The Topeka state journal., 1898-05-17
1T STARTLED EUROPE.
Chamberlain's Speech Discussed
Throughout the Continent.

new Ork, May ia Q1Spalcn TO the
World from London says:
The papers are curiously silent Mr..
Chamberlain's remarkable pronouncement
in favor of an Anglo-American alliance.
The Observer, the most influential polit-
ically of them, however, applauds Mr..
Chamberlain's declaration on that point
while referring the accomplishment of his
ideal to some remote contingency which
has not yet arisen. The Observer says:
1T is well understood in the United States
that European intervention is not even
discussed by the powers just now because
England will not tolerate it The real
cruX will come when the terms of peace
are drafted. Then if ever the anti-Amer-
lean league at which Count GoluchoWSk1
hinted not long ago will lift its head. We
doubt the substance of any such apparl-
tion because the coercion of America is
too big a business for practical poHt1cS,
but the day that witnesses any serious
combination against either the United
States or Great Britain ought also to wit
ness their consolidation into an Anglo
American alliance
most trusted followers, to whom Mr..
opened his mind on the subject of an An
glo-American understanding well as
Britain. This politician stated: Cham
berlain has been for the past year con-
steadily and inevitably leading to the ruin
of England's commercial supremacy and
tinued commercial expansion both Of En-
gland and the United States that they
.tBesides that he entertains strong
Africa should be accepted by Salisbury as
a casus beli; England's supremacy on
seriously cripple, if not to destroy French
naval expansion for years and he regards
weaken France so that Russia alone
would have to be dealt with in the far
s'EngIand's interests and those of Amer
lea are identical in that region, and Charn-
berlain regards their comolned ed action non
of the Anglo-Saxon alliance. That is the
underlying motive OF his speech, alth9ugih
gives it the appearance of almost an at
tempt to gust, Lord Salisbury from the
The Daily Nails Berlin dispatch says
mat n b tbe nrass speefn I'm
general undiplomatic, acknowledging
England's weakness in in the the face face Of Russia
The government evidently reserving it's
themselves with expressing astonishment
al a cabinet member speaking so plainly.
The koelniche Zeitung regards the colo
NAL minister's speech a model of mod
ern political eloquence, and congratu1ates
with modern views, speaking to the Brit
ish nation with Bismarcktan bluntness.
The National Zeitung says the speech
was nothing less than an acknowledgment
of bankruptcy, not only of England,s poll
cy hitherto, but of the whole British pow
er, and remarks that the British nation
is hardly likely to identify itself with the
eraI Impression prevails here that En-
gland will not be able to form an alliance
of the two nations are not identical in the
east and America would not supply the
gnes war With Russia: Russia All n neWspapers e % Which %
allude to the subject state that England
least of all in Germany, Which has no
reason for quarreling with Russia's action
Prince Bismarck's organ, the Hamburg
er Nachrichten, remarks: "It would be
Britain to imagine that any continental
power should have the strange idea Of en-
on, the side of English arrogance and to
bolster up exclusively English interests
speech only a bid for German alliance ian and
blow in the back to Salisbury now dis
courses the chance of an .approaching war
and says that Chamberlain wishes to take
revenge on Niger for Port \Arthur at the
expense of France. 1t warns the secre-
tary of the colonies not to go too far.
lain a 'sBouianger in Multi, who wished
Now it INDUCES in wild talk about Cham
it. afterward dealing with Russia. which
would then derive no benefit from French
alliance. The effect of the speech has
been not only to make the French specu-
late desire for more alliances. The
Mat1a bat says the speech d has brought war
| measurable limits; that is absurd and
criminal.
The Eclair does not believe France is
aimed at directly but sees in the speech
only a maneuvre of Chamberlain to ruin
| the government and come in himself as
| the advance guard of future Imperialism
The Figaro believes that the main OBJ
| ject was to hustle France about the Niger
| question 1t seeks consolation in the fact
| that it is not England but simply Cham
| berlain in that menaces France and Rus
| sia- The tone of the popular papers, Liber
Parole and the rest is terribly alarmist
| The Daily Nails Vienna despatch says;
| f'Mr. Chamberlains speech in Birming-
| ham is dealt with at some length by the
| press here generally. The opinion is held
| that though it does not forecast inlme-
| date war, it augurs ill for peace should
| Mr.. Chamberlain ever become PREMIER