Iron County register., 1882-01-05
s.Out of the House OF Bondage. ,.

We greet our many readers in thi
our first issue in 1882, and we wish ou
readers, our patrons, and our friends I
very happy and very prosperou'
New Year. Aside from the partial fail
ure Of crops, and the melancholy deatt
of our President which brought sorrow
to the whole nation, the past year ha,
been happy and prosperous one fol
our country.
The whole American people enter
upon 1882 at peace with themselves, al
peace with the world around them
with all our industries prosperous, with
our natural resources being rapidly de
veloped, and with future bright with
hope and with promise.
Our own part of the State is progress
ing with steady, if not rapid, strides.
Our wide territory is being lined and
checkered with railways. Our mines
are being opened, our forests are being
filled with mills, our farms improved
and new ones opened, our people pros
perous-equally free from want and
from superfluous wealth.
Our readers will allow us to turn for
a few moments from these external
conditions, and say few words some
what personal to eurselc and to the
REGISTER. We have so seldom OBJ
truded anything personal to ourself on
the attention of our readers that we are
sure they will the more readily acqui-
esce in this one innovation, in this
New Years issue.
In 1868 we purchased an interest in
the REGISTER office, and in 1871 bot
the remaining interest and took sole
charge of the paper, both as owner and
editor. At that time the office was
heavily mortgaged, and we, thereto
fore an impecunious typo, were with
out means. Starting with an honest
purpose to succeed-with a good wife,
healthy family, and vigorous de-
termination to earn and conquer sue
cess, we worked with our own hands,
early and late, and have managed to
make the REGISTER, we think we can
medestly say, fairly equal to any of its
contemporaries outside of the large cit
ies.-In 1873 we made An unfortunate
venture by moving to Potosi and start |
ing the Journal, but, finding that un-
profitable, we returned to Ironton, af-
ter losing about $1,000, and confined
ourself to the REGISTER, which was
still in our hands. This left US largely |
embarrassed, outside of the mortgages
on our property. We owe the deepest
gratitude to the people of Washington
county, especially q number of them
who were our creditors, for their kind
forbearance and long indulgence, until,
little by little, we were able "tO the ut
termost farthing" pay. We thank them
most heartily, and pray that they may
be increased in basket and in store and
may never fall into the hands of less
creditors. During the dark
days from 1873 to 1879, it was in the
power of "bloated capitalists" to have
crushed Us at any time, but our expert
ence with them is that they are not the
heartless mOrtals some Socialists would
have the world believe, but have
hearts, and patience. when they are
met by frank, honest purpose to do !
right. .
They waited-indulged us without +
and we struggled on and on, }
and to-day, thanks to the Giver of Ali .
Good, We are !;
OUT OF THE HOUSE OF BONDAGE,
free man. not owing a dollar, and r
lave few dimes left. .
Through industry, economy, and o
rood fortune, we have a comforts BILE E
lome. one of the best equipped print h
ng offices in the State, and the prop n
rty it is in, the REGISTER newspaper, n
nd what is better than all, the "best o
wife in the State." !,
In speaking of kind friends who
leiped float US over the sandbars in :,
he dark days and low water, we es- T
..scially thank Messrs. Won Roden,
emerson. Begley, Zwart, and Dinger,
7hose considerate Indulgence enabled
s to at last come out triumphant.
TO the host of other friends who al
rays rallied around the REGISTER,