The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1893-01-27
The Red Coat Is Becoming Heartily
Hated In Alexandria and
Cairo.
Which Means That Before Long
the English May Be Driven
From Egypt.
Revival Of Intensely Bitter Personal Poll
tics Ex peGtsd when Parliament Meets
dying OF starvation.

openly laced himself ut the head OF the
anti English party in Egypt and put all MS
pro- English ministers summarily into the
street. lie has installed a z CUP OF ad-
vissrs who are nototiously hostile to British
control. With oriental cunning he has ar
ranged az a figurehead for this new minis
try a man deeply obnoxious 20 the Enalish
party and not specially desired by anybody
else; and when the ~peremptory English pro
test game he allowed himself to be argued
into submission to tho extent Of withdraw
ing this one straw man. This has been OK
t%raysRantly hailed in England no a victory
for British influence and prestige. and na
settling satisfactorily tho whole affair. AZ
d matter Of fact it Ia a strictly bogus tri-
umph, and has settled nothing whatever.
The new premier. who probably was the
khedive's real choice all along, is profoundly
reactionary and anti-British. His new sui
ordinates are active leaders Of the native
party. where they are not recognized SER
wants Of the Franco Russian combination.
This change means everything. Where
the English red coat was a week ago the
badge of unauostioned authority, it is now
the symbol Of a hated intrusion which each
day 10 to become more vexatious in the eyes
Of Cairo. So thoroughly are the press dis
patches from Egypt to England edited by
the censor or kept in line with his wishes.
that We arc told nothing of what Cairo
thinks. We get only vague rumors OF a
possible mob demonstration tonight when
tho khedive goes in state to hear Aida"
But Paris is full of stor les that rot ular
unrisiro L., roSrn md AIoynndYia ia ONlV a
question Of days or even hours.
All this by no means signifies hat Eng
land is about to be chased from Egypt. bnt
1t does raise a probability that she
will have to re-establish her position
BY more or less violent methods.
and, as consequence, abandon,
once for all her cantinR nonsense about
intending presently to leave the country.
This involves the certainty of Il vigorous
diplomatic warfare with France, and Rus
STA, with m overhnnginR possibility OF hot
words leading to complications; and this in
turn, mark you, promises to 80 exotic the
popular C%hauvinistic spirit Of the French
that they will lose interest in these awk-
ward Panama Investigations.
Until 1t 10 seen what is going to come out
Of this new situation continental statesmen
lie very low. They always are fascinated
alike by the prospect of seeing England
embroiled with somebody of her own sizs
and excited by the possibility of extracting
an advantage for their own country from
the affair. U%nhappily for them, that
strange protecting infuence--one part wis
dom, seven parts blind luck-which guides
Britannia ON her lurching course gene ally
brings These hopes and plans to nothing.
All that can be said is that for the moment
it looks very much as if England will be
forced to openly cast in her lot with the
triple alliance. There are vet ten days be-
fore parliament meets, and by that time the
Egyptian question may have easily Assumed
extreme importance.
Bitterness of personal politics will reach
. Stage during the next few months which
is luckily rare in modern times. Arpar-
emily the unionists cling to their peculia ly
exasperating device of sitting on the gov
eminent benches along with the Glad
stonians. and it they do they will be in
suited promptly and vigoi ously by some Of
the younger and mole te y radicals. lndi-
vidual rscriminations growing ont of this
and other matters are already 70 reshadowsd
acrimony will be the OBSERVATIONS affront
put of Lord Houghton by what calls itself
society in Dublin. Ono example is quoted
this week of the whole medical staff of a
big hospital absentinQ themselves when the
viceroy paid it a formal visit. The emit, 9
energies OF the snob in pa ts of Dublin have
been devoted for weeks to the task of secur-
ing pledges to keep away from the levee OF
Feb. Z. which opens the castle season.
The papers report more coroner's inuuests
on deaths by starvation than LONDON has
known before for years. There were four
on n day Of this week, but all apprehen-
sions Of disorder among the unemployed 80
winter are falsitied. The east end is
Quister than usual and the street agitators
accustomed to hold meetings at Tower hill
have been unable foc the first time to ss-
cure listeners in any numbers. Mission
aries and agents of charity working down
there tell the most heart rending stories Of
widespread suffering. intensified as it has
been by the unusual severity OF the weather,
but is effect seems to benumb rather than
to stir to revolt O. public . otsst. OF all
the projected mass meetings in Trafalgar
square of which We heard go much u couple
of months back. nothing whatever is said
now. The submerged tenth are Wrestling
with sta walton in silence.
Meanwhile the polite West end 10 pro.
foundly stii red over a threatened appear
ance Of crinoline in the spring. am sure
that there 10 not half no much excitement
in America over the possibility that warm
weather may bring cholera as is raeing
he 9 over the statement that the hoopskirt
Ia coming this way. Just who started this
AuthoA ~ " AaAtO SAShis uhu uoDcAy
knows who IL going to make women wear
it against their will; but all tho SAM. tho
whole dovecote Ia in the direct confusion
and alarm. Anti-crinoline leagues are be-
ing formed; women are being implorsd by
Advertisement to pledge themselves on
postal cards that they never. never, never
woald submit. and the papers ae flooded
with impassioned correspondence. Through
oil Ibis fervid chorus OF outcries there ia an
obvious ground note Of conviction shat If
crinoline appen q they will fail victims to ID
despite themselves,
Such letter writing activity as ia not mon
opolized by this great issue ia expanding it.
self on that brand new problem: Is Christ
ianity played out? THIS 10 filling the COL
umns of the Chronicle to aimo-t suiIocaiing
repletion. 1t is started by a second ate
roet, lie CALI ne, in his criticism ON Rol ert
Buchsnan's poem, "ihe Wandering Jew"
and affords the whole noble my of the
second rate q chance u Sea their names n
print without speG Tally affecting thu iutur.
of Oh istianity.
The future may not Escape 10 easii r.
from it's esent entangiemen with the be-
lated theological sMutions OF thu earl Of
Shrewslury. Most OF tho lsiety lay tins
time have FORGOTTEN his mnch~sdy rlisea
escapt de OF eteven ysars back. aud all I'll"
mo . Willingly because IL terminated in his
Loyalty marrying tho lady ait r she had
been divoroed and their beth minding
their own husincss ever since; hut
the bishop of Chester has not for
gotten. and, accordingly hsu just rsbuksd
the vicar Of She ;neton for allowing them to
partRke of tho COMMUNION. ana o ueret
him to Y lie them not to da Q present
themselvss at the altar rail again. lLsre
in . report that Shrewsbu y In going to al-