Show MR LEPEWS VIEWS OF THE JUBILEE Event Has Left a Lasting Impression Im-pression PRIDE POWER AND ADORATION THESE WERE THE CHAKACTER ISTICS OF THE GREAT EVENT Prrcration For the Jubilee Required Sixty Years and it Was Over in Sixty Kinutes Pageant Dramatic and Historic Victoria Will Occupy Oc-cupy a Great Place in the History of the Nineteenth Century London June 22Dr Chauncey M Depew has kindly written for the Associated As-sociated Press his impressions of the jubilee He says The diamond Jubilee procession has passed and has left a lasting Impression Impres-sion Its preparation required 60 years and it was over In 60 minutes Pride however and adoration were its characteristics char-acteristics pride in the imperial position po-sition of Great Britain in the world and exhibition of power which inspired this national exultation and fervid loyalty In action expression and thought for the queen As to the pageant it was dramatic and historic The lord mayor In his robes of office meeting the sovereign at the city gates recalled the early suggestions of liberty in the privileges won from kings by free cities and the sheriff in mediaeval costume and escorting the monarch within his bailiwick baili-wick gave a glimpse of the origin and recognition of civil rights by the throne The monarch escorted by princes and guarded by the military forces of the realms both regulars and volunteers volun-teers national and colonial evidenced the strength and permanency of the monarchial system with this people We Americans glory in our country ana in its marvelous developments in a hundred years and duly assert ourselves our-selves on the Fourth of July The celebration by the Germans on the twentyfifth anniversary of the battle of Sedan and the founding of the German Ger-man empire is a wonderful exhibition ex-hibition of race and national feelings But the concentrated and irrepressible irrepressi-ble joy and pride which preceded accompanied ac-companied and followed the queen like a resistless torrent surpassed anything ever witnessed before Though many races and many nations participated the dominant and observing expression was English and the glory was Eng lands Peers and commoners masters and workmen millionaires and the multitudes were welded by a tremendous I tremen-dous force i The enthusiasm and shouting were far different from those evoked by the triumphal procession of a Roman conqueror con-queror Men and women eagerly expressed ex-pressed to each other and emphasized to the foreigners as the colonials marched by that they were not cap tives chained to the chariot of the conqueror con-queror but willing subjects free citizens citi-zens of one worldwide empire following follow-ing their sovereign White yellow and black soldiers trooped by each accelerating and increasing I in-creasing the tidal wave of enthusiasm and presenting a panorama of power unequalled In history The seeds of this power were on the American revo tnH lr nrrnded into this wonderful won-derful spectacle by the principles of so tnumynantly vindicated vin-dicated by the founders of the United States The sovereign and the British statesmen who believed the colonies should be governed from London and taxed for the benefit of the mother country lost for England the American colonies and the sovereign and statesmen states-men taught by our success who have left to each settlement absolute independence inde-pendence and home rule have builded upon those foundations and vastly strengthened by that reunion the British Brit-ish federation of empire Among the American spectators there was no jealousy nor stint of praise and applause which we could both glory In the vitality and virility of the mother country and rejoice mightily We were not marching in the procession but we were present as the proud equal in all that constitutes a free people and a great nation It was pleasing to note our neighbors neigh-bors of Canada They easily took the lead among the colonials The fact that the province of Quebec was in rebellion when Victoria came to the throne and that her premier now here is a Frenchman and a Catholic appealed to English imagination That the descendants de-scendants of Montcalm and his countrymen coun-trymen should vie with the children of Wolfe and his soldiers in their loyalty and that Canada has made a beginning by favoring Great Britain as against other nations In her tariff have touched both the British heart and pocket I can conjure no tribute like the popular ovation to the queen ever being given to any human being be-ing except the reception to Washington Wash-ington by the people on his way from Mount Vernon to New York to assume the position of the first president of the United States Respect reverence love or gratitude are words too tame and there is no intermediate expression between be-tween them and adoration This practical age does not worship but leaving out the idol of divinity the days greeting to the queen and empress em-press is its equivalent That she was deeply moved was evident but she seemed more absorbed by the significance signifi-cance of the event than conscious of her part Therein she impresses me as proud and happy with this grand tribute of her people but at the same time sharing with them the universal joy in the thought of both oppressed and elevated that there has not been such joy in the thought of both on pressed and elevated that there has not been such a 60 years in recorded time that all nations have enjoyed its benefits and blessings and none more than our own But for this day and place the crowd only saw what Great Britain has gained during her reign and accorded praise therafor to her Her reign has been a period of emancipation emanci-pation In English history The preioga tives of the throne have diminished and by her rule and conduct Its Power has so Increased that this welcome came with such acclaim and unanimity from the free people governing themselves them-selves who gave It Us might and majesty Making due allowance for the exaltation ex-altation of the hour Victoria will occupy oc-cupy a great place In the history of the 19th century Her influence for peace has been of a momentous consequence con-sequence to Great Britain Europe and civilization She has always been cordial in her friendship and anxious for the loftiest relationship with the United States Her messages sweet tender and womanly to the widow of Lincoln and the wife of the dying Garfield gave her a warm welcome and a permanent memory in our American houses In estimating her influence w must picture what might have occurred oc-curred with a warlike or corrupt sovereign and recognize in her cowec the accumulated force of 60 years of wisdom as a ruler and as the best example ex-ample as woman wife and mother |