Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-05-17
NO QUlETING DOWN YET,
CONTINENTAL POWERS ARE COMBINED.
They Want No Anglo merican Alliance
Spain Sees u Possibility of Profiting
by This Current of Feeling.

new YORK, May la ulspatcn u
the World from London says:
The Russian ambassador has been
directed to demand from Lord Sails
bury, 1t is reported, an explanation of
Mr. Chamberlains assertion that
Russia is ineligible for an alliance be-
cause of her perfdy.
The prevailing opinion now is that
Mr.. Chamberlain's speech. in which he
advocated an Anglo Saxon alliance, was
n grievous indlscretion. 1t has excited
sentiment without promising to attain
any advantage. His indirect calling the
car the devil" Is sure, ii Is believed,
to give undying offense in st. Peters
burg.
In the city of London (the financial
DISTRICT today great depression pre-
vailed. Rumors were flying about that
the government proposes TO offer a
large issue of exchequer bills to form
a war chest. A further rise in the bank
rate was freely predicted.
Mr.. Chamberlain's main and immedi-
ate object is known to be to force
France to evacuate Brossia, West
Africa, even at the risk of war
SALISBURY'S SIGNIFICANT RE-
MARK.
1t has leaked out that in his private
talk to bankers last Thursday Lord
Salisbury said that the West African
situation is the most serious matter
the cabinet has now to deal with and its
satisfactory solution seems well-nigh
impossible.
This anticipatory declaration by the
prime minister gives gravity to Mr..
Chamberlain's speech, which 1t other
wise might have lacked because OF the
universal suspicion that he was playing
simply his own hand.
a further element of seriousness is
impaired to the situation by the re-
mark Of the duke OF Cambridge at the
volunteer banquet on Friday night that
France had been given month to
clear out of Brossia, the disputed dis
trict In West Africa. The duke today
denied having said this, but volunteer
officers present declare that his words
We're taken down at the time and
passed around the table to all the
guests on a slip of paper marked, CON
DENTAL"
A variety of circumstances. in
short, tend to cause great anxiety here
concerning the outlook. which now is
affected by the inspired statement
from French agencies that the West
African negotiations are progressing
satisfactorily.
Everything seems to prove the worth
of the words of an editorial published
mere tHul MI.
proposed an Anglo-American alliance
springs from desire to draft us into
war over n miasmatic swamp in West
Africa Among even the limited Sec
ton of politicians in parliament fav-
orable to such an alliance. the idea of
Mr.. Chamberlain's declaration Is
treated as absurdly in advance of
events, while the bulk of the members
of parliament who would either be in
different or hostile to IL, are affronted
that minister should hawk. offers of a
British alliance In the market place.
Mr.. Chamberlain himself Is delighted
over the sensation he has created,
though his jubilation obviously Is not
shared by his colleagues. Several mem
bers of parliament pressed him pri-
vately tonight for a more explicit
statement concerning the danger ahead.
He merely replied oracularly: Events
will Justify"
The liberal leaders intend to have
debate on his speech at the earliest
possible moment, which cannot now be
until Friday after the Whitsuntide re-
cess.
NEWSPAPERS OBJECT TO THE
SPEECH. ,.,,..,.
A drift of opinion regarding the
Anglo American alliance may be gath
cred from articles In the principal pa
pers except the Mail, which has
Ing Its short existence. No newspaper
has received the suggestion with en-
thuslasm,
The News fears that whatever
chance there is Of realizing an al
lance, ''gush and jingoism" are likely
to destroy Mr.. Chamberlain. 1t says:
He was guilty Of jingoism In arguing
Anglo Saxon alliance as an engine of
decisive action
The Globe observes; I'VE would be
glad to live In the likelihood of a per-
manent alliance of the Engllsh-speak.
Ing nations, but In the case of the
United States, their foreign policy un.
iergoes such quick and violent |
changes that friend of today becomes |
an enemy tomorrow. AS long as our
naval supremacy endures, we have no |
need for help on the ocean. while the |
United States could give no help on |
and"
The Star. strongly pro-American,
says: Let us not fall into the error |
IF foreign sentiment in a dollhouse OF
That is Mr., Chamber
aims mistake. In this business OF an
Anglo-American alliance pushfulness is
likely to do more harm than good"
The st. James Gazette remarks:
The good people who fancy that all
$ now completed but signing a formal
realty of offense and defense are going
much too fast and are likely to do only
mischief. The United States have yet
o realize their own isolation and ac-
ual danger, but for British support
n Europe"
The gush referred to by the News is
Implied by editorials from certain New
York papers which may have been
asily drawn out by Mr. Chamberlain's
effusiveness.
CRIsPI WAS AGAINST AMERICA
YEARS AGO.
A dispatch to the World from Rome
avs.
Premier Crispi, Italy's ablest
and diplomat. said In con-
'ersation yesterday, talking OF the
british colonial secretary's suggesting
n Anglo American alliance:
England. foreseeing Americas fu-