The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-12-01
IS POTENT IN INFLUENCE
The New Driebund Means Peace
for the World.
ENGLAND AND AMERICA
Chamberlain Reioices at the Understand
ing Between the Two Great Branches
OF tho Anglo-Saxon Race-The
Alliance With Germany.

London Nov. 3O.-Joseph Chamber
lain, secretary of state for the colonies,
in a speech at a luncheon at Leicester
to-day, said he was deeply srati1ieo
that the foreign relations of Great
Britain were so satisfactory and as
serted that that country owed a debt
of gratitude to Lord Salisbury for the
great improvement in Great Britain's
position. 1t was especially gratifying.
he said to note the friendly relations
existing between the Anglo-Saxon
branches, saying that the understand
ing between the United States and
Great Britain was indeed a guarantee
Of peace to THE world. This statement
was greeted with cheers. 1t was OF
the utmost Importance, MI. Chamber
lain further remarked, that Great Brit
ain should not remain isolated in Eu-
rope and her natural alliance was With
the great German empire. They had
difficulties with Germany, but their in
terests and sentiments were the same
and an understanding between the
Teutonic and Anglo-Saxon races might
do more than any combination Of
armies to preserve the peace of the
world. Referring to the attacks of
the foreign press, Mr.. Chamberlain
said these newspapers had not even
spared the almost sacred person of
the queen" This, continued the speak
er, provoked natural Indignation,
(which may have serious consequences
if our ncighbors do not mend their
ways" An outburst of cheering greet
ed this threat of the colonial secre-
tary. A new triple alliance between
the Teutonic race and the great
branches of the Anglo-Saxons would,
said the colonial secretary. be potent
influence in the future of the world
Dealing with the attitude OF foreign
nations, Mr.. Chamberlain said:
Il rejoice. and ii is perhaps natural,
for / have taken a personal interest
in the matter, in the friendly feeling
which l hope is now permanent be-
tween the two great branches Of the
Anglo-Saxon race. I have so many
friends in the United States, almost
as many as I have here. and I can
conceive of no greater disaster to the
two countries than to find themselves
hostile to each other. Yet, l remem-
Der. when | first visited America, my
surprise and astonishment at the evil
dence given me, both by statesmen and
politicians and in articles in the press,
Of constant suspicion of the objects of
6feat htntaiH, CONSTANT dOuptS as u
her integrity and q generally unfavor-
able estimate of our prospects and
character. Once, addressing a. great
meeting in Philadelphia l venture to
say that what we wanted was a new
Columbus to set out from America,
discover the United Kingdom and re-
turn to America and tell them some
thing they did not know of the char
acter of the strange inhabitants of
those islands.
This feeling was due, no doubt, to
many causes but to the fact that the
United States has never been at war
with any great power but England;
due to their traditions, extending over
a. century; due to the feeling that the
sympathy of Great Britain was not
with them in their civil war, and to
Great Britain would see with satisfac-
tion any harm that might befall them
1T appears to me almost useless to
contradict these mistaken opinions. But
what the reservations Of statesmen
could not do was done by the sym
pathy We were willing to give them
when the United States found itself
the object of suspicion, which has so
often accompanied our own 'transac-
tons when England was engaged in
O. war against oppression, war in
favor of civilization and good govern
ment Our action proved to the Amer
leans 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 / believe, never
be forgotten and has placed our re-
lations in an admirable position. The
union, the alliance, If you please, the
understanding between these two ma
tons, is indeed a guaranty of the peace
of the world. But there Is something
more which I think man far-seeing
English statesmen must have long de-
sired, shat we should not remain per-
r1arently isolated from the continent
of Europe. and I think it must have
appeared evident to everybody that the
natural alliance is between ourselves
and the German empire. We have had
our differences, quarrcls and conten-
tons, but they have all been about
petty matters. These diff culties have
been gradually removed until now
cannot conceive that any point can
arise in the immediate future which
can bring ourselves and Germany into
antagonism of interests. On the con-
trary I can foresee many thing 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 the under
standing of which have spoken in the
case of America might. if extended to
Germany, do more perhaps than any
combination of arms to preserve the
peace Of the world
The speaker explained that he used
the word alliance" but it mattered
little whether they had an alliance
committed to paper or ian understand
ing which existed in the minds of the
statesmen of the representative conn