Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-07-08
The GLADSTONE POLICY.

favor upon the people OF this State.
The GLADSTONE POLICY.
The present foreign and domestic
policy of the British government is well
calculated to excite the curiosity, if not
the alarm, of the crowned heads of
Europe. The thrilling and calamitous
consequences of the coup detat by which
the unseating of Parnell and twenty-three
other Irish members was effected, will
scarcely be realized by the people of the
British Empire before the House of Com
mons will be startled with disastrous con-
sequences of the ill-advised Tory policy
in the affairs of Egypt. 1t is. of course,
impossible to foreshadow at the present
time the consequences that are likely
to grow out of the extraordinary
policy Of the British government in
training the guns of its navy on Alexan-
dria in retaliation for grievances the
settlement of which has been submitted
to the decision of the council of Con-
stantinople. While there is no doubt
that the result of the congress will be
favorable to Intervention by the Euro
pean Powers in the affairs of Egypt, on
the other hand, it is quite as patent that
thel Constantinople conference will, in
Difference to existing complications,
leave the designation of the Power to be
assigned to this service to the arbitration
of events that are yet in the womb
of time. The future course of the
great military chieftain, Arab Bey,
will have but little influence in shaping
the policy of the European powers in the
affairs of Egypt, except in so far as it
may be seized upon as an excuse for the
oppression and robbery of his countrymen
in liquidating the obligations incurred by
Ismail Khedive, prior to his dethrone-
ment by the concerted action of the
French and British governments.
Should the Egyptians, however, at
tempt to carry into execution their threat
to destroy the Suez Canal, in spite
of the opposition of Arab Bey, England
will be forced to take the initial move,
regardless of the attitude of the other
powers, in the solution of the problem
which now threatens the peace of the
Continent. On this by no means i'm
probable event, hinges, in great meas
ure, the future foreign and domestic
policy of the English government. and as
a natural sequence the success of the
Irish policy of the Gladstone government.
Aside from the question of indemnity for
the Alexandria massacre and the proba-
bility Of the first overt act in the present
crisis coming from the Egyptian govern
ment, there is no immediate dan.
ger of England's being forced to take
the initiative in the complications which
now absorb the attention of the civilized
world and give promise of the restoration
OF Turkish dominion ever the Egyptians,
from which they were only freed by
Mehemed Ali half century ago. The
great effort being made towards the unfit
cation of the Pan Slavonic race and the
combustible character of the Poles and
Herzegovinians, render German and
Austrian interference in the affairs of
Egypt very improbable, notwithstanding
their existing treaties with the Porte
and concurrence with France and
England in making Tewfik ssuzerain of
Egypt at the time of the deposition
of Ismail Khedive. France is Just at the
present time too much interested in the
West in the solution of the Tripolitan
and Algerian complications to turn her
attention to Egypt at the present time.
Russia: like England, is. not in situation
at home to take the initiative in compll-
cations on the Mediterranean unless her
interests on the Bosporus are involved.
Whether England will consider discre-
ton the better part of valor and swallow
the insult offered the Red cross of st.
George at Alexandria, in order to avoid a
foreign war, that she may the better
turn her attention to affairs across the
English Channel, depends entirely on the
spirit with which her Prime Minister con.
templates enforcing the Irish policy of the
government, as embodied in the coercion
bill, which is likely to become
a law at the fearful cost
of Irish representation. The present pol
icy of Mr.. Gladstone towards the Irish peo-
pie is in such marked contrast with the DO
sition he has heretofore taken on the ques-
ton of ameliorating their condition that it
issto be hoped, in the interest of humanity.
that he sees in his foreign policy the
means of uniting the British empire in a
foreign war, in which shall be involved
alikeithe liberty and glory of its people.
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