Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1885-02-07
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TRR FALL or KHARTerH.


No event within the past tee years nas
hesp Of snoh inportancs a. shs fan OF
Khartonm. Not only in lie Immaculate
Effects. bat IN The vsss chain Of prooa-
bIli,ies Depending spon il, u the unfoF-
inmate end Of the long siege sueh ~
shoulS canss regret and CONSERVATION
through all ChTissendotn- Nothing 10
history 10 more pathetic than the de-
ssrue.ion Of the brave Rarrlso1 after u
had held q hostile army ct bay uonsh
after month, and jass a. the column o.
tho rescaers, bringing dastvsranee and
rsnsvsd life. vas alrnoss within slehi
Of the oity's walls. N0s only has Eng
t.,A io.t IN General GoFdon her best
and most famOos soldier. but the e1pe
aition under Stewart il placed IN . pss'-
tiou from which IL can Be sItrSeasso
oulv by the most proiDpt and determined
.ssion. Is will nov require maFEels OF
bravery and esnsralship 10 save even
tbs main army under Lord "oiseseS'
which IL resting at Korti, on the Nile.
The present disaster u the result OF 9
seriss of mistakes extending through
the pas. TIVE years, mistakes sufficient
20 condemn the Gladstone ministry 70
an infamous place in history. u vas q
rsistake 10 send Gordon, Enaocompanieo
and unsupported, sn bis oui1etie mis-
sion 70 paoify the fanatics OF tue SSn
dam. II vas mistake not to dispatch
An aYray 10 his relief Or the first infi'
nation Of danger. The nobiest son OF
England should not have been left 70
struggle alone and unaiGed against all
the power Of the most ianatioai sect Oh
Metaun mechanism Each day IT mac
tivity wss a new nista.ke- The nnal
and browning mistake of all was in
sanding an army OF five thousand men
10 face horde whose numbers could
not even be accurately guessed FIVE
siuaez. or even ten tiRles, Eve Thousand
should have been sent. Palpatle a.
.hsa, mistakes Of Gladstone were, Eng
land supported him in them. and Eng
land Ia responsible fer them England
responsible. and payment has been,
and Ia Being, exacted. Burnaby "a dead;
Cameron Ia dead; Herbert IL dead; Lord
81. Vincent IL dead; Gordon is dead or
worss than dead; Stewart 10 wounded
and In desperate danger Colonel VIII
son and Lord Charles Beresford, the
youne hero of Alexandria, are cat on
from civilization and are desperately
fighting for life. Is England not pay
inQf Ia she not atouing for her mts'
takes with the best blood Of her noble
racer Has not the very flower cf the
Britiah army fallen on the desert sandsf
The fall Of Khartoum will spread dis
affection throagh all the East. For the
hrsi time since the Sepoy war has an
Eastern army obtsine,i Q signal sdvan-
taee over England. The mutterinRs Of
war and discSntsat will spread through
ali Egypt, through all Arabia, into India
itself and only the most energetic and
gallant efforts can bring back the old
security. A shock to highlands POWER
In the East ~ q shock 10 civilization.
This It is that makss the present cslam-
ity something more than English that
makes u q world calamity. Destroy the
British East Indian Empire and the
hands on the dial face of tune are
turned back hundred years, tho ad-
vance Of Western civilization In AHA u
checked, and Christianity is driven
from the far East. II would take new
Give and another century Of strcgRle
10 lift the banner OF Western Power
anew on the banks Of the Gauges.
Action, and nothing bat aotiOn, can
nov counteraet the effects Of Gordon'i
fall. The power of tho Prophet must
be crushed al once his armies must
wiiher away in fierce hre of British
musksiry, or the Empire Of India will
treuble 20 Ice fall. And with India lost
the British Empire Is undone.
whether tho Gladstone Ministry car
Survive the present shock Ia matter Of
doubt. II Parliament were sitting
nov, q defeat 81 The Government would
be certain ard the return of Conser.
vaalvs majority would be no less Ger.
tain. Today all England Is boiling and
sssthlne with indignation. II this hot
rsstlesn feeling wears Of Sufficiently be-
fore Parliament again assemblies, ths
0oveFnment may BE- able 10 weather
the siorm bat the probabilities are
that The veuad Is leo deep, that the
pride OF England has been touched
with TOO ruds = hand, and that the
Gladstone Ministry 10 doomed.
THIS disaster, great and fAr-reashins
% Il 10, has left no stain on the charae
ter u the British soldier. His pluci
and his vaios are ~ unqnestioned N
ever. wherever ihs Arabs and The
soidisry Of England have come face 10
faos. however great the disparity Of
numbers however overwhelming The
advantage Of she enemy. the Englist
soldier has triunphed. wolselsy's 49,
We ARMY has advanced with almost In.
conceivable rapidity 70 the relief ol
khartoun. The mistakes that cosi &C
dearly were made by tho Ministers in
Londou, moi BY The soldiers ON ,he iield
One guat Engilshman, the erssiest Of
them ali, man OF iron nerves and
mere shan iron will; soldier Of the
World and y character In history, vho
gathered arssnd him q mnngrel hosi Of
negroes, Egyptians and Arahs. and by
ne simple power Of his own individu.
ality. held = city throaeh a year o.
Siege against . hundred thousand as.
sailants. sha, eFea. man has yielded %
fate and fallen At The VERY mamen.
when bin rescue seemed assured. Il &
nothing more than THAI Que Eacllsh.
man has Welded In ,he face Of fearful
odda and The British Emyirp sremblcs.
Gvtltkattpa stands aehaes
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