The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-11-17
ENGLA AND WANTS
OUR FRIENDSHIP
Chamberlain on the Al
lance Question.
WOULD BENEFIT EACH NATION
NOT PROJECTED WITH A MER-
rENApv UTEW
WOULD BENEFIT EACH NATION
NOT PROJECTED WITH A MER-
CENARY VIEW.
Says the Two Countries Have Inter
ests in Common and Will Come
to a Better Understand
ing of Each Other.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

LONDON, Nov. 16.-Joseph Cham
berlain, who was the guest of the Con-
sentative Club in this city this even
ing, in replying to a toast to his
health, spoke at length on colonial
matters He said that almost all inter
national 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"
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 silence shall have succeeded in
overcoming malarial diseases.
He warmly defended the Govern
ments' Chinese policy, contending that
Great Britain had good reason to be
satisfied with the results obtained as
compared 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 a better guarantee than pa
per agreement to secure the policy OF
an open door. The best security, in
nv opinion. is the desire of other ma
lions. like Japan, Germany and the
United States to preserve an open door.
Japan 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, rejoice TO say
IL.
they have been for some time.
germany and the United States are
the two great commercial nations
whose interests are identical with ours.
In what 1 have said / have not meant
permanent, formal treaty of alliance;
nor need l say this now but that a
speech of mine some months ago gave
rise to neutrality-suspicious..
''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
other powers may pull her chestnuts
out of the fire.
This was received with loud and pro-
~longed cheering, 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
aid, in his opinion, than would cheer
fully be afforded by her own children.
He scorned the idea that England
should fear German competition, as he
believed, he said, that Anglo-Saxon CO.
operation and influence would prove
Irresistible, and that there was no rea-
son why, even without an alliance,
Great Britains friendly relations with
Germany should not be strengthened.
1T rejoice" he said in conclusion, al
the change that has occurred in the re-
lations between Great Britain and the
United States. To us they stand in a
relation different from that occupied
by any other people. 1 know hundred
reasons why we should be friends, none
why we should be otherwise, and 1 be-
lieYe that has been the true feeling OF
this country toward the United States
for many years. All MISUNDERSTANDING
have been happily removed and thG
combination, of the two English-speak-
ing nations would fear no other ALI
ance.
-Our Imagination must be fired wher
we contemplate the possibility of such
cordial understanding between the
seventy million people of the United
States and our fifty million Britons-ar
understanding which would guarantees
peace and civilization to the world. W.
shall welcome the United States IN Ihe1l
new career as a colonizing nation be
cause we know they are animated b!
the same motives and aspirations, en-
ploy the same methods and love justic'
as ourselves; and such a new departure
will, doubtless, as Lord Salisbury hal
said, serve our interests, not in any sci
fish or mercenary sense, but because i
will give each a better understanding
of the others work, increase our sym
pathies, bring US closer together ant
make easy and inevitable that mos
desirable cooperation"