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THE NATIONALIST PARTY 
fearlessly, and uprightly. The attitude of the so-called 
Egypt Nationalist Party in connection with this murder 
has shown that they were neither desirous nor capable 
of guaranteeing even that primary justice the failure to 
supply which makes self-government not merely an 
empty but a noxious farce. Such are the conditions ; 
and where the effort made by your officials to help the 
Egyptians towards self-government is taken advantage 
of by them, not to make things better, not to help their 
country, but to try to bring murderous chaos upon the 
land, then it becomes the primary duty of whoever is 
responsible for the Government in Egypt to establish 
order, and to take whatever measures are necessary to 
that end. 
It was with this primary object of establishing order 
that you went into Egypt twenty-eight years ago ; and 
the chief and ample justification for your presence in 
Egypt was this absolute necessity of order being estab¬ 
lished from without, coupled with your ability and 
willingness to establish it. Now, either you have the 
right to be in Egypt or you have not ; either it is or it 
is not your duty to establish and keep order. If you 
feel that you have not the right to be in Egypt, if you 
do not wish to establish and to keep order there, why, 
then, by all means get out of Egypt. If, as I hope, you 
feel that your duty to civilized mankind and your fealty 
to your own great traditions alike bid you to stay, then 
make the fact and the name agree, and show that you 
are ready to meet in very deed the responsibility which 
is yours. It is the thing, not the form, which is vital. 
If the present forms of government in Egypt, established 
by you in the hope that they would help the Egyptians 
upward, merely serve to provoke and permit disorder, 
then it is for you to alter the forms ; for if you stay 
