The Washington herald., 1915-03-01

| Miss Janet Richards returned to Wash
| ingtun yesterday from her hi-mOnthly
| Northern lecture trip. during which she
| addressed nine large audiences in Ph'la-
! dolphin. Germantown. Pia!nticld. Newark,
and MontcIair. y. j.. also New York c.ty
on New American Problems Caused By
| the WaT-Zonc shipping Crisis.
| The weeks lecture series was opened
| on Tuesday last with the weekly talk III
the auditorium at Woodward y I-o-
| throp's when the speaker began with Il
review OF Americas latest problems, rs
! discussed by leading American orators
and statesmen on WashinGtOn's Hirt hday.
| Miss Richards dwclt especially upon cN-
| President Taft's speech at MorristOSn.
and the strong and patriotic plea made
| nv the former President for firm AMI
united support of the administration m
the event of more serious Crisis: a Ol"a
ito abide by til" Judgment of those -
whom we have intrustrd authority, and
| when the President shall act. TO stand
| by him to the end. In this d"tcrmina-
ton" continued Mr.. Taft. we may he
| sure that all will Join. no matter what
| their previous views. no matter what
! their European origin All Will forget
| their differences in scIf-sacrihCinS loyalty
| to our common country and our com
| mon flag
An impressive Appeal.
This appeal. added Miss Richards. rs
all the moro impressive and rCma rkable.
coming as il does fiom one-umc de-
fcatcd Presidential candidate, on behalf
of his successful rival. 1t indicates
devoted and dsintcrested patriotism I'M
Influenced by party politics or partisan
ties and sets an example that all true
Americans may well note and initiate"
Apropos of that part OF Mr.. Tafts ad-
dress relative to tho international agree
ments established by the Algeciras con-
vention of 1905. Miss Richards gave
brief review of the causes leading up to
that picturesque and interesting confer
ence in the quaint old Spanish town of
Algccirds, and its important results bear
ing upon the policing and development OF
that unruly realm of the Sultan of Mo-
rocco
The best-remembered and most in
teresting points referred to in this
review were the dramatic capture of
lon Perdicarus by the Moroccan tribal
leader. Raisuli. in 1901, and the
"Agadir incident" OF 1911. which al
most precpitated war between Ger
many and France in the summer OF
that year. Miss Richards reminded
her audience that she was in Ger
many when the crisis growing out OF
the clash OF authority between the
French and Germans in Morocco.
known as the "Agadir incident" was
at it's height. and she gave a graphic
account of the excitement in the
Fatherla nd-also in France and Bel
gium-following the general orders
TO the colors of both regulars and
reservists, at which time the dreaded
war spirit ran high all over central
Europe. "a war spirit which mercifully
failed to develop into the fever or
actual war. And having tided over
so sharp a crisis as that of 1911. after
actually witnessing numerous stern
preparations for real war, what Won
der that the world was skeptical. in
fact refused to be convinced that
grim war could really be possible last
summer-indeed until the black and
terrible war cloud had literally burst
upon us?
POntiH's Peace scheme.
lust now, when all the nations
stand newly alarmed at the more
serious turn events have taken, one
cannot help hoping there may be
ground for the persistent report en-
anating from Rome. that the new
Pontiff Benedict XIV may be about
to devise some common basis OF
agreement between the warning ma
tons. upon which peace may be
negotiated"
At this point Miss Richards stated
that it might be of interest to her
audience to hear a reading of Great
Britain's own official reason for do
ing SO unusual a thing as to send a
regularly accredited envoy TO the
Vatican.
1--WE are first reminded" said the
speaker, "that at the outbreak of the
war the four European countries main |
tanning diplomatic representatives at The
Vatican were Spain. Austria, Prussia.