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THE WEEKLY TIMES.
AN INDEPENDENT PAPER.
PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY MORNING.
J. L. GOOD.«
S. A. BOOTHE.
BOOTHE & GOOD,
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SATURDAY,OCTOBER 1C, 188G.
INTRODUCTORY.
In introducing The Times to the
people of Wilmington, we desire to
touch first on the field for an addi
tional newspaper. No doubt many
persons will exclaim : " What, an
other! Why, there are already too
many." Successful public journals
conservators of the peace as
well as popular teachers, and we be
lieve that the growing population of
our city, now nearly 00,000, invites
a fresh venture in that direction.
risk, however,
future
Every step in life is
and anticipations depend
developements for realization. Time
may disprove our present belief.
Being only a little weekly visitor,
we will not deign to compete with
our big daily brothers in the pursuit
of knowledge, but must content
selves with humbly gathering the
fragments, until, perforce, we shall
be called higher. There are numer
ous phases of hope and fear about
which we would like to speak con
fidingly, for breathing the health
giving air of Brandywine hills, the
infant sheet naturally takes a vigor
ous interest in life. But modesty
forbids, and we will, therefore, con
fine ourselves to a few points. As
may be seen by the advertising col
umns, our first efforts have been
orowned with financial success. The
class or advertisers is what this
youngster is kicking up his heels
about as much as any thing else. Not
a name appears from outside of Wil
mington. John Wanamaker, Sharp
less & Sons, Strawbridge & Clothier
and Cooper «fc Conard
good people for Philadelphians to
deal with, but the stores of Crosby
& Hill, S. H. Staats, Crippen A
Riggs, Rumford Brothers, William
Alscntzer and many others in this
city, are the places for Wilming
tonians to patronize. Away with the
one-horse policy of buying in Phila
delphia when large stocks at the
lowest prices await purchasers at
home. There is not a patent medi
cine advertisement in any of these
columns. We believe that in the
matter of medicine-taking, the
world would do well to go back
about a century. There are to-day
myriads of "wonderful discoveries"
for the procurement of health and
perpetuation of life, and yet it can
be shown that more injury than ben
efit is the result. Beside this, the
most disreputable sort of language is
set before the public in describing
the uses of some of them. Wilming
ton's pick are perfectly safe in the
hands of such men as Drs. Bush,
Harlan, Draper, Bullock, Grimshaw,
Maull, Shortlidge, Pyle, Hughes,
Lukens, Tomlinson, Dravo, Cooper,
Cantwell, Snitchcr and Parm. Ad
very
vertisement of liquor are also omitted
because we have concluded that the
saloon is of no use, but
trouble. We confess to
deal of
re than
a little trepidation
ing the subject of politics.
Times is to be independent in every
thing. But it is not
for those born i
-hen approach
The
easy task
the very mid9t of
Jeffersonian simplicity and with
pocket editions of the constitution
in their mouths, as it were, to turn
away from the once grand old Dem
ocratic party, even if only for a
State and local campaign. Yet such
a course seems the proper one for
every free Delawarean at this time.
No one will ask why at so late a day.
The frauds perpetrated at the nomi
nation election for delegates to the
convention that named Biggs and
Penington, and the summary man
ner in which certified members of
that body were "bounced,
forgotten. Neither are the irregu
larities at the nomination for candi
dates for Sheriff and Coroner that,
at the time, made decent men heart
sick. The immense overissue of bal
lots upon the nomination of James
W. Ware for Representative was a
fitting climax to the series of farces.
Wo particularly regret the necessity
of repudiating the nomination of
George T. Barnhill, for Coroner,
among others. An honest man and
useful citizen, he deserves better
than the fate that is fast driving his
party to perdition. This is a ques
tion of principles, not
the platform upon which to elect a
Governor and a Congressman 1 Bet
ter had it never been born, for it is
a standing rebuke. The citizens of
the State from one end to the other
crying for relief from antiquated and
unwholesome laws, and not
uttered in their behalf. As earl}' as
two months before, the Temperance
Reform Party adopted and threw
broad cast over the commonwealth a
not
. And
word
Declaration of Principles that
enough to set the later convention
to thinking, coming,
ns
it did, from
an influential body of honest Demo
crats and Republicans. But that
work still stands alone ns represent
ing true expression of the people's
will and hope for the future. There
is no dispute in regard to this plat
form.
Rocks upon which there
might have been a split are not
there, nor is a radical demand of any
kind made. The settlement of the
liquor question is left to a vote of
the people, and the other planks call
for reforms of vital meaning to a
vast majority of the State's inhabi
tants. Oh, that we might each one
cherish alike the immortal sentiment:
Let not lightly fall
Beyond recall
The printed scroll a breath may float;
The crowning fact,
The kingliest act of Freedom
Is the freeman*-« vote.
In all that shall characterize our
communion with the public,
would convey a deep feeling of re
sponsibility. To the careless man
there are few positions capable of
greater destructive power than that
of a journalist—the judicious, con
scientious writer finds endless
portunity for helping upward and
onward.
W'C
op
The Philadelphia Sunday Despatch
a few issues back, "went wild" to the
extent of a column over the life of a
said to have died at the remark
able age of 144 years. Wilmington
can beat that. Adam and Eve live
side by side on West Eighth street,
near Monroe, in perfect harmony.
This is a fact.
