The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-07-14
ENGLAND VS.. AMERICA

Fifth of England was, perhaps, the
most spectacular and dazzling exhibit
modern times. 1t We'd in magnifi-
cence and splendor with the recep-
ton given the Queen of Sheba by Sol
onion, where the very throne he sat
on was inlaid with pure gold, and the
utensils of his table were of the same
metal, and precious stones sparkled
from every conceivable corner and
crevice of his palace. 1t recalled Gle
opatra's reception in the palace of the
Caesars, where the trophies of the
world were shown to do her honor.
Everything was done that was pos
sible to be done to make the corona
ton ceremonies of King George and
Queen Mary a dazzling, imperial pic
ture. Lovely women, gowned in
silks, satins and jewels, driven in
snowy equipages; men, regal in
their costumes, decorated with eppau-
lettes and plumes and with SNOWY
orders on their breasts, were mar
shaled into requisition to impart
splendor and impressiveness to the
occasion.
"Dusky sultans, Indian satraps, ne
grOid potentates from the furthest
corners of the earth, the fateful vel
low men-a mighty and cosmopolitan
cohort. instinct Of the wealth and
puissance of the ordered governments
of the worldF-all were there"
< How different from this was the
Inauguration OF Thomas Jefferson as
president of the United States. JEFF
ferson was the author of the "Declar-
alton of independence" which stated
the grievance of this country against
King George the Third.
When Jefferson took the oath of Of
flee to administer the affairs of this
country for the welfare of its people
there was no pageantry, no gegaws
of any sort. He rode up to the CAPT
toll on horseback like a plain country
gentlemen, hitched his horse to one
of the pickets of the fence, which
then surrounded the capitol, walked
in, took off his hat, and with raised
hand, in the presence of a judicial Of
ficer, subscribed to the oath of office,
and the ceremony was at an end
The government "of the people, for
the people, by the people," was re-
garded as an experiment in govern
ment, yet see how firmly it has been
rooted in the affections and loyalty of
a great people.
This country has grown as no other
country has done since the establish
ment of Adam and Eve in the Garden
of Paradise. Yet it is not in its mate
rial growth that its splendor lies.
There is no building of modern times
that can compare with Solomons
temple nor the palace of the Gaze
sars. No city, perhaps, is as large
as London; no city so beautiful as
Paris; but the beauty and grandeur
of America is the feeling of indie
pendence that strengthens and ami
mates her people. 1t dominates their
every impulse and is the warp and
wool of their daily life. Here there
is an Unborn feeling in every man
that he is as good, as free, as indie
pendent as every other man, and that
he is entitled by nature and natures
God to the same things that they are,
and if he is ambitious he aspires to
them and has right to do so. Every
man here feels in his breast that he
is a sovereign and he regards every
woman as a queen.
We laugh at the idea of the divine
right of kings" Here we hold that
the inherent right to rule lies in the
people. That every man was fashion
ed in the image of his maker, and,
other things being equal. is as good
as every other man.
The fiashiness and showiness that
surrounded the coronation of the
king OF England we fam believe
amounted to very little in the eyes
of sensible people, for the reason that
the people have grown as wise as
kings. and it requires stronger meat
Ito feed them on than the emptiness
of show
The World correspondent, who wit
messed the gaudy pageantry, sounds
this note:
But there was one vital, all-essen-
tial element missing-the Unborn note
OF sincerity and enthusiasm, without
which all the elaborate symbolism
and display became mechanical and
meaningless. 1t is the twentieth
century we live in, not the twelfth. 1t
was magnificent. but archaic; a glow
ing and glistening pantomime devoid
OF all practical relation to the reali-
ties OF the life We live today"