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Lord Honchory proposed the toast of "The Club." He said that he had become o rusty in the art of speaking that ho felt that night as though he were deliver ing his maiden speech. He had, indeed, hoped that he had done with speaking. but he remembered that years ago that fub honoured him with an invitation at the time when he owned a residence near Naples, and he was guiltily conscious of
fact that he preferred going to Naples to attending the dinner. He therefore felt that, if they wished to cluin it, they [led a mortgage upon his services, Never- theless, he did not feel in high spirits when approaching that audience, which he regarded as by far the most diffealt that he had ever addressed-a collection. of the cream (if that were not a confusion
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something which I am not sure that even While those present inspired, "and" con- "A NIAGARA OF INFORMATION.”
you always realize, I take it in regard to ducted the contending forces he was the Secondly, he would point out the great one question, the question of peace and hermit. It was all very well to be development of the Press. As far as he war In some respects I do not suppose hermit, but it did not make the position had traced the origin of the Press, it you have so much influence as Parlia the less formidable when one had to dated from the threat of the Spanishment; I do not suppose you have so much address an audience of journalists. Armada in 1588. It was then a mere fly- inthere as Ministers. There was
sheet, but it showed what was necessary famous saying attributed to a notable DISAPPEARANCE OF THE REPORTER,
Scotsman 200 years ago, that he know a One terror
rate had been or interesting to the people of this coun any removed. The great terror of every try. Now every day journalists produced. wise man who said that if they would let speaker in his time WILS the reporter.
not a newspaper, but & library, a huge him have the writing of the ballads of So far as he could make out, the reporter production of information and know the country he did not very much care had largely disappeared. He had ceased ledge upon every kind of subject. It who made the laws. Well, ballads do not to report the speeches to which it was would not be invidious to refer to one matter much, but newspapers do, and 1 understood the whole community were particular newspaper, though he knew should agree with that sentiment if you looking forward with breathless interest.it would be a thorny subject. Take The substitued the word "newspapers" for Your power is enormous. He had turned his pencil into a plough Times when it issued its South American share; what he had done with it he did Supplement. It was a weighty business As you give to the people you receive back not exactly know. At any rate, he had he had not perused it himself, but it from the people mutual electricity which censed to be hint terror to public speakers contained, he imagined, every possible gives you your power.
All that is a commonplace, But with that he was in his (Lord Rosebery's) fact that could ever be known about time; and he no longer reported-except South America. It weighed about fewt regard to peace and war there is no com- the great lions of the Front Bench, every (Laughter.) That was an extreme case, monplace. With regard to legislation and wag of whose tail it was necessary for but it had appealed to him on more than so forth, you probably have not so much
(Laughter.) one occasion. Let them consider that power as Ministers or members of Parlia every citizen to observe. But at present. outside the proceedings prodigious mass of information, that ment, except when you embody the un- of those great men, reports had ceased, huge concretion of knowledge, launched mistakable voice of the people. With re- to the infinite relief, if he might say so upon the British public as a newspaper gard to peace and war, upon those issues have paramount influence-far of the speakers. (Laughter.) He spoke and that was what the British public now you
Let them just contrast that greater than any member of Parliament, with feeling as a speaker. No conscien- expected. tions speaker ever rose in the morning with anything that was known before as great as any Minister of the Crown When critical occasions aris d read his morning newspaper without these days, and he thought it involved a himself, having a feeling of pain, to see in it.great responsibility, that Niagara of in you can either magnify them or minimize reported verbatim, with agenizing con- formation which was poured upon the them. I pray you in issues which involve scientiousness, things which he would British public every day, as well as con- peace and war diminish them as much as. (Cheers.) Think what ag rather not have said, and things which ferring some benefit. The Press enabled he thought ought not to bear repetition. them to know, as far as it was possible, awful responsibility is on you! I (Laughter.) The agonizing conscions-everything about everybody, and every think you have the power more than any ness of the reporter caused is reaction in where. Let him take his point about the other body of men to promote or to avert the speaker which no words could responsibility of the Press with regard to the horrors of war. I am quite sure that describe, except the testimony of one who its omniscience. They heard a great deal my humble advice is not needed by inen had
Then let him take about the apathy of the population about who know their business so touch better experienced it. the point of view of the reader, which great questions. He thought it was per- than I can know it, but they may some- Did fectly true. There was a profound times in the harry of journalism because was now his only point of view. any reader of the last 20 years ever readanathy. People had no time to bother it is a hurried profession-forget the the speeches that were reported? He had about anything except their own concerns great principles which must be inherent no doubt that those whose duty it was and the Inst football match. (Laughter.) in the journalist. As they write, they to criticize, loud, or rebuke the speakers But was not that due to the prodigious may on the impulse of the moment, in in the public Press felt it their painful amount of news, startling news very defence against the aggressive fournalism duty to read the speeches. But did any-often, which the Fress afforded to every from abroad, forget their obligation to hody else? Did any ropartial reader of inhabitant of these islands who bought a their own country. And I would ask the newspapers, the man who bought a newspaper? Was it not the fact that it then in these few last words, when any. paper on his way to the City in the mora- must be so-ong felt that it must-that if such issue may occur, and God knong the ing, and an evening paper in the evening, great number of impressions were atmosphere is electrical enough at this did he ever read the speeches? He could hastily and successively made on the re-moment, not to say a word that may un- conscientiously say, having been a speaker ceptivity of the brain, those impressions necessarily, or except in defence, bring himself, that he never could find anybody were hunted. until the mental constita about to their fellow countrymen the in- who read any speeches. (Laughter.) It tion became apathetic about other pieces numerable catastrophes of war.(Cheers.). was quite different in the time when he of news! Did they not themselves feel The Chairman responded to the toast, was young, when practically the whole that, except, possibly, the blowing up of The Hon. J. L. Grifiths, Consul-Gen- Family sat down after breakfast and read the Tower of London, there was hardly eral for the United States, and Mr. Max the whole debate through. But the anything in the world that night that Beerbohm responded to the toast of "The
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How was it might possibly read the abstract of possible that a population nurtured and speeches, but he appealed to an intelligent fed on that perfect journalism should. audience when he asserted with confidence have the slightest interest in any possible that not one man in a hundred ever read event that could occur on the morrow ? the speeches which were so largely re- ported in the Press. Their removal from the Press gave space to other matters of greater interest, and was one of the greatest reliefs the newspaper reader ever experienced. (Laughter.)
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