Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-06-23

are willing for him to marry vii.
helmina and thus become king regent.
MY sympathies were strongly aroused
on yesterday for the little child, for l
saw q perfect stream of carriages roll
ing up to the palace here, and people
with all sorts of fine clothes, with cooked
hats and gold laced coats; high boots
and baggy blue trousers; silk gowns
and horse hair wigs; big sabres and lit
tie swords, all passing in at one big door
and presently coming out on the other
side of the great building, and sur
missed that the queen mother and the
real queen were holding reception.
OF course this was very dry, hard work
for little girl. But she had left her
nice home and her pretty dolls
and playthings at the Hague,
where the kings and queens
of Holland have resided, when
there were any on, for some six hun
dred years. 1t being the right time OF
year for such things. though the wealth
err is very bad for other, or outdoor
business. royalty had come to the real
capital and principal city OF the empire
to give the generals and cOmmodores
and dukes and judges, ETC., etc., an OPP
portunity of being presented" and the
people an opportunity of not forgetting
they have q monarchy and a queen.
Possibly when the little girl grows out
of short dresses, and gets more used to
all this adulation and sycophancy, she
may come to really enjoy it, and thank
kind Providence for calling upon her
to sit as figure head Of this country,
whose record as the great Dutch repub-
lie is amongst the highest and grandest
in human annals. It must be q good
deal harder for a bright, active child to
play queen than sedate, grOwn-up wO-
man. Perhaps the latter is more sus-
ceptible to the wiles Of flattery, and can
the more easily give credence to the
stories which It IS somebody's duty al.
ways to tell, and royaltys duty always
to believe. And why should not the
grown-up child get as much pleasure
out Of seeing her photographs displayed
in shop windows, and her youthful face
land they never put wrinkles on coins)
as an imprint on the peoples money, as
the little girl? And Pm sure the Dutch
guilder was never graced with sweet
err face than that of the youthful queen
to whose health and happiness hogs
heads of beer and barrels of wine were
drunk in old Amsterdam to-day.
But there were other children, too
who took part in the performance Just
closed, and this country retains that
good old-fashioned trait and for which
it has been proverbial ever since the
dutch took Holland" of having more
children to the quarter section than
A frxy IL, hn xunv,l1 Eixa
thousand OF them stood up before the
queen and joined their voices with
about that many brass bands and other
instruments of noise, in singing some
verses have before me, but which you
would not understand bit better than
the Dutchman did my discourse to him
this morning upon the star spangled
banner and the farmers alliance. One
of the verses on the program begins
"Waar de blanke top der duinen,
Schittert in den zOnneglOed,"
and winds up in Dutch.
Verify the Dutch are provident,
liberty loving and happy people. All
these traits are reflected by such crowds
as have mingled in to-day and in the
one got lost in the other night at the
big circus on church holiday in Rot
extraordinarily dressed and we'll
fed; mindful of the rights of others and
which only a iberty-respecting people
have and bright faced and jolly.
OF their country and its vast system
OF dykes and canals; of their constant
and intelligent fight with the restless
sea; of their splendid agriculture and
fruitful tillage; their most perfect sys-
tenn of drainage and irrigation; their
dairy and fax products, and how they
get the largest yield of seed or fibre, as
the case may be; their fine schools and
Of art; their cities built upon
poles driven in the soft mud and dykes
upon quicksand and morass, and many