New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-12-07
PLAIN TALK FOR FRANCE.
THE BRITISH AMBASSADOR URGES THAT
COUNTRY TO STOP OUIBBLING.
SIR EDMUND MoNsoN's SPEECH AT PARIS
THREAT OF RETALIATION IMPLIED
AMERICAN DIPLOMACY PRAISED.


Paris. Dec. 6.-At the Silver Jubilee Banquet
Of the British Chamber Of Commerce here this
evening the British Ambassador Sir Edmund
J. Monson. referring to the new diplomacy
which Is said 10 have come into fashion in the
last year. said il was chiefly due 10 the enter
prise of the press. but also It was in a measure
due 70 mother country inventions, and to the
originality Of the American mlnd-ever rest
lessly watching to improve everything-which
will perhaps end by improving the diplomatists
OF the old school Of the face Of the earth" The
Ambassador added:
Il am quite ready 10 acknowledge that there
Is much good in the particular innovation oc-
cupyng my mind at the present moment. Amer
lea has invariably sent 10 England the finest
representatives. - her intellect and culture, ana
l think We may attribute TO no little degree the
happy development Of the friendly feeling be-
tween Great Britain and the United States To
the manner IL which these representatives. per-
formed their tasks. especially IN their public
utterances on both sides OF the Atlantic. l wish
] possessed the facility Of expression and the
command Of appropriate language which dis
tlnguished Colonel Hay. the late Mr. Bayard
and their eminent predecessors at the Court of
St James. such oratorical gifts have not l
feel the strongest desire to say a few words
which may work toward the end for which a
British Ambassador is sent abroad. II has not
been without much reflection and anxiety that
decided 70 depart on this occasion from the ira
ditional limits by which a diplomatist is ham
pered."
QUESTION OF EGYPTIAN POWER.
Sir Edmund Monson then proceeded 10 dnate
on the recent remarkable outburst Of pubic
feeling In Great Britain provoked by the fa-
shoda incident. and said he ventured TO express
the hope that the idea oi Great Britain being
unduly submissive and prone to make graceful
but impoliic concessions is thoroughly ex-
ploded
After referring 10 the mischief often wrought
by reckless journalism which is too apt 10 FOR
get II can never be so accurately Informed az
the Foreign Minister" Sir Edmund eulogist-
canv referred to the Paris Exposition Of 1900,
which he described rs "one of the most signii-
cant factors in restraining the combative ele-
mcnts now menacins the peace Of the earth
He appealed to France to dsahuse herself of
all suspicion Of unfair intention upon the part
Of Great Britain: to try 70 believe there no
general animosity in England toward France
and to meet England on every question at issue
with an honest desire for an equitable arrange
ment.
FRANCE URGED TO ACT FAIRLY.
Sir Edmond Nonson concluded as follows:
"I would earnestly ask officials in power and
unofficial opponents Of public opinion TO dis
countcnance and abstain from continuance II
the policy of pinprick7, which. while it can only
procure an epheme-al satisfaction TO a short
lived Ministery. must Inevitably perpetuate
across the Channel an intolerable irritation
y would entreat them TO resist the tempta-
nanruvres. such the proposal 10 start COLI
leees as rivals Of General Kitcheners projected
institution in the roconquered Soudan such
il-consGered provocaton might have the effect
Of converting Great Britans present policy Of
forbearance in Egypt into the adoption Of meas
ures at which. I presume, French sentiment is
not aiming"