The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-05-20
TIE nLAcK THORN STICK.

II GLADSTONE has given proper ground
for csnlure In his management oil Egyp'
tiAn affairs, hs has manifested rare ability
a avoiding that censure. The failure
OF the resolution condemning the
COVER oment, offered last week, was
due 20 tho prsmier's shrewdness In
touching q chord ehich, Ut this day 10
never s,roked Ia van. Aftor assuring both
sldss that the safety OF GRnsRAL GonDos
was provided for, he said In effect, that
OsMAss people we're struggling for lib
eriy, after wears OF oppression. and
that England was not the
nation basely 10 lend her strength to
tyranny. 1t must have been difficult for
the old minister, diplomat 40 he 10, 10 utter
such u sentiment and keep a decorous
untsnance tie while. Think Of England
halt.ng at such scruple rs human liberty
II the dead could arise what hosts might
no arrsyed az Witnesses OF the absurdity OF
the statement; millions that were Killed at
Epglsnds bidding because they desired
l,bertyl II The murdered OF Ireland, OF In
dir, Of America, OF Australia, OF Africa, Of
all nations we're permitted TO break the
seals aud speak, what howls would come
up from the dust against that uttersncs Of
GLADSTONE. Ghosts would twltter like mag.
pios in dsritlon. England halted in this
case btcnute she dared not. And yet the
grim old premier told the truth when he
said this Soudan war 10 a struggle io'
liberty. Egypt has nothing TO dc
With the Boudsn by any Goi-giyen
tight. She has no moro jnss claim
on the Soadan than has England or Ire
land, and thai Is the lesson DIoEA Is teacn'
ing tao khodiye's troops. The Irish would
b free II they could; the Soudaneso will bt
free because they can. England holdl
India and Ireland because she 10 still able
to do Il, and she would hold the Soudan /
she was able. AS che cannot, she turns hel
weakness into text. and through hel
prime minister breaches to the world a ser
moa on liberty. 1t was good man who
said the gospel is good even II the devi
breaches IL. The 5oOdsn 10 u complex
land In II, boundaries and in its ethno-
R,aphic Characteristics. It 10 almost any,
thing you plesse to call IL, for II has nc
distinctive race, no fixed boundaries, nc
general religion, and II has only ono clear
ly defined purpose--that 10 to prove that II
does not belong to Egypt. Itsarea IL
placed by Mr.. A. II. KEATE, the best an
thority on the Souian, at $500. COO square
miles, and the same authority informs ui
that its population. is about 12.ooO,OOl
souls. These are Lemitie, Ham
lite, nearly all negroes, are OF leas
negroed. The majority are Mohamme'
dams of the careless gort, whose
reverence for the original prophet was
never barrier when Fillape was handy
come are OF the Hebrew faith and some
Christian, In all cases piety modified by the
sight OF an unprotected caravan, and
some fetish wcrsbippers, the latter
said to be least corrupt Of any. Geo.
graphically tho soudan is the eastern por'
ton OF the middle belt of Africa and itf
territory embraces ATTITUDES. enough TO
give II much variety. In fact, as to pro-
ducts aud climate 10 is like Texas
and Louisiana. In 1910 the Egyp'
tian troops commanded by IsMAEL PAsHA
first occupied Khartoum, 6enoor, BerbeI
and other Soudan provinces, and in 1884 q
ragged and starved remnant OF Egyptian
troops will fly from. those Same pro-
vinces-that is II 'hey can es
cape the terrible @xalh of tbs
Arabs, who neither fenr tae British lion OF
revere the blaok-thorn stick of GENERAL
Gonpox. As to that gentleman's Haiet,
GLADsToNx's word alone establishes It, ant
not withstsndlng that word newspapers o
the advanced sort are resdy TO publish hiI
obituary.