The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-11-17
Greeting From
Chamberlain.
A STRONG UNION.
Britain and America Need
Fear No Other Alliance.

London, Nov. 16.-Joseph Chamber
lain. who was the guest of the Conser-
vative Club in this city this evening,
in replying to a toast to his health,
spoke at length on colonial matters.
The secretary of state for the colon
les said that almost all international
troubles Of recent years had arisen
from the competition of nations for the
undeveloped territories on the worlds
surface in the possession of barbarous
tribes or decaying nations. He dwelt
upon these vast tracts as "outlets for
the teeming populations and trade of
civilized nations"
He warmly defended the govern
ments's Chinese policy, contending that
Great Britain had good reason to be
satisfied with the results obtained as
compared with other powers RegaI j.
ing the contention that Great Britain
ought to have an agreement with Rus
STA, he said:
'ExepIience has taught us that We
require a better guarantee than a. paper
agreement to secure the policy of an
open door The best security in my
opinion, is the desire of other nations,
like Japan, Germany and the United
States, to preserve an open door ia
pan is becoming an important power,
with whom our relations throughout
have been those of cordial friendship.
while with Germany and the United
States our relations, l rejoice to say,
are now closer and more cordial than
they have been for some time.
Germany and the United States are
the two great commercial nations whose
interests are identical with our own.
In what I have said / have not meant
a permanent, formal treaty of alliance,
nor need | say this now, but that a
speech of mine some months ago gave
rise TO misinterDretations
Those persons are very premature,
very much mistaken, VINO think that
Great Britain is in need of an alliance
for her own security, or in order that
other powers may pull chestnuts out of
the fire"
This was received with loud and
prolonged cheers, which greeted every
reference TO the United States. In an
eloquent peroration, Mr.. Chamberlain
developed this theme dec' ag that
if England even needed an ace she
would give as much as SIN eceived,
but that she would never need more
aid in his opinion, than would be
cheerfully afforded by her own chill
land should fear German competition,
as he believed he said that Anglo
Saxon cooperation and influence would
prove irresistible; and that there was
no reason why. even without an all
lance, Great Britain's friendly rela-
tions with Germany should not be
strengthened.
II rejoice" he said, in conclusion, ''at
the change that has occurred in the re-
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United States. To US they stand in a
reletion different from that occupied by
q her people. | know a hundred
re- 5 why we should be friends, none
why we should be otherwise and be-
lieve that has been the true feeling
of this country towards the United
States for many years. All misunder-
standings have been happily removed,
and the combination of the two Eng
disappearing nations would fear no
other alliance.
Our imagination must be fired when
we contemplate the possibility of such
a cordial understanding between the
seventy millions OF people Of the United
States and our fifty millions Of Brit
ons. an understanding which would
guarantee peace and civilization to the
world. We shall welcome the United
States in this new career as a coloniz-
ing nation because we know they are
animated by the same motives and as
pirations. employ the same methods
and love justice as ourselves; and
such a new departure will, doubtless, as
Lord Salisbury has said, serve our
interests, not in any selfish or nercen-
airy sense, but because it viii give each
a better understanding of the other
work. in case our sympathies bring us
closer together, and make easy and in
evtable that most desirable co-opera-
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