John Bull Horatio

Horatio Bottomley, the wicked Munchausen of British journalism, is in Wormwood Scrubbs Jail. But money he continues to make.

For some time his daily diary has been smuggled out of jail and published in one of the London papers-- the kind of paper, which, if the English chewed gum, would be read by 500,000 gum-chewers. Some weeks ago an injunction put a stop to this performance.

Now the same paper (The News of the World) is printing a daily article " by one of his former companions in distress." Respectable papers (like The Times) protest: " There is an end to all prison discipline if every prisoner is allowed to carry on the profession of journalism from his cell. . . . Are these indulgences extended to every prisoner with a literary turn ?

" Bottomley formerly published John Bull, which is more anti-American than Mr. Hearst's newspapers are anti-British. He defrauded the public by huge lotteries. As he went to jail Justice Darling, the wit of criminal trials, is said to have remarked : " There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamed of in your philosophy."