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 ' Queen's Jubilee, Boston. 
 
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 ■1 
 
 SPEECH 
 
 — BY- 
 
 nicbolas flood Davln. 0.€.. m.P. 
 
 (Second Edition.) 
 
 MOOSOMTN, N.W.T. — THE SPECTATOR OFFICE. 
 SEPTEMBER, 1897. 
 
 '••I'-im: 
 

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 ERRATA. 
 
 Pape 2, Ist column, line 8 read "the" instead of "this." 
 " 7 " "over" inato.idof "and." 
 
 18 " " representation " instead of " repre- 
 •' 23 " "bHrh«r..u8." [sc^ntative." 
 
 " 4 " "attachment." 
 " 16 omit "the." 
 " T()i-ea<l "its" after "of," 
 " 23 " "on "for "or." 
 " 25 " "inhr),s|.ita))!e" for "ho.spit(ible." 
 " 26 insert "servile" l)cforo " ohei.sanoo. " 
 " 6 from bottom read "splendour." 
 ' " 19 read "converge." 
 
 " 16 from bottom read period after North-West. 
 " 7, " " " 10 dehto " in " before Winnipeg. 
 
 
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 The I5)iam0nd Jubilee at gesten. 
 
 Reproduced from Tho 
 A number of our roadern hHving ex- 
 prosstiil ft wish to reftd this speech we 
 repnwluce it : 
 
 There tre 40,0(X) Britishers in Boston, 
 inuNt of whiini haro not taken the o.ith nf 
 alleginneo to the United States. 
 Earli" in tho year, as we gather 
 from the Boston Herald, tho Vic- 
 luriun Diamond Festival Association 
 was formed at Boston for the purpose of 
 duly celebrating Her Majesty's Diamond 
 Jubilee, and Mr. Davin wivs invited to 
 represent Canada and tt) reply to what 
 was really tho toast of the evening— "The 
 Emjiire and the Colonies." Her Majesty's 
 ship, Pallas, was sent from Halifax to 
 take [Mvt in the celebration, consisting of 
 a procession and a colossal banc^uet. 
 
 " The festival," says the Boston Herald, 
 •• brought upward of 2(i00 persons to the 
 tables in the great banquet hall, and made 
 ft spectacle, when the proceedings were at 
 their height, of a cliaracter very remark- 
 able and impressive, in tho first place 
 because of the remarkable setting which 
 the dea)rators had provided for an occa- 
 si<m in itself quite uni(jue. 
 
 "The big ball, with its "immense dis- 
 tances," lends itself with great efToctive- 
 ness to tho surprises and illusions of 
 coloured drapery, and nothing could well 
 be more tasteful or more superb than the 
 art which last night robed the dark out- 
 lines of gallery and platform m those most 
 fascinating hues of all, the lighter shades 
 of rohe, of pink, of tfreen, of blue and of 
 crimson, alternating, for tho sake of con- 
 trast only, with the deep red designs f»f 
 some uay entablature, or with the pictures 
 i)f boars' heads, fabulous birds and 
 rampant lions." 
 
 From six o'clock until tun minutes to 
 seven in a large room adjoining t!»e dining 
 ro<^»m Mr. Davin who had come from 
 Ottawa to represeiit Canada, and Mrs 
 Davin held a levee at which a lai^jie num- 
 ber of Canadians were presented to thum. 
 
 Spectator, Moosoniin 
 "The human interest of the occasion,' 
 adds the Boston Herald, ''dominated its 
 every other aspect. To see two thousatid 
 six hundred people at dinner wau a sight 
 in itself." As a fact 2,7'X) people sat 
 down to dinner. At seven o clock the 
 dinner commenced. A number of dis- 
 tinguished people, liuiian and gentlemen, 
 wore seated at the two tables on the 
 platform and in the l)ody of tho hall over 
 2,600 people— the great majority Cana- 
 dians. On tho right and left of tho 
 President, amtingst others, HisExcellency 
 the Governor of Massachusetts, Sir 
 Dominic E. Colnaghi, H. M. Consul 
 General and Lady Colnaghi, His Honour 
 Mayor Quincy and Mi-s. Quincy, Nicholas 
 FIckkI Davin, M.P., Canada, and Mrs. 
 Davin, Capt. Humphage, of H.M.S. 
 Pallas, (j^eneral Curtis Guild, Jr., Col. 
 Kingscote, R.A. 
 
 "The President of the United States," 
 ••The Queen," "Tho Commonwejilth of 
 Massachusetts," "Tho City of Boston," 
 "The Navy" and "The British Army" 
 having'been duly honoured, Gen. Curtis 
 Guild, the toast master, proposed "The 
 Empire and the Colonies," coupled with 
 the name of Nicholas Flood Davin, who 
 represented Canada. (Cheers.) The 
 toast having been enthuHiasticaliy 
 honoured. 
 
 Mr. Nicholas Flood Davin on rising 
 was received with loud cheers and waving 
 of napkins. 
 
