The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1898-11-15
NO MEDIATE WAR
FRANCES GOOD SENSE LAS
ANERTED AN IMPENDING
STORM.
OMDURMAN'S FALL CHANGED CONDITIONS
America as a New and Mighty Force in the Old
World. Likely to conduce to British
interests. DecayinglNations
Threaten Peace.

London, November 3.-ILt dlniddl
banquet o fthe Lord Mayor Of London
took place at the Guild Hall this even
ing. There were about $50 guests pres
ent, including members of the diplomatic
corps, Cabinet Ministers and ONE, dis
tinguished people and their wives.
The brevity of the speeches showed
that everyone realized there was general
anxity to hear the Marquis Of Salisbury.
who. on rising to respond to the toast of
Her Majesty's Minister'S was greeted
with cheers.
The Premier began by saying that q
succession of events abroad had occa-
stoned grave anxiety to the Ministry for
q year past.
Turning to the crisis with France, the
Premier remarked:
The great Judgment and common
sense displayed by France under circum-
stances of unusual difficulty. | think,
have relieved Europe of a very dangerous
and threatening storm.
AS TO WAR PREPARATIONS.
"NNhile matters were in suspense. the
Government was necessarily force to
take precautions that it should not be
taken unawares. These precautions were
most prompt and effective, but the i'm
mediate necessity for them has passed
off.
There has been some surprise on
both sides of the channel at the fact
that these preparations have not sud
denly ceased. But it is impossible
to stop them at a moments notice"
After referring to the various rumors
of intended action arising out of these
preparations. including the seizure of
Syria and Crete and the declaration of a
protectorate over Egypt the latter allu-
sion being greeted with immense cheering
Lord Salisbury continued:
Il am sorry to say | cannot rise to
the height of the aspirations indicated
by the cheering of the audience. | do
OF venture to ~prophesy, if we are forced
by others into a position we do not now
occupy, what may occur: but we are
well satisfied with the existing state
of things.
1.-THE position causes occasional fric-
ton. but, taking the situation as a
whole and considering the feelings of
other people as we'll as our own we can
reasonably rest for the present with
the existing ST. tie of affairs. | must not
be understood as meaning that Great
Britain's position in Egypt is the same
now as it was before the fall of Omdur-
man, but we earnestly hope that circum-
stances will not make it necessary prima-
rily to modify that position. as we are
convinced the world would not then go
on so peaceably as now
CZAR'S PEACE PROPOSAL.
Referring again to the war prepara-
tons and asking his hearers to look to the
state of the world, Lord Salisbury 90
served:
THE Car has invited a congress t.
provide for the disarmament of The
world; but, while we offer our heartirst
tribute to his motives. and are willing
to assist and sympathize in every way
until his aspirations are crowned witt
success, We must still provide p~recautIon:
needful to counterfeit the dangers sur
rounding us. In some respects this era
this great epoch in the history of man
is marked by unhappy omens. 1t is
the first year in which the mighty fore,
of the American republic has been intro
Guced among nations whose domin'or'
are expanding and whose istruments to
certain 6 tent are war.
Il am not implying the slightest blame
Far from it. | am not refusing sympa
thy to the American republic in the diff
f~culties through which it has passed
but no one can deny that its appearance
among factors Asiatic and possibly i
European diplomacy, is a serious even
which may not conduce to the interest
of peace, though | think in any even
it is likely to conduce to the interests o
Great Britain. (Cheers).
CAUSES OF WAR.
.rp,+ what b,c hoo, ;,,rraScod unon !,
s that the subject matter of war is terri
bly, prevalent on all sides. We see nation
decayiug. whose Government is SO be
that it can neither maintain the powe
of sclf-defence nor retain the atfectlO
Of its subjects; and. when this occur
there are always ~neighbOrs impelled b
some motive-it may be the highest phi
anthrOpy, or it may be the natural desll
OF empire-to contest as to who shall
heir to the falling nation; and that
the cause of war;
Lord Salisbury then alluded to tt
rapidity and uneNpectedness with whiC
wars break out, and said:
IF Great Britain should ever pc
NIT her sea defences to weaken, h'
whole empire would come gathering
the ground. 1t is, therefore, impossib
IN the present state and temper of tt
world to lntermit our naval and milital
precautionS.''
lie concluded by repudiating call su
gestions that our preparations mean th:
the country is animated by the Inst
conquest or a love of war" declarir
that Great Britain is only "resolve
to maintain the empire Britons have r
ceived from their forefathers and
support the peace which is the glory =,
s%ustenance of our empire"
A great ovation from the entire asso,
bly, marked the conclusion of tho p,
mier's speech.
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