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Watch that black 11 uco soldier owing his way down Picoadilly
...
tlo are all bite of one grout organism of Empire. That
in the new Imperialism and its evidence is all about un. "(1)
Sir Richard Templo in honour of the occasion published
a biography of Victoria, "Sixty years of the Queen's
reign, an epoch of Empire raking. " (2)
Suprort for both
the old colonial Empire and the newly acquired Empire
had become openly uneolfconocioua.
to refer to the spreading "Imparial boom, "
The Mail was able
In the wake of the celebrations the paper examined
"What it all neunt" and found "Proud of our fathers that
founded this Empire proud of ourselves who have kept and
increased its proud of our sons .....
(3)
Until wo caw it all
passing through the streets of our city we never quite
reßlicod what the Empire meant ...
It makes life newly worth
living, worth living better und more strenuously to feel
that one is a part of this enormous, this wondroun machine#
the creatent orEoniuation the world over caw*"
(1) Daily Mail, 4th Juno 1897.
(2) Ibid. 10th June 1897.
(3) xbt d, l5th, June 1897.
(4) Y,
i d, Goldon Extra$ 23rd June 1897.
(4)