National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1880-01-24
MISCELLANEOUS,
The Queen's Opportunity.


The sovereign Of tho United Kingdom must
prove potent friend now or 20 down in his
tory as n selfish woman who lived only for tho
aggrandizemcnt of her immediate family. IL
never again, her purse should now be opened
and its contents used, even to the last farthinR,
for the poor and needy Her purple and fine
linens the noble castles which she has only to
choose from to habitatc, the sumptuous state
she maintains the great train Of pampered
hireings at her beck and call, the accumu-
lated luxury of this century, all gift to her,
and not only to her but to her children aud
clildrens children, by her loyal subjects, who
dig and delve, tax themselves with rigorous
fidelity that the royal family may remain MS
lgure-hoad for the ship Of state. All this is a
free-wil offering from the people to maintain
simply tradition of the past How quickly
it could be thrown aside aud forgotten the his.
tory of France for the last ten years will tell
you. For was it not only the other day thata
dethroned Empress went back aud humbly
begged permission to remain for day or two
n u country where she once rcgned supreme
where, vain aud foolish woman that sho was,
she brought about u war by wicked intrigue
and drove her submissive bjects TO slaughter,
10 carnage, TO defeat, and, too, made them SEQ
at las, that group Of puppets bought from q
Partisan fancy store had much brain and
heart had rs much in common with France
as they, mere lay figures for mlliners and
adventures The people were forgotten; tho
people in turn forgot; they took to the lesson
kindly. Human nature is always the same.
though conditions in iroare different; Il mover
changcs-tho reckoning comes at last to every
one. Only now, In this age of whrl, hurry
and excitement year comprises as many
changes as decade did in the centuries back
of us. Eugenie's rule came to be an infection,
disease of the body polite The remedy was
near at hand aud il was used; that was all.
Already the favored few who shared the muni.
iiccnce of the Napoleon JondiH, who even
heard the jingle of tho bells and
saw the folly cap under the iewcled
crown of the foolish woman, have for
gotten what little grace there was in the per.
Torrance, and only remember the royal
pageautry as an exaggerated extravaganza 10
more worth participating in than u Christ
mas pautOmme Do the sorrowful, the UNI
fortunate, miss Eugene? Not one. Like
queen bee, she was droue, ate aud secreted
the honey the industrious aud frugal stored
away. Does Victoria like the pattern Her
revenue Is immense, besides the income Of
large private fortune, which has been aug
mented by private requests from certain of
hor subjects who would not even have been
permitted inside the castle gate. Since this
acquisition cost her neither time. labor nor
anxiety, let her use it now to amclorate tho
condition Of the suffering poor in this unex-
ceptional period of accumulated miseries; for
not only are the warehouses filled with tho
hopeless poor but filing along the muddy by
ways, trudging over the stony highways.
weary aud heavy-laden, barefOOted aud
emacated little children Cinging TO tho
| skirts, or dying in the arms of distraught
| mothers, come multitude flying from
| starvation, from disease, from death.
Away from roOhess cottages, from empty
cupboards, where there is never bite nor
sup; from tho sodden ashes of fireless hearth,
from all that is cherries, from all that is des.
olate from all that is most miserable, wretched,
toOtsore, with hunger gnawing ut their vitais,
despair staring them in the face, they find
even the cold charity of the workhouse already
exhausted. What is there but death for them
What were they born for? to thus wither like
q shriveled leaf before the blast to fall like
unripe fruit shaken by this mighty whirwind
of disaster? No money, no crops, a famine
staring them in the face, oven tho peat do.
stroyed by long rains; therefore always cold,
hunger, and death soon, in this world OF
| plenty, whore the fields and vineyards in the
lovely summer but just gone were teeming
with great harvests where the mines have
| yielded of their richness as never before and
| beyond, just in London, gold and silver lie 10
| useless piles, waiting for the sharp money.
changer to devise means to increase them
| fourtold
| Where women sport upon their fngers
| their arms and their breasts the price of
| kings ransom where men throw away in
| reckless vice in one night alone enough 10
| sustain the poor of parish for months, dOea
the Queen feel all this2 She certainly knows
something of it, for she gave little 81, $500
| If the cable dispatch reports Alright That il
| the price of an India shawl, n carriage, "a lace
| flOunce for u Queen. Has she no good aud
true advisers who will 20 TO her and say {:
"Rise up in thy majesty, o, great Queen
Show Ireland that you carry her in your
heart of hearts that you hut live for the
honor and glory of your country that when
| your people suffer you suffer; that what is
yours is for them in their dire distress that
| trusting TO their brave hearts for protection
when enemies assail England, your charity
| shall cover them as with mantle when the
storms of adversely are upon them. Mako
| them feel your loving kindness; that AS
you expect fidelity In them so are you for
| ever faithful to them; that they are of you.
and with you, and that you are of them and
with them in every great struggle; that all
dissatsfactions and grievances are OF the past;
that after this night of lrelands adversely
| shall come u morning of splendor; the sun
shall rise in glory over IA United Kingdom,
and peace and good will shall cast u halo about
the crown OF Britain. Then shall the nations
love- MS we'll as fear, England; and then will
grateful Irish mothers lnslil into the hearts
of their children loyalty and devotion 10 you
aud your family; the lads around the cottage
freside will swear allegiance TO Englaud-to
brave old England.
At last when you have laid aside the sceptro
of royalty, folded your hands across an uure-
GREETING heart and been laid away in tho
tomb of your fathers, there the faithful Irish
will make their pilgrimage and say, Behold,
this was the best OF Euglands queens; her
greatness was in her charity her pride IN tho
humility in which she followed the Masters
| bidding and remembered His sgacy-the
| poor.
Can't Promise.
rich Scotchman ut the point of death said
to his pastor: :" DO YOU drink that Il | left