THE MOKNING- OUEGONTAN, FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 1900.
VICTORIA IN LONDON
Demonstrations Outdid Those
of Jubilee Day.
CELEBRATION OF THE VICTORIES
The Queen' (i Drive Throusrh. the City
Marked by Scenes of Un
bounded Enthusiasm.
LONDON", March 8. Queen "Victoria and
the people of the greatest city In her
Empire today celebrated the victories
which they believe have transformed the
campaign In South Africa from one of
reverse to one of success. That Is the
only explanation of the unbounded, un
paralleled enthusiasm with which hun
dreds of thousands hailed their sovereign.
In many ways these demonstrations out
did those of the Diamond jubilee, although
there were no glittering pageants, no tri
umphal arches, no procession of Princes,
but only a dozen Life Guards, followed
by a little old lady in the plainest black
costume, who had come for a few days
stay at Buckingham Palace, as she has
done many a time before. Yet her hold
upon the hearts of her people was prob
ably never more strikingly manifested.
Unlike that of the Diamond Jubilee, to
day's popular outburst was almost im
promptu. The fierce pride in the strength
of a mighty empire that pervaded Lon
don's exultation when the Queen last
drove through the streets in 1897 had van
ished, and in its place there were genuine
thankfulness and rejoicing for the vic
tories -which had succeeded months of
gloom. The depth of feeling -which this
demonstration represented could only be
gauged by those who mingled with the
crowd. Mothers In deep mourning for
sons killed on the faT-off veldt struggled
bravely with the most hilarious to catch
a glimpse of the Queen, -whose womanly
sympathy and thoughtfulness for the sol
diers had touched their hearts. Often
the long, cold vigils were rendered futile
by tears that dimmed the eyes and blurred
the vision as the royal carriage passed.
As one very old woman said, "I've seen
her many a time, but she said she -was
sorry for my boy, and I must see her
agai before I die."
Thousands braved the raw east -wind
and stood for hours waiting patiently who
have often seen the Queen, and who, in
ordinary circumstances, would scarcely
budge to watch her pass. Among those
were many personal friends of the sov
ereign, for example, the Countess of
Brownlow, a great friend of Victoria, and
a favorite at court, who sat on the curb
shirerlng for hours -with the crowd out
side Buckingham Palace. In short, it
was notfso much a desire to see the mon
arch as it was an overwhelming need of
an outlet for Jubilation over the war and
a natural inclination to let the Queen see
and share the gladness of her people, that
prompted London spontaneously to make
today one of the most memorable celebra
tions of Victoria's, reign.
It was quite different from the mad re
joicings that marked the relief of Lady
smith. Rowdyism was conspicuously ab
sent, although the crowds reached such
proportions that the number of police
would have been quite Inadequate had the
people been obstreperous. Moreover, In
termingled with the -rejoicings of patriot
Ism, there was a particularly keen appre
ciation of the Queen's personality, her
womanliness, her great age. This little
touch of reverence for sex, rather than
for sovereign, rendered the huge crowds
tractable in the hands of the good-naturad
police, and It was not a hard task to In
duce them to surge back, and to make
way for the royal carriage. When the
Queen of Great Britain and Ireland and
"Empress of India did pass nodding, as it
to many friends, Instead of bowing with
royal restraint, there echoed under the
roar of cheers many heartfelt expressions,
such as "God bless, her," "God keep her."
"She's a brave woman," and scores more
like them. It was small wonder that now
and again tears of Joy rolled down the
cheeks of the aged sovereign.
Stood tbe Fatljyue "Well.
The semiofficial duties undertaken by
the Queen during the day would have tried
the resources of many women under 81
years of age. Starting early from Wind
sor by train, she reached the metropolis
shortly after noon. Until she reached
Buckingham Palace there was never a
moment of quiet. Cheers spread along
her route like prairie fire. Previous to
her arrival. Lord Roberts, General Buller
and other heroes of the war had monopo
lized the lung power of the waiting crowd,
and such crowds were never seen in Lon
don even on Jubilee day. Whenever a
soldier or a sailor appeared he was al
most mobbed, so anxious were the people
to show Its patriotism. The staid equip
pages of nobles, that never before wero
guilty of displaying anything more start
ling than a crest, were gay with colored
streamers. Every house along the route
to the palace made some attempt at deco
ration. When the hoarse volley announced
the royal approach, children and women
were hoisted on the shoulders of men. The
art students at Kensington, male and
female, as on Ladysmith day, were again
to the fore, bareheaded and singing patri
otic songs, while throughout the medical
students In large bodios-led' the cheering
and singing.
The scene on the quadrangle of the
palace after the Queen's arrival when
Lords and Commoners Joined in singing
the National anthem, was unprecedented
and will probably never be repeated dur
ing the present reign. Viscount Cross and
Mr. Chamberlain acted as spokesmen,
and graciously greeted the royal visitor;
but it was to Lady Buller that the Queen
quickly turned with a grateful smile.
