The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-01-31

thni court what " was and b. The ex-
ample of the domestic NE ut the queen
affected che nation. aud to htt influence
may bc put the extraordinary change
ln MANNERS and morality from isio 60
1890 with continuous rate of pro-
pr,fs thereafter
Tpnuysuu was the poet of her era
may other pus have as great ana good
% poet Tonnyson sang of his queen.
ono uf hls nicnd-u was the happy
privilege of the queen to have friends
and not courtiors uuly-in a strain
which shows her os the women, not the
Queen
Her office there TO rear to teach,
Becoming as Is meet and nt
\ link among the days, to knit
The generations each with each"
Queen Victoria fulfilled all that these
lines asked. She was "a link between
generations" and she did knit them
that is the best to them. Queen Victo-
ria's influence produced statesmen who
were not drunkards and gamblers and
generals who were not brutcs or venal
scoundrels. one has only to think Of
Gladstone and Disraeh, Salisbury and
Chamberlain, in comparison with Fox,
Pitt or Wall la, or Roberts in COM
parison with Churchill, Duke of MARI
borough to appreciate the difference.
/ Under Victoria the Englsh-speaking
world became better, purer, more
wholesome. TO have done this was to
have achieved the very highest honor.
1t was better than territorial great
ness, better than victory over all enc
mics. 1t was the victory of pure wo-
manhood over the dragons of vice
which surrounded her throne when she
first set step upon it, and which have
fled before her as her own patron saint
st. George is said to have sent them
| flying or better metaphor still like the
Lady in Comus before whom all the
"rabble rout" disappeared, touched and
/ frightened at the spotless purity which
could not be assailed.
The dead Queen has been an example
to the world. Her influence has been
felt in the palaces of Kings, and in the
huts of laborers. She never set herself
up to be more than she was a woman
Her position gave her exceptional OPP
portunities as a political force. She
used that knowledge for the advance
ment of her people, and for the good OF
mankind when she had the opportun-
ity, but more than all she influenced
and assisted a social regeneration which
half century hence will be the admir-
alton of mankind. Queen Victoria had
a phenomenal and brilliant reign but
she will be remembered in the centuries
to come as the Woman" of her age
She was a wife, a mother a widow
all of these phases of her life she
adorned, and as a true woman, eXem-
plified. Her greatest loss was the
death of her husband. During his life
the most traduced man, after his death
the most thoroughly appreciated mar
of the last century. The dead Queer
loved her husband with the true low,
of the true woman. How deeply sht
loved him, and how that love was un
derstood by Tennyson is shown in these
lines
May all love
His love- unseen but felt, oershadow
Thee,
The love of all thy sons encompass
Thee,
The love of all thy daughters cherish
Thee,
The love of all thy people comfor
Thee,
Till Gods love set Thee at his side
again!"
And the Poets wish has been fulfill.
ed. Sons daughters and people, aye
the people of the whole world have
cherished, comforted and honored this
admirable woman, and with all due
reference and humility we may hope
that Gods love has set her at lastNa1
the side of the faithful and loving hus,
band who had crossed the dark river
of death so many years ago and who
was awaiting on the eternal shore tc
welcome ''ViCtOria "a