The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-25
QUEEN V|CTOR|AS BIRTHDAY
CELEBRATED IN BUTTE
Men Of All Nations Joined to Do Honor to England's
Monarch-Stars and Stripes and Britains Flag In
Observation-Disclosures the Auspices Of the Sons
Of st. George Eloquent Addresses
Were Made.

am honoring in addition one of Gods
noblest images, a compeer and compa-
triot of Queen Victoria, one whose love
for her country's ruler has never les
from her native land. Eighty years ago
to-day from Kensington palace was
given to the world Princess Victoria,
while down in lovely Devon's glades
and dells, in a home less pretentious,
though stronger in affections ties than
the palace of any of the worlds mon
archs, from a family of sturdy Britons
who for upwards of 200 years had held
the same homestead, came into this
world-my motherhood bless her. Do
you wonder when / say the day has to
| me double significance?
But. Mr.. POSTMASTER, the pleasing
| duty is not mine to deliver a panegyric
on Queen Victoria, although I cannot
/, as an American forget the debt of graf
| itude we, and all who love our country,
| owe to Queen Victoria.
II have the honor to acknowledge the
| toast The President and the United
| States and in responding to the senti-
| ment / am not unmindful of the fact
that in the dark days of the early SOS,
when the notes of the bugle, calling our
| country's sons to help her in her hour
| of peril, were heard all over this land
| when disruption and disunion We're i'm
minent and the courts of Europe were
| thronged with emissaries of the South
| pleading her cause, with some of these
| courts already acknowledging confeder-
! acy and others awaiting England's ac-
| tion--in an administration partially
| hostile to this country, Victora's stand
was firm and positive in our favor; and,
! my friends. the question is problemati-
cal; had her position been otherwise.
| would there tonight be an United
| States to toast Therefore say, Hail,
| Victoria, to you every true American
| owes debt of gratitude
| Mr.. Toastmaster, while appreciatin
| the honor I feel your committee has
| erred in their selection when asking
| your humble servant to respond to the
! toast The President and the United
! States; either Of the sentiments pre-
| sent field so large, so great and so
| grand that Demosthenes could
| scarcely do them justice.
| For me to dwell or recall the bene-
| fits that come with citizenship in the
| United States would be like stating the
goodness of an Almighty God. The APP
| parent and self-evident truths have
(, become to such an extent an integral
| part of our national and social fabric
| that 1t would take a mind much more
| able than mine to convince, and
tongue much more eloquent than
| possess to bring out anything that is
| not as familiar to you as the very A
| B c of our earliest education Yet
/ familiar as is this priceless boon, we
I should not, by reason Of it's Familiarity
: abuse 1t in any way, but rather guard
i 1T with jealous care and leave it as a
i heritage to our posterity, bright and
/ Nntarnished. The natural American is
| captlous and critical; the president Of
| the United States as well as the most
| humble officials in it's service, is the
target for shafts of criticism, but in
the hour of peril, we thank God all feel
lngs OF this nature are forgotten, and
when our honor and dignity are as
sailed. we know no North, no South,
no East, no West but millions of true
Americans are always ready to give
| the hearts blood in defense of the SEN
! timent to which I ask all who can re-
spond to rise, while ! toast The Presi-
dent of the United States.'"
DR.. Albritton made very eloquent
address in eulogy of the president He
ended by expressing the view that
England and America together can
whip the world.
Henry Mueller proposed the toast of
Queen Victoria He said
"Mr. Chairman: A gathering of this
character is ample proof of the fact
| thai no matter what our nationality or
| that of our ancestors, we, as citizens of
| the United States, do not forget the land
| of our nativity. The turning for an
hour toward the scenes of childhood and
reviewing pleasant memories of home
does not in the least detract from our
loyalty to the land of our adoption.
| What, after ALL are racial distinctions
in this free country? Here we realize
to its fullest extent the fact that no
| matter how we have divided into tribes
| we are all descended from the grand
old gardener and his WIFE Adam and
| Eve. To illustrate that we are broth
ers-as representative of the German
! oil ANT T how paCt
| to your feast in celebration of the ami
versary of the queen of England, and
| to me has been assigned a most. gra-
| cious task. Let me here remark that
| the selection is not so inappropriate as
it might seem at first glance. for you
will remember that his majesty, the
| emperor of Germany, is the grandson
| of the good lady whose merits we have
| assembled to honor. He may not be
| as good as his grandma. but he is a
| pretty bright young fellow and no one
| will accuse him of not having due
appreciation of his own qualities. This,
| however is not the emperors day, but
| that of the old lady.
at is neither my duty nor inclination
| to eulogize the queen; that will be bet
| ter done by others, but ! can say that
| all over Christendom to-day her name
| will be spoken, coupled with words that
| show the esteem in which she is held
| nor allOSetne1 DIS Tie sovereign OF a
| nation, but also as priestess of her home
and a beautiful type and example of
| true womanhood. Mr.. Chairman. l toast
| Victoria, queen of Great Britain and
| empress of India
| The toast was responded to by Pro-
| fessor A. C. Newill. He spoke of Vic
| toria as a queen, denying that she is
mere figurehead. He spoke of her also
as one of the noblest women that ever
lived. He spoke of Victoria as wife
and as a widow-the weeping queen.
| God Save the Queen" was then sung
| by all assembled.
| Rev. S. c. Blackiston in neat speech,
| proposed toast to the Sons of ST.
| George. The response was feelingly
| made by Mr.. William Robinson
Education" was the subject of the
| next toast, responded to by r. L. Gin
ton. He said:
Ladies and Gentlemen: Eighty years
ago TODAY, in merry old ENGLAND wa c