The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-01-17
THE HERALD.

which IS made In the local Columns
The pape , as many OF its readers ar
aware, was started without money. a
was suggested at the time of its birth
nearly sixteen ye 7 ago, and reiterated
many times, since the founding OF thu
paper under the circumstances anc
conditions, was akin to impudence
Ordinarily it requires dollars, and lotS
of them, to establish a newspaper
without dollars with which to back the
enterprise beginning the publication OF
daily newspaper is risky to degree
of recklessness. The founders of THE
HERALD had practically no money when
they put forth their little venture; but
they possessed what is quite often better
than coin, even in a business so needful
Of capital as that of publishing news
paper until it has become established
with the public and reached self-sup-
porting condition.; they had pluck,
brains, enterprise, energy and determi-
nation. They saw that the city and
Territory needed just such newspaper
as THE HERALD has been, and they gave
it to them the results were greater than
those earnest, industrious, forceful men
anticipated, for instead of years of
privation, Of the anxiety which de-
presses and the financial torment which
brushes the spirit, the first day was the
gloomiest, the clouds clearing away and
the certain success of the hazardous
undertaking making itself more and
more manifest as the days, weeks and
months wore along. The people were
not long in recognizing the new cham
-pion of their rights, and they flocked
10 the encouragement and support of
their newborn friend and advocate. The
growth and popularity of THE HERALD
have been uniform and steady, from that
June morning nearly sixteen years ago, |
when the little four-page sheet, bright, |
bristling and almost saucy in its appear
snce, came forth to engage in the battle
on the side of the people. Public favor
was at once captured, and the friendship
then established has grown frmer day
after day until the present, when the
people feel as keen an interest in the
success and prosperity of The HERALD
rs the newspaper does in the peace
we'll being and good fortune of the peo-
pie. THERE'S an intimacy, sociability,
existing between The HERALD and the
great majority of its readers that can
be found between few journals and the
public. One knows that in the other it
has friend and ally that may be re
LED upon at all tunes.
But what we set OUT to say was that THE
HERALD began without money and never
received dollar in the way OF a gift or
subsidy, or in any other way than in
legitimate business, on the dollar for
dollar principle; it made its name and
its fame and gathered its substance
without the original aid of a bank &C.
count to draw against; it has at times
seen where with more money at COM
mand it could have accomplished more. ,
could have made itself better, and done j
more effective service in the cause of 8
the people of Utah, and at such times it 8
has wished that the success which has :
attended it from the first, phenomenal t
as that has been, had been even greater. /
though such a thing would have been I
next to impossible The paper has never r
been weak; it has never been faltering.
but it has been less powerful, less firm q
all its life than its owners desired it to u
be; hence it is that the new company G.
has been formed, to give The HERALD
the strength that it was lacking.
That the new association.win do this d.
must impress itself upon the minds of G
III when they read the list of stock f.
1olders. They include the active, pro- m
yressiye, energetic business men of the or
the men who make successes n,
II enterprises, and with whom failure ri
s word they do not understand. II Fl,
iced hardly be said that the character OF
md policy of the paper will not be 10
hanged with the change of ownership. or
he HERALD has thought and worked ii,
Nth and for these men; its policy has
cen their policy, and hepoIicy of the
tab comnunity-that of peace, OF 70
ight, Of progress and of development an
ne new ownership simply gives to THE NO
ERALD She means to become bigger. bo
better, a more influential and q mr.
reater journal in all respects than it 90,
as been, but the development will be ,,;s
the line that has been followed from pa
le commencement OF the newspaper. Iar
The HERALD congratulates its thou -,
nds of friends and patrons upon the 70
alge in its affairs that is recorded
rs morning, and promises that the
lehc shall get the benefit of the gooi ssa 1fS
rtuDe Of the journal.