The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1883-02-03
THE SUN
NEW YORK, 1888.

More people have read The Sun during the
year just now passing than ever before since
it was first printed. No other newspaper pub
lished on this side Of the earth has been,
bought and read in any year by so many men
and women.
We are crelihly informed that people buy.
read, and like The Sun for the following rea-
sons. among others
Because it's news columns present in ~attrac-;
tive form and with the greatest possible accu
racy whatever has interest Tor humankind
the events, the deeds and misleets, the Wis
dom. the philosophy, the notable folly, the
solid SENSE, the improving nOnsense-all the
news OF the busiest world at present revolving
in space.
Because people have learned that in it's re-
marks concerning persons aud AFFAIRS lhe
Sun makes a practice of telling them the ex-
act truth to the best of its ability three hun
dred and sixty. five days in the year, before
election as we'll as q Ter. about the whales a.
we'll us abOat the small fish. in the face of dis
SEM us plainly and fcarlessly MS when sup
ported by general approval. The Sun has alb
sointeiy 10 purposes 10 serve, save the lnfor
nation OF its readers and the furtherance OF
the common good.
Because it is e~verybody's newspaper. No
man is so humble that The Sun is Indifferent
to His welfare and his rights. No man is so
rich that it can allow injustice to be done
hun. No man, no association OF men, is pow
ertUi enough to be exempt from the strict APP
p~lic:,tion OF lis principle. Of right and wrong.
Because in politics il has fought for a dozen
wears. without iCtcrlniSsion and Sometimes al
most alone among newspapers. the fight that
has resulted il tine recent overwhelming pop
ular ~rcrtiicr against kobesonism and for hon
est government. No matter what party is in
power. The Sun stands and will continue to
stand like Il rock for the interests of the peO-
pie against the ambition of BOSSES, the Ell
e~roachments Of ihonopolists. and the dishon-
est schemes OF public robbers.
All this is what We are Old almos.daily by
our friends. One laan holds. that The Sun is
the pest religious newspaper ever published,
because ita Christianity is undilIted with
SAINT. Another hollis that it is the best Re-
publican newspaper printed. because it has
already whipped half of the rascals out of
that party, and is proceeding against the 9TH
or half with unde.ninislled vigor. a third be.
lieve it to be tie best maya gaZine Of general
literature i'll existence, because its readers
Miss nothing wnrthy of notice that is current
in the world OF thought. So every friend of
The SIM discovers one of its many sides that
appeals with particular force to his individual
liking.
If yor already know The Sun, YOU will OBJ
serve that in 1888 i: IS a little better than ev-
er before. If you do not already know The
Sum-, you will find it to be a mirror of all hui
man activity. a storehousc of the choicest pro
ducts o, common sense and imagination, q
mainstay for the cause of honest government,
II sentinel for genuine JeffersOnian DemOcra-
cy, a scourge fer wickedness OF every species,
and an ~unconimoniy good investment for the
coming year.