 Mr. Davin. — Your Excellency, Mr. 
 President, ladies and gentlemen — the 
 Empire and the Colonies. On behalf of 
 Canada which the Diamond Jubilee 
 Festival Ass<K-iation has done me thu 
 hononr to ask me to represent and on 
 behalf of the Enijure and tho Colonies for 
 which I speak. I thank you for the recep- 
 tion, r am in the novel position of object- 
 ing to the form of the toast to which I 
 have to speak— "The Empiro and tho 
 Colonies," Why, the Colonies are the 
 Empiro. (^Cheers.) Afl a cohtnist, as a 
 Canadian, having met this aft«rn«K)n many 
 of those who are now seated down those 
 long and numerous tables, and learned 
 
how de«p their interest is in the f(te&t 
 premier colony, the grent Confederation 
 whence I came, a» an Imperial Coitfedera- 
 tioniHt I am forward to asoert that the 
 OoloriioH are the Empire, and that it is 
 by colonists that Empire has been built 
 up. (Renewed cheering.) One word by 
 way of clearing this ^ound. It will be 
 obvious that whatever time, relyinv on 
 your forbearance, I may presume to take, 
 yet having rei<ivrd to the subject, my 
 speech will bo brief ; that theref >re my 
 mood must be one of appreciation, not 
 criticism — nay, must it not bo one of en- 
 thusiasm? Nfy, more, could any man 
 realizing truthfully the facts of the pres- 
 ent and the past, let him be in what 
 critical mood he might or will feel 
 other than enthusiastic ? The critic 
 ftnd the historian, when he comes to deal 
 with the sixty years whose teeming in- 
 cidents our mind8 survey, will hnve 
 qualifications and reservations to make, 
 which even if present to us it would be 
 improper to obtrude. And nobody here 
 need suppose that I hold that all things 
 which should have been done have been 
 done, or that some things which have 
 been done would have been better not 
 left undone. I do not, therefore, invito 
 your attention to an historical diwjuisition. 
 I ask your attention while, for a few 
 minutes, I touch on what is true and vital 
 and unquestionable in the epic moment 
 which challenges not our attention merely, 
 but the attention of civilized mankind. 
 (Cheers.) I know that hi Boston, as all 
 over the United States, there are British 
 born subjects who stand aside from the 
 British Empire, but they have no logical 
 or historical ground f<.<r this, because the 
 Empire which as an actuality is ot com- 
 parative recent date has been built up by 
 and is composed of Irishmen as well as 
 Englishmen and Scotchmen - -all three have 
 fought and thought and bled the world 
 over in extending and building and blend- 
 ing - weaving the wonderful web — raising 
 that wontierful thing — without prototype 
 or parallel — the British Empire. (Cheers.) 
 
 I saw in one of the great papora of Boston 
 this morning a cartoon entitled "The 
 Vacant Chair " at the Jubilee — a dinner 
 table at which all the parts of tht' Empire 
 are representetl but Ireland. Near at 
 hand is a companion picture of Erin 
 weeping and her lost children who are 
 hurrying to the emigrant ship, and abovu 
 her head a placard "Ireland, population 
 18a7. 8,000, (XX); population 1897, -4.500,- 
 000." Here are also the ti^ure^ nhowiug 
 the increase in the population of Qreat 
 Britain. But the Hrtist did not pause t<i 
 ask how many of the eight niilliun and 
 their descendants had gone to sw«ll the 
 population of England and Scotland, or to 
 reflect that the Irish vote controls tlio 
 representatives of great constituencies iu 
 the larger isle. To find the true explana- 
 tion of the strong feeling amongst a largo 
 portion of the Irish people in Ireland and 
 the world over against England, and 
 which leads them to stand aside 
 from these world-wide rejoicings, we 
 have tc go further back in history than 
 the reivtn of Queen Victoria. No man 
 could condemn in stronger language than 
 I would the miserable, oppressive, unw ise, 
 barbarious tyranny at ono time dealt out to 
 Ireland, but this much must be said that 
 there has been in recent years a breaking 
 away from the vicious policy of the past. 
 For myself I think it was useful to Irish- 
 men, to Ireland, to the world, and 
 esiJecially to the United States that there 
 have been such vast emigrations within 
 the last sixty years. It is quite clear 
 much remains in the way of wise policy 
 to be accomplished. It ha.s always sur- 
 prised me that the Queen did not make 
 a perfectly legitimate use of the fact thnt 
 she ha.s some Irish blood in her veins * to 
 
 [•TheQueenis, I thinlc,oonnoct«d by ties of 
 blood with every reiguinR family in Europe, 
 and I liave ahvays rogretted tliat Her Male«ty 
 did not make uao of the fact that thr'outfh 
 Elizabeth de Burgh who married laonel Duke 
 of Clarence, one of the sons of Edward 111. 
 and was not only the heiress of the Earls of 
 Ulster, but lineal descendant of Torlough 
 O'Connor, the last King of Ireland She has 
 not made us of the fast that she lias not only 
 Irish blood, but the blood of Kroat Irish princes 
 in her veins. I hope that in the years to come 
 one of her deacendadta will bring the reJgninK 
 family into touch with the Irish people.] 
 
jast. 
 rish- 
 and 
 there 
 ithin 
 cl«>ar 
 policy 
 8ur- 
 irmkw 
 thnt 
 
 18* to 
 
 tiafl of 
 uropo, 
 ajesty 
 routcn 
 Diiko 
 d III. 
 rls of 
 rlough 
 he has 
 t only 
 rlnces 
 come 
 igning 
 
 eittablish closer pctHonHl relations between 
 her family and Iriahmon, among who«e 
 many noblo (lualitieH are gratitude and a 
 atrung capacity foe [M^raonnl attachments. 
 She Hhould havo had an Irish Balmoral. 
 This would have had a most benoficient 
 eflfeot. It is too late for her to remedy 
 this, but T hope her children will doHtroy 
 this historical and politiail hiatus. 
 But it is well at this moment to re- 
 member two things. First that we have 
 to judge Her Majesty as a coriHtitutional 
 ruler in which role no one can questiim her 
 excellence and succesw. Secondly, there 
 is no race has more to Im thankful for or 
 to be proud of the British C(ilonial great- 
 ness and British iin[)erial expansion than 
 Irishmen. The British Empire is the 
 growth of the likst two hundred years ; 
 three-fourths of it has been created within 
 the lASt sixty years, and who built it up V 
 Have not Irishmen done their part to 
 make Australia and Canada ? Are not 
 the names of Gavan DuflFy and Barry 
 known as those of political leaders under 
 the southern cruss ? Are not the names 
 of Baldwin, Blake, Sullivan, Daly, Kenny, 
 Hincks, D'Arcy Magee, 'tnown n Canada 
 as those of statesmen and rulers of men '/ 
 And what shall I say of India ? Of other 
 colonies and dependencies ? Of the Gov- 
 ernors — the Lawrences, the Dufferins, the 
 Bourkes? The Irishman who alienates 
 himself from the British Empire alienates 
 himself from that which Irishmen have 
 helped to make, of which they form a 
 part, which their genius wmtributod to 
 edify and their blood to cement. But I 
 cantiot dwell further on this, yet these 
 remarks shod light on the nature of the 
 theme on which it is my duty briefly to 
 dwell — a themo the magnitude of which, 
 its overpowering claims, might well make 
 one pause. 
 
