The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-03-30
CAIRO mob AFTER ROOSEVELT
SHOUT AND SHAKE FISTS ar
ms HOTEL WINDOWS.

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Excited LOWaoa Press en- BRas tact.
srscasi cebss DsspsfsAss to TIM svs.
CAIno. March ea-Col. Roosevelt and
his party will leave herB to-Enorrow morn
ina for Alexandria. where they will board
q steamer for Naples The British on
cials In Cairo win bid farewell to the CT
President with tho great cordiality Gus
tonAEy in wishing godspeed TO too kind
friend.
His addresa at the university yesterday
produced its FIRST overt effects to-day
crowd of several hundred Mathematics.
mostly ~tudsntA. after holding a nesting
90 protest against Col. Rooasvelt's cold
douche on their political aspirations.
marched in prOcemsioR to Shspheard's
Hotel. shouting ~ theyfwsnt
Arrived Outsids the hotel. the demon
stratou gave vent to DISQUALIFICATION by
shaking their raised fists toward Rooss-
velt's quarters and shouting party watch
words such ~ -Hurrah for tho Assembly,
Give IN q constitution and Down with
hypocrstesl' II may be explained that
hypocritss IN q favorite spithss 81 tho
Young Egypt party for their English and
othar oppooents.
Col. Roosevelt was not in the hotel at
the time. hut tho other guests nocked 20
the terrace. Some oG them we're alarmed.
while others wers anxious to sss what the
row was about. The manager smilinRly
assured all hands that thers was no na'l~a
for worry. Indeed. nothing hAppen-d
worse than a deafening fo:se.
The manifestantS took their cue from
their leaders and shouted their cri~s In
- ~ - IL -
welt. who was driving to tho hotel IRON
N engagement elsewhere. came within
eArShCt OG the din and VAS immediately
reminded ~ American college cries. al
though he had no idea ~ what caused
their
Another nesting OF protest vas held
nv the Nationalist thiA evening. The
organizers tried Co get Cot Roosevelt 60
attend. but with his most amiai'le smile
he regretted hia inability. The speeches
In she evening were Iess violsnt than
those at the previous one. where hitter
words we're launched against the Amer
loan hypocrite
4 mob OF students and other Nasionalists
afterwsrd attempted a characterization at
the american agency. hut here the police
interviewed and compelled the demon
ssratovs tn move IN. They then paraded
through several streets. shouting. The
police finally dispersed them outside the
English Club.
The Nationalist newspapers NATURALLY
condemn Col Roosevelt address IN
severe terms. They say among other
things thai Rocsev@lt clearly knowa
nothing about Egypt except what he has
rad IN guide hooks and elsewhere. They
refrain. however. from saying anything
suggestive Oe personal repTisala
The Coptic Journals are iubilant over
Col ROoSeVelt's otrtayokenneNs. They saw
that Nationalist need straiGhS talI and
a much rTDer hand than now controls
them.
Col Roosevelt and those accompanying
him were busy to-day sightseeing They
spent the moving at the bazaar-. where
the women Of the parry bought many
c,lvios CD. Roosevelt lunched at the
German agency and Visited the Franciscan
sisters in tho afternoon lie Expressed
high appreciation "a the work the SISTERS
are doing in CAIRO
LONDON. March N Accommodating on
Col RSosevels's address to the students
q the University IT Egypt At Cairo yesier-
day the afternoon papers do not agree
as to its tactSuln~-s The Colonel hanged
his feet and raped out what we're re-
karCied in Cairo az indiscreet truths. but
the public ohicers there were embarrassed
because ~ the lack Il diplomatic tact
on the part oT the lecturer.
Several u the afternoon papers vel
come what they call tho interference
of the former President 81 the United
l.. =.
that his speech vas a service To the Gauss
Of human progress.
The Pail Mall Gssets says that col
Roosevelt rs providing our pulling senti-
mentalists Of the ksir Hardis breed With
the healthy spectacle Of the representative
Of the greatest democracy in the world
giving pseudo democracy a sound trOunc-
ing
On the other hand. the WsstmiHstsT
0Gseffs takes Col. Roosevelt TO task for
vsnturing on such delicate ground. II
says:
We have not the Ieas. desire 20 draw
q ring fence around any questions OF policy
in tho British Empire. but We do not forget
the famous pronouncement Of Mr.. Glad
stone in regard 20 an indiscrstion 81 the
present Lord HAlabury: Mistakes which
are pArdonAbls in private citizen become
scandalous in an observation-disclosures
SO. too. disquisitions upon the readiness.
OF the reverse. % Egypt for self-govern-
ment. while permitted To all mon without
great position. are perhaps better hushed
in the breasts ~ sH-Presidcnts.
We gladly recogniEe.- continues the
Westminster 0asesfe. -Col. Roosevelt's
desire TO be friendly and helpful 60 us In
our portion Of the task Of bearing the white
mans burden. hut quite obviously while
there are two strong parties In Egypt q
pronouncement in favor % one OF tho other
10 not calculated 90 make the path Of the
more Easy.
ROAE. March 20 IL 10 likely that Coz. !
Roosevelt will Wait the students % the
American Academy while IN Rome.
LONDON. March SO.-The Standard cd
torialiy quizzes Col Roosevelt good
natsirediy On the ability With which h..
crystalI1ed his conclusions regarding con-
di'iOns in the sudan and Egypt
The ordinary pioddinG critic Il save.
-r,.nuinsa 10 staep himaeif for years Ia the