Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1898-08-10
Earl Of RoSebery'S View.
Continued from Second Page.

development of Great Britain
Hear, hear.) If those nations
were to become close friends, az
there seems some prospects of
there becoming now hear, hear
1T was an almost indispensable
precedent in the conditions at
which they had arrived, that the
United States should become an
Independent body of states; and
we, on the other hand, can feel
this, that if we had remained con-
nected with the United States as
we were before, we should prob
ably have been satisfied and en-
crossed with the management of
that great empire, and should not
have sought the Infinite accre-
tons which have come to our en-
pire since that date, and rendered
it worldwide, even without the
United States.
Therefore, on both sides we
have profited. If there is to be
common bond the United States
comes into it infinitely greater
and stronger than it would have
been if it had lived under our
dominion, and we on our side
bring to the common stock far
greater and wider empire than
would have been the case il we
had remain united. (Hesr, hear
This is a very practical question.
1t is not merely a question for
theories, but it is question of the
most vital and practical politics.
We see the Old World, the old
continental world, gradually
molding itself into an attitude of
not unmixed friendliness to the
race which 1 must not name.
(Laughter.)
After all, that was to be ex-
pected. So long as we were left
free to develop our colonial ambi-
ton there was no conflict of in
terest which would lead us to any
violent antagonism to the older
empires have developed a colonial
policy Of their own, and therefore
it was hardly possible under these
conditions that position of ex-
trome enlliness should continue
to exist between those who were
seeking colonial empires and that
which already possessed one.
You must not, perhaps, blame the
European States for their attitude
towards us. 1t is much wiser to
explain it by natural reasons.
But whether it be a wise attitude
toward US or not, we have all to
recognize, to whatever party in
the State we may belong, that it
is an attitude which has to be
reckoned with, and that in future
we must not rely too much on the
extreme and altruistic friendship
of some European state on which
We had reckoned, and must be
prepared to hold our OWL do
not mean necessarily by warfare
but to hold our own in the great
struggle of the division of the
world, which seems to be imme-
diately impending over us. ( Hear,
hear.)
How very little of the world in
a very short time there will re-
main to divide. Has anybody
taken that seriously to heart !?
Africa is portioned out into
spheres of influence of more or
less value. Asia is being portion
ed out with a rapidity to which
all previous partitions must yield
the palm. There is practically
nothing else left in the world to
divide, and you will presently ar
rive at this-the world mapped
out into several great FREEDOM ina
ting influences not necessarily &C.
tually hostile to each other, but
commercially not likely to be
very friendly.
THE WORLD NEXT WAR FOR TRADE.
That points, l think, to the fact
that the next war, the next great
war, if it ever takes place; will be
war for trade, and not for terri
tory. Therefore, in looking round
for the interest which most coin
cides with us, even putting apart
the question of nationality, we
look naturally to the United
States, which, though it has a pro
tective tariff, is internally a great
free trade continent, and which
certainly has no wish to see the
external ports of the world closed