The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-11-30
GREAT BRITAIN IND EGYPT.

"Great Britain and Egypt is the subject of timely and interesting ar ticle by Mrs. Frederic R. Honey, wife of Professor Honey of this city, in the December number of the Home Study magazine In this article the writer re- calls to mind what so many have been apt to forget during the stirring months of our own war with Spain, namely the vast importance of the results ob- tained by British military forces and British civil administration in the land of the Pharaohs. Mrs Honey shows a pleasing analogy between our own war for Cuban emancipation and Great Britain's war for humanity In the Su- dan. She says. "The year 1898 will be distinguished in history as one in which each of the two great branches of the Anglo-Saxon race engaged in war for the sake of humanity. But the war in the Sudan had for it's ob- ject the rescue of a country and popu- lation far larger than Cuba and the Cubans, from cruelties beside which the tyranny of the unenlightened govern ment Of the Spaniards sinks into insig- nificance."
 The historical steps leading up to Great Britain's protectorate over Egypt and the campaign in the Sudan terminating in the destruction of the Mahidist power at the battle of Om- durman September 2, are clearly and briefly presented.
 Of the motives of the Americans in the war with Spain and of the British in the Egyptian war, she says: Amer jeans and Cubans-British and Egyp- tians-stood side by side, the strong striking blow for the weak-training, encouraging, aiding, supporting. The selfish motives which actuate every na- tion in war are in both these cases dis tinctly secondary. The United States may be the better for the pacificatioh of Cuba, whether the island becomes a small, independent republic, or eventu- ally part of the greater one. Great Britain may be the better for the ad- vance In civilization and the increase in prosperity of the country whose cause she has espoused, and in which she has undertaken to restore order. It is altogether unlikely that in either case every person concerned has been actu- ated by motives of pure philanthropy But, none the less, each war has been waged for humanity, for freedom, for mercy. and for justice. In each the hand of the good Samaritan has been stretched out to help him who fell among thieves
 The beneficent results of British con- trol in Egypt, Mrs. Honey says, are recognized by every nation having in- terests there, with the possible excep- tion of France; the latter nation lost it's influence in Egypt when she declin- ed to aid Great Britain in upholding the power of the Khedive at the time of the rebellion of Arabi Pasha.
 English rule in Egypt has been of great advantage to the population of the country although they are slow to recognize the fact; equal justice is now dealt out between man and man and a corrupt system of forced labor abol- ished.
 Of the outcome of the British occu- patton, the writer says: Tt is certain that the British government and the British people do not contemplate the annexation of Egypt, in the ordinary sense of the word. They do not mean nor wish to make it part of the British empire. But, in view of the expendit- ure of British blood and treasure, and of the connection of Egypt with the Suez Canal and the Red Sea-the high way to India and the East-Great Brit ain does not intend to permit any other European power to predominate over her own in Egypt"