error in the White House at Washington,
just as readily as it does the vices of the
most detestable thief who skulks from
hencoop to hencoop to rob them of their
contents.
Though times are close, both in Kansas
and out of it, yet we must realize some-
thing from our business, else we cannot
afford to publish newspaper. The last
year has been one of great pecuniary en-
barrassment to US. AS we stated two
weeks ago, the very large subscription list
which was unexpectedly thrown upon our
hands, compelled us to incur heavy ex-
penses to enable US to supply that list
The cost of the additional building, type,
power press, steam engine. &C., with the
freight bills, equalled $4,000. The pres
sure of the times, and the hue and cry
raised against us by designing demagogues
for political purposes, have reduced our
list, and cut off our receipts, leaving us
large bills to pay, without the ability to do
so, unless we submit to ruinous sacrifices.
With the best jobbing Office in the West,
and facilities for printing a newspaper
which can have no successful rival, we only
ask the friends of the principles we ad-
vocate, and those who endorse our positions
on the great questions at issue in Kansas,
to so to work energetically to swell our
subscription list. The time has passed
when We have reason to expect large
snstern circulation. Let our Kansas friends
use their influence in their respective
neighborhoods, and enlarge our circulation
until the paper shall become selfsus-
tanning one. We have toiled four years
for Kansas and her interests, and thus far
it has only involved US in debt and embar-
easements. The future inspires us with
hope, but pecuniary assistance in the way
of increased subscriptions is absolutely
necessary to keep the paper alive. The
friends of the paper will understand this
| fact, and will act accordingly. We can
not consent to hire money at five per cent.
per month, for any considerable time, to
keep alive paper which is of just as great
value to each of our readers as it is to us.