The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-02-01
"PALM AND PINE.

IFrom the New York Journai.l
When q stout, good-humored, slightly
tacular, though not battle-scarred. uni
form Of a. British held marshal. was sa-
luted by hunbly genuf1ecting subjects as
King Of Great Britain and ireland. and
Emperor of India, the scene furnished
The face Of this gentleman win soon be-
come the best known Of all the faces In
written BY the light of seal oil lamps in
snow houses in the darkness Of Arctic
winter Moons and in the sunshine Of Ant
arctic midnights. It will be on coins that
viii pay missionaries for saving souls and
Arab land pirates for caravans Of slaves,
the survivors of butchered tribes.
Edward. king and emperor, represents
more varlegated religious sentiments than
He is the official head Of the Episcopal
church of England and the Presbyteria
He holds the title of Defender of the
Faith because the pope. bestowed it upon
against Luther just before Henry deserted
the pope for not giving him divorce.
eign in the world ruling over Moslems
that obey the Sultan of Turkey
He is the first Brahman and the first
ParBee sovereign of the globe.
He possesses the most sacred shrines OF
the Buddhists
He Is the head Of several colonies of
Confucians.
He has subjects of every shade of idol
piled with nnachine-made gods by enter
prising British manufacturers In Birming-
II king Edward should go to some parts
Of his empire he would find subjects whose
other parts he would md people who
would knock their foreheads on the
ground and worship him as a deity.
Some of the four hundred million inhab-
itants of his dominions stick to the rule
Others believe in letting each husband
have all the wives he can get. and still
rangement is that BY which several hus-
bands share one wife.
We often say that England" will do
this or that as If England and the Brit
ish empire meant the same thing. The
dozen times as many subjects outside of
England he has in it. ans that England
contains. only about op~-two hundred and
twentieth part OF the land of the empire.
There never was a king before who ruled
over SO many varied samples of the
witch and go eastward or westward around
the world you cannot strike a space of
ten degrees in the whole $50 degrees of
longitude that does not lie on the meridian
OF some British possession, except one
less waste Of the Atlantic.
of latitude anywhere from the north ~
the south pole that does not cross British
Edward VII rules over people Of every
race and of almost every nationality on
the globe. He has English, Scotch and
Irish Irish subjects everywhere; French sub
ada. Spanish subjects in Gibraltar italian
and Greek subjects in Malta, Arab Coptic
11tAS
OF a score Of Asiatic races In India Chit
nese subjects in Hong Kong and Wei Hal
Wei, Malay subjects in Borneo and the |
Malay peninsula, Polynesian subjects in |
the Pacific, Dutch, Zulu. Hottentot and |
Bushman subjects in South Africa, negro |
subjects in West and Central Africa and |
Indian and Eskimo subjects in Canada.
Think of the prayers that are going llp |
from all over the world for that bald gen |
tieman with the red coat and the blue /
ribbon. In a hundred languages white /
black brown, red and yellow men are I
breathing God Save the King" If there /
doing 1t. too. No wonder Edward VII is I
sobered and awed by the responsibilities /
Of such position