The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-01
THREAT rs MADE In
SPEECH BY SECRETARY
Greeted BY Outburst of Cheering BY
His Hearers.
Indignation Aroused to Such Pitch
That Serious Consequences May
Result Unless Great Britain's
Neighbors Mend Their Ways
Favors Alliance of United States,
England and Germany In Order
to Assure Peace of the World.

London, Nov. 30.-Joseph Chamber
lain, secretary of state for the colonies,
in a speech at luncheon at Leicester
today. said that ever since the great
split in the liberal party he had found
himself q mark for the ISLANDERS and
misrepresentation from the baser sort
of politicians, but that he had founH
compensation in the generous apprecia-
ton of the majority OF the country
men.
Continuing, Mr. Chamberlain said he
was deeply gratified that the foreign re-
lations of Great Britain were so salts
factory, and asserted that the country
owed debt of gratitude TO Lord SANS
bury for the great Improvement IN
Great Britain's position. 1t was es-
pecially gratifying, he said, to note the
friendly relations existing between the
Anglo-Saxon branches, saying that the
understanding between the United
States and Great Britain was indeed
guaranty of the peace of the world
This statement was greeted with cheers.
1t was of the utmost importance, Mr..
Chamberlain further remarked, that
Great Britain should not remain isolat-
ed in Europe and her natural alliance
was with the great German empire.
They had had difficulties with Ger
many, but their interests and senu-
ments were the same, and an under
standing between the TeUtonic and An
lo-Saxon races might do more than
any combination of armies to preserve
the peace of the world. The world, he
asserted, was not governed entirely by
interest. Sentiment was one of the
greatest factors.
Issues a Warning.
Referring to the attacks of the for
10 NJ. 20 lair1- said these
newspapers had not even spared the
most sacred person of the queen" This,
continued the speaker, provoked natu-
raj indignation which may have SER
ious consequences if our neighborS do
not mend their ways"
An outburst of cheering greeted this
threat of the colonial secretary. It was
a matter for congratulation, Mr.. Cham
berlain asserted, that the worst or
these disgracefJl attacks did not ap-
pear in the German papers.
Dealing with the attitude Of foreign
nations Mr.. Chamberlain said:
Il rejoice. and i is perhaps natural,
for / have taken personal interest in
the matter in the friendly feeling
which / hope is now permanent between
the two great branches of the Anglo
Saxon race. l have as many friends in
the United States. almost as many as l
have here. and / can conceive of no
greater disasters to the two countries
than to find themselves hostile to each
other Yet, I remember, when 1 first
visited America. my surprise and as
constituent at the evidence given me by
both statesmen and politicians, and in
articles in the press, of constant sus-
picion of the objects of Great Britain.
constant doubts as to her integrity. and
a general unfavorable estimate of our
prospects and character
New Columbus Wanted.
.'Once. addressing great meeting in
Philadelphia, / ventured to say that
what We wanted was new Columbus
to set out from America, discover the
United Kingdom and return to Amer
lea and tell them something they did
not know of the character of the
strange inhabitants of those islands.
This ill-feeiing was due, no doubt, to
many causes but mainly TO the fact
that the United States has never been
at war with any great power but Eng
land, due to their traditions. extending
over a century, due to a feeling that
the sympathy of Great Britain was not
with them in their civil war, and to
the general belief that the people of
Great Britain would see with satisfac-
tion any harm that might befall them.
1t appeared 20 me most useless TO
contradict these mistaken opinions. But
could not do was done by the sympathy
we We're willing TO give when the Unit
ed. States found itself the object of
suspicion, which has so often accom-
panied our own transactions when Eng
land engaged in a war of justice against
oppression, war in favor of civiliZa-
ton and good government.
Our action proved to the Americans
that we were inGeed 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 viii, I believe, never be forgotten,
and has placed our relations in an adj
mirabie position. The union, the alli-
ance, II you please. the understanding
between. these two nations, is indeed a
guarantee of the peace of the world.
Triple Alliance Favored
But there is something more which
l think any far-seeing English states |
man must have long desired that we
SHOULD not remain permanently isolat-
ed from the continent of Europe, and !
/ think it must have appeared evident /
TO everybody that the natural alliance
is between ourselves and the German
empire. We have had our differences. (
quarrels and contentious, but they have
oil been about petty matters. Those |
difficulties have been gradually re-
moved until NOW / cannot conceive that /
any point can arise in the immediate J
future which can bring ourselves and
Germany into antagonism of interests. |
On the contrary, / can foresee 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 the /
understanding of which l have spoken |
in the case of America, might If ex-
tended 20 Germany, do more perhaps |
than any combination OF arms to pre- |
serve the peace OF the world"
\ new triple alliance between the
Teutonic race and the great branches /
of the Anglo-Saxons would. said the I
colonial secretary, be a potent influence /
in the future of the world
The speaker explained that he used /
the word alliance" but it mattered lit /
tie whether they had an alliance com I,
nlitted To paper or IAN understanding |
which existed in the minds of the |
statesmen Of the representative coun- |
tries
Heavy Loss of Beers.