The Progress., 1897-06-26

Buckingham palace, and our warships
will thunder congratulation In Engllsh
waters They are over there, bone of our
bone and flesh OF our flesh. 1t Is our John
Bunyan, our Wilberforce, our Coleridge,
our De Quincy, our John Milton, our
John Wesley, our John Knox, our Thomas
Chalmers, our Bishop Charnock, our Lat
inner, our Ridley, our Walter Scott. our
Daniel O'Connell, our Robert Emmet.
our Havelook, our Henry Lawrence. our
william K. Gladstone, our Queen Victoria!
Long live the daughter OF the Duchess OF
Kent!
Again, this international occasion I'M
presses me with the fact that woman is
competent for political government when
God calls her to 1t. Great fears have been
experienced in this country that woman
would get the right of suffrage, and as a
consequence, after awhile, woman might
get into congressional chair, and, perhaps
after awhile, reach the chief magistraoy.
Awful! Well. better quiet your perturba-
lions, as you look across the sea, in this
anniversary time, and behold woman
who for 60 years has ruled over the might
lest empire of all time and ruled we'll. In
approval of her government, the hands OF
oil nations are clapping, the flags OF all
nations waving, the batteries of all ma
lions booming. Look here! Men have
not made such q wonderful success Of gov
eminent that they need be afraid that
women should ever take q turn at power.
The fact IL that men have made q bad
mess of 1t. The most dalnnably corrupt
thing on earth Is American politics after
men have had 1t all their own way In this
country for 121 years. Other things be-
ing equal, for there are fools among
women 40 well as among men-I say other
things being equal. woman has generally
o keener sense Of what Is right and what
is wrong than has man-has naturally
more faith In God and knows better how
to make self sacrifices and would more
boldly act against intemperance and the
social evil, and worse things might come
to this country than q supreme courtroom
and senate chamber and q house Of rep
resentatives In which wonanly voices
were sometimes heard.
We men had better drop GONE Of the
strut out of our pompous gait and with a
little less Of suEcrciliousness 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. II
woman had possessed an influential and
controlling vote on Capitol hill at Wash
ington and in the English parliament, do
| you think that the two ruffian and muir
| derous nations Of the earth could have
| les in Armenia and Cubap No! The
| Christian nations would have gone forth
with bread and medicine and bandnges
| and military relief, until Abdul Hamid
| would have had no throne to sit on, and
Weyler, the commanding assassin In Cuba,
| would have been thrust into a prison a.
dark as that In which they murdered DR..
Ruiz. am no advocate for female suf-
| fraRe. and do not know whether 1t would
be best to have 1t, but I point you to the
queen Of Great Britain and the nation
over which she rules as proof that woman
may be politically dominant and prosper
| ity reign. God save the queen, whether
| now, on the throne In Buckingham pal.
| ace, or In some time to come In American
| White House.
And now pray God that day after TO-
morrow the uncertain skies Of England,
30 economic Of sunshine may pour golden
| light upon all the scene, and that since
the day when, In Westminster abbey, the
girlish queen took In one hand the scepte1
and in the other the orb Of empire, there
may have been no day 20 happy as that
one in which she shall this week receive