Show THE CHANNEL TUNNEL it ills Is bird bard for americans to understand british opposition to the proposed tunnel under the english channel on the ground that the insular strength h here ere tolore given by the surrounding sliver silver thread of aea would be by it under mined and destroyed yet that la Is precisely preola ely the be argument used against the scheme urged too by the nations military leaders leaden and somo some of her most moat eminent statesmen eng lands invincibility at home say they has hai been because of her isolated iao position what would be thought of a government that would countenance the practical destruction of the watery frontier the veritable table preparation of a highway or rather low way by which an invader could reach the sacred shores dry frequent Pre quent repetition of these theme silly billy stock thraves have not to strengthen their value with those who clamored for the tunnel nor has the ridicule heaped upon thorn them seemed to impair their value ath those in high quarters who opposed it at one time indeed question to an absolute test teat of and those th ae parties were looked at askance who scouted the idea that an army of dent dimensions to capture the island could by any possibility be enabled to emerge from the english end of the tunnel nel and who in a tone of irony sug bug tedas as an extra precaution that a series serien of plugs could be so arranged that in case of real attempt at invasion th the jealous sea could be let jet in to drown th the nemy enemy like rats rate in a trap perhaps the chief suspicion of the project has been aue to the extreme anxiety of the french to put it through As long ago as the days of the potent spirit cirit whom thackeray called the Clor ican sican the pro je deot c tot of tunneling tun n eft ng boder or bridging over the straits of dover was WAR discussed among the agencies for changing the map of europe if napoleon had an any y purpose in his big various ideas of vast engineering it was wac conquest and that only and many there are in the english nation nuion today who see in each successive revival of this colossal project nothing but a renewal of the threats in which bebas he was wont to indulge hence the feeling that there la Is some dark design of invasion it 11 not by prance france by some gome other nation who by conquest of france or purchase of the privilege might secure a right of way into the continental ind end of the conduit and hence the appalling notion that to have such connection with the main land would be to leave the british ba back ak door wide open the subject excites comment just now because it to la understood that gladstone gladston e to Is favorable to it the world will watch with interest the storm that his open a I 1 noracy of it ft will awaken and will await with amused patience the outcome ot of the negotiations when once begun |