Evening journal., 1907-03-05
Tuesday, March S, 1907.
AN APPRECIATION FROM MR. KNOWLES

TO-DAY THE EVENING JOURNAL
4 passes into the control and under the man
agement Of The Evening Journal Company, the
stock Of which is held by Robert S Baird, Al
bert w. Cummins, Clement B. Hallem and Gil
bert S. Jones.
The retiring editor and owner, Horace G.
Knowles. takes this opportunity to express his
appreciation of the valuable assistance OF those
connected with TIE JOURNAL in the up
building of the paper, and also to those many
friends whose patronage, forbearance and kind
words have done so much to aid and encourage
MS Many times at the beginning, when we were
about to fall their kind hands came to our res
cue. It is no small undertaking TO place news
paper on its feet. 1t must win the confidence
and favor Of the public to succeed. Fifteen
months ago we started with circulation of less
than $500; to-day it is over 10000 OF that one
fact we are extremely proud, for it is the most
eloquent and unanswerable evidence that the
policy Of the paper has been not only right, but
appreciated and that what we believed from the
beginning, there is room and ready welcome
for such paper in this city and State. This fact
has not been established without the sacrifice of
much Of our resources, both energy and money
a newspaper guided along proper lines is an in
valuable possession to any community. 1t can
do so much good for the prosperity and welfare
of the people, and also so much to save them
from wrongs and imposition. We have endeav-
ored to hold to that course and In doing it we
have perhaps incurred the ill-will Of those who
consider that, in the name of the Republican
party or because of some superior position they
held, they are privileged TO impose upon the peo-
pie and deprive them OF their rights He who
would rob the people of their rights we have al
ways considered as a common enemy. He be-
longs to no party He is for himself against
everybody else.
To all men and all things we have never wa
vered from our policy and have been fair and
fearless and it is to that we ascribed much of
our success. AS to the future policy of THE
JOURNAL, it will speak for itself, but it will be-
we are sure, a satisfaction for THE JOURNAL
readers, as it is to the writer, to know that the
policy win remain the same, and that the paper
will be for the people against every other inter-
est first, last and all the time.
The new owners need no introduction. They
enjoy as they so we'll deserve, the confidence Of
the community They are upright and honest
and capable for the work they undertake. In
many ways they are equipped to make a better
paper of THE JOURNAL than it has been. We
bespeak for them the consideration, support and
encouragement shown the retiring management
1t is not without pang of regret that the
writer parts from THE JOURNAL family. To
= ~soJne extent it is ike breaking home ties. Our
regret is not because we have failed in our duty
but because we have not been able 10 do more
for those in whose behalf we have abored, those
whom we shall always wish we'll and whose es-
TEEN and good will is the one possession the
writer prizes most as he regretfully takes his
farewell and turns his not unhappy newspaper
experience into a pleasant memory