The weekly times. (Wilmington, Del.) 1886-18??, 1886-10-16
SATURDAY, OCTOBER l6, 1886.
INTRODUCTORY.

i'll iHbtOduSihs5 KIM ihfo w "hS
people of Wilmington, we desire to
touch first on the field for an addi-
tional newspaper. No doubt many
persons will exclaim "What, an
otherl Why, there are already too
many" Successful public journals
are conservators of the peace as
well as popular teachers, and we be-
lieve that the growing population of
our city, now nearly 10000, invites
a fresh venture in that direction.
Every step in life is risk, however,
and anticipations depend on future
Developments for realization. Time
may disproye our present belief.
Being only little weekly visitor,
we will not deign to compete with
our big daily brothers in the pursuit
of knowledge, but must content our
selves with humbly gathering the
fragments, until, perforce, we shall
be called higher. There are numer-
GUS phases of hope and fear about
which we would like to speak con-
fidingly, for breathing the health
giving air of Brandy wine hills, the
infant sheet naturally takes a vigor-
GUS interest in life. But modesty
forbids, and we will, therefore, con-
fine ourselves to a few points. AS
may be seen by the advertising col
umns, our first efforts have been
crowned with financial success. The
class of advertisers is what this
youngster is kicking up his heels
about as much as anything else. Not
name appears from outside of Will
mington. John Wanamaker, Sharp
less & Sons, Strawbridge & Clothier
and Cooper & Conard are very
good people for Phlladelphians to
deal with, but the stores of Crosby
& Hill, S. H. Stats, Crippen Il
Riggs, Rumford Brothers, William
Alsentzer and many others in this
city, are the places for Whining
tonians to patronize. Away with the
one-horse policy of buying in Phila-
delphia when large stocks at the
lowest prices await purchasers at
home. There is not q patent medi-
cine advertisement in any of these
columns, We believe that in the
matter of medicine-taking, the
world would do we'll to go back
about a century. There are to-day
myriads of wonderful discoveries"
for the procurement of health and
perpetuation of life, and yet it can
be shown that more injury than ben
eft is the result. Beside this, the
most disreputable sort of language is
set before the public in describing
the uses of some of them. Whining
tons sick are perfectly safe in the
hands of such men as Drs. Bush.
Harlan, Draper, Bullock, Grimshaw,
Maull, Shortlidge, Pyle, Hughes,
Lukens, Tomlinson, bravo, Cooper,
Cantwell, Snitcher and Parm. Adj
vertisement ofliquor are also omitted
because we have concluded that the
saloon is of no use, but a deal of
trouble. We confess to more than
little trePidation when approach
ing the subject of politics. THE
TIMES is to be independent in every
thing. But it is not an easy task
for those born in the very midst of
Jeftersonian simplicity and with
pocket editions of the constitution
in their mouths, as it were, to turn
away from the once grand old Dem
ocratic party, even if only for a
State and local campaign. Yet such
a course seems the proper one for
every free Delawarean at this time.
No one will ask why at so late day.
The frauds perpetratcd at the nomi-