Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-11-18
PRESS OF EMPIRE IkcENsED BE.
CAUSE AGREEMENT Is DEEMED
FIAsco.
PETriEsT OF PROFITS GAINED
BY kAlsER's GOVERNMENT
Delay in Completing Negotiations With
France Upset Business Of Country
Anti Government Parties Made
Strong and Seats Will ee Gained in
Coming Elections.
Correspondence Associated Press.]

Berlin, Nov. 1S.-With the settlement
Of the Franco German negotiations
concerning Morocco and the removal.
SO far as France and Germany are con-
cerned of this potential menace of war.
a violent campaign has been opened by
wide sections of the press and political
groups against the government for hav-
ing, as it is charged, INDUCED in pro-
lonsed negotiations. upset the credit Of
the country and brought Europe to the
verge of hcstilities only to score a full
tiasco and reap the pettiest of profits
for the abandonment Of its rights in
Morocco.
"Jingo" papers. influential national
liberal leaders and broad classes II
patriotic Germans attack the govern
ment for closing the bargain without
having obtained slice Of the Moroc-
can empire. Other parties and papers
assail it for saddling itself with what
is described as vast area of pest
ridden and goldengul1ng Congo
swamp and jungle. worth far less than
the territory in Togoland and the Ka-
meroons which France receives in the
settlement
Opposition Parties Indignant.
All parties. except those which must
stand or fall with the government in
the coming elections are wildly indis-
nant with the government and with
Foreign Minister Won Kiderlen- Waech-
ter over the outcome and the ..Moroc-
Of seats as campaign cry. Foreign at
tention, too has been so largely con-
centrated on the latter details of the
negotiations tina, the opinion that Ger
many has suffered another diplomatic
defeat is widely expressed.
From the point of view Of the Ger
man foreign office. however it is felt
that the question OF the success or
failure Of Germany should be decided
only after reviewing the general course
of Germanys Moroccan policy and
eliminating misconceptions as to its
aims prevalent both here and abroad.
In the first place. it is insisted in in
spired quarters that the acquisition Of
territory in Morocco has never been,
in the present negotiations as in the
earlier diplomatic struggles. an aim OF
Germany. Secondly that Frances pre-
dominant political influence in Moroc-
co was fully recognized b. the Franco
German agreement OF February agree
nlent of Feb g. 1909. and that the es-
tablishment Of the French protectorate
by the new treaty is therefore no loss
for Germany, which. in the third place.
receives the thorough going guarantees
of commercial and economic equality j /
Morocco and the practical means Of en-
surfing and protecting this open door }
her trade. which has been the main
object of German diplomacy since i.
recognized that its policy up TO and
after Algeciras had broken down
Opposed to French Plan.
The cardinal principle of this policy
launched in open opposition TO the
Anglo French idea Of disposing Of Mo-
rocco by private bargain without con-
sulting Germany was that France could
obtain no rights in Morocco without
the consent of Germany and the other
powers.
Strict ard, it is now admitted. mis-
taken adherence to this policy led tt
the rejection of a profitable Moroccan
bargain offered by Rouvier after tine
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Germany theoretically established hel
principle. only to find herself standins
alone as its sole defender, England
italy, Russia and Spain being pledged
in various degrees not to oppose France
and France continually finding new
ard always well-justified reasons To-
pushing or its gradual absorption o
Morocco Not being willing to risk {
war every few months to cheek TIT
! various steps Of this absorption, Ger
many threw overheard her first prin
ciple and admitted Frances politica
interests in Morocco, receiving in ex