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Show LITTLE ENOUGH TO FIGHT OVER Strange There Should Re Serious Seri-ous Talk of War Over Morocco. FIFTY MILLIONS FOR CARS MAY BE ALL FOR PEACE Kaiser Knows Trade Extension Will Lessen the Chances for War. BERLIN. Jan. 13.-The fact thnt the railway administration hs just placed orders or-ders for 20,000 freight earn, at a cost of $00,000,0110, with manufacturers of five countries, tuipniating delivers by the nild-ille nild-ille of February, benkloa utilizing tho oar (vorks of Germany, taken In connection with tho rush of rallwa construction through Holland to the sea and tho well-known well-known naval plan of thS Kaiser ha? Btartled BSuropS into asking- itself the rjwea-tion rjwea-tion whether tho German Emperor really is fot war or for peace. Has Hi9 Eyes Opened. Taken In a sense purely analytical It would appear so, though the Kalaer has had his eves opened to tho I'oct that railroads rail-roads as) well as great navies will have much to do with tho movements of large bodies of troops, and that Iti the futiiro railway power is well as sea power may io. ids the result of cam pa Isms. It has bet o suggested thut he has learned from the breakdown of ths Siberian railroad In the Russo-Japanese campaign as well as the breakdown of the Csar's fleet in the sea of Japan. More Trade, More Pence. On the other hand there Is another waj of looking at It Peace has Its victories rr less than war, and one of the usual r.-iu'ts of the extension of railway systems and the Improvement of rolling stock of existing ex-isting llin-y has usually been the furtherance further-ance of trade and commerce between tho various nations. The Investment of 180.-000,000 180.-000,000 In 20.000 freight cars. It Is argued must mean commercial extension and trade expansion and more trade must mean Increased Intercommunication with nations like France and Germany And Increased communication along trade lines mi ins that chances for war grow b ss nnd ll ss remote. Measure of Prudence. Of course there are those who suggest Morocco and arguo that in an emergency 20,000 fn-ight cars would accommodate tSW.OOO soldiers, which could be moved to th frontier In a few hours. The Germans themselvfs claim that the ordering of tho cars was only a proper measure of prudence pru-dence In view of the et.-iiMe military rearrangements re-arrangements going on In France, which among other dispositions Include the movement towards the German frontier of blx regiments of artillery. Little to Fight Over. When one comes right down to it It appeals ap-peals to be really remarkable, however, that there should ever have been any serious seri-ous talk of war between the two greatest und most enlightened powers of the Euro-pi Euro-pi .in continent over Morocco a barbarous African Sultlnate in the whole of which tlun are t,.,t hi j christians In a population popula-tion of between 5,000.000 and S.ooo 000 Berbers, Ber-bers, Arabs and negroes. Baron von Rlchthofen (he German Foreign Secretary, Secre-tary, reminds those who are talking pessimistically pessi-mistically about the situation that vast material as well as moral reasons lie In the way of such a war, which must shatter shat-ter tht delicately adjusted system of production pro-duction and exchange quite past the ability abil-ity of any financial r territorial Indemnity to compensate. lerritory Overlooked Yet peace Is not merely assured because pace la taken for granted Tt has long bei ti a wonder thai Europe has been so unconcerned about the territory to the south of the Mediterranean. Hero Is a country whose coasts look out. not upon dl ' int Indian or Pacific waters, but i 1 1 n the busy Atlantic and the Mediterranean vhleh fronts th.- whole World of Western commerce ami energy Here Is a territory with an area greater than that of Spain) whoso soli is rich; whose climate Is aa healthy as that of any country In Europe, and whose mineral resources are vast and undeveloped. The lirst country of Africa which the traveler from Europe comes upi n geographically Morocco h:is been nbout I lie- last coutitr in the world that Europe has apparently concerned Us.