Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-04

chisement of country, lib
Grafton of the soil and con-
stitutional liberty. The first telegram was
from Cuba asking that the United States
troops might be withdrawn from Cuba
Libre on January IS 1900. the birthday
Of Cuba's liberator. The second telegram
was sent from Switzerland by a delega-
ton of young Egyptians. students. resid-
ing in Europe. addressed to Sir Edward
Grey, minister of foreign affairs Of Great
Britain, protesting energetically against
the Illegal occupation of Egypt by English
troops. affirming in the name of liberty
the rights Of the Egyptian people to indie
pendence and recalling Englands oft-re-
heated promises to evacuate Egypt. The
third telegram was from the same group
addressed to the Khedive Abbas Hilmi in
forming him Of its protestation aga1ns.
the occupation and entreating the khedive
to re-establish the parliament that was SO
necessary to Egypt.
To the first telegram. from Cuba, the
United States promptly replied that 1t
should be done as requested. that the
birthday of Cubas liberator might thus
take place in the Cuban calendar as a
double anniversary of her national inde-
pendence.
To the second and third kilograms there
come-Egypt borrowing Italy's familiar
device ''fara da Sc"
Mohammed Farid Bey. the chief of the
national party Of Egypt. writing under
the title. The Constitution declares:
ut is in the air. One feels it coming. 1t
is at our doors The idea has penetrated
everywhere and fastened itself more and
more in all minds. England, winch OPP
posed 1t without any right. has declared
latterly through the mouth or SIR hdwa.o
nf3 fol nreN6ntS
r. II. the khedive from granting 1t TO MS
people"
paring a surprise for the Egyptian ma
ton and will promulgate the covet ECO cor II,
stitution on the Sth of January. 1909. SO
that the fete Of his accession TO the
throne of the Pharaohs may be cele-
brated at the same time as the lete oI
the constitution. The writer takes TINS
occasion to express the wish that Abbas
Hilmi NAV execute the will of his people.
and Furthermore. that even as the Cnlteo
States will do January %, 1909. eVacuate
Cuba, Great Britain will do January ..
1909. evacuate Egypt; 1t is certain tain thar
| prochement Of incidents September IA an
aueury of good for the peoples inter
ested Cubans and Egyptians. whose
watchword from the 14th of September
on to January 8 and January % l@9'
will be neutrality-suspicious.
The writer in previous article, "A
! Liberal Turkish Ministry" had occasion
| to write that the message OF the Perslans
| at Constantinople to Teheran asking the
| shah for a constitution would be followed
| by other messages-from Bombay and
| from Cairo. Since then there has been.
| and there is now. revolution In Persia,
unrest in India and great agitation In
| Egypt.
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ICor that
| the Egyptian nation is determined to con-
| auer it's rights to public
The Wants life, to liberty and science,
and will spare no effort to
| OF Ggypt' succeed. We demand the
Khedive Thewfick bestowed on us in 1881
and which he took away on the advice OF
Lord Dufferin in 1883"
| Thus the movement which began in
Japan has been echoed in Turkey, Persia
India and Egypt and will grow until these
peoples shall be accorded the rights OF
men. the right to public life, to liberty
and science"
Mohammed Farid Bey, director of l.
Etendard Egyptien and the Egyptian
Standard. two journals sbtblished in
French and English in Cairo is also chief
of the national party, post to which he
was unanimously chosen after the death
party. Mustapha kamel, whose name now
and henceforth is consecrated as Egypt's
liberator.
Mohammed Farid has recently published
an article in the Daily News of London
entitled "Egypts Needs" which is in
structive and will serve as sort of letter
of introduction of the nationalists to the
American public The article of the
chief of the national party is the counter
argument of that of Lord Cromer the
/ "a WI a s
| been denounced as fraud and as total
| ly unreliable history of Egypt and the
Egyptians by many liberal English
writer's. Mohammed Farid presents his
should appeal to the democratic and lib
erty loving people of America.
| Nor should it be forgotten-for mention
has been made in previous articles in The
Star-that the great and generous Sher-
man, general-in-chief Of the United States
Army, attracted by the progressive spirit
of Ismail khedive sent an American mil
itary mission to Egypt in 1869 to fight for
Egyptian independence, to liberate Egypt
| from Turkish tyranny. Turkey since 1865
has undergone a miraculous transforma-
ton and has become a constitutional gov
eminent. How absurd, then, to deny to
Egypt the constitution which was arbi-
trarily taken from her in 1888 because IL
was thought to be an obstacle to enSlave-
| ment.
| The chief of the national party writes in
his article in the News that the level OF
public instruction
Objects OF in Egypt is far be-
the Nationalist. low that inausu,
| Pa sha, when every capital of a province
had it's secondary schools. The nationalist
Iparty had called in vain the attention OF
the government to the question of pop
ular instruction, but which had been ig-
nored. Before the occupation gratuitous
education, together with complete state
maintenance was the rule in all Egyptian
schools The present regime had abolished
| that entirely and it is only after the re
peated protests of the nation that the
government has decided this year u90sl
to grant the ridiculous sum Of 1.6C0 Egyp-
tan pounds for scholarships in the Sec
ondary schools only.
| No laws had been passed for the protec-
ton of labor no legislation limiting either
the age Of the worker or the hours OF toll
EMPLOYERS exploit their workers merci-
| lessly especially in the tobacco and cot
ton ginning factories. where children OF
both sexes are employed in the most de-
plor able conditions, physical and moral
| Government does not encourage nsur
! ance and aid societies to workers who
may become incapacitated by illness OF
accident The workers, it being under
stood, are too backward to form trades
unions themselves. To the persistent de-
mands of the press In that respect the gov
eminent of occupation puts in the specia
plea that the capitulations prevent their
Iinitia tive An absurdity rendered manifest