| Show CECIL RHODES DEAD cecil rhodes who vent to south africa ciany years ago in the hope of regaining and during his stay tharo not only obtained health but great wealth and became master of af fairs in that portion of the world id dead lie was a man of remarkable genius 1 for organization and a powerful force in any direction he sought to bend his vc the darkest page in his lifes history esthe story of the jamenson raid as told by alic and believed by a great majority of mankind yet even w ith thata charge against him Y those qualities of his which a 1 were more than suf to overbalance the wrong HS great dream was to make africa h from to curio a colon Lil under one form of govern mehl of areat britain from the time of the bicic of kimber ley he has been in poor health the long daye of worry and uncertainty aich he wo 9 under fue of the boers i having left him a wreck i john hays hammond who was for many years and up to the time of the F t death of cecil rhodes intimately asso coated with him in the development of 1 south africa and consulting engineer I 1 of the british south africa chartered 1 company and the consolidated gold fields of africa in which clr rhodes held important interests pays this tribute mr rhodes eliose enn went down when it was yet day died in the year of bis age he leaves no posterity but leaves ins name on the map of africa Rhod ceia sponsor for a commonwealth mon wealth nearly as large as our west cm states had he lived he would have devoted the remaining years of hia lito and would have spent every dollar of hb fortune in equipping that common wealth UH fortunately his character was misunderstood in america judged by e standards sir rhodea was truly great man he was not only great eaphe builder but also a captain of industry he is oftener reported as a shifty unscrupulous financier in league with capitalists to coax the transvaal into a hopeless war in order to steal the mines of the country he is alo reported as ailing his entire life to the amassing of large and ready to employ the unscrupulous methods to that end but by even the most bitter of ill s enemies conversant with the facts such allegations ale repudiated ted the truth is that rhodes cared little for money beyond the power it gave him to the development of bouth africa from a most intimate connection with him in hi business en I 1 am able to state that his methods of were not only scrupulously honorable but were characterized by unusual liberality he was known to south africans as a man of unbounded generosity and one on they cougil depend for the furtherance of any deserving local enterprise or worthy charity personally mr rhodes wan democratic in bis tastes and a colonial in his political and social bias lie was fond of the simpler and better pleasures of life devoted especially to out of door life on the veldt and had contempt for and disdain of acx ial ties he was a man of innate refine ment and culture and a graduate of oxford rhodes had an indomitable spirit and dogged perseverance he was imaginative but was not a mere visionary he was built on broad line and he abhorred petty politics which iio contemptuously designated ns the politic of tun parah pump and he de quite as strongly what he termed the unctuous rectitude of certain politically lie was a great admirer L of democratic but at the time he was a loyal imperialist Rhod fi biad hi defects and fault i but these will not obscure obscuro the alory of i ls name areat men it is eaid arc i made of faulta of one thing there can bend doubt that rhodes ideals were i pure and lofty and I 1 belinc that history will deal rather with ins ideals than with hie achievement and methods and that lie will therefore runk hiigli among the great men of the nineteenth century cecil rhodes found in the meditations of marcus aurelius many aspirations for hie own career until the unfortunate jameson raid for which lie hae received far more blame than he deserved as history will prove he wf very popular with the butch of south africa within a ery short im there would have been a revolution of feeling and strange ae it may aund today rhodes would have been able to rc establish iri influence with the and ho would have been quick to take advantage of the situation and have passed into history aa the pacificator of south africa thi etl of rhodes is shared even by many of the progressive s la the country |
