THE FUTURE OF EGYPT 479 



HI P],gypt, it is your first duty to keep order, and, above 

 all things, also to punish murder and to bring to justice 

 all who directly or indirectly incite others to commit 

 murder or condone the crime when it is committed 

 When a people treats assassination as the corner-stone 

 of self -government, it forfeits all right to be treated as 

 worthy of self-go\'ernment. You are in Egypt for 

 several purposes, and among tliem one of the greatest is 

 the benefit of the Egyptian people. You saved them 

 from ruin by coming in, and at the present moment, if 

 they are not governed from outside, they will again 

 sink into a welter of cliaos. Some nation must govern 

 Egypt. I hope and believe that you will decide that it 

 is your duty to be that nation. 



