The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-03-23
QUEEN WEARS THE GREEN |
Enthusiastic Celebration of Sham
rock Day.
HER VISIT To DUBLIN,
Ireland and the Shamrock Now Mo-
nop,lizing the Attention of
London People.

London, March 17.-Shamrock day
promises to vie with Primrose day in the
hearts Of the people, judging from the
enthusiasm with which, for the first time
in the history of the nation, Loyalists all
over the United Kingdom are celebrating
and everywhere the green is conspicuous.
From Windsor castle where the Queen
observed the day by wearing a sprig of
genuine four-leaved shamrock, to the
east end Of the sluns of London,
where the ragged urchin glories in
his morsel OF green weed, nearly
everyone sports something in the shape
of I; green favor. a word from her ma
disloyalty into Il badge OF honor and has
made the shamrock the most priced OF
all the plants in the British isles.
BY the Queens order the bills in the
curfcw tower of Windsor castle, honored
st. Patrick this morning; Irish airs
played by the Grcnadiers enlivcned the
Queens luncheon, and on London's man.
with the Union Jack in the upper corner
and Il crowned harp i'll the center Of
green field, as distinguished from the
Irish flag which bears the harp without
the union or crown. The street vendors
have done a roaring trade with flags,
buttons. clover. moss spinach, bits of
green ribbon, etc. Houses and stores
lavishly display green flags and bunting,
and Irish soldiers and sailors showing
special pride in wearing the national en-
blem.
Great Britain Irritated.
London, March 17-Between the lines
of the politely-Worded editorial comments
on President McKinlpy'S expression of
Willingness to aid i'll the restoration of
peace between Great Britain and the
Roer republics can be discerned many evil
dences of an inward irritation which the
less responsible public does not hesitate
to outwarlly express, while even mem
bers of the government privately display
piuue that Of all the powers America
should have consented to assume what
one official designated as the "ungracious
role OF suggesting some form Of inter-
ference, to which he added this express
sion: "Englishmen cannot help contrast
ing the perfect correctness OF the attitude
of openly unfrendly France with the Of
fer OF the United States, which, if it had
come from less disinterested source,
could only have been regarded as all I'M
friendly act"
There is no doubt that the overturcs
of the United States, even through care,
fully worded. have Srnsbly irritated
Great Britain as q whole, while circles es-
pccially friendly to the United States ex.
press open regret at the opportunity Of
fcred to critics to compare the refusal
Of NJ. Dclcasse. the French minister of
foreign affairs. to crafty the hostile SEN
timent i'll France by making proposals to
Lord Salisbury which were sure of rejec-
ton with what they testify call the ''in-
reference" of Washington, and which.
though only tentative and clothed i'll
words of perfect friendliness and
courtesy came at an inopportunc mo-
ment, when the supreme self-sufiiciency
of the British empire is the predominant
ing feeling of the day. Everywhere one
hears expressions of satisfaction that
while the answer to the proposal was
clothed in words of perfect courtesy, the
language of Lord Salisbury in "brush-
ing aside President McKinley's proffer
was so extremely definite as to kill all
possibility of repetition of the offers
from any source, unless those proposing
them are DESTROYS Of being recognized as
openly antagonistic to this country.
No Outside L. terference.
Emphasis is laid on the fact that Great
Britain declared at the outset her I'M
willingness to consent to any outside in
reference, and therefore, as. according
to the well-established principle of in
ternational law that the right of inter
vention is conditional on the willingness
of both parties to the quarrel to accept
the good offices Of q mediating power,
such interference was, in this case, out
side the bounds Of diplomatic POSSIBLE
ties and gave Lord Salisbury full justi-
fication for his 'retort Courteous
Outside the interna tional politics., Ire
land and the shamrock largely monopolize
the attention Of London. The internecine
strife in the Nationalistic ranks engen-