The Savannah morning news., 1902-01-13
The SPEECH OF JOEY
REMARKS THAT AGITATED
CONTINENT.
SPEAKER WAS MUCH AT EASE.
CHAMBERLAIN PUFFED a CIGAR
AT INTERVALS.

His References 10 Count Won BuelOw
Calmly and Even COntemptuOusly
Given-COIOniaI Minister Seems to
Have IL KnRck of Stirring UP I'm
ternatiOnRI gOnism-Newspa-
pers Are All AgOg Over It-COn-
trOversy May Account for Denial
of Emperor williams Intention of
Visiting England.
London, Jan. 12.-The speech of Col
onial Secretary Chamberlain at Bir-
mingham is being commented on from
the party standpoint. 1t was delivered
at the annual dinner of the jewelers.
and Silversmiths' Association, an en-
tirely new party gathering. Mr..
Chamberlain was in high spirits and
spoke more deliberately than usual,
putting a cigar at intervals. His ref
erences to Count Won Buelow, the I'M
perial Chancellor of Germany, We're
calmly or even contemptuously given.
Mr.. Chamberlain reply meets with
approval from men of his own party,
but in many quarters friendly to his
policy regret is expressed that he
should thrust his own personality so
much to the front.
The Morning Post says that in this
matter Mr. Chamberlain has the ma
ton solid at his back.
The Daily Telegraph says that Count
Won Buelow has helped to make Mr..
Chamberlain an even more popular and
powerful figure throughout the en-
pire.
The Daily Mail believes that the
quarrel between Count Won Buelow and
Mr.. Chamberlain cannot benefit either
party, but admits that Mr.. Chamber
lain has nothing to withdraw.
But the paper cannot forget that al
most every year Mr.. Chamberlain has
offended some great power. First it
was Russia, then France. He irritated
America by suggesting an alliance. and
is now working into a quarrel with
Germany which may go further. Great
Britain's hands are too full in South
Africa to want trouble with Germany.
The Daily Mail expresses thankfulness
that Mr.. Chamberlain is not the Brit
ish Minister of Foreign Affairs.
The Daily Chronicle. writing on lines
somewhat similar to those of the Daily
Mail wishes that the rnasterful minis
ter could learn sufficient dignity and
patriotism to sink his own personality
in the considera ton of imperial inter-
estS. 1t says that a burst of national
enthusiasm might have resulted from
Saturdays speech, but that the coun
try remembers Mr.. Chamberlain's
previous speech in which he shame
lessly touted for a German alliance.
The Daily News, in an angry denun-
citation, declares the colonial secretary
to be suffering from a swelled head.
The Berlin correspondents of the
London papers express different opin-
mos of the quarrel The representative
of the Daily Mai, claims TO know that
Emperor William will not suffer Count
Won Buelow to make any more conces-
sions to the Anglophobe feelings. This
correspondent says a successor to
Count Won Buelow is already knocking
at the door and will gladly enter and
try to interpret the Emperors wishes.
On the other hand the Berlin cor
respondent Of the Daily Chronicle be-
lieves that the tardy official denial OF
the statement that Emperor William
is going to England shows that the
latter has changed his mind because
of the Won BuelQwC Chamberlain dis
pute, and that the Emperor originally
intended to be present at the memo
rial service for the late Queen Victoria.
The Times applauds Mr. Chamber
lain's reply to Count Won Buelow as
the only kind the spokesman Of. q ma
ton not lost to self-respect could make
to such attacks.