The San Francisco call., 1896-11-10
Pleased With the Triumph of
National Honor in Amer
ica's Election.
VIEWS THE TURKISH QUESTION
Believes That There Should Be a
Concert Of Powers and Praises
the French Stand.

quSJ tuS INSTALLATION INTO ONCE OF
George Faudel Phillips, the new Lord
Mayor of London. The banqueting hall
of the Guildhal was crowded, many of
those present being OF worldwide celeb
rity, including Prime Minister Salisbury;
the Right Hon. George j. Goschen, First
Lord of the Admiralty; Lord George
| Hamilton. Secretary of State for India;
Lord Salisbury, Lord High Chancellor; the
Right Hon. Charles T. Richie, president
of the Board of Trade; General Lord
| Wolseley, commander-in-c chief of the
British forces; General Sir Herbert Kitch-
ener, sirdar of the Egyptian army; the
Right Hon. William Court Gully, Speaker
of the House CT Commons, and the Hon.
| Thomas E. Bayard, the American EN- bas-
sador.
| Interest centered in the speech made by
| Lord Salisbury, 1t being the custom in
recent years for the Prime Minister at the
| Lord Mayors banquet to make a state
ment regarding the foreign and domestic
| policies of the Government.
| ambassador Bayard replied to the toast,
''The Foreign Representatives"
! Mr.. Bayard. in treating of the COM
munity of interests of the nations of the
world, all being affected by the doings of
others, referred to the Preside ntial elec-
ton in the United States, saying: ST am
very sure that it was IL no narrow party
sense, no merely National sense, that the
heart of the people which it is my highest
| honor to represent was echoed in ver-
dict that could not be misunderstood.
standing as it does for National honor and
the continuity of National obligations,
making the nations safer in the trust OF
/ L = .t-s,
as the human mind and human heart
ever spoke in favor of that honesty which
is an essential condition OF civilization
everywhere" Loud cheers.]
+ When Lord Salisbury arose to reply to
the toast "Our Ministers" he received an
ovation. After thanking the Lord Mayor
and the Others present for the warmth of
the welcome extended to him he said:
''I thank the En- bassador of the United
States for his presence here, and for join
ing great 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 con-
trary to practice to remark upon the inter-
nal politics of other states, / may be per-
mitted, without i'm mpertinence, to congratu-
late him upon the splendid pronounce
IneAt lLc SASdI pSOpie ue IepISSeHIS nave
made in behalf of the principles which lie
at the base of all human society. TCheers.1
"You are aware that in the discussion
had in the United States on behalf of their
friends in Venezuela our question has~not
been whether there should be arbitration,
but whether arbitration should have UNI
restricted application, and we have always
claimed that those who, apart from
l - -:.-Ex
attached to established settlements should
be excluded from arbitration. Our diff
Guilty for months has been 10 define to
settled districts, and the solution has, I
think, come from the Government of the
United States, that we should treat our
colonial empire as we treat individuals;
that the same lapse of time which protects
the latter in civic life from having their
title questioned should similarly protect
an English colony, but beyond that, when
lapse could not be claimed, there should
be an examination of title, and all the
equity demanded in regard thereto should
be granted. / do not believe 1 am using
belief that this has brought the contIo-
versy to an end loud cheers
at is matter OF no small satisfaction
anxious social questions, which are far
more important than political questions,
are troubling the United States, and
therefore troubling the world, we should
have any semblance of political difference
that might hinder common action IN de-
fense of the common heritages of society.
1--WE have had an anxious year at the
Foreign Office. but we have hoated into
period of comparative calm. and 1 do not
intend to trouble you with matters that
have passed away"
Lord Salisbury then proceeded to the
Turkish question. He repeated the argu-
ments against Great Britain taking iso-
lated action against the Porte and empha-
sized the fact that the military occupation
of Turkey would be necessary if such ac-
ton were taken. Great Britain, he de-
clares. could not occupy the country un-
less she established conscription. He
pictured the risk of an European war and
said that the six great powers must act in
concert. Any one of these powers was
able to veto the other. He denied that
: the powers were acting on selfish prin-
ciples. They had firm ground for differ
ence of opinion. The motives influencing
the British Government must influence all
conscientious rulers.
Her Maiesty's Government, he added,
) had been urged by the Right Rev. John
: Morley and others TO abandon its policy
: of the past and renounce certain lands, in
which case the foreign powers would ac-
} cept Great Britains policy. He did not
believe in anything of the sort. At all
events he did not see any cause to abandon
. the policy hitherto pursued or to relin-
quish an acre of ground now occupied by,
} the British. [Cheers.
Continuing, Lord Salisbury declare