New-York tribune., 1901-02-03
THE NEW WORLDS TRIBUTE.

"AI is over and done" All is we'll done. as
well as fell within the scope of loving. reverent
human power 10 do No tribute that could he
paid 10 woman and 10 Queen has been withheld
! The stateliest funeral pageant the world has
seen. with Princes and Emperors 10 hear the
pail and kingdoms and empires 10 mourn about
the bier. has conveyed all that was mortal of
Victoria 70 the last resting place. There has
been no false note. hut everything has been in
the true taste which genuine feeling dictates.
And vet we are not sure that the most impress
sive or rather the most significant, part OF the
great memorial was anywhere on the road from
Osborne 10 Frogmore. Rather may il well seem
10 have been in a fer distant land and city. and
under an alien flag.
No thoughtful observer could yesterday have
failed 10 be deeply impressed by the funeral
services held in this city and by the mortuary
tributes here paid 10 the Queen, They were
more noteworthy than those in Washington fot
those savored 70 some inevitable degree Of off
cial and diplomatic form, while these were
spontaneous and popular in the best sense or
the words These were by no means devised
bv and attended by people Of British allegiance
or of British birth. They were as cosmopolitan
as the city in which they were held. They
were not spectacular nor attractive 10 the mere
sensation seeker. but were marked throughout
with the solemn humility Of woe. They We're
an unexampled manifestation Of that human
nature which transcends all geographical lines
and political distinctions and makes the whole
world kin.
They were something more even than that.
In no other land outside Of the British Empire
would precisely such manifestation have been
possible. 1t was not only possible. but natural,
easy and inevitable here, in the land that was
ovoo a mart Of rha VritiSb vaaIfn and that LATER
fought against il in deadly strife. In this land,
cleft from the empire Of VictOria's grandsire,
representatives of all the lands Of earth have
been gathered and welded and fused into one
na:ion, and brought by the genius OF the race SO
into touch with the dominant element that all
are become in a measure Anglo Saxon in spirit
IL not in blood No one who witnessed il can
forget the scene which was presented in New
York yesterday. There was a church that was
built when George III was King. and King
over New-York as we'll as over London, and i'm
which for years prayers were regularly offered
for that sovereign. 1t a church. too. in
which George Washington worshipped as first
President OF the Republic which had been
formed from King Georges revolted colonies.
And now il was thronged 10 the doors with
citizens Of this Republic TO pay n last tribute
Of love and honor 10 the Queen who was the
ing were 70 be seen rich and poor alike and
young and old. There were those Of pure Eng
lish blood and those Of other races Celtic Gallo.
German, Italian. African Mongolian-a verita-
BILE worlds congress gathered in a far land in
homage 10 Yictoria's name
In that scene. It may well he thought the
worlds tribute reached it's most significant OK
preston. II was a tribute 10 the woman and 10
the sovereign as high could have been paid I'm
any land. 1t was a token not to be surpassed
elsewhere Of the substantial integrity of human
nature throughout the world. II was alsO-a
fact az once Of less and Of far greater moment
than these-a demonstration OF the strength Of
the bonds which, despite all changes and all
distances and all lapse Of time, unite in sym
pathy the great branches of the English speak
ing race. Victoria did much, inestimably much,
In her life and reign to promote the friendship
Of the two kin nations. In her death she has
sealed that work with a seal that will not be
broken.