Then. In the presence of the legislators
of the United Kingdom, drawing the wife
of the reliever of Ladysmith closer to her.
she whispered words of thanks.
After scarcely three hours of rest, Het
Majesty made a tour of the city proper,
amid the greatest enthusiasm. It is Im
possible to estimate the extent of the
crowds through which she passed before
returning to Buckingham Palace, but the
members were well up In the hundreds of
thousands. After It was all over, and
while a cheering crowd of 10,000 people still
hung outside the palace, the Queen dined
with the Prince and Princess of Wales,
the Duke and Duchess of York, and the
other members of the royal family. The
Prince of Wales had been absent during
the day, owing to the sale of the late
Duke of Westminster's racehorses at
Klngsclere, but the Princess had come
in for a large share of the ovations.
In response to a message from the Lord
Mayor this evening. Sir Arthur Bigge
the Queen's Private Secretary, wrote:
"Her Majesty is not fatigued, and she
Is much gratified and touched by the loyal
and enthusiastic reception accorded her
through this afternoon's drive."
As the evening advanced the crowds In
creased, red fire was burned, and the
whole concourse took up "God Save the
Queen." Then came blue lights and the
strains of "Rule. Britannia" making th
park ring. This was kept up until a
balcony window was opened, and one of
the royal party, believed to be the Prince
of Wales, appeared. After a vociferous
outburst, he disappeared, and then the
crowd. broke up. and demonstrations such
as have not been seen in London Jn many
years came to an end.
The Qu-een'rt Arrival.
The Queen reached Paddlngton Station
about 12:.X) o'clock today, and proceeded
under a cavalry escort to Buckingham
Palace. Throughout the demonstration
there predominated a note of triumph, and
the cheers that mad the murky streets
ring Werc almost as much in honor of the
British victories in South Africa as they
were'trlbutes of a loyal people to a mon
arch whose womanly sympathy has been
so strikingly shown since the war be
gan. The royal party's departure from. Wind
sor was marked by more than usual In
terest. For hours before the Queen start
ed for London, crowds gathered in tha
streets which had been announced as her
route through the metropolis, and which
were decorated with flags. It was foggy
and cold, but no one seemed to care.
At Paddington the station had been
cleared of the general public, but outside
thousands of people waited patiently.
When the train from Windsor arrived, a
tremendous cheer went up. Her Majesty
came down the platform leaning on the
arm of an Indian attendant, and entered
an open landau, in which also sat Princess
Henry, 'of Battenburg and Princess Vic
toria, of Schleswlg-Holsteln. They all
wore black. From the packed sidewalks
and from every available window came a
continuous roar of cheers, while hundreds
of little flags were waved all the way to
Buckingham Palace. The side street
were packed, 10, 20, and sometimes 103
deep.
But it was around the palace itself that
the chief throng gathered. By 9 in tho
morning, carriages, cabs and vehicles of
every sort, people from the City and tho
West End, and distant parts of the coun
try congregnted In St. James's Park,
which the palace fronts. By noon It was
estimated that 50,000 people were gathered
about the palace, patiently waiting. There
were hundreds of police on hand, but they
had little difficulty In keeping the crowd In
order and opening passages for the peo
ple, the members of the House of Com
mons and members of the household, who
were alone privileged to pass the great
railings that shut off the palace. Those
not fortunate enough to get near the
palace Itself climbed up trees, brightening
the bare park with . flags. The women's
dresses, which were unusually gay, also
enlivened the scene.
Shortly'after noon the Duke and Duch
ess of York drove Into the courtyard and
received an ovation. Mr. Chamberlain,
Secretary of State for the Colonies, Joined
the distinguished throng in the courtyard,
unnoticed. As time passed the crowds
outside grew more dense. Then, from
Constitution Hill came the dull roar of
distant cheers, and the cry, "She Is com
ing," was passed from mouth to mouth.
Now the roar was taken up by those
within the precincts of the palace. Back
on their creaking hinges flew the great
gates and up went the royal standard. A
patrol of police went by, there was a
flash of steel as the Life Guardsmen and
outriders trotted through the gates and
then all hats flew in the air.
A mighty cheer arose and slowly there
passed a carriage, on the back seat of
which sat a little black figure, heavily
veiled, and nodding right and left. Still
nodding vigorously. Her Majesty passed
out of sight Into the quadrangle. There
the Peers and Commoners assembled, sing
ing "God Save the Queen." As Her
Majesty entered the palace, outside there
was pandemonium. Over the roadway
which had been kept clear for the car
riages, the crowds swarmed until It was
impossible for those near the railing to
move an Inch. Somebody started singing
"God Save the Queen," and half a mile
or more of people took up the strains.
Those who saw the queen unveiled, say
she looked remarkably well.
Visit to the City.
