The San Francisco call., 1897-06-22

OF his neiehbor. ! happen TO know that, be-
cause am Dutchman and because we Ameri-
cans have learned that same idea from the
Eng glish, and when the time came we applied
II. The Victorian era viii be always kD own as
marking The beginning OF a time when the
human race was beginning to understand that
It's liberty depended upon the absolute equal
ity of all religions moral agents ior the
moral happiness of mankind.
You Will understand that 1000 years were
necessary in order to make the Victorian era
possible.
The womanhood of the illustrious Queen
was the result of the glorious development of
English Liberty and English religion IN her
favored land.
If Britannia was made possibility by the
grand and magnificent character of Queen
Victoria, she made 8 possibility by the
illustrious manhood of the English nation.
The colonizing instincts of the English is the
result OF the mingling of blood in the English
race. So the manhood of the English race was
made possible by the Saxons Danes and Puri.
tsns and the Nelson's and Wellingtons.
The Victorian era is therefore from the
standpoint OF history the crowning lesson to
show the world that civilization, liberty and
manhood form trinity against which moth
It is proper that this illustrious woman
should be the central igurehead in that mag
niheent era OF history.
ted States Senate the treaty of arbitration be-
tween all nations which speak the English
tongue viii become grand reality before the
twentieth century shall reach its prime.
The rabbi was spplauded again and
again at the conclusion OF his eloquent
address.
The other responses were: 1.-THE Woman
Victoria by Horace C. Plat; THE
Land We Live In" by Robert Balfour;
"The State OF California" by w. II. H.
Hart. in place of Governor Budd, who was
absent; The City OF San Francisco" by
Hugh Craig; "The Press" by Arthur
Barpnt; "0ur Cousin Beyond the Sea-"
By Henry E. Highton; Our City," by w.
S. Barnes.
The following poem was read by L. H.
Foote:
vICToRIA-REGINA IMPERATRIx
o Woman whose annals can never be torn
From the record of gland 5 renown;
How wisely and wel IN your day you have borne
The burdens Of scepter and crown
Tour hand on the pulse OF the people, you feel
] he throb that responds to your own;
Their Will is he will, and their veal is the veal
OF the Commons, the Lords and the Throne
EvolveI ty the fates and adjusted by time
The poiss of the nation is true;
Its future Is fixed and It's past is sublime,
And ITS glory is symb lied in you.
Not the prowess of England, the might Of her arms
Wherever her flag is unfuried;
But the slang OF her hammers the tilth Of her
Have won her the msrts Of the world
our reign has been marked by the triumphs of
peace.
Resplendent in letters and art:
that war and the rumors OF war may cease
Is the cry OF your woman's heart
Tyne of ali that is nobest in motner and wife,
We hail you, o Empress and Queeni
God save youi and grant that your autumn of
life
Be peaceful, benign and serene.
Professor Knowlton read an original
poem, of which the following is an ex-
tract:
Thus ruling ever as to God, high heaven hath
doubly
Crowned ner life From coronation unto jubuee
While Kings and Queens have come and gone. she
hath iulsd on.
She ruleth still. And, under her, with conquer
ing stride,
Britannia hath belted all the globe and in
Each footprint left a colony-a Nations germ.
glory high, renown imperial, he. gracious rule,
Surprising all hat went before, doth stand new
Criterion wbereby the world shall Judge al reigns
To come ana thence decide if they may claim TO
match
Her glorious epoch-our Victorian age.
Our overeign Lady and most gracious Queen!
Now
All happest auguries attendi And when, at
From highest pinnacle Of deathless fame she shall
Step, level, forth upon the golden floor of Heaven,
Ter dearest greeting shall be his, her ever-loved.
Her other self, Prince Consort, whom dfvtnest love
Exalted to a higher throne whereto he waits
To welcome her.
And while we pray that late she may
Return TO Heaven, in faith and hope she bides the
hour
When time shall end deaths long divorce and
usherin
Her blest eternity with him in Joys which far
Outshne earth's grandest rovai diamond jublea
Victoria reiSneth stilli
God savel
1he oueeni
Toward the end of the festivities Irving
NJ. Scott was called upon and responded
can ring of which was highly appreciated.
GeorDe r. BIomlev also mada an effectiva