THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. THURSDAY, JULY 26, 1906.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8189, 26 July 1906, Page 4

THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. THURSDAY, JULY 26, 1906.

Americans have been visiting Egypt in great numbers during the last few years, and the artiolea and interviews they contribute to United States journals are very warm in their praise of the British administration. Bishop Potter, of Subway Tavern fame, spent the lasi winter on the Nile, and as he retained vivid reoollections of a visit made thirty years earlier, he was able to establish some interesting comparisons. He saw the land of the Pharaohs first some seven years before the British undertook the task of reorganising the government. The opinion he has expressed to his own country is that "no more brilliant jewel shines in the orowa of Great Britain than her achievements in Egypt." He describes the change wrought in the condition of the country as "wonderful," and leaves the impression that it has all been accomplished in a oreditable way and in a magnanimous spirit. He quotes with approval one remark made by Lord Cromor,

explanatory of the difficulty of dealins with Oriental races. The face of the country may be changed in a quarter of a century by the conptruction of canals and railroada t and the conditions of the people may be improved by better government, hut at the end of the time the Oriental will still "think Orientally." The dictum, of course, explains the reason for the appar ently everlasting difficulty that arises when East and West come into contact. An J Britain is being made to realise ita truth again in the troubles that have recently risen in North Africa. Incidentally Bishop Potter rebukes his countrymen for the discraditable way in which they use their own flag in Cairo for commercial purposes. This absence of dignity is no more prevalent now than it has always been, says the Bishop, but it is more noticed and uriticised. Tbe Americans sit home take a great delight in training up ohildren in the public schools to glory in the national flag, but there will have to be much education of the kind, especially abroad, before the "Old Glory" is treated with respeot equal to the enthusiasm it evokes.