The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1882-08-08
Ghs nailg Bullstiq:
TUESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1882.
The STORY Or 7Rf EGYPTIAN TROUBLES,

man how to "squeeze fellah."
He was better able than others /" to
wiring the last para out of the poor
wrctches by the use of the kourbash,
or hippopotamus hide whip, in the
hands of agents as INSCRIPTIONS and
as merciless rs himself, until cry
went up from earth to heaven against
his expressions" A scapegoat was
wanted, and the Moufettich was Sc
lected. He was arrested and tried
during the night by a council of
Ministers on charge of "organ-
izing plot against His Highness
the Khedive, of accusing the Khe-
dive of selling Egypt to the Chris
tians, and Of being responsible for
the financial miseries of the land"
The sentence was exile for life,
and steamer left the same night
for the Upper Nile. Within "a
hours the ex. favorite was dead.
Mr.. de Leon, who is an apologist for
the Khedive, admits that the general
belief is "that the steamer which
passed up the Nile with windows
carefully nailed up, looking like a
floating coffin, was only sent up for
effect, and did not contain the ex-
Minister either living or dead"
The author of Egypt Bound and
Unbound says:
"This singular person, who in
spired throughout Egypt a terror
which clings even to his memory,
was cast in day from the height of
supreme power to the condition Of
an exile for life to the White Nile.
He never reached his destination.
Two days after he left Cairo under
close arrest came the news of his
death on the way. Information such
rs he possessed, secrets shared by
him with the Khedive only, must
never have the chance Of being i'm
parted. Dead lips can make no de-
fence. Upon the scapegoat shall be
heaped all the blame of the solemn
farce, called broken faith, which had
been played throughout the year on
the Egyptian stage. Confidence
once established, another loan may
surely be raised to make good the
deficit, and a new point of departure
may be made with the increasing
European administrations. Whether
it was the scarf of the officer of the
guard, whether it was a cup of
coffee, or whether, as many say, it
was the Nile itself which did the
work, will perhaps never be known;
but that Ismail Pasha Saddyk was
murdered by order or hint from the
Khedive no reasonable man in Egypt
doubts. There was no one so sim.
pie as to believe the story which was
circulated that, overcome by frenzy
at his fall, the Moufettich had drunk
himself to death. That he was a
scoundrel Of the deepest dye, a
grinder of the face of the poor, a
robber, bad example, and great
stumbling block to any chance of
| financial reform or honest admins
tration,' is undoubted. At the same
time we must not lose sight of the
fact that he was destroyed by the
man who had made such services as
his necessary, and whose constant
and urgent demands for money
which he must have known could not
have come legitimately in to, or ont
of, the treasury, were complied with
by recourse to whip and bastinado.
and by tho grossest violation Of all
rights of property"
The property of the Moufettich
was confiscated and sold by auction,
and the fellah "who sprang from O
mud hut on the Nile was found to be
in possession of more palaces,
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