Evening journal., 1898-11-10
PREMIER'S SPEECH.
What Salisbury Said at Lord
Mayors Banquet.
DID NOT ANNOUNCE PROTECTORATE.
Nothing Radical In Egyptian cues
tiOn-Czar'B Disarmament scheme
ImprncticnbIe-PIac OF Amer
fcn In the Worlds Politics.

place AT the Gullundll last evening. |
There were about $50 guests present. |
including members of the diplomatic |
corps, cabinet ministers and other dis
tinguished people and their a yes
After the formal reception N the IL |
brary there was the usual procession |
to the great hail. which served as the |
banqueting place.
After the usual loyal toasts the navy
and army were toasted Admiral Sir
William Kennedy and General Lord
Wolseley responding for their respec
tive forces. which were described as be-
Ing in a perfect state of preparedness
to meet any power disputing Great
Britain's just claims.
The brevity Of the speeches showed
that every one realized there was gem
eral anxiety to hear the Marquis OF
Salisbury, who, on rising to respond to
the toast of Her Majesty's Ministers"
was greeted with prolonged cheers.
The premier began by saying that
succession Of events abroad had occa-
stoned grave anxiety to the ministry for
year past.
After referring in a laudatory manner
TO the British campaigns in India and
in the Sudan the premier turned to the
Cretan question and the concert Of Eu-
rope. He said he was afraid that the
proceedings of the concert were not al
ways admired. At the same time, he
pointed out, patient application COM
bined with the moral strength of Flu
rope. has at last succeeded in fulfilling
the promise given to the Cretans of
giving them autonomy under the suze-
rainty of the sultan"
Continuing, the premier remarked:
THE solution of this most difficult
problem has witnessed displays Of
splendid and unexpected qualities and
diplomacy upon the part Of the adj
mirals. who have successfully accom-
plished what the cabinets Of Europe
had been unable to do. 1 have some
times thought that II the cabinets were
all dismissed and admirals We're in
stalled in their places Europe would get
on better"
Turning to the crisis with France, the
premier remarked
I'VE have had quite recently to con-
slider whether the question of Eu-
ropean war was not very near, but
with great interest and consideration
the result has turned out happily
through the great judgment and COM
mon sense displayed by France under
. circumstances of unusual difficulty
which. think. have relieved Europe
of a very dangerous and threatening
storm.
while matters were in suspense. the
government was necessarily forced 10
take precautions that it should not be
taken unawares. These precautions
were most prompt and effective. but the
immediate necessity for them has pass
ed OF.
"There has been some surprise on
I1k % he oh al ne fha %
that these preparations have not sud-
denly ceased. But 1t is impossible to
stop them at a moments notice"
After referring to the various rumors
of intended action arising out OF these
preparations, including the seizure of
Syria and Crete and the declaration OF
a protectorate over Egypt-the latter
allusion being greeted with immense
cheering-Lord Salisbury continued:
II am sorry to say I cannot rise To
the height of the aspirations indicated
by the cheering of the audience. I do
not venture to prephesy, if we are fore
ed by others into a position we do not
now occupy. what may occur, but we
are we'll satisfied with the existing state
of things and we do not think any
cause has arisen to necessitate effort on
our part at present to modify it.
ton; but, taking the situation as q
whole and considering the feelings OF
other people as well as our own, we car
reasonably rest for the present with
the existing state of affairs. I must
not be understood as meaning thai
Great Britain's position in Egypt is tn,
same now as IL was before the fan OF
Omdurman. but we earnestly hope thai
circumstances will not make it necessa-
~ materially to modify that position
as we are convinced the world would
not then get on so peaceably as now"
Referring again to the war prepare
lions and asking his hearers to look a,
the state Of the world, Lord Salisbury
observed:
THE car has invited a congress Il
provide for the disarmament of th'
world; but, while we offer our hearties
tribute to his motives and are Willing
70 assist and sympathize in every wal
Until the happy day when his aspira
lions are crowned with success, w
must still provide precautions needfu
to counterfeit the dangers surrounding
us. In some respects this era, this grea
epoch in the history Of man. is marked
by unhappy omens. IT is the first yea
in which the mighty force Of the Amer
lean republic has been introduce,
among nations whose dominions are eX
banding and whose instruments to
certain extent are war.
Il am not implying the slightes
blame. Far from 1t. / am not refusing
sympathy to the American republic il
the difficulties through which it he
passed, but no one can deny that it
appearance among factors in Asiatic. a
all events. and possibly in European Ill
plomacy, is a grave and serious even
which may not conduce to the interest
of peace, though / think in any event
is likely to conduce to the interests o
Great Britain.
"But what has been impressed upo
us is that the subject matter Of war {
terribly prevalent on all sides. We Sc
nations decaying whose government
SO bad that it can neither maintain tn
power of self defense nor retain the al
lection of its subjects, and when thi
occurs there are always nsighbors i'm
PEELED by some motive-it raay be tn
highest philanthropy or it may be tn
natural desire of empire-to contest a