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Looking backward over her eIpersncs IN
Egypt during ths last two IND twenty
years our author holds that Great Britain,
In spite % mistakes and miahaps. haa cry
much on which she mar congratulate her
self. She may congratulate herself. for
instance, on having esonped from the blum
der Of an early withdrawal Of her forces
from the Nile country. which would have
led 20 fresh international complications, and
from the still greater blunder Of sscorting
the Turk back TO Cairo. She may oongratu-
late herself also on having put On end tothe
dire tyranny Of the Dsrvish rls In the
Egyptian Sudan. and on her share in the
work Of restoring in that region a reign Of
justice and Of peace. she may congratulate
herself on being established, with tho oon
sent Of all Europe, In the Delta. where, like
n modern Colossus, che strides across the
narrow passag 90 which leads from Africa TO
Asia and keeps watch over n Of the two
approaches to her Indian empire. Above
all, she may congratulate herself on having
installed In Cairo, from the hour OF her
arrival. the one man who by natural apti-
tude, by experience and by character was
needed to safeguard her interests and to
insure the we'll being Of the people for whom
she had assumed responsibility.
To the question, What has been the secret
Of Lord Cromer 8 successp our author replies
that he has shown extraordinary capacity
for labor. great financial and economic
skill, untiring patience, high moral courage
and much insight into native character.
He has gained the general confidence by
habitually frank o~utspokenness and candor.
II is at the same time admitted hat all this,
though true, scarcely furnishes a sufficient
explanation. II is suggested that the right
answer will be found on examining the line
of policy which he has adopted. IL has been
a distinctly liberal policy. It's aim has
beer the greatest good Of the greatest
number; general content, based on general
we'll being. 1t has preferred the many to
the few, and powerlesspess to privilege.
Nor has II only reversed the immemorial
traditions Of Egypt; II differs In important
respects from the precedents set by British
rule In India. 1t has recognized the claim
of the native Of the land for immunity from
fiscal opportunities In a degree far more
marked than that In which the claim Is
acknowledged In the Anglo-Indian empire.
Moral and material progress has not been
bv any means lost sight Of. but 1t has been
deliberately relegated to a subordinate
place. The economic base OF the British
agents policy has been the desire TO leave
an appreoiable margin In the hands of the
taxpayer, and to allow 1t to fructify In the
pockets Of the people. In a word, the basis
of Lord Cromer's policy has been sympathy
with the Egyptian. He has h~abitually
looked at ali questions, not solely from the
point Of view Of the e~ducationallst, or the
administrator, but as much az possible from
the point Of view Of the Egyptian himself.
Not for a moment has no forgotten that he Is
in Egypt on behalf OF the people Of Egypt;
that it ia their revenue, thoir soil, their
property OF which he Is the steward and
trustee.
Has the time come when Great Britain
can, with an eve to the interests Of the
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Egypt? Sir Auckland Colvin answers the
question In the negative. A personal
study of the Nile country has convinced
him that the British occupation must BIZ
much prolonged II the abors OF the last
twenty-three years are to leave behind
them permanent results. Tn rapidity
with which order has replaced misrule and
prosperity has succeeded to insolvency Is
misleading, because the result has been
brought about by the energy n ability
of foreigners. There is thus no guarantee
that, were the foreigners withdra wn, other
conditions would remain unchanged. Our
author does not hesitate to assert that there
is no native power In Egypt which could
maintain, far less extend, the work of re-
form for a ~twelvemonth IL the controlling
hand were removed. or nothing does
be feel more certain than that, without
a sense OF corporate needs, without civic
virtue, without social energy and with
Ii tie recognition . OF their W low
standard Of public morality and &c,
n, real progress could be made by her
people II left to themselves In tbs task
Of regeherating Egypt. II any truth was
borne In upop Sir Auckland by his wi
experience in the Nile country, it 10 that
sthe effect OF dozens Of centuries Of unre-
hitting misru,e Is craven deep in the char
acter Of the Egyptian: the iron has entered
into his Utmost soul. Long after tyranny
has been destroyed it, vices may still be
read In the serviie attitude and unmanly
aoouie Of the race which II has
crushed, The evil that men do lives after
them The part which can be most use
fully taken by the more enlightened sons
of Egypt at present and for years to come
is To endeavor to assimilate new ideas, to
reconcile, If possible, the conditions which
regulate their social life with the new order
which has arisen among them, and to graft
afresh their national existence on the stock
with which foreign hands have supplied
Them M. w. H.
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