St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1897-07-24

of her government the hands of all
nations are clapping. the flags OF all
nations are waving. the batteries Of all
nations are booming. Look here! Men
have not made such . wonderful sue
cess of government that they need be
afraid that woman should ever take .
turn at power. The fact Is that men
have made . bad mess of it The most
damnably corrupt things ON earth il
American politics after men have had
it all their own way in this country for
12l years Other things being equal,
for there are fools among women -
well as among men-I say others
things being equal, woman has gem
orally . keener sense Of what is right
and what is wrong than has man-has
ma turally more faith in God. and knows
better how to make self-sacrifices, and
would more boldly act against intem-
perance and the social evil, and worse
things might come to this country than
supreme court room and . senate
chamber and . house Of represents
tives in which womanly voices were
sometimes heard. We men had better
drop some of the strut out of our
pompous gait and with . little su-
perciliousness thrust the thumbs into
the sleeves of our vests. and be
less apprehensive of the other
sex, who seem to be the
Lords tavorites from the fact that He
has made more of them. II woman
had possessed an influential and con-
trolling vote on Capitol hill at Wash
ington and in the English parliament.
do you think that the two ruifian and
murderous nations of the earth could
have gone on until this time with the
butcheries in Armenia and Cuba? Mol
The Christian nations would have gone
forth with bread and medicine, and
bandages and military relief. until the
Turks have had no throne to sit
on. and Weyler, the commanding
assassin in Cuba would have
been thrust into . prison -
dark as that in which they murdered
DR.. Ruiz. am no advocate for female
suffrage, and do not know whether it
would be best to have it; but point
you to the queen Of Great Britain and
the nation over which she rules rs
proof that woman may be po-
litically dominant and prosperity
reign. God save the queen, whether
now, on the throne in Bucking-
ham palace.
And now I pray God that day after
tomorrow, the uncertain skies of En-
gland, SO economic of sunshine, may
pour golden light upon all tho scene.
and that since the day when, in West
minister abbey, the girlish queen took
in one hand the scepter, and in the
other the orb of empire, there may have
been no day % 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 q throne in Heaven, and
as the doors of the eternal palace are
swung open, may the question of the
text sound in her enraptured ears:
"What wilt thou, Queen Esther?"
But rs all of US will be denied at-
tendance ON that sixtieth anniversary
coronation, invite you. not to the an
coronation itself-aye. to two corona
tions. Brought up rs we are, we love
as no other form Of government that
which is republican and democratic,
we. living on this side of the sea, can
not SO easily As those living on the 9th
er side of the sea, appreciate the two
coronations to which al up and
down the Bible you and
are urgently invited. Some Of
you have such morbid ideas OF
religion that you think of it rs going
down into q dark cellar, or out ON .
barren commons. or - . dagellation;
when. SO far from . dark cellar, it is q
palace, and instead Of . barren COM
mons it is a garden, atoss with the
brightest fountains that were ever
rainbowed, and instead Of aagellation
it is coronation. but . coronation Mt
terly eclipsing the one whose sixtieth
anniversary is now being celebrated.
1t was . great day when David,
the little king, who was large
enough to thrash Goliath. took the
crown ut Rabbah-a crown weigh
ing talent of gold and encircled with
precious stones-and the people shout
ed: Long live the kingw 1t was Z
great day when Petrarch. surrounded
by IL patrician youths, clothed in scar
let received from . senator the laurel
crown, and the people shouted: Long
live the poetr' It was . great day
when Mark Antony put upon Caesar
the mightiest tiara of all the earth,
and in honor Of Divine authority Cesar
had it placed afterward ON the
head of the statue of Jupiter
Olympus. 1t was . great day
when the greatest Of Frenchmen
took the diadem Of Charlemange and
put it on his own brow. It was . great
day when. about an eighth of . mile
from the gate Of Jerusalem. under I
sky pallid with thickest darkness, and
on a mountain trammelcd of earth
quake, and the air on FIRE with tn,
blasphemies of . mob, crown o
spikes was put upon the pallid sut
agonized brow of our Jesus. But thai
| particular coronation, amid tears and
blood and groans and shivering cata'
clysms, made your own coronation pot
sible.
Jesus shall reign wherees the sun
Does His successive journeys run
His kingdom stretch from shore TO shore.
| Till suns shall rise and set no more.
Let every creature rise and bring
u Peculiar honors TO our King.
| Angels descend with sones again,
\ And earth repeat the loud Amen