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Les diagrammes suivants illustrent la mdthode. 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 mmmiP- n;- I I, j|"i„ I I "I I IZ^ *'m\P'<\P^^ ie "^ •niiraii |i..!i ii....iin|i,..,,|fl||i..ai Price 10c. ■\ The British Empir" ▼ A SPEBCH Delivered at the Banquet in Boston, A CELEBRATING. |Her Majesty's Diamond Jubilee A BY. icnoias Flood Davin, aG, m.f. # ^••^ll lli' •••-'•IS Winnipeg : Nor'- Wester Office, 1897. •♦'•i!||||!M-a|||$|||M:a||||^.aS^^^ BIBLiOTHECA J _ lllti'Olllllli-'iillllHMiilJIIii. Tl V "-. Mr. T TT 1 EM [S. The Greatness and Glory of the Empire— Growth of The Colonies — The Colonies, The Empire -Can. Ada's Wonderful Progress — Impregnability and Future of the Empire — Jubilee Speech at Bos- ton, U. S. A., By NICHOLAS flood DAVIN, Q. C, M. P. There are 40,000 Britishers, wtio are British in sympathy in Boston; some Englishmen, Irishmen and Scotchmen; but by far the largest portion coming from Nova Scotia, New J s runs wick and Prince Edward Island. Early in the year, theleading men of the 40,000 formed theme^ves into the Victorian Diamond Jubilee Festival Association, Mr. Thos T. Stokes being secretary, and the result was that on the 21st of June there was held in Boston such a festival as was never seen before in a foreign city. During the day there was an imposing procession, made up of those of the 40,000 who tvished to march, of a large number of pension- ers wearing clasps and medals h^ad- '^d by John Gillon. the so e survlvior of Waterloo, carrying a banner on which was inscribed "Waterloo, 1815;" of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company who wished to join the pro- cession to show their appreciation of the way they had been received in England and Canada; of marines and blue Jackets from Her Majesty's ship "Pallas." which had rome from Hali- fax to take part in the oelebrati n; of members of the Caledonian Society In the Scotch national dress headed by a piper; and of carriages of distin- guished people. This procession, which excited great enthusiasm among the British onlookers, was followed in the evening by a banquet. The Boston Herald next morning said: "A mag- nificent and dietinguisjied gathering voiced last night In Mechanics building the tribute alike of Boston and Maps- achussetts to the great and good wo- man who for the past sixty years has ruled over the people of Great Brit- ain. The assembly had all tha pres- tige of unprecedented numbers. The festival brought upwards of 2,600 per- sons to the tables In the great banquet hall and made a spertacle when the proceedings were at their height of a character very remarkable and impres- sive." From 6 o'clock until ten minutes to 7 in one of the large rooms adjoin- ing the hall. Mr. Davin, who had come from Ottawa to reply to the toast of the Empire and the Colonies, and Mrs. Davln, held a levee, and the la- dles and gentl<»men hailing from Can- ada were ere entering the dining room presented to them. The great gal er- ies around the hall were filled and thousands looked down on a The Kmpire and thk Culoniess. I scene of splendor and decorations it would be impossible to descilbe. "The human Interest of the occasion," adds the* Boston Herald, "dominated Its every other aspect. To see two thousand six hundred people at din- ner was a sight In Itself." As a fact, 2,700 people sat down to dinner. The banquet was presided over by Mr. George B. Perry, the president of the Victoria Diamond Jubilee Festival As- sociation, to his right and left being His Excellency" Roger Wolcott, Governor of Massachusetts. Sir Dominie E. Col- naghi, consul general of Boston, Nich- olas Flood Davin, Q. C, M. P.; Vice Consul W, H,. Stuart, His Honor Mayor Qulncy,'lhe Hon. Wlnslow Warren, the collector of the port of Boston ;Cap- taln Humpage, of Her Majesty's ship Pallas, a« improper here and now to obtrude. Nobody need sup- pose that I hold that all things which fc'hould have been done, have been done, or that some things which have been done would have been better not U.tt undone. I do nor therefore invite your attention to an hlstori' al I'ls- tjuisition. I ask your attention while in a few wor 1-5 T touch on what is true and vital .ind niiMiesvionable in the light of this epic moment which challenges not oui attention nio'elv but the attentioi of civilized mankind. (Cheers.) I know that in Boston, ai! all over the United States, there are British born ^ubiect.s who »r;\nd .is-nle from the British empire, but they have no logical or historical ground for this, because the Empire which ;<- an actuaiuv la ot comparatively recent date hrgs been built up by and is com- posed of