The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1905-02-19
THE C0MBINA.
TI0N BUSTER
A FEW POINTERS SUGGESTED
GiRATU1TOUSL1
TO the City Fathers on the interesting
Topic Entitled: How To Run
a Newspaper"

| There is nothing so easy on earth as
to run newspaper-in the ground or
in the sheriff's hands.
As the city fathers have announced
their determination of engaging in the
publication Of an official organ, the Cau
casian. haying acquired practical expert
ence, would offer few suggestions:
Having unlimited facility for increas-
| ing the appropriation. the official
would never go into the hands of the
sheriff, but in time would lapse into in
nocuous desuetude.
First, the title or name.
The Combination Buster would seem
to be the most appropriate, as this cog
tity and the purpose of the venture. We
would say, candidly. that the name is
suggested and offered in the most con-
servative spirit OF harmony and good
will, the deliberate intent being to re-
'ieve the city fatherf from all unpleasant
entanglements, such for instance. as
were developed a, their last meeting,
over the crematory site
Having settled on the name, we would
suggest that the old style prospectus be
| ruled out OF order, but The Combina-
tion Buster" must have a "Salutatory"
or words to that effect Upon the ed
itor, of course, this all-iinportant func-
ton should devolve, and if an old hand
he could grind it out in FIVE. ten or fif-
teen minutes. but if the man who is to
assume the fearless responsibility for
| that which may be said in criticism of
the city or his views and utterances: if
the man be new hand. or man of
limited experience. he should be con-
servative, but in the Salutatory he
should announce boldly:
"An emergency having arisen in the
conduct and the management of the pub
lie affairs, through the only authorized
body. representing the dear. good peo-
pie. whose rights are sacred beyond the
touch Of it necessary sling in the
word, mercenary press, or something
of that sort, but do not be vitriolic, be-
catse every new man may become in
volved in "a labarynth'' or a sea of
troubles at the very onset of his official
but mortal career Because the editor
OF The Combination Buster may not be
an experienced grinder he need 60 about
as a concealed arsenal. 1t is safe to say
he will never run amuck" of any editor
from Bitter Greek" nor "a snake
eater. He will be given a free and a
| glad hand. and if he be Gas he should
be) a Walking Revised Webster Die
tionary or an Encyclopedia all in one,
he may be worth, in salary, his full
weight in gold. As suggested the editor
!, Of The Combination Buster should say ::
The only mission on earth Of The
Combination Buster is to resist and to
defeat the unscrupulous. the menda-
cions stop. stop, do not make it too
strong. of the daring. the vile.'-here
here. be calm: be not rash, attempt to
!, hold UP the city council by the three
newspapers of Shreveport The temer-
iity Of these sheets is astounding but it
lis no wonder they have become so. ,lar-
ingly audacious'' (here, here, revise
these words) "since they have in years
past been doing the city printing for
nothing or for II I-2 cents per legal
inch, when the rates fixed by law are
round dollar in silver or dollar in the
long green for the first insertion and
fifty cents for subsequent insertions,
legal measure one hundred words to the
I inch
| Having become opulent by feasting
from the en1olun1ents of the public print
| ing, these newspapers, in the words of
the chairman OF t1ae Finance Committee
OF the council, have combined to sold
up the council Here, here. better re-
wise this. Suppose Rand were called to
make proof of this assertion: my, friend.
the editor of the Buster, do not put
Rand in a hole, let him alone with his
Idelution Of the "old up,
| I'll strike this out. Ed. of Buster.
Resuming: Perhaps there are men,
bers OF the council who are conn.rted
with trusts and combinations (stop,
stop do not say that! Gee whiz would
you set some of your own dear friends
| in the hoie?)
Why, no, nit by jugful Ed. Of
the Buster.
Restrning after scratching II is true
that under the law The Combination
Buster should have had an existence of
twelve months before it co,,'t, h,ye as
pred 10 the great and glorious privilege