New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-09-30
A GREAT QUEEN GONE.

II was only the other day that the worln WIS
called upon to greet with mingled chvalry ana
affection the advent of fair young queen mo
tho ougnst circle of potentatcs and powers. TO
dav II Is summoned to offer tribute OF respect
ond NJ rerret at the bier Of Queen who de-
parts from that circle forever. laden win years
and mourned as not more than one othcr vi All
the company would he. Not Queen In nor own
right. but merely the consort OF Nihg ana
Queen not of q great State, bur OF one o' 'ho
smollest-though most ancient and most hohor-
able-in all Europe. she filled great pace III
thn worlds history. and she leaves such va
concy as courts have not known for man!
wear. THE Mother-ln-Law OF Europe, shc
used to he called in jest. She was all ana more
than all that the term suggests. And to-day IN
tho death of Queen Louise of Denmark all Eu-
rope Is in peculiar sense bereft
Tho sources of hor distinction were several
First in order we may say she was king
maker and king preserver. We have said she
WAS not Queen in her own right She might
have been. for she was heir TO the throne. But
she chose voluntarily to pass her title on to her
husband and thus make him King. II was she
who by her courage and tact and ndomtablc
will nut him and kept him upon the throne and
revolution. Stones from the mob might smash
ralace windows and even hruise her fnce: her
will was not TO he moved by such devices.
Next let us say she was tho mother OF note
worthy family. One daughter is Princess 81
Wales and will be Queen and Empress OF M"
worlds greatest realm Another has been En-
press and is now DowaCer Empress OF All the
Russias The third is the wife of King who
is kept from his kingdom only by superior
physical force. Of her three sons one will sue
coed to the Danish throne. one Is King Of the
Greeks and one is married into tho most ia
nous non-regnng royal family In the world
Tho last Emperor Of Russia was her son-in-
law and the present Emperor is her grandson.
Another son-in-law will he. and after him n
grandson will be, King of England and Empcr-
OF Of India One grandson is brOher-inlaw TO
the German Emperor You may say that is tho
result of shrcwd matchmaking. 1t Is not. II Is
more truly the result of bringing mp family
well and making her children physically, men
tally and morally the flower of European
royalties.
Rcyond all these things she had. moreover.
this title to affection and respect. that she used
her enormous family influence always on the
side Of peace and right. and not infrcquenily
did so in great emergencies and TO most bcncfi-
cent effect We're the inner history Of Europe
written for the last thirty years 1t would he
aeon that more than one war Of world shaking
MAGNITUDE has been avertcd ny n family council
nj Fredonsborg The Queen was more than
cirhiv-one years old. hut down to only n few
weeks AGO she actively maintained her infu-
once in tho troubled politics Of the Continent,
tbc t\yplypmOuth
dcstnes Of great empire and turned its
courses away from war To peace. Every inch n
Queen in the mOst queenly sense OF the word
and every inch a true woman In IN" irucst ana
most womanly sense Of that word. the world
has seen few sovcrcisns better entitled to CRATE
full remembrance than Louise of Denmark.