t of
audience--a privilege still reserved to the Sultan alone. But
the Ameer, as he was called in those days, was too politic or
too polite to raise the question, only taking care that the
next time the "dog of a Christian" should find a chain stretched
across the gateway. This Sir Anthony could not brook, so rode
back threatening to break off negotiations, and it affords a
striking lesson as to the right way of dealing with orientals,
that even in those days the Moors should have yielded and
imprisoned the porter, permitting Sir Anthony's entrance on
horseback thereafter. The treaty he came to negotiate was
concluded, and relations with the Germans were established on
a right footing, but they have been little in evidence till
recent years.]

After all, the interests of Germany in Morocco were but a trifling
consideration, meaning much less to her than ours do to us, and it was
evident that whatever position she might assume, however she might
bluster, she, too, had her price. This not being perceived by the
ill-informed Press of this country, the prey of political journalists
in Paris, Cologne and Madrid--more recently even of Washington,
whence the delusive reports are now re-echoed with alarming
reverberations--there was heated talk of war, and everything that
newspapers could do to bring it about was done. Even a private visit
of the Kaiser to Tangier, the only important feature of which was the
stir made about it, was utilized to fan the flame. However theatrical
some of the political actions of Wilhelm II. may have been, here was
a case in which, directly he perceived the capital being made of
his visit, he curtailed it to express his disapprobation. It was in
Tangier Bay that he received the newspaper cuttings on the subject,
and although the visit was to have extended in any case but to a few
hours, he at once decided not to land. It was only when it was urged
upon him what disappointment this would cause to its thirty thousand
inhabitants and visitors for the occasion, that he consented to pay
one short visit to his Legation, abandoning the more important part
of the programme, which included a climb to the citadel and an
interchange of visits with a kinsman of the Sultan. Nothing more
could have been done to emphasize the private nature of the visit,
in reality of no greater moment than that of King Edward to Algeria