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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume V, Issue 676, 24 October 1891, Page 2

A NATIONAL celebration is mooted, in honor of the Prince of Wales reaching his I fiftieth year next month. If this is meant I as an occasion of rejoicing on the fact that after fifty years’ experience the Prince has learnt that there is a serious side to life which it is not safe for even Princes to ignore, then, on proof being given that His Highness has renounced baccarat, the carrying of gambling counters,” and other objectionable forms of amusement, we are prepared to throw our cap in the air and cheer as lustily as any of them, for there is nothing more pleasing, even to prodigals like newspaper men, than to see genuine reformation. The fact that it has taken fifty years to bring the Prince to a sense of his position argues much weakness on the part of Monarchy, but the onward march of the Democracy must ring in the ears of anyone but a deaf person. The political arena of old England is not now run by the dissolute owners of rotten boroughs, and among other things which the Democracy is making known is that while the people tolerate expensive ornathents, or supposed ornaments, to the constitution, they expect that those persons will conduct themselves with the manners that are becoming to guests. Up to the present our now elderly Prince of Wales has to a great extent been indebted to the fact that his mother, who is universally loved as well as respected, has been a sort of buffer between her son and the people, and all can join in wishing that the good lady may reign for many years to come.