The age-herald., 1898-05-14
About to Be Formed Which Mill Demand
 a Unity With
THEIR KiNsMEN ACROSS ATLANTIC
Even War I'self Would Be Cheaply Purchased if in Great and Noble Cause the Stars and Stripes and Union Jack
 Should Wave Together.

London, May 13-The Rt. Rev. Joseph Chamberlain, secretary of state for the colonies, made an important speech on pub lie affairs at Birmingham this evening. Mr. Chamberlain after deprecating the con- statn assertions in certain quarters that Lord Salisbury was "discredited'' and the government weak and vacant" said:
 ''If foreign countries believe and act upon these staetments. they will find them selves much mistaken and that courteous diplomacy and graceful concessions are not incompatible with firm maintenance of the countrys honor and interests"
 Referring to the policy of strict isolation that England has pursued since the Cri mean war; he remarked that this had been perfectly justifable. But he added "the time has arrived when Great Britain may be confronted by combination of powers and our first duty therfore is to draw all parts ofthe empire into close unity and our next to maintain the bonds of perman- ent unity with our kinsmen across the At lantic." Loud cheers).
 ''There is a powerful and generous na- tion," said MT. Chamberlain, speaking our language, bred of our race and having interests identical with ours. would go so far as to say that, terrible as war may be, even war itself would be cheaply pur- chased If in great trouble and noble cause the stars and stripes and the union jack should wave together over an Anglo-Saxon alliance" Prolonged cheers.)
 Tt is one of the most satisfactory re- suits of Lord Salisbury's policy that at the present time these two great nations un- derstand each other better than they have ever done since over a century ago they were separated by the blunder of British government"
 MT. Chamberlain proceeded to draw a gloomy picture of the situation in China, "where we have to count with Russia as in Afghanistan, except that we do not pos sess army or a defensive frontier in China, and cannot therefore injure Russia without an ally"
 Times Comments Favorably
 The Times, commenting editorally upon MT. Chamberlain's speech at Birmingham last evening, says:
 MT. Chamberlain was assured before- hand of the approval of the whole body of the unionlsts when contending that we must draw closer the ties binding us to the colonies It is almost as much a foregone conclusion that the opportunity should be seized of establishing something more than
 
 whose success in the operations that they have undertaken, and which has lately taken place, was welcomed here as not only justifying the goodness of the cause, but also as a tribute to the capacity of the Anglo-Saxon race in the business of war even when no adequate preparation for the struggle had been made"
 Brave and Historic Plea
 The Daily Chronicle welcomes MT. Cham- berain's brave and historic plea for an Anglo-American alliance"
 The Morning Post says: "Mr. Chamber lain insists that it is only his own aspira- tion when he declared we should seek an Anglo-Saxon alliance, but we doubt wheth- CT this open mouthed diplomacy will suit Lord Salsburys arrangements at mos ment when Spain and America are involved in contest in which we are neutrals
 The Daily News thinks the speech "a strong signal" and believes that the imme- diate point of danger is West Africa.
 The Standard. applauding MT. Chamber iain's stand, says:
 There is not the smallest reason to sup- pose that his convictions are not shared by every member of the cabinet. They had been anticipated by most men who have diplomacy and the special quality which he has imparted to the federation was the emphasis of continued and unadulterat- ed truth. We are liable at any moment to be confronted by combination of all the European powers.
 Already we have endeavored with no small success to draw all parts of our vast empire together in the firm determination to cooperate for the common defense; nor can it be said that there is anything lack ing in our feeling of regard and friendship for the great kindred community on the