The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-13


The British South Africa company was
perhaps, in it's composition, the most
noteworthy of all these chartered COM
panies which have been the advance
agents of imperial domain. Hostile
critics have declared it was made up of
Tory Jingoes and royal Dukes" In
! deed, it had such in it. But it also had
such men of light and leading as Thorn
as Huxley the Lord Kelvin, and Pro-
fessor Henry Drummond. and such ul-
ira anti-Tories as Sir Charles Dixie.
and Mr.. Conybeare NJ p, and Mr..
Schnadhorst, the manager of the great
Gladstone political machine" Tory
squires and Peers, Radical and Social
ist politicians, Irish Home Rulers, all
united under the puissant leadership of
Cecil Rhodes to effect the realization
of his dream
Nor could such an enterprise have
had a more fitting leader. In mental
and physica. equipment he was equal
to every requirement. He knew his
Africa by personal experience as well
aS he knew his classics through OK
ford training. He could prospect for
gold or diamonds with the shrewest He
could palaVer with the KaffrS or Mat
abeles in their own barbarous tongue
He could treat with the Beers with all
their own stolidity. He could lead o.
company of cavalry of rifemen with
the valor and skill of a predestned
conqueror. And he could do it all with
the tact of a born diplomat and the
pfohtaDle thrift of a master financier
What wonder that he could hold
worlds s fair at Kimberley, build a rail-
road acress the desolation of the Great
karroo, project telegraph line from
Cape Town to Alexandria, and make
Tanganyika the northern boundary of
Cape Colony! All that he has done,
and has scarcely yet reached middle
life.
A year ago some thought his sun
was setting, down n-stricken from the
zenith. That was because of Jameson's
RAID into the TransVaal Doubtless
their judgment has now been recon-
sldered. How far he was responsible
Tor that performance is yet a matter
or dispute, on which more light may
presently be thrown. On the face of
the case there is this one superlatiye
reason for thinking he was not direct
ly interested in it; it failed. But it has
given new turn to his career; more
probably an upward than a downward
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viction and san+a,,ao ,,.1,, a,,o,
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him 70 ha ,1i,.a,,'t a.S5 DeSS'"s
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tio,, ''i 'ne coming lhqulsl-
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Other of his utterances are reck-
oned indiscreet, as calculated TO arousa
unnecessary antagonisms. Thus he
said the other day he was about to he
tried by the "unctuous rectitude" of
his fellow W-countrymen: n nhrasa that
will stick all the more surely hecausa
an Englshman coined it. So his snear-
ing reference to Mr.. ChamharIoin
Some great men cultivate orcbids,"
seemed foolish provocation Put
John Bull loves a good fighter ca lo,,o
as he fights fair. and II may ha tbot
these very defiances win only inoraase