Show CECIL RHODES A Cecil Rhodes memorial tablet was unveiled at Oxford university a few days ago and Lord Rosebery Rose- Rose bery made the speech He was warm in his praise Plaise of or his friend lie declared that it was an inspiring idea ideH which made him combine his imperial ideals with his affection for Oxford d. d He Hc quoted Rhodes as assaying assaying sain saying When I find in myself self in uncongenial company or when people are playing plang their games garnes or when I am alone in a railway ay carriage I shut my eyes ees and think of my great idea It is the thc companion companion com corn panion that 1 I ha have e. e Continuing Lord Rosebery said No man was so slandered in his lifetime as was Rhodes He was represented as a mere bloodthirsty Shylock Sh loek a man who w o would wade through misdeeds to obtain mone money But no man ever spent less on him him- self He valued money because he be valued power and mone money was one of the most obvious and effectual means of obtaining power When TIlen people who should have known u better belter were throwing every sort of dirt dirtat dirtat dirtat at him as a low lQ money g grubber and disgrace to the thc name of Britain in South Africa Rhodes said All All this doesn't t worry me in the he least I have my will here here as as as if he had it in his pocket pocket- and and and when tho they H abuse buse ma nic I think of it and I 1 know they will read it after I am gone and will do me justice Lord Rosebery said that Rhodes' Rhodes ambition was entirely one for the British empire that at one ono time he had bad a consuming desire for personal honors but later outgrew that feeling and said life is too short He Hc was a great man with the highest possible desire desire de dc- de- de sire sil to bo be of use to the empire and to every subject subject sub sub- of Great 13 Britain ain |