Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-12-22

| follow him ever since into all SOr1
of things which must have seemed
them scarcely business. At the pre-
ent moment it is the colossus Of i
Beers, which he created, that is tidin
the chartered company over its crisi
in the north by Il subsidy from tn
| great earth-pocket. and purse withou
IL bottom. For this Frankenstein no
only creates monstcrs-he control
! them.
| Marching on from finance to poll
! ties, Mr. Rhodes found his fOrmul;
as good as ever. He found the polite:
Of the British colonies and Dutch re
publicS Of South Africa split by /;
dividing line which promised i'll fol
empire building under the British flag
The laundering of the BoeIa and Zulu
wars had left the English touchy anG
The Dutch sullcII. Mr.. Rhodes set him
self to obliteratc the dividing lille
The Dutch-thc ''AfrikandcrS, rs
they call themSelycS-Wc i'll the
ma iOrity at the cape. Through then
he must work He did SO through
what ] have elsewhere called the ne y
Afrikandel%Sm-the conception Of i'm
DcrIal progress made through and for
the colony: Of colonial progress made
through and for the Dutch, and not
merely for the mother country in the
one field and the mother country 5
Scions in the other The cooperation
with the Dutch party which this i'll
VOWED caused Mr.. Rhodes to be freely
denounced over here as Il diSlOyal
Scparatist. But he held his course and
today there is practically 40 lace dis
tlnctlOn i'll cape politics.
The third sphere i'll which Mr.
Rhodes formula was to hold good
was ut once financial and political.
And perhaps the British South Africa
company mote the title), with its I'M
ion iii Il common cause III royal dukes
and company promoters, British gold
diggers and land hungry Beers, ireSi
dent Kruger, King Lo Bcnguia and
Queen Victoria, was the most Silrpi'iS-
ing 'amalgama ting" achievement Of
all The British capitalist who only
cares for "diyyicS"; the British impc1,
ialiSt who only wants to sec tSonc one
cISc'S) diyvieS used in expanding thL
empire; the South African coloniSt
whose imperial loyalty is strictly
bounded by his own Jealous self
Dutch farmer, who doesn't care Il In
for the British empire, but is delighted
to find new openings for himself or
SONS under its fag-thc great anIalg;l-
nlator has managed 50 far to run them
all i'll harness.
But the blacks? puts in somebody at
this point. They arc the ma iority, both
i'll Matabclcland and i'll the rest OF
South Africa, and Mr.. Rhodes has
never been accused of sacrificing any
thing 10 them. Though one has heard
of his sacrificing them, both to Dutch
and to dividends. Well, | should be
sorry To have to define, much more dc
Gcnd, Mr.. Rhodes views on the great
native quc> tiOn-or those of any Cape
COlOniSt who really has to do with
blacks, that is, as far as theory goes.
1t is Il big question and onH we shall
ilthl II SItttl Wv al VI bclpl I 1oIl 1DuI
as far us practice goes Mr.. Rhodes
can certainly boast Of having done
more to give comfortable, decent all
useful Ewes To South African boys
than the whole AboriSincS PrOtection
society put together. Not that he d d
il out Of philanthropy. 1t was sound
business of course. To him tn cJl0r
represents labor. He cannot do with
ont tin Mat Dcleland or elsewhere
and he belle rs that it pays best to
treat it We'll
The INSCRIPTIONS side of NJ. Rhodes
it certainly does exists to ny mind
the direct outcome OF the attn oSphere
OF colonial finance i'll which lie has
grown up and made his career Specu-
lation always goes with sharp prlc-
ticc, even i'll an old country, where
money is not everything nor success
in money the key to every other dool,
social and political. In L new country
and especially one of gold and a
mondS, all this is more so. In Kim
bcrlcy and Johannesburg it is not
thought necessary to d.SSimuiatc adj
miration for Il successful swindle, and
men take credit for lodges which here
they would hesitate to attribute to an
OF course this reactS
on politics and public life sir. Rhodes,
like that OF the late Sir John Macdon
self, tolerates something less than
honesty in others. He condescendS to
bad tools when he cannot find good
ones. and covers himself with a kind
of naive cyniciSm. My friend" he
protested once when taxed with the
jobbery of Il political associate. Il
don't recognize that character There
are people that use you and there are
people that use you This was Il man
uSed-and there's an end of It,"
The only thing | ever regretted in my
life was putting myself under an OBJ
legation" Imagine Il man to whom
money is not an object working on
these lines among men to whom it is
lie will go far Unhappily, he himself
owns all the South African
press that counts, except 4 pretorian
sheet or so, obviously inspired by com
peting interests; and the deficiency
is not well supplied by the ignorant
diatribes of certain papers over here.
\ man is not likely to mend his politi-
cal or financial methods for critics who
have not outlook enough to understand
his aims. When Miss Olive Schreiner.
was III England recently, speaking to
4 large extent politically. she told me
that what she most wished for. in the
interests of Mr.. Rhodes and Cape Col