The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-03-17
The market reports will be cut from

The market reports will be cut from
four columns to one. ALI quotations
on stocks and bonds. grain options and
other matter involving transactions in
futures have been consigned to the
wastebasket. and only the actual cash
prices of grain, produce, etc., will be
quoted.
The handling of Advertisements.
A notable feature of the paper will
be the method of handling advertise
ments. They will be banished from
the news and editorial pages, and will
be punched in places reserved for
them. The censorship here is even
more rigorous than in the news col
ulnns, and n large quantity of this
class Of matter has already been cus
out, including all relating to patent
medicines. The familiar corset adver-
tisenients of the magazines, accom-
panied by cuts, have sought in vain for
space. No retail advertisements from
Kansas City or other out-of-town
tradesmen will be accepted, MI. Shell:
don holding that this would be an in
justice 10 home merchants.
The twenty-dollar-suit of clothes for
STATS style of advertising is also
barred.
The editorial matterwill be switched
from the fourth to the second page.
Following the title and the usual busi-
ness announcement, will appear a list
Of the employees of the paper. from edi.
tor down to galley boy, which will be
kept standing throughout the week.
The leading Editorial.
The leading editorial will be an out
line of the papers policy during the
week and is in part as follows:
"THE TOPEKA CAPITAL THIS
WEEK."
LAST December the owners of the
Topeka Daily Capital asked me to as
sumo entire charge of the paper for
one week, and edit it as a distinctly
Christian daily.
81 accepted the invitation, on condi-
ton that l receive no financial CON-
p%ensation and that a share of its prof.
its be used for some benevolent work,
and named the week beginning Tues
day, March Is, 1900, as the week for
the experiment.
with the hearty cooperation of ev-
cry person connected with the paper
and with the help of the wisdom that
1 have prayed might be given from
Him who is wiser than any of us, I
shall do the best 1 IAN.
What others Might Do.
"If a thousand different Christian
men who wished to edit Christian
dailies should make an honest attempt
to do so, the result might be a thou
sand different papers in very many
particulars. In other WORDS these
Christian editors might arrive at diff
ferent conclusions in the interpreta-
ton of what is Christian. 1t is, of
course, the furthest from my pur-
pose to attempt to show in a dogmatic
way what is the one thing that Jesus
would do in every case. The only
thing 1 or any other Christian man
can do in the Interpretation of what
Is SHIiStidh III IhC COuuuCb VI tulS
paper, is to define the term Chris
tan" the best that can be done after
asking for divine wisdom, and not
judge others who might with equal
desire and sincerity into pref the prob
able action of Jesus in a different
manner.
General Purpose and Politics.
"With this understanding of the
conduct of the paper this week, 1 will
state in part its general purpose and
politics:
ut will be a newspaper. The word
news will be defined as anything in
the way of daily events that the public
ought tc know for it's development and
power in n life of righteousness. OF
necessity the editor of this paper, Or
of every other paper with this defini-
ton of news will determine not only
the kind, but the quantity of any
particular event which ought to be
printed.
Importance Governs Precedence.
"Theimportance of one kind of news
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the place in the paper in
which matter will be printed. If it
seems to the editor that certain SUBJ
jects representing great causes that
belong to the profoundest principle of
human life are the most important
they will be given the frst page of
the paper, whether they are telegraph
ic items or not. 1t might easily be-
come the settled policy of q prominent
paper similar to this one to consider !
the detailed account of an unusual
battle a. of less Importance to the
than an account of the usual
daily destruction being caused by
liquor. The first page of the Capital
this week will contain what seems to
the editor to be the most essential
that affect humanity IS a whole.
This paper will be non-partisan,
not only in municipal and state poll.
tics, but also in national politics."