The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-03-05
LORD GOSCHEN'S RECENT UTTER
RANGES CAUSED SOME OF THE
POWERS MUCH PAIN.
THE SENATE'S CUBAN RESOLUTIONS.
Were Received in England With Some
Favor-Eficicncy and Economy of
the Ashanti pcdition-Interna-
tional Athletic Contests.

Wy lll' AHEo'Ill''l 4 l'HpsJ NV ii'h w "
of the admiralty, Mr.. George J. Goschen,
as cablcd to the Associated Press at the
time, made an interesting speech at
Lcwcs on Wednesday night last, during
the course of which he said:
Without betraying secrets, ! may say
that very distinguished German states
man, not Prince Bismarck, has been con
WINGED for years that England could not
be moved TO war by anything short of
an attack on her central interests in this
country. That was a very dangerous
fallacy, which has now probably been
dislOdgcd.
Mr.. Goschen also remarked:
''Thc new system of controlling and
bartcrng for alliances has displaced the
old system of II balance Of power be
tween European nations. England is
not clever at this game and has held
aloof, although her alliance is courtcd
by several groups of powers"
These uttcranccs have aroused n great
deal of friction in Austria and Italy.
Their newspapers assume that he al
ludcd to the drcibund when reference
was made to groups of powers" court
ing Great Britain. and it il strenuously
denied at Vienna that Great Britain has
ever been solicited to join the dreibund.
The Cuban resolution of the United
States senate has held n mixed reception
here. There has been considerable said
in favor of Cuban home rule, although
many distinguished personages and in
ts..l Il 80. go.
it for fear of reawakcning the apparent
ly slumbering agitators of Ireland.
The Echo, however, comes out flat-foot-
ed on the subject and says:
The resolution will be warmly approved
by civilized mankind. There is not n
shadow of doubt that President Cleve-
land will promptly act in accordance
For more than year Cuba has been a
hell on earth and the Spaniards and
Turks are on par as far as atrocities are
concerned.
The British and French negotiations
at Paris on the Niger question have been
temporarily suspended. The French rep
resentatives accuse the British of trying
to acquire control of territory within the
French sphere, and there the matter ends
for the present.
The newspapers of Madrid are getting
very wrathy at the action of the United
States senate and the evening papers of
that city express themselves in even
more violent language than their morn
ing contemporaries.
They say apart from the resolution the
language used during the debate in the
senate has made n painful impression.
1t is ayerrcd that the allegations of the
senator's are wholly false and. that the
insurgents have no organization; are
not masters of Il single town. and as for
their conduct, it is asserted that they
have massacred the helpless and burned,
destroyed and pillaged railways and plan
tatiOns.
ON the other hand. it is maintained that
the Spaniards have respected all pris-
oncrs and to call them barbarians is re-
gardcd rs an unprovokcd and unjustifia-
Bile insult.
There has been n great deal of notice
attracted toward the wcll-directed man
ncr in which the Ashanti expedition was
organized and carried out. From first to
last there was not the slightest hitch of
any description, even in the commissary
and train departments, where there Is
generally more or less trouble.
Now comes the statement that the
whole expedition only cost S6OO,O00 or
E120,000. 1t will, therefore, be seen that
the British government has made a
pretty good bargain. Shcy have not only
acquired ''protectorate' over Ashanti,
which means practically the annexation
of that territory; but the unfortunate
King Prempeh has been fined 5OOoO
ounces of gold in addition, so that the
little Ashanti picnic may be looked
upon rs being quite successful AFFAIR,
especially when it's small cost is consid-
cred.
1t is probable that today's debates in
the house of commons were among the
quietest on record.
Politics during the week have been
very quiet and there has been more at
tention directed towards Washington
than towards any other capital, unless II
is Constantinople today, where fresh
and apparently very dangerous state OF
affairs suddenly blossomed out. But
strange to say, prospects of fresh com
plications at Constantinople come as 9
relief to the greatly strained minds ol
the political leaders here, for 1t abstracts
attention from the clouds lowering over
the British empire.
If reports from Berlin are to be be
lieyed, Emperor William is actively en-
gagged in trying to form new drelDund
consisting of Russia. France and Ger
many, and it is minated that he Woui'
not he opposed to proposition to unite
the fleets of the three countries in nj
attack upon Great Britain, which. i
successful, her enemies hope should leat
, to the ACKNOWLEDGMENT of the empire.
OF course the plan is by no means
, new one and has frequently been Prev
ously considered by much more expert
cnccd men than the German emperor.
| The fact remains, however, that TIT
| recent Warlikc utterancCS against Grca
| Britain have had a healthy effect upol
her statesmen and others, for they have
opened their eyes to the fact that TIL
! British fleet. powerful as it is, is not n
powerful as it should be in order to NEE
| such Il combination as the one whlcl
Emperor William is credited with tryln'
! TO engineer, and there is no doubt tina
! considerable strengthening of the nee
and reorganization of the army will b
| carried out here in the promptest AM
most effective manner possible.
! The country now sees clearly tina
| there is n possibility that some day o
other there may be an all powerful com
bination against Great Britain whic
may ncccsistate the greatest struggle i
/ the history of those islands, and the pee
pie, il seems, are ready to 30 down INT
their pockets in order to provide fund
necessary to arm the Nation to NEE
such IN emergency.
The efforts to induce the London Att
letic club to reconsider its determinatio
not to engage in International sports fo
the present are not meeting with niue
success. The Dunraven incident is to
fresh in the minds of most people here
although sportsmen generally condem
him out and out, to permit of an
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