The Washington times., 1894-03-18
WASHINGTON. d. C.. MARCH IS, 1894.
VOL. l., NO. I.

VOL. l.. NO. I.
THE WASHINGTON TIMES is n fact-and an
issue After months of labor, of planning, OF
organizing. the Peoples Paper has come to
its beginning. A remarkable work-this is.
No other paper was ever started under the
same circumstances. Like all great enter
prises, movements and revolutions, il had its
foundations laid in necessity.
Printers, thrown out of work by the intro
agitation, until the whole body of Columbia
Typographical Union. No. 10l, leavened with
the idea. 1t grew and spread until the whole
10000 members of organized labor i'll Wash
ington caught the spirit OF the occasion and
rallied TO its support. A company was
organized. 1t has hundreds of stockholders
No other daily ever had one-tenth as many.
And. strange to say. there is not an !eler in
the whole list. All of them earn their living
By labor Of hand and brain. Probably not
each. But they all believe in cooperation.
And they are all terribly in earnest. They
have ideas and rights--ard they want COM
mon mouthpieca to express their ideas and
stand up for their rights.
So the mo, mt grew until its strength
WIS felt all over Washington-until .he sig
nileGnce of the idea struck the bell in a
,iozen ether cities, where this first number
will lie hailed as n welcome message.
Friend, there arc over 1000 men and
women in Washington who have a direct
money interest in this paper, who have cheer
fully drawn upon their scant earnings that
this paper might be born. 1t has the official
Endorsement of the great central organiza-
tons which speak for labor in this Capital.
They have proved their faith by their deeds.
They have not only put money into the pa
per and subscribed for it, but they nave
pledged their patronage to the merchants who
founded and which they own.
Now, what do we propose to do? First and
foremost, we are going to print bright
readable newspaper. The TIMES will have
the full reports of the Associated Press. 1t
will have a strong corps of alert, hustling
newspaper men, who have their hearts in this
enterprise and who believe as we do. We are
not going to give you merely the surface fact,
but the fact which Is un.i,==resththe surface
that is the soul Of n-p, We have no cor
porate strings tied to u; no influences which
will restrain us from telling the truth. even if
it is unpleasant to wealth and power. We
will hew to the line. Our daily edition will
be four pages; busy men want paper which
can be read in half an hour. THE TINES costs
but one ceat. 1t is within the reach of ALL
The Sunday edition will have eight, twelve
sixteen or twenty pages-we shall grow-and
will be sold for five cents. The paper will
be delivered seven days in the week for 10
cents. 1t will reach you bright and early
What shall We advocated The cause of the
people-that means many things. Public
control of public franchises, cheap gas, free
water. free school books, more schoolhouses.
lower rents, an honest assessment of prop
erty. not in the interest OF speculative hold
ings. brt in the interest of those who build
the load of unjust taxation from the shoulders
OF the masses. We do not believe that indus
try and enterprise should be taxed that idle
wealth may escape its proper share OF the
lutiic burden. We believe that one of the
main solutions of the problem of poverty lies
in absolutely freeing labor and active capital
from taxation, and supporting tho govern
n,ent by taxing the ground values which are
created by the community as a whole, and
not by the comparatively few individuals who
are in possession of the land. On all these
main issues we purpose to open our columns
for fair, good-tempered and honest discus
sion. All great questions are many-sided.
We are willing to give all sides an equal hear
ing.
One closing word. The first issue of THE
TIMES is on a paying basis. Now is the time
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