 There are thronging memories and 
 beckoning associations. Standing hure for 
 the tirst time, on this classic ground, in 
 the Athens of the new world, commtm 
 
 gratitude makes it imiMwnible that I 
 should forbear to do homage to those great 
 men, who, the other day, moved among 
 you, whoso i' Hpiration was essentially 
 British, who were among those who gave 
 my young mind its earliest and noblest 
 stimulus: Emerson, Holmes, Ltingfellow, 
 Lowell. (Cheers.) These are names that 
 must not pass away. This great nation 
 is ju.stly proud its of democracy. Happy 
 is the <lemooracy which has an aristocracy 
 of genius and knowledge, and happy is 
 the city which can boast of uiving human- 
 ity names like these. (Cheers and cries 
 of "That's good.") 
 
 How striking, how illustmtive of the 
 humanizing influence of time the healer, 
 as well as the avenger, that we should be 
 assembled here under present conditions 
 — for T am not quite so oblivious of the 
 past as that English nobleman, who, on 
 approaching Boston, and having Bunker 
 Hill pointed out to him, asked, ' Who 
 was Bunker?' and ' What did he do with 
 his hill?' (Laughter.) It retjuires only 
 a slight effort of the imagination to hear 
 the tirst tnurniurs of the war of inde- 
 pendence, the guns of Concord, the 
 shouts of citizens rising against taxed tea; 
 the cries of the embattled farmers who 
 tired the shot heard round the world ; 
 and yet, we are met in one of the 
 foremost cities of the great republic. To 
 do what ? To honour the diamond jubilee 
 of the world-eraijire's British Queen. The 
 grandsons of the hero-farmors join with 
 us in drinking the health of the grand- 
 daughter of George III. (Cheers.) 
 
 This is a magnificent festival ; but, con- 
 trary to rule, it is greater relatively than 
 absolutely. Grand »a it is, its grandeur 
 is enhanced when we think that at this 
 moment, not merely in London is the 
 empire's Queen gathering her children 
 around her, but that in great cities in 
 all lands, a land like this, which no Brit- 
 ish heart can heartily call foreign — for 
 what is this great Republic but one of the 
 
lion's whelps grown to lionhood and fur 
 diiitinctioii'H uakn ^rowitiK n I>Hir of winf^a. 
 (IjHUgliter itnd chuerH;) hikI CHlling itself 
 a lion of tho nit ; and hh wo know from 
 a hundred hattleHeldH, when we ItKik at 
 your literature and see your extraordinary 
 power and coinmeruiHl activity, wo con- 
 clude that, ttlthouKh you may be an eai/lu 
 of the air, after all there in a ^roat deal 
 of tho BritiNh lion about you. (Cheers.) 
 In great citioH and capitals, under the 
 southern croHs, under northern auroral 
 lights, in the eye of the lean white bear — 
 in the light of the midnight sun, under 
 torrid skies everywhere in tho civiliKed 
 world — nay, in its uncivilized corners 
 also — wherever British energy and pluck 
 fortitude and indomitable tenacity, have 
 carried British commerce and arms — and 
 where have they n<5t? — «iv«rywh«ru infche 
 dvilized world, nay in tliu UHuiviliz«jd 
 «x»rners lUiio: the same feast is hold — in 
 city and jungle, or mountain and plain ; 
 in lonely remote deserts, in far oft' isles 
 and seas. There is no olime so hospitable, 
 there is no tract so dangerous, no isle so 
 little, no sea .so lone, but oyer tower .^nd 
 turret and dome, over scud and sand and 
 palm tree, at this hour, the tlag l>earing 
 the three crosses of the three great nations 
 of the two heroic isles, rises with solemn 
 splendour and sublime signiKoanoo ; where 
 it is day the winds t»f heaven reverently 
 caress its immortal folds, and where it is 
 night the stars salute it as a fellow star. 
 (Applause.) 
 
 History furnishes no pitrallel for what 
 is taking place here — for what is taking 
 place the world over — for what, above all, 
 is taking place in London. 
 
 The majority of the great empire or 
 power displays of the past had no moral 
 or spiritual significance. The most sug- 
 gestive is that of Alexander with kings 
 ^nd satrapies bowing to Greek genius, 
 and generals from whose loins great 
 dynasties were to spring waiting on the 
 son of Philip. Alexander's was a mili- 
 tary depotisin, but his conqoests carried 
 bhe Qreek language and Greek literature 
 
 to the Rast ; <md although Greek oiviliza* 
 tion rested on a baso of slavery it had yet 
 for its I'ontittl idea tho importanco of tho 
 individual and of individual culture. Still 
 neither in power or splendour or in rela- 
 tion to the progress and ha]ipinesH of 
 mankind do the claims of Aloxnnder on 
 our interest approach what is taking place 
 to-day. 
 
