Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-07-12

Of the two political parties in Egypt
Mr.. Wolf says, in reference to the
Europeans in Egypt: "They are, speaking
generally, violent opponents of the National
party. The French are, almost without ex-
ceptien, speculators in Egyptian stocks, and
they complain of the revolution as having
caused them financial loss. The English
have for the last seven years calculated on
Egypt their political heritage, and are
unGisguisedly disappointed at a movement
which seems to put of their day of posses
sion. The Italians are divided, many OF
| them siding with the Nationalists, partly out
| of jealousy of France and England and partly
from an honorable love OF liberty. The
poorer Italians. like the Maltese, have
| mostly learned Arabic, and sympathizs with
| the people The Americans, Belgians and
| Swiss, no uncomfortable colony, have from
the first accepted the national movement as
genuine and given 1t their support. The
| sentiment among the educated natives is
most hostile against the English and French
officials on account OF their supreme selfish
ness and overweeniDg effrontery. They arro-
gate everything and assume a patroniZing
air TO the very people who pay them their
salaries. The mptrollers general receive
$4,000 year. Other foreign officials
ceive equally extravagant salaries, while
native officials, competent in every way, re-
celve but pIttance, and yet these foreign
officials are there in the interest of economy
The natives pay taxes on everything, the
Europeans on nothing. Arab Bey, with
whom / was on most intimate terms, is, in
my opinion, an honest, and certainly, from
an Egyptian standpoint, highly educated
and Intelligent man. He fully appreciates
tha position he is in; he has calculated the
cost, and will not shrink from the RESPONSE
billty. He knows all about the United
States, Its history and struggles, and told me
repeatedly that his desire was TO have a
constitutional form of government. When
| presented him with a copy of the bio
graphy of Garfield in French he at once
said he would have it translated into
Arsbic, SO that the youth of Egypt could
profit by it. At my suggestion he ordered
the translation of the constitution of the
United States into AratSc. Arab is no
fanatic, but is patriot, and thus resorts to
many expedients and devices not exactly in
consonance with the views of foreigners who
nave neither love nor sympathy for him or
his country. The Arab is peaceable, honest,
frugal and temperate, thoroughly devout, and
in no manner more fanaticsl or prejudiced
than the Jew or the Christian. The danger
of massacre to the Jew or the Christian does
no arise from the fanaticism of the Arab,
hut rather from the cupidity and so-called
diplomacy OF the great powers. Egypt and
the whole of Europe could be at peace, the
tnOrougnIare oil the canal undlStuT bed, were
Engla or Frauce actuated by disinterested
motives. All Egypt needs and shuold have
is a guaranteed neutrality like Belgium or
Switzerland. Freed from the yoke of Tur-
KEY and independent like Roumanis, Siberia
or Bosnia, she could enter into a career of
prosperity rivalling that OF any country on
earth. England, if honest, could achieve all
-he needs, the Suez canal would be unim-
peded and the Eastern question would be
shoru OF one-half Of the menaciDg danger.
The bondhOlders, whose clamor for their
pound OF flesh in London and Paris is most
audibly heard on the banks of the Nile,
would be fully and amply secured, for the
revenue of Egypt is G1,O00,000 each year
over and above its expenses, and in very
limited time the debt could be entirely paid
of. Therefore what Egypt needs is neu-
trality guaranteed by all the powers, indie
pendence of Turkey, economy in its civil
service, abolition of its army-except for
police purposes-and last, but by no cans
least, common schools, in which the modern
languages would be taught and spoken"
Mr.. Wolf says that the khedive means
well, but lacks force, and that had he pos
sessed tithe of the genius of Mehemet Ali,
or the pluck and audacity OF his father he
might have thrown off the sha ackles with which
Eng and and France had bound him, and,
placing himself at the head of his people,
have achieved independence for the country.
listed for Americans TO leave Egypt, for the
natives believed they had American SYM
pathy and appreciated IL.