The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-06-19
QUEEN VICTORIA.

Tomorrow, Queen Victoria COM
pletes the sixtieth year of her reign.
From one end of the civilized world
to the other, services will be held
commemorative of this event, and
from thousands and ten thousands
of pulpits will the various events of
her reign be touched upon and les
sons drawn for the future guidance
of millions of lives. AS for the
newspapers, and the magazine arti-
cles dealing with the event, their
name is legion.
There is probably no corner of
the earth where there will not be
some recognition of this illustrious
sovereign, save in the very depths
of African and South American for
ests. Wherever civilized man
dwells the day will be recognized.
To have gained the hearts of their
own people is an attribute common
to many monarchs. 1t does not
take sixty years to win and to lose,
for the matter of that, the apprecia-
ton of the tickle populace, but to
have over-stepped those bounds and
to have gained the hearts, the re-
spect and the appreciation of the
whole civilized world is to have
done something that no monarch
has ever done from the dawn of his
tory to the present time.
And what is it that has caused
the Queen to have gained this pos
ition? Is it the immense material
progress of the kingdom she rules
over, the expansion of the merchant
marine, the trade which sends the
red ensign into every port in the
globe, the great economical discov-
cries which have enabled her sub
jects to pile up wealth as Pelion
upon Ossa? No. Is it the great
Colonial expansion which has ena-
bled the British race to expand
more rapidly than any other race
on the face of the globe, which has
added state after state to be ruled
by the same sceptre and has brought
millions of Asiatics under her sway?
Again, No. Is it that great navy
in which all who call themselves
Britishers take so much pride, which
gives to the nation sense of pow
er and an ability to overawe its
neighbors when the necessity arises?
In point of fact is it that great nat
ional prosperity which has enabled
Britons to count themselves among
the very foremost nations of the
earth? Yet again, MOI Such things
may command respect, but they do
not command the love of all man
kind, They call forth the jealousy
of other nations, they cause friction
even where their very greatness
commands admiration and in some
directions they inspire the greatest
race hatred and feud. 1t is not
these that have made Victoria THE
monarch among monarchs of the
age to receive the love and homage
of all mankind.
What is it, then? We can cast
aside the columns upon columns of
of praise for material welfare, the
countless magazines and books that
sing such praises of her reign and
come to the true woman. This it
is that people, no matter of what
nationality or kin, can and do ad-
mire in spite of national jealousy
and commercial pickering. Oneen
Victoria stands out in history as
beacon light for all that is beauti-
full and good and for success in
advancing social purity and good |
living. One has only to contrast
the state of Society sixty years ago
with the state of Society now to see
how great has been the quiet inhu-
ence of this good woman. Read |
Thackeray's -Four Georges" and |
see the rotten cesspool in which her
ancestors wallowed, with their
painted harridans of mistresses and
THAR disgraceful orgies. Like the
Lady in Comus, Victoria appeared |
upon the scene and the "rabble
rout" took flight. The nations
join the British in honoring their
Queen because they admire and love
the WOMAN rather than the MON
ARCH, and doing so the Republican
can justly unite with monarchist in
doing honor to her, who, by touch
of nature, has made the whole