The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-11-17
CHAMBERLAIN SPEAKS AGAIN
DISCUSSES VITIL FOREIGN OUES-
 IIONS IN LONDON.
Britain Has Good Reason to be Satisfied With Results i'm ChiMn-NIore Than n Paper Agreement Necessary to Secure Germany and United States Friendly -Anglo-Saxon Understandings.
-AngIo-saxon Understandings.

London, Nov. 16.-Joseph Chamber lain, who was the guest of the Conser- vative club in this city this evening, in replying to a toast to his health, spoke secretary of state for the colonies sad that almost all international troubles of recent years had arisen from the com petition of nations for the undeveloped territories on the worlds surface in the possession of barbarous tribes or de- caying nations. He dwelt upon theEe vast tracts as outlets for the teeming populations and trade of civilized na- tions." MT. Chamberlain predicted an immense future for Rhodesia and Great Britain's acquisitions in Africa, even the gold coast and Lagos "when medical science shall have succeeded in overcoming malarial diseases"
 He ably defended the governments 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 better guarantee than paper agreement to secure the policy of an open door. The best security, in my opinion, is the de- sire of other nations, like Japan, Ger many and the United States, to pre- serve an open door. Japan is becoming an important power with whom cur re- lations throughout have been those of cordial friendship, while Germany and the United States, 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 I have not meant a permanent, formal treaty of alliance, ncr need l say this now, but that a speech of mine some months ago gave rise to misinterpretatlops Those persons are very premature, Very much mistaken, who think that Great Britain is in need of an alliance for her own security
 This was received with loud and pro- longed cheers, which greeted every re- ference to the United States. In an eloquent peroration he developed this theme, declaring that if England ever needed an alliance she would give as much as she received, but she would never need more than was given by her own children. 'T rejoice he said, sat the change that has occurred in the relations between Great Britain and the United States. know hundred reasons why we should be friends. All misunderstanding have been removed and the combination of the two Eng fish speaking nations would fear no other alliance. We shall welcome the United States in their new career as colonizing nation because we know they employ the same methods and love jus tice as ourselves and such a departure will serve our interests not in any sell fish or mercenary sense, but because it will give each a better understanding of the others work and bring use closer together and make easy and inevitable that most desirable cooperation