Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-07
THE CONFERENCE AT ALGECIRAS.

The restless and perturbed state of Eu-
rope over the Moroccan question increases
/ now that the Sultan Muley-
Europe Abd-el-Aziz has finally ac.
Agttated. cepted January 10 at Al
geclras as the date and place
| of the international conference. The re-
cent publication by the French government
| of its yellow Book, in which the whole
| Moroccan question Is exposed to the con-
ference and the public, shows the aggres-
| sive attitude of the German government.
| which has forced the fight from first to last,
| whilst on the other hand the French gov
eminent appears on the defensive, sacrific-
| ing almost its dignity in it's effort to keep
the peace with its arrogant and authorize
| tive rival.
| The state of mind of the European parties
| in the prospective conference is Instructive.
| Germany may not accord the kaiser its en-
| tire sympathy in his gratuitous proToca-
| tons to war. The socialist leader. Bebel,
| attacking the German prime minister IN
! the reichstag December 13, said:
| Prince Won Buelow has affirmed that
| the French minister at Fec presented him
| self to the Sultan of Morocco as the agent
| of all Europe. I suppose" said Bebel, that
the chancellor made that statement in good
| faith, but it is nevertheless fact that the
| French government never gave its minister
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| shown 1t, and the French minister has de-
MED 1t. The voyage of the emperor to Mo-
| rocco was blunder Under Bismarck such
| mistake would not have been made, or
| Bismarck would have quit; nor under ca
| privi nor under Prince de Hohenlohe would
| such a voyage have been permitted. II the
| situation has become so dangerous 1t Is
| due to our foreign policy. Therefore. we
| should take ground against such policy
| The German chancellor. it is significant,
| made no direct reply to the charges made
| by Bebel as to France, but turned his at
| tention to the relations of Germany and
| England He added:
| II have said hundreds of times that we do
| not follow an aggressive plan against Eng
| land. The journal Voerwaertz has affirmed
| that at the moment the English fleet cruised
| in the Baltic, Germany was on the point of
! declaring war against England 1t is false
| that we have ever excited or provoked Eng
| land. l protest with all my energy against
| the attempt to represent as an abettor of
! trouble the Emperor of Germany, who for
| eighteen years has given proofs of his sin
| cere love of peace" Turning at this point
| toward the socialistic benches the chancel-
Tor said menacingly:
| Take care not to pass from words to
acts, for then you will learn the difference
| to your cost"
| That Germany's policy has awakened the
| hostility of Europe is frankly avowed in
German review. die Nation which says
! in substance that the recent discourse of
| Herr Won Buelow in the reichstag has been
| badly received in Italy and has produced
| a very bad impression in England Sir
| John Lubbock, now Lord Avebury a decided
| Germanophle expressed in recent inter
! view his surprise and regrets at the mani
| festation."
| In Italy. the impression in diplomatic
| well popular circles is decidedly favor
able to France. whose atti-
Italy 'aSois tude is recognized abso-
| France. lutely correct and loyal,
| but there Is much appre
| henSon as to the result of the con-
ference at Algeciras. A conflict be-
| tween Germany and France would place
| Italy in a most difficult and embarrassing
| situation because of her official alliance
with Germany and her friendship for both
| France and England. King Victor Emman-
uel is extremely DESTROYS of having his rep
| resenta uves at the conference perform with
| efficiency the role of mediatOrs and arbiters
| between the antagonistic powers. In Rome
for a fact there is great disquiet and the
| international horizon appears decidedly
| somber and overcast.
| In Spain, there Is likewise much uneasi-
| ness because of the aggressive attitude of
| the German emperor and his apparent de-
sire to provoke a conflict, but Spain has
| never had the slightest doubt of the pacific
| intentions of France. and the publication of
the Yellow Book cannot fail to attach her
| to the cause of France IN Morocco which is
| likewise her own.
| All the chiefs of the European nations
| excepting the pusna cious kaiser, are posing
| as peacemakers. King Edward VII inter
| viewed on the LIST of January on the sit
uation, said: Il have reasons to believe
that Notwithstanding the impression created
on me continent; no power has really
| and am absolutely certain that no power
thinks of doing so at this moment
| The journal Independence Beige, in
| sensational article, declares that William
| mi, II hopes to mark the year
A"e tAaASei 1906 by some brilliant ac-
| Fuzzle. ton which may be the CO.
| rollary of the ba tile OF Jena,
| for example, fought just 100 years ago
| The emperor wishes to prove by acts that
| Germany dominates Europe today; that
| the Hohenzollerns have established Ger
| man power on such basis that it would
| be folly to attempt to attack it. The Bel
| gfan journal affirms that in Berlin all
political circles are persuaded that Will
| liam IL Is tortured by the desire to
avenge in his own way the humiliating
| defeat of the Prussians at Jena. The
| portrait of the kaiser is thus sketched
| by the Independence:
The emperor! At this name the Ger
| man speaks low, and if he converse with
| a stranger his eyes reflect an anxious in
curry. What is thought of him beyond
| the frontiers? Is he regarded as a puff
| flste, or great man?
| William II not being able to use his
| left arm, it was diagnosed as due to all
! sorts Of hereditary vices when the acct
| dent, for fact. was due to a brutal
squeeze of surgical instruments at his
| birth. On account Of this accident it was
| also suggested that there followed
| lack of intellectual equilibrium of the
| prince. The exaggerations of these first
| impressions prove how much the char
| acter of the man was outside of the or
| binary Today even the opinions of the
| most conservative remain undecided as To
| him. considering him on Monday a sover-
| eign of the highest merit, and on Tues
| day as noisy actor, a mixture of a fine
| gated man. man of triviality, senti-
| mental imagination mercantile calcutta
| lions, elegance and extreme bad taste,
| goodness and cruelty, chivalric ingenu-
| business and of Chinese MachiaVelism
which defes all fixed appreciation
| We are astonished frequently by the ro-
| mantle speeches which he pronounces at a
period where romanticsm Is out of tune and
| SOUNDS false. We are surprised at his
| words, which appear at times as extracts of
a TRADE of an italian metamore of his fe-
| roeious profession OF faith by which he pub