El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-05-17
ENGLAND AND
AMERICA.
Go To Show What We May Elk
pect.

Some Significant Statements That
Go To Show What We May Elk
pect.
The present war has called out in
Vulnerable expressions of opinion on
all matters of / atiooal and III formation
al policy that would probably under
peace conditions have gone unsaid.
From the large number of these thai
nave app AIRED in the daily press we
have culled the following, which
we present to our readers without
ommeut:
SIR FREDERICK POLLOCK, THE Fla
NOUS ENGLISH BARRISTER, SAYS
THAT THE KEYSTONE OF AN AN
GLO-SAXON ALLIANCE IS OUR MU-
TUAL INTEREST IN MAINTAINING
THE MONROE DOCTRINE.
Letter to The London Chronicle.
The time seems to have come, sooner
than most of US dared to hope, for con-
siderine what should be the points OF
an effectual understanding between
this country and the United State.
We have nothing to do directly witt
the matters in difference between thu
United States and Spain, and [ ventur e
10 think it but q left-handed cOmpll-
ment to our kinsfOlk. however well
meant, to make them proffers of as
,istance as il they were not competent
to dispose of those matters by Them
selves. Again, if our sid is supertlu-
GUS for the United States, we are still
less concerned to save Spain from the
conse quences of q perverse policy.
Without any derogatiOn from GU
moral claim as individual Englisn-
speaking meo. to sympatbiZe with the
United States on grounds of humanity,
should like to observe that, from the
point of view of strict right and bust
ness, the Cuban questions, for the Uni
ted States, simply how long a nation
is bound to tolerate nuisance at It's
own door. The complaint against the
Spaniards is not that they govern Gu
ba badly, but that they cannot govern
it at all and this to the manifest dam
age of the government and citizens OF
the United States. This is evidently
such q question as every nation must
decide for itself. 1t is not reduciole to
rule, nor, in my humble opinion, sus-
ceptib BILE of treatment by arbitration, or
save to a very limited extent, by DIP
| lometic good offices. So far our par
| could be only that of benevolent neu-
| trality.
But we hear of attem pts of European
| intervention. extending, it is saiC
Il
European protest against the Monroe
ID Dctr inc, or rs L would rather call it,
the Monroe policy. Here, [ submit e.,
| we have plain interest and duty. not
as q European, but as an American
power. We are the other great power
of the North American continent, and
| If we rightly consider our position,
we are as much concerned as the
United States to forbid the interfer-
of f0rpi orr in,
aft airs. What, then, is the true key
| stone of a possible AnglO-Saxon al
lance? On the side of the United
States, frank recognition of our CO.
equal standing beyond the Atlantic in
right OF Canada, and our joint interest
in excluding European complications
from America. On our side, under
stood if not formally expressed, readi-
ness to support the Monroe principle
in whose origin, indeed, we have our
share) In conjunction with the United
States, by whatever means may be
necessary and sufficient, and against
all corners. This implies mutual OBJ
livion of certain unfortunate passages
in certain dispatches. already WE'LL
nigh forgotten, to which | will not
more particularly refer.
An alliance on these lines, while by
no means excluding common action for
buy Spccl6l CduSS VI COullOu lQUSTSSG-
for example, in Cnina-would have a
permanent value beyon its applica
ton to any particular dispute sucn as
that now Standing open between the
United States and Spain. II would
make wholly for peace, and no other
nation would have aUy good cause of
objection to it. Within It's legitimate
purposes the alliance would be, accord
ing to all reasonable foresight, ir-
II
we'll, the first shouted guns fred oy a
comb ned Anglo-American fleet might
be the beginning of more ends than
the DIRECTORS contemplated.
AS for the suspended arbitration
treaty. doubtless that WAS good thing
to work for when we could see nothing
better. And, as things are, it still
would be good. But if it comes to
alliance, shall we need to talk of ar
filtration treaties? Your faithfully.
FREDERICK POLLOCK.
Ri. HON. JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN,
SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE
COLONIES, SAYS A COMBINATION
LAND MAY BE IMMINENT, AND
URGES CLOSER COLONIAL UNION
AND ALLIANCE WITH AMERICA.
Press dispatch from London, May ID.
The Rt. Hon. Joseph Chamberlain,
secretary Of state for the colonies.
made an important speech on public
affairs at Birmingham this evening.
Mr.. Cham berlaio, after deprecating
the constant assertions in certain quar-
ters that Lord Salisbury was "discred-
it ed' and the government weak and
vacillating," said:
eff foreign countries believe and act
upon those statements they will find
themselves much mistaken and that
courteous diplomacy and graceful con-
cessions are not incompatible with a
firm maintenance of the country's hon
or and interests. "
Referring to the policy of strict iso-
lation that England has pursued since
the Crimean war he remarked that
this had been perfectly justifable,"
but he added: The time mas arrived
when Great Britain may be confronted
by com bi nation of powers and our
first duty therefore is TO draw all parts
of The empire into closer unity and
next to maintain the bonds of perma-
nent unity with our kinsmen across
the A tlantic.n Loud cheers)