The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1897-06-25

"When thou sittest to eat with a ruler,
consider diligently what is before thee
and put knife to thy throat if thou be
a man given to appetite. believe
more people die of improper eating than
die of strong drink. The former causes
no delirium or violence and works more
gradually, but none the less fatally.
Queen Victoria's habits, self denying
and almost ascetic, under a good Prov.
idence, account for her magnificent Ion
gevity. 1t may be homely lesson for a
sexagesimal anniversary in British pal
aces, but it is worth all the millions Of
dollars the celebration will cost, and
the laborious convocation of the repre-
sentatives from all the zones of the
planet, if the nations will learn the san
itary lesson of good hours, plain food,
outdoor exercise, reasonable abstinence
and common sense habits. That which
Paul said to the jailer is just as appro-
pirate for you and for me-"Do thyself
no harm. " And here let me say no peo-
pie outside Of Great Britain ought to
be more interested in this queens jubi-
lee than our nation. The cradles Of
most OF our ancestors were rocked in
Great Britain. They played in child
hood on the banks of the Thames or the
Clyde or the Shannon. Take from my
veins the Welsh blood and the Scotch
blood, and the streams of my life would
be a shallow. Great Britain is our
grandmother
We have read in the family records
that without our grandmother consent,
her daughter, our mother, left home and
married the genius of American indie
pendence, and for awhile there was bit
ter estrangement, but the family quar-
rel has ended and all has been forgiven,
and we shake hands every day across
the seas. At this queenly anniversary
our authorized representatives will offer
greeting in Buckingham palace and our
warships will thunder congratulation
in English 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 Bish-
op Charnock, our Latimer, our Ridley,
our Walter Scott, our Daniel O'Connell,
our Robert Emmett, our Havelock, our
Henry Lawrence, our William E. Glad
stone, our Queen Victoria. Long live
the daughter Of the Duchess of Kent!
A Long Reign.
Again, this international occasion
impresses me with the fact that woman
is competent for political government
when God calls her to it. Great fears
have been experienced in this country
that woman would get the right of suf-
rage, and as consequence after awhile
woman might get into congressional
chair and perhaps after awhile reach
the chief magistracy. Awful! Well, bet
ter quiet your perturbations, as you look
across the sea, in this anniversary time,
and behold a woman who for 60 years
has ruled over the mightiest empire of
all time and ruled we'll. In approval Of
her government the hands of all nations
are clapping, the flags of all nations
waving, the batteries of all nations
booming. Look here! Men have not
made such a wonderful success of gov
eminent that they need i'be afraid that
women should ever take turn at power.
The fact is that men have made bad .
mess of it. The most damnably corrupt |
thing on earth is American politics after
men have had it all their own way in
this country for 12l years. Other things
being equal-for there are fools among
women as well as among men-I say
other things being equal, woman has
generally keener sense of what is right
and what is wrong than has man-has
naturally more faith III God and knows
better how to make self sacrifices and
would more boldly act against intern
perance and the social evil, and worse
things might come to this country than
a supreme courtroom and senate cham
Der and a house of representatives in
which womanly voices were sometimes
heard. We men had better drop some of
the strut out of our pompous gait and
with little less of superciliousness
thrust the thumbs into the sleeves of
our vests and be less apprehensive of
the other sex, who seem to be the Lord g
tavorites from the fact that he has made
more of them. If woman had possessed
IN influential and controlling vote on
Capitol hill at Washington and in the
English parliament, do you think that
he two ruffian and murderous nations
If the earth could have gone on until
his time with the butcheries in Ar
nenia and Cuba? No The Christian
nations would have gone forth with
,read and medicine and bandages and
military relief until Abdul Hamid
would have had no throne to sit on, and |
Veyler, the commanding assassin in
cuba, would have been thrust into a
,rison as dark as that in which they
murdered DR.. Ruiz. l am no advocate {
or female suffrage, and do not know i
whether it would be best to have it, but {
point you to the queen of Great Britain '
nd the nation over which she rules as /
roof that woman may. be politically
ominant and prosperity reign. God s
ave the queen, whether now on the 1
hrone in Buckingham palace or in s
ome time to come in American White {
louise. 7
And now pray God that day after l
the uncertain skies of Eng {
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