Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-12-30
ADIEU.

EulLOi Vi ttiC 1hA1A OOC " AAEh-
AID to say TO Is patrons, Good bye.
Our time ls cut. Our subscription
has expired" For four years and one
month we have had control over its
columns. We have endeavored to
do our duty. How we'll we need
not say the readers may judge, for
that they will do whether or no. We
wish we could have brought to the
position of editor more ability and
more endurance for in the four
years of hard work Just closed the
need OF the latter has sometimes been
felt as we'll as the former. But, in
matters Of public concern we have
nothing to regret. In all cases we
have done whst we thought right,
and we cheerfully abide the conse-
quences of final judgment. If the
HERALD had passed these four years
without gaining the attention of the
people we should feel that we had
been an idler. We baYe plowed up
the ground, and we imagine passers
by will perceive the burrows even
though the grass should grow over
them. In our crude travesties upon
men and themes We may frequently
have been wrong, bat we never
knowingly asserted wrong, and
while it has always been our rule
and practice to make right wherein
we have wronged, we are never rea-
dy to acknowledge an undiscovered
wrong. We have tried to sink self
in the paper. For what was merito.
rious we wished the HERALD, not the
editor, to be spoken of. We could
not be content to see rank weeds
growing in our politics, society, or
even religion without digging at them
and striving to give the useful plants
1etter chances to grow. Editors who
ave thousands Of people to read
what they offer every week have rare
chances to DO good They have an
equal chance to DO harm. 1t may be
th6y have q chance to do neither. OF
the three those who adopt the pass
i've, 90 easy, inofensiye course are
the most desplsed They are always
tenders Of the second class. 1t is to
ho regretted that newspapers IN gen
eral are in these times mere lnstru~
ments to be used 10 sinister purposes
There are very few that dare be in
dependent, Originally they wers sup
posed to be designed to carry ..1ws
ar-.511ormation to the people. Sub
scriptions and advertisements were all
the sources Of revenue the paper had.
IftLere were not enough Of these to
pay for publishing the paper the pub
LEGATION would not be undertaken
Now, these appear TO be perquisites,
and the question whether newspa.
per will pay or not is supposed to
depend upon what man or men in
certain commanding or lucrative po-
gitions will do for it. Only on the
original plan can the people have the
truth served up to them. Only by
such papers can society aud politics
be steadily purified and improved.
Our work as editor of the HERALD
is done. We quit it regretfully, We
see ahead much good work that
might be accomplished with its help
and we would fain use the instru.
ment. But while we have had four
years OF work with heart IN il, the
work has been too heavy. 1t has
been given under too greats disad>
vantages We are under contract to
sell to Joseph Cover and II. ID. Far
quharson, the transfer to be made
next Monday. Next weeks paper
will, therefore, be issued by them.
Joseph Cover is the second son of j.
G, Cover. lie is at a good age to be-
gin an editorial career. He has suf.
fcient education and talent to make
him, in time, distinguished, if rightly
used lie learned the printing trade
in this office. Afterwards be became
a Shorthand writer and had consid-
cradle experience reporting for courts
and for committees of Congress at
Washington Mr. Farqaharson has
or years published the Boscobel
Dial. He was foreman printer on
ne HERALD in 1860, when we were
junior associate editor with J. G..
Cover He is a first class printer
We, in the first place heartily wish
these gentlemen may conduct the
HERALD as it was conducted ia the
best days Of J. c. Cover, and then
we as heartily wish them success
TIE HERALp in much the greater
number of its long years has been
the friend of the people 1t has
thrown out light 30 lead them in
proper ways. 1t has not thrown dust
in their eyes to blind them and lead
them astray. May it ever continue
in its old aud accustomed way.
In this farewell we cannot close
without public expression of thanks
TO frienis--aU the friends, patrons.
customers and printers-who have
helped US from beginning to end !;
who have led US through the wilder.
ness and up the mountain where we
can look upon ourself the sole owner
of the HERALD, though at this point
we halt aud do not enter upon and
possess the goodly land. The HER
AID in these years has prospered. Its
steady circulation is more than six
hundred greater than it was three