FROM THE EDITOR OF THE SUN, SETH LIPSKY

Dear Friends,

Happy Fourth of July. All of the editors here at The New York Sun extend that greeting, and what a holiday to join the national conversation by becoming a valued member of the Sun and a part of its enduring conversation — and starting at only a penny a day.

When an earlier generation of editors sat down to write an editorial on the centenary of our Independence, they were full of pride and optimism. In the Civil War, their cause of Union and Emancipation had been victorious. Plus, they wrote, the engines of material progress, capital and labor, were working together. Our population boomed.

What astonished us, though, were their warnings in respect of what hadn’t been accomplished — namely, “our political and moral growth.” The vast emissions of paper money to fund the war had given us a “currency manufactured at will” that had “bred profligacy and extravagance, both public and private.”

Sound familiar? It turns out that the row we’ve been hoeing here at the Sun is a long furrow. It’s been more than a century and a half that the Sun has made honest government and honest money its cause.

This is why we’ve offered our penny-a-day introductory price, tapping in to our earliest years while hewing to the same principles by which we’ve steered the paper throughout. I invite you to join us by subscribing today and becoming part of a newspaper that “Shines for All.”

Yours faithfully,

Seth Lipsky

Editor of the Sun