New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-01-10
RUSSIA-EGYPT.
TIE JEWISH EXODUS-FAMINE-A NEW
LOAN-TEWFlK AND ABBAS o

AT CONsTANTINOPLE.
by CABLE TO THE TRIBUNE.
Copyright: 1892; BY The Tribune association
London. Jan. 0.-The refusal of the House OF
representatives at Washington to appropriate funds
for transporting supplies TO Russia and still more
the reasons assigned for that refusal. are likely to
make an impression on the Emperor. He does care
it is said, for American opinion, disdanful as he
is of that great body of European opinion which
is hostile TO him. / hope it is true that he cares
for it. since if he does, he may perceive how
abhorrent is his persecution of the Jews to nation
predisposed to like him. That the Emperor. or
even his Ministers, bave any share in directing
Jewish emigration to American shores is very I'M
likely, hut his innocence of this particular offence
10 us makes the rctrbution now falling on him
the more symmetrical lie knows very we'll that
the Jews who are expelled from Russia must go
somewhere. He knows that England will not
have them if she can help it, and that Argentina
is not ready. Where else can they 90? If his
policy of persecution sends his victims straight to
American ports, Americans must and will protect
themselves.
1t is no longer, if 1t ever was. question of
sympathy with Russia We cannot svmpathizc
with barbarism We cannot forget that self
defence is the first law of nations. We have in
fact 10 organize defence, both against Russia who
drives out the Jews, and against the Jews and their
very powerful champions. who would food
with pauper immigration. The facts which !
stated last week about the Use of English funds
in aid of the Jewish exodus from German ports
to New-York were undcrstatcd. There is prac-
tically no limit to the funds available for this
purpose if we do not enforce the law and make
scrutiny more stringent than ever.
There is in Russia one man who thinks there
is no famine in Russia, and he is the Gar.
Versions of his speech differ but there seems to
he no doubt that he refused, rather roughly 1000
roubles offered him by the colonel of a Finnish
regiment. The mildcst rendering of his remark
is that one is starving in Russia. People who
know that country declare that the Russian
peasant lives, can live, little that he does
not know whether he is starving or not.
The grim details sent by Reuter- from Russia.
and now appearing from day 10 day. are perhaps
accurate. but the effect of them is heightened by
a rhetorical narrative and the evident liking of
their author for what is dramatic. lie does, at
any rate, see some things for himself, and does
not draw conclusions about the interior entirely
from what lie secs and hears at stations on the
main lines of railway. He tcstifcs, like every
body else, &c the good work Count TOlstol Is
doing. and Count Tolstois family well. This
is a kind of Socialism which everybody must
respect only it is not Socialism. Not less s,rik-
ing than these accounts j. testimony from ~.
Petersburg where the Government Is bill"tjng on
well-to-do families of the capital peasants aIfiV-
ing in search of relief. This story appears IN
journal which, unlike most Of its English col
leagues, really has a correspondent in ST Peters
burg.
Fairly this week il was believed that the Car
would dismiss his Minister of the Interior. lha'
is the usual imperial way of cXpr 'S>ing diSsatlN-
faction with DEGREES of Providence. NJ DOurnov"
had done his best 10 conceal from his imperial
master the facts of this extremely imperial famine.
lie has not entirely succeeded Hence the dis
favor into which he has fallen The latest dis
matches indicate that he will not be dismissed, but
private accounts are TO the effect that the Gar
has avenged himself on the heavens by calling
his Minister a brute. Fifteen provinces, more
than half of H.. empire, suffering from famine
Of various degrees OF intensity What IS true
is 7 believe. that in 10 province aud no large
area anywhere is everybody starving.
The ATTEMPTS 10 float new Russian loan in
Paris NAV be taken ms a practical admission that
The last loan was failure II given odt that
no new application would he made before March
Nobody knows what amount has actually been
paid into the Russian Treasury as result Of the
last subscription. but good authorities say that II
cannot exceed $50, 100000 out Of the $lO0,OOO
900 nomiuay taken. Her necesstic, may well
lie pressing But French sympathy with Russia
is, financially speaking, sponge that has been
wrung dry.
So sudden was the death Of the Khc,live that
iS political importance at first exaggerated.
The balance Of forces in Egypt is very delicatcly
adjusted. and d slight weight thrown into either
scale might disturb it, The Khedvc Tewfk ha'
been for nearly seven years the very loyal ser
want OF England. He has reigned, and Sir
Evelyn Barring has governed. This distribution
Of duties proved convenient 10 England and sll-
lemely useful 70 Egypt 1t is too much the
fashion TO leave the interests Of the Egyptian
people out of account when considering polltical
interests which clash the Nile. France has
trampled them under foot. licr ccaselcss intrsues
AZ Cairo and ConstantinOple have had ever for
their one object the restoration Of French prestige
in the East She has never hesirated to stan
in the way OF the most urgent social or political
reforms if blow could be struck at English
authority. If this unpcncrous policy has had
lut slight success, if Egypt has steadily advanced
toward order, prosperity, and settled institutions,
!, is largely because her nominal ruler held aool
from France and bound up his fortunes with
England
1t is of course, q question whether his son, who
peacefully succeeds him, will do likewise. Not
much j. known of Prince Ahbas. lie is young and
mas lived abroad Wien he arrives at Cairo he
will De beset by French and Turkish influences
as well as English. There will be struggle to
get possession of this young mans mind. The
chances are that ne will that his interests
and the interests OF his country depend OH his
following his fathers policy. But Egypt is in
the East, the home Of cabal and conspiracy and
Ill of
hand, the advent OF new ruler gives England a
rev ground if She wants one, for proionging her
occuD,tion of the country which she administers
50 wisely. The French themselves see this and
hourly admit that the position of their victorious
L. y rr1mt Lemcl tlar