The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-07-23
HER PROCLAMATION.
QUEEN VICTORIA TO HER LOY-
AL BRITISH SUBJECTS.
Telepathic Reproduction of the Procla-
nation Issued On the Sixtieth Annni-
versary of Her Ascension to the
Throne-Unblushing EHrontery.
A PROCLAMATION.

N> SNNAA>> ~AAN N&AA
OF u reign, and having seen our
British empire increase from forty to
four hundred millions Of people, we de-
sire to publicly place in the hands of
our successor the principles that, I'M
DER the advice of our ministers, have
guided us in the administration of the
empire; SO that our liege and loyal sub
Jects may have an intelligent view of
the policy that has guided and will
continue to influence the throne and
yield to it their unflinching support.
l. The British crown is the lawful
heir and successor Of the Roman en-
plre. Its hereditary mission and des-
tiny IS to r~e-establish that empire by
absorbing the various states that once
formed its provinces, as we'll as the
countries discovered and possessed un-
der It's authority, or that of the pope,
us Vassal. Necessarily an object of
SLOW accomplishment. this must be
approached with caution, pursued with
ADDRESS Il never relinQuished.
Inc principal means whereby to ac-
compllsh this great result are religion,
military supremacy, the monetary sys-
TEN, colonization and the judicious
employment of allies, as the French in
Egypt, the Italians in Abyssinia, the
chartered company in the Transvaal
and the Greeks in Crete. Of these
agencies in their order.
2. The Christian religion and the
Roman empire were coeyal. Our title
OF 1~mperatrice, though only assumed
by the crown since the absorption and
consolidation of India, descends from
the 'lmperium' of the Caesars. Our
title of Fidei Defensor and the condi-
ton Del Gratia, have a similar origin.
lhese titles establish the connection
between religion and the state. Both
religions imply an ecclesiastical head.
and that head is and can only be the
one that wears the Royal Grown of
Britain. = Il The onlv distinc-
ton which their churchmen can ever
acquire must be obtained in ENGLAND
whatever makes for them makes
for us. They should be permit
tea to share with our native prelates
Inc most impressive ceremonies: thew
should be awarded ecclesiastical
thrones, %coronets, rich robes and lux
urlous mansions. The more thew are
honored, the more we shall be exalted
and, through us, the power and in
fuence of the empire.
5. Among the elements of military
supremacy most necessary to he nre-
served are a powerful and numerouslv
manned navy; the command of Gibra1-
tar, Suez and the Categat; the fortif-
cations of Canada, and the Tenacious
retention OF the islands of the Carib-
Dean and South Seas, both as coaling
stations and for the organization of Of
fenslve operations. Our blueiackets
n volunteers demand especia1 on
couragement. Our permanent forces
should be largely recruited with Scots
and freshmen, whose native valor, if
not Inverted into ~serviceable channels.
may chance to overflow the dykes of
loyalty. India must always remain
olsarmed. Africa must be ~colonized
with those of our Indian suhiects
whose loyalty and Familiarity with
MODERN weapons and drill shall have
been carefully tested. The negro must
go.
4. The success which has attended
the efforts of our financiers to break
down all national systems of money
md merge them into a metallic svs-
tenn which is governed from London
must be followed up with further
measures. The policy inaugurated by
the act IL, Charles H., oh. 5 Qegala-
ton OF Barbara Villiers), ~zealously
seconded by Lord Liverpool, is to es-
tabllsh metal, in place of money as the
measure OF value. This will make
such measure universal instead of ma
tional; it will destroy the monetary
Ererogative of nations and vest If
where it should be vested, in orr en-
plre. 1t is az essential a stem toward
the accomplishment of our Heredit-
airy Mission as is the control of the
a n destruction Of the coinage
rrerogative, which completed by our
act of April ~, 1870, the German act OF
1871, the American acts of 1873. the
French act of 1874 and others. has
made England the banking center and
clearinghouse of the world, the die
tator of the worlds exchanges the ar
bitter of it's commercial %solvency. the
keeper Of its commercial honor n the
beneficiary OF all discoveries, con-
quests, inventions and improvements.
1t confirms England in the
of the worlds carrying trade and
throws into her Ian all nos.c