 Talk of Ilotne in her palmiest days, 
 when the Republic hiwl roache<^l the apex 
 j»f power and the car climbed tho oapitol, 
 loading captive barlmric kings and the 
 {jriceless spoil of strippwJ and shuttered 
 nations; subjected ])rinces fro:ii Syria; 
 crowned chiefs of transmont;^ne tribes; tho 
 fair-haired Dacian; the turbaiied priest 
 from Egypt; the blue-eyed Giiul fallowed 
 the Cortege of boastful conquest; when 
 the wealth of the Ganges of the Nile, of 
 tho Loire, of the Rhino were poured into 
 the lap of tho Tiber ; when laurelled con- 
 querors triumphed over Poutitt Kings ; 
 when power and fear drew the leaders of 
 a hundred tongues to tho Mistress of' 
 mankind and bent their necks in.obeis- 
 ance. A greater — a moi e gorgeous— above 
 all a nobler spectacle claims our attenticin 
 on the Ixinks of the Thames than ever 
 dazzled the Euphrates or tho Tiber. We 
 have in London to-day the rulers of free 
 communities, of nascent nations, wherein 
 education is diffused among the poorest, 
 w'.ore no slave can breathe — prof erring 
 proud voluntary allegiance, the rulers of 
 free peoples who.se meanest citizen feels 
 himself the fractional part of a sovereign ; 
 representatives of colonial governments 
 and colonialarmies, citizen soldiera, militia, 
 volunteers ; swarthy princes and liajahs 
 from India's three hundred millitms, 
 Pleiaded ^ith diamonds and belted like 
 Ori»)n ; dusky warriors frttm Guinea ; the 
 Dyak from Borneo ; the Maori from >iew 
 Zealand ; all the jewelled pomp and 
 splendours of tho East — all the enlight- 
 ment of the West : India, Afirica, Aus- 
 tralia, Canada, the islands of the sea 
 spontaneously met in grateful tribute and 
 willing homage. (Loud cheers.) 
 
I'iliiMi* 
 ivdyet 
 [if thu 
 , Still 
 I rola- 
 
 0«H (»f 
 
 ler on 
 
 dwyH, 
 le npox 
 ijipitol, 
 lid the 
 iittored 
 Syria ; 
 )08; tl>o 
 priest 
 iiUowed 
 ; when 
 Nile, of 
 xh\ into 
 led con- 
 Kings ; 
 idern t>f^ 
 itresH of 
 in,obeis- 
 nbove 
 ttention 
 iiin ever 
 er. We 
 a of free 
 wherein 
 xiorest, 
 oferriUK 
 ulers of 
 en feels 
 vtireign ; 
 rmaents 
 , militia, 
 I Ilajfths 
 milliona, 
 ted like 
 ea ; the 
 om TSevf 
 tnp and 
 enlight- 
 ca, Au8- 
 the sea 
 buto and 
 
 
 Never hnn there bticn a pageant so 
 suprouicly mural, so miperb in jKiwor, and 
 At the same time in intellect\ml, moral and 
 Hiiiritual interest ho iii.s|»iriiig with the 
 loftit'.st hopcH fur hiiniau dtistiny. No 
 department of Htate, no function of peace, 
 MO arm of war, no dependency in unrupro- 
 Kented in tliat iiuponiiig throng, Hwelle*! 
 by [irinces and anibflssailorH from empirefi 
 and kingdoms and republicH. Mr. White 
 law Ueid, the apiicial amljaHsndor of this 
 republic, great falnicant of diurrmi demo- 
 cratic thniidor, bears aloft the stars and 
 Ktripes of this great free natio.i, aide by 
 side with the insigtiiu of the Czjir, and 
 the Hug of Switzerland gleams near the 
 eagle of France. 
 
 All the (leniuH and power and glory of 
 tlio I'inipire coiivergeH in the imperial city, 
 whore tlie Abbey of Edward the ConfosMor 
 conHt'crates the dust of men "hoKd names 
 are tiled on fame's eternal bead roll, 
 where *;ho mighty dome of St. Paul'M 
 canopies all thai iH mortal of tJio hero»-H 
 of Trafalgar and Waterloo. This pageant, 
 more splendid in its moral aspect t^ian in 
 those of wealth or pomp, i>r domi lion, or 
 power, is held under the overwiiulming 
 splendour of memories in which saints 
 and sages, warriors and kings and poets 
 and statesmen loom large and luminous ; 
 the great ancestors and forerunners of 
 tiie Queen, the Edwards and Henrys; 
 mailed barons and armed crusaders ; 
 Shakes[)eare and his bret hren ; Chaucer 
 and Milton ; Marlborough and Sidney ; 
 Clarendon ajid Burke; Chatham and his 
 greater son — an army of inunortals rise 
 from rheir tombs to salute this day ; the 
 cope of the crowning cycle ; the fruit of 
 centuries of great thought and sage deed, 
 of patience and valor and will, of heruic 
 life imd heroic litjath. The English Harold 
 smiles from remote centuries on the lat- 
 est, greatest and most fortunate of Eng- 
 lish rulers, and the British Arthur, the 
 purpose of whose life a frail queen and 
 erring woman spoiled, sees that [nirpose 
 fulfilled beyond his fondest dreams by a 
 
