Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1882-08-11
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macy than il has been throughout TUG
Egyptian imbroelio. 1t is certain tna'
the action OF Turkey, Austria, and lfaiy'
and even France, bears witness TO Sc
cret pressure exercised from Berlin ana
u remains 10 be seen whether England
.ra Rnss;a vill not succumb TO the same
,,ots,t influence. What is the line Of
no,icv which this Incompatible WIRE
miller has followed in this instance, ana
what is the central motive which now
and always shapes his schsmesf
II is well known to those who nave
watched with some attention the course
NJ events at Constantinopls that since
the supersession Of Lord Reaconsfieid
by Mr.. Gladstone, the German Empire
has acquired in the councils OF the s0i-
tan a weight more than equal 70 sna'
exercised by all the other CHRISTIAN
mowers combined. The extent, indeed
70 which the Ottoman ruler, having
lost confidence in tho good faith and
material resources Of his TRADITIONAL
allies, has been disposed to lean upon
the German Chancellor was for time
a theme for ridicule to short-sighted
correspondents Of the English and
French press, who seemed to regard the
Teutonic predictions Of Abdul-Hamid
in tho light Of a harmless joke. What
serious consequences were involved IN
the close relations contracted between
Germany and Turkey is now patent to
everybody, since the whole Egyp-
tian difficulty may be traced to
the the covert instigation OF
the Porte, and since it il incredible that
such a direct defiance Of the Western
powers would have been hazarded with
ont distinct encouragement on the part
of him whom tho Sultan not unreason-
ably considers the arbiter Of Europe.
Arab Pasha, we are told, AYERS that
he has in his possession documents
proving that every step taken by him
was suggested by Abdul Hamid, and his
assertion is only too well borns out by
the facts. It is noteworthy that the ar
rival of the Sultan's agent in Cairo was
followed, not by the removal OF the re-
bellious Minister, but by the massacre
Of hundreds of Europeans and the COM
plete overthrow Of the English aid
French authority in Egypt. Moreover.
while Arab, with astonishing effrontery.
refuses to permit the houses Of EQyp-
tian officers implicated in tho recen.
outbreak to DO searched, and declare
that none of the native rioters shall be
punished unless like penalties are in
hicted on the assaulted Europeans who
strove to defend their lives, the Porte,
instead Of administering sharp re-
buke, chooses this time for comforting
on the promoter of disorder signal
mark of favor, in the shape of the Med
jidie decoration.
or piece with this extraordinary
conduct is the stubborn refusal of the
Porte to take part in the conference,
and its insolent afiirmance that no con-
certed action on the part of the powers
Is necessary, although it is notorious
that all the pledges which it gave to the
English and French bondholders are
broken, and that even the Suez Canal is
In imminent danger of obstruction.
There 10 not one of these acts which
Abdul Hamid would have dared to
commit two years ago, and If he now
exhibits such incredible assurance it is
because he relies on the covert encoar-
agement and moral support Of the
greatest military power Europe has wit
messed since the collapse Of the Napo-
leonic empire. The influence Of Bis
mOrck may DO plainly detected. also, in
Austria's strange neglect TO forward in-
structions 10 her Ambassador, an alleged
oversight which delayed the conference
whom every day was precious; in the
truoulent attitude Of Italy, which de-
olines to tolerate any longer the preten-
si0ns Of France to exercise q control
over the Egyptian finances; and, finally,
In the disgraoeful pusilanimity of the
French ministry, which, fearing to DO
brought into direct collision with Ger
many, 10 disposed, as we learn from the
latest kilograms, 70 swallow its loud pro-
fessions, and to leave England in the
luroh. II all these movements did not
receive their impulse from Bismarck, it
d obvious that at any time no might
have arrested them by lifting his fore
anger, and We ara therefore prompted
to inquire what motive can have led
him TO allow events to take such direc-
ton.
We can guess his motive by marking
the result. Three months ago the joint
control exercised by England and
France In Egypt had 80 intimately weld.
Cd the commercial and politicsl inter-
ests Of the two countries a. to make il
well-niRh certain that should the moot
Cd league between France and Russia,
20 strenuously advocated by General
Skobsleff, ever be contracted, the
weighty purse Of Great Britain would
be flung into tho same scale. Now,
bismarck has not read in vain the his
tory Of the first French empire, and he
knows that two poor countries like Ger
mnny and Auairia vould urshablv l,o