Irishmen as well as English- men and Scotchmen— all th e have fought and thought and bled the world over in extending and buidlng and blending— weaving tha wonderful w°i- raising that wonderful thing— without prototype or parallel— the British Em- pire. (Cheers.) But. Sir. there are thronging mem- ories which point to beckoning associ- ations and thrilling suggestions. From this great theme of Empire I must for one moment turn aside Standing here for the first time on this classic ground, in the Athens of TiiK Emi'ire and thk Coloniks. Itlu' New "World. common gratitude linalvCM it Irnposalblc I should forbear 111) do honiiiKo to those groat mon who Itlie other day moved among ynu, whose lliisiiiratlon was essentially British, hvho were among those who gave my Jyoung mind Itg earliest and nob. est jstiinulus — Emer?on, Holmes, Longfei- llow, Lowell. (Cheers.) These are names Iwhieh must not pass away. This Igreat nation is justly proud of its de- Imocracy. Happy Is the democracy wliich has an aristocracy of genius a.'. 6. [knowledge, and happy is the city which ■can boast of giving humanity names llilte those. (Cheers.) Turning away Ifrom them and other great Intellectual Ibenefactors. which irresistibly present [til- mselves. how striking—how illustra- itivc of the humanizing Influence of time Itli • healer as well as avenger — that we Uhould be assembled here under pres- ent conditions '^ for I am not quite as lAivious of the past as that English [t(il)leman. who on approaching Boston land having Bunker Hill pointed out to Ihim asked "Who was Bunker? ana [what did he do with his hill?" (Laugh- Iter.) Why, it requires only a small [effort of thft Imagination to hear the jfirst murmurs of the war of Indepen- jdence. the guns of Concord, the shouts |of citizens rising against taxed tea; the cries of the embattled farmers who Ifired the shot heard round the world; Innd yet we are met in one of the fore- |most cities of the great republic which emerged full panoplied from the smoke |fir,(l blood of a rebellion commenced thus and here— to do what? To honor the ll'inmond jubilee of the world Empire Ij^.rltish Queen: and the grandsons of the Ihero-farmers join with lis in drinking Ithe health of the granddaughter of [Ceoi-ge III. (Cheers.) This is a magnificent festival; but, [contrary to rule, It is srreater relatively Ithan absolutely. Grand as it is, its grand- Ideur is enhanced when we think that at Ithis moment, not merely in London is [the Empire Queen gathering her child- iren around her, but that, in great cities and capitals under the southern I cross, under northern auroral lights, [torrid suns, within British limits, or in ' foreign lands wherever British -^^nergy has gone— or in a land like this which no British heart can heartily call for- eign — for what is th's great rt piblic bu- one of the lion's whe ps >;rown lo !!• n- hood, and for distinction sTke growing a. pair of wings and proclaiming him- self a lion of the air— (Laughtrr and cheers)— everywhere in the civilized world, nay in its uncivilized corners also: wherever British p'iiek and en- durance are found — and wh re are they not?— the same fast is held — in city and jungle, or mounta'n and plain, there is no clime so inhosidtable the e is no tract so dangerc.us. no ise so little, no sea so lone, but over tower and turret and dome, over scud and sand and palm tree, at this liou*', the flag bearing the three crosses of the three great na- tions of the two heroic isles, rises with solemn splendour and sublime plGrnlfl- cance; where it is day the winds of heaven reverently caress its immortal folds, and where it is night the ptars salute it as a fellow star. (Applause.) The majority of t.ie great empire or power disp'ay^? of the i ast hai no mo al or spiritual significance. The mo-^t PUg gestive is that of Alexander with kings and satrapies bowing to Greek genius and generals from whose loins great dynasties were to spring waiting ( n Hi-^ son of PhlUp. Alexander's was a mli- tary despotism, but his conqufests car- ried the Greek language and G!e k lit- erature to the East; and although Greek civilization rested on a ba.«e of slavery it had yet for its central idea the importance of the individual and rf individual culture. Still n-ither in power or splendour or In relation to th':- progress and happiness of mankind do the claims of Alexander on our interest approach what is taking place today. Talk of Rome in her palmiest days, when the republic had reaehed its apex, when the car cllmbedthe cain- tol, leading captive kings and princes from Syria; crowned chiefs of trans- mcntlne tribes, the fair haired Dacian, the turbaned priest from E'gypt, the blue-eyed Gaul, followed the cortege of boastful conquest; when the wealth of the Ganges and the Eurhrates, of the Nile and Persian seas, of the Loire and the Rhine, were poured into the lap of the Tiber; when the column roe wound round with tales of success in war; when laurelled conquerors trium- phed over pontiff kings; when power The Empirk and the Colonies. and fear -Ir- v, the lonfl^is <.f a hundrftd ti'ii;^ui8 I" tin- mi> !