LESSONS OF THE JUBILEE.

Waikato Argus, Volume III, Issue 173, 21 August 1897, Page 2 (Supplement)

LESSONS OF THE JUBILEE.

The following extracts from English papers should provoboth iriUr-sting and instructive:—The Day is over, anil it bus been undeniably n great day. L-'of some stran;,'!! reason—prrhapi because the timid wore afraid of crowd*—there was far li ss crowding than had been ex pi o'ed. That tier Majisly carries with her the loyalty of her people need* no demonstration. !f one were wanted, her reception yesterday in every quarter of the metropolis would linvo afforded it. ISul her progress is an as-urauee of t ho fact that, in ppito of many rumours, her own vigorous lifo is not failing, and that it may be many a year yet before our fjon"dilution will have t> adapt itself to another head. Yesterday's pageant was an Kinpiro Parade, mid one of which all the uncounted millions, whose teaoo and freedom is guarded by the English flig, may well be proud. That Empire is, thank Go I, no mail-clad Gesaris'ii. Wherever the ilag floats, the men who hol:l its power in trust are sworn to seek. if they do not always nromplisli, the broadening of freedom, the spread of order, the reign of law, the march of progress. We "nave a hundred faults as makers of an Empire. AVe are insolent and mafteiful a?.d aloof. We areoouut'd unsympathetic and ttncom rehendiiig by all subject races We arc Philistines and I'haiisees. So he it. All men have faults. But at least wo have done what the world has never seen before. "We have built an KinpilM which stands by its own cohesion, and whose utmost bounds mo tied together lef- by f. ice than loyalty ; an r.mpire where evety man may look for equal laws, and where no crime against that law may hope to go unpunished ; an Kmpiro by whoso rule subject races paili far more than, at the highest rcskoninjr, their conquerors have won. .Such an Kmpiie would not fail. AVc are told that other empires have gone down. But how ? The i'eisian was rotten with every ro'tennrss of which a Government is eapable. Its eouqueror did rot live even to weld his conquests into a (."ii'siu'iß'n. Rome w:ts the bloodsucker of the provinces, and hi r decrepitude was powerless against the vigoions children of the noilh -of whom we are. An Umpire like our own has never yet been known. It has no preor.iei |, and no parallel. I'uless wo wrick il.it is not easy lone why it should fail.-Daily Chronicle. I'liu Diamond Jubilee celebrations mean one thing mole. We honour our tjuecn : wc are pr..ud of our Kinpire, and we are n solved one mid all to defend that Kmpiie to the end. Much has happened sine..' the .lubih f ISS7 to bring this th uirht of In,pi rial defence more closely home to the n-.lioual mind and conscience. "Wc can fc ar!e.-?ly say that, so tar as we are concerned, the lirilsh Km pi re is an empire' of peace. "We are jealous of no lival, Wc covet no neighbour's vineyard. Birmingham Post. After Her Majesty the Colonial eonlinjreut was tho part of the precession to which the attention of all men turned VcfiUrday. And this fact proves as nothing else could prove to clearly the' growth uf the Impeii il spirit among us.

, At the Jubilee ten years ago no one thongVt of tho Colonies, and the point of tho procession which excited most interest was tho escort of foreign princes who represented the Great States of Europe, as well as tho close ndauts of the O leen. This yei.r the INu'sh Empire with its Colonies and Drpi udeneiex is all in all, and no on" gives Ili:-u<rlil to the Continental Powers. Tho rq r s nUtivcs of the European St tes nro this year more spectators than integral puis of the parade, for we do not in IS'.)7 rejoice as one out of the number of lhe Powers of Europe, but as tho mother and daughter countrii s of a world-empire for whom the quarrels and jealousies of the Continent have but a secondary interest. We are at last beginning to reali.-o what Empire is, that Englishmen arc not merely those men who live in two little islands in tlu grey Nt h Sea, aid that the ocean does not separate us but unites us nil under one Throne and one Flag. The fact is tha', we arc not only rejoicing over the growth of our Empire, hut also over the death of Little KnglandNm, and of the miserable school which said. ■' Perish India," and di;l its best to cut the Colonics. These arc a source of strength t) us as we are to them, and tho old fable of tho bundle of sticks never had a truer application than to the British Empire.