Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-01-31
F0RETOLD " IN 1896.
Lord 8aliour o" the Rapidly Increasing Angie
American Friendship.

London, Jan. 3).-Thc Right Hon. Ar.
;hur James Ba!four. tirst lord of iii,
treasury and leader of the minsteriaiist.
in the House of Commons, delivered nj.
annual address, this evening. 10 his con.
stituenls at Manchester. After speaking
of the intrinsic difficulty which continsIi-
"a nations find in understanding Gres,l
Eritains aims he continued us fol-
lows:
But there is surely one great country
which by community of language. rel,
gi"n. blood, origin, and even Institutions
Is well fitted TO understand us. and a
country which we should be well fitted To
understand. Need say that the country
70 to WHICH ! refer. is the United States:
sion and training. hold the view that the
friendship now happily subsisting be
tween the English-sp speaking peoples on
potn sides of the Atlantic is but the
growth OF the moment and depends uDun
u, transltory community of interests.
They affect to believe that when this dis
appears friendship also will disappear
ihey hold that if British trade should
feel injured by some inconvenient tarir.
immediately the sentiments so generally
ieit at this moment in Great Britain To-
ward America would vanish like the
leaves in autumn.
Mr.. Balfour, the world of cynics is a.
ways wrong. If our good relations really
depended upon these fortuitous circum-
stances. 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 friend
snip. which. in season and out of season.
through good report or i'll, is not to be
shaken by mere personal circumstances.
1T was In this hail, in 1895. tina, | frs,
spoke OF the international relations be
tween the United States and Ensiand-la
those dark days of the Venezuelan con-
ttroversy. when public feeling in America
had been aroused by the wholly unfounu-
I suspicion that we had some designs of
empire in South America. and which BY
natural reaction. We felt that our
brethren on the other side OF tie
water had neither judged nor treated
US with knowledge and fairness. then
EXPRESSED my faith that the time would
come when all speaking the English ian
suagc and sharing the Anglo Saxon c,vl-
NATION would be united with a sympathy
which no mere political divergencies
could permanently disturb.
Il felt then though ! spoke my inmost
that | must impress my hear
ers as something of a dreamer, an ideal
ist or as a prophet only hoping for what
ne himself can hardly expect 10 see rcall-
zeu. But the three years that have eIaps-
ed since nave wrought a surely mirvel-
Gus change in the relations between the
TWO countries. Il ehnnge which / believe
~ not destined to be reversed, Il change
which has brought back these two great
communities TO their normal relations,
iisturbed as those normal relations were
D! more than Il century of unhappy dis
cord, change. which once made. Is n
.h;ihge that ought To he permanent. for
y IS founded. as ! hope. upon mutta,
y nipI,hy. mutual comprehension and
mutual beliet that each of these crent
tnu Tree communities desire to see the
privileges X enjoys extended far and, |
ions. ''''''S go ""
And II am right ana that common