 blamoloHs woman and a British queen; 
 and Victfiria staiideas, dutiful, realizes 
 the ideal shattered by the beautiful and 
 passionate tiuinevoro. (Loud and pro- 
 longed cheers.) And whilo all this is 
 taking place in London and e';hoed in tun 
 thousand centres of free life— echoed in 
 Melbourne, in Winnipeg, in Calcutta, 
 Vnncouver, in Capo Town and Halifax, 
 and here in this great city of another 
 country, though not another race, look 
 seaward ! Around SpithoaJ thee moves 
 a tleot of warships. Sea dragons — rgoBiea 
 of steel clad terror- -a spectacle such as 
 the world never saw before — and thus 
 practically only the Channel fleet. I 
 need not tell an enlightened audience like 
 this what has been the ama/.ing growth of 
 the British I]nipire in the past sixty years. 
 A • days ago the New York Tribune in 
 an article did ju.stice to "the British 
 Golden Age," and pointed out that while 
 other reigns had been n)ore sensational, 
 none liad been so truly glorious, none 
 had seen so great progress in the expan- 
 sion of the Empire, in political develop- 
 ment, in the industrial, social, intellectual 
 and spiritual advancement of the people ; 
 the bounds of freedom have been enlarged. 
 Li every field of science and every walk 
 of art renowns have outdazzled each 
 other. I have dwelt on the significance 
 of this magnificent demonstration in this 
 groat city, but nob less sigtiificant is it 
 that one of the foremost papers of this 
 Republic which is England's grandest 
 child, should point the finger of eulogy at 
 the wonderful expansion of the Empire 
 in these sixty years. That expansion is 
 not the expansion of a conqueror. It 
 is due to the trading adventurous in- 
 stincts of the British race and if the Brit- 
 ish soldier lias followed the trader it has 
 been to protect him and help to spread 
 freedom and enlightment. 
 
 What is the priceless thing— the grt'at 
 jewel held in the mighty casket of the 
 British Empire ? Only in that Empire 
 to-day, certainly outside the United 
 
8tAteH, iri the idou of individual liberty 
 Aiul r>f eqiml jiintico botwetui man and 
 man undorHfcxjd. And as Hiuely hh liini; 
 lanti, when Najxiloon rionacnJ tho world, 
 wi»H tho uHyliini of liboity and thoHuccosB- 
 ful protugoniHt of froydonj fio Huroly d»)eH 
 bh« British Empiro to-day tarry ui iU 
 mighty Ixisoui all the boHt hupos of tho 
 human nwo. That Empiro is greater 
 morally than [ihyNically ; itH moral great- 
 ness HurpassoH it« extent and power ; it is 
 not becauHt it is world-wide; not liecause 
 the sun never goes down on it»< Hag ; nut 
 becauHO its martial aira, as your own 
 Webster said, "keep time with the hours," 
 that wo love and honour it, Imt because 
 no tyrant can live within earttliot of its 
 drum, no slave breathe with that "bloom 
 ing old rag overhead." (Cheers.) 
 
 Greece taucht tho world individual cul- 
 ture, («8thetic self-respect ; to England 
 alone wo owe the more valuiible lessnn 
 that individual liberty stands pro-oiuinent 
 in value, above all else. 
 
 Canada illu.strates in a special manner 
 the broad beneficent policy and tho pro- 
 gress of the Empire — a progress which 
 suggests an ox[)an3ion and greatness which 
 will yet dwarf what we witness t(i- 
 day. Last Sunday's Herald, ono of your 
 papers in the city, having pointed out, 
 aided by an excellent map, how during 
 tho Queen's reign at leaat three-fourths 
 of India had been acquired ; to the ac- 
 quisition f)f Fiji; parts of Borneo, Guinea 
 and Hong Kong ; to the acquisicion of 
 vast territories in Africa ; to the emer- 
 gence of Australia, New Zealand, Vic- 
 toria, South Australia, Queonsjland, said, 
 adopting tho language of the Ne\ York 
 Tribune, that " the development of tho 
 Dominion of Canada has been almost 
 equal to the discovery of a new continent." 
 Sixty years ago the total population of 
 the Empire was 127|^ millions. To-day 
 it* is more than treble that, being 8831 
 millions, or more than one-fifth of that of 
 the whole world. Its area is now 11 ,334, - 
 391 square miles, three times the area of 
 Euroi>e, one-fifth of the area of the globe, 
 
 and of this area Canada furniBhos 3,457,- 
 (K)() square rniloH - something loss than 
 one-third of the whole. (/anada iri not 
 merely a colony, it is a confederal ion of 
 oohjuies, and during the reign has marched 
 forward with the rythni and scquomso of 
 a great drama. When Her Majesty 
 ascended tho throne, the fire and smoke 
 of rebellion blazed and blurred over the 
 banks of tlio St. Lawrence and along the 
 north of Lake Ontario. Everywhere the 
 people were oppressed. liut ac a result 
 of the rebellion Quebec and Ontario were 
 united and received responsible govern- 
 ment in 1841. Meantime in the Maritime 
 provinces a .similar constitutinnal struggle 
 was going forward led in Nova Scotia by 
 J(«ejjh Howe (loud cheers) whose genius 
 having achieved responsible government 
 ho became the first premier. By and by 
 a movement for confederation arose. In 
 Ontario two great men, rivals, but 
 patriots, came to tho front. Sit John 
 Macdonald and George Brown; in Quebec 
 Sir Gei>rge Cartior, who had been a rebel 
 
 in 1837 ; in New Brunswick Sir Leonard 
 Tilley (cheers) ; in Nu^-a Scotia Charles 
 Tupiier (loud cheers)— the [uesont Sir 
 Charles, whoso indomitable will carried 
 his Province into confederation, which 
 became an accomplished fact, the tiamo 
 year in which Disraeli passed liis reform 
 bill, which for the lirst time put power 
 into the hands of the masses of the United 
 Kingdom. Meanwhile we had entered 
 into a reci[)rocity treaty in 1854 with tho 
 United States and in 185(5 had completed 
 the building o* tho Grand Trunk railway. 
 The Provinces confedeiated, we proceed- 
 ed to acquire the North- W^st, Manitoba, 
 British Columbia and Prince Edward 
 Island were added to the confederation, 
 and 1885 at a cost of 150 millions we 
 spanned the continent with a railway from 
 stormy Atlantic to the Pacific. Let me 
 beg your attention for one moment while 
 in a sentence or two I give you .some idea 
 ot this great confederation of colonies 
 which I have the honour to represent here 
 to-night. 
 
