The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1902-08-15
lessons OF THE CORONATION.


King Edward VII was crowned with
due pomp, pageant and ceremony last
Saturday. The crnwning of the king
was according to the medieval custom
in every detail, with all its tedious
forms, and is a very costly and useless
pageant that has come down from
semi-barbaric times. The world viii
stuff off this nonsense some day, and
kings, kingdoms and cOrOnations viii
be thing Of the past
The browning has its lessons. The
king was not yet fully recovered from
what might have been a fatal illness;
the archbishop of Canterbury, who
performed the ceremony in that his
tOric pile, Westminster Abbey, was
feeble and trembling with age and al
most blind He mumbIed the prayers
aud hesitated in the ceremony; and
in putting the crown on the kings head
got it hind side before, nearly faints
and had to be supported as he left the
throne.
The whole thing was characterize l by
feebleness, and historically considered
was fhind side before" and docking
backward to a system that has long
ago outgrown its usefulness. The
world progresses, the old is forgotten
in the contemplation of the new. The
Creator hath said: behold, I make
all things newt" and Paul anticipa-
ting this, said: I'VE look for a new
heavens and a new earth, wherein
dwelleth righteousness" Kings, king
dOms and erOwniugs are anachronisms,
and are like the old, taUdry, lumber
ing royal coach used on the occasion
drawn by caparisoned horses led by
grOoms compared with a Pullman pulled
by the steed of fire and steam-out of
date. The whole regime totters to
its fall, like the aged prelate, only for
timely and friendly support.
The press reports that some of the
duchesses attending the coronation
got their jewelled coronets on crook
ed, and that an American peeress.
Lady Stafford, let the baubIe stay on
the slant. The fact is the whole bevy
''gOt the things on their heads crook
ed Their ancestry were little better
than robbers by land and sea, and the
landed and titled aristOcracy are to
this day an incubus upon the British
body polite Millions Of dollars an
nually are wrenched from the Door,
the toilers Of England, to support the
nobility in luxury, extravaganza and
idleness- 1t is a system that should
pass away and has no warrant in eoui-
ty for its existence.
At this great @all fools day" parade
Americans made the greatest show"
The following American titled femi
mines are mentioned: The duchess of
Observation-Disclosures Vanderbilt
Of New York; Lady Duferine-Miss
Dayies-Of New York: the countess of
Oxford-Miss Corbin-of New York:
the dOwager countess Cora OF Stafford
Mrs. Colgate-of New York: Lady
Deerhurst-Miss Bonynge-of San
Francisco; Lady Gray Edgerton-Miss
May Cuyler-of New York: the count
ess Of Essex-Miss Grant-of New
York; the countess Of Craven-Hiss
Brady Martinez New York. Others
are mentioned but this is a sample
Of those whose pas money has bought
a title with the eneumbrance of a de-
generate lord and rotten burough. ,
Aristocraey, either titled or monied,
is an evidence Of national old age.
The vanity Of these things is evident.
The one great event-death-happen-
eth to all The king and the peasant,
the millionaire and the pauper. the