The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1874-02-11
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.novlng such an office as ours,
=. for the past few weeks we have
given our readers Sunday supplements,
which fully make up for the above
omissions; and thus for the whole year
II may he considered we have not
missed single issue. We hatter our
selves that this Is mn unusual thing
with young daily paper, in small
city like Dallas, An experienced
newspaper man Of New York-one
who commenced the business at the
foot OF the ladder, and has advanced
from step to step until he attained the
highest position rs editor Of perhaps
the most influential newspaper In the
United States-has said that II Is II
very rare thing for n town of less than
fifteen thousand inhabitants to sus-
tain daily newspaper, and from the
experience of the past year we are led
to coincide with him. 1t Is u very
serious undertaking TO start and sue
ccsslully carry on n daily newspaper,
even IN large cities where every
thing necessary for ii can be had, and
there is every prospect of reaching n
large CIRCULATION, provided that the
paper is well gotten up and ably edited
but in comparatively new place.
where everything is expensive, we say
tits serious undertaking unless backed
by ample capital. We may be par
doned the assertion that TUE HERALD,
rs daily, has redoundcd much more
to the benefit OF the property holders
and the merchants of Dallas than it
has to the propretors of the paper.
We are pretty well posted now, after
years experience, of the expense and
trouble attending the publication Of the
paper, and have learned some lessons
that will be Of advantage to US In the
future We have received encourage
ment from the merchants of our city
by liberal advertising patronage, but
not at such prices generally rs will re-
munerate us for the heavy expenses
we are necessarily compelled to incur.
The public, too, does not know the
trouble and expense we have been put
to in collecting some of our bills. In
many instances we have been COM
PEELED to call time and again for bills
justly due, and to-day comparatively
large amount remains still uncolle cted
on our books, some Of which we will
never get. AS we say above, we have
learned some lessons which will be of
use to us, and hereafter, If we are not
more successful, itwill heJl,5ls,.. o,,n-'SS;n.
AS regards the course of The HER
AID, as u newspaper in the past, we
leave the verdict to be made up by its
readers. We can only say that we
have ut all times advocated such meas
ures as seemed to us for the best inter-
ests of the community in which we
live. If we have erred ut any time it
was an error Of the head, not of the
heart. Dallas and its growth and pros
perity have been our aim for the past
twenty years. THE HERALD has la
bored for twenty-five years to build up
Dallas-that has been its principal aim.
Compare the Dallas of to-day with the
Dallas of TWENTY-FIVE years ago, and if
THE HERALD has been in any manner
instrumental in the change, give it its
'due-that Is all we ask.
In the future we intend to make
some improvements in the paper in
several ways, and shall aim to make 1t
welcome morning visitor to its read
ers. We commence the second volume
with the determination to deserve all
the patronage we receive. We want
our iaily subscription list trebled and
all the paying advertising we can get.
We do not solicit business from men
who expect to put us of on pay day,
and five know ourselves we will have
none such.
political course of THE HERALD
III the at is an earnest of what 1t will
be in the future. 1t has labored with
untirng zeal through all the gloomy
night of our oppression to secure the
Triumph of Democracy and the resto-
ration of honest government, and now
that the object for which it labored
has been attained, and new era of
peace and pr osperity has dawned upon
the State, THE HERALD feels that 1t is
not arrogating too much to itself to
claim its due share of merit for the
good work that has been accomplished.
Realizing, however. rs it does, the
grand future that is just opening up
before the State, resulting from the
completion of railroads and the rees-
Enlistment of honest government, it
proposes to plant itself hereafter on a
higher plane than that occupied by any
merely partisan paper, and while hold
ITS allegiance to the Democratic
y, 70 subordinate that allegiance in
ays 70 the progress and prosper