The times., 1898-06-06
THE NEW ALLIANCE.
English Press and Public Cordially
Favor a Closer Arrangement.

FnvOr a Closer Arrangement.
New York. June 4.-The Evening Posts
copyrighted cable says:
The new alliance as some journalists
call 1t. is everywhere. In today's papers
last nights Anglo-American banquet oc-
cupies the place of honor. and represent
ative as 1t was. 1t would have been far
more so had it not taken place in the
Whtsuntide recess when long-prearrang-
ed plans scatter political and social Eng
land anywhere in Europe but in London.
The progress of the Canadian and Ameri-
can negotiations is another text for gen
eral congratulations. much being made of
Sir Wilfred Laurler's speeches. indicating
the cordial part Canada is ready TO play
in the cause of the Anglo-American en-
tente.
How much this counts with Englishmen
is best illustrated by the remark made to
ne by the English novelist who has per-
haps the greatest hold of any English
writer on the American reading public.
No. he said decisiyely. Cuba. Vene-
zuela and Hawaii don't really matter If
ever England and America should be
seriously embroiled, it would be over
Canada. That is why. though l dare
not say Ii in public, my life would not
be worth living In England il / did. L
would personally welcome Canada's entry
into the republic
Few Englishmen would avow any such
belief few probably hold It, and 1t would
be a grave mistake to suppose that the
strong national ou,burst of friendship for
the United States would survive any Sc
rious proposal to surrender Canada, even
were Canada willing. Hardly less erro-
neous would 1t be To imagine that the
value of an entente in the eyes of Eng
Iishmen is generally dependent on the
American adoption of policy of colonial
expansion. Official England would un-
doubtedly like TO see America planted in
the Philippines, enabling her to exercise
a potent voice in behalf of the policy of
an open door in the Far East, but IL is
difficult to convince the average Eng
lishman that he cannot by himself keep
that open door if the ministers show
stiff enough back and England maintains
the supremacy of the sea. He begins. too,
to appreciate the force of the opinions of
many leading Americans which are being
published here. Chauncey Depew is very
emphatic, in the Daily News today. in
insisting that America must remain alb
solutely foot-loose from entangling al
liances. though that need not prevent the
common cause.
"Of worId-freedom. Lord Coleridge put
well, last night. what is in the minds of
most Englishmen when he said that since
the two nations are united BY knship.
race. language, literature and law, the
warm friendship now existing between
them is a far more certain source of
strength than paper alliances Of the con-
tlnental pattern.
Cr7 oil cfA fba- -. ta,fI of
memorial statue overlooking the houses
of Parliament. There viii. of course, be
a statue also within the precincts of the
| House of Commons. Oxford University
may also be expected to seek to perpet-
uate the memory of her greatest son By
an endowment to promote study and re-
| search. specially associated with Mr..
| GiadstOne's theological tendencies.
What the Liberals will do remains 20
be seen. Perhaps the least fitting Of the
many proposals in the way of a national
memorial is that which emanates from
the very highest quarters, and which. il
is said, though that seems incredible will
receive the support of the chiefs OF the
Liberal party. This IS 10 confer title
upon Mrs. Gladstone, as Mr.. Herbert
Gladstone, the statesman's son, is a
sworn enemy of peers and privilege 1t
is thought Mrs. Gladstone might for the
sake of Mr.. Gladstone's grandson and
heir consider its acceptance.
I'm al discussions IL is most notable how
absent is the party rancor which. only a
few menths ago, MIR. Giadstone's name
always provoked. Almost all differences
have been removed by his death, but not
quite all. At the meeting of the Cork
Corporation yesterday. when a resolution
of coincidence with the Gladstone family
was moved by nationalist and support
ed by the unionists. it was opposed by
the Redmondites, led by the major. and
rejected by majority entirely composed
of Redmondites.
Mr.. Gladstone's death has forced again
leadership. Liberalism is most restless
under it's present leaderless and speech
less condition. especially in the face of
the grave developments OF foreign policy.
| of which Mr.. Chamberlain anti-Russian.
pro-German speech is the latest indica-
| ton
None had better righs than Lord Rose
| berry, on the ground of experience and
personal record, to grapple with such
| questions yet he remains mute. Mr.
Gladstone's overpowering personality, Sir
! William Harcourt's refusal TO be led. his
| own poor health, and Mr. Gladstone
home-rule combined to drive Lord Rose
berry from the leadership. Now Mr.. Glad
| stone is dead, Lord Rosebery enjoys ro-
/ bust health and home rule has ceased tC
/ be live issue in English politics. No one
mentions it. The Harcourt obstacle alone
remains, but would not survive the loud
and fairly general recall from the party
which now seems imminent