. The rulers of the Mediterranean. ow of the British flag. Ifthe United States should begin with Hawaii andcontinue to annex other peoples property, weshould find that almost all of the best corner lotsand post-ofifice sites of the world have beenalready pre-empted. Senator Wolcott once saidto Senator Quay: I understand, Quay, you wantthe chairmanship of the Library Committee. Youseem to want the earth ; if you dont look out youwill interfere with my plans. If the United States had taken away the littleprincesss island from her and continued to plunderweaker nations, she would have found that
. The rulers of the Mediterranean. ow of the British flag. Ifthe United States should begin with Hawaii andcontinue to annex other peoples property, weshould find that almost all of the best corner lotsand post-ofifice sites of the world have beenalready pre-empted. Senator Wolcott once saidto Senator Quay: I understand, Quay, you wantthe chairmanship of the Library Committee. Youseem to want the earth ; if you dont look out youwill interfere with my plans. If the United States had taken away the littleprincesss island from her and continued to plunderweaker nations, she would have found that Eng-land wants the earth too, and that she is in a fairway of getting it if some one does not stop hervery soon. There are a number of good people inEngland who believe that for the last ten yearstheir countrymen have spent their time and moneyin redeeming Egypt as a form of missionary work,and there are others quite as naive who put thewhole thing in a word by saying, What would wedo with our younger sons if it was not for Egypt?. THE GUiN MULii UF iHE MULK THE ENGLISHMEN IN EGYPT 167 Three-fourths of the ofificers in the army of theKhedive are Enghsh boys, who rank as secondHeutenants at home and as majors in are paid just twice what they are paid inthe English army, and it is the Khedive whopays them and not the EngHsh. In this wayEngland obtains three things: she is saved thecost of supporting that number of officers; shegets the benefit of their experience in Egypt,which is an excellent training-school, at the ex-pense of the Egyptians; and she at the sametime controls the Egyptian army by these sameofficers, and guards her own interests at Egyptscost. And as if this were not enough, she plantsan Army of Occupation upon the country, andwith it menaces the native authority. The irri-gation of Egypt has of late been carried on byEnglishmen entirely and paid for by Egypt;her railroads are built by the English; her bigcontracts are given out to English fir
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