Lord Rosebery, speaking at the "Diamond Jubilee" banquet of the
Newsvendors' Benevolent and Provident Institution On Wednesday, made a courageous and sensible speech on the vexed question of seven - day newspapers. Basing his objection to the innovation mainly on the hard- skips imposed on the distributing class—a trade in which there were at least one hundred thousand employes—Lord Bosebery made a powerful appeal to the two proprietors con- cerned—both of them personal friends of his own—"to consider whether, in the race for competition, they were not losing more than they gain—and to consider whether they might not between them arrive at a self-denying ordinance, at & Truce of God, which would release both -of them of the incubus of their seventh-day production." With commend- able promptitude the Daily Mail responded on Thursday morning with an announcement declaring that the issue of their seventh-day paper was forced upon them by cOmpetition, adding significantly that "so long as the Sunday Daily Telegraph appears, so long will the Sunday Daily Mail appear," and appealing to the Daily Telegraph to give Lord Roseber3r's remarks "a very earnest attention." Apart from his treatment of this question, the most notable remark made by Lord Rosebery was the admission, while acknow- ledging the toast of his health, that it was a "great gratifica- tion to me to see from some of the speeches that I am still regarded as in some degree a public man."
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