•■ 88 of inarikirid und hrnt their ii"'< lc» in .-ervile obeisance. A yrrnter -a niove ;;i rgfous above all. a nobler srectaclt' claims our attention on the banks of the Tham 'S than ever dazzled the i:ui'hiates or the 'Hber. We have in London t' day the rulers of free conimuniMes, of nasctnt nations, wherein education is ditTuscd among the poorest. where no slave can brtathe. proffering pioud voluntary allegiance. the rulers of free peoples. whose meanest citizen feels that he is the fraction^ part of a sovereign; representatives of colonial B-overnm«nts; representative- of colonial armies, militia, volunteers; swarthy princes and rajahs from In- dia's three hundred millions, pleladed with diamonds and belted like Orion; dusky warrios from Guinea; the dyak from Borneo; the Maori from New Zealard: all the Jewelled pomp and splendour of the East, all the enllgten- ment of the West: India. Africa, Aus- tralasia. Canada, the islands of the Bea spontaneously met in grateful tri- bute and wir ling homage. (Loud cheers.) Never has there been a pageant so supremely moral, so superb in power and at the same time in Intellectual, moral and spiritual interest — so in- spiring with the loftiest hopes for hu- man destiny. No department of state, no function of peace, no arm of war, no dependency is unrepresented In that Imposing throng swelled by princes and ambassadors from empires and king- doms and republics. Mr. Whltelaw Reid, the special amba.ssador of this republic. prPMt fabrirant oC .Hnvnal d"^- mocratic thunder, bears aloft the stars and stripes of this great free nation. Bide by side with the insignia of the Czar, and the flag of Switzerland gleams near the eagle of France. der the overwhelming splendour of memories In which saints und aagi-s, warriors and kings und poets and statesmen loom large and l.inilnms; the great ancestors and lortnuinerB w the gueen, the Edwards and liemy's; mailed barons and eimed ciuttiderj; Shakespeare and his brethren; Chau- cer and Milton; Marlbouruugti and Sid- ney; Clarendon and Buike; Chatham and his greater son— an army of immortals rise from their 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 heroic life and heroic death. The English Harold smiles from remote centuries on the lattst. greatest and most fortunate of Eng- lish rulers, and the British Arthur, the purpose of whose life a frail quten and erring woman spolled.sees that puipoB? fulfilled beyond his fondest dreams by a blameless woman and a British queen; and Victoria stainleias, dutlt'ui. realizes the ideal shattered by uie beautiful and passionate Guinevere. (Loud and proonged cheers.) Ani while ail this is taking pace In Lon- don and echoed in ten thousand cen- ters of free life— echoed in Melbourne, in Winnipeg, in Calcutta, Vancouver; in Cape Town and Halifax, and here in this great city of another country, though not another race, look sea- ward! Around Spithead there movei a fleet of warships. Sea dragcns- Argosles of steel clad terror— a spec- tacle such as the world never saw be- fore—and this practically only the Channel fleet. I need not tell an en- lightened audience like thia what has been tht» amazing growth of the Brit- ish empire in the past sixty years. A few days ago the New York Tribune in an article did Justice n^U^l^T''^ ^"^ ^T'" ^"^ ^^°'y t° "t^^ British Golden Age." and pjnt- IvlZZlZTuu^"" l^'J' ^'^P^''^' ^^ «"* *»»»* ^hlle other reigns had been ConfeLor oont:t f "^ ."vf ^.^"^^'^ '^' "''''' sensational, none had been so wZeZ™ '" rP fl^'T ' ! ^"'' "' "^'" . ''•"'^ ^^'"•'^"^ "«n«^ had been so great hea^rSri where t?i^r"v,r'^'' "'"""^^ P^°^««« ^'^ '^^ expansion of the em- plug's canopies all ^th/t T" °^ f *' ""'''' ^^ P°""«^' development, in the of th^heXfo^f T^afal^af an ^ W^fe:" ItuaT^r* "^'"^' *"""^^*"^^ ^''' ''t loo. This pageant more spfendl^rn 1 ^ bou„L ofT'T"' °' '''' ^^'^''^ ' moral aspect than in those of wealth or TaXJ t ^ "^« have been en- pomp, or dominion, or power Is he^dun «J* ^?, '"^^'^ ^^'^ °^ ""'"""' ""^ power is neid un- every walk of art renowns have The Empire and the Coloniks. outdazzled each other. I imve ciwdt on the significance of this magniflc:^nt 'demonstration In this great flty, but not less slgnlflcant is It that one of