The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-10-29
HONORS FOR JOE.
Queen Victoria Selects Captain
Waters Jubilee Speech
From Thousands of Others as
Worthy
TOBEBOUNDAND FILED
With Five Others Made All
Over the World.
ElOQuence Ofthe Speech Pleases
the Queen.

New York papers contain a notice
that Capt Joseph G. Waters speech,
delivered at Topeka. on June 26, in hon
or of Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee,
is one of the six that has been selected
by Her Majesty to be preserved. Thou
sands of speeches that were delivered
in all the countries of the world were
submitted to her and her secretaries,
and from them six were selected to be
preserved in the Imperial Institute to
be exhibited with the jubilee presents.
On June 26, 300 of the English born
people and their friends, residing in To-
peka, assembled at Garfield park to
celebrate the jubilee. Capt. Waters,
VINO is one of the most American of
Americans, was the speaker of the day.
A copy of his speech was sent by the
English society, unknown to Captain
Waters, to the queen. Capt. Waters
was much surprised when he heard that
his speech was one of the chosen few.
why" said he, Capt. p. H. Coney
tore that speech all to pieces when he
spoke at Wellington on July Fourth. I
supposed Pats judgment was as good
as the queens, but guess it was not.
He said the speech was all bOsh.''
The following is part of Capt. Wa
terS' speech as reported in the State
Journal. Capt. Waters did not preserve
a copy of the speech, and he is unable
to tell what he said unless he receives a
copy of it from England:
There is no glory of the English race
no virtue in its annals, no heroism in it's
times, that seventy-five millions of
Americans ought not to share.
There is nothing in the most intense
Amerlcanism that prevents ready rec
OgnitiOn of worth in a stranger nation
and 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 En-
SliShman to glOrify the English nation.
He has brought barbaric spIendors to
the streets of London to a6Orp a
tian holiday. From the shadow of the
pyramids; from lone Saint Helena; from
Botany Bay, Cape Town, Calcutta from
our neighbors of the north, who hedge
in for US the perpetual SHOWS; the taw-
ny, the yellow, the black; from every
satrapy, throne and ruler; from the
worlds mountains its valleys, its bush
ranges; from deserts, deep woods and
mighty wastes; from every season,
country and cline; from the island of
innumerable seas, they have sailed
across calm and tempest to kneeI at the
foot of throne.
Victoria has been sixty years upon
the throne; under the white light that
constantly is focused upon it, a life of
cOnventiOnalitieS and ceremonies, of
which she must have been well wearied
a life time ago.
She has been and is the nominal
ruler; her life lies parallel to important
events in her empire but her relation to
them is no more intimate than the gid
ed Mercury on the prov is to the course
of the great ship, that seems to take
the beckOn of its hand and follow after
the gaze of it's strained and sightless
eyes.
Victoria has reigned with II of our
presidents. She has survived a full half
score of her prime ministers. In fact,
| of the gay party that assisted at her
coronation, there are but two three
survivors,
"She has seen wars to increase the
power of her empire. to preserve the
| balance of power in Europe, or having
I fc1 n-f
| diZement; but, so reads the text, she
has never seen one that stands for
| mankind-a Chickamauga or Gettys-
burg
The whole world has been placed un-
der tribute and subject races, conse-
| quented by the force of English arms
have We'd with the native Britain in ad-
| dresses to the hOnOred woman, that fell
| from the tongue as earnest and warm
| as if the current flowed from the fOun-
| tains of affection hope every syllable
uttered by an American on this occa-
| sion may be as far from the compelled
| expression of a vasSal as from the in
| f1ated and exaggerated voice of the En-
gliShmen who have made that tight
| little island an imperial dictatress of
| commerce and finance and mistress of
| the turbulent and invading seas. 1 also
| hope that Americans may say all that
ought to be said, tempered to the great
| event, and leave unsaid many things an
| EngIishman has the right to say and
| may be pardOned for saying"
| THE divine aff1atus, in an American,
| pervades US once year. and the
| Fourth of July is too near for US to un-
cork and commence to efferveSce now.
| We must recognize the bonds of kin
dred; and coming as most OF us do
| from that part of the kingdom that lies
| to the west of the Irish seas, we may
Justly be considered as poor relations
/ who bid themselves to the feast. Three
| thousand miles of ocean intervene but
| the water of all the seas cannot pre-
| vent the intermin Cling 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
| right thing or the fair thing, we can
| lose by the better habit of right doing
| and eventually purge the blood.
''On the morning of June 20, 1897, a
| sleeping girl was hastily aroused and
| told she was queen. Before was born,
| she ascended the throne, became the
wife of her cousin, Albert a German
wife, and she had a devoted and model
cOnsOrt 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
| it 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
1 Victoria has touched the heart of orr
| stony sorrow and melted it with her
| tears. She has by her VirtuOus reign
| made history almost forget the intrigue
the lechery of royal courts, and has
greatly helped to compel honorable acts