The age-herald., 1901-01-23
THE ENGLISH PRESS
 ON VICTORIA'S REIGN

London, January 22-An the morning papers appear in heavy mourning borders, with editorials euloglstic of the dead Queen and recalling the leading events and char acteristics of her reign. Few political ref erenees as to the future are made.
 The Daily Mail says:
 We can but regret that the Queen was not permitted to see the end of the South African struggle. She has been taken from us in dark hour which, we may hope, is a prelude to the dawn, and when we can i'll spare her ripe experience and her vast knowledge of measures and men.
 Let us think of her this morning." says the Daily Chronicle. "by her highest title, not by her crown and sceptre, but by her own magnificent and splendid ideal of wo- manhood This 1t is which toucnes the hearts core of proud and imperial race. We have lost mother, wife and queen."
 The Daily Telegraph publishes two edi- torials under the captions: 'The Queen," and 'the King" In the latter 1t says:
 Most happily for him he has, with in- finite credit to himself passed through a period of probation in some ways more difficult and certainly more prolonged than that to which any successor to a throne in modern times has been subjected and he assumes the burden of his task equipped with all the valuable experience which the most pains taking discharge of great duties could secure him during the life time of his august mother.
 "So accustomed have we become to his direct, personal, patronage of every char ity and every beneficial movement, many of which he initiated himself, that we are apt to forget the exhausting nature of the strain almost daily imposed upon his strength. He has won among the masses of the peo- pie popularity that has been vouchsafed to few of his predecessors.'
 "The confidence inspired by her personal character, says the Times, "enable Queen Victoria on many times to use her intimate knowledge with effect in smoothing the rug sed places of international relations or In modifying a policy which, through sheer inadequacy of information, would have led to undesirable friction. We have also to thank the Queen for influence of the most potent kind consistently and vigorously used to enforce progressive ideals of social and personal virtues, of religious faith and ot Christian life."
 Referring to the intellectual upheaval and the enormous social economic progress which characterized the Victorian era, the Times expresses regret that the impetus has to some extent spent itself"
 AL the clOSe or NlcCOrla re1Bn, con- tinued the Times. i've find ourselves some- what less secure of our position than be could desire, somewhat less abreast the problem of the age than ought to be. con- sidering the initial advantages we se- cured"
 The Standard, expressing regret that the Queen was not spared to see peace re- stored in South Africa, says: "The end for which she strove and prayed has yet to come and the hope is not perhaps vis- ionary that the common grief of Britons and Afrikanders may abate those radical animosities which stand in the way of pacfication."
 Referring to the conspicuous success of Queen Victoria 8 reign, the Standard says: There was a time when republicanism was a serious phrase on English lips To- day no whisper of discontent with the monarchial constitution breaths .. the mourning of a loyal nation around the bier of the sovereign. It will be said of her in the annals of our land that she strengthened the throne by loving the peo- ple and that she was a great Queen and the mother of kings because she was good noble and true-hearted woman.
 Tt is impossible that one so closely bound by ties of natural affection to the Queen the Prince of Wales has been should not have been her confidant and, in some cases, her adviser in woighty public matters. Even in our sadness it is possible to predict that the ceptre paSe 10 hands which have been proved worthy of exalted trust"
 The Daily News says that Queen Victoria was always peacemaker. It refers to the incident of her modifying in pacific sense Lord Russells dispatch in the Trent case
 The Morning Post thinks that the great distinctive feature which marked the reign of Victoria was religion.
 Never" 1t says, "did the departure of one soul cause such deep feeling of pain to many hearts,
 The Daily Chronicle remarks that Presi- dent Mckinley was slightly premature In sending a communication to His Maesty, the King" in asmuch as the Prince of Wales has not yet been proclaimed by the Nrix