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Show A LITTLE SOUTH AFRICAN RETROSPECT. It has been known till along that the Jamleson raid was a Cecil Ithodea game to prevent the outlonders" making mak-ing the real Hghl against Kruger, In tholr own behalf. A good many Utah men were on the spot, and the Americans Ameri-cans were ln the lead. The Kruger government was detested by the mining min-ing men of all nations, but more enpe 1 lally by the Americans, of whom there were many In charge of the gold mines of the Hand. They were the leading spirits, because they were the best miners They were used to mining on the Comstock, In Utah, in Colorado and In Montana. They understood quarts mining on a large scale, and were used to having mining machinery of the heavy character required, and to the latest mining devices and method They detested the dynamite monopoly, which waa lobbeiy, they loathed the ignorant and coriupt rule of the liners, they tesented the aibltrary ami abrupt methods of inspection and the summary sum-mary und Insolent collection of the bul-lion bul-lion tax They saw that their companies com-panies were making the olllclals all rich, while the people of Johannesburg were denied all municipal Improvements, Improve-ments, and schools for their children were lefused, save only rude censes where the Tnal dialect of Dutch was the language nf Instruction, The Americans, therefore, having so min Just grievances, and being tho natural leadt-rs, were called upon to take 1 barge of tho contemplated revolt, and did so They shipped in thousands of the best lilies, and millions of cnit-tldges, cnit-tldges, but no cannon Neither did tho lloers havo cannon, nnd at tint time the lloers did not have Improved modem mod-em rllles, they got their start and their Idea nf getting plenty for all, fiom the c iptttres fiom Jameson's men, and fiom those found In Johannesburg. At the final moment, however, the demand was made by the British colonial authorities, au-thorities, antl by Jameson, that tho movement must be made under tho llrlllah flag, and that whatever success was achieved must redound to the ci edit und advantngc of Great Britain this tho Americans refused to agreo to, they wonted to movo cither under tho American flag, or n flag of their own, which should snibollze n South African union, on tho American plan ln splto of tho British Insistence as to this, they might havo pushed on with their revolt against Kruger If It had not been for the hopeless Imbecility of Jameson. They could havo won, too, for they would have moved with a power nnd determination wholly lacking lack-ing lu tho Jameson folly. They had reason to believe, nlto, that they would have been welcomed as deliverers by a good portion of tho Boers themselves, and the l'reo Mute men would rather hive helped than Joined against them But at no time was It (ni rould it have been) posslblo to unite tho "out-1 "out-1 unlets' In support of tho British scheme. It suited Cecil Rhodes und his friends afterward to assail those Americans nnd others who lefused to Iind their effotts lo the support of the Hhodcn programme of using tho schemo to help Great Britain, to sa that they wero udvcnturcis, a collection collec-tion of ilff-rnff, etc, when tho fact Is that they were motl enterprising Auuilcaus, such ns we see around us hero lu Utah cver da, and In all tho mining communities of these mountain moun-tain In fact, a good many are the very men Wo state these fnctft be. cause there Is nn ugly attempt Just now to excuse Cecil llhodes for his notion no-tion at that time, when he declaieM that the move must be British tir must be beaten. At the same time that this mlsnppiehenslnn of the Ameilcaus is made, howevet, In supposed exculp -tltin and vindication nf Cecil Miotics n portion of the Hue situation Is revealetl bv William T Stead, who repiesenls Mr lthndos as solng lt seemed 10 me quite certain that If I tlltl int tske h tuinil In the game the forces on the spot would soon make short work of President kiugvr Then I should be fare to fate with un Atmrlcun Ilepub Hi -Amirlcun In tin fetme of lieing In-tinsel) In-tinsel) htwille to ami Jeilnus of llrlialn so Vmerlttiu llipublli latselv manned b AintiU.nv and Ptluf Hulletln Austui- II ins who would tare nothing for the old Hag The wnuld have nil the wealth of the Itiind at,thelr disposal. The drawing draw-ing power of the Outlander Republic would have collected around It all the other lolonles lluv would have federated fede-rated with It as a cenur. and we should hsvo lost South Afrlci To avert this catastrophe, to rope in the Outlsnders before It was too late, 1 did what I did. That Is the Rhodes version of the facts as above related, and his excuse for in on 1 ing tip the real movement gainst Kruger That his Interference was patriotic from the British point of view, Is oonetded, but what a terrible cost In blood and treusure that Interference Inter-ference has entailed' To the last, however, Ilhodeu made no sign Hint he regretted his rashness, although on seeing the enormous conflict which It brought upon his country, he must have doubted the wisdom of his act, and revised his reckoning That It mil easier for England to deal with the Bona than with the American triumphant tri-umphant may have been true, but at least with the American programme successful (as It would havo been) there would have been no reason on humanitarian or equitable grounds for Omit Britain to huve piovokeel a great wai. |