The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-06-08
ANNOUNCEMENT.


IN the new homes it hopes to make new
friends and readers The field of the
REVIEW is thus greatly widened and
we hope with the added facilities which
the purchase of the Journal plant gives
us to improve the paper both in appear
ance and contents so that no person
among all our readers shall regret the
change.
The history of the newspaper busi-
ness in Denison proves that two Eng
lish publications are all that are need
ed. Each of the great parties will have
representative and as far as news and
business is concerned the semi weekly
REVIEW and the weekly Bulletin fully
cover the field. The merchant who de-
sired to advertise his wares has been
almost obliged to do so in the three
papers and this has increased the ex-
pense without materially increasing
the benefit derived. In town of Den
ison's size the major news items are
and must be the same, so that multi
plicity of newspapers means to large
extent simply repetition with little
added value
MI. Cook returned to Denison with
the prestige of large and favorable
acquaintance, as an advocate of the
gold standard he received some busi.
ness support from those fayoring that
doctrine and many of his old.time
democratic friends gave him helpine
hand. We do not know as to the ex.
tend of Mr.. Cooks profit from the
journal, we simply judge as can others
tnat II 1T had been extremely profitable
ne would not have desired to make a
business change. If then Mr. Cook. an
able writer and a man of much popu-
larity, could not make a decided sue
cess OF third paper we doubt if any
other person could, providing of course
that the two old papers maintain their
standard of excellence and retain their
popularity with the people. The Re-
VIEW will for its part strive to repay
the peoples patronage with added ex-
cellence.
10 the readers of the Journal who
have not before taken the REVIEW we
send kindest greeting We trust that
they will give the REVIEW a fair trial
and that if it is satisfactory they will
retain it in their homes.
ltsis almost needless to say that the
REVIEW will be, as it has always been
republican 1t intends to stand
Loyalty by what it believes to be right
While it will be aggressively republi-
can 1t will try not to be abusive and
VIII endeavor to appeal to the reason
rather than to prejudice. Above all it
Will not forget that it has it's reputation
TO maintain as the best NEWS paper in
Crawford county.
The REVIEW does not believe in esin.
dependence as it is generally termed.
Nothing in this world is done without
co operation and compromise. The
task OF the faultfnder is an easy one
and like most easy tasks is Improbable.
should every voter act on the independ-
ent plan there would be no parties, no
concerted action, no organized efforts
TO effect legislation. From the moment
one enters life he commences a process
OF yielding his independence. The
obedient, well behaved child yields his
independence to parents and teachers,
the man yields his independence to the
conventions of society, to public opin-
ion and to common usage. So-called in
dependence is too often merely an evi-
dence OF conceit, foolhardiness or.hypo-
crlsy. Every man should reserve
enough of his independence to prevent
nm from doing wrong because another
does it or from supporting principles
which he believes to be errors simply
because of party or other affiliations.
but no results can be obtained except
by united action and this always in
wolves the sacrifice of a certain amount
of personal opinion or ambition to pro
mote common cause. The desire of
this article is not to criticise others but
to explain to our readers old and new
why the REVIEW, believing that the
best results for the general welfare of
this country can only be attained
through the instrumentality of the re-
publican party, has ever been true to
its standards and has never been tempt
ed into the field of socalled .'independ-
ent journalism.
The REVIEW with the recent acauisi-
tion to its subscription has now reached
the high water mark of newspaper cir
culation in this county, the grand total
after deducting duplicates being Ocea
1000. 1t shall be our purpose to main
tain this list if possible but in order to
do this we shall not depart from our
Strictly Cash Basis. This basis is the