St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1895-09-27

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now is, to assimilate the regions ne
has won to the Cape, in tariff laws,
etc, but he must see that the pros
perity of South Africa in general,
would be increased il united under
the English flag. In late pubica-
ton he is accused OF neglecting his
duties at home. One ventures TO as
sert that THE Cape Colony posses
SEES the most incomplete prime minis
ter that ever scaled through dubious
wings to that high power"
1t cannot be denied that the pre-
mier is sometimes unguarded in his
speech, and makes enemies, as tor
example, in Pondaland, when laying
down rules by which that recent an
mex to Cape Colony should be guild
ed, he said: Natal shall not have
an inch of that territory" forgetting
apparently the cost to which Natal
ian colonists had been put during the
past twenty years, to keep in check
the natives of that country. Though
not popular with all people in Arr
ca, in the mother country he is ia
nous. No one is more honored in
London than he. He has the conf
dence of the Dukes of Aberdeen and
Fife, and other managers ofthe South
Africa Company, together with the
chefest hnanciers in Great Britain.
His late proposal with regard to the
introduction of home manufactured
goods into the Cape Colony, was re-
ceived with favor by English mer-
chants.
Personally, Mr.. Rhodes is strik-
ing-looking man, being tall, vigorous,
with an uncommonly large head.
LobenguIa, the late Matabele chief,
said Of him: "He looks as if he could
eat whole country for his dinner"
Had the ill-starred monarch realized
that in few months his territory
would be "eaten up" and he be COM
PEELED to flee from his capital, a vic
tim to his own temerty, he would
have adopted more conciiatory
policy. The premier has been called
Ambitious" Doubtless he is so, but
if l read him correctly, his ambition
is chiefly to reclaim Africa from bar
barism, and establish over it enlight-
ened and just authority. Is not this
creditable? Who benefits Africa
more than he? Not quite eight years
ago he remarked, ut is the dream of
my life to paint the map OF South At
RIGA red, from the Cape to Tangan-
yika." That dream has been fulfilled,
and if his life is spared a few years
longer, he will see the telegraph ex-
tended mainly through bis own ener-
getic action, to Cairo; so that over
land messages can be sent from Cape
Town to England, for two shillings
per word, instead of eight and six.
pence, by the oceanic cable, as is now
the case.
The "Rhodesian Policy" is to
square" African potentates; that
is, give them monthly subsidies in
gold for permission to develop the
resources OF their countries, a policy
which, on the whole, has been sue
cesstul. The premier thinks that he
can square" the Mahdi. Time will
show whether he is, or is not, too
sanguine. In social life, he is said to
be delightful person. BUTT is only
at times, when he unbends and throws
aside political anxietie. His home
at Rondebosch, in the suburbs Of
Cape Town, forty minutes drive from
the Parliament House, is an ideal one
His library is large and well selected
On his writing table stands an ink
bottle, shaped like an elephant, said
to be a relic found amid the ruins o.
Buluwayo, the late capital of Mata
beleland. A large park is IN process
of construction, near his residence
into which African antelopes of va
rious species will soon be placed
His latest plan is to construct mau
soeum amid the famous ruins o
Zlmbabwe, in Mashonaland, where
the remains of Wilson and his brave
soldiers will be deposited. A chape
is also to be erected and a granite
monument, towards the expense o
which he contributes large sum
and | have seen a statement some
where, to the effect that it is his desir,
to be also laid there, when he dies.
1t is easy to predict the future O
Rhodesia. No more native chiefs vii
dare to collide with English soldier