The Queen visited tho City this after
noon, reaching its confines on the Em
bankment opposite the Tempi steps at
about 4 o'clock, where she was welcomed
by the Lord Mayor and Corporation in
their robes of state. The Lord Mayor
presented Her Majesty with the city
sword of state. With a smile, the Queen
touched the sword and returned It to the
Lord Mayor, saying: "I thank you for
all that my City has done." to which
the Lord Mayor replied: "Your Gracious
Majesty's words will forever be treasured
in my heart"
Then the Life Guards trotted on, in pur
ple and ermine and gorgeous uniforms, the
Marshal and Sheriffs and Aldermen, with
the gold-laced flunkies and lumbering
state coaches left behind, and the somber
dressed Queen drove quickly along the
Embankment which was black with cheer
ing people. Accompanying Her Majesty
were the Princess Christian of Schleswig-
Holsteln and Princess Henry of Batten-
berg. The Life Guards trotted on through
the thoroughfares of tho City, which were
everywhere thronged. So quickly were the
horses driven that the crowds scarcely
had a chance to cheer before the con
stantly bowing monarch had passed out
of sight
By 5 o'clock the Queen, going by way of
Holborn and Oxford streets, had returned
to Buckingham Palace. It was a repeti
tion of the Jubilee drive, with the ex
ception that it was so hastily planned
that no attempts at decoration could be
carried out But considering the short
space of time it was astonishing to see
the number of flags which appeared along
the route of Her Majesty. Many Ameri
can flags were displayed by American
concerns. The whole metropolis assumed
a gala aspect Thousands of people wore
red, white and blue badges and flags while
a body of students who had marched to
meet the Queen singing "Rule, Britan
nia,", had Union Jacks wrapped around
their necks.
Buttons and medals of Generals Roberts,
Kitchener, Buller and White and others
found a huge sale, and khaki ties and
dresses were everywhere in evidence.
The crowd outside Buckingham Palace
had Increased shortly before midnight to
300.000, all singing patriotic songs. Finally
tho Prince of Wales and Duke of York
came upon the balcony and vociferous
cheering followed. A few minutes later
they disappeared, and then the Queen
herself, accompanied by several ladles,
made her appearance. This was the sig
nal for the; national anthem a perfect
roar of song, and for never-to-be-forgotten
cheers. The blinds of the palace were
drawn, but thousands remained to sing
and cheer.
BRINGS PEACE XEARER.
Roberts' Success Indicates the Begin
ning: of the End.
LONDON, March S. Roberts' success
yesterday, the best-Informed authorities
are satisfied, brings peace perceptibly
nearer. The experts anticipate that the
burghers will make no further stand west
of the Free State capital, and some of
them even deduce, from the fact that the
Boer forces are divided and have retreat
ed in different directions, that demoral
ization has set In, and that the Transvaal
forces will next be found carefully en
trenched In positions north of the Vaal
River, at which the bulk of the Free
Staters will abandon the contest and sue
for peace. Elsewhere the news indicates
that the conditions continue hopeful from
a British point of view, the telegrams
from Mafeklng alone showing any des
pondency. Lord Roberts telegraphs he has cap
tured a Krupp gun and a number of tents
and wagons. He also announces that Gen
eral Clements has occupied Norval s Pont.
A special dispatch from Moltcno says
that the British occupied Burghersdorp
unopposed last night
The Demand of Humanity.
Chicago Tribune.
According to General Davis, 75 per cent
of the males over 21 are rtually In a
state of abject poverty. "A few may own
a machete or a hoe, but more have no
worldly possessions whatever. Their food
Is fruit and if they are wage-earners a
little rice and codfish In addition." Hu
manity demands that they be given un
taxed food. No political party can suffer
by doing that
The Thrift of the Dutch.
Chicago Record.
The Dutch are a thrifty people. Many of
their leaders are millionaires. President
Krugers wealth Is estimated at J25.000.000.
Consequently, In the market of Europe thj
word of the African Boer Is as good as his
bond. Anything that he buys he can pay
for, and pay for In money.
CONTROL OF PHILIPPINES
GENERAL "WHEELER SUGGESTS A
TERRITORIAL GOVERNMENT.
Trade Possibilities In the Orient Ap
proaching Era of Unprecedented
Prosperity.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 8. General
Joseph Wheeler favors giving the Philip
pines a territorial form of government
Said he:
"I believe the people are ready for a
certain kind of self-government Thes
could be given the power to make laws,
under such a system of government as has
been adopted for our territories. The mu
nicipal governments are all in the bands
of the natives, and they get along without
trouble or friction. Under a territorial
form, the islands could be best con
trolled." He reviews his impressions of trade pos
sibilities in the Orient as follows:
"England. Russia, Germany and France
have braved war and pestilence in efforts
to secure a share of the wealth which will
come to them by commercial relations
with these peoples. The treaty of peace
cast upon us the responsibility of sov
ereignty over from 9,000.000 to 11,000,000 peo
ple, together with the islands which the
inhabit containing an area three times
that of our great and prosperous Empire
State.
"Very naturally, there may be honest
differences of opinion as to whether every
thing has been conducted during the two
years in accordance with the highest wis
dom and best possible judgment, but there
should be no question among the Ameri
can people as to the duty and wisdom of
now uniting in a determined effort to take
the situation as it stands, and so to con
duct the affairs of our country as to add
the most to its glory, honor, welfare and
prosperity, it Is a friendly struggle for
commercial supremacy in which our rival
nations are using their best efforts, and. I
say, let us, in a friendly but determined
spirit use our best efforts also.
