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in 1881 ,, ýwheroaa they, approved of the invasion at Egypt in
1882. There woran other, difforencoo. The Doer'o quali fed no
a legitimate nationality - they were a. white republic; E apt
on the other hand was only comi-civilized and the Arabiot
rebellion led by the army, did not acorn to offer any inproveront
on the rule of the Khodivo. Liberale could not pronume to
teach a Dutch Republic the value of Parliamentary institutions
in. tho way that they could the Egyptians. It also possibly
seemed that Egypt was more of a threat to the guoa Canal and
its trados than the inland Boor republic could be to the Capp
routes The Dutch republics had no acone to the seat were
known to be relatively irpovorichod and were divided from the
Capo route by hundreds of miles of British colony, Of course
they constituted a barrier to the interior of Central Africa,
but Liberals had not yet begun to think in terms of a Cape-
Cairo route. It needed a much bolder strategy to attack an
independent white state which wan capable of fighting for its
independence, than to occupy a native otato which had boon
subject in any case to British financial interference for
years.
It is difficult to e+irate the mans of working class
opinion in 1882-5 from that of Liberal/11adical A.
ocociationa or
dissenting churches. R ynoldet flenn chaired that working clans