Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1897-06-24


there was bitter estrangement. But the
family quarrel has ended, and all has been
forgiven, and we shake hands every day
across the seas.
At this queenly anniversary our author
lied 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 Bishop Charnock, our Lat
imer our Ridley, our Walter Scott, our
Daniel O'Connell, our Robert Emmett,
our Havelock, our Henry Lawrence, our
William L. Gladstone, our Queen Victorial
Long live the daughter of the Duchess Of
Kant!
Again, this International occasion im-
presses 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 5he right Of suffrage, and as a
consequence, after awhile, woman might
get into congressional chair, and, perhaps
after awhile, reach the chief magistracy.
Awful Well, better quiet your perturba-
tions, as you look across the sea, in this
anniversary time, and behold a woman
who for go years has ruled over the might
lest empire of all time and ruled well. In
approval of her government, the hands of
all nations are clapping, the flags of all
nations waving, the batteries of all ma
tions booming. Look here Men have
not made such wonderful success of gov
ernment that they need 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 121 years. Other things be-
ing equal, for there are fools among
women as well as among men-I say other
things being equal, woman has generally
a keener sense of what is right and what
is wrong than has man-has naturally
more faith in God and knows better how
to make self sacrifices and would more
boldly act against intemperance and the
social evil, and worse things might come
| to this country than supreme courtroom
and a1senate chamber and q house of rep
resentatives in which womanly voices
were sometimes heard.
We men had better drop some of the
strut out of our pompous gait and with q
| little less of superciliousness thrust the
thumbs into the sleeves of our vests and
be less apprehcnsive of the other sex, who
| fo I,o bn p1Ic forpy.itDc fpo,fN ho
fact that he has made more Of them. If
woman had possessed an influential and
controlling vote on Capitol hill at Wash
ington and in the English parliament, do
you think that the two ruffian and mur-
derous nations of the earth could have
gone on until this time with the butcher.
les in Armenia and CubaS No! The
Christian nations would have gone forth
with bread and medicine and bandages
and military relief, until Abdul Hamid
would have had no throne to sit on, and
Weyler, the commanding assassin in Cuba,
would have been thrust into prison az
dark as that in which they murdered Dr.
Ruiz. 1 am no advocate for female suf
frage, and do not know whether it would
be best to have it, but point you to the
| lUCCu VI bIeuU oIllttlu UD6
over which she rules as proof that woman
may be politically dominant and prosper
ity reign. God save the queen, whether
now, on the throne in Buckingham pal
ace, or in some time to como in American
White House.
And now pray God that day after to.
morrow the uncertain skies of England,
so economic of sunshine, may pour golden
light upon all the scene, and that since
| the day when, in Westminster abbey, the
girlish queen took in one hand the sceptel
and in the other the orb of empire, there
may have been no day so happy as that
one in which she shall this week receive
the plaudits of Christendom. May she be
strengthened in her aged body to ride the
whirlwind of international excitement and
her failing vision be illumined with bright
memories of the past and brighter visions
Of the future, and when she quits the
throne of earth may she have a throne il
heaven, and as the doors of the eterna
palace are swung open, may the question
of the text sound in her enraptured ears
"What wilt thou, Queen Esther?"
| Two Coronations.
But as all of us will be denied attend
ance ON that sixtieth anniversary corona
tion invite you, not to the anniversary
of a coronation, but to coronation itsel
aye, to two coronations. Brought up al
we are, to love as no other form of gov
ernment that which is republican ant
democratic, we living on this side of the
sea cannot so easily as those living on the
other side of the sea appreciate the two
coronations to which all up and down the
Bible you and l are urgently invited
Some of you have such morbid ideas of re
ligion that you think of it as going dow1
into dark cellar, or out on barren com
mons, or as fiagellation, when, so fal
from dark cellar, it is palace, and in
stead of barren commons it is a garden
atoss with the brightest fountains that
were ever rainbowed, and instead of flag
ellation it Is coronation, but coronation
utterly eclipsing the one whose sixtietf
anniversary is now being celebrated. Il
was great day when David, the little
king who was large enough to thrash Go
liath took the crown at Rabbah-a crown
weighing talent Of gold and encircleG
with precious stones-and the people shout
ed, "Long live the kingw 1t was great
day when Petrarch, surrounded by Il
patrician youths clothed in scarlet, re
ceived from a senator the laurel crown
and the people shouted Long live the
poetn 1t was great day when Marx
Antony put upon Caesar the mightiest
tiara of all the earth, and in honor of di
vine authority Caesar had it placed after
ward on the head of the statue of Jupiter
Olympus 1t was q great day when the
greatest of Frenchmen took the diadem ol
| Charlnn auna and nnt il ON his own lrn1r