The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1896-02-15
CECIL RHODES VISIT,
His Confab With Chamberlain Bodies
VII.<n &Ao n-a.a 4

Ilsto the Beers.
New Jerk. Feb. M.-Harold Frederic
describes the flying visit of Cecil Rhodes
to London and his friendly t~ete-a-tete
with Joseph Chamberlain as deep with
portens. The British public had antici-
pated a spirited campaign between
Rhodes and Chamberlain, It occurred
10 no one that the battle could be averl-
ed. But means have been found" the
Times correspondent cables, .sto strike
a balance between the exigencies Of
Chamberlain's political career and the
colossal political. financial and social in
fluences the Chartered company Is able
to command in Its defense. A compro-
mise has been arranged, and, appar-
emily, the scheme adopted Is big enough
to afford ample elbow room for both
Rhodes and Chamberlain's ambitions.'
When two such predatory genii combine
to work together it may be assumed
that some third party is to pay the bill.
In this instance 1t scarcely needs a
prophetic v to discern the probability
thai Kruger and his Beers are marked
for the sacrifice.
In other words, it is plainly open to be
feared that England, having behaved
with scrupulous correctness up TO the
present point Of the T%ransvaal is now
about to do an unlovely thing. Per-
haps 1t is manifest destiny, but ii will
wear an ugly aspect none the less.
Chamberlain's lengthy recital of events
from h starting point OF Mafeking.
tells little that is new. 1t throws the
perfidy OF Jameson's behavior into a
rather stronger light than before, and
coldly hints that Sir Hercules Robin
sons innocent ignorance of h was
going on needs some further investiga-
ton, but the really important parts of
the document are not eache until he
begins to disclose the policy of the Brit
ish cabinet.
E%ngland's rights Of entire control
of the Transvaal's external relations
and her Intention to maintain them in
their integrity are affirmed in the plain
est possible language. That has been
done before, but now, in addition,
h statement that England, by geo
graphical and other considerations. is
justified in rendering her friendly coun-
sells on international matters also. Then
after a long narration of the grievances
of the ultlanders. comes what Cham
berlain describes as merely a suggestion
of one way of meeting the difficulty,
but which will be read alike in Preto-
ria n Berlin as a British ultimatum.
The entire Rand, embracing the whole
mining district, is to be erected into a
semiautonomous province with a legis-
lature, supreme court, police, educa-
tional system, mining management. and
so on, of it's own. Plenty Of safeguards
for the ~Transvaals supremacy in large
matters are suggested, such as the pow
er to veto, and the like, but, in sub
stance, Chamberlain proposes to give
to the invading Uitlanders on the Rand
a rather freer scheme Of home rule than
for which he broke up the liberal party
for attempting to secure. for the Irish
In their own island.
The announcement thai Rhodes on
his return will live in Rhodesia instead
of Capetown may be taken as signify
ing that he is to stand on the frontier OF
the Transvaal as the representative
not merely as the head Of a huge private
financial syndicate, but as the more or
less official Representatives. Eng
lands Will that the Uitlanders be al
lowed to manage the Rand in their own
way.
That Kruger will accept this solution
without a violent protest, or that his
Beers will not encourage him to resist
by force of arms INC appeals for Eu-
ropean aid, is entirely Unlikely. One
may look, too, to see Germany foam
over again with exuberance at the
vague notion Of blocking England's fe-
lonious progress, but when it comes to
realities, what can either Kruger or the
kaiser do? England is on the ground
and holds little Transvaal as in a
thumbscrew. One twist Of It's giant
hand and the Beers pass into history,
while with its other hand the German
navy and mercantile marine could be
maMed beyond recognition; II SO the
British empire goes on being made"