The Saint Paul globe., 1900-03-27
SHELDoN's FAILURE.


certify of purpose of the Rev. Mr. Shell
don; none should try to beIittle his ef-
forts and the work he accomplished. But
from the very nature of the experiment"
Mr.. Sheldon must have known that his
work would be brought even uncon-
sciously. into contrast with the works Of
Jesus Christ; and the result, whenever
the human is brought face to face with
the divine. is ever the same. The one is
pitiably weak: the other infinitely great
Waterville Advance: The one week
editor of the Topeka Capital says an
editor should treat his readers as a father
treats his children by giving them, not
what they want. but what they ought to
want. Got the cart before the horse
People buy and pay for what they want
not what some one else thinks they want
Albert Lea Tribune: Topeka Capital Is
declared by the press. the people and the
pulpit to be the greatest fake failure that
was ever sprung upon the people.
Albert Lea Standard: The Rev. Shell
don's religious daily newspaper expert
ment served a good purpose. 1t proved
that such publication is only consid-
cred a curiosity. q freak. and that it can
not supply the needs of the public for q
cosmopolitan newspaper. Besides, there
are more moral lessons and humanitar-
ianism in good modern newspaper than
In all the papers with religious hobby
that were ever printed
Cass Lake Voice: The Rev. Sheldon is
making the regular management of the
Topeka Capital look like thirty cents AS
all advertising venture 1t will do him
more good than a newspaper.
Duluth TrihYDa. tsUJbot ,,,o,,Id Ttt,rg,1
DOR Is the question Rev. Mr. Sheldon
constantly asks himself as he edits the
Topeka Capital. There are gentlemen
quite as religious as Sheldon who do not
approve of applying that test to the case,
or to the general acts of Christian life
Racine Journal: The consensus of cler-
tcal opinion seems to be adverse to the
Topeka experiment Of Rev. Sheldon as
savoring too much Of notorlety and coin
of the realm.
Wausau Record: By common consent
the first issues of Mr. Sheldon's paper
are excellent examples OF the kind of a
newspaper no man of sense would print.
Sioux Falls Press: A newspaper
avowedly Christian is as much Of an
anomaly as a Christian bank, or a Chris
tian shoe shop, or Christian cattle farm
Mr.. SheIdon's fad deserves place on thE
shelf
Bellingham Times: If Rev, sheldon
was to run weekly paper on the same
plan that he is pursuing with the Topeka
Capital, he would go out Of business in
about four weeks.
Fairfax Standard: One week OF Shel
donism on the Topeka Capital may be
said to have demonstrated how Jesus
would not have run a newspaper. He
would not purely for sensationalism have
entered into such project. Having en-
tered the work he would not have cast
aside an erring, though faithful, employe
and thus have driven him to suicide He
would not have forced a narrow, one
idea paper on the people, but would have
given them intellectual food according to
their wants and capacity as In the days
Of old. He would not as Sheldon says
he would do, gather his assistants from
men of Lis own class and creed, but
would have sought his disciples where he
could have found the men best fitted for
the work.
Des Moines Leader: Let us hope that
the application of the formula, what
Would Jesus Do?' be not carried farther
1t savors too much Of sacriiege, of cler
ical fakirism, of ecclesiastical mounte-
bankery. In a word, 1t is open to all
the objections which are rightly brought
against extreme yellow journalism.