The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-12

of the white man may have given him
a veneer of modern civilization, he is
still too often Indifferent to and care
less Of the lives OF others: and he be-
trays that lack of the sentiment OF
pity commonly observed among saw
age races, which causes them to re-
gard homicide as a mere incident. and
as glorious in case it is the outcome of
revenge. To this latter the negro is
frequently impelled by a spirit of re-
sentiment of the prejudices of his white
fellow citizens; and just as frequently
found in the qualification of his brutal
instincts.
"A VERSATILE STATESMAN.
Though Burke never attained high
Office his abilities were so versatile as
to qualify him for any post which
cabinet minister could fill. His prac-
teal wisdom was as conspicuous as his
power of generalization No one had a
clearer comprehension or a firmer
grasp of great principles of universal
application; at the same time his policy
in every department of English poll
tics rested on q wide and solid basis
of information and experience. He
was stepped in the history of the past,
yet penetrated through and through
with the reality of the present, and
ever and always mindful of that fu-
ture in which the sDeculations and
measures of the day were to be tested,
and finally approved or condemned. His
prodigious activity in public affairs
sprang not from an intellectual source
alone, nor from his imperial patriotism;
it was constantly fed from an mex
haustible store of moral energy. He
was animated b. a detestation of all
forms of oppression, whether by kings
or governors, parliaments or peoples,
which was in him a consuming pas
sion, from which his noble nature could
only obtain relief by denunciation of
the oppreSSor and the destruction of his
power. / cannot help thinking that
Burke must have been stimulated, too,
and sustained by delight in his studies
and in his work. 1t is impossible,
without counting this as an additional
incentive, to understand the amazing
industry which he devoted to the elu-
cidaton of all the great questions dealt
with in his speeches and writings.
How his method reproyes the habit. too
common in our day, as in other days,
of debating subjects affecting the fate
of millions OF our fellow creatures as
if they could be disposed of by echo
ing the chatter of ignorance, or preju-
dice, or vanity, or self-nterest. When
we read Burke's speech on Foxs East
India bill we say, What a great pro-
consul he would have made?" When
we read his speech on Cancellation with
America we feel that the greatest CO.
lonial ministers was lost in him, and
when we read his speech on ''Economi-
cal Reform, we eXclam, Here is an
ideal chancellor of the eXcheQuer. -
From Edmund Burke and His Abiding
Influence" by j. O'Connor Power, in
North American Review for December.
BRISTLING WITH PROSPERITY.
Are the people of Egypt materially
benefited by English rule?
PROFESSIONALLY they are. Unpopular
as it is with every class in Egypt, and
condemned throughout Europe, the oc-
cupation has done vast good No fair
investigation can witness the present
condition of the Egyptian fellaheeen,
knowing what it was before the advent
of the English, without conceding this.
For half a dozen years Egypt has fair
ly bristled with prosperity. The story
of that country's emergence from prac-
teal bankruptcy, until its securities
are quoted nearly as high as English
consols, reads like a romance; and
there is no better example of economic
al progress, through administrative re-
FORM than is presented by Egypt under
British rule.
Security is assured to person and
property; slavery has been legally abOl-
ished; official corruption is almost I'M
known forced labor for public works
is no longer permitted, and native
courts have now more than sem
blance of justice. Hygienic matters
have been so carefully looked after that
the population has increased from
seven to nine millions in a decade or
more. Land taxes have been lowered
and equalzed, and are systematically
collected, and scientific irrigation is so
generally employed that the cultivable
area has been considerably extended
Egypt was probably never so prosper
Gus as at the present time.-From
"England's Absorption of Egypt" by
the Hon. Frederic C. Penfield, late
United States diplomatic agent and
consul general in Egypt, in North
American Review for December.