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(Continued from Page 10.) organisation here it is self-evident that not alone in London are altuate all the brains, the enter prise, the initiative, and finally, the material resources that go to make a successful newspaper to- day, And what I have and about Allied House, Manchester, is equally true of the other news. papor establishments in provincial cities controlled by Allied News- papers, and also of the many other successful and firmly-established newspapers, which already exist in

THE CHINA MAIL,

I do not

the

owners of newspapers in a number One primary motive which domin of other provincial towns. Just as ates the purchaser of a morning or much as the British Empire is sald evening paper is the desire to know to be a commonwealth of nations, what is happening in the world, so it might be said that this com and this is true in respect of every pany is a commonwealth of news-kind

of newspaper. Other Tea- papers,

tures are important, but it is news! Right Use of Power.

of some kind, whether it be poli- We have heard a good deal late-eral doings, which makes

tical, commercial, sporting, or gen- of the danger to the public of modern nowspaper a necessity to groups of newspapers coming every person of any education to- under one control, because of the day. Personally, and perhaps naturally, he parts ultimately with his job, power which goes with the papers. If an editor parts with that idea

Power misused is, of course, al-None of us wants to be preached ahare these misgivings.and the proprietor with his money, ways dangerous in any sphere of at all the time, either in the newe life, whether it be national, muni-columna In the editorial Meanwhile Eord Rothermere

cipal, or commercial.

columns, and while what can be What is not recognised by those called a propagandist journal may, views his new provinces from Lon-who share these misapprehensions by reason of its efficiency in other don. Like the old war horse in in regard to the Press is that news respects, Job "He saith among the trumpets,papers can only exist by the res-prosperity, as a real force and in- maintain its material ha! ha! and he smelleth the battle pect and interest of their readers, fluence it becomes negligible. from afar-the thunder of the cap and that the persistent, misuse of tains and

shouting."

There is much less of this pro-1 And I am sure he will forgive me for senses is bound to result in one of cial journale than those published the power which a newspaper pos-paganda journalism in the provin saying that. although there has two things-one, the decay of the in London. Bolng been some thundering of the cAP newspaper itself, or, secondly, the journalist myself-having started a provincial tains and a far amount of shout-loss of influence on its readers and life in the office of a small local ing, the gates of the citadels have the decadence of the paper into a weekly thirty-four years ago this merc news-distributing machine.month-I may be prejudiced, but I So far as Alllod Newspapers are fam pretty certain that, partly, per concerned, we enn confidently claim haps, as a result of this, the effi- that no charge of the kind has ever clently conducted provincial morn-!| bean brought against us,

ing or evening newspaper of to-day

other centres.

not fallen.

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Personal Assurance.

Those of us who are connected with provincial evening news papers continue to do our best with apparently a fair measure of suc- cese, and if and where this chain of newspapers starts operations I can confidently state that the pro- vinces will not be found wanting in initiative, enterprise, resources, and all those other qualities which make a first-class battle.

In Manchester we are not likely to be faced with completion, from

We can, with equal confidence. han infinitely more influence and assert that not only are the sales power than the more widely dis of our journals larger, but also that tributed London journals. they are held in more esteem by: their readers than they ever werd before.

I see that the other day the Na- tional Liberal Federation passed a resolution announcing its conver sion to and acceptance of trusts in

the new group, for when I bought commerce, but making a solitary the Manchester newspapers of the and distinct exception in regard to late Hulton firm from the trust newspapers. This is not a poli- controlled by Lord Rothermere, Itleal gathering, and I am not seek- received his personal assurance ing to make political capital out of that he would not start or be con- the fact, but I must confess that | nected with any further newspaper the resolution amused me consider- interests fn Manchester. The ably, inasmuch as the largest_com- clause binding the selling company bination in the country, in point of to this effect constitutes part of the numbers at any rate is a Liberal agreement on which the sale was

ane, brought into being as a com- jeffected.

bination to fight the Liberal battle.

Lord Rothermere was not in a personal sense a party to the agree.

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Mr. Philip Snowden, on the other forth feeling well groomed, well ment, but at the very commenco- -hand, seas the matter in an en-breakfasted and well pleased with ment of the negotiations I receive tirely different, and, if I may say one's-self and the whole world! ed from him this personal assur-so, much more practical light. Assuming that your tailer knows ance I have just mentioned, and, He points to the fact that large his side of the business Pinkettes consequently, so long as he con- amalgamations tend to higher will do the rest, for they keep the tinues to control the companies at wages and better conditions of em-liver good-tempered the digestive present under his influence there ployment, and this has undoubted- apparatus alert, the spirits cheery, cannot be any new competition ly obtained in the newspaper world, the brain clear. Of chemists, Fin- from that quarter in the Manches- The people who talk so much kettes, the dainty little laxative ter field.

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