Evening journal., 1896-02-04
ANGLO SAXON ALLIANCE
Balfour Favors Such Union In
a Speech al Bristol.
AN EVIDENT DESIRE FOR. PEACE.

With m Alliance with the United States
England Need Fear No Menace From
Any Foe - sweet Words For Russia.
Some Remarkable Utterances.
LoNDoN, Feb. 4.-Hon. A. J. Balfour,
first lord Of the treasury and Conservative
leader in the house of commons, spoke at
Bristol last night, combining himself main
ly to homo politics.
Ile declared that the government had
done all in its power toprevent the Arme-
ninn horrors and that it had not prevent
ed Russia from intervening. Russia, he
said, had not been willing to undertake
the duty.
Mr.. Balfour closed with an eloquent per
oration I'm favor Of an alliance between
tho two great Anglo-Saxon races.
"What would Edmund Burke have
thought he asked, chad he been living
now, to have seen our brethren across the
Atlantic forgetful of all the tics OF kin
dreds His eloquent voice would have been
raised in pleading for the common Ian
guage Of governments and hearts. If we
have no Burke either here or in America,
l am well persuaded that the generous
sense of both great countries viii speak
even without the mighty impulse Of his
voice. If that he so, and If we be in nlli-
ance with America, we can carry ont tho
duties which Providence has intrusted to
us.
81 do not believe this empire need fear
the menace of external foes still less do
believe that 1t has anything to fear from
the menace OF an internal division.
Mr.. Balfour was greeted with prolonged
cheers upon the close of his speech.
III.
Mr.. Balfour's conciliatory and statesman
like utterances on Russia and America.
Happily says The Chronicle, "while
Lord Salisbury whistles for wind Mr..
Balfour casts oil upon the waters"
More Remarkable Than salisbury's.
NEW YORK, Feb. 4.-The Suns Lon
don correspondent says that Mr.. Baliours
speech at Bristol is oven more remarkable
than Lord Salsbury's extraordinary ut
teranco on last Friday The prime minis
ter undertook to clothe the British lion in
a sleeps or, more correctly, an ass skin.
He succeeded only in making the beast
appear ridiculous and contemptible I'm the
eyes of all boholders. His attempt to be
peaceful and conciliatory aroused only sus-
picion and anger.
The fact that his intentions were really
pacific is made clear by the amazing con-
cessions suggested by the leader of the
house OF commons. Desperate indeed must
be England's position when the deputy
leader OF the Tory government offers to
giyo Russia an ice free port in the Pacific
and in almost plaintive language inyokes
an alliance between Great Britain and the
United States.
He did both those things and talked
further about England's modesty and I'M
sclhshness in language so softly innocent
or SO innocently soft that one Is in doubt
whether to accuse him of harmless irony
or 60 conclude that the Salisbury cabinet
Is trSmbling in tho face of some terrible
rcmblnation of Great Brtain's enemies.
flow. for instance shall we interpret such
words as these My hope for the future
Is largely founded on the fact that the
British empire whatever else il is, is not
a selfish empire. If we have acquired SOW
ereignty over large tracts of the earth's
surface, at al events we rule those tracts
in no narrow or selfish spirit. Neither do
think we are animated by any spirit Of
| jealousy against other nations"
Sweet Words For Russin.
He went on to say that so far from re-
gurding with fear and jealousy a CONNER
Gl0l outlet Tor RUSSIA IN the Encluc ocean,
he should welcome such result as dis
tinct advance in that far distant region.
1 He added
81 am convinced that not only would
Russia and the world generally gain by
| It, but British commerce and enterprise
would be gamers. Let us lay TO heart this
doctrine that what is good for one is not
necessarily bad for the other, and that In
International as we'll as national matters
! we ought rot to regard ourselves as COM
1 posed OF a series Of units with hostile in
tercsts which cannot be reconciled and
/ which must be settled by tho arbitrament
/ Of war.
This doctrine, as all the world knows,
Is absolutely new TO British policy and
] diplomacy Especially is it novel in it's
/ application TO the onse in point. Great
| Britain has been uncompromising in op-
| position TO p Russian outlet I'm the Pacific.
J An Europe viii speculate over this amaz-
I ing change of front. Does it mean that
Lord Salisbury already realizes that he
has beon hopelcssly defeated i'm the far
EAST as no has been I'm Turkoys Or arc
, these sweet words intended as a desperate
I overture 60 Russia 10 match the surprising
concessions TO France in Siam fortnight
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