The Topeka state journal., 1901-09-03

and such semipubIic functions as din
ners. receptions and visits to places of
historic or artistic interest,"
John Bull. it seems, has learned that
the way to a mans heart is through
his stomach" and so he purposes to
capture every American of prominence
that visits bis islands and feed him into
a feeling of fondness for the mother
country
By commendabIe and rigid self exam
ination Mr.. Bull has discovered that
while at home he is undoubtedly the
most hospitable representative Of his
species in the world. he is looked upon
by foreigners as the most surly and un-
pleasant of human brutes when he takes
his little walks abroad. And. what is
more, he tacitly admits the soft i'm
peachment, at the same time though
with manifest reluctance, giving out
that he has one side to face the world
with and quite another for the places
and people of his innermost affections.
THE American or Australian" he says,
may have staid al our caravansaries,
have visited the abbey and the thea
ters, run down to Oxford and Stratford-
on-Avon and yet may have missed well
nigh everything that goes to make up
the real greatness and beauty of the
motherland."
1T is precisely these charming pri-
vate ways of English society," the At
lantic unionists state, (which the At
lantic Union seeks to make known to
those Of our friends from beyond the
seas who would otherwise through sim
pie lack of opportunity return to their
own lands without either making
friends among us or knowing anything
at first hand of the intelligence and
varied interests of which the tradition
al family life of England consists
There it is in a nutshell. Mr.. Bull
knows beyond peradventure that when
he dies a weeping world will be only
too glad to inscribe on his tombstone
None knew him but to love him." But
he is not going to await the revulsion of
feeling that dire death viii surely
cause; he is going to anticipate that
event in the ever living present. This
intention does credit to his heart, if not
to his head, and so long as he can fill
the contract by filling all his English
speaking cousins with good cheer just
SO long will he retain their good viii
and affections. But it is a huge con
tract, and the prospectus, failing to
state how it is to be done in detail, only
deals in attractive but glittering gem
eralitfes- There are. it is estimated,
about 15O O00, 900 inhabitants of the
earth who speak or make a more or less
legitimate use of the kings English
and deducting, say. $4,000, 900 as resi-
dents of Great Britain, there will be
some 100, ,OO00 600 who will have to be
fed, filed and made acquainted with
the real greatness of the motherland."
If, then, the Atlantic union really
means business and begins that. bust
ness at once, it viii probably tax the
society to it's utmost to bring about the
looked for millennium before the nat
uraI demise of all its present members.
One hundred a day would be a fair
average during 500 days in the year,
and that would mean only 10000 in
a tweIvemonth, provided the popula-
ton of the United States and Austria
liza could be transported in detach-
ments for the purpose of being feted
and entertained. At the rate of 1000 a
year it would take, at a rough calcula-
ton, nearly 1888 years to provide for
the 100 OO0. 600 people outside Britain,
allowing for no increase of population
in the meantime So it would appear
on the face of it, as stated, that Mr..
Bull has a stupendous undertaking on
his hands in carrying out the chimeric-
al though really laudable intentions Of
the Atlantic union.