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Show BRITISH LOYALTY. " We are told that imperialism was the one thing most emphasized in the coronation ceremonies of ' Gecrge and Mary. We suspect that was true. .But rlutJmpcrialisitt.wa&iuten atalye that most of the correspondents fell down. It waa not the imperialism of the new king and queen, but that of Great Britain. Some fighting ; chiefs with their followers made England a limited lim-ited monarchy 1000 years ago. They picked out a king and erowned him. He was a king in name, but was really about what the president of a great eornoration is in the United States. He presided and signed the more importwt vouchers.. He was succeeded by other kings for 130 years, when a .really great king ascended the throne. While working in conjunction with the directors he was superior to them all and by hia influence put the cf-rporation on a sounder basis and . introduced progress into the handling of the corporation. This was Alfred. There were more kings and queens ' for 170 years, and then one appeared who waa dis-, dis-, posed to ignore the interference of the directors and to run things his own way. The directors submitted submit-ted for . brief space; then they drew np a new charter for the company which made the president, practically, a mere figurehead, aud taking it to him requested, him to sign it. He demurred at first, but they told him they had eoneidered seriously what was best for the best interests of the com-pajuy, com-pajuy, aad again requested him to sign. Something iq the tone of the request had "its effect, for he knew that they were all fighters, and he signed, and though when he got back t his own apartments he cursed Limself, the directors and the wholo world, It did not matter. The new charter gave the real government of the kingdom to the stockhold-ers stockhold-ers through such a board of directors aa they might elect - Then there were other kings and queens ' fot 400 years. Some of them were great and some , of them prejuted their prerogatives pretty far, but the stockholders submitted, until finally a king was crowned who determined to atill further encroach npon the rights of stockholders. Then one of the smallest of those stockholders called a meeting of tha company; the business of the eompany was fully discussed; then this small stockholder went with the others to Whitehall, took this king and cut off his head. Since then there .haa been no mis-understanding. mis-understanding. The president of the company is given certain prerogatives within which he may make any kind of a display j the atockholders tup-ply tup-ply the money and help him celebrate any kind of a function, but they handle the property all the same It was on of those displaya which was wit-. wit-. nessed on Thursday. While the people were celebrating cele-brating their king 'a position, they were really cele-b:-stiug their own power. And costly aa it was it was cheap and a most economical expenditure of funds, for the world that was looking understood that the imperialism presented waa not that of a frail king aad queen, but the unmeasured might of the British people. So every one of the 60,000 soldiers sol-diers in line understood it; so did every bluejacket who was in that august procession. And if in the ' days to eome those soldiers and sailors are called upon, the thought behind every one of. them will . ' , bv that It ia for the glory, the honor and the power, ' aot of George and Mary, but of native land that they are standing guard, and they will not falter; for that corporation haa their full confidence; it has never in all the thousand yeara since it was fr.rmed dons anything in restraint of trade, and haa always paid honest dividends, and while it is backed by the growing power of a thousand yean, it is, at the same time, surrounded by the hereditary heredi-tary love of a thousand years, until British loyalty hss become a part of Britain's very life.' asaaaaaaasssssaaaaasasaasajana |