The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-05-10

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and high minded leaders whose works
should entitle them 10 something more
than ouiszwTy. Ths Nationalist move
nlent Is in the main among the -Efendi
class and has IL greatest hold upon well
TO do, more or less educated men who
get their living from the Government.
As the opinions are held In a greater or
les degree throughout what Sir ELDON
GORsT calls tho unofficial and uDDaV
and middle Glasses tho Indictment
seems almost too sweeping.
That part Of the press has been sedi-
tious, even anarChistic, in its utteranoes
there Is no doubt. Sine the murder Of
BoUTROs PSsha the tone Of these papers
has been even worse than before. Tho
mischief has apparently grown with
tOleraiion, for federation IN tho East h
often CONSTRUED 10 mean merely weak
neSs The pres law VIA abp.ied In sew
erRl eases 10 articles that melted 10 crime.
and few days ago the Government sup
/ pressed comic weekly paper, Chagaai,
for having published insulting ohaer-
vLtiOns concerning thu late Premier.
While the ConS'il-0eneral expressed a
faint hope thai conditions In this respect
may improve. opinion in England seems
TO bs that if the Egyptian press IL not
kept within bounds the country will have
other forms Of violence than individual
murders 10 deal with.
The present Egyptian Ministry il more
Nationalist than ever before. and il has
a freer hand While tho British exer-
else less control over affairs and are less
feared, they are not less unpopular or
less blamed for mistakes Of admins
tratiOn The murder Of BOUTROs Pasha
h still unpunished. Two months have
elapsed since the crime. and the sympa-
] thy which few would have dared IN have
avOwed at the time has come into the
open, with the result that the Judges
who are 20 try the case have been sub
jected 10 every kind Of menace and
pressure. An m advised concession 70
NatiOnalizm. Il Ia now seen, was the sub
mission Of tho agreement between the
Government and the Sucz Canal Com
pany 70 the National Assembly. The
idea was that this would conciliaie popu-
lar feeling by inviting an expression Of
opinion. The effect was really Just the
opposite, The Submission was oOnsid-
cred only another case Of weakness
and the oontemptuOls rejection II the
proposal by the Assembly was made the
occasion Of jubilatiOn a. q triumph over
the Government. With all the cOnoes-
sions that have been made 10 Il Ma
tionalisn instead Of being cOnciliated
n Increasingly aggressive and active.
An element in Egypt that both Gov
eminent and NatiOnalists must reckon
with h tho large land owners and their
followers. The 1tteranoes Of the more
extreme Of the Nationalists SAVIOR too
much Of anarchism and revolution TO
find favor with them. They may iiirt
with the Nationalists. but there Is no
doubt that they mistUIst them. While
they may dislike the British. they appre-
ciate the prosperity and security that
they have brought, and while they may
not want a continuation Of foreign rule,
they had rather put zap With Il 20 long
a. Il d strong and efficient than 10 run
the risk Of uncertain native rule.
There h nothing in the report that
might indicate in spite Of all these dim,
culties of administration that the British
viii retire from Egypt. IL seems to BE-
instead a question Of stTengthening the |
British influence by judicious and diplO- |
matte graphing with all Of the more
serious problems. The observation Of
NAPOLEON h still often quoted in the
British Empire: Egypt Ia the most i'm
pOrtant country in the world