The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-01-31
ANGLO-A AMERICAN RELATIONS
4 PERY TRIENDLY ADDRESS BY
 MR. BALFOUR.
Present Friendship Not Growth of Moment-Founded Upon MUtua1ity- An Answer to Cyntcs Common Sym- pathy n Guarantee fOr Future Pence and Progress of Human Race.

London, Jan. 3O.-The Rt. Hon. Ar 1 thur James Balfour, first lord of tht ists in the house of commons, delivered
 his annual address this evening to his 1 constituents at Manchester, After speaking of the intrinsic difficulty which continental nations find in under
 standing Great Britain's aims, he con
 tinued: But there is surely one great
 country which, by community of lan-
 guage, religion, blood, origin and even
 institutions, is well fitted to understand
 us. Need I say that the country to
 which I refer is the United States?
 Some foreign critics, cynical by, pro-
 fession and training, hold the view that
 the friendship, now happily subsisting
 between the English-speaking peoples
 on both sides of the Atlantic, is but
 the growth of moment and depends
 upon transitory combination of in-
 terests They hold that if British trade should feel injured by some inconven- tent tariff, immediately the sentiments so generally felt at this moment in Great Britain toward America would vanish like the leaves in autumn.
 According to my observations" said MT. Balfour, the world of cynics is always wrong. I believe the cynics wrong in this case. If our good rela- tions really depended upon those fortui- tous circumstances, while the latter might be the foundation of an alliance, they, could not be the foundation of what is infinitely more important, of that species of friendship which, in sea- son and out of season, through good re- port or i'll, is rot to be shaken by mere personal circumstances.
 Tt was in this hall in 1896 that first spoke of the international relations be- tween the United States and England between the dark days of the Venezue- Ian treaty when public feeling in Amer ica had been aroused by the wholly un- founded suspicion that we had some designs of empire in South Africa, and when by natural reaction We felt that our brethren on the other side of the water had neither judged nor treated us with knowledge and fairness. l then expressed my faith that the time would come when all peoples speaking the English language and sharing the Anglo-Saxon civilization would be unit ed with a sympathy which no mere po litical divergencies could disturb. I felt then, though spoke my inmost convic- tions, that I must impress my hearers as something of a dreamer and an idealist, or as a prophet only, hoping for what he himself can hardly expect to see realized. But the three years that have elapsed since have wrought a surely marvellous change in the rela- tions between the two countrieS-a change which I believe is not destined to be reversed; a change which has brought back these two great commu- mites to their normal relations, dis turbed as those normal relations were by more than century of unhappy discord; a change which, once made, Is a change that ought to be permanent for it is founded, as I hope. upon mu- tual sympathy mutual comprehension and the mutual belief that each great and free community desires to see the privileges it enjoys extended far and wide to all continents and among all atons.
 And if I am right and that common sympathy be implanted deep in the breasts of those two great nations, there cannot be greater guarantee for future peace, freedom progress and civilization, not only of this or that or community alone, but of the whole human raceo