Word: ismail
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...owned a large part of Suez Canal, from which she derived a revenue to pay off the national debt: Ibid.- (b) The good of civilization did not demand it.- (1) Mehemet Ali had made travel safe and made Egypt a responsible nation: Pol. Sci. Quar. as above.- (2) Ismail, the successor of Mehemet Ali, had expended more than 46,000,000 pounds sterling upon public utilities: Ibid.- (3) Foreign nations were being consulted in regard to finances and the other matters of policy: Ibid.-(4) Foreign method and ways were being introduced: McCoan, p. 278.- (x) Courts were established...
...European governments. and treaty privileges exist with fourteen powers not in harmony with each other.- (d) Sanitary condition of country worse: Am. Cyclo., 1890.- (e) Crime has increased under British rule: Ibid.- (f) Only one half is now spent per annum for education as was spent by Ismail: Pol. Sci. Quar., I, 332.- (g) England has seized upon the 176,000 shares which Egypt owned in the Suez Canal and has deprived the country of its revenue: Quar. Rev. as above.- (h) If it be said that the present condition of Egypt is more prosperous than ever, we answer that...