The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-05-18


L0UOoU8 IDEA - SUNDAY.
The experiment. Of . Sunday taDue IN
Iondea may Be aid 70 have failed
aezin- Thess have bong bsen enc o.
two nsvspapers called Sunday papers.
but they were only published weekly
and were practically issued on Saturday
night All Tie daily papers are pub
nsheA on week days alone. James Cor
don Besnett thought that . city with .
populatsoa q l.ooo. 900 offered . tempting
Aeld for . Sunday morning paper. and
he published q great cost . Dunday edi-
ton Of the New York Herald. II was
not accepted. and WAS finally aban-
doned.
A few weeks aso the Daily Telegraph
started = Sunday issue. and II was I'm
msAiately followed by the Daily Mall.
which declared that It would publish it,
Sunday issue - long - its rival did.
Pubic eptnion vas stU opposed 70 this
innovation. and. strange ~ II may
seem. there was such q strong resent
meat manifested that the Earl Of Rose
befy. at . public banquet. 1t which
Tie editors Of the two offending papers
were present. made pointed appeal to
them to discontinue the publication
The Daily Mall announces the sQspen-
sion ee tie Sunday Issue and claims
tat e u - frank concession 10 the
religious feeling Of the public With
81 respect - the motives Of the owner
q ths paper II may be inferred that the
experiment did not pay. In spite Of the
protests q religious bodies It u not un-
fair 70 assume that II the returns had
bssn sal1cisnt 70 Justify the additional
expense. the owners would haze felt
safe to setort 70 any complaint that the
preponderance Of sentiment was in
favor a. the Sunday edition. That Il
did not pay may lessen the merit of
the owners IN suspending the paper. but
4 = . very positive assurance that the
psopse would not support Sunday edi-
ton.
The inciden. IL Of very considerable
iatsreat. \ city n the United States
wosld have to. b very small that did
net demand ana would not support
Sunday morning paper. The antago-
nisn 70 IL y insxplicabls in . city
which cannot pretend TO be more re-
ligtous than an average American city.
1t has population 30 large ~ to justify
the publication Of not one or two. but
ten Sunday morning papers. 1t Is
amasing that In . city Of l.00o. 90. there
cannot be found z percentage large
enough to rally to the support Of one
Sunday paper. II has been said that
there are more Jews In London than In
Palestine. more freshmen than In Dub
lin. and foreigners Of each European
nation abundant enough to constitute
q province. Every phase Of human ma
ture. every subdivision Of human asso-
citation. IL represented by some newspa-
per In Londor. yet not enough people
can be found to support this institution.
London Ia peculiar city: II is the most
wicked. being the largest: it encourages
literally Sunday excursions, bat II will
not tolerate Sunday newspaper II
licenses the equivalents OF beer gardens
but II fought desperately against open
inx libraries. picture galleries and
museums II Will not permit q saloon
To be open during church hours. but
promptly ~ o'clock on Sundays the
doors are opened. They must be closed
again at and are not TO he opened
again untii late in the evening. Len
don has the greatest floating population
Ia the world steamers arrive at All
hours Ut the night. and trains bring In
az all hours travellers from abroad, but
AZ midnight precisely all thirst must be
shut of. because the saloons are her
medically sealed
Custom Is powerful agency in che
government of the people; IL viii exact
obedience when laws are ignored ana
tayonesx ceald not prevail
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