Show r T I ENGLAND IN THE SOUDAN J England in the Soudan is the all absorbing topic in Europe today a it is almost as absorbing a topic in America The death of Gordon the last of the i knights errant the fall of Khartoum the loss of prestige consequent upon it and I W at a time when Russia and German and France are cool toward England if not I hostile and threatening are things that iil 1 give to all who are interested in the welI I j 1 fare and progress of mankind much solici I solici fi tude The Soudan itself with its Mahdi and 1 J j wandering hordes is a thing of minor importance f im-portance its importance lies in the fact that it is the key to as grave a situation 1 as any in which England has ever been r placed India is restless and restless from just causes The Sepoy mutiny is t neither forgotten in England nor in India I I In England is remembered with fear and horror in India it is remembered as t I the rise of the appressed against the oppressors I 4 op-pressors that the oppression still exists 1 and that the Indian is given neither respect re-spect nor confidence nor recognition To the Englisman Nuncomar is the embodiment em-bodiment of all Indians to the Indian j Englishmen are all personified in Hast b ingsThe great Northern Bear is moving to its East and South growling as he goes and at times rising on his haunches looking around but still without fear and proceeding as before Russia cannot Y forget Sebastopol and Inkermann The Berlin Conference is fresh to her memory mem-ory and Constantinople and the Darda nelles are still in the hands of the In t fidel fidelAt the close of the FrancoPrussian demanded the island of war Germany Heligoland but the demand was refused re-fused and haughtily refused Within a she has annexed parts of Now year assertion Jhat Guineait is at least an othenwnayjiave colonies as well as England Eng-land This assertion surely cannot be 1Dt i lEV pleasing nor comforting to the dominant power m the South Pacific It certainly comes within what Herbert Spencer says is the cherished and almost divine idea of many AngloSaxons that the Saxon I race is foreordained to people and rule the world on the Continent Germany stands dictator though rivalled and hat dIn d-In Egypt the dual administration of the finances has been abolished and England as Puck so finely pictured it took her sharethe lions share France i as her share took umbrage As to the Suez Canal let Max ORell utter the French sentiment Ho John Bull took good care not to invent the Suez Canal on the contrary he moved heaven and earth to try and prevent pre-vent its being made Yet behold him now as a shareholder casting his round covetous eyes upon it I These are foreign for-eign complications At home she has Irelandwith her three centuries of wrongs and misrule There is the House of Lords I with its question of abolishment and at least modification Mr Chamberlain although in the ministry is the head and apostle of the English Democracy and each day its voice is louder and its footing foot-ing stronger These are the things which make the Soudanese expedition with its success or with its failure a matter of serious reflection reflec-tion to all who see in England the birth land of liberty and its conservator We believe that Mr Gladstone will prove master of the situation as he has in so many ordeals and that he will bring to England place and peace and honor |