The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1867-06-06
Volume Twenty-Eigh t.

With this number the TEERGRAPH enters
upon its 2sth year. Age, Of itself, docs not
always command respect But when that
epoch has been reached through earnest, hon-
est labor in good cause.-The cause of human
progress-in the advocacy of all ennebling
virtues, moral and poiitical--it rightly chal-
lenges and receives its due need o. respect.
The TELEGRAPH, though not old in the CON-
mon acceptation of the word, comparatively
speaking, in this portion of the northwestern
vineyard, may well claim to be quite patri-
archal in years-the Oldest paper in the state.
That its years have been reached in honor
and usefulness,we think none of its contempo-
raries will assume to deny. With its creed
based upon the immutable principles of dem.
ocracy-the greatest good to the greatest
number-true to its motto" Liberty and
Union, Now and Forever, One and Insepara-
blc--justice to all-equality before the law,
to all-free speech, free soil, and free press
it has lived TO see those principles prevail and
about to be established throughout the length
and breadth of this union. And as every spring
and rivulet from the Rocky mountains and tue
far northwest helps to swell the mighty cur
rent of the ''Father of Waters, !" that SO grand
ly and irresistibly sweeps onward to the
Gulf; so may the TELEGRAPH claim to have
added its influence to the mighty wave OF
freedom and equal fights that have swept on
ward from the free north to the gulf.
As it has been in the past, so will it be in
the future-the firm, and consistent advocate
ofthose great principles that must form the
foundation of every republic. We are more
than ever convinced by the experience ofthe
past six years, that the life Of this nation can
only be insured through the intelligence, pa
triotism and virtue of the masses. al the
people of the nation-of whatever race, color
or creed must be educated, and through intel
ligence made capable of self government
The newspaper is one of the great means of
education in modern times. Hence the school
house, the church, and the printing Office
spring up together, and go hand in hand in
the founding and building up of American
States. The idea that men take their county
paper as a sort Of gratuity, to encourage the
printer, is being gradually exploded, and a
more reasonable and rational idea is taking
its place The newspaper is one of the three
institutions that make up the van guard as
well as the rear guard of American civiliza-
ton, and as such demands, fit does not al
ways receive, the same place and considera-
ton, at the hands of the people as the com.
mon school and the church-an adjunct to civ
iIized society that cannot be dispensed with.
But to come to first principles. The Tele-
graph enters upon its 28th year, with as fair
prospects as it ever had. It's advertising pat
ronage is all that it can Accommodate While
we feel the necessity of all the income that
can be derived from that source, we are new
ertheless bound that the liberal space hitherto
devoted to reading matter, shall not be en-
croached upon. If worst comes to worst,
we shall have to confne our adver-
Users to less space at higher rates. As
it is now, there is not weekly paper of our
circulation and standing that does not charge
higher rates for advertising than we do.
We mean the Telegraph shall maintain the
high position it has always held as an Sexpo-
nent of true Republican principles and an an.
compromising organ of the party that sustains
those principles Since the organization OF
that party it has never for a moment swervet
from an earnest support of the measures anC
the men Of that party. Personal considera
tisns, whether of prejudice or partially shall
never be allowed to influence the course of tn,
Telegraph Our country and our principles
frst,and personal matters afterwards. IA