Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1865-02-03

not wholly failed. We have failed to please
all. We never were 50 foolish as to expect |
TO please all. We have labored to please
ourself, knowing that he who labors to
please everybod succeeds in pleasing no.
body. In looking lack now over the years
We can see much that might have been bet.
tsr--many things that were said that might
better have been unsaid. But, if tho ego
tism may be psrdoned, we do claim that our
errors have been errors altogether Of the
head. 1t is not in the province of any man
to have thread Of friendship in the wool Of
every neighbours heart. Much less is it a
mans province if he bea country oditor.-
Considering these things We have no dispo-
sition to complain Of the success our labor
has achieved in winning the satisfaction and
business friendship Of this people.
But the good will of the community will
not buy paper, pay journeymen, nor secure
our bread and butter. To do this requires
money. Our subscription list is larger than
it ever was before, which is pretty good evil
dsncs that the paper is acceptable; bu. at
the present exorbitsnt price of printing pa
per little prsfit accruss from this. Even in
the best of times the subscription list Of 4
country newspaper is worth but It'll. to it
as q source Of revenue. Most country pub
fishers are very well satisfied If money
enough comes in on subscription to buy tho
hn al ,.,b
patronage is the chief reliance. When we
FIRST came here, with the town in q heat for
a newspaper, the merchants and other bust
ness men united in bestowing liberal ad
vertisirg and job work patronage. But now
many Of our best merchants do not advertise
at all, and few comparatively give us five
dollars worth Of job printing in ayear.-
Either they do without bills, cards, etc, or
else the work ia done in Chicago or some
place besides Cedar Falls. Now we do not
doubt but what oar citizens fully IN
derstand that If they have good local news
paper it is duty resting upon them to give
it the best possible support. We attribute
the fact Of their neglect Of this duty 10
though.lsssnsss alone.
! We are not beggar nor o paupcr; we have
no disposition to live on charity-we want a
cent of no mans charity money. We only
want to understand the people, and have the
people understand us. We have never made
personal duns for advertising, job work or
subscription since ws have been in town, and
what is more, We do not now nor at any fu
ture period intend to commence.
Just now most newspaper publishers are
content to do barely living business few,
if any, of them are making any money
During the past eight months it is stated
that upwards Of four hundred papers have
succumbed to the exorbitant price of print
ing paper, and passed out of existence. We
have never hoped to get rich by publishing
country newspaper, but we have been do,
lusive enough to dream Of saving little
something from year to year. We have Ia
bored here five years and have little or moth
ing to show for our labor. We have been q
another, 50 that all in all we are about where
we we're at the start. The first Of January
1865, found US Ave hundred dollars poorer
than the first of January, 1854. Either there
must be more income or less outgo; either
We must have better support, or the paper
must be mere insignificant. Our toTnsnsn
must choose which.
And now, to our other expenses, We find
the GAZETTE must have new Dress and a
new dress it is going TO have. Whether the
GAZETTE be large or small, paying or losing,
it must be respectable as long as it carries
the name Of H. A. & G. d. PERKINS,. The
expense of this will amount to number Of
hundred dollars, and we make it more to
crafty the pride we take in publishing a
good-lcoking paper, than We &c a. matter
of justice to this community. The GA
zE7zr Will not wear cut more than one more
new dress Of our buying without gaining
profit money enough to buy new one.
If the people here feel that they would
be content yith . en-by nine sheet with a
column and half Of quack advertisements,
run by one man and boy, the present pro-
pristors Of their local paper have only to be
assured Of that feeling to indite to them a
vale dictory and to offer the press and mate.
rial with which the GAZETTE was printed for
sale on very reasonable terms. We are not
necessitated to publish = paper here, and
whenever that period comes that we csnno,
do it respectfully will cease to do it at ALL
We feel qualified to paddle our OWN canoe
Independent o. country printing Office j!
necessity or desire requires it.
i Now, dear townsmen, do not cons.rue
this into growl. You have perfect right
to do by US ~ seemeth to- you good and
we have only lei you into our secrets and
told you our mind that you may do by US as
in truth your hearts desire you to do This
sober little talk is for the purpose Of bring.
ing US to = mutual understanding.
4 AUCTION Notice.-I will offer every
day aud evening, at public and private sale
largo assortment Of embroidered goods
underslseves, cellars, &C., together with a
large lot Of drugs ard medicines, ssso caps
capes, hoods, and large lot of looking
glasses, books, clocks, sewing machines
household furniture, &C., together with all Of
the groceries now in store. The above goods
must be worked off at whateyer they will