The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-05-24

Sevmaa. Carlyis. Niii. Far.day, Ep~acsr.
Haxiey. Darwin, ThaekFay. 0sorgs Eliot
and Dickens, nevsrtheiess in original
stseakth and versatility u literary genius
the vicsorian ags has net BEEN equal 20
the ksnsTssion which prsesdsd IL, which
inciuded Byron. Keats. sheiisy. ID
Qa1nesy. Cossrsdss. Scott Wordsworth.
Lamb. Hood, Haxist, LsadGF and Moore
whose best life ucrk uas Ill done before
Victoria aseerdsd tbs thsons. although .
fsv a. them survived her scesssios nsm-
~ Of pears
Ths Ssign II Victoria has been in the
main peaceful and prosperoas. . reiga
that onIy nssds the humane solution 81
the Irish problem to make II shs most
biesssd era Of peace. Of incrsassd popular
virtue, intelligence and refinement that
England has known sincs she hsd m az
thsntie history. Un1er Victoria Engisnd
hiss made enormous strides In the dirsc-
ton Of democratic eovsrnmens II she
CONTINUES 70 advance q the Same rapid
rate Tor another quarter century the yssr
I020 viii find Ireland. 6cotlaud and Wales
With home rule, tbs house of lords - "a
hereditary isgislaturs extinct and re-
placed by IN elective body. iiksth French
senate: the fsudal tenuss Of lands in the
hands Of the few dissolved and England
without any aristocrscy save the immor.
sal aYistocraey-ths ubiquitous nobility
Of intelligence, intellect virtue and Wis
dom.
Itisa corn mon habit 70 speak Of Vic
toria - merely = good woman. virtuous.
humane and phiianthropic- She must b
something far more than that, for she has
had the good SENSE aud ssIf-control TO
yield TO the popular will - represented BY
her ministers without any such stupid
effort 81 resistance - marked tho career
Of her grandfather. George the Third. or
Of her uncies. George the Fourth and
William the Fourth. AZ we'll might W
say that Emperor William tho First Of
Germany wss cipher became vs grant
the SURPRISING political genius Of Bis
marck. the architect OF the German en-
pirs. Emperor william must have had
superior brains 20 appreciate and
trust the poiiticais guidance Of Bis
marck's genus: he must have had
superior brains to comprehend his own
intslisctuai Limitation - . statesman. and
u 10 safe 70 say that Queen Victoria h >
great deal more than good woman: she
must have from youth mp been woman
Of superior sense, sslf-restraint, tact and
discretion, or she would have In her long
reign at times shown her weaknesa
Charles the First lost his head through
his obstinacy and perddy; Louis the Blk
tenth lost his head through his obstinancy
aud stupidity. which we're 20 conspicuous
that Mirsbesu. who wished to save him
from destruction. impstisntly exclaimed
that Marie Anto!netts vas the only one Of
the royal family that possesssd IN ounce
Of brains or courage. Victoria In long
reign Of nfty-ssvsn years has never made
fool Of herself, which 10 the more re-
variable when We remember that her
father and her royai uncies, George the
Fourth. William ths Fourth and the Dukes
OF York. Sussex and Cumberland were oil
conspicuous for acts OF folly and scandal
ons conduct that made them the shame q
England.
The reign Of Queen Victoria, while not
equal to that Of Queen Elisabsth or George
the Third in literary glory. il the creates.
reign since that OF Queen Eiisabsth mea-
sursd by it. utili.afian advance In those
things which create and stand for great
commercial civilization. Henry the
Seventh, Henry the Eighth aud his daush-
Ter. Queen Mary. because Of their friendly
relations with Spain, did not attempt to
dispute with Spain for the possession OF
North America. but whom Queen Eliza
beth qusrrsisd with Spain, the great En-
giish sailors. Drake, Hawkins. Frobishsr,
Raleigh and Grenvills started England In
. career Of marine conquest and trade that
gave such an enormous impulse to her
prosperity that not even the pusillanimous
could check it Since the days Of Queen
Elisabeth there has been. measured from
eli points Of view. no such tremendous
material growth for England a. she has
seen under Queen Victoria.
Queen Victoria to do her justice has al.
ways been friendly 10 the United States
Prince Albert taught her that lesson be-
fore his death. and she never has forgotten
IL II some Engiishmen, who ought to
have known better. including Gladstone.
did not see as Prince Albert did, that JET
Davis had ~cs founded IN empire, /" Aor
was likely to found one on the corner.
stone Of human slavery, Queen Victoria
din not sympathIxe with them. She
symrashired rather with Englishmsn,
like Tennyson, who wrote In 1852 these
lines:
| Gigantic daughter OF the west,
We drink 10 thee across she food:
For ast thou not OF British bloodf
SAouia wars mad b asst again 10 blown,
| Permit not thou the tvsanta powers
To hxht thy mother here alone
o siss. our strong Atlantic sons.
Nhen var against our freedom sprinTs:
sreak 90 Europe through your guns.
They can be understood BY klnssi
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| a MATTER OF LOGIC.