The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-12-01
THE HIGH HOPES OF
MR. CHAMBERLAIN
On the Alliance Between Eng
land and America.
EXPLAINS USE OF TERM
THE ALLIANCE MAY BE WRIT
TEN OR UNDERSTOOD.
A GUARANTEE OF THE WORLDS PEACE
Mr.. Chamberlain Thinks That Triple ALI
ance, the Parties Being Great Britain,
the United States and Germany,
Is Most Desirable.

Is Most Desirable.
London, Nov. 30.-Joseph Chamber
lain, the Secretary of State for rhe Col
onies in a speech at a lnncne ~ at
Leicester today, said that ever since
the great split in the Liberal party he
had found himself a mark for the siaE-
ders and misrepresentation of the
baser sort of politicians" but that he
had found compensation in the generous
appreciation of the majority Of his coun-
trymen.
Continuing Mr.. Chamberlain said he
was deeply gratified that the forcig1 re-
lations of Great Britain were 50 salts
factory and he asserted that the conn
try owed debt of gratitude u Lord
Salisbury for the great Improvement in
Great Britain's position. 1T was espe-
cially gratifying, he said, TO note the
friendly relations existing between the
Anglo-Saxon branches, saying that the
understanding between the United
States ad Great Britain was indeed
a guarantee of the peace of the world.
This statement was greeted with
cheers.
The world. he asserted, was MOI gsx
erned entirely by interest. Sentiment
WAS one OF the greatest factors.
Referring to the attacks Of the for
eign press, Mr.. Chamberlain said those
newspapers had not even spared the
almost sacred person OF the Queen" !"
This, continued the speaker. provoked
natural Indignation. (which may have
arin .hF.,.a
do not mend their ways.
An outburst Of cheering greeted this
threat of the Colonial Secretary.
1t was matter for congratulation,
Mr. Chamberlain asserted. that the
worst of these ''disgraceiul attacks"
did not appear in the German papers.
Dealing with the attitude of the for
eign relations, Mr.. Chamberlain said:
Il rejoice, and it is perhaps natural,
for | have taken a personal interest
in the matter, in the friendly feeling
which hope is now permanent between
the two great branches of the Anglo
Saxon race. | have so many friends
in the Unitd States. almost as many as
| have here, and | can conceive of no
greater disaster TO the two countries
than to find themselves hostile to each
other Yet | remember. when | first
visited America, my surprise and as
tonishment at the evidence given me by
statesmen and politicians and in articles
in the press of constant suspicion of the
objects OF Great Britain constant doubts
as to her integrity and generally un-
favorable estimate of our prospects and
character.
This ill-fceling was due, no doubt,
to many causes. due to the fact that
the United States has never been ar
war with any great power but England.
due to their~traditions, extending 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 people of
Great Britain would see with satisfac-
tion any harm that might befall them.
1T appeared TO me almost useless
to contradict these mistaken opinions.
But what the asseverations of states
men could not do was done by the sym
pathy we were able to give when the
United States found itself the object
of the suspicion which has so often
accompanied our own transactions when
| engaged in war of justice against
oppression, 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, | be-
lieve, never be forgotten, and has placed
our relations in an admirable position.
The union, the alliance, if you please,
the understanding between these two
great nations is indeed guarantee or
the peace Of the world. But there is
something more which | think any far
seeing English statesman must have
long desired, that we should not remain
permanently isolated from the continent
of Europe. and | think II must have APP
peared evident TO everybody That the
| natural alliance is between ourselves and
| the German Empire. We have had
our differences, quarrels and conten.
tions but they have all been about
| petty matters. These difficulties have
been gradually removed. until now
| cannot conceive that any point IN arise
| in the immediate future which can
| bring ourselves and Germany into an
| tagonism of interests. On the contrary,
| can foresee many things in the fn-
/ ture which must cause anxiety 10 the
| statesmen of Europe, but in which our
/ interests are clearly the same rs ASer-
lnany's and in which the understanding
Of which / have spoken in the case oi
| America, might If extended TO Germany
| do more perhaps than any combination