Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-03-06
England's Position i'm the East.

England's Position i'm the East.
EDITOR DEMOCRAT:
The Tribune Editor says: "Whether
Great Britain acquired India Justly or
not, it is enough to know that title was
quieted before this generation of Britons
received the country in trust" by parity
of reasoning, slavery with all its atten-
dant cruelties and in humanities, should
have been continued for ever. Besides
the natives of India may have something
to say about whether the title has been
quieted or not, and what has the present
generation of Britons done to justify
their trust? They have utterly beggared
the country, and its entire substance has
been plundered to enrich Briton's Office
holders until the gaunt and dreadful
spectre of famine casts its baleful shadow
continually over the entire land.
THE VICTIMS OF FAMINE.
1t is stated by some writers that thirty
six millions of people have died there of
famine during the reign of Victoria.
Florence Nightingale says that many
have died there of famine in single year.
And is it to continue this horrible condi-
ton of things, that the Tribune says
England must possess Lower Egypt and
the headwaters of the Nile?" In fact, to
establish another India in Egypt. Sir
Samuel Baker, formerly Governor-Gen-
eral of the Soudan, writing from Egypt to
the London Times, says: ''The country is
bankrupt; hrigandage, which was for
merly unknown, is rampant, even in the
Delta-seventy-four cases is one month.
Nothing can be more thorough than the
result of our 'philanthropic mission to
Egypt. Great Britain has accomplished
her task to the astonishment, if not the
admiration of the world. Egypt has
changed its features, and, through the
guiding hand of England, it has, within
two years, been transformed into an ORR
entail Ireland"
THE ARABS AND THEIR SLAVES.
Let u.s. see regarding the tortures which,
according to the Tribune, those nomads,
the Arabs, have inflicted on the natives
When Gordon, on his last visit to the
Soudon, issued his proclamation re-estab-
fishing slavery, the London Times in pal
liation, published the following: every
man who knows anything about the mat
ter knows that domestic slavery has ex-
listed in the East since the days of Abra-
ham, and that it is very different thing
from the slavery of kidnapped negroes
ON the Southern plantations. Mr.. Glad
stone stated in the House of Commons
that General Gordon's presence in the
Soudan was for the purpose of withdraw
ing the Egyptian garrisons, and the Civ
ing back to the sultans their ancestral
powers, withdrawn or suspended dur
ing the period of Egyptian occupation"
According to the Tribune to re-establish
the tortures which those nomads, the
Arabs, had been inficting ON the natives
of that region. According to his former
chief-of-staff, Colonel Long, "Gordon, on
reaching Khartoum, commenced to shake
the government of the Soudan by his
proclamation of the monopoly of
ivory, and the unwise and un-
just confscation of the property OF
those who are to-day in arms--in fact he
laid the egg that Matched the Mahdi.''
How true to his British instincts. Re-
garding the Mahdi's taking other mems
wives and property, and endeavoring to
gain absolute dominion by ministering to
the lusts of his dupes, we are afraid the
.ribune editor, like Wolseley's army in
the Soudan, is slightly Gin the air." Now
the ..ribune,s editor had better 'call
halt" otherwise we are afraid that he will
surely rob the Mahdi of his honors, if he
has not already done SO, and win for him
self his claim to the title of "False-
Prophet" AN FRESHMAN.