The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-01-23
Comments of the Editors ON the Death
of Queen Victoria and Access
sion of Her Son.
TRIBUTES TO A GREAT WOMAN
OPTIMISTIC VIEWS OF THE FUTURE
UNDER EDWARD VII.
How the News Was Received i'm Con-
tinentaI Cnpitals-Sympathy in
Germany and France.

LONDON, Jan. 22-Al the morning pa
pers appear In heavy mourning borders.
with editorials eulogistic of the dead Queen
and recalling the leading events and char
acteristics of her reign. Few political ref
erences as to the future are made. The
Daily Mail says: 1--WE can but regret that
the Queen not permitted to see the
end of the South African struggle. She
has been taken from US in a dark hour.
which, we may hope, is a prelude to the
dawn. and when we can i'll spare her ripe
experience and her knowledge OF meas
ures and men,
Let us think of her this morning" says
the Daily Chronicle, ''by her highest title.
not by her crown and scepter, but by her
own magnificent and splendid ideal of wom-
anhood. This is what touches a heartcore
OF proud and imperial race. We have
lost mother. wife and queen"
The Daily Chronicle remarks that Presi-
dent Mckinley was slightly premature in
sending a communication Ito his Majesty
the King" inasmuch as the Prince of
Wales has not yet been proclaimed by the
Privy Council.
The Daily Telegraph publishes two edi-
torials under the captions THE Queen"
and 1.-The King" In the latter it 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
He assumes the burden OF his imperial
task equipped with all the invaluable ex-
perience which the most painstaking dis
charge of great duties could secure him
during the lifetime of his august mother.
So accustomed have we become to his d.
rect, personal patronage of every charity
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
or the people a popularity that has been
vouchsafed to few of his predecessors"
THE confidence inspired by her personal
character" says the Times, enabled Queen
Victoria, on many times, to use her IN
innate knowledge with effect in smoothing
the rugged places of International rela-
tons, in modifying a policy which,
through sheer inadequacy of information,
would have led TO undesirable friction.
We have also to thank the Queen for in
fiuence of the most potent kind consist
emily and vigorously used to enforce pro-
gressive ideals of social and personal vir-
tues. of religious faith and of Christian
life"
referring to the intellectual upheaval
and the enormous social and economic
progress which characterized the Victorian
era, the Times expresses regret that the
impetus has to some extent spent it
self lat the close of Victoria's reign,
continues the Times, I'VE find ourselves
somewhat less secure of our position than
we could desire. somewhat less abreast
of the problems of the age than we ought
TO be. considering the initial advantages
We secured"
The Standard, expressing regret that the
Queen was not spared to see peace re-
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for which she strove and prayed has yet
TO come, and the hope is not perhaps Wis
fonary that the common grief of Britons
and Afrikanders may abate those racial
animosities which stand in the way d
pacifcation."
Referring to the conspicuous success Of
Queen Victoria's reign. The Standard says:
There was a time when republicanism
was serious phrase on English lips. To-
gay no whisper of discomfort with the
monarchical constitution breaks tie
mourning of loyal nation around the bier
OF the sovereign. 1t will be said OF her
in the annals Of our land that she strength
ened the throne by loving the people. ard
that she was a great Queen and the
n other of Kings because she was a good,
noble and true-hearted woman. 1t is i'm
possible that one SO closely bound by ties
Of natural affection to the Queen as the
Prince of Wales has been should not have
been her confidant, and in some cases her
adviser in weighty public matters. Even
IN our sadness IL is possible to predict
that the scepter passes to hands which
have been proved worthy of exalted
trust"
The Daily News says that Queen Vic
toria was always a peace maker. It re-
fers to the incident of her modifying in
a pacific sense Lord Russell's 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 feelings of pain to so many hearts"