The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-28
MERRY ENGLAND'S DAY.
The Queens Jubilee Celebrated
at Garfield Park.
Capt. Joe Waters Tells Why
Americans May Be Glad
As Well as Englishmen That the Good
Queen Has Reigned So Long
Cricket and Bagpipes.


The attendance at the comme1nora-
tive celebration would undoubtedly
nave been larger had it not been for
the threatening weather. Although the
sky cleared as Kenneth Mcdonald, the
Highland piper, walked down Kansas
avenue at noon, the cIoudiness return
ed shortly after the celebration COM
menced and the sky took on a more
threatening aspect as the day advanced.
At Z o'clock the picnickers were com
PEELED to leave the park by rain, and
the evening band concert by MarshaIPs
band was abandoned
The bandstand in the mark was de-
voted to the speakers, and was decor
ated with a large American and Eng
4sh nag Here Mr.. c. S. Sutton, presi-
dent of the Diamond Jubilee asSocfa-
uon, opened the celebration shortly be-
lore 3 o'clock by introducing Mr.. Rich
ara HargreaVes, who read the commem-
oratlVe ode written by his wife Mrs
oafah Hargreaves. Mr.. Sutton later
renee, Rev. S. E. Busser of Enpor.ia and
captain Joseph G. Water, the speaker
ton said:
we people, British or Canadian by
plrth, but American by affilfation. can
out feel grateful to our fellow Gift
zeAS OF the country of our adoDtiOn for.
the unDounded evidences of apprecia-
e1CAA anu AlOIIdS& winch are being shown
throughout this broad land to the ven
efabie ruler of the mother country
Ihese tokens Of esteem and admiration
are not given to the queen-empress of a
vast dominion, but are brought forth nv
the Womanly and motherIy attributes
Whlch are understood by all woman
KIND, and the consistent adherence
Whlch she has always shown in so many
ways during her long career to the
principles of justice and liberty. are
recognized by all men"
The address of Captain Joseph G.
Waters was one of the brightest fea
lures OF the celebration. Captain Wa
ters speeches are always good, and his
audiences never fail to appreciate them.
He said:
IT here is no glory of the English race
no virtue in its annals. no heroism in
IT'S times, that Seventy-five millions of
ought not to share
There is nothing in the most intense
AInericanism that prevents ready re-
coSntlon Of worth in stranger nation
ana there is all that is honorable in a
people to pay just tribute to a kindred
one The occasion of the queens jubi-
lee has been seized by the loyal Eng
ltshman to glOrify the English nation
He has brought barbaric spIendors to
the streets of London to adorn a chris
tan holiday. From the shadow of the
from lone Saint Helena; from
Botany Bay, Cape Town, Calcutta; from
our nelghbOrs of the north, who hedge
in for US the perpetual SHOWS; the taw-
ny, the yellow, the black; from every
throne and ruler; from the
worlds mountains, it's valleys, its bush
ranges; from deserts, deep woods and
mighty wastes; from every season
and cline; from the island of
seas, they have sailed
across calm and tempest to kneel at the
foot Of a throne.
The whole world has been placed I'M
der tribute and subject races. conquest
cd by the force of English AIMS have
We'd with the native Briton in address
SeS to the hOnCred woman that fell
from the tongue as earnest and warm
as if the current flowed from the foun-
tains of affection. 1 hope every syI-
liable uttered by an American on this
occasion may be as far from the com
PEELED expression of a vassal as from
the inflated and eXaggera ted voice of
the Englishmen who have made that
tight little island an imperial dictatre
of commerce and finance and mistress
of the turbulent and invading seas I
also hope that Americans may say all
that ought to be said, tempered to the
great event, and leave unsaid many
things an EngliShman has the right to
say and may be pardOned for saying
THE divine aff1aJuS, in an American
perVades us once year, and the Fourth
of July is too near for US to uncork and
commence to efferVeSCe now. We must
recognize the bonds of kindred; and
coming as most of US do from that part
of the kingdom that lies to the west of
the Irish sea- we may justly be con-
sidered as poor reIa tiOns who bid them
selves to the feast. Three thousand miles
of ocean intervene but the water of all
the seas cannot prevent the informing
ling of common blood. All that Great
Britain has ever done of greatness or
Of good is in our strain of heredity and
it's history that does not conend it.
self to US as the right thing or the fair
thing, we can lose by the better habit
Of right doing and eventually purge the
blood.
ION the morning of June 20, 1887,
sleeping girl was hastily aroused and
told she was queen. Before was born,
she assembled the throne, became the
wife of her cousin, Albert, a German
prince She became a devoted. model
wife, and she had a devoted and model
She has been the highest type
Of. mother and she has held, all through
her years of WidOWhOOd, the love of her
life time.
when Lincoln was assassinated,
there came from Windsor, the sweetest
and tenderest expression of sorrow, and
1t was a woman's heart that compelled
a queen to send it, It was so when
Garfield was stricken, and so when he
died. 1t has been so, whenever the
great American people have stood face
to face with appalling catastrophe, that
Victoria has touched the heart of our
stony sorrow and melted it with her
tears. She has by her virtuOus reign,
made history almost forget the intrigue
and lechery of royal courts, ana mas
greatly helped to compel honorable acts
and virtuous conduct in the purliens of
every royal court of Europe.
she has greatly assisted in giving
woman an equal place beside her hus-
band. She is entitled to this jubilee.
The Fnglishman may, if he please, ex-
aggerate his nation and his queen. It
oUght to be productive of good; it is an
incident of peace; it helps inspire a
broader humanity and a more catholic
spirit There is something in 1t, that
ought to suggest the near relation of
All people, and & deeper desire to serve
And as an American, trou-
bled little with a desire to transplant
here any of the English customs, that
good world in congratulation to a wo-
man who for co years has been a sweet
al he