tli»> foremost papers of this Republic Avhlch Is England's grandest child, should point the finger of eulogy at the won- derful expansion of the empire in this • sixty years. That expansion is not the fxiuinsion of a conquoror. It is due to th€» trading ad- venturous Instincts of the British race and if the British soldier has lollo^ved the trader it has been to protect him and help to spread freedom and en- l^glitenmont. What Is the priceless thins— Ihe great jewel held in the mighty casket of the British empire? Only in that empire to(l:iy, certainly outside the United State?, is thie idea of individual liberty and of equal justice between man and man understood. And as sure'y as Eng- land when Napoleon menaced th-.' woild was the asylum of liberty and the suc- (■(■ys-fui protagonist of freedom so surely does the British Empire today carry in its mighty bosom all the l)est hopes of the human race. That empir » is grtuter morally .^an physically; its moral greatness surpasses its extent and power; it is not because It is world- wide; not because the .5un never poes down on its flag; not because its mar- tial airs, as your own Webster said, l'ed the tN;nU - ent with a railway firm the s oriny At- lantic to the Pacific. Let me b^: your attention for one moment while .n a sentence or two I give you s me id a of this great co»federatlon of lohinlcH which I have the hunur to reprcs' nt here tonight. In 1837 there were no ocean stoam- ers plying between Great Britain and this continent. An occasional sttam' r found its way Into New York there to be gazed at by wondeilng thousands as In the case of the "Great Westetn" which arrived In New York on th<' 23rd of April, 1838. to be detained sev- eral hours because the steward could not procure provisions enough in all N*w York, and she had to wait for a delayed boat load of them. But in 1897 fourteen distinct Canadian lines of steamship cross the Atlantic to and from the St. Lawrence, and I have just come from Ottawa where last week in the parliament of Canada wo voted $500,000 a year to a fleet of grey- hounds to make the trip at the rate <r you and stand by your side." Macaulay, led away by a love for effect, pictured a traveller from New Zea'and sitting on a broken arch of London bridge, sketching the ruins of H. Paul's, and the great Daniel Webster in one nf his addrt^ses reflected that if England should pass into decay the great Republic which was her 'hild, born in storm and bit- tornpss and fated to greatness, Mould preserve her memopy, her arts, her language, her love of free- (iom. England's time cannot com'> unless her empire's time should come. Where is the nation, or combination of nations, which could meet this world wide empire united to fight? Instead of thi; New Zealfflnder sketching th» ruins of St. I'lul's we should have th» Maori awelliiiK the imperial army. The men living in the two heroic isle.s show no decay, and as for their colonial chl!- dren and brethren our Toronto High- landers beat the regulars the (,ther day. In earlier hours of danger we Pent the 100th rcigiment. We guided the Imperial troops up the Nile. Aus- tralia sent her sons to fight and has ar- ranged for her own naval contingent. South Africa has followed suit. What I see is more and fuller life every- M-here. It may be that we shall see des* potlsm and tyranny and barbarism civilized only in the art of war, com- bined aginst this empire with Its 50,- 000,000 of English-speaking men and mil- lions of loyal subject races. It may be we may have to face an Armageddon In which the oceans and seas of the round world will be purple with blood and flame.and it may be,that is.lt is not beyond the bounds of possibility— It may be we should succumb. It so we would to use language which my gallant friend and his marines and blue jackets will understand, we would fall as they fall j,nd die as our fath- ers died with the Jack still floating nailed to the mast, leaving a name without a parallel and which never could havd a parallel. Much more likely we would send tyranny skulk- ing to its hold coopad up In narrower bounds and make the three-crossed iiag still more the world's flag of free- dom. All the signs are signs of llf^; of expanding material, moral and spiritual power. This empire will go forward becoming greater In power and a still greater blessing to man- kind. A feideration of free nations. The centuries will ma,ke millenlums. and yet it is my belief and hope and fervent prayer that beauty's ensign will be purple on those imptvlal lips and the day beyond the forecast of man when death's pale flag will be ad- vanced on that imperial brow. (Loud and prolonged cheers.) (' BiBLiOTHrXA