The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-04
THE PLUNGE TAKEN
DASH INFO EURo-
 PEAN POLITICS.
Some Serious Aspects of the AFOroccan Business--'ssavoyard' Discusses the Departure from the Policy
 of Hundred Years.

l Washington, Feb. 3.-(Special Cor respondence j-There is a country in Northwest Africa called Morocco. If 1t had civilized population 1t would be a great nation. but the people are MsoIas the who were driven out of Spain about the time Christopher Columbus discovered America. For centuries their trade was Barbary rovers. Driven off the sea by the navies of the Christian nations, they became robbers on land, and tQ this day pillage is one of thsair chief country just east of Morocco, and IS more interested than any other. nation in preserving order on the border anu ment in Morocco. That is what Eng land has done in Egypt to the advant- age of every tongue and people on the
 England was anxious for France. to undertake the control of Morocco; put the Emperor of Germany, whose coun. try sells to the Arabs there S1,O00'o00 bully last summer and forced France to agree to q conference. It Will pc remembered that he mumbled ana grumbled about Egypt, but the BEltisn Nile and gave a roar and Germany shut up like jack knife. You see the Emperor has 8 navy and IS so proud of it that he does not intend to give a a British fleet an opportunity to send 1t to Davy Jones's locker. as Togo sent
 But he got his conference on MCroc- I%sss It is not more our business than Wnat the people of Asia Minor have Tor breakfast is our concern, but 1t seems pionacy-and Talleyrand, an excellent judge and expert, said that diplomacy Is the art of iying-it seems that by some fiction of diplomacy there IS .
 0or of course, that aroused Theodore Roosevelt, for I suppose we sell Mo, rocco as much in a year as we sell Canada in a day, perhaps we sell Mo- rocco as much in Ave years as we sell England in a day. But you can't iose Roosevelt. and he has ,itins piTingeG I'm ehts ta the elbow, something no other Presi- dent ever dreamed of doing. America will have two votes In this congress at least she has two representatives II was suspected in some quarters that Germany had those votes pledged, ana for a consideration, but that IS denied by the State Department. fou see Ssa- Ssa- gins March l. Suppose our representa- lives vote with Germany ana Gernany should cease. or not to begin, commer- charitable man think of that? Wouldn't 1t leave ground to suspect that some body had sold some American dlploHl- acy' for valuable consloeratffon;, b,,.
 I do not charge that as Iact, put there is a great deal of uncharity Tn this country. Sir Peter Teazle was nearly right when he remarked, nis ia a d--d wicked world we live in, SIT Oliver'-and if things turn out as l have indicated, 1t will to the uncharlL- able be confirmation strong as proors of holy writ that American diploinaey, election, is a marketable quantity That is the box the President has put us in.
 Of course the President would not sell the national honor; put no good can come of his action. Here is Ger many on one side and France on the other It Is g quarrel between them; England backs France ana may ps Eranca saae herself and If war should result we shall make somebody mad. If We vote with France, Germany VIII ,,,oaG feei onS- France and England will both be of- tended. It is predicted that our rep resentatiVes will vote With 1eItI;aahy' Of all the reckless things even fRe9- ts3- is the most ineXcusable
 We have kept out of European p1hh- p9ho tics more than one hundred years; Ine best remembered passage or W Wasn- fngtor's farewell address is that warn, ing us against "entangling alliances.
 tangiements is the thing we should have least to do with. Now that we cnN,neIled to run up and down the earth doing things we never dreamed of doing at any time from the Beginning gtiag or or Washington's first administratlon to tbe end of Cleveland's second admin istration. we bought 1,2Oo islands and i0.066, GOO people of somebody. who had not title to them, and paid S2 head Tor being our slaves. and rebelled; We put the army and navy to them, lost many precious lives, captured the head rebel sippressad the rebellion. The thing has been enormously costly-hundreds of millions--and the other day the Presidenf's law elect made speech in Congress in which he char