 In 1837 there were no ocean steamers 
 plying i)etweon Great Britain and this 
 continent. An occasional steamer f(aind 
 its way into New York there to bo gazed 
 at by w<jndering thou.sands as in the case 
 
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 lid this 
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 of tlui "Great Wostorn " which arrivod 
 in Now York on tho U.Hrd oi At)ril, 1H.'W, 
 to lio dutainud stivural hi.iirs hccnuso the 
 Ntuward cuuld nofc pnujure proviHitmH 
 i'ii(tiij(h in ill New York, and Hhu had to 
 wait for a tlohiyod boat load of tlioni. Hut 
 in iK<J7 lunrtuon dititinut (Canadian lines 
 of HtoaniahifihcrosH tho Atlantic to and from 
 tho St. Lawrenoi>, and I havo just ooino 
 from Ottawa wlioro last weok in tho I'ar- 
 lianioiit of Canada wo V(;tod !ii(50(),(.HJ0 a 
 yoar to a floot of ^^royliounds to nako 
 tho r,i ip at the rato oi bwuucy-ono knots 
 an lioiir. 
 
 Look at our sluiiping ! In 18.'17 thu 
 Monti'oul Bhippin^ arrivod, uontnistod 'if 
 208 vosHois, 50.277 truiN roKister ; in 1897 
 4,23;{ \\;M.sol8, 2,jr)(J,H51> tons Tojj^ister. In 
 18.'{7 tho total tnulo of Canada of tho 
 K.N.A. Diovuices, iuiporr.s ami uxports 
 nuKjuntod to §28,(KJ0,O00 ; m 1897, 
 »240,000,000. 
 
 In 18U7 iho shtjjping employed inwards 
 lunountod to 1,840 vohsoIh, ()17,'^'J{) tons ; 
 in 1897. to 9(j,(i41 vobhoIs of iJ5,2<)8,53(J 
 tons. 
 
 Look again at niilv/ays. Wo had in 
 18;{7 Hi niilos of railway, 1 loconiotivo, 4 
 cars, 20,000 patHHongerN, 7,71t' tons of 
 froight. To-day, in 1897, wo havo 17,0<X) 
 niiloH of railway.-i, 2,04() lodoniotivoH, t)2,- 
 000 earn, 14,810,407 p.issengorH, 44,20(5,- 
 825 tons of freight. In 1837 wo had l(i 
 miles of canals tivo foot on bill. In this 
 year of grace, 1897 wo havo 72 miles of 
 canals from 9 to 14 foot on sill, with a 
 Hui)niorgod oanal between Montreal and 
 Quebec, made by cutting out about 25,- 
 ()(X),fK)0 cubic feet of earth and stone, the 
 whole opening up a .system of navigation 
 over 2,000 miles in length at a cost of 
 3(81,000,000. (Cheers.) Yo\i cheer that. 
 But 1 havo yot to tell you what is nioro 
 signiiicanfc as I'cgiirds ttio Empire. VVe 
 have in tho last twenty-tive years ojiened 
 up a country known as the Canada 
 North-West, which could supply England 
 with all tho beef, wheat, mutton, butter, 
 pork and choose she needs. With Janada, 
 not to speak of Australia and India and 
 the Cape, nobody need talk of starving 
 Groat liritain. 
 
 In 1891 we bhippod eastward from 
 Manitoba and the North- West 17.000,fK)0 
 bushels of grain ; in 1892 20.000,0(.K) 
 bu«hels; 189;5, 17,000,000 bushels ; 1894, 
 lfi,000,000 bushels; 1895, 22,000,000 
 busliels; in 189«, 2(),000,(XHJ bushels. VVe 
 have on the Atlantic and the Pacitic the 
 finest harbors and the tinest coal Holds in 
 tho world. The finest coaling stations 
 
 for an imporial fleot. Wo have nilvur And 
 uoid and nicko] and mica uiinoa. Wo 
 navo forests all but inexhaustible ; rivers 
 and lakes; hshorios tho envy of tho world; 
 mountains which you who havo oroHsed 
 tho RookinH know surp-iss tlxmo of 
 {Switzerland in sublimity and terrific 
 urandi'ur. We have great citio-s on tho 
 Facilic coast; one city only ton years old, 
 which might b(» a groat capital. In Win- 
 nipeg tho village of 1881 is a groat city 
 to-day, and along tho lino westward 
 t/owns and cities, most of which — I don'*" 
 think you could say this of lioston — havo 
 plenty of light and yet have never had 
 any gas. (Ijiughter and cheers.) 
 
