The age-herald., 1898-05-20
MR. CHAMBERLAIN
 SPOKE FOR ENGLAND

Joseph Chamberlain, secretary of state for the English colonies at Birmingham last week, wherein he manifested Engiands friendly office in behalf of the United States. has done more to arouse the indig- nation upon the continent, and especially in France and Germany than anything so far that has been uttered. MT. Chamber lain has reason for being especially friendly to the United States. While Prince Bis marck. the iron chancellor, believes that MT. Chamberlain was uttering his personal opinion rather than the sentiments of the English government, it must be borne in mind that Chamberlain is in a position to speak for England.
 MT. Chamberlain has, since he came in- to public life, been friendly to the United States. He came to this country in 1887 as the head of the fish commission sent out from England to treat with the United States upon the fisheries question, which had become an international one because of the contention between this country and England as to the rights to fish in the wa- ters adjacent to Newfoundland. MT. Chamberlain upon the occasion of that visit to this country first met the young
  Chamberlain and the other members of the commission were very generally enter- tained at Washington where they res mained for month or more.
 Before returning to England. MT. Cham- berlain and Miss Endicott. daughter of the then secretary of war in MT. Cleve- lands cabinet were engaged. In few
 f1t- ~F.~-Io ot.. to the United States again and took back with him Miss Endicott as his wife. From that time to the present MT. Chamberlain has taken a great interest in the affairs of this country. The speech he made at Birmingham last week is by no means the first expression he has made as one or the men high in the councils of the Brit- ish nation expressing regard and friends ship for the people of this country.
 Mir. Chamberlain is, at present, one of the greatest characters of English politics. He has had a varied and meteoric career. When he was a young man there seemed but little hope of a public career, though his parents were des'rous If his entering politics. MT. Chamberlain was born and reared in Birmingham and at one time gained the sobriquet of the 'slummer boy'' of Birmingham. If there was a tough place in all that great industrial city Joe Cham- berlain knew as much about it as anybody else. He was dstinctively a man of the people, He was lover of art, and all that was artistic, and well an en. courager of prize fighting. At one time Mrs Chamberlain was well schooled in the art of the manly science. When John l.. Sul- livan, Boston's most distinguished citizen, made his first trip in England, MT. Cham- berlain was one of the thousands of people who called upon him. Chamberlain Is, in every sense, refor ner He is aggressive, fearless, and usually on the right side of every public question. In point of strong characteristics, he is not unlike Theodore Roosevelt of this country. Both are pug nacious Each would rather fight than retreat. The two have reached their pres- ent positions very largely on account of their excellent qualities of determination.
 It is by no means improbable that MT. Chamberlain may advance in very short time to the premiership of England. The late MT. Gladstone was an admirer of MT. Chamberlain, and the young man was aided very materially in the qualification of his political ambitions by the Grand Old Man." There is little doubt but that MT. Chamberlain expressed the sentiment of 90 per cent. of the people of England when he said that it was the desire of that kingdom to be on friendly terms with the United States. MT. Chamberlain will, no doubt, disagree with Prince Bismarck in the expression used the day before yester-
 
 people of England and the people of the United States are not of the same blood. As Prince Bismarck has we'll said the blood of the American people is very much mixed It Is true that it is made up of British, Irish, German, French and Scan- dinayian, but the predominating blood of the United States is English. Chamber lain knows more of the people of the United States than does Bismarck It is but natural that the iron chancellor should become hostile to England when England promises it's friendship for the United States at this lin-. Germany does not feel as kindly to this country as does England, though millions of its sons and daughters f.Ne found h lmes in this coun- try. The Germans possibly have been the better class of emigrants that have come from the Old World to the New. They are sturdy race of people and have con- tributed no littl. to the advancement of this country. The emperor of Germany, as is well known, has no love for England, though his mother was an English wo- man, the daughter of Queen Victoria Nothing would please the present emperor more than to pull off fight with his