"Our Pacific cities are now face to face
with the Eastern shores of Asia. The
Nicaragua Canal will bring our Gulf ports
nearer to them than those of the Atlantic
and Europe, With Manila as a great de
pot, steamers from that emporium could
reach the commercial ports of Eastern
Asia as readily as it can be done by Eng
lish steamers from Hong Kong. We must
consider that about one-third of the popu
lation of the earth is concentrated in the
Eastern half of Asia, and that these vast
multitudes are rapidly learning to appre
ciate the advantages, and, I might add,
the necessity of high civilization, and they
are also learning to realize the comfort
which Is enjoyed by the people of the most
civilized nations In the possession and
use of the products, manufactures and
mechanical developments which are there
found.
"Europe and America must purchase the
silks, teas, coffee, hemp, spices and prod
ucts of the handiwork of tho people of
the Orient and this Immense population
needs articles which American farms and
factories are producing cheaper and better
than those which are produced anywhere
else on earth. Cotton cloth, such as Is
manufactured in Southern cotton mills Is
needed by the people of the East to the
enormous value of four to five thousand
million dollars.
"England, with her navy, has ap
proached China by the sea, and has estab
lished firm footholds at favorable locations
on the coast France has- acquired posses
sions In Asia, which contain a. population
four times as great and an area nearly 10
times as large as that of our Empiro
State. England's dominions and depend
encies in Asia now extend over an area
of 1,600,000 square miles, and contains a
population of nearly 3OD,0O0,O00. Russia has
already in Asia territory exceeding in
area 6,000,000 square miles, and contain
ing over 19.000,000 people. Port Arthur,
the great commercial and war port is
firmly In her grasp. This gives Russia
a power over Corea, which will add much
to her strength. The completion of the
Trans-Siberian Railway and Its branches,
the opening of the Nicaragua Canal and
the annexation of the Pacific islands to
the United States will more thoroughly
revolutionize the commercial relations of
the world than has ever been done by all
other Influences combined during the last
three centuries.
"It seems to me that there is but little
limit to the possibilities which are before
us, and we are certainly justified in the
belief and hope that the United States is
on the edge of an era of unprecedented
prosper! ty."
"VVithdraivnl of Troops.
NEW YORK. March S. A special to the
Herald from Washington: says:
By direction of Acting Secretary of War
Melklejohn, Instructions have been sent to
Major-Gcneral Otis to return to the United
States some time in May one battalion
each of the Fourteenth, Eighteenth and
Twenty-third Infantry. The withdrawal
of those troops was recommended by
Major-General Miles several months ago.
He pointed out to the department that the
three regiments designated would have
been two years In the Philippines In June
next
There Is no doubt that the decision of
the department to wltndraw three bat
talions, which number more than 1200
men. Is Influenced to some extent by tho
disorganization of the rebel army and
the prospect that the American troops will
no longer meet with resistance from an
organized force.
Notwithstanding the action of tho de
partment in ordering home these bat
talions, officers who have served In the
Philippines, and who have just returned,
say that -this must not be taken to mean
that the rebellion has been suppressed.
The insurgents are operating in small
forces, which scatter upon the approach of
American troops, but which reassemble
and attack whenever a good opportunity
presents Itself. A well-known officer In
Luzon, writing to a friend in this city,
gives It as his opinion that the rebellion
will not be entirely suppressed in less
than 10 years.
Otis Cnsualty Report.
WASHINGTON. March 8. The last
casualty list received at the War Depart
ment from General Otis follows:
Appendicitis March 2. Tilden A. Lo
gan. Twenty-eighth; diarrhoea March 1.
Charles L. Slocum. Thirty-seventh In
fantry; dysentery December 8, Henry
Alexander, Twenty-fourth Infantry: Feb
ruary 7. John McEachern. Corporal,
Thltry-seventh Infantry: 24th, Willis C.
Fulton. Seventeenth Infantry: 27th, Wil
liam Banks. Forty-ninth Infantry; 27th,
Ed Stroupr Thirty-eighth Infantry; 2Sth,
James Pryor, Twenty-fourth Infantry:
drowned 24th, John Hendrickson, Thirty
seventh Infantry: enteritis 25th, Harvey
L. Loeman, Eighteenth Infantry: typhoid
fever 7th. Moss B. Robe. Nineteenth In
fantry: 22d. William Walker. Ninth In
fantry; malarial fever 25th. P. Gurule,
Thirty-fourth Infantry: 27th, M. D. Crane.
Thirty-fifth Infantry: 27th. Henry Tllley,
Quartermaster-Sergeant. Ninth Infantry.
Wounded in action January 20. George
F. Bauday. Eleventh Cavalry: 20th. Pat
rick Phelan. Eleventh Cavalry: Febru
ary 23. William F. Kingdom. Thirty-seventh
Infantry: 2Sth. Thomas Brown. Cor
poral, Thirty-eighth Infantry.
