Evening journal., 1907-03-05
Tuesday, March S, 1907.
-AN AppREc1ATIoN FRoM MR. Knowles

AN APPRECIATION fKOM MN hlNONFL
TO-DAY THE EVENING JOURNAL
passes into the control and under the man
aecment of The Evening Journal Company, the
stock OF which is held by Robert S. Baird, Al
Bert W. Cunimins Clement b. Hallem and Gil
bert S Jones
The retiring editor and owner, Horace c.
Knowles takes this opportunity to express his
appreciation Of the valuable assistance OF those
connected with THE JOURNAL in the up
b-ilding OF the paper, and also to those many
friends whose patronage, forbearance and kind
words have done SO much to aid and encourage
u.s. Many times. at the beginning when we were
about to fall, their kind hands came to our res
cue tt is no small undertaking 10 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 tile 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 lie 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, twill speak for itself but it will be,
we are sure. satisfaction for THE JOURNAL.
readers, as it is to the writer, to know that the
policy will 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 well 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 better
paper Of THE JOURNAL. than it has been. We
bespeak for them the consideration, support and
encouragement shown the retiring management.
II is not without pang of regret that the
writer parts from THE JOURNAL. family. To
some extent it is like breaking home ties. Our
regret is not because we have failed in our duty
but because we have not been able to do more
for those in whose behalf we have labored. those
whom we shall always wish we'll, and whose es-
teem 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 pleasant memory