The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-04
NEEDS AN ALLIANCE
LORD BEREsFORD DISCUSSES IN
TERNATIONAL TRADE.
COMING TO UNITED STATES
TO LEARN METHODS OF BUSINESS
ADMINISTRATION.

Admiral Says England and the
United states Could stand Against
the World Business Alliance
Would BE to the Greater Advan-
taEe of Observation-Disclosures should
Follow United states Example
and Put Her Brightest Men Into
Trade-ShouId Fight for the Mon
roe Doctrine.
London. Jan. 3.-The North German
Lloyd steamer Kaiserin Maria The
resa, which is to sail from Bremen to-
day and from Southampton tomorrow,
will take among her passengers Admi-
raj Lord Charles Beresford. There is
no truth in the report that the admiral
is to take position with the Interna-
tional Mercantile Marine Company.
Lord Beresford said to a represen-
tative of the Associated Press:
81 am going to America because l
have some private business to attend
TO. 1t has nothing to do with the ship
ping combination. If the Morgans had
paid me the compliment of offering me
something in that connection, which
they have not. / should have been
obliged to decline.
Il hope to pick up information re-
garding the administrative element in
American business. That's where
America excels. We do not know how
to administer here. Our workmen are
as good as theirs, but our administra-
tions are feeble. Our companies want
lords and commoners as directors, who
l. ~.
demand straight business men who
not only know, but put their money
into the concerns Of which they are
directors. If l can teach the people
here to adopt American business meth
DDS, we can then have greater inter
communication of capital and of in
terests between the two countries. 1t
is the only way. and once England and
America get on a profit-sharing basis,
the world will not dare to interfere
with either
Neither of us will stand a political
alliance. 1t is impossible. Changing
parties and the sentiments of both
countries forbid it. l frankly confess
that business alliance would be more
to England's than Americas adVant-
age. America can look after herself
She can fight the world, either from
an economic or any other viewpoint
Hey nave not begun TO realize here
yet that the long period during which
Great Britain held the monopoly of
trade is over. They do not know the
value of scrap heap, of the minimum
cost OF production or of the volume of
trade.
The coming century will be one of
business. BY trying to achieve a COM
munity of business interests and meth
DDS between America and England, l
believe | shall be doing much towards
its being century of peace. You put
your brightest men into business. We
put them into politics, the navy and
the army That has got to be changed
not for the sake of the money il makes
for the individual, but for the general
good of the country. When l return I
hope to have lot more information in
my pocket which will further these
ends In Parliament and elsewhere"
Asked what he thought of the Ven
ezuelan situation, Lord Beresford
brought his hand emphaticaIly on the
table.
Thank God" he exclaimed. that II
has come out all right 1t has taught
our government a lesson-that they
must never tr2 their hand again nj
such game without the partnership of
the United States. do not say a word
against Germany. but. do think it is
TO England's advantage to come right
out and not only say, We support the
Monroe doctrine but. BY heavens, we
are willing to fight for it,"