The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1898-11-17

SUBJECTS.
JOsep Chamberlain Declares They
Need No Outside Aid.
THE SECRETARY FLoUTs RUSSIA.
He Asserts That Combination Be-
tween the United states and Eng
land Would Fear No other Alliance.

tween the United states and Eng
land Would Fear No other Alliance.
Relations with Germany and Japan.
London, Nov. 17.-Joseph Chamber
lain, who was the guest Of the Con-
servative club in this city last evening,
in replying to a toast to his health,
spoke at length on colonial matters.
The secretary Of state for the colonies
said that almost all international troub"
les of recent years had arisen from the
competition of nations for the unde-
veloped territories on the worlds sur
face 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"
Mr.. Chamberlain predicted an i'm
mense future" for Rhodesia and Great
Britain's other acquisitions in Africa
even the gold coast and Lagos, when
medical science shall have succeeded
in overcoming malarial diseases" He
warmly defended the governments
Chinese policy, contendng that Great
Britain had good reason to be salts
fed with the results obtained as COM
pared with other powers"
Regarding the contention that Great
Britain ought to have an agreement
with Russia he said:
Experience has taught us that we
require 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
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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, I 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 I say this now, but
that speech Of mine some months
ago gave rise to mlsinterpretations.
"Those persons are very premature,
very much mistaken. who think that
Great Britain is in need of an alliance
for her own security or in order that
OF the fire"
This was received with loud and pro-
longed cheers, which greeted every
reference to the United States. In an
eloquent peroration Mr.. Chamberlain
developed this theme, declaring that II
England ever needed an alliance she
would give as much as she received
but that she would never need more
aid. in his opinion, than would be cheer
fully afforded by her own children He
scorned the idea that England should
fear German competition, as he believ-
ed, he said, that Anglo-Saxon co-opera-
tion and influence would prove ire
sistible and that there was no reason
why, even without an alliance, Great
Britain's friendly relations with Ger
many should not be strengthened
! 'I rejoice" he said in conclusion. ga
the change that has occurred in the re
tions between Great Britain and tn,
| United States. To us they stand in
relation different from that occupie,
| by any other people. know a hun
| dred reasons why we should be friends
none why we should be otherwise; an
I believe that has been the true feel
ing Of this country toward the United
States for many years. All misunder
derstandings have been happily re
moved, and the combination of the tw,
English speaking nations would feaI
no other alliance.
"Our imagination must be fired wheI
we contemplate the possibility OF sucf
a cordial understanding between the
| 70,00O00 people of the United State.
and our 5OOOO,OO0 Britons-an under.
standing which would guarantee peace
and civilization to the world. We shal
welcome the United States in their new
career as a colonization nation. becaus,
| we know they are animated by the
same motives and aspirations, 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 sci.
fish or merCenary sense but because
1t will give each a better understanding
of the others work, increase our sym
pathies bring us closer together and
make easy and inevitable that most
desirable cooperation"