The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-01-19
In An Article ID the Outlook
Light Is Thrown 81 The
Mootsd Question
GERMANY IS SATISFIED
And Other Nations NVilI Also
Be Benefited by The
Result

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on Germany and RFance. with spe-
cial Reference 10 the Moroccan
Question" BY Conn on Bernstorn.
German Ambassador 81 washington,
appears in the current issue OF the
Outlook. II Is as fonows
The Moroccan question has passed
out Of its contFoyesiai stage and la
now a part 81 history So that we
are able to look back Of it with an
impartial spirit ana 70 Judge the
aims and results of the German gov
ernment's action With fairness
fairness which seemed Is be some
times lacking during the heat 81 the
discussions.
1T Is well known that until 1904
England aad France were contend
ing with each other for supremacy
in Morocco Then followed tho
Anglo4French agreement 81 April
1904. and in the fail 81 me same
year a French banking syndicate
contracted q new large loan with
Morocco. PRIVILEGES 81 such I'M
portance were granted Is this group
OF banks that the eyentual fact OF
the sultan's empire seemed 10 he
decided. Germany however inter
vened; the emperc visited Taneler.
and few months later tie Con.
ference Of Atgeciras Ras held n
fair words it proclaimed the mae
pendence Of Morocco ana the SOW
eretgnity Of the sultan. so Gre
ated multitude 81 PROVISIONS and
stipulated the open door ii Mo-
rocco. at the same time. however.
police powers were rantea 10
FRANCE andS Spain IL eigh omen
Morocsap ports and, fnrth srnore.
tue treaty CONCERNING the above
mentioned loan was ratited WIN
certain amendments Above aIl.
owing TO the long Algerol oscccan
border line. the conferences could
not prevent French inauence ii mo-
rocco from continuing and even s..
ereasing. On account 81 the wholly
unsettled and untenabIe conditions
In Morocco which ii Is no stise rs.
nying opportunities for tie &.
ertfon OF French influence couid not
long be wanting, ii fact, tie occu-
potion Of Ujda and the bohahard-
ment as well as the occupatton o.
Casablanca soon followed. Ali this
could have been preyented onIy Il
Germany had been inclined Is TO-
store order In Morocco, and att "a
go to war, as would have seen nS
eTttable, with the Powers hostile to
such an act on her part. The
course OF events will always prove
to be more powerful than the most
perfectly worded treaty proyisions.
and the Algeclras Act could mot 81
peet to alter the fact that Morocco
and her inhabitants no longer ii
themselves possessed the strength
to reorganiEe their country some
enthusiasts believed that Mdley ma
i'd would be able to perform fhls
task, but they soon had to recognize
that, Notwithstanding his skin and
and ability as statesman. he did
not have the power to bring about
The necessary changes without for
eign assistance
For the German government more
was therefore only one way open Is
protect German commsrcial inter
ests in Morocco. viz by securine
Frances protection OF thore inter-
ssts. This result was achieved 81
The Morocco agreement of Febfu-
airy 9, 1903, which expressly men
doned the Algecira5 act as the basis
Clearly the object 81 this aree
nent could only be to delay French
advance in Morocco as long as pos
'fble; SO that German traders far-
ners and manufacturers were Ii the
meanwhile, under this same rench
protection, guaranteed BY treaty,
lble to consolidate their Interests IN
Morocco in such degree that
French protectorata could not de-
troy them. No one who knew the
conditions IN Morocco as they really
we're, and not as one perhap wished
hem to be, could entertain the
iiightest doubt that French pro-
must ii the course Of
ime be established
This would have been consldsred
he natural course IS events had the