Abstract
In choosing a subject for original investigation, the writer being a native Memphian, who grew from childhood during the years of C.P.J. Mooney's editorship of the Commercial Appeal, and who felt the steady growth of the paper's influence on the economic and educational progress of the city, might naturally elect a study of Mr. Mooney's editorials. Moreover, the work of a man whose editorial policy, combined with his business management, could bring the circulation of the paper up to a number that exceeded that of any other paper south of the Ohio River... deserves study for its practical and powerful use of argumentative prose.