Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1895-02-26
The close of Our 9th Year.

Sundays issue, Feb. 10Th, 1879, cOnSu"
tutes the last number of the ninty.sey-
enth volume of the Budget. The next
will mark the beginning of our ninety
eight year. Born IN 1907, in the infancy
of the Republic, when John Adams and
Thomas Jefferson as President and vice
president were watching its develop
ment with prescient soliCitude, the
Budget, at that time likewise a feeble
banting, has kept pace with the Nations
growth, always leading in local journal
ism. 1t has seen parties rise and fall,
political dogmas dazzle and die out, and
various newspaper ventures start upward
with the rush and glow of rockets only
to strike the earth again with the invari-
able gravity of sticks. Two generations
of men have had their being, hayiDg
loved and toiled and suffered and died
while the Budget has only waxed strong
er and more influential, caring for the
multiplying wants of the third genera
tion as faithfully as it has for those Of
the two that are gone. With newspapers
as with men, age brings wisdom. But,
whereas, of men it is said
"If youth but knew
Or old age could do
in the case of newspapers it is recog-
nized fact that years add to their expert
ence and power. That such is the case
with the Budget, none who have noted
its progressive tendencies during its
ninety-seventh year can doubt for a mo-
! ment. 1t has spared no pains or expense
to keep abreast of the times. While pre-
serving the news features that have rem
dered the paper necessity to its readers
ever since it has been issued it has added
attractive features made imperative by
the widening sphere of modern journal
ism. Letters of travel by the most OBJ
servant and cultured of the worlds per-
ambulators, special articles on art, sci
ence and fashions, short stories and i'm
portart events, all copiously illustrated
with vivid sketches, have filled its col
umns from week to week. In all re-
spects it has been the ideal weekly FAM
ly newspaper, and its success in retain
ing all it's old readers while gaining many
new ones in year characterized by re-
trenchment in business and household
expenses throughout the broad domain
in which the paper circulates, is the best
proof of its appreciation by the public.
Nor has it's course in political matters
throughout the year been less consistent
and satisfactory than its policy in other
details. AS lOug as time lasts there win
always be parties and factions. No in
divldual or newspaper can suit every
party. The Budget believes in and ad-
vocates the principles of Republicanism.
No glittering allurements of temporary
power have ever convinced it that the
best interests of that party are subserved
by bargains or deals with a faction of
any other party 1t has been equally op-
posed to Clevelandism and Maynardism.
| 1t believes that Sheehanism for Buffalo
is no worse than Whelanism for Troy.
Advocating bipartisanShip in local al
fairs, it opposes any and every scheme
| to give disgraced and repudiated DEM
ocrat the authority to act at as the ap-
! pointer of Republican officials. The
Budget has lived long enough to see too
many such deals react on those who fav-
ored them to advocate them now. Some
Republicans dazzled by the prospect of
short-lived power may differ with the
Budgets views now, but time will show
that the barter of principles is as surely
| bound to fail now as in the days of ia
cob and Esau.-Troy Budget. ...