El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-06-28

A writer in the GlCbe-Democrat says:
The sixty years that have passed since
the young girl OF IS was summoned
from her no IN in the early mOrhing TO
receive tae prime minister aud the
primate. and be saluted for the first
time Us queen-have been, perhaps, as
important years in their direct and
indirect results as any England has
vet known. Through them all she has
walked steadily anu safely, and mas so
borne herself in the highest station
that now, when the young girl Is an
old woman far beyond the ordinary
limits of human life, there have been
very few discord ant notes in the Choir
US of praise which has greeted her
| anniversary. From that
| Fierce light that beats upon the
throne.
And bIackenS every blot,
| She has emerged unScathed. She may
not always have been "a source OF pride
to her subjects. but she has never been
source of shame. They have never
had to blush for word OF deed of hers,
public or private. Like all English
sovereigns, since George Ill, at least
Victoria has reigned, but has not
! governed" Nothing but wise and
comprehensive common sense, much
more rare than genius, has enabled
her to reign for sixty years without ID
|
eruing power. She not only knew
how to accept the delicate and danger
Gus sltuat ton of strictly constitution
al monarch gracefully, but she has
! lluown how to make the most and best
tf il, for her people and for herself.
| She has had to deal with whig and
! tory, conservative and liberal govern
mentS, with ministers whom she liked
and with ministers whom she dls1ked;
| she has had to sanction acts OF par
lament she did not approve, as we'll as
these she did: and yet never once, so
far as l know, has she en- charged
with opposing the will of the people as
expressed by the voice OF a parliament
airy majority, or interfering with Its
\ execution.
| Victoria has been good queen, none
| better: but, unless L am much mlstak-
en-, it is as good woman that she re-
| ceives the warmeSt a1d most sincere of
these anniversary plaudits from both
side of the ocean. The Hanoverlan
stock from which she comes Is motor
iousiy bad, from a moral point of view,
if no other. OF the five English Han
OVERLAP kings, but One-George III
| pre- end d to have any morality. Four
of them came near being, II indeed
tbey were not, faithlees in all the reIa-
tons certainly, if not the public.
George ", the queens uncle, was
called by his flatterers the first gen
tleman IN Europe" He was, in my
opinion, the frs BLACKBOARD in or out
of Europe: and his brother, William
~, was not very much better-as his
| treatment OF Mrs. Jordan, by whom he
had ten childre0, abundantly shows.
| From out of this bad stock-thanks
mainly TO her mother-N1ctOria sprang,
fair and gracious flower. Her do
nestle purity has almost redeemed the
domestic rottenness of her ancestry.
| She has been a good daughter, good
wife, good mother-a good woman
| from beginning to end. She has set
good example, not only to her own peo-
| pie, but to al peoples, She has her
faults and fOliieS, OF course: but there
| is not the shadow of stain upon her
| cha --acter or conduct, public or pri-
vate, woman or queen. The keynote
! OF her public and private life is, L be-
| lieve, conscientious devotion to duty;
and when the long life ENDS there may
be written over ner grave as truthful
| ly as 1t was written over the grave of
one of her noblest subjects, SIR Henry
Lawrence. Here hes one who tried
to do her duty