How to write Editorial essays
August 9, 18881- Relate the circumstances or proposition
2- Is it true? Is the common opinion correct?
3- Give the historical association and like cases. Contrast the past and present.
4- Whom does it affect? Are the motives honest or the reverse?
5- Have crime or temperament any connection with the matter? What will be the general consequences- good or evil?
6- What are the causes? Is any one to blame? Is there any inconsistency? The explanations. Could the affair have been prevented?
A. What are the remedies? The conclusion to be drawn from it? The future?
source:Sioux Valley News
location:Correctionville, Iowa

