The morning journal-courier., 1908-06-10
Wednesday, June 10, 1908.
THE MORNING NEWSPAPER.

These times afford a striking illus tration of the inestlmable usefulness and value of the morning newspaper The preparations which are being made for the assembling of the great national party conventions to nomi- l nate candidates for the presidency and vice presidency are of immense importance to the citizen, who wishes to vote intelligently in November, and of even greater importance will be the news from the conventions when they have been called together and organ ized.
 To an adequate understanding of the significance of these daily events a morning newspaper is indispensable. except upon the hopeless theory that the American people, alert in every other particular. are willing to wait until the afternoon for news amply provided at the breakfast table The news from the city of Chicago these days Is of pressing interest, and in or der to read the story of 1t consecu- lively and intelligenty the morning newspaper must be had We are not here to comment upon the work of afternoon newspapers, or of those marvellous productions of the printing press which are published nearly hundred miles from this city and yet are on sale at stated hour, which is several hours after they could pos sibly have left the press. We are here to emphasize what must be true of every thoughtful reader, that what occurs between the house when he is asleep and the morning can only re- ceve proper treatment through a fln- ished newspaper product, which is alone the morning newspaper
 What is equally true of the news from Chicago at this time, as 1t will be later from the city of Denver, is true of the ordinary news of the day The afternoon newspaper can and does afford interesting reading, and ihas place in the world staked out for 1t, but 1t is necessarily reserved for the morning newspaper to record a complete picture of what is more nearly the news of an entire day, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, to start each citizen even with the dawn of a new day. If 1t were neces- sary to dispense with either the morning or the afternoon newspaper, 1t would have to be the latter which would go, because 1t Is inconceivable that the world would exist without the knowledge which is essential to the starting of the days work It is especially true, too, that the newspa- per which is printed in the morning in given community, provided 1t Is a newspaper In fact as well as in name, is better able to gratlfy the needs of that community than one printed at a distance. It has a longer time in which to collect, edit and print the news of the preceding day and night.
 It Is because this Is so that the newspaper of greatest influence as 8 news getter and dispenser, and as an advertising medium. Is the morning newspaper. It is necessarily the fin ished product of whole days labor and effort. The impressive truth of these observations is being driven home more and more each week by The Morning Journal-Courier, whose single aim is to give to each reader each of the six secular days of the week a complete word picture of the events of the preceding day until half past three of that morning. We chal- lenge comparison with any other newspaper product which comes tc the hands of the people of New Fla ven in these particulars.