The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-01-13

comes up SaSplnB and IS leu out To the shore by a rope tied to its horns.
 The sheep here are as fine as any in Spain and this might be one of the great wool-producing countries of the world. am told that the land is rich in minerals and that it has gold silver, copper and coal Geologica1ly it is a part of the Spanish peninsula which has long been furnishing minerals in great quantities Morocco has, however, never been pros pected and no one knows what it con- tains,
 Think of a country six times as big as Ohio which has not one road fit for wagon or any wheeled vehicle. to say nothing of railroads or other means of communication. Let it have not one thrashing machine, reaper or mower, and no farming implements but those which scratch the soil; let it have no markets worthy of mention in our sense of the word and let it's people be robbed and op- pressed by their officials, so that there is almost no incentive to labor and you have some idea of the conditions in Mo- rocco
 Among the White Africans. You can know nothing, however, about the situation until yon consider the peo- pie. These Moors are not like our negroes. whose ancestors came from below here acros sthe Sahara in the lands bordering the Gulf of Guinea. Those people are black as your boots, and as barbarous as any tribes on the face of the earth They are low in intelligence and are terribly debased These have brains which will compare with our own. They are Mo hammedans who believe in Allah and the prophet. They are white and they wear clothes, Some of them are as well dressed as any Christian gentleman, and their clothes cost more than ours. They have of 10 xuo ,HaTgr Fsf1af faflf e of beautiful cloth, sashes of silk. and shoes of fine yellow leather. Their hands are soft and their faces often handsome. There are many red-haired and red beard ed men among them. Their features sparkle with intelligence and they have most of the characteristics of the Cau- casian race. About the only black Afri- cans here are those who have been brought across the desert from the Sou dan to be sold as slaves. There are, how ever, many mulatoes, the offspring of these negroes and the Moors.
 The Berbers.
 The population of Morocco all told is about ten millions. census has never been taken, and by some the number is estimated much higher. The majority of the people are Berbers or Kabyles, and after them come the Arabs and Jews. The Berbers are one of the most inde- pendent races on earth. Some people sup pose them to have emigrated from south ern Europe ages ago. It Is known that they were here in the days of the Phoe- necians; and they fought again and again with the Carthagenians and Romans. They have been frequently conquered in | battle, but it is claimed that they have never been really subdued They are somewhat like the Swiss in that they have villages in the mountains and it would be almost impossible to reach them in time of war. Most of the mountain tribes today are of this old Berber race, and the same is true of the Tuaregs or the Sahara brigands.
 These Berber people have a language of their own, and they once had their own religion Today they are about all Mo hammedans and they resent the foreign invasion. They do not like to pay taxes, and not long ago when one of the Sul- tan's officials demanded the tenth of the crop of certain tribe, the chief replied: of the Sultan wants taxes let him come himself for them. We will mold them into silver bullets and deposit them In his person." That tax has not yet been collected There are about five million of these Berbers in Morocco.
 Arabs and Jews.
 As to the Arabs, these came in with the Mohammedan invasion many centuries ago. and they have mixed more or less with the Berbers. There are three or four millions of them. Some are nornadic Bedoulns living in the cases of the Sa- hara or on the edge of that desert and large number are farmers on the rich plains of Morocco. Arabs are also found in the cities.
 The Jews number something like two