New-York tribune., 1905-07-16
THE KAISER'S QUEST.
Object of the Humiliation Inflicted
UpOn France.

the correspondence with the German govern
ment on the subject of Morocco on Monday last
N the Chamber of Deputies at Paris should have
been received with applause" 1t Is difi1cut TO
understand unless on the basis of that oldtime
verse:
lie coz Gauois est lie coo, de la gloire; r,oto,ro
II chante bicn fort quand II gaEne une Vlctoire
Et encore plus fort quand IL est battu'
Which may be translated roughly as follows;
The Gallic cock is the bird of glory:
He loudly when he wins ms a VctoGy, 1ofy5
Bur crows still loudly when deIeateu'
For no matter what specious construction may
be put at Paris upon the agreement negotiated
with Germany, # IS impossible to regard 1t IN
any other light than as triumph of the kaisers
dinlomacy and a humfliating defeat of French
s+atAcraft-a blow immeasurably more damaS-
ing TO Gallo prestige than the Fashoda lhcl-
dent. In that instance France merely wlthoreW
Captain MarChand and his men from post
which they had established on the Nile IN oluh-
darinp ignorance of the fact that the Mahdfs
tnsurraction had been crushed and that the ter
ritory on which Fashoda was situated h3u III
consequence reverted to the Egyptian Cro"h'
The case of Morocco was entirely dlfereht
There France had proclaimed her performance
her right and her resolve to exercise the same
sunremacv devoid of foreign interference that
England wields in Egypt and Japan In Corea-
She secured the assent Of Great Britain OF
Spain and of Italy to this arrangement Dy coi-
cessions of one kind or another ana was just
stretching forth her hand to grasp the Moorlsh
annie was forcing much needed reforms ana
whole army of French government ofhclals on
the Sultan and was about to march her troops
into his territory for the military occupation OF
his empire when the Kaiser suddenly appeared
nm tbo scene and calling attention to the fact
that France had ignored him in the matter de-
cliDed to admit that she had any preferred
status in Morocco, exacted equal rights for Ger
many as one of the signatory powers OF the
Madrid Convention on Moorish affairs and re-
1ected the idea of French protectorate More
over he encouraged the Sultan to turn deaf
ear to all Frances projects of reform and inter
vention and suggested that, instead of depend
ing on France, Abdul Aziz should invite an in
ternational congress to assemble for the purpose
of advising him how to deal with the problems
by which he confronted.
Minister Delcasse would not hear of any sur
render OF what he insisted were Frances pre-
ferred rights in Morocco, nor Of any congress.
and then there ensued what can only be de-
scribed as a game Of bluff. in which the Kaiser
carried off the honors The Berlin government
declared that IT would not yield. and somewhat
ostentatiously the Chancellor inquired of the
Minister of War and of General Count Schlief-
fen. the Chief of the General Staff. as to whether
Germany was In a state of preparation for war.
while detachment Of some forty officers of the
great General Staff were started Off earlier than
usual to Saarbrucken for the purpose of elabo-
rating the plan of operations to be employed in
the event of war on the western frontier. Peo-
pie apparently forgot that each year large de-
tachment of the great General Staff of the Ger
nan army undertakes similar excursions for
purposes Of study But 1t all served to create a
panic, which was increased by reports IN the
German press Of alleged movements Of French
troops to the eastern frontier of France.
The Reichstag not In session at the time
and there inconvenient questions
from that quarter. But the French Chamber
was, and the panic scare extended to its
members. NJ Delcasse, who. by his neglect to
secure Germanys adhesion to French su-
prenacy in Morocco in the first place, had given
the Kaiser his opportunity remained undis-
mayed thereby. knowing full well that Germany
would never actu1.-- go to about the
Moorish empire. But his colleagues in the Cab
met became affected by the panic which sent
down the price of rentes, and, yielding to popu-
far sentiment both IN and out of Parliament
which was Mortified at the idea OF embarking
on an armed conflict with Germany on an issue
OF such remote Importance as Morocco, called
upon NJ. Delcasse to make terms with the
Kaiser and the diminutiye statesman refus-
ing TO do So exacted his resignation. Premier
ROuVier whose one all absorbing ambition is to