The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-23
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LONDON, June 22.-Dr. Chauncey M. De-
pew has kindly written for the Associated
Press his impressions of the jubi-
lee They are as follows THE dia-
mond jubilee procession has passed and
has left lasting impression. Its prep
aration required sixty years and it was over
in sixty minutes Pride. power and adora-
ton were its characteristics-pride in the
imperial position of Great Britain in the
world, and exhibition of power which in
spires this national exaltation and fervid
loyalty in action, expression and thought
for the Queen.
LAS to the pageant, it was dramatic and
historic. The lord mayor, in his robes OF
Office meeting the sovereign at the city
gates, recalled the early suggestion of I'D
erty, in the privileges won from kings by
free cities, and the sheriff in mediaeval cos
tune escortinG the monarch within MS BALI
iwick, gave glimpse of the origin ana
recognition of civil rights by the throne.
THE monarch, escorted by princes and
guar ded by the military forces of the
realms, both regulars and volunteers, ma
tional and colonial, evidenced the strength
and permanency of the monarchical sys-
tenn with this people.
1--WE Americans glory in our country and
in its marvellous developments in hundred
years and duly assert ourselves on the
Fourth of July. The celebration by the Ger
mans of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the
battle of Sedan and the founding of the
German empire which l say was a wonder
FIJI exhibition of race and national feeling.
But the concentrated and irrepressble JOY
and pride which preceded, accompanied and
followed the Queen like a resistless torrent
SURPASSED anything ever witnessed before
Though many races and many tongues par
ticipated, the dominant and absorbing ex-
preston was English, and the glory was
England's. Peers and commoners, masters
and work1nen millionaires and the multi
tude were welded by a tremendous force.
THE ENTHUSIASM.
s'This concentration of loyalty from the
remotest corners of the earth into one wild,
frantic mass of patriotic enthusiasm mad
an effect upon observers which can be
likened to nothing so much as to the North
and South electrified by the first gun hred
at Fort Sumter or by the Seventh Regiment
marching down Broadway in defense or the
capital The enthusiasm and shouting were
far different from those evoked by the tri-
umphal procession of Roman conqueror.
Men and women eagerly expressed to each
other, and emphasized to foreigners as the
colonials marched by, that they were not
captives chained to the chariot Of their
conqueror, but willing subjects, free citi-
zens of one worldwide empire following
their sovereign.
white yellow and black soldiers trooped
by, each accelerating and increasing the
tidal wave of enthusiasm and presenting
panorama of power unequaled in history.
The seeds of this sower were in the Amer
lean revolution, and it expanded into this
wonderful spectacle by the principles of
self-government SO triumphantly vindicated
by the founders of the United States. The
sovereign and the British statesmen who
believed the colonies should be governed
from London and taxed for the benefit of
the mother country lost for England the
American colonies, and the sovereign and
statesmen, taught by our success, who have
left to each settlement absolute indpend-
ence and home rule, have builded upon
these foundations and vastly strengthened
by this reunion the British federation of
empire.
Among the American spectators there
was no jealousy nor stint of praise and
applause. We could both glory in the vi
taity and virility of the mother country
and rejoice nightly. We were not march
ing in the procession, but we were present
as the proud equal of all that constitutes
a free people and great nation.
1T was pleasing to note our neighbors of
Canada. They easily took the lead among
the coonials. The fact that the province
of Quebec was in rebellion when Victoria
came to the throne, and that her premier.
now here, is a Frenchman and a Catholic,
appealed to English imagination. That the
descendants of Montcalm and his country
men should vie with the children of Wolfe
and his soldiers in their loyalty, and that
Canada has made beginning by favoring
Great Britain as against other nations in
her tariff. have touched both the British
heart and pocket
AKIN TO ADORATION.
II can conjure no tribute like the popu-
lar ovation to the Queen ever given to any
human being, except the reception to
Washington by the people on his way from
Mount Vernon TO assume the position of
the first President of the United States.
Respect, reverence, love or gratitude are
words too tame, and there is nc interme-
diate expression between them and adora-
ton. This practical age does not worship,
but, leaving out the idea of divinity, to-
days greeting to the Queen and Empress
is its equivalent That she was deeply
moved was evident, but she seemed more
absorbed by the significance of the event
than conscious of her past. Therein she
impressed me proud and happy with this
grand tribute of her people, but at the
same time sharing with them to universal
joy in the thought of both oppressed and
elevated that there has not been such a
sixty years in recorded time, that all ma
Sions have enjoyed its benefits and bless
ings and none more than our own
But for this day and place, the crowd
only what Great Britain has gained
during her reign and accorded praise
therefor to her. Her reign has been a