Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-02
aye KEPT ON MOROCCO
Queer Features of Moorish
Business and Trade.
AGHT TO BE KNOWN HERE
ESy the Germans Are Working Big
Possibilities.
UDRNED BEEF AND COCKTAILS
Mullahs an Important Factor in the
Reorganization of the Country
Which is Bound to Come.
uDRNED BEEF AND COCKTAILS
Copyright. 1907. by Frank C. carpenter)

Copyright. 1907. by Frank C. Carpenter.)
TANGIER, Morocco.
Uncle Sam should keep his eye on Mo-
rocco. This country is now in a state of
anarchy, and the sultan is not able to
control his people. He is, ruling only
small part of the population, and the en-
pire may be said to have a hundred rulers,
each boss of his own little principality. In
most places there is neither law nor or
der, and in many both life and property
are insecure The conditions have come
to such a point that the great powers of
Europe will soon have to step in. The
first break was the Algeciras conference;
but that has been practically failure.
The twenty-five hundred policemen who
guard the eight chief ports will be totally
Inefficient, and sooner or later we must
have an army here Of 10000 and upward.
I; would take 5000 to guard Tangier alone
and several thousand for each of the ports
along the Atlantic.
AS soon as the powers determine to take
hold of the country every nation will be
sending its trade representatives, here. The
Germans and French have already done
so. and the English have man at court
In the person of Kaid Mclean, who was
brought in to reorganiZe the sultan's
army, and who has grown fat Off the job.
He is supposed to be a secret agent Of the
British government and to keep the Eng
lish posted as to trade and diplomatic at
fairs.
AS to tie Germans, they are gathering
trade information in all sorts of ways.
I met here a whte-faced blond-bearded
man, dressed in full Moorish costume. who
was talking Arabic. and who found could
recite the Koran from beginning to end. He
turned out to be a German In the en-
ploy of some Of the kaisers commercial
organizations, and his business Is to
gather data for the pushing of German
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all the coast towns. and has gone inland
from Mogador to Morocco City and from
about the patterns %" Of the the cottons A : and
other goods most desired here. and the
Germans will be soon making haicks. bur-
houses. djellabas and the other dresses Of
these outlandish people.
Trade of Twenty Million Dollars.
During my stay 1 have had talk with
Mr.. Holman Philip. our consul general.
as to the trade of Morocco He has rep
resented our country here very efficiently
for the past four years, and has done what
he could to push American trade He
has been hampered, however, by the ig-
norance of our exporters concerning the
country and people, and the disadvantage
of the United States having no direct
steamship connection with this part of the
continent We have several vessels
week which call at Gibraltar. over the
way. but none of these stop at Tangier.
We - oos's
skins of Morocco, but about the only
thing which she is using directly from us
\ is coal oil. Her people dress largely in
cottons, and their goods are made of our
raw materials, which are shipped in the
bale to England and there manufactured
for this trade.
half million dollars to Morocco. In 1905
we bought from her about four hundred
and fifty thousand dollars worth of goat
skins. and we take some OF her wool and
iob viz
THE total trade of Morocco" says our
consul general, NOW amounts to something
like twenty million dollars year, and of
this England gets more than half. France
comes next. and then Spain and Germany
The German trade is still small. but it is
rapidly gaining
/ made hunt through the bazaars here
today for American goods, and amongst
other places visited the largest fancy
grocery store in Tangier. | told the Jew
clerk to show me samples of all the Ameri-
coal oil. corned beef. corn meal and cock
tails. The bottles of cocktails came
from New York, the meal was in
a pasteboard package lafeled Chicago. and
the coal oil in a square can from Philadel-
phia, while the corned beef was in fiat
tin box from a packing house in Kansas
City. At another store l saw canned salmon
from Seattle and pickles from Boston. All
of these goods came via London
What the Moors Do Not Want.
1t Is useless for our exporters to attempt
to make a market In Morocco without send
ing men here to study the people. This
country is as different from the United
States as would be the lands of the Arabia
Nights. Drummers who speak Spanish or
French should be sent to travel among the
people apd report the kinds and patterns Of
goods desired. They can hire guides who
will interpret for them with the Moorish
merchants. and they will find many Jewish
traders who speak French and Spanish
Let me tell you, for instance, of a few
things which it would be ridiculous 10 send
TO Morocco. The American shoe is popular
almost everywhere, and il Is fast capturing
Europe. 1t could do nothing here. These
men want a loose slipper of soft leather
with a heel that can be bent over. They