 Now there are some papers which are 
 hostile to this Grout British Empire. I 
 don't know why, any more than I can 
 understand an Irishman being liostilo to 
 It. I know very well there havo boon 
 unwise English statesmen and bad law», 
 but tho ex}iansi<»n of the British Empire 
 is the enlargement of the freedom and 
 bles.sings and enlightment of the human 
 race. In the extension of the Enifuro 
 human nature has exhibited its grandest 
 characteristics. Tho foundation may 
 havo been laid by English adventure and 
 valour, but assuredly the ciedit of even 
 that cannot bo claimed apart from Celtic 
 genius. Tho Englishman of tho lifteenth 
 century is not a baxon, but a mixture of 
 Celt, Saxon, Norman. The son of Edward 
 Tudor and Margaret Beaufort was assur- 
 edly as much Celt as ho was anything 
 else ; his early education was Welsh; nor 
 wore tho characterics of his son, Honry 
 VIII., or of his granddaughter Elizabeth, 
 Teutonic. The line of Kings which fol- 
 lowed tho Tudors was Celtic. Henry 
 VII. sent Cabot to discover Newfound- 
 land. But it is in the days of Elizjibeth and 
 James we see the rudintontary imperialism 
 of the British race: Virginia, Newfound- 
 land, th(! Piltjrim Fathers (cheers), tho 
 East India Company. One hundred and 
 fifty years after jRaleigh wfc see England 
 assuming a really imperial attitude ; tho 
 days of Pitt, of Clivo, of Wolfe, (.f Wash- 
 ington too ; the great duel for Empire 
 which ended with Waterloo. Had not 
 by this time Pitt's wi.sdoui and Chester- 
 field's made the Highlander and tho 
 Irishman, the Mac's anil the O's powerful 
 wings of the fighting forces of the 
 Empire / Were not Irishmen and .Scotch- 
 men leaders of thought in England in the 
 British Parliament '{ in literature i in the 
 fiross I The greater part of tho Empire 
 has been made sinoe, and havo not Irish- 
 
men as well as English nibii done their 
 Biiure ot building '< I civnnut understand 
 the New York Sun's hostility to the 
 British Empire ; for the theory of the 
 Republic precludes it frotix rivrtlry. Are 
 not those forecastinj^^s of the doom of the 
 British Ernpivo a little foolish ? Have 
 they not an air of unworthy envy— an 
 envy for which there is no justification in 
 fact, any more than there is an historical 
 or lo^?eal base for the host ility of certain 
 Iriiihii;en. And is it not impotent as 
 well ( It is admitted that no two j^reat 
 powers lombini . could cope with Eng- 
 land, but it is said all the powers might 
 couibino. Is that likely ? But siirpoao 
 they did. rlemember Great Britain and 
 Ireland faced a world in arms a century 
 ago, and never sat down until Waterloo, 
 one of whose heroes is at this board to- 
 night, crowned her and placed the bloody 
 laurels of victory round her bmw. 
 (Cheers.) 
 
 The Queen's reij^n has been compared 
 to that of Louis XIV. But Louis XIV, 
 old and wearied, went painfully to the 
 tomb in the midst of rever.s'^s of fortune 
 and o.'orawed by a formidable coalition. 
 Queen Victoria sees her immense Em- 
 pire incieaso every day and casting her 
 eyes towards every com{)ass and scjinning 
 the world's map she meets only with sub- 
 jects V) excite satisfaction and inspire 
 nope. Louis XIV. 's system lain the 
 foundation of the decadence of France^ and 
 led on by sure steps ro Sedan. A com- 
 parison has been made with the Rcmian; 
 but Roman pi>wer died in the extremities 
 and the provinces in time had either to 
 be abandoned or rose, subdued aj^'aiust 
 subduer, and overwhelmed the centre 
 from which heart and faith and valour 
 had tied. Everything is different with 
 the British Empire. The heart is as 
 sound as in days of yore, and for the ,)x- 
 tremities — the imperial oflFahoots — the 
 nation colonies turn not to rend, but to 
 defend and strengthen. Under the 
 Southern cross is an island a quavter the 
 size of Europe with great and splendid 
 cities which did not exist when Her 
 Majesty ascended the throne. There is 
 British Africa ; t]:ere is the confederated 
 half of this continent, wJience I come -all 
 saying to the ocean Queen, "our pride 
 and glory is tO serve under you and shind 
 by your side." Macaulay, led away by a 
 love for eflect, pictured a traveller from 
 New Zealand sitting on a broken arch of 
 St. Paul's, and the great Daniel Webster 
 in one his addresses reflected that if Eng- 
 
 land .should pass into decay the great 
 Republic which was her child, born in 
 storm and bitterness and fated to great- 
 ness, would preserve her memory, her 
 arts, her language, her love of freedom. 
 England's time cannot comw unless her 
 Empire's time should come. Where is 
 tl'o nation, or combination of nations, 
 which could mtet this wf>rld wide Empire 
 united fo fight '^ Instead of ttm New 
 Zeitlander sketching the ruins of St. 
 Paul's wo should have the Maori swolliug 
 the imperial army. The men living in 
 tile two heroic isles show no decay, and 
 as for their colonial children and brethren 
 our Tonnito Highlanders beat the regulars 
 the other day. In earlier hours of 
 danger we sent the 100th reginrjnt 
 to the Imperial camp. Wo guided 
 the Imperial tri)opH up the Nile. 
 Australia sent her suns to tight and has 
 arranged for her own naval contingent. 
 South Afric* has followed suit. What I 
 S3e is more nd fuller life everywhere. 
 It may be that we shall see despotism 
 and tyranny and bai't aritini, civilised only 
 in the art of war, combined against this 
 Empire with its 50,000,000 of English- 
 Rjyoaking men and millions of loyal sub- 
 ject races. It may be we may have to 
 face an Armageddon in w'licli the nceans 
 and seas of the round world will be 
 purple with blood and flame, and it may 
 be, that is it is not beyond the bounds of 
 possibility — it' may ho we should 3uccmnb. 
 If so we would to une language which my 
 gallant friend and his marines and blue 
 jackets will understand, we wtmld fall as 
 they fall !».nd die as our fathers died with 
 the jack si ill floati ng nailed to the mast, 
 leaving a name without a parallel and 
 which nevercDuldhaveaparallel. (Cheers.) 
 Much more likely we would send tyranny 
 skulking to its hoh, oooped up in narrower 
 bounds and make the thr'ia-crossed dag 
 still more the world's flag of freedom. 
 All the signs are signs of life ; t>f expand- 
 ing material, moral aid spiritual power. 
 This Empire will go for vard becoming 
 greater in power and a still greater bless- 
 ing to mankind. A federation of free 
 nations. The centuries will make mil- 
 leniums, and yet it is uiy belief and hopo 
 and fervent prayer that bea ity's ensign 
 will be purple on those imperial lips, and 
 the day beyond tho forecast of niaii when 
 death's pale Hag will be advanced on that 
 imperial bruw. (Ij(md and prolonged 
 cheers, all the ladies and gentlemen in 
 the body of the hall, over 2,(500, rising to 
 their feet and waving handkerchiefs.) 
 