Variola 17th. Fred S. Johnson. Thirty
third Infantry: 22d. Paul H. Phillips,
Fourth Cavalry: 25th. Jose Martin. Hos
pital Corps; 26th. Charles E. Ramsey,
Thirtv-thlrd Infantry: March 3. James M.
Woodland. Seventh Infantry: pleurisy
February 23. Taylor Johnson. Twenty
sftcond Infantry: chloroform anaesthesia
17th. Robert M. Bartlett Forty-second
Infantry.
The Rcpnlilicnnn Invltlnjc Defeat.
Indianapolis News.
If the men at Washington had the sllght
2st appreciation of the strength of public
sentiment against the bill, they would not
think of passing It Ex-Senator Wash
burn, of Minnesota, does not put the case
too strongly when he says:
"In my judgment, the whole business
Is Impolitic and ill-advised, and Is receiv
ing the earnest condemnation of the
American people. Leaders cannot afford
to disregard, pifbllc sentiment so pro
nounced." We warn the Republicans once more
that they are inviting serious criticism
and possible defeat
9
MANY INTERESTING EVENT
Times Seem to Be Replete "With Cu-
United states Investor.
The tiniei bcem u on itv.oie with in-
teteSUlib li.iiUict.1.1 OccUlTciiOco. 'iu Ulu-
ii)u uiu a. tew oi witae, ma ai.aue
to tne tunumsmiig revoauou m cguuc
tiun wit a lac j. u.ru-.vciiue lauroaa, Uu.
rtceiversnip oi trie bill tea Suites Aii.uith
ioiupajiy votuerwise Known is ints riour
Irusi;, the organization ot tne bnuea
Aieuub Semng company, tne purchase oi
the control of tne Jbne 'Aceynone Com
pany by tne Telephone, Tcefarapn & u
Die Company of. Amouea, the neavy de
cline in tne va.ue of tne snares ot me
American ou&ar Reumng company, tne
big crop In the quotation, on .rieil Tele
phone sioca, tiic great increase in the
ioana of the New lork banks, the reve
lations regarding the astomsning pronts
now being made in tne iron ana steel in
dustry, and the heavy transactions In
Government bonds In anticipation of the
passage of the refunding measure. Sel
dom is there more lor tnose interested in
financial aiiairs to talk about Many of
tho events enumerated above may be
looked upon as the logical outcome of the
great boom in stocks which set in about
the fall of 1S97.
Speculative management Is answerable
for the horrid collapse of the Third-Avenue
Rahroad. The Flour Trust has come
to grief because It was a monstrosity at
its birth. The new United Metals Selling
Company Is an outcome of the as yet Ill
starred Amalgamated Copper Company
project The break In the stock of the
American Sugar Refining Company is the
Inevitable outcome of the attempt to per
petrate a monopoly In the sugar refining
business and to keep the stock of the
Sugar Trust at other than its intrinsic
value (If we may be pardoned the use of
such an uneconomic expression). The de
cline In Bell Telephone is undoubtedly due
to the mistaken judgment on the part of
certain speculators In bidding the stock
up In anticipation of "plums," which it
now seems likely will not be realized. In
a way, too, the great Increase In the loans
of the New York banks carries the mind
back to the speculation of a year ago, as
the bank statements since the opening of
1900 unquestionably reflect a tremendous
ly heavy movement on the part of the
hanks In shifting their funds from loans
highly speculative to those involving a
minimum risk. And we suspect that the
refunding measure now before Congress
is not unremotely related to the occur
rences of 1899. It is conceivable that this
measure Is purely a bit of -ax-grindlng
for the beneiit of certain interests whose
ventures in 1899 did not "pan out" as
favorably as was anticipated.
These reflections lead us to add that the
next few years are likely to witness a
good deal of clearlng-up of the effects of
the recent senseless speculation. The
United States Milling Company is proba
bly but the first of a long line of trusts
that have got to face the music. No
doubt a good many more features will
have to be evolved before the Amalga
mated Copper Company is In a position to
accomplish the purpose of its promoters.
Some of those features are likely to be
anything but pleasant to certain interests.
If the Sugar Trust actually reduces Its
dividend (as It would unquestionably be
sound business policy for It to do), the
stock is bound to be greatly demoralized.
dropping perhaps to 75, and possibly even
lower (since it Is even hinted that the
dividend may be passed altogether); the
effect upon the general market might be"
very disastrous.
Wo have danced, and sooner or later we
have got to pay the fiddler a pretty price.
Think of the hundreds of millions of wa
tered trust securities which never have
been sold, and which some one is "lug
ging," but on which the banks will not
make ans. Atlas bore up the heavens on
his shoulders, but we do not believe that
his staying power is possessed by the
interests that are now supporting the
trusts which have been started In the
last two yean: Think of the new compet
ing plants that have been, and are being,
rushed Into operation, as a result of the
tremendous advance in commodity prices.
