The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1860-03-21
Commencement of Volume Fourth.

Lg- The last issue of the Guardian
completed the third year of the paper,
and to-day we commence volume fourth.
We have had much 10 be thank full for in
the matter Of encouragement, during the
two years Of general depression and en-
barrassmcnt which have just passed, and
although our remuneration has been
small, when considered in connection
with The amount Of labor we have per-
formed sill it probably has been as large
rs We had right to expect under the
circumstances. Neither have we lacked
cheering words of encouragement and
appreciation, but rather have received
them in greater plenty and hearliness
than we had ever dared expect. They
have been our greatest incentive to exer-
tion, the best re ward for our labor. TAX
en- in connection with our constantly in
creasing subscriptionlist, they give us
lively hopes Of better pecunlary reward
in the near future, when our county, rs
We hope and believe, will be more pros
porous.
AS We have before intimated to our
readers, We intend to enlarge and give
additional interest to our paper as soon as
the patronage we receive will warrant us
in doing So With sheet Of the pres.
ent size the difficulty is not so much tc
get matter 10 fill it, as it is to select from
The mass which offers. Much that we
would like 10 publish, and wh;eh NC
know wound Jv road with interest, we
are compelled to lay aside, Or to condenst
to dry outline. With larger sheet
We are satisfied that we could make {
much better and more interesting paper
and we should like, therefore, both fol
our own credit and the interests of oul
subscribers, TO have an extension of pat
ronage sufficient to warrant US in attempt
ing the desired enlargementand improve
ment.
We want an extension Of our subscrip
ton list-primarily, for our own sake
secondarily. for the interests of the par
". We know Of no cheaper or better
way TO present the claims of party to The
people OF county, than by the circula
zion of county political papers. They
can do this even better than our large
metropolitan journals, because the latter
can only influence relative to the genera
principles Of the national organization
while the former 90 this to some extent
and besides, give bearing TO our State.
County. and even our Township contests
A good.sized, we'll filled local journal
will give most OF the main facts to be
derived from the metropolitan papers, and
yet have much Of local matter to interest
which cannot be procured from the lat.
ter. There fore, although we think nc
man can well 90 without such paper as
the New York TriJuae. for instance. still
we fully believe that it is his interest,
first, to give encouragement to his local
journal That journal may be small and
inferior, but il is no way TO make it 9th
crwise to withhold patronage from it.
Papers arc generally as good as they can
afford to be, for very few editors lack the
ambition to make their journals large and
interesting il they can. Where they do
not, il is, nine cases out of ten, because
they lack encouragement. Where they
are compelled TO be editor. composilor.
and devil, working night and day. with
Little or no opportunity for study, il is
not 10 be wondered at that their papers
lack interest and taste. But the remedy
is not in refusing TO them encouragement.
That is tho cause, The corrective lies in
giving them increased support. 50 that
they may have the means and the heart
10 do better