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Show TOUGH NUT IN MOROCCO. It is reported b3' cablo that the Spanish government is at its wits' end with regard to the interference in Morocco. Mo-rocco. That interference was so feeble, so ineffectual, that it has caused tho Spaniards far more trouble than if the3' had kept out of it altogether. The 1'Vcnch aro in tho same condition. They started in with tho Spnninrds at Casa Blanca without, apparently rcckonihg the strength of their enemies, and landed a few men. This simply incited the Moors to frenzy, and precipitated the attack upon the city which was repulsed. But, tho "French and Spaniards combined wore not able to follow up the -Moors, and are themselves almost in : state of siege 1)3' the tribesmen. It is a renewal of the lesson taught to the United States in its shipment of troops to the Philippines. It landed some six thousand men on the shores of Manila Buy and captured the city of Manila from the Spanish, with the help of the fleet. But the forco as a military force was utterly insignificant, and was held in contempt by the Filipinos. As soon as Aguinaldo saw this pitifully I small American force he reckoned that j that was all. the force that was to bo 1 sent. He therefore concluded that he was able to set up a government of his j owu, and de.fy the Unitod States, ovc.11 j at the cost of tho insurrection which he uftcrwards started. But if the United States had sent over 3 few of ' tho tens of thousands of men who were 1 rotting in camps liko thnt of Chatta- ; nooga, there would have been no Fill- ! pino insurrection. All would have been I amity and good will between tho United States and the Philippines. The United 4 States should have sent over a hundred thousand mon in tho first place, nnd it would havo boon of advantage lo the j suffering volunteers and comparatively cheap to do it. It - would havo been good economy in livos and money, and the most porfect. oconomy imaginable in retaining tho good will and affection of tho Filipino people. A hundred thousand thou-sand men landed at Manila, Iloilo, and Mindanao, fairly distributed between those three points, but the most of them nt Manila, would have secured a bloodless blood-less peace for the United States, and would have saved tho expenditure of vast sums of money for ammunition and in tho waste of property. Just so in Morocco nt tho present time. It is not worth while for France and Spain to make any demonstrations Micro at all unless thoy nrc prepared to follow up thoso demonstrations with such overwhelming power that tribesmen tribes-men will bo dismayed at the beginning and intimidated from pursuing their brutal raids and devastating slaughters. Europe had better leave Morocco to the Moroccans, frankl3' and WI10II3', or elso go. in with sufficient power to overawe tho wild tribes nnd hold them in permanent per-manent subjection. Tho only thing that; those tribesmen or an3' barbarous people peo-ple respect is nn overwhelming power that is able to compel them to do what it requires. Tho mistake of France and Spain was not in providing this power in the first place, a force sufficient not onl3 to ropel but to crush. And unloss tho' are prepared to furnish thnt force, tho sooner the' withdraw the better. To remain is but to sacrifice lives uselessly, use-lessly, and to prolong an agonizing tension of nerves. |
