The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1897-07-29
of her government. the hands of all

nations are waving, the batteries OF all |
nations are booming. Look herel Men |
have not made such a wonderful sue |
cess of government that they need be
afraid that y.aman should ever take |
turn at power. The fact is that men |
have made bad mess of it. The most
damnably corrupt things on earth is
American politics after men have had
1t all their own way in this country for
, 121 years. Other things being equal,
for there are fools among women as
we'll as among men-I say others
| things being equal, woman has gen.
| orally keener sense of what is right
| and what is wrong than has man-has
ma turally more faith in God, and knows
| better how to make self-sacritces, and
would more boldly act against intern
perance and the social evil, and worse
things might come to this country than
supreme court room and a senate
! chamber and house of representa-
tives in which womanly voices were
sometimes heard. We men had better
drop some of the strut out of our
pompous gait and with a little SUI
perciliousness thrust the thumbs into
the sleeves of our vests, and be
less apprehensive of the other
sex, who seem to be the
Lords favorites from the fact that He
has made more of them. If woman
had possessed an influential and con-
trolling vote on Capitol hill at Wash
ington and in the English parliament,
do you think that the two rutfian and
murderous nations of the earth could
have gone on until this time with the
butcheries in Armenia and Cuba? No!
The Christian nations would have gone
| forth with bread and medicine, and
bandages and military relief, until the
Turks have had no throne to sit
on, and Weyler, the commanding
assassin in Cuba would have
, been thrust into prison as
dark as that in which they murdered
Dr. Ruiz. [ am no advocate for female
+ suffrage, and do not know whether it
would be best to have it; but point
you to the queen of Great Britain and
1 the nation over which she rules as
| proof that woman may be po-
: litically dominant and prosperity
reign. God save the queen, whether
: now, on the throne in Bucking
. ham palace.
= And now pray God that day after
e tomorrow, the uncertain skies of En-
l gland. so economic of sunshine may
+ pour golden light upon all the scene,
t and that since the day when, in West
, minister abbey, the girlish queen took
in one hand the scepter and in the
/ other the orb of empire, there may have
:, been no day SO happy as that one IN
e which she shall this week receive
0 the plaudits of Christendom. May
f she be strengthened in her aged body
h to ride the whirlwind of international
e excitement, and her failing vision be
5 illumined with bright memories of the
e past and brighter visions of the future,
d and when she quits the throne of earth
e may she have throne in Heaven, ant
e as the doors of the eternal palace are
e swung open, may the question of the
5 text sound in her enraptured ears:
i "What wilt thou, Queen Esther?'
~ But as all of us will be denied at
/ tendance on that sixticth anniversary
" coronation invite you, not to the an
Ie niversary of coronation, but to
h coronation itsclf-aye, to two corona
n tions. brought up as we are. we low
Is as no other form of government tina
ir which is republican and democratic
il. we, living on this side of the sea, cal
e not 50 easily ds those living on the 9th
ID er side of the sea- appreciate the tw'
lie coronations to which all up AM
We down the Bible you and
is are urgently invited. Some O
it you have such morbid ideas O
G. religion that you think of it as goin
Is down into dark cellar or out on
is barren commons, or as a fagellation
I'd when, SO far from dark cellar, it is
id palace, and instead of a barren CON
S mons it is a garden, atoss with tn
1, brightest fountains that were eve
:" rain bowed, and instead of fiagellato
or it is coronation, but coronation u
H. terly eclipsing the one whose sixtiet
r anniversary is now being celebrated
il 1t was a great day when Davit
n the little king, who was larg
w enough to thrash Goliath, took tn
hit crown at Rabbah-a crown weigh
1T ing a talent of gold and encircled wit
ic. precious stones-and the people shou
of ed: Long live the king" 1t was
en- great day when Petrarch, surrounde
CHI by II patrician youths, clothed in sea
ct let, received from senator the laur,
ct crown, and the people shouted: Lon
he live the poet.' 1t was a great da
an when Mark Antony put upon Cass
a the mightiest tiara of all the cart
he and in honor of Divine authority Cas;
or had it placed afterward on tt
NJ head of the statue of Jupit,
ne Olympus. 1t was great da
ay when the greatest of Frenchme
ial took the diadem of Charlemange al
we put it on his own brow. 1t was gre;
a day when, about an eighth of mil
he from the gate of Jerusalem, under
ife sky pallid with thickest darkness, al
cal on mountain trammeled of cart
Be- quake, and the air on fire with tt
, a blasphemies of a mob, crown
as spikes was put upon the pallid al
nd agonized brow of our Jesus. But tn
al Darticular corona tiOn amid tears AZ