PRESS COMMENTS. 
 
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 A GREAT SPEECH. 
 
 <Froni ihe Wiunipetf Wor'-VVoster.) 
 The Diiiinond Jubilee was characterized 
 by much onitory, some jjood n\u\ Home 
 bad. The Rr»3ater part of it, however 
 excellent, will be jphetnera!. Only a few 
 noble orntiona will live. Amona; those 
 idu'uld be the Rpeech delivered by Mr. 
 Nicholas Flood Davin at the Boston cele- 
 bration, the full extent of which appears 
 in this issue of the Nor'- Wester. This 
 speech, both in regard to form and matter, 
 is worthy of comparison with any oration 
 \:hich the Jubilee called forth. Its in- 
 terest is added to by tlie uniqueness of 
 the occasion which evoked it. A Jubilee 
 dinner on the site of the Boston tea party 
 was one of the most remarkable incidents 
 of the recent celebrations. Mr. Davin's 
 
 speech was entirely worthy of that unique 
 •iccasion. It wa>s wortk also, of the 
 centre of cisAtlnntic culture in which it 
 was delivered. It abounds in rich perir)dH, 
 sparkles with felicitous phrases, is replete 
 with happy allu-sions, and is solid with 
 interestinx facts. Apart altogether from 
 its connection with the Jubilee, it has a 
 high value as literature. There is per- 
 haps only one Canadian who can rival 
 Mr. Daviii as an orator, usin^ tbe word 
 in its true .ind best sense. He has few 
 rivals iu the Empire, and the West has 
 reason to be proud of her eloquent eon. 
 
 CANADA AT BOSTON. 
 
 (From the Moosoniiti 8poct.ator.) 
 
 The Spectator has had much pleasure 
 
 in puldishiiig Mr. Davin's magnitioent 
 
 oratii)n at the Boston celobratioj of the 
 
 Diamond Jubilee, which is concluded in 
 
 this issue. Mr. Davin did no got to 
 
 Boston to an oflicial capacity, but yet, in 
 
 a sense, lie otbciidly represented Canada 
 on that occasion. No choice that the 
 Bosion Jubilee Committee could have 
 made could have been more felicitous. 
 
 Our friends across the line are fond of 
 orations, and we are sure Mr. Davin's was 
 lH)th a surprise and a pleasure to them. 
 Mr. Davin is an Irishman by oirth, a 
 
 Canadian by choice and a Nor'- Wester * 
 * * * It we add that his sympathies are 
 cosmopolitan, »nd his reputation as an 
 orator and man of letters of the highest 
 order, it h plain we have an almost ideal 
 representative to send to a ountry which 
 w» regret to call foreign. Mr. Davin's 
 visit to Boston wo venture to say will not 
 soon be forgotten, and his speech will live 
 in the minds of those who hoard him, 
 when the echoes of other jubilee speeches 
 made by men no less prominent will have 
 died away into the silence of eternal 
 oblivion. 
 
 I , , ii — — 
 
 (From the Liverpool Daily Post. Aui<. 31. 1897.) 
 
 " Among these speeches [speeches de- 
 livered on tile oocasioi) of Her Majesty's 
 Jubilee] shines forth by reason oi con- 
 spicuous merit, the one delivered by Mr. 
 N. F. Davin, Q.C., a member of the 
 Canadian Parliameur. who was chosen to 
 represent the D(jmiiiiou of Canada at the 
 Jubilee celebration in Boston. Mr. 
 Davin'a oration proves that while loyalty 
 may grow mi intensity with remoteness 
 from the centre of Imperial Government 
 — a fact of whicli the Jubilee demonstra- 
 tions furni».h many proofs — the piwar of 
 giving it expression is not prejudiced by 
 transplantation." 
 
 (From (ho Dundafl Banner. ) 
 
 "There is probably no other man in 
 Canada who coulJ have done such justice 
 to a toast of this kind and on such an 
 occAsioii as Mr. Davin." 
 
 (From the .St.. Johu'nSuu.) 
 
 •'Mr. Daviti is in Parliament a goiwl 
 deal more than a western nienil),.r. He i» 
 a conspicuous member of the House, able 
 to take part in the disousNion of large 
 national questimis, .strong in his convic- 
 tions and indtpundent in expre8.siiig 
 them. His absence from Parliament 
 would not only be a loss to the Conserva- 
 tive p'"ty in Canada, bet to the country 
 generally, and it is nut snrinising th-it 
 many of his fellow-mem hers on both sides 
 of the House will bo glad to have him 
 t jmain in the legislature. It is some- 
 thing for the western constituency that 
 its representative Hliuuld bo selected by 
 the British suloects in Boston to deliver 
 the chief oration .it the great ,rul>iluH 
 banquet. " 
 
PRESS COMMENTS (CONTINUED) 
 
 (Prom the Sentinel, Toronto, Sept. aSrd. 1897.) 
 "A portion of that able and brilliftiit 
 effort has already appeared in the Sen- 
 tinel, and doiibtlass our readern will re- 
 tnembor the pleasure its perusal aflorded 
 them. * * * Of all the orations 
 delivered in ci'lobratioii of the Jubilee 
 none were in netter t^iste, or in more 
 elciiant terms than that of the eloquent 
 Irish journaliar and stateaitinn who so 
 ably represents West Aasin-boia."