The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-16
BRITONs NOT BELLIGERENT.
Mr.. DaIfOur in Favor of Peace Be
tween England and America.

Mr.. DaIfOur in Favor of Peace Be-
tween England and America.
London, Jan. 15.-At a meeting in Man
chester this evening, over which he pre-
sided, Rt. Hon. Arthur Balfour, lord OF
the treasury, in the course of an address
which he delivered incidentally made
mention of Emperor William of Germany,
which was greeted by his hearers with
groans and boots. Mr.. Balfour admitted,
with sorrow and relutance, that the con-
cert of action of the European powers
had failed to introduce reforms in the gov
ernment of Turkey, without which he
feared It would be impossible to hope for
an early settlement Of the eastern ques-
ton.
Referring to the Transvaal difficulty, he
said that he could not discuss the grav-
ity Of the offense of those who would be
arraigned for their operations in the South
African republic, but he would say he
was sure that those who We're responsible
for the movement there were not guild
ed by mean, sordid motives. The govern
ment, he said, was of the opinion that IL
was impossible for affairs in the Trans
vaal TO reach a satisfactory condition
while it's government was founded upon
80 artificial and inequitable basis as 1t
is at present the Uitlanders, who are
vastly in the majority paying the greater
proportion of the taxes and not havine.
the smallest share in the government.
President Kruger, Mr.. Balfour admitted
ndQ QISDIdyEu great generosity, ana DO
1itcal wisdom, and he hoped, therefore
that the promised reforms would not be
delayed longer than was necessary. 1t is
beyond question that the Transvaal re-
public is free in the administration of it's
internal affairs, but its external affairs
are subject to the control of Great Britain
call it suzerainty or by any other name
chosen, there is no mistaking this fact,
and that foreign Interference will not be
permitted. At this point the speaker was
interrupted by prolonged cheers. Never
theless, Mr.. BalfOur said, he was not
aware that any foreign country was pre-
pared to dispute the doctrine. The state
ment was greeted with renewed cheers.
Touching upon the Venezuelan dispute,
Mr.. Balfour said, the people of the Unit
ed States Of America appeared to suspect
Great Britain Of running counter to the
Monroe doctrine. He dilated upon this
doctrine, constituting 1t to the effect that
the American continent must not be re-
garded as a field for European colonial
tion and that European nations were not
entitled to interfere in the domestic af-
fairs of the new world, and said that the
United States and Great Britain concur
red in this construction. He was not
aware, he continued, that there had been
any change of mind, and did not believe
1t would be possible to find an individual
in the country who was desirous of what
is known as forward policy in America
Great Britain was content, and always had
been content to do the best for the col
onies she possessed there and did not
wish to interfere with other states or TO
acquire more territory. He believed that
IL the Venezuelan government had re-
quested British protection the honor
would have been declined by every states
man nameable. He referred respectively
to the long duration of the boundary dis
pute to Lord Salisbury's dispatch, to the
progress of compiling documents relating
to the matter here and TO the appoint
ment of a United States commission to
determine the boundary, and added that
II would be hard indeed If the common
sense of the Anglo-Saxon race was unable
to settle any dispute without war
(Cheers) Mr.. Balfour said he had been
deeply and painfully impressed with the
different manner in which war is regard
ed IN England as compared with the view
apparently taken of 1t by some sections
Of the American people.
War with the United States of America
appeared to himself, and doubtless to his