Show Englands Position in the East EDITOR DEMOCRAT The Tribune Editor says Whether Great Britain acquired India justly or not it is enough to know that title was quieted before this generation of Britons received the country in trust by a parity of reasoning slavery with all its attendant atten-dant cruelties and in humanities should have been continued for ever Besides the natives of India may have something to say about whether the title has been quieted or not and what has the present generation of Britons done to justify their trust They have utterly beggared the country and its entire substance has been plundered to enrich Britons officeholders office-holders until the gaunt and dreadful spectre of famine casts its baleful shadow continually over the entire land THE VICTIMS OF FAMINE It is stated by some writers that thirty six millions of people have died there of famine during the reign of Victoria Florence Nightingale says that many have died there of famine in a single year And is it to continue this horrible condition condi-tion of things that the Tribune says England must possess Lower Egypt and the headwaters of the Nile In fact to establish another India in Egypt Sir Samuel Baker formerly GovernorGen eral of the Soudan writing from Egypt to the London Times says The country is bankrupt brigandage which was formerly for-merly unknown is rampant even in the Delta = seventyfour cases is one month Nothing can be more thorough than the result of our philanthropic mission to Egypt Great Britain has accomplished her task to the astonishment if not the admiration of the world Egypt has changed its features and through the guiding hand of England it has within two years been transformed into an Oriental Ori-ental Ireland THE ARABS AND THEIR SLAVES Let us see regarding the tortures which according to the Tribune those nomads the Arabs have inflicted on the natives When Gordon on his last visit to the Soudon issued his proclamation reestablishing reestab-lishing slavery the London Times in palliation pal-liation published the following Everyman Every-man who knows anything about the matter mat-ter knows that domestic slavery has existed ex-isted in the East since the days of Abraham Abra-ham and that it is a very different thing from the slavery of kidnapped negroes on the Southern plantations Mr Gladstone Glad-stone stated in the House of Commons that General Gordons presence in the Soudan was for the purpose of withdrawing withdraw-ing the Egyptian garrisons and the giving giv-ing back to the sultans their ancestral powers withdrawn or suspended during dur-ing the period of Egyptian occupation According to the Tribune to reestablish the tortures which those nomads the Arabs had been inflicting on the natives of that region According to his former chiefofstaff Colonel Long Gordon on reaching Khartoum commenced to shake the government of the Soudan by his proclamation of the monopoly of ivory and the unwise and unjust un-just confiscation of the property of those who aretoday in armsin fact he laid the egg that hatched the Mahdi How true to his British instincts Regarding Re-garding the Mahdis taking other mens wives and property and endeavoring to gain absolute dominion by ministering to the lusts of his dupes we are afraid the ribune editor like Wolseleys army in the Soudan is slightly in the air Now the rifiune editor had better call a halt otherwise we are afraid that he will surely rob the Mahdi of his honors if he has not already done so and win for himself him-self his Claim to the title of False Prophet AN IRISHMAN |