New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-01-17
THE DUKE OF CLARENCE.
rvRyTES OF SYMPATHY AND GRIEF FROM
ALL THE WORLD

PRINCESS OF WALES, AND
OF THE PRINCESS MAY
Try CABLE TO THE TRIBUNE.
COPYRIGHT lss2: BY The Tribune Association.
london Jan 16-Whatever we may thinl, about
royalty a death which puts an empire into mourn
ing Is no light matter, and that is what the death
~ the Duke of Clarence has done. If the
mourning were only cercmonious conventional.
;,would still mean something. 1t is, in fact much
more than that. The general grief is, If outward
signs so for anything, genuine 1t is partly but
| think not mainly, personal The Duke was
we'll liked so far as he was we'll known He was
,miable, and had social gifts, gave promise of
c,yio capacity, chose his friends WELL and did
his duty as a soldier we'll lie had Just come
rom some weeks under canvas in Ireland, taking
the rough and the smooth of a soldiers life like
his comrades. His recent engagement to an
English Princess had added vastly TO his general
popularity. Still, he was not Yet q great figure
in the public life OF this country. He had done
nothing to impress the imagination of his future
subjects. lie TO them the direct heir to
the throne, next after his father.
II is the death of the Heir-Apparent to the
Throne which has startled and shocked the coun-
U The Throne is still an institution
Loyalty is still a living force. Whatever touches
the one or moves the other has still deep mean
ing for the English people. The flood-tide of
English democracy pours steadily along, rises
higher and ever higher but so far from su bmer9-
Ing the Throne or sapping it's foundations seems
bear it on its surface il il were indeed. and
as in this nation Of seamen it should be, itself
the Ship of State. Democracy at least in this
country, strikes only at what stands between it
and it's own aims and interests. 1t menaces the
House Of Lords, because the House Of Lords is a
bulwark against innovations, or if YOU like. re-
forms. for which some scores or hundreds of thou.
sands OF men newly entered into their political
inheritance are impatient 1t does not menace
the Throne. because the Throne is not a visible
obstacle to the realization of these eager hopes
More than that may be said. There is something
more than the absence of menace. There is
strong sense Of the usefulness Of the Sovereign:
and whenever the opportunity occurs, it does
to-day, you see an outburst Of affectonate homage
TO the Sovereign and the family Of the Sovereign
to the third generation
The Prince who is gone proited all his life long
by the goodwill which descended upon him, from
his fathers mother. as if he were heir not only
TO the Throne, but TO the virtues and high capacity
for rule which for more than fifty years have
made this reign illustrious lie profits by them
IN death as he did in life. All thoughts turn TO
that gray bowed figure in black al Osborne. who
her touching tribute TO the boy whose death breaks
the liue of descent from herself and listurbs
the order OF succession in the Oldest of regning
European dynastes-oldcst, at least, in blood il
not in title When the Queen SAYS she was
devotediy attached TO her beloved grandson, every
one knows that it is not form of words, but the
expression OF a true feeling. Whoever has lived
near the Court will tell You how true il is also
that Prince Eddie always showed the greatest,
affection TO the Queen. He was a good grandson
TO Ills good grandmother. In the heated and
artificial atmosphere in which these exalted per-
sonages live and move there is still real fresh
ness OF affection which is, to all those who share
il. as the breath of life 1t is known TO be strong
and pure in all the three generatons-indeed, there
are now four-whch together make up the ROYAL
Family of England. The almost lifelong sorrow
of the widowed Queen has been softenc1. if not
chcercd, 10y those nearest 70 her.
The domestic traditions were followed Just
at Marlborough House as at Windsor
The Prince Of Waless has been not merely good
but a devoted family. The Princess. whose whole
life has been beautiful is in nothing beauti-
Ia! than in her love for her children She passed
from the bedside Of her second son. whose life
she helped 10 save-they say that Prince George
never rallied till his mother returned to nurse
grave she has to stand
The Prince Of Wales used TO say. cstingy, in
DAYS when the republican voice WAS heard in
the land, Il think / may come 20 the throne.
hut whether my son will is another question"
He said it with no thought OF death 1t was his
estimate Of the possible progress Of that anti |
sentiment which to-day seems to have
Lot much more hold on life than the Prince who !
is dead II there are Radicals who would carry
their radcslisn the borders of princcly grave,
they are silent The pressure OF an over /
public opinion would keep them silent.
have looked into sundry journals which eaven
their passion for the people with hatred of the !
rulers of the people One or two Of them. at con- |
venent moments, play at republicanism. They /
DO not think this convenient moment There
Is no echo Of the ferocity with which, at least !
abroad, royalty and Imperialism regard or used !
10 regard repubcansm nothing like the savage !
exclamation Of VI. de Cassagnac. upon the death |
Of All opponent One more Of them gone These
gentlemen these squads Of English Republicans,
reserve their broadsides for debates on reyai
yrants, the one question which great bodies
Of English workingncn have shown hostility TO
the Royal Family. 1t is not heard Of, at any
rate, among the articulatc classes. 1t is not
yis. bic among the poorer classes.
The hour for official mourning has not struck.
hut there is a feeling too spontaneous 10 wait for
the Lord Chamberlain 1t is natural that in the
upper world, which knew Prince Eddie there
should lie demonstrations of sorrow There are
other worlds in which they seem equally matters
OF course. The official world. the political world
the City, the press, the municipal world the courts
OF law organized bodies of all kinds, have ready
means Of saying what they feel. But look at
the people, who sacrifice something Of respect
,o Tho r,apory NJ him, WIN will nevcr ne KIM nf