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The Commoner.
VOLUME 10, NUMBER 30
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Theodore Roosevelt in Egypt
To tho Editor of tho Manchester
Guardian. Sir: When tho news
reached us at Cairo that Mr. Roose
velt, ex-president of tho great Amer
ican republic, had agreed to givo a
lecture before tho Egyptian Univer
sity, our young university students
were delighted at tho idea. They
looked forward to an opportunity of
listening to the sage advice of a' man
who had been one of tho successors
of Washington, who freed the United
States from tho English yoke! They
thought that whether or no ho en-
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JT. K. HAHIl, 641 So. 13th St., Xdneoln, Neb
couraged them to go on with their
struggle for liberty, ho would at
least say an appreciative word of
their effort towards light and their
desire for education and for scientific
knowledge.
His speech at Khartoum was a
first disappointment, and cooled their
interest in him. He exhorted the
Soudanese to accept the. English
regime, which he represented to them
as tho most liberal and humanitarian
any nation had imagined. Ho for
got that the Soudan was an Egyptian
province and that the English had
no more right there than in Egypt.
Nevertheless it was hoped that at
Cairo he would mend his manners.
Tho result was a' second, still great
er, . disappointment for his friends.
Ho said everything- at Cairo that he
ought most carefully to have left
unsaid. He rushed into tho question
of the assassination of Boutros
Pasha. His speech gave us the im
pression that he had been primed by
tho English to advise us to abandon
our claims and to a'ceept English
rule, resignedly, if not joyfully, all
hopo of a constitution being de
ferred for several generations! The
speech when it was published at once
caused genera! Indignation, and pro
tests were drawn up and sent to Mr.
Roosevelt the same evening by our
committee of the national paTty, by
the students of the high schools, and
by all the political associations. Next
day a great indignation meeting was
held under the chairmanship of our
vice president, AH Bey Kamel, at
which several members of the legis
lative council were present, including
our great orator Abaza Pasha; and
after it those who had taken part
in it went on, with flags flying, to
make a manifestation against Roose
velt under his windows at Shep
heard's hotel. He was greeted in
the same way in Alexandria at the
railway station and on the quays.
We were not, therefore, surprised
that he should have made another
attack on us in London. We all ex
pected it.
Nevertheless the ferocity of his
latest attack on a whole nation has
surprised us. The sin of our nation
in his eyes has been that it seeks
to free its territory and demands the
natural right to self-government
and this from Mr. Roosevelt, who
made war on Spain to oblige the
Spaniards to evacuate Cuba and the
Philippines! Mr. Roosevelt seems to
be one of those who divide the hu
man race into two sections, a su
perior and an inferior, and would
have the one be slave to tho other.
Wo do not understand by what right
he counts us among those whose
function it is to serve. Is it because
our nation was the earliest to civi
lize the world? Is it because we are
the most ancient race known to his
tory? We are quite sure that Mr.
Roosevelt's opinion on this head Is
peculiar to himself and that his fellow-citizens
will be less than pleased
at a pronouncement so unworthy of
a citizen of tho greatest republic of
mo worm.
How is it possible for one brought
up in the tradition of liberty and
democracy to reproach Englishmen
with their "weakness, timidity, and
sentimentality, qualities which may
be far more disastrous than violence
and injustice," and this after Den
shawl? What means does he pro
pose should be put in practice
against us? Is it to be lynch law
for us? Are we to be exterminated
like the redskins of America or the
blacks of Australia? Mr. Roosevelt
allows himself the airs of a man su
perior to us nil. He would teach
each nation in turn what it is to do.
His lecture at the Sorbonno was a
fine example. And now in order to
have his revenge on us Egyptians
he advises England to use violence
to us, even injustice! This from a
man who has spent a few hours only
In Egypt and about a people differ
ing from his own in language, man
ners, and religion!
However, we have one reason to
thank Mr. Roosevelt, for in making
the indictment against us ho indicts
at the same time the British occu
pation. He has shown it up for the
failure it has been, and Englishmen
can hardly be pleased at the heavy
judgment 'pronounced upon their
work, the work they used to boast
of so vaingloriously as "the great
work of Cromer." That noble lord
ought to be even less satisfied with
Mr. Roosevelt than ourselves. What,
we wonder, does he think about it?
As for ourselves, we shall continue
to fight on, sure of the sympathy
of the liberals of all lands, and most
of all of the Americans. Yours, etc.,
MOHAMMED FARID,
Chief of the Egyptian National Party.
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William B. Ridgely, former comp
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tain speculator recently:
"The" man is as ingenious as a
horse-trader's son who was once un
expectedly called .upon by his father
to mount a horse and exhibit its
paces.
"As he mounted he leaned toward
his father and said:
" 'Are you buying, or selling?' "
Success.
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Eleanor, aged six, had been going
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Just as she reached the chicken
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altogether. It makes me feel fine
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