The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-29
The End Of the Morocco Conference
in Sight.

There seems to be no doubt that the
French and German governments will
ratify the agreement reached on Tuesday
by their respective delegates at Alge-
ciras, an agreement in which all the
other members of the Morocco Confer
ence concurred. 1t is settled that the
policing of all the eight Moroccan ports
shall be performed by a Moorish con
stabulary Differed by Frenchmen and
Spaniards, supervised by an Inspector
general, the subject of ONE neutral
Power, who will report simultaneously
to the Sultan and to the diplomatic
corps residing at Tangier. 1t is also
understood that France will content her
self with three shares in the international
bank which is to finance Morocco, in
stead of the five shares originally de-
manded, and that Germany will %renounce
aber claim to more than one share. 1t is
not expected that the distribution of the
ports between France and Spain will
give rise to any controversy.
There will be no war, then, between
France and Germany. On the contrary,
the relations of those Powers ought
now to be more friendly than they have
been at any time since the war of 1870,
because each of them has reaso to be
satisfied with the outcome of the con-
ference. Neither of them has secured all
that it originally claimed, but each has
got all that it deserves. II the Sultan of
Morocco cannot be trusted to protect for
eigners in his seaports, it is obvious that
he should be assisted in the maintenance
Of order by his nearest neighbors, France
and Spain, who are qualified for the
function by the possession of strong
holds on the edge of his territory. If he
needs funds for the purpose of improv-
ing the means of internal ~transporta-
ton, and thus developing commerce, it
is but equitable that France, which is
already his largest creditor, should have
the privilege Of lending him more money
than any other Power. 1t follows that
so far as her claim Of special interests
in Morocco was legitimate it has been
recognized. She has no just ground Of
complaint because she obtains less than
NJ. DELCAssE strove to get for her when,
ignoring the rights Of Germany and
other signatories to the Madrid Con-
~yention of 1880, he concluded with Great
Britain and Spain a treaty plainly de-
signed to bring about the ultimate estab-
lishment Of a French protectorate over
Morocco.
Germans, on the other hand, have
good reason to feel hat the Emperor
WILLIAM II. has INDICATED their nations
dignity and commercial interests. He
virtually said to France, Great Britain,
Spain and Russia: Il will fight sooner than
permit my subjects to be deprived of
trading privileges secured to them by
the Madrid Convention. In other words,
il Morocco is to be Tunisiied it must
be with my knowledge and consent"
The challenge could not be accepted,
because at present neither Britain nor
Russia has any considerable military
force applicable to warfare on the Eu-
sopean Continent, and the French army
is believed to be decidedly inferior to the
German in respect deficiency as well as
magnitude. The result of such a war
would have been, in all likelihood, a
second capture Of Paris and a second
dismemberment of France. Germany,
on her part, would have lost her trans-
marine dependencies and the foreign
trade which she has built up l~aboriously,
: and she would have been lucky had she
managed to save most OF her war fleet.
Such war vessels as happened to be
on the high seas would almost certainly
have been taken.
To have crippled France ~lrreparably
and broken the spirit of her high hearted
people would have been a crime against
humanity. Nor could the offence have