New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-06-27
AUEPTCd AND THE JUBILEE.

. For the last week and more the British press
has been chiefly given up 10 chronicling ana
commenting on the Diamond Jubilee It's tone
NAV readily be imagined 1t has been one OF
videspread satisfaction of deep thanksgiving.
of high exultation For all such expression there
i amplcst warrant Never before in the history
az British Journalism or Of the British EN-
ure was occasion more apt. Never before was
occasion so well improved. From first to latest
the great commemoration has proceeded with
out single hitch or anything to mar its beauty
and macnificence When last weeks BrltlSn
papers come to hand they will be found almost
mOpotOnous i'm their pTans and panegyrcs. Dul
il will be a mcnotony easily understood ana
hardened Comparatively few OF their utter
ances have been transmitted hither by cable
Those that have been may be regarded as an as
sured earnest of the whole
Among these latter easily the most note
worthy is passage from the great organ Oh
British Conservatism, THE London Standard
which was quoted in The Tribune's cable news
on Friday Commenting on the generally
friendly tone Of the foreign press and pubic. IL
said: AS far as the Americans are concerned
1--WE believe they are almost as pleased ana
''proud as though the Jubilee were their own.
That is a strong saying, but not an lnJuuicious
one 1t may well be believed to be entirely true
ponular interest in the Jubilee in the United
States has been unprecedented. 1t has pre-
vailed in all parts of the country ana among
"all sorts and conditions of men. II has Deeh
so uniformly and unequvOcally friendly that
such few exceptions as there have been nave
served merely to emphasize its genera! charac
ter For this no special merit Is TO be CANNED
II Is entirely natural Nor is it fact contrast
ing with the British attitude toward America
For obvious and sufficient reasons, British aHec
zion toward America is not so strong as Ameri-
can toward Great Britain. Yet II Is strong, ana
has often been made manifest in most gratii!
inc manner: and we doubt not that to-day If
the conditions were reversed. the British would
TO paraphrase The Standards words, be al
most rs pleased and proud over our Jubilee as
though il were their own.
For these two great branches of the Anglo
Saxon. or English speaking. race are bound TO-
pether hy ties no man nor any vicissitudes OF
human eyocriencc can sever II Is easy TO talk
Of George III and the wrongs his Government
inflicted upon the Thirteen Colonies. Ihose
things belong TO history. But history does not
shane present life nor control living hearts. Inc
story of Waterloo does not hold Britain and
France apart nor that O? the Crimea unite them.
Sadowa and Veuetia did not prevent the Irlpie
Alliance nor the march to Moscow preclude the
fates of Cronstadt and Touon. Such things
are facts. but not perpetual factors. Americans
will not forget Bunker Ill., but neither VIII
they forget the stock from which sprang Wash
ipgtop and Hamilton. and Lincoln and Grant.
They will not forget Lord North and the Ala
bama. but neither will they forget the Earl OF
Chatham and John Bright. They will read and
reread the Declaration Of Independence. but SO
will they read Shakespeare and Scott and Spen-
Ger They will rem aJnber the burning Of Wash
ington. but they will also remember that mes
sage OF British captain 10 Spanish general
.'If YOU put another American to death Will
lombard your town.
Yes: Americans are pleased and proud at the
Jubilee Of the Queen who has always been Their
fricnd-wh just twenty years ago last week
received their great General and ex-Presdeh'
at Windsor with cordialiy kings and en-
pcrors might vainly covet-and OF the great
Empire Of which their own Republic Is an of
shoot. In that they arc guilty of no lack OF
PATRIOTISM no failure of republiCanlsin or iru'
Americanlsm. He would be "A narrow minded
Brton who, seeing the greatness OF America
did not feel thrill Of pride in saying THAT Is
the Nation which we Britons planted" Equally