Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-03-14
RRADLAUGH'S IDEA.
pnolish Barrister Writes His views
the h% On the Egyptian Question.

on the EglpUldh N"N
NJ Bradlaugh Yesterday addressed
. %,' with reference to the state OF the
I'm. in Egypt to the Duke OF Cambridge
any ga marshal commanding-in-chiet.
az s,,1 w uriter adopts this method, he says
a nhs the fact that, while my mouth is
., ,l in the only place where the grave
snes dealt with in this letter could be
w. Vt nroperlv raised, there seems no one
n uSo inst now disposed to awaken public
e. .sontion on the subject" He says he
a''v ~ .1ost the red-tapism and C5s anert'%
Yep Dali Mall and the horse-guards may
" y Utmost as destructive to our army III
NC o.Ion &c the most vigorous OPPOSE
tnS 9 Of the Mahdi and his ilentenan's s,o
no a t =, nj proceeds to ask II Things ,o are
anu I Litter in 1885 than they were IN 100.
an! W. "On peace footing, our army
he SAY 3?r9oportionately higher than tnat "a %
costs Ptb toPF European power. At home sa ana
any 0tlle e. my costs ab ont e34,o00,-
in lnqLa ou ro are not at war. Surely TINS
on rrrNA
oOO Wins outlay ought to insure reasona-
5o certainty of well-eqmppeu p 5,,t 10 This
bondIed force in time OF war pu' 5 ~ MN,
n n"9 In 1882 all the transport pr9Ae - a.
80 So tho arrangements improved Qua :5,ao
are ny IN 1850. according to the evIueiioS
ESy Up 4 Harrison. assistant adJutailt anu
Oh I tn,,1a rsstter-general, the reglmental
quar- t'5,r+ was incomplete, the troops were
trahsP ,yionced in its use; the depart
MeAP Il transport was incomplete, and
IsN'~ or,anization was faulty; the
rs ,;ory transport was very late
auA A-r;,i1r, it was very incomplete, and
i+ ~ ocraanization was practically non-eXls-
t t5 What Improvements have you
made in desert transport in the two years
i;mcoo Your much-vaunted Canadian
bnotren. we learn, are now being sent
home although skilled boatmen are GER
toinjv needed on the dangerous Nile.
Wby is this? Are they like the auxi-
Faries employed as drivers in 1882, who,
falling to get clothing promised to them
by your brothers when they enlisted,
were obliged, we are told, by Mr..
Reeves. assistant commissary general, to
he mutinous and strike altogether before
thav could even get boots, although they
complained that the sand OF the desert
was so hot that it burned their feet
when the groceries were ungetable, the
tea and coffee packed away under heavy
ordnance. the rum hidden under siege
train and the cheese and sausages slowed
inaccessibly under railway trucks?
We have the evidence OF Commits
sarv Gen. Sir Edward Morris that
! sos, 4l2 pounds of -four sent to Egypt
in 1882 from England was nearly all bad !;
even Sir John Adye admits that 10000
sacks were unfit, and Commissary Gen.
Saunder saws that when bread was made
il was difficult to tell it from bricks.
What guaranty has your royal highness
taken that the poor privates and nom
commissioned officers have better food
to-day in the Soudan than was supplied
two years ago? Gen. Morris says that
the bad bread in 1882 made the men dis
heartened and dispirited, although, as
Sir John Ayde says, the campaign was
then short and successful. To-day the
campaign is long and difficult; what pre-
cautions have you taken that the men
shall not now be disheartened and
dispirited by bad -four, not only supplied
by dishonest and rascally contractors, but
which must in 1882 have actually been
passed by incapable or criminal officers,
for General Morris declares: So far as ]
and my officers could Judge, it had never,
even apparently, been good. 1t is true
that Sir John Adye, an officer whom you
trust, declared last year, when examined
as TO the bad -four, that there is a ten
lencv to spoil soldiers and to supply
he army with great many luxuries.' Ii
his the view of your royal highness, o.
AVE you ever reprimanded this well-teC
md extravagantly-paid officer for hi;
Aeartless indifference to the miseries o.
the often half-starved men in Egypt? II
1882, when fighting near eRamses, the
men lost all the rations in reserve because
the regimental transport completely
broke down, the carts were unfit and toe
heavy, the harness was absolutely rotten
Deputy Commissioner General Saundel
says: Large quantities of supplies were
seen all along the road to the camp aban
tned as rode out for eight miles l saw
Mhing, so far as you could see almost
but overturned carts with their loads
lying about in the all directions. And
then, as your royal highness well
knows, there was but little eff.
feCtive resistance offered by the
Egyptians to our troops, and the
army was never far distant from its base
Ofsupply. To-day we have a desperate
and hard-fghting foe to contend with
and literally long and dangerous marches
OF distance between the fighting regi.
ments and their base. Has your royal
mlghnesS taken any, and what, steps
since 1882 to guard our own soldiers
against hunger in their desert march
Are the erbswurst rations in better state
Than in 1882, when out of $500 pounds
sent out in tins, there was not a single
case IN proper order or fit to issue when
II reached the front, the cases being
broken, and the whole of the tins inside
opened? Whose, then, was the fault, OF
rather the crime, of neglect in 1882
Which high officer was tried and pun
ished since its discovery? Or was it all
hushed up, the criminal officers getting
promotion instead of punishment? And
nave the men to-day possibly like OF
even greater evils to contend with?
In 1882, when there was fighting. we
are told by Sir John Hamburg, chief med
zeal officer to the Egyptian expedition,
That field hospital was lying useless, fan
way from the wounded. because he
SqqIid get no transport to convey it to the
Ield OF battle, and that after fourteen
I 5ours' kicking about from pillar to post :
he abandoned his attempt to get the field
EThp pp al to the front. 1t is true that al
Tero : hiea and at Gubat wounded men
for r ,yda lew days ago writhing in agony
fbo want OF medicines, and is this from
IJerr came cause? Was it true, as Mr..
cay sii,ck, I; B., stated, that in 1882, both
no ,s%ity and artillery having found it i'm.
cin n@lo oI 10 drag the forage-carts and med.
left f fb NESTS across the desert, they had
cin n" tnem behind and were without medi.
now oa ~ the same thing happening again
dllll. II