But when the present extraordinary de
mand for commodities has been supplied,
there will begin an era of competition
such as was not previously witnessed,
with lower prices than the past has ever
recorded. All this may be some time In
coming about, but the beginning of the
end Is certainly to be witnessed in con
nection with many of the financial oc
currences which are now attracting pub
lic attention.
CHARLES PS UNDOING.
Mr. Morley Analyzes the Causes of
the ICing'si Downfall.
In his fifth paper on Cromwell, In the
March Century, the Right Hon. John Mor
ley attributes the undoing of Charles I In
part to the blindness and Incoherency of
his designs:
Tho undoing of Charles was not merely
his turn Tor intrigue and double-dealing;
It was want of vision Into facts, blindness
to .signs, blundering mlsmeasurement of
forces, disheveled confusion of means and
ends. Unhappily, mere foolishness In men
responsible for the government of great
states Is apt to be a curse as heavy as the
crimes of tyrants. With strange self-confidence,
Charles was hard at work upon
schemes and combinations, all at best
most difficult in themselves, and each of
them violently Inconsistent with the other.
He was hopefully negotiating with tho
Independents, and at the same time both
with the Catholic Irish and with the Pres
byterian Scots. He looked to the support
of the Covenanters, and at the same time
he relied upon Montrose, between whom
and the Covenanters there was now an an
tagonism almost as vindictive as a Cor
slcan blood-feud. He professed a desire
to come to an understanding with his
people and Parliament, yet he had a chim
erical plan for collecting a new army to
crush both Parliament and people, and
he was looking each day for the arrival of
Frenchmen or Lorralners, or Dutchmen or
Danes, and their march through Kent or
Suffolk upon his capital. While negotiat
ing with men to whom hatred of the Pope
was the breath of their nostrils, he was
allowing the Queen to bargain for 100.0C0
crowns In one event, and a second hun
dred In another, from Antichrist himself.
He must have known, moreover, that
nearly every move In this stealthy game
was more or less well known to all those
other players against whom he had so lm
provldently matched himself.
These blind and Incoherent designs were
all his own. He had advisers who told
him the truth. Mazarin's envoy assured
him more than once, "without any dis
guise, and with much freedom." how deep
ly the Scots were dissatisfied with his
evasive proposals, and how the English
Moderates, as well as the Scots, would
scarcely hear any more of coming to
torms with him. His English friends at
Oxford perceived that nothing short of
a miracle could save him. He might. It
was true, by some turn of the Continental
wheel, obtain help from abroad, but there
was no sign of It." Or he mlcht get pood
annles from Ireland, and of these there
was no sign either. Or It was possible
that the Scots wou'd place their forces at
his dlspwal. and with them and the Eng
lish Rovallsts he might redi the King
dom of England to Its old obedience But
such a combination a? this, the religious
question belnsr still left oon. would be
Indeed on of those miracles over which
only baffled reactlorl-ts. emigres and
kings In exile are capable of brooding and
dreaming.
ELECTRIFIED PILGRIMS
speech op rnop. w. Gordon aic-
CABE AT NEW ENGLAND DINNER.
Virginia. Played Leading Part In Xn.
t Ion's History Spanish "War Ce
mented North and South.
Everybody who attended the New Eng
land dinner on Friday nfght came away
from the banquet-hall commenting on the
speech of Professor William Gordon Mc
Cabe, of Richmond, which was the hit
of the evening. It reminded the older
members of the society of the speech de
livered by the late Henry W. Grady at
the New England dinner In New York
several years ago. There were many who
said that Mr. McCabe's speech excelled
the eloquence and surely the wit of
Grady, savs the New York Sun.
Mr. McCabe is a veteran of the Civil
War, having commanded a battalion in
Pickett's division. He was educated at
the University of Virginia, and when the
war was over he traveled extensively
abroad. On one of these trips he met
Tennyson and he became one of the poet's
Intimate friends. He is a classical scholar,
and several years ago he established a
fitting school for boys at Petersburg, Va.
After awhile he removed the school to
Richmond, where he still conducts It, and
it is" known as the best college prepara-
tory school In the South. Wherever he
Is known, Mr. McCabe Is In great demand
as an after-dinner speaker, particularly
In Boston, but It is not often that he
can be brought up from the South to de
liver a speech. It was only because of
his personal regard for ex-Judge Henry
E. Howland, president of the New Eng
land Society, that he consented to come
to this year's New England dinner. The
speech follows:
"Your president. In Introducing me, has
with cruel facetlousness spoken of me as
one of the 'heroes of the war.' It Is true
that down In my country you may hear
people (utterly devoid of imagination, and
envious, perhaps, ot my 'record') shame
lessly declare that the only people I've
ever slain were some of my oldest friends,
whom I've talked to death with stories
that belong to the Pliocene period of anec
dotal development, or which, at the very
latest, may have cheered the Aryan hordes
on their weary westward march from the
tablelands of Asia. Never but once be
fore, I confess, have I ever been remotely
alluded to by my ungrateful countrymen
as 'a hero of the war,' and that was years
and years ago, when some of us here to
night looked at each other only along the
deadly barrels of burnished steel and
when my wildest dreams never pictured
a time when I should gaze, as I am gaz
ing tonight, full Into New England eyes,
brimming over with such kindliness and
gracious welcome as makes even an 'un
repentant rebel feel thoroughly at home.
