The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-11-12
SALISBURY SPEAKS.
ENGLANDS PREMIER DELIVERS HIS.
ANNUAL LORD MAYORS ANNUAL.
He AIIudeE to the Recent President
Election In America and Elk
presses the Belief That the Ven
ezuelnn Controversy Is at an End
The yenezueIa Controversy at
nm End-The Eastern Question

-Ihe Venezuela Controversy at
End-The Eastern Question.
London, Nov. 11.-At the annual lord
mayors banquet Ambassador Bayard
was given an ovation when he arose to
respond to the toast 1.-THE Ambassa-
doris" In abiding to the recent cleo
ton in America he said: ''The people
j represent have made a declaration in
no narrow sense and in no local or
limited sense, which stands as YER
dict and declaration for national hon
or, speaking to the human heart and
mind in favor of that honesty which is
essential for the civilization Of the
world"
After Mr.. Bayard had concluded the
lord mayor proposed 1.-THE Minister'S"
upon which Lord Salisbury arose amid
loud cheers, which quickly subsidized
Into GREATNESS silence and close at
itention to the annual guild hall speech
of the prime minister, which is by COM
mon acceptance looked to embody the
official announcement of the govern
ments policy to the nation. Lord Sal
isbury said:
81 thank Mr.. Bayard for his pres
ence here tonight and for his joining
in the historic meeting. By the few
words he has uttered he has raised his
own plane of observation so high above
the mere level of party that, though
contrary to our practice to make OBJ
seryations on the internal policies Of
other states, may be permitted with
out impertinence to congratulate him
upon the splendid pronouncement
which the great people he represents
has made in behalf of the principles
which lie at the basis Of all human
society. 1t is rather like pathos to
turn from that matter to the not very
important controversy which his coun-
try and ours have had during the re-
cent months. I only do so for the pur-
pose Of expressing my belief that the
Venezuelan controversy is at an end"
Cheers.) .
The Eastern Question
eve have had an anxious year in the
foreign Office, but we have f1oated into
period of comparative calm. I'm
fortunately one matter has not passed
by. That is the troubles in Turkey"
Continuing, Lord Salisbury said that
he believed that the people of Great
Britain were now virtually unanimous
against isolated action than which a
worse course could not be adopted to
benefit the Armenians. If it was mere
ly wishing to pursue course to punish
ior worry the Turkish government,
Great Britain had abundant means of
doing so; but if they had higher
wish, to rescue the Christian and
IMoslem people from atrocious misgov-
eminent, they must seek to draw into
cooperation as many nations of the
world as possible. If it was desired
ito use force in Turkey, the flee. would
mot suffice Military occupation alone
would not be effective and the latter
would be a large undertaking. He
would not pretend to say what Great
britain might do if she exhausted all
her forces, but if they wished a mill
itary occupation requiring very large
army, Great Britain must begin by es-
Establishing CONSUMPTION.
1t was nonsense to say that Great
britain was Inundated if she could
not persuade the other five powers to
adopt her particular purposes. Lord
salisbury demurred, he said, from the
idea that they were able to bend the
!counsels and forces of gigantic empires
to whatever course Great Britain
thought desirable.
Will ReHnquish No Land.
Il may say Lord Salisbury added,
Gin connection with the Eastern prob
lem, that we see no cause to abandon
the policy hitherto pursued or to re-
;EnQuiSh a single acre of the land we
now occupy"
Having warmly eulogized the work
of Sir Herbert Kitchrer, the sirdar of
the Egyptian forces; Lord Cromer, the
British agent at Cairo. in connection
with the Soudan expedition. Lord Sails
bury said that he could not say more
than that the concert of Europe seemed
ito be more real than ever before. He
was very much pleased with the elo-
Quent speech Of NJ. HanotauX, the
French minister of foreign affairs, out
lining the requirements which the
powers would insist upon from the
sultan. He believed. he said, that
France would do nothing to battle Eu-
rOpean action.
Lord Salisbury's remarks contained
only guarded reference to the dis
closures made by Prince Bismarck
through his newspaper organ of q
secret treaty between Germany and
Russia which existed prior to 1890.
The premier alluded to Prince Bis
marck as the greatest statesman which
the latter part Of the century had pro-
duced
Lord Salisbury denurred absolutely
to the presumption of the existence Of
a permanent and necessary antagon-
ism between Russia and Great Britain.
On this presumption, Lord Salisbury
said: THAT is superstition of anti
Quated diplomacy. I have good
grounds to believe that Russia enter
tains the same views and pursues the
same object as ourselves concerning
the terrible events in the East"
Newspaper Man Arrested.
Chicago, Nov. 11.-Edwin T. Bennett,