The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-06-30
PROUD DAY FOR VICTORIA.
Five Millions of People Shout For
England's Queen.

don Tuesday. At least five millions Of
people saw the great pageant in honor
of the Queen of England's diamond
jubilee. Nothing So. elaborate in the
matter of processions had ever been
witnessed in the great metropolis.
The programme was carried out from
start to finish without a flaw, and it is
almost miraculous that the day passed
without mishap of any moment.
In the parade the United States rep
resentatives attracted special attention,
and they were accorded distinguished
marks of favor on the part of her Ma
jesty.
The Queen bore the fatigue of the
journey remarkably well. She APP
peared to enjoy greatly the homage OF
her loyal subjects, and took keen in
terest in all the striking features Of the
great demonstration.
The weather was perfect. 1t was
cloudy in the morning but, there. was
sunshine from the time the Queen
emerged from the palace gates, and the
temperature was just warm enough to
be pleasant.
DEPEw PICTURES THE SCENE.
Dr.. Chauncey NJ. Depew has written
for the Associated Press his impress
siOns of the jubilee, rs follows:
"The diamond jubilee procession has
passed and has left a lasting impress
sion. Its preparation required sixty
years and was over in sixty minutes
Pride, power and alteration were its
characteristics. Pride in the imperial
position of Great Britain in the world,
and an exhibition of power which in
spires this national exaltation and
fervid loyalty in action, expression and
thought for the Queen.
DRAMATIC AND HISTORIC.
"As TO the pageant, it was dramatic
and historic. The Lord Mayor, in his
robes of Office, meeting the sovereign
at the city gates, recalled the early sug-
gestion of liberty, in privileges won
from kings by free cities, and the
Sheriff, in medieval costume, escort
ing the monarch within his bailiwick,
gave glimpse Of the origin and recog-
milton of civil rights by the throne.
ALL DEMONSTRATIONS SURPASSED.
"The monarch, escorted by princes
and guarded 10y the military forces of
the realms, both regulars and volun-
teers, national and colonial, evidenced
the strength and permanency of the
monarchial system with this people.
"We, Americans, glory in our eoun-
Try, uII,i in II zs----~ei>'ss. -dss,slaP.aente
in hundred years and duly assert our
selves on the fourth Of July. The eele-
brations by the Germans on the twen-
ty-fifth anniversary Of the battle of
Sedan and the founding of the German
Empire, which saw, was wonder
ful exhibition OF race and national
feeling.
'But the concentrated and irrepres-
sible JOY and pride which preceded, ae-
companied and followed the Queen
like a resistless torrent surpassed any
thing ever witnessed before. Though
many races and many tongues partici-
pated, the dominant, absorbing ex-
preston was English, and the glory
was England's.
"Peers and Commoners, masters and
workmen, millionaires and the multi
tude were welded by a tremendous
forces. This concentration of loyalty
from the remotest corners of the earth
into one wild frantic mass of patriotic
enthusiasm had an effect upon Ol'serv-
ors which can be likened to nothing 80
much as to the North and South elec-
trified by the first gun fired at Fort
Sumpter, or by the Seventh Regiment
marching down Broadway to the de
fense of the capital.
LOYALTY MADE MANIFEST.
''The enthusiasm and shouting were
far different from those evoked by the
triumphal possession of Roman con-
aueror. Men and women eagerly ex
pressed to each other, and emphasized
to foreigners, as the Colonials march
ed by, that they were not captives
chained to the chariot of their con-
queror, but willing subjects, free citi-
zens of one worldwide empire, follow
ing their sovereign
"White, yellow and black soldiers
trooped by, each accelerating and in
creasing the tidal wave of enthusiasm
and presenting panorama of power
unequaled in history. Tne seeds of
this power were in the American revo-
luton, an1 it expanded into this won
derful spectacle by the principles of
selfgovernment so triumphantly vim
dicated by the founders of the United
States.
"The sovereign and the British states
men who believe the colonies should
be governed from London and taxed
for the benefit of the mother country
lost for England the American colo
nies, and the sovereign and statesmen,
taught by our success, who have left to
each settlement absolute independence
and home rule, have built upon these
foundations and vastly strengthened by
this reunion the British federation of
empire.
AMERICANS NOT JEALOUS.
"Among the American spectators
there was no jealousy nor stinct OF
praise and applause. We could both
glory in the vitality and virility of the
mother country and rejoice nightly.
We were not marching in the process
sion, but we were present as the proud
equal in all that constitutes a free peo-
pie and great nation.
at was pleasing to note our neigh
bors of Canada. They easily took the
lead among the colonials. The fact
that the Province of Quebec was in re-
bellion when Victoria came to the
throne and that her Premier, now here
is a Frenchman and a Catholic, ap'
pealed to English imagination.
THAT the descendant of Montcaln
and his eountrynen should vie with
the children of Wolfe and his soldiers
i'm their loyalty, and that Canada has