Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-05-16
CHAMBERLAIN'S SPEECH
1t Puts the European Press in Peck Of
Trouble.
MAY MEAN EARLY WAR WITH FRANCE.


New York, May 16.-A dispatch to
the World from London says:
The Sunday papers are curiously sill
ent on Mr. Chamberlain's remarkable
pronouncement In favor of an Anglo
American alliance. The Observer the
most influential, politically, of them,
however. applauds Mr.. Chamberlain
declaration on that point while re-
ierring the accomplishment of his ideal
to some remote contingency which has
not yet arisen. The Observer says:
1T is well understood in the United
States that European intervention is
not even discussed by the powers Just
now because England will not tolerate
1t. The real crux will come when the
terms OF peace are drafted. Then. II
ever, the anti-Ameitcan league at which
Count Goluschowski limited at, not long
ago. will lift its head. We doubt the
substance of any such apparitlon be-
cause the coercion of America is too big
a business for practical politics, but the
day that witnesses any serious combI-
nation against either the United States
or great Britain ought also to witness
their consolidation into an anti-Ameri-
can alliance"
Inc world correspondent had a con-
versation with one of Mr.. Chamber
lain's most trusted followers. to whom
Mr. Chamberlain had sever weeks since
opened his mind on the subject of an
Anglo-American understanding as well
as on the general foreign policy of Great
Britain. This politician stated: Cham
berlian has been for the past year con-
WINGED that Salisbury's foreign policy
is steadily and inevitably leading to the
ruin of Englands commercial sunrem-
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to the continued commercial EXPANSION
both OF England and the United States
that they sould make common cause
against European combinations.
Besldes. that. he entertains a strona
view that the French provocation in
West Africa should be accepted by
Salisbury as n casus belli. England's
supremacy on the sea would enable her.
in his view, to seriously cripple IL not
destroy French naval expansion for
years, and he regards as England's
most imperative interest to weak
en- France so that Russia alone would
have TO be dealt with in the far East.
"England's interests and those of
America are Identical in that region.
and Chamberlain regards their com
bination as the first towards a realiza-
ton of the AngloSaxon alliance. That
Is the underlying motive of his speech
although 1t was made under circum-
stances which give It the appearance of |
an attempt to Dust Lord Salisbury from
the foreign Office"
The Daily Malls Berlin dispatch SAYS
that Chamberlain's birmingham speech |
is characterized by the German press |
in general as undiplomatic, acknowledge |
ing England's weakness In the face of |
Russia and as an undignified bid for |
Americas favor.
The government evidently is reseryinp |
its opinion. The semi-ofiicial papers |
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establishment at n member of the cab |
met speaking so plainly. the Post add |
ing that II would have been better for |
England's interests If the speech had
not been delivered.
The Koelniche Zeitung alone de-
scribed the colonial minister's speech
as model of modern political elo-
quence. and congratulated the orator
on being practical politician with
modern views, speaking to the British
nation with Blsmarcklan bluntness.
The National zeitung says the
speech was nothing less than an ac-
acknowledgement of bankruptcy. not only
of England's policy hitherto. but OF the
whole British power. and remarks that
the British nation is hardly likely TO
identify itself with the colonial minis
ter's utterances. The general impress
sion is that England will not be able
to form an alliance with the United
States, as the interests of the two ma
lions are not identical In the East. and
America would not supply the neces-
sary military quota In the event of war
with Russia.
All newspapers which allude to the
subject state that England will find
no ally In Europe and Russia, least OF
all in Germany, which has no reason
for quarreling with Russias action in
China.
Prince Bismarck's organ, the Ham
burger Nachrichten, remarks:
1T would be a deplorable error on
the part of Great Britain to Imagine
that any constitutional power should
have the strange idea OF entering the
lists at this critical Juneture on the
side OF English arrogance, and to boil
ster up exclusively English interests"
The Daily Mails Paris dispatch says
the Temps, which saw In Chamber
lain's speech only bid for German al
lance and blow In the back to Sails
bury. now discusses the chance of an
approaching war. and says Chamber