Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-04-09
The Starving Egyptians.

The Starving Egyptians.
The natives OF Upper Egypt are at
present furnishing an illustration Of
how much more exactlng Oriental tyr
amy becomes when it borrows some
of the methods of modern civilization.
| They have not yet been absolutely
starved to death, but for some months
past t ey have been so insutficlently
fed that almost any form Of sickness
has proved fatal. Fifteen or twenty
years ago before the Khedive had the
interest on foreign debt to pay these
| Arabs were not in an enviable coEdl-
ton, for they were Obliged to work
hard raising crops, and then turn in a
large proportion of the yield to the
Government agents. But in this their
lot Was the common one of most East
ern people, and they were doubtless
,hrewd enough to cheat their rulers
when pushed to hard. Now, however,
the raising of the Egyptian revenue is
largely in the hands of keer-witted
foreigners, who are determined thai the
bondhol ,ers shall be satisfied Que
means Of enlarging the receipts that
as been resorted to has been to in-
| crease tue production of sugar; but In
| order to do this, laud that was former
ly used by the natives for their own
purposes has been tax n, and what is
more, the natives from the district
around each sugar factory are COM
PEELED to abandon work in their
own fields and furnish gratuitously the
manual assistance needed in the
Government mills aud plantations.
A recent traveller up the vie de-
scribes the condition of affairs there as
infinitely more wretched than they
ever were in the worst days Of ne 70
slavery in this country, for the people
are driven with whips to their v ork in
the field bv men who have not that
sense of ownership which in large de-
gree tempered the cruelty of slavery
The sacredness Of a contract may be
open to question, when to fulfill it, it
becomes necessary to starve to death
100000 or 100000 innocent people.
1t the French and English bondholders
must have satisfaction it is pity they
cannot in some way secure it at the
personal expense of the offender, the
Khedive
THE PORK PACKING Trade
CINCINNATI, April 2.-The Price
Current will to- morrow. publish Isl
thirtieth annual report of pork-pack-
ing in the West. The report shows
the number of hogs packed to be T.
48O,648, an increase of 975,202 over
last year, and $685. increase at the
same average weight as last year. The
| decrease in the yield of lard is 79-iO0
pounds per hog. The pork Of all kinds
made 523 568 barrels, decrease of
1919 800 barrels; the tierces of lard
made we're 893188, an increase of
13l ,996; the reports of the sto k of
meats show an aggregate of 3O5. 100000
pounds, the first week in March, in
the West, at the seaboard and in tran.
sit compared with 2,57O,O0O,O00 last
year. Similar stocks of lard were
452, 900 tlerces, against 10000 tierces
year ago. This indicates 100000
900 pounds increase in the stock pro-
duced, or yield 525 $50 hogs, against
the increase of $4,000 in the pack
ing, showing a reduction at the close
of the winter season amounting to
100000. OF the increased num-
Der Of hogs packed. in addition to the
large surplus carried Into the winter
season from last year, this is regarded
as an encouraging exhibit,