Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-22
NATIONALIST MOVEMENT IN EGYPT.


whose device Is now
National Egypt for the Egyptians.
NJ Gervais- Courtellement,
distinguished Arabophile.
writing from Cairo to Pierre Lott an
nouncing the death of their mutual
friend. said: Yesterday. the 10th of
February. We buried Mustapha kamel
His last thought was of you.
This tomb of Kamel. my friend. Is the
corner stone Of the edifice of Egyptian
nationality and yesterday only the ma
tional sentiment was born. Death IS
necessary to consecrate ideas. The deatn
Of Kamel was an apotheosis and also an
aurora. I am firmly convinced that in his
grave he will be more useful to his cause
even than during his too short life
Already popular subscriptions have been
forthcoming to erect a statue to his MEM
DRY in Cairo. and the editor OF l. tteh-
dard Egyptian, referring to the Mussei-
man prejudice against images as VIOLA
ton of the law Of the Koran, said:
THE statue of Mustapha Kamel will be
more than the statue Of a man; 1t Will De
a, monument of hope and patriotism, the
a permanent phare at the entrance OF
the port of liberty. 1t will be the statue
Of liberty lighting Egypt
The national party on the 10th of rep
ruary addressed to Sir Edward Grey the
following telegram:
The general assembly of the nationai
party of Egypt has unanimously pro-
claimed Mohammed Farid Bey Chief OF
the national party in place of Mustapha
Kamel Pasha. 1t renews its protestatlons
against an illegal occupation and declares
it's unalterable intention to follow the line
of conduct dictated by its regretted chief
until England may fulfill her engage
mentS.'
Mohammed Farid Bey is described as
capable, energetic, educated and of gentle
birth. He Is said to be
The New prudent and this quality
will perhaps enable him
AeaoeA' to advance the interests
Of the national party more surely than
his predecessor.
The national party, we have been told.
began with Arab Pasha. 1t is extremely
doubtful If this assertion will be accepted
by the more advanced and enlightened
leaders of the present party. The Arab
movement was essentially revolt of the
military for pay due many months. ag-
gravated by the threat Of the Nubar-
$4,000 and send them unpaid to their
starving families. This deplorable situa-
tion the work chiefly Of the Nubar-Wll-
son ministry, created the military revolt
of Arab. 1t resulted in violence and an
archy, the massacres of the 18th of
June, 1882, and the burning Of Alexan-
dra. 1t was not a national party move
ment
Mr.. Gladstone said of this situation re-
plying TO the suggestion of member III
b. ~ Sc tot nf
military violence aggravated by cruel and
wanton crime. Within the circuit of as
sOciations such as these freedom could
not grow" Adding. There have been Pc
RODS in which it has been charitably be-
lieved in England that the military party
was the popular party and was strug-
Cling for the liberties of Egypt. There is
not the smallest rag or shred of evidence
to support that contention"
This. it should be recalled. was in 1882
Since then there has been prolonged and
Illegal British occupation against which
some liberty-loving Englishmen have pro-
tested. There has been stupid and in
human crime committed at Denshawi In
monster meeting of the Arab people at
Alexandria under the leadership of the
patriot who has just been buried. The
national party has thus been created or
born again.
Lord Cromer's book, Modern Egypt"
which has just appeared. has created re-
newed interest in Egypt and
Cromer's indeed throughout Europe
n..,- and America. 1t is remark
able not SO much for what it
says about Egypt and the Sudan, but
what it does not say.
The aUthor opens with the declaration
that he writes of events in Egypt since
1876 when he first went to that country.
But in foot note he declares that at
would be premature to deal with events in
Egypt subsequent to the accession of the
present khedive'' Thus Lord Cromer
SHES all mention of the Khedive Abbas
Hilmi, Mustapa kamel the Denshawi
affair and the capitulatfonS, which
is disappointing to those sincerely inter-
ested in Egypt, the more so that it is cur
rent opinion in Egypt that Lord Cromer
left his place, not because of Ill health,
which was shallow pretext, but because
of the Denshawi executions, which shock
ed the moral sense of England and the
world, and because of the authors propo-
sition to do away with the international
tribunals and cancel the .capitulations,
which shocked the powers represented in
Egypt who were threatened with curtail-
ment of their hereditary privileges.
Lord Cromer severely criticises Ismail,
Nubar, Gordon and Gladstone, and his ac-
cusations will provoke rejoinders. Lord
Cromer mentions the Viceroy of Egypt
and is particularly severe upon Ismail
Khedive. In speaking of the latter's
financial adaptations he confesses that
he receives a great deal of the stories
in depreciation of the unfortunate khe-
dive from Nubar. Nubar is not credible
authority, as the author insinuates later
on in a particularly caustc criticism of
the Armenian minister.
He alludes to Ismail's finance minister
his foster brother, ISmal PaSha Sadik
who. he says, was eXiled in November
1876, and who shortly afterward met with
tragic DEATH Sadik boosted that in
one year he had extracted Il, 600, 900 francs
from the people. In a footnote the author
adds: There can be no doubt that Is
mail Pasha Sadik was murdered while
proceeding up the Nile
Now the story of the Muffetrah has been
covered in the press of Egypt and Eu-
rope a thousand times.
DiScredited Lord Vivian. to the writ
er'S personal knowledge,
o'oiJ reported it in detail to the
authorities in London. In Egypt the as
sassin denounced by Lord Vivian was
subsequently knighted and dignified with
the title of Sir The foot note by the
author may be likened to the ostrich
which hides it's head in the sand when no
longer able to escape its pursuer.
Lord Cromer introduces Nubar by citing
a Turkish proverb when an Armenian