The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-09
A NEW VOLUME.

With this issue The News and OBJ
server enters upon its fifty-seventh
volue. In its long life it hasthad but
one object in view: to promote the
welfare of North Carolina in every
way that would contribute to the bet
terment of its people.
The management has never permit
ted the hope of reward or the fear of
loss of business to influence its edi-
torial policy. 1t has stood for the
Right as God has given US to see the
Right, with malice toward none.
First of all, it has stood and will
stand for the supremacy of the Dem
ocratic party. It's principles are inn
mortal. In it's success are wrapped
up the hopes of all who wish Good
Government, Progress, Education and
Temperance in North Carolina. The
man who does most to upbuild the
Democracy does most to strengthen
every good cause.
The policy of the paper in the flu
ture can be judged only by its policy
in the past 1t will seek to advance
the principles for which it. stands in
equipment and larger income it will
be made a better newspaper, and
hopes to be worthy of its growing pat
ponage and the confidence of its
friends, for it hopes never to grow too
metropolitan to lose that touch of per-
sonal interest which should subsist
between an editor and the subscribers
to his paper.
The recent many evidences of APP
prevail of the policy of the paper have
been most gratifying. The substan-
tial evidence in the large subscription
list imposes the responsibility to use
the power thus conferred only for the
public good. A newspaper, with no
back-door entrance and no special in
terests to subserve, is the mightiest
agency for good in America today. A
newspaper, subsidized by those desir-
ing some selfish purpose or conducted
to advance the personal ambition OF
any man, is an agency of evil. Hap
PLY in North Carolina, not yet suffi-
GENTLY commercialized to tolerate
the editorial page that bears the ear
marks of purchase, subsidized
newspaper has little more influence
than a last years bird-nest
During the present year The News
and Observer has passed the goal of
it's long cherished hope and now goes
daily to more than ten thousand sub
scribers-no State newspaper has ever
before secured so large a list of sub
escribers. The bushes in every de-
partment continues to improve. AS
an evidence of this the cash receipts
of The News and Observer for the
month of February, 1905, was ST.
$3.50 more than in February, 1904.
To the "Old Guard of subscribers,
who helped to pull up the hard hill
when the paper was losing money and
to the new subscribers whose patron
age makes Improvement and enlarge
ment possible, the thanks of the man
agement are hereby rendered. We
have an abiding faith that they will
youchSafe their continued patronage
and cooperation as long as the paper
maintains it's present and past policy
If it should fail to stand firmly by it's
convictions, it would not deserve the
large measure of confidence it en-
joys today.
Men and newspapers, in the long
run, are estimated at their true value.
Sensible people-and most folks are
sensible and honest-do not judge a
man or a paper by one act or one
mistake, but by the general tenor of
the mans life and the papers policy.
BY this test The News and Observer.
conscious of no motive except to serve
the good people to whom it owes last
ing gratitude, is willing to trust it's
future.