The record-union., 1898-11-17
Contends There is Good Reason to Be Sal
isfled With the Results Obtained.
Answers the Contention That Eng
land Should Have an agreement
With Russia by Asserting That
the Former Would Require
a Better Guarantee Than a Pa
per Agreement to Secure tne
Policy OF an Open Door.

LONDON. Nov. 16-At a banquet TO-
night in his honor at the Conservative
Club Sir Joseph Chamberlain warmly
defended the Government Chinese pol
lev. 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 4 pa
per agreement to secure the pollcy OF
an open door. The best security, in
my opinion, is the desire of other ma
tions 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 cur relations / rejoice to say,
are now closer and more cordial than
they have been for some time.
Germany and the United States ara
the two great commercial nations,
whose interests are identical with ours.
In what Ifhave said, [ have not meant
a permanent, formal treaty of alliance,
nor need 1 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 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. Cham
berlain developed this theme, declaring
that if England ever needed an alli-
ance she would give as much as she
received, but that she would never
need more aid, in his opinion, than
would cheerfully 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 Britain's friendly relations with
Germany should not be strengthened.
i rejoice" he said, in conclusion. "at
the change that has occurred in the
relations between Great Britain and
the United States. To us they stand
in relation different from that occu-
pied by any other people. / know a.
hundred reasons why we should be
friends, none why we should be other
wise; and / believe that has been the
true feeling of this country toward the
United States for may years. All mis-
understandings have been happily re-
moved, and the combination of the two
English-speaking nations would fear no
other alliance.
Our imagination must be fired when
we contemplate the possibility of such
cordial understanding between the
seventy million people of the United
States and our fifty million Britons. an
understanding which would guarantee
peace and civilization to the world. We
shall welcome the United States in
their new career as a colonizing nation.
because we know they are animated
by the same motives and aspirations
employ the same methods and love JUS
tlce as ourselves; and such a new de-
parture Will, doubtless, as Lord Sails
bury has said, serve our interests. not
in any selfish or mercenary sense, but
because it will give each a better un-
derStanding of the others work. in
crease our sympathies, bring us closer
together, and make easy and inevitable
that most deSira BILE cO-ODeration