Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1899 — WARNING TO THE ROWERS. [ARTICLE]

WARNING TO THE ROWERS.

Salisbury Bays Britain Will Mat Accept Intervention. The address delivered by the Britiah premier at the lord mayor’s banquet in London, while it dealt to some extent with the issues of the Anglo-Boer war, was manifestly int inded in the main for the ears of continental Europe, as a warning against any schemes of interference and a plain intimation that Great Bry*ig . would yield tp no threats and no moral coercion. Intervention would mean war with the power or combination venturing upon it, declared Lord Salisbury in practically explicit language, and we may rest assured that no European power is ready to risk actual resort to arms. Lord Salisbury set out with a reference to the growth of cordial feelings and happy relations between England and the United States. “We feel,” he Baid, “that we can now always look for sympathy and a fair hearing among those who share with us so vast a mission for the advancement of mankind.” This alone, the premier implied, would prevent hostile and hasty action by the continental powers, but in addition the Samoan treaty was referred t# as something which, besides being satisfactory in itself and advantageous to both signatories, was particularly interesting at this juncture because it showed the world that the British-German relations were all Englishmen could, desire. After some, discussions of the causes of the war and tbe alleged military mistakes of the Government, after emphatic declarations that not territorial or pecuniary interests were actuating Britain in her African policy, but tbe desire to secure political equality and security for all races, the premier proceeded to deal openly with the rumors of foreign intervention. He reassured his audience and the vaster audience outside. Let no man imagine; be said, that the conflict will be concluded in obedience to the dictation of foreign governments. In the first place. Great Britain will not tolerate interference, and ia the second place there is no such idea in the mind of any government in the world. International law forbids it, declared Lord Salisbury.