We realise as fully as any one can the need
for public economy, but in spite of that we think it would be a very great mistake to starve the British Commission, and though we know that our leading manufacturers do not believe in exhibitions, we sincerely trust that they will do their best to make the British section a success. There is a story of a Western American who, loving fighting for its own sake, went out to South Africa to join the Boers. Soon after, however, his friends at home received a letter from him in these terms :—" I came out intending to join the Boers, but when I got here I found that the British speak English and are much more our sort, so I concluded to join them, and am now with So-and-so's Horse." Now we want to teach Western America in general that we "speak English" and are "much more their sort," and a very excellent way of doing this is opened to us by the St. Louis Exhibition. Therefore, though we are all a little disillusioned in the matter of exhibi- tions, and especially in countries with prohibitive tariffs, it behoves us to do our very best to lick, if not creation, at any rate the rest of Europe, at the St. Louis Exhibition.
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