Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1880-07-09
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Agents for the "Teller."
The Teller.


under the control of no political fac
ton or party. 1t asked and received
no subsidy from any quarter, farther
than the patronage of discriminating
public, upon purely business basis.
1t proposes to pay for what it received
and to be paid for what it gave. 1t
never contemplated the pleasing
of everybody, nor did it expect that
everybody would endorse add approve
of every principle or measure it advo-
Gated. 1t never promised that it
would never make mistake, but did
promise that when convinced that it
had committed mistake it would seek
to rectifv as far as in it's power. How
far, during the nearly four years it has
kept its pledge, the public must judge.
In but very few instances has it been
incorrect in it's statements, 80 far as
made known. 1t has been as literally
patronized by the general reading pub
lie as any paperever published at Lew
iston, and it's subscription list is now
larger than any other paper published
here, and judging from the general dis
position to keep up the subscription
list, and the very few complaints heard
i'll regard to its course, it to-day has
prestige among the people that en-
courages the belief that it is, and has
been, subscribing the good of by far
the great majority of it's readers, and
vet it has it's enemies, in LeWieton,
and had them in the start, il we can
judge by the quiet malice and spleen a
7 few have ever evinced towards both
its editor and publishers, and we have
no doubt that they would have been
glad to cripple us long ago. So far
their Spleen has been so apparent and
evidently SO deep seated, without
cause, that their attempted opposition
he, always been turned to our account,
and made us friends who otherwise
would have been Indifferent. We
have endeavored to deal fairly with
all, and never, to our knowledge, suf
fered ourselves to make the TELLER a
mere engine of personal retaliation to
wards those opposed to us. We have
discussed in general way the incor
rectness Of the principles that con
trolled them. without making the per-
sonal applicationto them. Some were sc
stupid that they could not see tho
they were hit, or if they did see i
they were too shrewd to let the fac
he known, while others would occasion
ally growl, and thus suffer their feath
ers to be rutiied and expose themselves
to the public gaze as the very persons
to whom our hints would apply. Their
is class of persons in this town, ane
no doubt they exist elsew here, wht
would, to all appearances rejoice
there never was published newsps
per in the vicinity where they reside
to chronicle their acts as men of busi
ness. They rather do their work q
rohbing the people under cover fror
the public eye. They. want the homo
Of serving the public, while at tn
same time they are disposed to rob tn
public. The TELLER has, no faith i
such, and no fear of their opposition
it SO long as it can watch and expos
them. The TELLER courts the fave
of those who aim to do right as cit
Gems, and will work for them in retur,
and it has no fear of the other ella.
when they show their hand, and d
/. not, assassin like, stab in the darl
The TELLER asks patronage upon tn
above principles, and while it has nc
much reason to complain, yet it know
what belongs to the reasonable pa
ronage of local paper, and know
that there are several men of meal,
in this place, who claim to I've ident
fed with it's interests, who do not a,
preciate what is due from such a
they in the support Of local paper i
order to advance the interests Of