The Topeka state journal., 1901-09-03

Taken seriously, however, the union
has a saving clause in the provision
that it is not to be open to all persons
indiscriminately, its afm as avowed.
being to make the English members ae-
quainted with those who are more or
less influential in forming opinion in
the colonies and in the United States.
None Others need apply. Last year. It
is stated, several very successful func-
tions were held, but not very much was
done in the way of private or collective
hospitality. It is recognized that the
United States and Great Britain are,
and probably always will be. rivals In
commercial sense. But that rivalry
does not necessarily mean ennity.
Ties of consanguinity and a common
heritage in historical Incidents. it is
urged, bind so closely that mere COM
mercialism cannot rupture them.
But the terms AngIo-Saxon and An
glo-American are loosely used. in their
chronological sense, to imply more than
those Danish freebooters who aided the
British in their wars against the Picts
and Scots in the fifth and sixth centu-
ries and then afterward overran the
country and established themselves as
its permanent inhabitants They viii
answer, however, in lieu of other terms.
and we must overlook a possible misap-
dent intention of the users, which is at
least friendly and well meant.
The most prominent of the Atlantic
unionists, whose portraits are presented
in this connection, are DR.. Stopford A.
Brooke, Dean Farrar, Lord Coleridge,
Sir Michael Foster and Dean Hole. all
of whom are fairly wen known in this
country. The Rev. Stopford Augustus
Brooke is man of letters, some Of
whose books are classics in Britain He
is So years old, was born in Donegal,
Ireland. and at present resides in Lon
don.
Lord Coleridge, Bernard John Sey-
mour, succeeded his famous father, the
first Baron Coleridge. lord chief JUS
tice of England from 1890 to 1894, seven
years ago. He is a lawyer and has
been a member of parliament. The
Very Rev. F. W. Farrar. d. D., dean Of
Canterbury since 1895. is 70 years old,
ripe scholar and author. He is we'll
Known in this country through his
books and lectures. Sir Michael Foster.
K. C. B., is 65 years old and has been
professor of physiology at Cambridge
since 1883. The Very Rev. S. Reynolds
Hole, D. D., dean of Rochester since
1887, chaplain to the late archbishop OF
Canterbury. medalist Of the Royal Hor-
ticultural society. etc, is a man of wide
culture and varied attainments, whose
brief visit to the United States a few
years ago was the occasion of his book,
"A Little Tour In America" These are
all members of the executive council OF
the Atlantic union, which also includes
Lord Brassey, Sir William M. Conway,
DIR. Garnett, DR.. Conan Doyle, Sir An
drew Clarke and other distinguished
Englishmen. The late Sir Walter Be
SAINT took a deep interest in the union,
being a member of the council and also
in its affiliated societies in America, the
Transatlantic society of Philadelphia
and the British-American society OF
San Francisco.
The membership in the union of such
men and their evident earnestness
make it probable that they really be-
Iieve, with Tennyson, that the idea Of
universal peace could be agitated-
Till the war drum throbbed no longer and the bat
tlehags furled,
In the parliament of man. the federation of the
world
But it was TenRyson also who wrote;
But the iingling of the guinea helps the hurt that
honor feels,
And the nations do but murmur, marling at each
others heels.
WILLIAM J. RUDOLPH.