Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1895 — The Troublesome Khedive. [ARTICLE]

The Troublesome Khedive.

The Khedive is not a wise ruler—-per-haps not even an endurable one—but still it is in his name that we English govern; and to have to be perpetually hinting #Uit he must be deposed, or even his house superseded, is not pleasant—not a process which, however necessary—and we are not denying its necessity—tends to diminish the English civilian’s drawback in governing their disagreeableness to the upper classes of the governed. They get along with the proletariat well enough, for the latter like justice and light taxation, but the gentry, who feel throttled by our inflexibility and “priggish” desire for European justice, cannot reconcile themselves to our authority. They fret, and their titular ruler frets, and those whom they Influence fret, till, whenever there is a Jar, rumors are

circulated of approaching revolt, and alarmists talk of massacre, and half Europe looks on, thinking that though the English govern successfully, they govern without amiability or ation for feelings, which the continent holds to be exceedingly important Tha Khedive is, we do not doubt a forward person; but we do not know a European prince who, In his position, would not be boiling over, or who, if a weak man, would not be tempted to give little pin pricks to his aggressive tutor whenever he saw that that was safe.— The Spectator.