Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-06-15
BEGINNING OF VOLUME FORTY
EIGHT.

To-Day, June 10, the DEsERET NEWS
starts out on the forty eighth year o.
it's publication. On June 10, 1850, the
first number OF this paper wac Issued,
as an eight page weekly newspaper.
Its motto was Truth and Liberty-s
motto which the NEWS has made Its
best endeavors 10 live up TO from that
time to the present, and hopes to con.
time In doing so ana thereby merit the
confidence aud esteem In which 1t is
held by the people.
When the NEWS was frat Issued,
this region was under State govern.
ment-the State OF Delerct. This
city was then known as Great Salt
Lake City, and the editor OF the News
was DR.. Willard Richards, ono Of
the First Presidency OF the Church.
In his prospectus, the editor outlines
broad and liberal policy for the paper,
and suggests to his patrons.that''a paper
that is worth printing Is worth pre-.
serving; II worth preserving, 1t 10
worth binding; for this purpose we is.
sue In pamphlet form, and II every
subscriber shall preserve each copy
Of the NEWS, and bind 1t at the close
OF the volume, their children's chill.
dren may read the doings OF their
fathers, which otherwise might be
forgotten, ages to come" That tho
NEWS f. IN the beginning OF lie career
was worth printing, blnulng ana pre-
serving Is given evidences OF In tue
ueep intetesI mat cen'ets IN reauing
the nrst Voiume'
Mentio', mas oeen MADE that when
the NEWS began puohcanon tais was
sstate; ior the Ierri'ory OF otah was
NOT then createu, ana the STATE OF
Desrret hau appiieu iof admission 10
the onion' In its hrst NUMBER the
news puoiisnes the message OF ffesi'
dent A'cnary Taylor 10 congress, In
which the executive says ne auViseu
the territories IN the newly acquired
western domain 10 FORM STATE govern
menis. ana ne recommends their au-
mission to the Union. On the matter
OF s'atshood' the same paper contains
an extract nom the New YORK herald,
as ioiiows'
Wepublish, in another part of today's
nefala, .ne communion oi me new
by the Mormons, in the Great Basin OF
Upper California. II is very liberal
with the consti,u'ion of any of tba oi5
states.
An article from the New YORK
Trihune in also given on the same sub
isot, which reiers To the name Dssere,
"A aa mvsticaI apuellstIon deriyed
from THAR relisious dialect. AND
s,onifvinu tho land of the honey be,
or OF Industry and all kindred
virtues. - and says of the application
for statehood TINT the "grest reason
for tina recoynition nj the State ia tn,
ability of the people to nav the cost Of
.dministerinv tn, it affairs. which will
save the general govern ment tho cos
of n Janitorial Embellishments Tn,
number of Mormons than I'm ths St, {
ia fixe1 by the New York name
at 1O.ooo. and 1t is noted 1,
,suard to the Constitution that II wa
modeled altar thu form usually fol
lowsd in the nation. guarantee
reIipious liberty. and said nothing O
slayerv.
Thu other crntenis nj the NEW
a,s, number ars nj more ;bau usual Al
,.,ast at mia time The eJvertis,ny /
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