"Thank God, old 'comrades of the other
side.' the only bead drawn here tonight
Is not the bead of wary marksmen along
gleaming steel, but comes bubbling up In
sparkling beauty from these foaming
beakers, wherein we pledge not only lip,
but heart, the prosperity and honor of our
common country, greeting each other
with the glad hall which stirs our hearts
here tonight as deeply as when well-nigh
2000 years ago (falling from the lips of
choiring angels) It stirred the hearts of
startled shepherds watching their flocks
on the dim Judean hills under the shim
mering stars 'Peace on earth, good will
toward men.'
"But much as I have enjoyed hearing
these speeches, one thing, I confess, had
puzzled me n little, and that Is that well
nigh every one of your distinguished ora
tors has Insisted (directly or by Implica
tion) that tho Pilgrims really founded
and shaped the destinies of our nation,
and that but for New England patriotism
and Puritan devotion to duty and to prln-
nClplcthat JIttle revolt of '76 would have
proved somewhat of a fiasco. God forbid
that here or elsewhere I shall seek to
abate one jot or one tittle of the debt
that the Nation owes to stubborn New
England grit and sagacious New England
statecraft But as in matrimony, the
point of view of May and the point ot
view of December are not always easily
reconcilable, and sometimes end In the
divorce court; so may it be In post-pran-dlal
oratory. In your December oratory,
as here tonight, you naturally have un
folded to you the New England point of
view; But come down to Virginia and
clink glasses with me in May. when we
meet to celebrate (In far more Puritanical
fashion- than this) tho anniversary of the
first permanent English settlement In
Amorica, yonder at Jamestown, where
more than a year before the landing of
tho Mayflower was convened the first leg
islative assembly in the New "World, and
you will hear our after-dinner orators
unblushlngly declare that when the dun
warcloud lowered In the East and the
foolish policy of Lord North had denied
tho chartered liberties of our Old Domin
ion and her sister colonies of New Eng
land, It was a Virginian, George Mason,
who drew the lmmortnl bill of rights; that
It was a Virginian, Richard Henry Lee,
who first moved In the Continental Con
gress that 'these colonies are and of right
ought to be free and Independent states';
that It was a Virginian, Thomas Jefferson,
who drafted the Declaration of Independ
ence, and that It was that glorious 'rebel'
and great Virginian, George Washington,
who made It good by his sword.
"Come to us with your memories of
Lexington, where the shot was fired that
went echoing round the world; come to
us with the story of Bunker Hill, where
the old Puritan spirit blazed high and de
feat wore tho mantle of glory, and we
will stand uncovered before yonder noble
monument In Richmond, from which looks
down upon us In Imperishable bronze the
counterfeit presentment of the Nation's
greatest son, seated In easy "majesty on
his mettled steed, serene and resolute,
such as he may have seemed to his rag
ged New England soldiery and his own
Virginian riflemen In deerskin leggings
and fringed huntlng-shlrt. as he rode
slowly down his lines under tne Cambridge
elms on that summer's morning more than
a century ago; while grouped beneath him
stand the heroic figures of those great
Virglnlanp who shared with him and with
your fathers the perils and the glory of
guiding the new Nation out ot the dark
and narrow bondage of royal tyranny Into
the broad sunllght-of republican freedom.
"I can but think, sir. that a blending
of tho two points of view gives us the
truer perspective as to our national de
velopment. What you call the Puritan
spirit, of which you are Justly proud, has
never, I think, been confined to New Eng
land alone, nor do I believe that Virginia
can claim exclusive heritage in the gra
cious and generous qualities of the Cav
alier. Isn't It, after all, the American
spirit differentiated by environment? En
vironment Is, as we all know, a potent
factor in national development, and I
have often speculated as to what would
havo been the result had the Mayflower,
owing to her lost reckoning, 'fetched' as
far south as she did north, of her original
destination, and had that cargo of 'godly
klckeis' landed at Jamestown Instead of
at Plymouth.
"In thp light of alleged events In 1S14.
I can't help fancying what a tremendous
lot of 'seccsslon'sts all of you would have
been In '61, with a wealth of historic ar
gument as to 'strict construction' that no
Yankee Cavalier could even have met
successfully except with the heavier ar
tillery. Grant and Sherman would In
evitably have been 'rebels' Wendell Phil
ips would have threatened some Bob
Toombs of Massachusetts that he would
yet call the roll of hl3 slaves at the
foot of Bunker Hill monument, and Jeffer
son Davis of Brookllno would have saun
tered across Boston Common humming
a stave about hanging John Andrew on
a sour apple tree.
