Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1865-11-04
MORNING. M. 4. ix5


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,his column TO all. to sP-ak Of his past
record and indicate his future coars--
Five ycars ago. vs commenced the publ
cation of the STANDARD. under difficulties
which would probably have deferred many
from engaging in the enterprise, with the
cordial assistance Of few friends, and the
best wishes and fair promises Of a host Of
others. During the whole term OF our
journalistic career, however. the paper has
owed its existence to individual effort and
determined industry. We have had warm
friends and bitter foes. The sympathy
and aid of the former has cheered and
nerved us for the task. If the hatred Of
the latter class would kill, this journal long
since would have been dead as mackerel.
But it has been willed otherwise. We
have slowly but steadily prospered, and we
now not only breathe free from the c!amor
of creditors, but soon expect to issue this
journal from beneath our own root. This
we mention only as an assurance to our
friends that we "still live," cliques. COM
binatious and copperheads to the contrary
notwithstanding. If anybody regards this
in tile light of egotism,, We would call at
tention TO the fact that we do not systrm-
atically boast Of the profundity Of our
knowledge, assume a grotesque dignity,
For have we kept laudatory puffs of our
self at the head Of these columns Our pa
per must be it's own advocate, and stand or
fall upon its intrinsic merits. We stated
a year ago that We should not BE- drawn
into senseless competition, and perform
all manner of feats Of imperisha5le valor.
We tried the experiment Of paying for tsls-
graphic news, but our profits were not
large enough for US to continue paying for
sensational and contradictory items by
Lightning, and our contemporaries apparent.
~ soon came to the same conclusion. Our
individual purse did - buck" against a
dozen plethoric wallets Of greenbacks for
. time, but we finally concluded TO rely
more on brains and less on sand" W.
have never felt called upon, however. in
in the advancement ofour own interests, to
disparage the works Of our neighbors. 1t
has not been our pleasure "to sit upo'
nights" to hate any rival publisher, nor
have we improved any occasion to create
distrust in the popular mind as to the sta
bility Of brother chips's" "base Of op-
erations." We don't care continental
red" for opposi'iuu-ws rather like it.
If conducted upon the recognised rules Of
wasfare-but We do dispise back-bit;xg.
shsnanigan and under handed gouging.
We have always observed that the long
pole and straight pole knocks the per-
simmons, if handled properly and the
the fruit ohsys the neutral laws Of gravi.
tatioa.
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