The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-05-15
Secretary Chamb ,rIaln's Speech.

The speech of the Hon. Jos aph Cham
berlain, secretary for the colonies of
Great Britain, on Friday night in Lon
don, contained some remarkable utter
ances. 1t is not customary for the
Englishman to "slop over" He is ordi
narily a cold, calculating individual,
and there have been times when he
has been suspected of having neither
| blood nor a heart serving as its foun-
tain and propel!ing power. Mr. Cham
berlain has, throughout his life, been
identified with commercial activities,
and his training was undoubtedly of a
sort which compelled him to recognize
the soiidity of an idea before he per-
mtted his tongue to give expression
thereto. He has been associated with
the politics and the government Of
England during the past score of years,
under varying conditions. A warm
adherent of Mr.. Gladstone, he did not
hesitate, in spite Of the popular
wrath of English Liberals and of Irish
freedom workers, to abandon the grsat
est of English statesmen in the present
| generation, because Of his own recog-
milton of the impracticability of a
| scheme for the release of Ireland from
| the domination of England. Mr.. Cham
| berlain, when he entered the Conserva-
| tive party, gradually, at first, by pass
| ing into the ranks of the National
UnionistS, and later, into the cabinet
Of Lord Salisbury. evidently knew what
he was doing. He parted from the
| board and lettering walks of Glad
stonia1 methods to the granite slabs
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| conduct ever since he became a men,
Der of the cabinet. and especially in
the South African affairs, he has prov
ed himself to be, not only a circum-
| spect Official, but man Of peculiar
| fierce Of character; hence his words
the other night, in regard to the desired
| establishment Of a union between Eng
! land and the United States, may be
accepted as the judgment of well-sea-
soned man, one who is thoroughly in
touch with English sentiment, from
the crown point, and not as the idle
exuberances of a trifling politician.
| Every thoughtful man, whether he
be of English or American birth, can
not fail to recognize the fact that the
| mother country and the United States
are knitted together by ties which
! strengthen with years, and which, not
withstanding the severe strains to
which they have been subjected with
| in the past seventy-five years, have
seemed to grow in tensile strength I'M
til they are now apparently unbreak-
able. 1t would be a magnificent realiza-
ton of the visions of some of the great
est of English and American States
men, if England and the United States
should join hands and encircle this
globe with the civilization of the An
glo-SaXon race, carrying with them not
only the cross of Christianity, but the
ensign of freedom, which found it's first
| inspiration in Magma Charta, it's in
| dorsement in the Declaration of indie
! pendence, and it's eXultant crown in
| the emancipation proclamation. Mr..
| Chamberlain's words, as reported, were
few, but they were impressive. Sure
enough, there could be no more accept
| able contamination than the unity of
these two great nations, and the pres
ent disturbance between the United
| States and Spain will have served a
mighty purpose if this shall be the
result as demonstrated to the monarch
les Of the old world.