The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-03-23
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pie OF the country 20 establish a home
Tor c1usImpciyes az Denver.
The editorial matter will be switch
Cd from the fourth 10 the second page.
Following the title and the usual bus
iuess announcements will appear a list
OF the employees Of the paper from edi-
.or down 90 galley boys. which Will be
kept standing throughout the week
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 To-
peka Daily Capital asked me TO assume
entire charge OF the paper for one week
and edit is as a distincuvely Christian
daily.
/ accepted the invitation on cOndi-
ton that ! receive no financial com
pensation and that share Of the prof
its be used for some benevolent work
and named the week beginning Tues
day, March 10. 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
/ have prayed might be given me from
Him who Is wiser than any OF us, l
shall do the best / can.
III a thousand different Christian
men who wished to edit Christian dali
lies should make an honest attempt
to do so the result might be a thousand
different papers in very many particu-
lars. In other words, these Christian
editors might arrive at different con-
clusions in the Interpretation Of what
ia Christian. IL Is, OF course, the fur
thest from my purpose TO attempt TO
show in a dogmatic way what Is the
one thing that Jesus would do In every
case. The only thing | or any other
Christian man can do in the interpre-
tation Of what Is Christian in the con-
duct OF this paper Is to define the term
christian" the best that can be done
after asking for divine wisdom, and
not Judge others who might with equal
desire and sincerity interpret the
probable action of Jesus in a different
manner.
With this understanding of the con-
duct Of the paper this week / will state
in part its general purpose and politics.
II will be a newspaper" The word
news" will be defined as anything In
the way Of daily events that the public
ought to know for its development and
power in life OF Righteousness.
OF necessity the editor of this paper
or OF every other paper with this def
milton OF news" will determine not
only the kind but the quality OF any
particular event which ought TO be
printed.
The importance OF one kind of news
compared with another kind will also
determine the place in the paper in
which matter will be printed. If II
seems TO the editor that certain sub
jects representing great causes that be-
long to the profOundest principle OF
human life are the most important
they will be given the first page OF
the paper. whether they are telegraph
ic items or not. IL might easily becOme
the settled policy Of a prominent paper
similar TO this one to consider the de-
tailed account of an unusual battle as
OF less Importance to the reader than
an account of the usual daily destruc-
tion being caused by liquor. The first
page OF the Capital this week will con-
tain what seems to the editor to be the
most essential Issues that affect hui
mainly as a whole.
The paper will be non-partisan not
only in municipal and State politics,
but also in national politics.
| do not mean TO say that Chris
tian daily cannot be partisan. This is
simply my Interpretation of Christian
as applied to this part OF the papers
life.
On the liquor question the paper will
advocate the prohibition of the whole
liquor business from Maine to Califor-
mia and all around the globe. BY pro-
hibition / mean the total extinction Of
the curse of making, selling, buying
and drinking intoxicating liquors; Its
extinction by legal enactment, by per
sonal total abstinence and by every
form OF State, home. church and schoo
education that Christians can devise.
The great social questions OF thu
age will be given prominence. The sci
fishness of mankind in every form o
greed. commercially or politically. viii
be considered as of more serious con
sequences to us as a people than an!
other matters which too often engag
the time and attention OF mankind.
The paper will declare its abhorrenc
OF war as It Is being waged today no
only in Africa. but in the Philippine
and everywhere else.
On matters OF finance" or tariff
or expansion" matters OF public con
Germ which have to do with measure
OF this character. the editor has per
sonal opinions which may or may no
be voiced In this paper. II he give
expression to them II will be In no dog
matte or positive manner. as II h
knew what the whole Christian trut
| was concerning them. In regard {
many OF these questions l don't kno'
/ the Christian answer to them. In re
gard to others my study Of them ha
/ not resulted In convictions that ar
strong enough to print. don't wis
TO declare through this paper concern
ing certain political measures whie
are not clear in my own mind.
The main purpose of the paper wi
be to influence It's readers to seek fir:
the kingdom OF God. A nation seekin
the kingdom OF God first OF all will
time find right answers to all dispute
questions and become a powerful an
useful nation.