-lf with. Germany and England. The Vosslehe Zeltung expresses great satisfaction with the meetings recently held throughout Germany to prom itt the good relations between Germany and England, rind concludes bv expressing the hope that the two coot. tries are destined not to maintain an attitude of mi-trust and enmity toward each other, but to bold together loyally for t h. t r own highest high-est advantage and for the weal of Europe. Eu-rope. More Democratic Suffrage. Tn various German Statin and particularly particu-larly In .i ria. Saxony and Baden, there recently baa been a vigorous agitation agita-tion In faor of more democratic suffrage for the elections to tin popular ihaiuber in Bavaria it is anticipated that the cooperation co-operation of the Clericals with tht Social Democrats will secure the ebjects of the movement, in Baden an alliance of the N ttlonal Liberals with the- Socialists has strengthened the latter to an extent which has secured the election of ths Socialist, So-cialist, Heir Gock, ns Vice-President of the chamber. Socialists Threaten. All this has been accomplished in spite of determined opposition on the pari of the central Government Socialist demonstrations dem-onstrations against the electoral system in Prussia have even threatened but it is understood that tht Socialist leaders do not approvi of thesi perilous tactics Prlin-e I. in low s rec.-nt speeches in the Reichstag certainly convej i plain warning warn-ing against the adoption of Russian form ol agitation. The Bavarian Socialist or-gans or-gans having advocated demonstrations in Prussia, the Kreuz Zeltung replied with an Intimation that "ih Prussians, u.-t must be Well known in Lav aria, will stand no nonsense." Jumping on Russia. Tin independent Bectlon of the German press is taking a somewhat belligerent attitude regarding the policy Which C. i - many should pursue In consequence of the state of affairs in the Baltic provinces For more than a generation public opinion opin-ion has been somewhat lnc need against Russia on account of the attempts made to Russianize tin- German-speaking population popu-lation of these provinces, but it wai regarded re-garded ae. Inexpedient and dungi rous i , give any loud expression to the general Indignation which prt vailed, especially as it was felt that this might create a precedent for the interference by other countries In German internal affairs Now however, that chaos prevails In RusRla, this subject Is bring urB' ,1 home upon the Government Itself by many of the more Independent newspapers. Time for Interference. Some tlu -re un- who nrn- tluit the time , has arrived for active Interference. Which for the present might take the fortn of semllng warships to the Russian Baltic ports. The Hamburg Fremdemblatt is especially bitter This Important J.,ur- j nal openly asserts that enough COnsldera-tion COnsldera-tion has been shown to Russia Attention ' Is called to the fact that Germany has landed troops in Shanghai when her Interests In-terests there were threatened, but she allow al-low h German subjects In L1n onla and Courland to be murdered without protest Pleasant Little Episode. During the Nelson centenary observances observ-ances the German Emperor consented to re, elve from the British ami Foreign Sailors' Sail-ors' society a small bust of Nelson made from the British ship Victory fount Paul Wolff Metternlch. repn si-ntlng the Kaiser, re,,-lv.M a deputation at the embassy In London when tho treasurer of tho society, Sir Joseph. C. Dlmadalo, mad the presen tation In accepting tin t.,1-1 f,.r the- tier-man tier-man Emperor Count Metternlch said that nothing gave him greater pleasur, than to see so many representative people In j both countries endeavoring to bring about a community of interests between the people peo-ple of the German and the British Empires Em-pires Poles Axe Indignant. A rescript Just issued by the King of Frussla (the Kaiser) gives orders for tho substitution of German for Polish names In the caso of no less than thlrt towns in the Polish province of Posen The Poles are very Indignant because of these I changes which they regard as a further blow leveled at their national aspirations Sausages for Kaiser. It Is announced that the one-hundred weight of sausage prepared annually for the Kaiser by tin- assoc iation know'ii as the Halloren is ready and will be Bhortly presented to his Majesty not the entire one hundred weight In this instance U,it "representative sausages." In other words the. Kaiser will receive two sausages, sau-sages, highly seasoned and in accordance I with his taste. The Knipr. ss also receives two. ono made of liver and one Sehlak-wrrst. Sehlak-wrrst. and the Prince and Princesses of tho imperial house arc each entitled to one. |