The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-08-14
wAIvr An AMERlcAN RING.
what the JacoBites OF BOston ARE
PLOTTING to Do.

ton to whom the diamond jubilee OF
Queen Victoria brought no joy. They
made no arrangements to celebrate 1t,
and look with scorn upon the pro-
gramme arranged by the British-Amer-
lean society of this city. They are the
Jacobites, admirers and upholders OF
the royal house of Stuart and conserve
tors of it's fame. For them. In common
with the Jacobite league and Order Of
the White Rose Of England, the line OF
Stuart still exists as a fact in European
politics, and its visible head, as is well
known, is Princess Mary, wife Of Louis
prince Of Bavaria, son Of Luitpolds
prince regent Of Bavaria. She is to-
day, in the language of the Boston peo-
pie and their fellows in England, Mary
Nv. and III, by the grace Of God, Of
England, Scotland, France md ireland,
Queen, defender Of the faith, etc.
To the ordinary Bostonian the fact
that there is in his city q cult Of this
nature somewhat in the nature
of a surprise. To be sure, services have
been held in several of the very high
churches Of the city, notably that Of St.
John the Evangelist, on January 80, to
commemorate the taking of of him
kwhom the Jacobites have c~anonizedun-
der the name of st. Charles the Martyr.
The name of this particular saint does
not appear in the list of those recoAs
nized by the established church, but
he exists, just the same, to the Jacob
ties and their friends.
There are not many of these historical
waits in Boston. Perhaps IL, all told,
would cover the number, but they are
Increasing, and the honorary secretary
of the organization, Alfred John Rod
way, of Roxbury, says that every day
letters from not alone all parts of New
England, but also the entire United
States, are pouring into the Office In
quiring about the Jacobites and the
aims they hope to attain.
Among the more prominent members
of the Boston branch of the Legitimist
society are Ralph Adams Cram, Robert
Babson, William Forsyth and Alfred
John Roadway, the secretary. Mr.. Rod.
way is an Englishman by birth, and a
descendant of a good old Gloucester
shire family, who took the side of the
king during the civil war with the par
lament. One of these gentlemen said
to the Sun correspondent:
81 know that the American public in
general take us to be all sorts of cranks,
and lose no opportunity of making slur-
ring remarks about us, but that doesn't
hurt us any, and amuses them; SO let
them go on; we don't mind it. But I'll
tell you Just what we mean when we
call ourselves Jacobites. We all know,
and everybody knows who is at all ac'
quainted with English history, that the
Stuart family and their descendants are
excluded from the English throne by
the act of settlement, passed in 1901 by
the commons of England, but what
everybody does not know is this, that
this very act was passed by the bare
majority of one, and then only after
long and bitter struggles between thoss
in secret sympathy with the fallen
house Of Stuart and the adherents Of
the Hanoverians.
1.-THE sympathy with the legitimate
and hereditary sovereigns of England
and Scotland evidenced by the closeness
of this vote found vent in the disas'
trous risings of 1918 and 1745. But these
are matters Of history. The significant
! fact of it all is this-that, although
more than 200 ~yearshave elapsed since
) the house of Stuart occupied the triple
throne, the sentiment in their favor has
: never really died out, and exists to-daS
. perhaps as strongly in England. and es-
4 pecially in Scotland and Ireland, as il
d ever did, and even in America, as you
see, has it found support.
"But it was not altogether in behalf
: Of the Stuarts that we became interest
Z ed in the Jacobite movement. To III
this simply Means q return to the prin
h ciples represented by the Stuarts, anC
I on account of which they were over
g thrown, namely, the prerogatives o.
the throne, or, as you would call il
q the divine right of kings. We uphold
the idea that there is such a thing
r as granting too much liberty to tn
: common people. The commons of Eng
land are to-day the real rulers Of Thu
9 countryside throne but a shadow
We also believe that the time is com
ing in the future when there must d
: necessity be a fixed, visible head il
9 these United States-a something o
9 some one in whom the idea Of country
q or the nation can be i~ncarnated an,
localized, which to-day I'VE vainl,
p strive to keep alive under the name o
9 the flag or the stars and stripes.
2 SIN other words, we believe in q con
stitutional monarchy for this country
n not SO constitutional, however, as to de
g prive the monarch Of all power Of what
ever nature. Society must be made owe
and renovated. There must be fxel
grades and classes, and the line mus
q be drawn somewhere"
y The most curious thing regardin
: the man who comes out SO boldly wit
Z these amazing sentiments is the fac
. that his family have been for NOR
than five generations citizens of Nel
England. In fact, with the exceptio
= of Mr.. Roadway, the members of the *
!. eiety in Boston come from old Me-
!. England ancestry.-Boston Cor. N. J
], Sun.
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