Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-05-20
United We Stand

Tie r,po~,i alliance between tnca'
E'llin auI the litra state. ~ "ut
i.u,I hy .I"-,'h Chaml.!lain in hi,
".,4t ~p,,ch At birmingham, last week
j. ~ far ah.Io the ATTEMPTED arhitra
ton np}riucut, year ago, IL hcavcI
j. above the earth. Such an allianc,
a. Engllud's >tit,-man PROPOSES :,
completely come, h"ud- all forms %
arbitration IL To- render the lAttrl
measure wholly unnecessary. 1t vii
lrc remembered that the terms OF tn,
arbitration scheme, - hutly debated IL
Congress. related simply T. the settle,
mrnt oi all international diilicultic:
without recourse to war. That pr"po
stion, I'll course, was good 50 far rs il
went, and it has doubtless paved tho
way for the incoming OF greater
movement looking to the best inter.
c>ts OF the two great nations which
sprung from a common origin and
speak the same tongue.
According to the distinguished Brit
ON, whose late speech we have referred
t., the idea OF an Anglo-Amcrican al
lance is not altogether the new thing
it may appear to be to casual readers
OF recent English history. More than
decade the wish for such an inter
national alliance has been secretly if
not openly cherished in the hearts of
many British statesmen.
So outspoken is Mr.. Chamberlain
that his speech has caused big flut-
ter in the diplomatic circles of CONT
mental Europe. Germany, France
and Italy view the great scheme with
pretty well grounded suspicion, of
course, while in Spain it has aroused
the bitterest hatred, expressed in I'M
qualified threats of vengeance should
such an agreement find materializa-
ton between the two great English
speaking nations.
To show the broad and liberal basis
upon which Mr.. Chamberlain would
erect his grand superstructure of an
international compact, the reader has
only to follow the noble thought incul.
Gated in the following extracts from
his Birmingham speech. After refer
ring to the policy of strict isolation
pursued by England in past years, the
distinguished speaker says:
"The time has arrived when Great
Britain may be confronted by combina-
ton of powers and our first duty, there
fore, is to draw all parts of the empire
into close unity, and our next to main
tain the bonds of permanent unity with
our kinsmen across the Atlantic"
And again,
"There is powerful and generous ma
ton, using our language, bred of our race
and having interests identical with ours
would go so far as to say that, terrible
as war may be, even war itself would be
cheaply purchased if in great and no
BILE cause the Stars and Stripes and the
Union Jack should wave together over
an Anglo-Saxon alliance"
And finally, as if convinced that
open confession is good for the soul,
he gives expression to this remarkable
statement:
Zone of the most satisfactory results
of Lord Salisbury's policy is that at the
present time these two great nations I'M
derstand each other better than they
ever have done since over a century ago,
when they were separated by the blum.
der of British government"
The British press, generally, COM
pliment Mr.. Chamberlain in his efforts
to establish the greatest desideratum
OF the closing century.
The German press is more reticent,
while the Madrid papers are in a fever
of resentment, loudly predicting that
at the moment such an alliance should
be ratified between England and the
United States there would be a whole
sale uprising among all the great pow
ers of the continent, eliminating in
the most stubborn and bloody war of
modern times.
But there can be another safe proph-
ecy ventured in regard to this matter.
and that is, Uncle Samuel and Johnny
Bull will continue to attend to their
own business while the Stars and
Scripes and Union Jack will calmly
wave to the breezes of heaven quite as
undisturbed as is the moon when
bayed by the little dog.
COEcycTEEr advocates Of tho M0nroo