Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-09-01
Salutatory.


IN serene safety in the glow Of his
own ingle, may turn his memory
back to some cannibal cauldron and
shndder for q moment, as he fancies
1t is himself he beholds seething
there; but speedily recalled from
the torturing vision by warmth and
light and dear home cheer, he grad
ually lapses into gentle pity of him.
self"for dangers he has passed." and
Begin to forget how very bad they
were. So we, clasping anew the
once familiar pen, taking up afresh
the duties once SO commonplace,
find all the air resonant with old
home tones of sympathy and trust
and cheer. In the gladness of the
hour we begin to forget the dreary
agony of long months and years
when deprived of the blessed privil-
eye of shaving our say" Already
gaunt shadows begin to fade from
memory's wall, of days and days
when, filled to repletion with poll
tics, temperance, suffrage, poetry
and-religion, we had no means of
disposing of it except through the
medium of one inefficient, overtaxed
tongue. But the sky grows bright
er! Great clouds of dripping mel
ancholy that overhung the days of
eur enforced silence begin to pass
away and up into the blue spaces
rises our anthem of praise to the
press-the multiple tongue of the
world!
Friends, ifyou wished us to aban-
don the sanctum forever, you should
have been less kind in the days that
were. You should have refused to
read, refused tc approve, refused to
tolerate. But you did not these
things, hence we again offer what
we can give-again ask your kind
ness, your patience, your patronage.
Help us to make paper worthy of
our great Northwest, in those par
ticular lines to which it is proposed
to devote this enterprise. There are
newspapers, political papers, local
papers in abundance, all doing noble
work. He who would know what
the world is about cannot afford to
do without the xczos; the statesman
and every voter is measurably a
stateman-must read politics and the
home demands can never be neg
lected without loss; but together
with all these necessary interests are
others equally important. Students
are delving, thinkers are thinking.
writers are penning their inspirations
IN every city, village and almost ev-
cry farm house of these wonderful
western states. Do not they need a
representative journal? Are not the
people waiting to know what is be-
ing discovered, thought and written
about them? Western writers have
waited at the portals of eastern pub
fishing houses long enough. It is
time the west called them home and
took them in, to warmth and comfort.
ga prophet in his own land'' is lust
as much a prophet.as though the
land allowed him to have a comfort
able life and utter his prophesies in
peace, for prophesy he will and must
If he be possessed of the spirit. Some
where, sometime he will be exalted
and the disgrace of his banishment
and persecution fall upon the mis-
taken land.
We send out these pages hastily
prepared as they have been, in the
fullest conviction, that they can be
made to supply demand of the peo-
pie' by gathering and sending forth
'ne 'aeas that slunber unsupported
all over the broad acres about us.
lo 90 tbs, will be the specially of
cur ann. No particular school of