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Show A WRONG VIEW. Tht San Francisco Chronicle quotet local merchant, mer-chant, sftting out on a tour of Europt, who, -when asked if he proposed to be present at tht coronation, corona-tion, aa replying that he "had no desire to witness tht spectacle of 1,000.000 empty stomachs cheering cheer-ing the expenditure of $2,000,000 on an empty ihow." Without criticism of tht atyle of tht gentleman gentle-man 'a .epigram, ia he not a trifle off in hia supposed factst. Ia not. tht plan, low down, to coax .the $2,000,000 out of tht foreigner who will be present pres-ent t Will the ahow make any mora destitute the present host of destitutes" in that great cityt- Is it not true that English money spent will come from tht imperial treasury and from tht wealthy men and women of England t How will that harm tht poor! Rather, ia it not possible that out of tht disposition, of it many of tht poor will bt benefitted bene-fitted f Another feature is that tht poor want this coronation,' and the . more splendid it ia tht better will they bt auited. They want tht world to see that no other land haa any auch king and queen as theirs, and that .when it comet to "pomp and circumstance" cir-cumstance" no other land ia in it by comparison. That thought haa made England impregnable for 1000 years, for the poorest Englishman ia a loyal Englishman, with whom liberty, sacred honor and life itself, are all subject to hia country' needs, ita glory and its liX. .Let tht coronation go on. |