Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1897-06-26


Great Britain. They played in child
hood on the banks of the Thames Or the
Clyde or the Shannon. Take from my
veins the Welsh blood and the Scotch
blood, and the streams q my life would
be shallow. Great Britain is our
grandmother.
We. have read in the family records
that without our grandmother consent,
her daughter, our mother, left home and
married the genius of American indie
pendence, and for awhile there was bit
ter arrangement, but the family quar-
rel has ended and all has been forgiven,
and we shake hands every day across
tho seas. At this queenly anniversary
our authorized 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 Dc Quincy, our John
Milton, our John Wesley, our John
Knox, our Thomas Chalmers, our Bish-'
op Charnock, our Latimer, our Ridley,
our Walter Scott, our Daniel O'Connell,
our Robert Emmett, our Havelock, our
Henry Lawrence, our William Z. Glad
stone, our Queen Victoria. Long live
the daughter CT the Duchess of Kent!
A Long Reign.
Again, this International occasion
impresses 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 the right of suf-
rage, and as consequence after awhile
woman might get into congressional
chair and perhaps after awhile reach
the chief magistracy. Awful Well, bet
ter quiet your perturbations, as you look
across the sea, in this anniversary time,
and Behold a woman who for 60 years
has ruled over the mightiest empire of
all time and ruled we'll. In approval of
her government the hands of all nations
are clapping, the flags Of all nations
waving, the batteries of all nations
booming. Look here! Men have not
made such wonderful success of gov
eminent that they need be afraid that
wlmen should ever take turn at power.
The fact is that men have made bad
mess of it. The most daninably corrupt
thing on earth is American politics after
men have had it all their own way III
this country for l2l years. Other things
being equal-for there are fools among
women as we'll as among men-I say
other things being equal, woman has
generally keener sense of what is right
and what is wrong than has man-has
naturally more faith i'll God and knows
better how to make self sacrifices aud
would more boldly act against intem-
perance and the social evil, and worse
things might come to this country than
q supreme courtroom and senate cham
Der ard Ecuse of representatives III
which womanly voices were sometimes
heard We men had better drop some OF
the strut out of our pompous gait and
with a little less of superciiiousness
thrust the thumbs into the sleeves of
our vests and lie less apprehensive of
the other sex, who seem to be the Lords
,favorites from the fact that he has made
more of them. If woman had possessed
an influential and controlling vote on
Capitol hill at Washington and in the
English parliament, do you think that
the two ruffian and murderous nations
of the earth could have gone on until
this time with the butcheries in Ar
menia and Cuba? 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 i'll
Cuba, would have been thrust into
prison as dark as that in which they
murdered Dr. Ruiz. am 10 advocate
for female suffrage, and do not know
whether itwould be best to have it, but
l point you to the queen Of Great Britain
and the nation over which she rules as
proof that woman may be politically
dominant and prosperity reign. God
save the queen, whether now Oh the
throne in Buckingham palace or in
some time to come in American White
House.
And now 1 pray God that day after
tomorrow the uncertain skies of Eng
land, so economic of sunshine. may pour
golden light upon all the scene, and
that since the day when in Westmin-
ster abbey the girlish queen took i'll one
hand the scepter and i'll 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 vi
sions CT the future, and when she quits