EGYPTIAN INDEBTEDNESS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1337, 27 March 1883, Page 2

EGYPTIAN INDEBTEDNESS.

amounting to 400,000,SoTolfarafwM created in this way: Ismail Pasha was. in part educated in Prance, and while there he imbibed, with eagerness the French ideas of splendor and material progress. A man of ability, and with unbounded ambition, he aimed to'make Egypt a second France. He borrowed money in England and. Prance-with which to build railroads, factories, bridges, palaces, canals, roads, and to carry on every conceivable internal improvement, far in advance.of- the ideas or needs of his people, Taxation, to pay the interest on his enormous indebtness, and to run. his expensive government, was laid heavily upon the people, until each cultivated acre paid nearly twelve dollars a year, and .every fruit tree and shrub paid tribute. The fellaheen were forced to work for him, carrying out his improvements;; for nothing. He managed to get nearly one-fifth of the land into his. possession and this was : worked without pay to the laborers. The pool- people laid all their trouble to the Europeans and European ideas. Arabi Bey wasbufc the leader of the oppressed and rebellious. They wish to blot out all European institutions and influences, a feeling that cannot be wondered at, however just the rights that the European nations have obtained, through the reckless sway of the Khedives.— Exchange.