The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-12-17
THE CHRONICLE PAST, PRESENT
AND FUTURE.

Twelve months ago today the first
number of The Dalles WEEKLY CHRoNI-
Gle was issued and today its publishers
send forth to the world the first number
of its second volume. The story of its
origin needs no rehearsal here. Suffice
it that the merchants and business men
of The Dalles believed there was a mis-
sion in the field of journalism in this
city yet unoccupied and the CHRONICLE
was started to fulfill that mission. 1t
was never intended to be the vehicle of
faction or the organ Of a party. Its
founders were no disgruntled politicians
nor disappointed office-seekers but bus
mess men whose interests we"e bound
up with and inseparable from the in
terests of the whole. community 1t is
with no desire to stir up unpleasant rec
objections that we remind our readers
that before the advent of the CHRONICLE
the press of this city had descended to
the level of narrow and miserable fac
tionalism where it is still bound as firmly
as the prince of darkness in the vision
of the apocalypse. The rights of the
major portion of the community were
ignored and the columns of at least one
journal teemed with daily denunciations
of everything and everybody who could
not pass the censorship of it's imperial
boss. In this unhappy condition the
CHRONICLE became the child of neces-
sity. 1t had to be born. A field of use
fulness, wholly unoccupied, lay open
hafnrp If rd how vral1 ~ hoc f,,1G - it-
mission, let the record of the past year
testify. On political questions, about
which men may honestly differ, the
CHRoNicLE has sought to guide rather
than to lead, but on all questions affect
ing the material interests of The Dalles
and of the empire from which the
CHRONICLE draws its support, it has
aimed to be honest, unselish and fear
less. And it has the supreme satisfac-
tion of knowing that its labors in the
peoples interests have been appreciated
Twelve months ago today the CHRONICLE
was launched upon the sea of journalism
without solitary subscriber. Today
its daily and weekly editions have a
larger number of subscribers than any
paper published in Eastern Oregon with
one possible exception. Before the
CHRONICLE was six months old its circu-
lation in Wasco and adjoining counties
had outnumbered its local contemporar-
les Zone of which started into life over
80 years ago. and since then constant
and almost daily accessions have been
made to its subscription list This is
said in no spirit of idle boasting. 1t is
statement of fact and Il record of which
any journal may be proud. The pub
fishers of the WEEKLY CHRONICLE have
SO far appreciated the patronage it has
received that they send out the first
number of its second volume in a new
and enlarged form. The change involves
an addition equal to nine columns of
reading matter equal to its present size,
but the price remains the same, while
the volume of news furnished weekly to
its subscribers vastly exceeds that of any
of its local contemporaries. We need
scarcely add that it is confidently ex-
pected that this last effort to make the
Chronicle more worthy of public sup
port will be duly appreciated and that
large editions will in consequence be
made to its subscription list and adver-
tising patronage.