The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-01-20

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 London. Jan. 19.-The Guildhall was packed to suffocation this afternoon to hear Joseph Chamberlain speak, An hour before the opening of the meeting standing room was not available to ticket holders. MT. Chamberlain. who was accompanied by his wife, received a great ovation.
 The ex-secretary of the colonies began by declaring that the provincial centers of commerce of the United Kingdom had been heard from in regard to his tariff proposals. but the views of the citizens of London were not yet known. He desired to ascertain how the city men felt on the subject of his scheme before the opening of parliament, but he regretted that, owing to it's non-politi- ical character, the meeting would not have the opportunity of voting directly for CT a gainst him.
 Mir. Chamberlain. who said he believ- ed the same arguments he used in the provinces would appeal equally to i'm perialistic London, then proceeded to reiterate his well known fiscal views.
 MT. Chamberlain pointed out that while London was now the clearing house of the world he doubted whether that position could be maintained if the ancient fiscal superstition was to be up- held. Before it was too late a lesson should be learned from the fate of ven- ice, Holland, and the Hanseatic states whose greatness had vanished because their had no productive and creative en- ergy behind them. London would no longer be the worlds clearing house if her colonies and the great neutral coun- tries of the world were disturbed by the dininution in the multiplicity and the extent of the transactions which hither- to had been creating new wealth His opponents claimed that the re- cent Board of Trade returns destroyed his contentious, but he intended to base his future arguments on those returns as they proved that the growth of for eign expectations to the British colonies had greatly exceeded the growth of ex- portations from the mtoherland The position of Great Britain was deterior- ating, and, though he anticipated no immediate catastrophe, the situation called loudly for some remedy. The lessons of the past must be applied and the framework of a new empire must be built uo under new conditions by adopting the protective policy adopted by every other civilized nation, and creating new bonds of union with the colonies.
 MT. Chamberlain pointed out that the struggle for life and existence in the future would not be between the cities or between kingdoms, but between mighty empires. The minor states would come off badly.
 MT. Chamberlain, continuing, said. "Profiting by the experience gained when the finest jewel the British en- pire ever possessed, the United States, left us for a separate existence, a new empire has arisen, greater than any in | b1AC WOltus Uul lIlS SIttt WOfh OI Keep | ing and making permanent this her. 1tage remains to be solved In the great revolution which separated the United States from Great Britain the greatest man that the revolution pro- duced, in my judgment, was Alexander Hamilton. He was a soldier and a 1 statesman. He left a precious legacy | to his countrymen when he said to l them: Learn to think continentally.' l T venture now to give you a similar message. Learn to think imperially, and remember that the future of this
 country lies in the future of the Brit 1 ish race in our colonies and posses l sions''
 l Although no vote of confidence was l permitted, the extraordinary enthusi-
 asm of the members of the stock ex- change who escorted MT. Chamberlain $
 carriage to the Guildhall, the cheers
 which punctuated his speech and the vociferous applause at the close of his remarks assured the ex-celonial secre- tary that he had the full sympathy of l his audience.