entail an expenditure of lives and treasure which
will amply satisfy French demands for colonial extension for many
a year to come."

One more quotation from an editorial--

"And so it would appear, that, with the smiling approval of the
world's Press, the wolf is to take over the affairs of the lamb.
We use the phrase advisedly. We have never hesitated to criticize
the action, and to condemn the errors, of the Makhzen where such a
course has been needful in the public interest. We can, therefore,
with all the more justice, call attention to the real issues of
the compact embodied in the Morocco clauses of the Anglo-French
Agreement of April, 1904. How long the leading journals of England
may continue to ignore the facts of the case it is impossible
to say; but that there will come a startling awakening seems
inevitable. Every merely casual observer on this side of the
Mediterranean knows only too well that the most trifling pretext
may be at any hour seized for the next move in the development
of French intervention. Evidence is piling up to show that the
forward party in France, and still more in Algeria, is burning to
strike while yet the frantic enthusiasm of the Entente lasts, and
while they can rely upon the support--we had almost written, the
moral support--of Great Britain. Can we shut our eyes to the
deliberate provocations they are giving the Makhzen in almost
every part of the sultanate?

"These things are not reported to Europe, naturally. In spite of
all our comfortable cant about justice to less powerful races, who
in England cares about justice to Morocco and her Sultan? We owe
it to Germany that the thing was not rushed through a few months
ago. Who has heard, who wants to hear, the Moorish side of the
question? Morocco is mute. The Sultan pulls no journalistic wires.
He has no advocate in the Press, or in Parliament, or in Society.
Hardly a public man opens his mouth in England to refer to
Morocco, without talking absolute twaddle. The only member of
either House of Parliament who has shown a real grasp of the
tremendous issues of the question is Lord Rosebery, in the
memorable words--

"'No more one-sided agreement was ever concluded between two
Powers at peace with each other. I hope and trust, but I hope and
trust rather than believe, that the Power