The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-06-14
THE CONGREGATIONAL CLUB
MEET AT EAST HAVEN CHURCH LAST
 EVENING.

Professor Woolsey, Drs. Philips and
 smyth Spoke on "Our Present Con-
 test"-Supper Served In Town Hall by
 Ladies of East Haven Church-Elec-
 tion of Officers for Ensuing Year.
 The New Haven Congregational club met at East Haven last evening. The East Haven Congregational church fur nished fine supper at 6:90 in the town hall. After the supper. which was much enjoyed by all, the club adjourned to the church, where the regular meeting was held.
 After patriotic selection by the East Haven choir the secretary read the minutes of the last meeting at Ply mouth church.
 The report of committees was follow ed by the report of the necrologist, Dr. J. E. Twitchell, who expressed the 6l deAIuuS oL Sli oNoI 9ile letGI Ilie1I AloI one member of the club had died during the past year.
 The president, William M. Parsons, in Introducing the speakers of the eve ing said that when the subject "Our Present Contest" was decided upon it was found that the heaviest guns for presenting the question were to be had right in New Haven.
 Dr. w. l.. Phillips, the first speaker, spoke upon "The Anglo-American Alli- ance." He said in part: we have en- tered upon course of intervention. Many writers have pointed out that the United States has begun its career as a world power The question as to what will be the outcome is forced upon our attention, and 1t cannot be passed by
 s'This matter of an Anglo-Saxon alli- ance has been brought forward as an incident and has excited the imagina- ILlOls lAlLCllS1 lLC lIkhtIy IOsiScllc LOl IlAo is, first, the fact of kinship. With the old American stock there will always be a sympathy toward England. Then theHe has been sort of glad surprise in the discovery of England's friendship toward the United States. We had sup posed that England would never favor our contest with another nation. Then the vast possibility of power, opened up by the proposed alliance, has cap tured the political imagination.
 Professor E. J. Phelps has declared that the signs of the times point to the fact that nations will not be able to stand by themselves in the future. President Andrews has prophesied that this war will be followed by another, which will be the greatest in history, between France, Germany and Russia on one side against England and the United States on the other All this is thrilling and fascinating, especially to people just now beginning to look about them and take an interest in out side matters.
 "But there is another side to all this which must be considered A recent Austrian writer declares that England is on the down grade and is not the nation with which to make an alliance. He says that Germany is the coming nation which will take England's posi- ton. Again, it is a question whether it would be an alliance between the iingoes and politicians of England and America or between the people of the nations.
 "But .setting aside questions of desir- ability, is it not certain that such an alliance would require the abandon ment ofithe Monroe doctrine or it's mod ificafion so that it would be a new doc- trine? Then what would be the atti- tudes of our mixed population? Could the Irish and Germans so forget their axlin1osities against England and look with favor upon an alliance between her and their adopted country7 Our interests would have to be considered in connection with England's interests. We must help maintain her policy in whatever lands she would enter. But our policies are opposed. She has stood for the policy of the open door and is prepared to uphold it by war. We are pledgedsto the policy of the closed door and are not ready for decisive action. Wonld we not be expected to maintain her whole eastern policy? Our inter- ests and commerce would speedily be- come worldwide and we must be pre- pared to defend them at all times. It would mean burden of taxation equal to that of the civil war. It would mean an extension of the discretion of the executive in times requiring instant ac- ton.
 .'So it seems to me, considering 1t from layman's point of view, that we must declare that all that is now pos- sible is feeling of friendship, a ma terial understanding on all questions concerning humanity, tacit agree rnent on the side of liberty and truth. Such blending of flags would be hailed by the hearts of all true Ameri- cans and Englishmen, but beyond this understanding we are not yet tp%epar- ed to go.''
 Prof. Woolsey next spoke on some international questions of the contest He made brief speech saying In part: 1'While under the influence of the words of the last speaker cannot re- sist the temptation to express my opin- ion that he is thoroughly right in the views which he has presented I will