The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1898-12-03
LORD Z KITCHENER
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face, as impassiye. as the Sphinx; but 1t
reveals the brain behind.a brain made
inhumanly unerring hyYa fine sense OF
Discrimination and an imperoust,. will
You shouldsfeel that he ought to be pat
ented and shown with pride at the Paris
lnterna tfonal exhibitio ion. - writes Mr. q.
w. Stevens, british Empire exhibit No.
!. hors concours, the Soudan machine
Frenchmen might be able to appreciate
the irony Of the; situation at Fashoda If a
portrait Of poor Marchand accompanied
the exhibit
and continues Mr.. Stevens, ''his
officers and men are wheels to the ma
chine; he feeds them enough to make
them efficient, and works them as merci-
lessly as he works himself. He will have
no married officers in his army mar
rage 1nterferes with work. Any officer
VINO breaks down with the climate goes
on SICK leave once; next time he goes, and
the Egyptian army bears him on its
strength no more"
Some students of Egyptian affairs have
said that had Kitchener not gone to
Esypt ne would never have been known
as other than painstakinE hard-work-
Ing, unsociable subaltern officer; the
Egyptian campaigns have offered him ex-
traord1nary! opportunities. His way of do
ing things At first, while eminently satis-
factory to his commanding officers, made
him unpopular with his comrades. In the
earlySy days in Cairo he was called g.
martinez by the officers that hung around
the cafes: Now the officers no longer
hang around the cafes, nor have they
since k1tc&Ener has been sirdar. Once he
was asked why he did not allow his off,
GERS to go to Cairo during the season, and
ne replied: If it were to go home,
where they could get At and I could get
more work out Of them. I would. But
why should let them go to Cairo"
1t is strange how faults Of social ma
ture are regarded as the measure Of ones
| character so long as one IS not famous.
When Kitchener was not famous there
could De no question as to his unpopular
ity. and all because he was ~unconeenial.
Napoleon was uncongenial, and as a
student at st. Cyr he was unpopular. To
the superstitious both may seem to be
children Of destiny. The same mystic
mark Is upon each face. g., .'....' =. .
After the victory at Dongola, q, couple
! OF years ago, the sigar went to London
| to confer with the British government.
He was hero then, but not as. big q one
as ne Is now; he was not SO big that his
imperious way did not give offense in GER
tain quarters. and he returned to
Alexandria month before his time in
order to escape being lionized in Mayfair.
His departure, however. was not quick
enough to avoid a ball given in his honor
by the Lord Mayer. He went. and eye
witnesses say he was very Ill at ease.
Everybody acknowledged that he was q
gentleman, but he was about as frigid a
gentleman as had ever graced joyful
function. Ali London was unutterably
shocked when the news came in the fol-
lowing spring from the 6oudan that
Kitchener had, after a battle. given
orders to kill the wounded dervishes. But
while society recoiled in horror and said
that it had expected nothing less from
man who was so fOrbidding socially, the
British soldiers who had been, and who
were still, in the Soudan. were loud in
their praise. They knew the soldiers of
the Mahdi. They, knew that these fatal
lists Of the Koran, after being wounded
would conceal a pistol or a cimeter-
shaped knife in their clothes. When the
aid, the dervish would wriggle out of their
grasp, and. perhaps with his last spas
modic effort deal death blow to one
who have saved his life.
And now when the browning victory of
all has been achieved and the power OF
the Khalifa broken for all time, the
British officers who dubbed the young
Major Of engineers in the cafes of Cairo
as 'tthat 'duffer of an iceberg" or ''that
duffer of a martinez have naught but
words of awe-gasped praise for Lord
Kitchener of Khartum. They understand
the workythe sirdar had to do, and re-
cogniZe the genius that was hidden behind
his idiosyncrasies: the soldiers worship
their commander, for to them his impervi-
Gus nature. impenetrable to all human
weaknesses, seems little short of godlike.
Yet, had he been beaten, how all his
negative virtues would have been magn1-
fed as gross and unnatural faults. But
he has been victorious; Drodigiously VIC
torious, and his apotheosis is in order.
Marchand Is without doubt a brave man,
who, with Col. Picquart and q few others.
might cause France and her army to be
honored and respected. Evidently It IL
not to be so. however. The pity of it all
is that Marchand, like Picquart, will have
todled In vain, simply because they two
are the most glorious types Of a decaytng
degenerate nation. Kitchener Is the en-
bodiment Of Anglo-5axon Imperialism,
and what he does eqdures. It is for the
great good of civilization that this should
be so. .E-F. =.