ENGLAND'S GRIEVANCES

Temuka Leader, Issue 1526, 16 December 1886, Page 1

ENGLAND'S GRIEVANCES

M., Joseph Remach, 1 the editor of the Republique Francaise, contributes to that journal Van article ;-iOn J'lFnglajbo’a Grievance?,” which, commences ftsf fallows “ The ( Ei)glUhs press c6ntiPu6| to lament andi/to 6o:cf fablt .with everybody. Englandiis alone, and, hqr.isolatioi^.begins to frighten her. Yet.sl|ip has, ply herself to thank. She tajks about' the' entente cordide ; but, who ft pke it ? Did «he comolain of hpr. loneliness when she ousted France tro'm Egypt? Everyjyjiere— in Tunis, where only lately she' 1 was still intriguitig against-' us-; io ! MidagHscar, where hex missionaries i and generals led the Hovas to battle against our troops; m !i i Tdhkiav I where shei i ercitddirChina against us ; in Syria, '’where ihervengilieers were in treaty) for the Island of Mytilene ~evefywhere she became tfieisqpporter of our enemies, -and.-did-'herUotmoit to damage 1 os. • We did without A.EfgHnd, Everywhere we have brought to asncdesgful termination the enterprises which* we commenced" without i her authorisation. Fortune’s wheel has turned. Ah 1 You lament'novt. Was it FrahSeidrEngland which got) the ) mofel 'ou.l of ; the entente cordidk 1 ' You -are alone*.beeahs’eOyou 'deserve to*he J alone; This ia the truth, because isolation I > is£ the 1 in'eVitableland legitimate chaatitement of egotism. You ; might,* after Tel-el-Kebir, havpidameuted )bQr r ing in a moment of far-sighted generosity the solemn pledges which you bad taken before:the world. . Your rapacity- has ■bliqded you. Trampling under foot the •experience of - a Jong past/ you wapte'd to haveithe valley of the Nile.to yourselves ; • and certainly.ithaa become'.very,English. You have; given Egypt ;Burrenderedvthp Soudan, to, Weil, you can now estimatejfiret results of this;/blunder. You are looking out. for .someone ;to join you in holding /Russia back. You wllf.findno one. And you will- not even dare, though, you. are protected by the silver zone, • to utter one ‘protest. You are surprised'at Eufope s indulgence for the bold euterprispiof the Muscovite Colossus. .But you; haye'only to ask the whole world-* Egypt apd the Far East, .Madagascar and Cyprus,; /Roumelia, and Greece—the reasons of this complicity. / You reap ; what:yop have sown ; and jthat is only .fair.” , ■ { x-