Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-01-08
sALUTATORY.

Inc appearance OF new paper In
the county will be looked upon by
some, perhaps, with surprise and dis
approval, and may be considered a
risky undertaking. BY others, we
trust, it will receive a cordial well
come, and at once be counted among
the established institutions of the day.
The cause which stimulated the Mon
IToR into existence,-as is known to
many-was the sudden disappearance
of the Standard This would leave
Orleans county,-which has a popu-
lation of over 20,000-with but one
local paper, and the whole southern
portion without any. The people of
Barton, more particularly those who
paid out their money to establish
paper here six years ago, felt that
it was not just right to have it taken
away so soon; and naturally enough,
not only Barton, but all the towns
surrounding, want paper printed a
little nearer home; and then again,
the people all over the county like a
variety; and they seem to be united
in the opinion that they can give two
papers a good support now, as well
as they have in years that are gone.
If two are too naa'ay now,-and some
are of that opinion-why was it not
ten years ago? Has the population
decreased? do the people read less?
do they think less of home institu-
tons? We do not believe in plant
ing a newspaper office in every mans
door-yard. Nor do we think this
county is just now going to be at all
overrun in this respect. We admit,
that if one paper could be so located
that it could accommodate, and so
managed that that it could please the
whole county, it would be, as printers
sometimes express themselves, "a fat
take" and that whoever could have
the profits of such an enterprise,
would be likely to 'wax" much and
"wane" little. But at present this
does not seem to be quite possible.
While we expect to find some in the
county that do not want the Express,
we also know very well that we shall
find q .feao that will not want the
MONITOR. This has always been the
case between the Standard and -Ec-
press, and if we must judge the future
by the past, it will be so henceforth.
Mr.. Earle, whose name has been
so familiar to the people of the county
for seventeen long years, has left us
and gone to new field of labor the
Standard has been transferred to
other hands, and to another locality
and in the mean time-sif you will
allow the expression" Standard
Office devil comes to the rescue and
holds out the MONITOR.
In this, we were at first, a little
timorous, but the generosity of the
citizens of this town, in giving us such
financial aid as to place us upon a
firm footing: and the liberality with
which the people have already sub
scribed, elsewhere, leads us to believe
that if we can give them paper that
shall be satisfactory, we need no
longer have any doubts of it's success
To those who have so cheerfully
encouraged us by their subscriptions
and their kind wishes, we would rem
der our sincere thanks; and in return
we promise to do everything that in
our power lies to give them a first-rate
paper.
We go into this enterprise with nc
ill-will or hard feelings towards the
publishers of any other paper, and
trust none of our brothers will lay uI
any very hard feelings against us
Towards both Mr.. Camp and Mr.
Cummings we have ever been friend
"; and we trust none of us shall
be so worldly in our affairs as to lei
any circumstance diminish that friend
ship. With DIR. Hoskins, and the
Hon. E. A. Stewart we have not the
pleasure of an acquaintance, but al
public report places them among thu
best men of the county, we see n,
reason why we cannot sail PEACEFUL,
along together, like Brien O'Lynn
'his wife, and his wife's mother"