The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-09-24
ENGLAND REMAINS
REMARKABLY CALM
Refuses to Grow Excited
Over Imbroglio in
Morocco.
AWARE OF OWN POWER
Satisfied to Leave Whole
Trouble TO Germany
and France.
AWARE OF OWN POWER
BY PHILIP EVERETT.

tspeclaI cable 10 The Times Dispatch
London. September 23-Fully real
izins her strength and aware of her
power to force decision by throw
ing her weight in the balance, Eng
land has remained remarkably calm
during the whole debate over the
Morocco affair. The troubles of Eng
land are at present of a domestic or
der and would disappear the very mo-
ment the country was in any real
danger from abroad, but even the
newspapers here, with the exception
of the very sensational ones. were sat
isfed to leave II to France and Ger
many to settle their own little quar-
rels.
AS whole the English press has.
been satisfied to presume what was
probable. The general view taken of
the Morocco affair from the start has
been this:
France and Germany are about to
conclude the barter which was latent
from the beginning of their rivalry
France Will obtain what she 80 strong
~ wants, a privileged position in Mo-
rocco, guaranteed by her armies and
recognized by Europe. in effect amount.
Ing to protector:te. What partic-
ular fiction she may adopt to disguise
her conquest need concern only the
pedants and the jurists. 1t may be
as indefinite as the tie which binds
Egypt to, Great Britain, but unques-
tionably 1t will be no less efficaclous
She VIA keep in Morocco as many SOL
diers as suit her purpose. and with
these behind her agents she will rule
land which never has been ruled
before. In the name Of puppet Sui
tan. her officers and her fnanciers, her
1nn lie 80
the country to their ends. The balance
of good and evil later generations will
assess"
We may expect. as the years go by,
TO see busy roads and teeming fields
mines In the mountains where Shelley
dreamed of the Witch of Atlas. and
schools and cafes chantants In the
shadow of ruined mosques. The crude
tyrannies of the Kaid and the brigand
VIII give place to the systematic ex-
ploitations of the concessionaire and the
labor agent. a shoddy, exotic civiliza-
ton VIII replace a dreamy culture that
had ceased to live. The haste to seize
only few idealists will be left to
wonder whether in the end Morocco
might not have been civilized more
surely and quickly II France had been
content to send teachers Instead OF
soldiers. and to walt until generation
OF young Moors had reformed the
country from within.
The other half of the bargain is OF
but mediocre interest
After talking to no purpose of con-
cessions to Germany in Tahiti or Fer
nando Pc, the price will eventually be
paid IN slice, certainly large and
perhaps immense, of the French Congo
Interior. The flag will be altered on
some lonely forts amid the forests,
and the natives will discuss among
themselves the relatively unimportant
differences in manners and morals II
the new white man and the old New
companies Will be formed in Berlin
and old companies will see their shares
debated in Paris. Fortunes will be
made and lost. but nothing essential
will he changed in the destinies OF
negro Africa.
What ever the upshot of the nego-
tiations. Morocco will not belong to
the people of France. as bloomsbury
belongs to the Duke of Bedford She
will draw from it 10 rents or reve-
nues; on the contrary, she will prob
fore ii is subdued. The indirect gain
in trade will at the best be sparsely
distributed. and the open door" will
admit the traders of other nations to
reap where they have not sown
Patriots may dream and crate
about the great empire that stretches
as in Roman days through all Numidia
and Mauretania, but in only one sense
is 1T possible that the power of
France as state will be enhanced.
She may gain the services OF great
army of mi-barbarous troops. But