The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1910-09-02

o,.,. anu mas ability to
accomplish things for this state that
're essential to our welfare, but which
"ouio De impossible to obtain with an
lnsurgent congressman.
II looks as though the Spokane In
lana Herald had very precarious hold
VII eAistence, and was headed for the
sepulchre where so MANY iourn.,;s,;o
ventures In that city have proceeded
IT, III may weather the present gale.
OUT II 1t does there must be n chance
IN methods, and a fattening of its lean
advertising patronage. To the printer
VINO has watched the patronage ex.
tended the Herald during its brief ca.
reer, the end has been confidently ex.
pected. The writer has frequently
observed that daily paper is an ex-
pensive venture, for he has tried it,
10 win at the game in a large CITY
there must be business sagacity behind
the enterprise, energy that will not
oalk at eighteen hours work in every
twenty-four, demand for the presence
OF the publication, and a product so
attractive as to make a copy indispen-
Slole in the store, office, shop and
household. There was certainly field
for an outspoken republican paper in
Spokane and vicinity, and in that re-
spect the party has been somewhat dis
appointed in the Herald. With all
due kindness to the power behind that
journal, still trusting it will escape
the rocks, few mistakes, as they ap-
pear to brush printer who LAYS no
claim of knowing how daily paper
should be run, may be pointed out. A
mistake was made in the selection of
a name. Inland Herald would be ap-
propriate to n periodical, or a trade
publication, but it does not appeal to
one as sounding metropolitan, and Spo-
kane is in that class. 1t was mistake
in not appearing as morning paper
at the outset. An error was made in
the intimation, thinly yelled, that it
was the aim to run out an old established
daily. That Herculean task has been
tried too often with disastrous results
to the sack. A lesson should have
been taken from the experience of the
old Spokesman, more brilliantly edited
than any paper in that city before or
since it's time. A little more modesty
in the declaration of intentions at
the start, 80 per cent curtailment of
the front Office force, and keeping with
in the resources with the aim of build
ing up instead of running down would
have conduced to longevity. Last but
not least the resort to red head lines
seemed to be signal of distress. AS
stated above, there is room for a con-
sistent, pushing republican paper in
Spokane, but if the Herald fails to fill
the bill and goes to the wall it will be
a long day before the want is supplied.
A PETITION. signed by some 1900
voters of the city of Spokane was pre-
sented to the Inland Herald asking
that paper to support Hon. John l..
Wilson for senator. 1t was with pleas
ure beyond expression that we read
among the signatures the names OF so
many old timers, men who gave OF their
best days and the limit of their means
to build up Spokane, at the time when
it was known as Spokane Falls, and
when it required sacrifices and hard
work to keep the young town moving
forward. They are the men who laid
the foundation upon which the present
superstructure stands, one of the most
beautiful and attractive cities in the
giant west, marvel to every stranger
who sets eyes upon it. No man living
therein loves Spokane better than we
do; no man is prouder of it's Aladdin
like growth. We carry warm place