Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-05
LIMOGES IN SADDLE
DELEGATES TO CONFERENCE
LIKE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL.


Special Cahlegram to The Star
ALGECIRAS March 5-There are times
when the jingoes are in the saddle at this
conference in what may justly be termed
the most southerly town in Spain, since.
as the whole world knows, Gibraltar,
though part of the peninsula naturally,
nevertheless belongs to Great Britain AS
the French delegates cast their eyes out
over land and water to the southwark they
undoubtedly have some ideas of the feel
ing of the children of Israel. who were
permitted to gaze ont and over into the
promised land, but who were not permitted
to enter Morocco, like Canaan. is a land
flowing with milk and honey. If one calls
the French the children of Israel of
course, the Germans are the heather Phil
istines who keeping them from this
coming into their own
The outcome of the Algecras conference
is undoubtedly as uncertain as ever. No
matter what the immediate result, the far
removed results will show. tension,
which while it may not mean immediate
war, may after all, produce a discord
from which war may result at almost any
moment.
Portsmouth conference. when the difficulties
between Russia and Japan were adjusted
through the friendly offices OF President
Roosevelt, have called attention to the fact
feeling would be for peace, the next day
for war nevertheless on alternate days.
week In and week out. the peace feeling
was constantly growing stronger and
stronger the war feeling continually be
coming weaker and weaker. At AIgeciras
the converse Of this proposition appears
true. Though the jingoes may be in the
saddle one day and the peace party tri-
umphant the next the jingoes appear to
be growing stronger and stronger-the
peace party weaker and weaker
Makes Average Frenchman Angry.
What makes the average Frenchman an
CRY and willing to fight is the fact that
Germany is not even willing to PROFOUND
a program for keeping order in the Sher-
eetian empire. She viii not indicate any
reasonable, rational. logical method of
procedure. The only thing that the Ger
man delegates appear to have hammered
home upon their brains. perhaps by the
kaiser is a rooted objection to what has
been called the TuniSitication OF Morocco
that is to say. TO the esta blishnent of eX-
elusive French influence in that country
which would be tantamount to a French
protectorate, even if the convenient fiction
of Independence We're strictly maintained.
The French claim that theirs is the pre-
dominant interest in Morocco 1t is in
sisted by the delegates that in reality
France is the only power ready at hand
and willing to put down the existing an
archy-that her long and dearly bought ex-
perience of the best way to deal with the
Moors of North Africa ought to count for
something. The tragi-comedy in Crete and
the unrelieved tragedy in Macedonia alike
proclaim the hopeleSsness Of expecting good
order to result in Morocco from an un-
workable scheme. only devised TO allay
rival jealousies.
Even though the conference breaks up,
not In row, but with half-hearted pledges
of peace, 1t is safe to say that Germany
has not heard the last of Algeciras OF
course the German delegates contend that
France has been DESTROYS of an armed con-
fict from the start. One of the most in
fuential members of the German party
whose name for reasons diplomatic cannot
be given explains the German position as
follows:
Germany had no objection whatever to
make against the prevailing state of af-
fairs in Morocco and took no steps of any
kind to bring about a change. France, on
the other hand, did aim at bringing about
a change, and her efforts to this end were
made IN circumstances which affected the
political prestige and the commercial inter-
ests of Germany.
Parried the Move.
I'VE parted this move in a purely de-
fensive manner, and the fact of the as