Show I 1 THE ENGLISH IN EGYPT the victory of the anglo egyptian army in the soudan is the termination of a campaign that has lasted for two years it means the end of the fanatical rule of the machi and the establishment lish ment of civilized conditions in a vast region where for years wild tribes have lived on plunder it is the subjugation ju of the last stronghold of slavery in africa and therefore a benefit to mankind the soudan is a 9 large country extending a thousand miles east and west and about the same distance north and south it reaches as far as uganda the african principality known from stanleys Stan leys travels through the dark continent it was formerly ruled by a governor appointed by the khedive but fifteen years ago the so called machi or mohammedan messiah proclaimed a holy war and destroyed the egyptian army under hicks pasha and later murdered general gordon at khartoum ever since that time public sentiment in great britain has demanded that the soudan be subjugated and at last sir herbert kitchener was sent out to accomplish this mission por for over two years his army has been marching toward the stronghold of the fanatical dervishes crushing out opposition as it went along and finally achieved the success at which it aimed the victory in soudan adds vastly to the obligations under which egypt is to great britain it is owing to the latter country that the land of the pharaohs Phara has now the benefits of western civilization and that law and order prevail instead of the ca prices of an autocrat but the trade of egypt has suffered severely from the lawless conditions I 1 of the territory to the south a condition with which the k khedive was unable to cope by english aid the lawless element has been suppressed and the effect of this will be increased prosperity in the entire country england has tightened its hold upon egypt she is there to stay it has cost much blood to raise the british flag along the route from the delta to the sources of the nile and that flag will not be hauled down the english believe in their ability to govern without endangering their own home institutions some of the americans needa need a lesson in self confidence from their anglo saxon cousins on the other side |