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had respected the current dailies, and who had 

 placed much confidence in the promises of 

 governments, now found himself completely 

 disillusioned, and in his despair he grasped 

 eagerly at any proposition which offered relief 

 from his intolerable situation, by restoring a 

 source of information in which he could place 

 his trust. 



The trustees, however, first considered the 

 much less ambitious possibility of acquiring an 

 existing weekly paper that had championed the 

 farmers' economic and political cause for about 

 twenty years. 



The Weekly Sun had been founded by Dr. 

 Goldwin Smith, and, at his death, had passed 

 into the ownership of a body of gentlemen who 

 had willingly sacrificed certain of its prospects 

 of revenue to their adhesion to an anti-high 

 protectionist policy. The paper had many warm 

 friends among the organized farmers. It was 

 thought that possibly it might be utilized as a 

 base from which the ideal of a daily journal 

 could be attained. 



The proprietors expressed themselves as will- 

 ing to dispose of their property; but after con- 

 siderable negotiations the trustees felt that they 

 could not meet the terms offered. Other pro- 

 posals were made to the Trustees, including the 

 offer of a second paper endeavoring to serve the 



