Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1882-08-03
Thursday Morning, August 3, 1882.
PROTESTING ENGLIsHMEN

PROTESTING ENGLfSHMEN.
John Bright is not the only Englishman
who has protested against the bomkardment
of Alexandria. The re is in London an "Anti-
Aggression League, which comprises some
of the ablest thinkers in the country Their
views about the Egyptian matter have lately
been expressed in an address delivered by
Frederic Harrison. Mr.. Harrison points out
that the Europeans nations have been coma
peting which should be foremost in ssciviliz-
ing and protecting" Egypt. Their civilization
at first took the form of loans at high inter
est, bounties to the amount of els, OOO OOO
Then the ciyilizers, when they found Egypt
sinking under this debt, invited themselves
to fill various Offices, at large salaries, to keep
things straight. The number of these Euro
pean officials in Egypt is 1925; their salaries
amount to 1913, 7O4. The number of tax.
free civiizers in Egypt is &C, 900, or some say
100000. The European in Egypt has made
cent. annual value on his house. The native
fly driver pays heavy tax on his carriage ;
the European banker drives his pair tax free
Next, the civilizers having obliged the coun
try with e150, 900, 900 at and 10 per cent,
obtained ''concessiens'' for G35, ZOO, 900
more. They set up local courts to decide on
their own civil and criminal affairs
before judge of their own nation
Egypt occupied by an army
of European judges, secretaries, assessors,
barristers at high salaries, and exempt from
taxes. One Khedive was dethroned and
another put in his place who would do as he
was told. To maintain this system the con
troll was devised. England and France each
send controller, who revise the expenditure
of the country, provide for payment of the
foreign debt and regulate the budget. These
two men control the purse and are the Egyp-
tian House of Commons. Each controller
receives 81, 600 year and the cost of the
control institution is e14.O0 year. There
are two other controls, so that the Egyptians
pay $50, 900 year for tie luxury of having
pended with sole reference to the ga, SOC, 900
of interest annually demanded by foreign
creditors. The population of Egypt is rather
more than {, 1000, 900; the revenue of this
very poor people is SO, OOO, 900 or e1e,O
O0O or nearly e2 per head-that is, ten
times the tax of each Hindoo. OF this &c.
OOO, 900, one half is carried straight out of
the country to foreign Insurers. For centu-
ries the fellah or peasant, has been the prey
of oppressors, but no Moslenl tax. gatherers
ever imposed on him anything like the bur
den borne under his European civilizers.
Naturally, says Mr.. Harrison, the Egyp-
tians grew sulky at so much civilization. The
1900 officials paid e373, 900 per annum out
of their taxes the 10000 tax-fres Europe
ans among them the foreign courts and rule
over them, and the half of their revenues
taken out of their country, made them muir
muir. The native army gathered around a
native gentleman, Arab Pasha. Parliament
was called, and the European ring opposed
this a military rebellion. The strength of
the movement is not military, but lies in
Cairo university-the intellectual centre of
the Mussulman world--with 90, 600 members
Arab became the prime minister of the Khe-
dive. The English controller was prime
minister of the British bondholdors. The
English government implored tho Sultan of
Turkey to crush the national party in Egypt
and restore the dry-nurse system. The
Egyptians, frenzied by that, massacred some
Europeans, just as the Italians did the French
in Sicily at the Sicilian vespers, now cele-
brated as glorious event