Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1858-10-21
First QWcrter.

Last weeks issue of the REGISTER COM
pletedths first three months of its existence.
Shortly after the commencement Of our
enterprise in establishing in Sioux City a
Democratic journal that could not be
swayed by fear or influenced to desert
the path of Right and Justice by favor or
reward, the great monetary panic which
had measursbly subsidized in the East
reached its crisis in the West, and three
months Of greater pecuniary distress and
prostration of the industrial elements es-
sential to prosperity than those inst past,
were never known in Iowa. Every branch
Of business felt the shock, and many Of
our shrewdest and most prosperous bas;.
ness men were compelled to succumb to
the storm and see their possessions swept
from them. Newspapers, especially, fe2
victims to the disorder, and it is not at all
surprising to find in many Of our new
towns a dormant printing Office; but in
most cases they were those that had been
established to subserve the interest Of
some private enterprise.
In starting the REGISTER we did so to
supply demand for an untrammelled,
fearless and outspoken Democratic paper
one that would be uninauenced by cor.
ner lots or promise of political reward |;
hence, Notwithstanding hard times, the
REGISTER has been made the recipient of
q liberal patronage, and its ultimate sue.
cess no longer rests upon contingency.
Our subscription list is already larger than
that of any paper in north western Iowa,
and is steadily increasing; while our ad-
vertising and jobbing business is proper
tionably large.
In the performance of our editorial du.
ties, we have endeavored to pursue
courteous and dignifed course, carefully
avoiding personalities and the insane and
vapid rawlings at our political opponents,
which have brought so much odium upon
the political press Some papers would
make out that the party to which they
do not happen to belong, is entirely com.
posed of GUY FAwKEs, who are secretly
digging beneath the foundation stones Of
our institutions, with the hope Of blowing
them all up in seine unexpected moment.
Editors ofsuch papers necessarily presume
largely on the efficacy Of specious argu
ments, high sounding phrases and beliger-
cut attitude. The budding empires of the
great west especially want an independent
and manly press. Eastern people feel a
want of reliance in too many of our west
ern journals. They have an idea, the
truth Of which is too often confirmed by
experience, that large number of our
western papers were gotten up to serve
the purposes Of some town company, or
further the designs Of some individual or
clique, and SO entirely overlook the true
mission of the press in the advancement
Of their own interests.
Believing the Democratic to be the only
conservative and truly national party now
in existence, we shall continue to give its
principles and adherents our undivided
support, and undeviatingly adhere to the
old and tried land marks of the party
The REGISTER is a DEMOCRATIC paper,
and the friends of Democratic principles
will always find it fighting for the cause
which it has espoused. A newspaper to
be independent must have political bias,
from which it will not swerve. A journal
becomes contemptible when it falls to
trucking, or changing sides without suffi-
Gent cause, for then instead of being the
organ Of one party, it is the mental of
many.
We shall continue our efforts to make
the REGISTER value BILE auxiliary to every
Preside in the country; aud We hope our
friends will not relax their efforts to in.
crease its circulation, and thus extend the
sphere of its usefulness.