"Well, honest confession being good for
the soul. I will say that I was not one
of those 'Jingoes' who clamored for war
with Spain. Not all the glories of Ma-
nlla Bay or of Santiago would have
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wrought this reconciliation, but I now
believe, and I think you believe with me.
that this Spanish war has definitely
brought about two results, which have
gono far to Justify in my eyes all the
blood and all the treasuro expended by
tho nation to secure them; one, and that
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of the South: the other, the tightening
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Cavalier alike.
"And Just here, as an old Confederate
soldier who for four years backea his
honest convictions with his sword. I want
to tell you men of Puritan blood, why we
Southern men (and our children after us)
must always have an especially soft place
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fought as ever flghts the freemen ot Anglo-Saxon
strain, and In good fath, the
faith of brave and honorable men, accept
ed tho stern arbitrament of the sword, the
pitiless logic of the heavier battalions, as
settling at once and forever, the practical
Interpretation of the Constitution. But
for years after the war (let us speak
frankly), these dreadful years of recon
struction, when all our Southern land
that for four.years had been girdled with
steel and Are, still lay prostrate In what
old Isaiah fitly terms the 'dimness of an
guish,' press, pulpit and political rostrum.
North and "West, persistently demanded of
us a thing Impossible to men In whose
veins coursed the blood of the old cham
pions of freedom, and who had been
nurtured In those principles that since tho
days of Runnymede have been the com
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that we must prove the sincerity of our
acceptance by confessing the unrighteous
ness of our contention and by expressing
humble contrition for our misdeeds. This
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Francis Bartlett. of Massachusetts, who
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Federal arms at Port Hudson, when
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only mounted officer In the assaulting col
umnhe distinctly heard the Confederate
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touched the generous admiration of hl3
foemars reckless daring, shouting to
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this Spanish War to silence forever tho
cavll3 ana doubtings of many austere pa
triots who for 30 years and more had
proved themselves as 'Invincible in peace
as they had been invisible In war.' Above
the first fierce mutterings of the com
ing storm, rose high and clear yonder at
Havana the voice of Fltzhugh Lee, onco
the beau a.tbreur of the army of North
ern Virginia, demanding, with soldierly
directness, prompt Spanish recognition of
the sanctity of American citizenship. Then,
when the die was cast, and the Olympla
on that memorable May morning, stood
into Manila Bay, on the bridge close
alongside George Dewey, of "Vermont, stood
Tom Brumby, of Georgia (God rest his
noble soul). And so. when the American
flag was first unfurled to the breeze over
the first American possession in the East
ern world, the son of an old Confederate
Colonel stood at the halliards. Ten days
later, at Cardenas, the first crimson liba
tion of the war was poured out on tho
altar of Cuban liberty, and the brave
young blood of that gallant lad, "Worth
Bagley, of the Old North State, son, too,
of an old Confederate soldier, cemented
forever the reconciliation between North
and South. And as in quick succession tho
names of Hobson and Blue and Fighting
Joe "Wheeler blazed In official dispatches,
the thunderous shouts of a reunited peo
ple drowned even the Iron-throated plau
dits of the guns. As Marshal Ney said,
when he saw the beardless young French
conscripts rushing In all the Joyous valor
of their youth upon the Russian guns at.
"Weissenfels: C'est dans lesang! Cest dans
le sangl 'It's in the blood! It's in the
blood!'
"Many of you. doubtless, traversing that
noble hall of "William Rufus, have entered
the corridor of St. Stephen's, and there,
glancing down the long line of gleaming
statues, have paused to look upon tho
calm, majestic features of John Hampden,
the most able and resolute man In tho
kingdom, who fell on the Parliamentarian:
side of Chalgrave Field, and Immediate
ly opposite upon the grave, romantic face
of Lucius Carey, Lord Falkland, 'that in
comparable young man,' as Clarendon calls
him, who In the very flower of his young
manhood gave his life for his King in
that unhappy civil strife.
"It may well be, that when this genera
tion shall have passed away, and the mo
tives and convictions of men shall be ap
prehended without passion, that tha
young American treading some one of
those stately avenues that lead to our Na
tional Capitol, shall pause opposite the
presentment In bronze of Grant and of
Sherman to gaze upon the heroic figures
of Lee and Jackson. God forbid that
war, civil or foreign, should come again
in this, our time. He who ha3 once seen
the suffering and sorrow and desolation
that it brings to happy homes can never
wish to see it again. But should it come,
men of the North and of the East and
of the "West, I speak for my people that
people who never yet faltered In half
way defiance to a foe or In half-way
welcome to a friend ere the first call
to arms of our common country shall
have died upon the breeze, you shall hear
the tramp of our legions as they wheel
Into line to touch elbows with the stal
wart sons of New England, eager to keep
time with cadenced step to the music of
the Union aye, to hedge round with
stubborn steel that Starry Banner, that
symbolizes once more to us as to you
the majesty of American citizenship and
the Indestructibility of Republican insti
tutions." Translated From Goethe.
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Lengths ot calm-encompaeied plain.
From no aide no atlr advances;
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