The Saint Paul globe., 1897-06-27
THREE POINTS OF VIEW

1ue great prOCeSSlOn, IndI ndu lne
queen of England and empress Of In
dia as it's center and cynOsure, that
passed along London streets between
five million subjects Of her majesty on
the siXtieth anniversary of her cOro-
nation, was seen by three pairs Of
American eyes, and their impressions
Of the pageant were flashed across and
under the Atlantic for communication
through the press to American readers.
Three men of different temperament,
pursuits and training, novelist and
Twain, Miles and Depew, saw the
display, received it's impressions, each
getting them from his individual point
of view, each seeing in it the features
that his temperament and training
made most attractive. 1t is interesting
to note how precisely the same scene
impressed three men so widely differ
ent.
What they say is, in the MAN, what
one might expect such observers to say
The romance of it, the color, the imag-
cry of it all, appealed to Mark Twain.
The blocks Of soIdiery in red and blue
and buff and yellow, the varied hues
of their faces, ranging from the white
Of the English down through all the
intermediate shades to the black, some
Of these the very blackest people L ever
saw" the brown of the soldiers of In
dia, 1.-The most beautiful and satisfying
Of all the compilations that have been
vouchsafed to man." the panorama of
all the nations, caught the artists eye
and appealed to his temperament most
strongly. If the scene excited his imag-
ination, his humor was not wholly sub
dued and it flares out here and there,
as where he refers to the batch of for
eign princes, "thirty-one in the in
voice" and where, noting the presence
of Prince Rupert of Bavaria, the last
of the Stuarts, still esteemed their king
by English Jacobites he remarks how.
though ''the house of Stuart was sheIv-
ed two centuries ago." the 'microbe
Of Jacobite loyalty is not exterminabIe
by time, force or argument"
Gen. Miles saw only the element of
force, the soldiery, their accouterments.
discipline, uniforms, drill. England.
the empire, is to him merely its army.
Il confess what appealed to me more
than anything else in the wonderful
spectacle was the collection of troops
from every quarter of the globe, white
black, every hue, all showing great ef-
ficiency and uniformity of instruction
IN military movement The show
was witnessed by 100000 people
but ''the utmost good order nre-
vailed from the commencement of the
march to its Close His military sense
OF and education in orderly movement
was impressed with "the plan of ar
rangements, which twas carried
through with splendid precision. ."
! Where Twain saw color he saw "the
! quick, active movement of the Indian
! ., IL,
slender, sinewy, muscular, and Alto
! gether fine specimens of physical
strength" displaying great endurance
And the citizenry impressed him as
having good physical strength. so rud-
! dy, so we'll dressed" good material for
| soldiers, We doubt not was what he
most saw in them
Depew, the lawyer, public man and
man OF business, saw most in all dis
play Of the material wealth and
strength of England and it's dependen-
cies. I'VE Americans glory in orr
country and in its marvellous develon-
ment; the Germans gave "a wonderful
exhibition of race and national feeling,
at their twenty-fifth anniversary Of Sc
dan, '"but the concentrated and irra
pressible JOY and pride which preceded
accompanied and followed the ouaan
like restless torrent, surpassed anv.
thing ever witnessed before" The in
tense loyalty Of the many races and
tongues embraced in the empire is wba
he dwells upon with the panorama Of
! power" it presented. OF it's larger sig
nificance he says but little. For that
one must go back to the humorist. the
writer of amusing fiction Strange that
! Mark Twain and not Depew should
have seen the forces that had been
omitted from the display, but which
had made it all possible 1t is Glenn
ems who notes that, while "the pro-
cession stood for sixty years of prog
ress and accumulation, moral, material
and POLITICAL still 1t was the bene-
ficiaries instead of the makers of all