The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-12-01
OUT FOR A DREIBUND.
Mr.. Chamberlain's
Significant Irritat-
ing Speech.
FRANCE NOW THREATENED.
Colonies May Be Taken
Away and Given to
Germany.

London, Nov. 3O-In a speech at
Leicester, dealing with the attitude of
foreign nations, Mr.. Chamberlain said
Il rejoice, and it is perhaps natural,
for l have taken a personal interest
in the matter, in the kindly feeling
which hope is now permanent between
the two great branches of the Anglo
Saxon race. 1 have so many friends
in the United States, almost as many
as have here, and 1 can conceive of
no greater disaster to two countries
than to find themselves hostile to each
other.
Yet 1 remember, when I first visited
America, my surprise and establishment
at the evidence given me by statesmen
and politicians of constant suspicion of
the objects of Great Britain, constant
doubts as to her integrity and an IN
favorable opinion generally. I ven
tured to say that what we wanted was
new Columbus to set out from Amer
lea, discover the united kingdom, and
return to America and tell them some
thing they did not know of the char
acter of the strange inhabitants of
these islands.
This i'll feeling was due, no doubt, to
many injustices. Due to the fact that
the United States has never been at
war with any great power but Eng
land; due to their traditions, extend
ing over century; due to feeling
that the sympathy of Great Britain
was not with them in their civil war
and to the general belief that the peo-
pie of Great Britain would see with
satisfaction any harm that might be-
fall them.
1T appeared to me almost useless to
contradict these mistaken opinions.
But what the assertions Of statement
could not do was done, and the sym
pathy we were willing to give when the
United States found itself the object
of the suspicion which has so often ac-
companied our own transactions when
engaged in a war of Justice against OPP
preston, a war in favor Of civilization
and good government.
Our action proved to the Americans
that we were indeed one people, of the
same thoughts and guided by the same
principles. The assurance that was
given them in the course of the Spanish
war will, I believe, never be forgotten,
and has placed our relations in an adj
mirable position The union-the alli-
dHCe, II you plGdSe-Jne understanding
between these two great nations is in
deed guarantee of the peace of the
world. But there is something more
which I think any far-seeing English
statesman must have long desired, that
we should not remain permanently
isolated from the continent of Europe.
Il think it must have appeared
evident to everybody that the natural
alliance is between ourselves and the
great German empire. We have had
our differences, quarrels and conten-
TONS but they have all been about pet
ty matters. These differences have been
gradually removed, until now | cannot
conceive that any point can arise in the
immediate future which can bring our
selves or Germany into antagonism of
interests. On the contrary, l can fore
see many things in the future which
must cause anxiety to the statesmen
of Europe, but in which our interests
are clearly the same as Germany's and
in which we understand each other
thoroughly"