The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-09-11
RESUME OF THE
DIFFICULTY BETWEEN
FRANCE AND GERMANY.

one gathers two definite impressions
from reading the history of the devel-
opment of the European nations: one
is that the current trouble and diff
culties are but a past punishment of
the intrigues, secret treaties and un-
derhand agreement of the past the
other. that humans, at their best, are
not very farseeing.
one reads, for instance, of certain
overtures made by the Salisbury cab
met twenty-five years ago. looking to-
ward the alliance Of Great Britain
with the Austro- Russo German League
Of the three Emperors. He realizes
that If this alliance had been consum-
mated. IL would have inaugurated "a
period of mutual good will in poll
| The Teuton would now control the
earth and near Eastern, far Eastern
and Moroccan questions would not be
bothersome. while the fear of a Ger
man invasion would not keep the Brit
ons awake nights.
or he reads again that at the Ber-
lin Congress it was slyly suggested To
France that she might find colonial
possessions In North Africa. This was
at Bismarck's inspiration. who sug-
gested to Lord Beaconsfield that Eng
land should let Russia have Constan-
tinople and take Egypt I'm exchange.
France would not prove memorable
besides. one might give her Tunis or
Syria" Bismarck. II should be remem-
bered, was aiming to place monarchy
above the reach of Republicans.
And so France went into North
Africa and that Is where the Moroc-
can trouble begins. In fact. the de-
vclopmcnt of Europe during the last
twenty-five years has been little more
than a carrying out of the unwrltten
agreements made by the representa-
tives Of the great powers when they
met at the Berlin Congress, June July
ISIS.
I'm short" DR. j. Holland Rose,
wrote six years ago, "the statesmen
OF Europe sought to plant in Africa
the lightning conductors that would
safeguard the new arrangement I'm Eu-
rope" The builder of the German
empire, particularly. Sought to divert
from that fabric the revengeful storms
that might be expected from the
Southwest"
Following the French occupation OF
Tunis came the British occupation OF
tpxsn nd bn .,fI
the Congo. Bismarck restrained the
German colonial party" wishing TO
see the empires position at home made
secure before spreading out. But
when italy entered the triple alliance,
tho way seemed clear. and the German
Colonial Society was formed at Frank
fort in December 1882. Looking about.
they found the choice places all taken.
with Great Britain prominently I'm
control, and Germany began at once
To grid up its lolns for contest with
the English.
There was. apparently. no pressing
need for extra territory at that time,
and. falling to calculate the develop
ments OF the future, Great Britain al
lowed the Germans to outwit them, |
both on the southeast and southwest
coasts of Africa. The activities of
Germany. however woke England |
from its apathy. and the story Of the !
southern extremity of Africa which |
eliminated i'm the Boer War shows |
Great Britain more resistant to the
German demands.
Although France had no such i'm |
perious need of more territory. her In
huence In Africa expanded more rap
Idly. Between 1872 and 1901 her popu-
lation rose from S6 100000 to Ss.962. 900 |
gain of less than 100000, but In that |
same period the number o. Germans
Inhabitants rose from 41,23OOOO TO &c
$4,000 a gain of more than $1,000 900. |