The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-04-28
The old Home and the New.

Today, this paper leaves the home OF
its early struggles and trials, OF its
initial difficulties and first successes,
and on Monday it will go on with its
career in the spacious, we'll equipped
home of its own which today stands
ready for it at No. 251 Washington
street, the building so long known as
the banking house of the Hudson
County National Bank, but hence
forward to be known as THE NEWS
building.
In the midst of all the elation
which this distinctly progressive step
brings with it, it is impossible to es-
cape that feeling of regret which
m with the final closing of a
chapter for all TINA. Places that have
been familiar to US will know us no
more. Things that have grown to
wear a friendly aspect through daily
use will disappear from u lives.
Other people and other interests will
live and labor amid surroundings
which have become second nature to
us as it were, by weeks and months of
eager work and anxious care expended
in their midst. There is a compan-
ionship in inanimate things, a friendly
feeling for mere locality which is in
herent in men, and we cannot escape
from the pang which inevitably at
tends the putting off of old associa-
tions.
But the law of progress is as inexor-
able as that of death, and the time
has come when THE JERSEY CITY
NEWS must abandon the shelter of it's
period OF youth and ordeal. must
take space for its own growth, and
must provide for the proper perform
ance in the future of the I'VE expand
ing sphere of public duties which are
the life of a progressive newspaper.
And SO with a warm remembrance OF
all that has been tried and all that
has been accomplished, with a feeling.
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in which regret has small part, for
something even that has been suffered
within these confines, we bid good-by
to the old home of The JERSEY CITY
News, and turn our faces to the new
work, with the same earnestness OF
purpose and the same trust in public
support with which we first entered
upon this enterprise of our lives a
little more than five years ago.
In the inaugural editorial, printed
in THE SUNDAY MORN ING News of
February "a, 1SS9,-which We reprint
today In an adjoining column,--we
promised the public OF Jersey City
that the only motives that should
guide our policy would be the further
ance of the public good. The only
ambition we had, we said, was that
of publishing a newspaper which
would deserve the public su pport.
We have endeavored to live up to the
principles thus laid down, and that
we'have not failed in the public es-
timation is proven by the step in adj
vance which we are making today.
Sincere conviction has at all times
impelled us out of regard of the pub
lie welfare to keep this paper staunch-
ly Democratic upon Natio nal issues.
and upon all broad general features
of State policy. Taking Grover
Cleveland as the great leader and rep
r~esentative of the party. it has been a
pride to us to preach the same doc
trines of National honor. and liberal
state smanship which character ize
him and the democrats OF his school.
The u~pholding of the spirit of the
Federal Constitution, obedience to the
traditions handed down to us from
the fathers of the Republic; govern
ment ia the interest of the people at
large as distinguished from rule in
the interest Of particular classes
these are the s~hibboleths OF Damoc
racy, "a we understand it and If we
have not been true to these princi-
Piles. it has been from falliblity OF
Judgment and not from weakness OF
intention.
But our mistaken belief in Demo
cratic doctrine has never blinded US
either to vices in our own party or
to merits displayed by individual rep
resentatives of the opposite ideas.
We have always held that the rules