Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-11-17
The Next Pharaoh.

Whatever may be the temporary turn
of the war between Arab Bey and En-
gland, the inequality of the participants
is too marked to leave any doubt Of its
ultimate though perhaps distant result.
With the inevitable defeat of Arab,
however, the process of reorganization
will just begin. and England's choice of
an agent of administration is already
matter of conjecture. Three courses
present themselves, and each has good
English precedent in its support. The
most natural way would be to retain in
power the present Khedive as the nom-
inal head of the Government with En-
glish support. 1t is, however, to be
borne in mind that not only has Tewfik
proved himself incapable in critical mo-
ments. vacillating and without any hold
on popular respect, but has incurred the
suspicion of treachery and double-deal-
ing by his tardy and unwilling steps
against Arab. He was unequal to the
revolt in its small beginnings; will En-
gland rely on him to keep under subjec-
ton lately conquered and turbulent
people that has already rejected him?
The desire of the Queen that the Duke
of COnnaught, her third son. an adven-
turous young man Of thirty three, with
no present occupation, should accom-
pany the expedition is regarded as strong
circumstantial evidence that she would
not be displeased to see him comfortably
set up for life as Governor-General or
Viceroy over the land of the Pharaohs.
Queen as she is, Victoria is troubled, no
doubt, with her full share of maternal
anxiety; and would hardly expose her
precious son to the sanguinary perils of
war with the sans oullottes Arab, un.
less some Interior and not immediately
perceptible advantage should accrue
therefrom.
The third, and by no means impossi-
BILE. course for England to pursue,
should the remaining Powers of Europe
intrust to her the restoration of Egypt
from anarchy to order, is nothing more
or less than the establishment by her of
Arab Bey ON the throne of Egypt.
Since its regeneration, Egypt has pro-
duced but single man possessed of skill
to command, force to act, and .'magnet-
ism" to secure popular support. That
man is Arab Bey himself, and England
would probably be the first to acknowl-
edge his ability. The experiment of
putting in supreme command brilliant
and conquered rebel has been tried be-
fore with success by Great Britain. AZ
ghanistan bears the same relation to the
land approaches of India that Egypt does
to its approaches by water. and STRAIT
egically one country is quite as import
ant to England as the other. Twice
England has placed at the head of the
Afghan State one whom she had first 10
subdue. In 1854 Dost Mohammed.
after years of bloody war, assumed the
government under the protection of the
power that he had long defied, and made
an efficient and acceptable Ameer. The
present Ameer has had very similar
history. Most impartial sources of in
formation concede to Arab an honorable
ambition, fair political ability, and an
aversion to the barbarities into which
his army has plunged. His letter to
Gladstone, in to-day's dispatches, simply
states that which was inevitable, and for
which all but the British Government
Were prepared. Even in her attacks
upon a weaker foe, England has been
ready to pay respect to bravery and
skill in an enemy, and it is far from the
impossible that the turn of events may
yet make Arab Bey ruler of Egypt and
the firm friend Of England. albany
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