It is
pleasure to note that the
affairs of The Freie Presse have fal
len into hands that will creditably
fill the position formerly occupied
by Franz Scheu. Its circulation is
increasing ; the advertising columns
present
and the other make up shows com
petent management. A supplement
has been necessary twice
three weeks.
inspiring appearance,
vithin
We believe that the election of
sincere men with courage enough to
leave their party is more conducive
to the perpetuation of free govern
ment than the continued reign of a
line of office-holders and office-seek
ers.
WE solicit correspondence from
all ov
friends to please remember that
"brevity is the soul of wit."
the State, but ask
OPINION OF THE PRESS.
Atlanta has received too much
benefits from its Prohibition laws to
vote hastily against it_ Philadel
yhia Evening Telegraph, (Ind.)
Christopher Columbus discovered
America three hundred and ninety
four years ago to-day. If Chris
»topher could look in on Ne
York,
with its Boodle aldermen, and Can
ada, with its fugitive swindlers, he
would be amazed and ashamed at
some of the results of his enterprise.
—Philadelphia Evening Bulletin,
(Rep.) October 12.
Should Europe, on account of
war, or for any other cause, want an
extra supply of breadstufi's this sea
tins will be the country to apply
to. We have the promise of a hun
dred million bushels more wheat this
than last, while the corn crop
will probably amount to
1,(550,000,000 bushels.— Baltimore
American (Rep.)
V
much as
The Weekly Times will make its
bow on Saturday, October 1(5. It
will be a twenty column paper. The
editors and proprietors, S. A.
Boothe and James L. Good, have
both had considerable experience in
the newspaper business in this city,
and are fully qualified to undertake
the publication of the paper they
propose to issue. It will be their
aim to devote space to a different
class of literature from that touched
by the weekly papers already pub
lished here. They are sober, indus
trious and enterprising y
g men,
and there is no 'doubt but they will
succeed. They have our best wishes.
—Steamboat and llailway Guide.
The saloon is the great menacing
danger of this country. It not only
blights individuals and destroys do
mestic happiness, but lias more to
do with creating labor disturbances
than any other cause. Abolish the
saloon, and let the wages of labor
now spent at the bar go for legiti
mate family expenses and the cry of
poverty and want would soon cease,
taxes for maintaining criminals in
idleness and relieving rum-made
paupers of want would grow beauti
fully less. Thus the question is,
will the old Republican party strike
for the abolition of the saloon and
the consequent settlement of the la
bor issue, and the matters that refer
directly to saving of men and the
amelioration of the suffering occa
sioned by rum ? This question has
both a moral and an economic
aspect. It is upon the moral that
the Prohibitionists chiefly dwell,
and in this they show their appre
ciation of the fact that no party can
mpke headway unless it has for its
object the right settlement of some
question of moral import. Standing
upon the eternal principle that no
one man has
the vices of another man to the de
struction of t
Yrtenrörthe
iglit to minister to
and the detri
community, they
have a cause which the sober second
thought of the plain people will ap
prove, and round which they will
rally. It is in the air. Its defend
ers are everywhere. The press is
full of their doings. The saloon
power has become alarmed. The
people are being waked up by such
agitators as the Women's Christian
Temperance Union furnishes in its
own membership—Miss Willard,
Mrs. Foster, Mrs. Livermore, Miss
Tobey, and scores of others imbued
through and through with the spirit
of the cause,—and such men as it
can call to its aid. There can be no
doubt that the cause is marching on.
It is coming to be the main issue in
polities. It is the line upon which
men are going to divide. The old
parties cannot ignore it, if they so
wish. If old leaders do not rise to
the occasion, new ones with fire and
enthusiasm will be found, and the
men who now dominate will have to
stand back.— Greenfield , Mass., Ga
zette and Courier, (Rep).
VOICE OF THE P-OPLE.
A Good Suggestion.
To the Editors of The Times :
Sir:— While passing along West Third
street, between Madison and Monroe, a
few evenings ago, I noticed a little boy
playing near the sewer. He was stand
ing in the gutter near an opening letting
into the sewer. It would have easily
admitted his body and a misstep w'ould
have sealed his doom. Now, I don't
know whether there is a law regulating
the matter, hut it seems to me that the
city should put gratings at these places
and thus prevent, perhaps, loss of life.
Observer.
Wilmington, October 10,1S8G. .
Character.
frltteri for Ti
There is no subject so generally mis
understood as that of character, repu
tation very often taking its place in the
estimation of the world. Indeed, if
character and reputation were allowed
their proper positions, many who are in
high places would descend, and multi
tudes nf the lowly would be raised.
Character is true ; reputation may he
false. Character comes from within ;
reputation is only
Character is what a
the outside.
ru» is; reputation,
what he seems. There exists no more
timely subject to-day than the head
line of these thoughts, for few thimrsso
prominently assert themselves in every
part of social end political life as the
desire for gain to the exclusion of
proper consideration of character.
"Will it pay?" seems to be the great
thought of the masses, and financial re
muneration their guiding star. And
yet, history narrows down in this re
spect to the undeniable fact that a good
character has ever been most valuable
of all the considerations of life. Proof
of this is as easily distinguished in the
rise and fall of governments as in the
success and failure of individuals. A
bad character, combined with vast
estate, may give years of physical pleas
ure and apparent happiness- But there
is no sure foundation or vitality to such
existence, and whatever benefit it
has is only temporary. The source of
that life which has always stood the
test of time, bequeathing real happi
from generation to generation is a
good character--virtue and truth, and
it is as truly beyond gold and silver in
its worth as it is unpurchasable. J.
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