EGYPTIAN UNREST.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 818, 16 May 1910, Page 5

EGYPTIAN UNREST.

ASSASSIN CONDEMNED TO DEATHCAIRO EXCITED. DEFENCE A POLITICAL SPEECH. By Telecraph—Preee AGeociatlon—Copyrteht (Rec. May 15, 5 p.m.) Cairo, May U. At the trial of Wardani, for the assassination of the late Egyptian Premier, Boutros Pasha, accused's counsel porsisted in irrelevantly discoursing upon politics, after tho judges had rebuked him. The court was then cleared, and the trial was continued with closed doors. Wardani was condemned to death. Cairo is excited. Elaborato military and police precautions have been taken to suppress any disturbance. "A PINNACLE OF INFAMY." In his much resented by the Egyptian Nationalists—to the Egyptian "Jniversity, Cairo, Mr. Roosevelt said that substantial education, whether of an individual or of a people, was only to be obtained by a process, not by an act. No man was educated by a curriculam. Were, then, the people read}-, Mr. Roosevelt asked, for self-government by the gift of a paper Constitution? Selfgovernment was not a matter of a decade or two, but of generations. . Nobody could give self-government any more than they could give an individual self-help. All good men of every nation whose respect was worth having had been inexpressibly shocked by the recent murder of the Premier, Boutros Pasha, which was even more a calamity for Egypt than it was a wrong to nn individual. The type of man that turned out the assassin was a type alien to good citizenship, producing bad soldiers in lime of war and worse citizens in time of peace. Such a man stood on a pinnace of evil and infamy, and those who apologised for or condoned his act. either by word or deed, directly or indirectly, whether bofore the deed or after it, occupied the eanio had eminence. Whether an assassin was a Moslem or a Christian or of no creed at all, whether his crime was political or industrial, its abhorrence in the eyes of all decent men was in the long run equally damaging to the cause to which tho assassin professed to be devoted.

In conclusion, Mr. Roosevelt said he earnestly hoped that those responsible for the beginnings of the university would frown on every form of wrongdoing and would stand with firmness and courage For the immutable principles of justice and merciful dealing between man and man, without which there could be no growth towards a really fine and high civilisation.