The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-19
Wild Scheme of American Conquest
Excites Interest.
LONDON PRESS COMMENT
NO MORE INTELLIGENT THAN
RHODES VIEWS.
Cecirs Deal With the German EN-
peror of Interest to Three Nations
Small Dose of Protection For
India-Pope's Joke On Cardinal
Paris Exposition.

Copyright, 1899. by the Associated Press.
London, March 1S.-The newspaper!
this week reprinted from the American
papers the interview which a CORE
spondent of the Associated Press haC
with Cecil Rhodes on board the
steamer Hapsburg on the Mediterran.
can, and which was mailed from Alex.
andria, Egypt. on Feb. II, and printed
on March 3 in America The remark.
Of MIR. Rhodes on Americas imperia
future have attracted q great deal o.
attention. The Spectator, however
suggests the energy of the Americans
may not prove persistent enough fol
the vast task o. conquest and occupa-
ton which the South African states
man sets before them, adding:
Their system, though it produces
men of ability, is probably not favor
able to the development Of a meteoric
genius, and without such a man tho
work can hardly be done rapidly. Eat
ing up South America like an arti-
choke. state by state, is task to over
strain any people, even the Americans
The carrying out of the work, too
= might bring TO a head the great danger
of the United States-the difference il
the ideal and permanent tendency be-
tween the north and south. 1t is true
the state system Of America is a Won
derful system of empire, but it is also
a wonderful provision for disintegra-
ton. The north may refuse to persist
in a career of conquest which Wearies
1t, and with Canada may elect to form
a republic with another ideal than gov
crning, which, although attractive
wears out the surplus energy of the
governors. If any one tells US the
United States will expand 10 the straits
of Magellan in spite Of themselves, we
may believe him. But if he says, as
Nh Rhodes says, that this expansion
VIII be deliberate, we shall hesitate and
ask for evidence that they wish the
expansion to last"
RHODES AT BERLIN.
Mr.. Rhodes striking personality
stood out III bold relief this week
against the political background OF
minor interests. The press of three
countries-Great Britain, Germany and
France-was full of him. His visit tc
Berlin marks an important onward
step in the Anglo-German understand
ing and the French papers realize this
and the idea that the assistance of Ger
many might eventually be counted
upon in a war between France and
DI6pUSLGIOuS.
The Figaro sees in Mr.. Rhodes re-
ception at Berlin sure proof of a secret
convention between. Great Britain and
Germany, While the Temps says:
Frankly, it is impossible to overrate
its Importance. 1t is plain proof OF
. Emperor Williams desire for a rap
procurement with Great Britain and the
power and weight of such a combina-
ton cannot be exaggerated. 1t ought
who fancied France had only to make
oVertures TO brink Germany to her feet
and who, acting under this delusion
have been striving to bring about a
rupture with Great Britain
Mr.. Rhodes, however. has not ar
ranged a hard and fast agreement re-
speeding the Cape-to-Cairo railroad
Mr.. Rhodes and the emperor have
agreed, but financially their agreement
is hanging fire and the negotiations be-
tween Mr.. Rhodes and a German syn
dicate respecting financing the German
portion Of the road have not been con-
cluded, though Mr.. Rhodes has ex-
pressed the hope that an early agree
ment viii be arrived at.
Further, IL appears that Mr.. Rhodes
expressed establishment at the German
emperor'S surprising knowledge of the
details Of the matter, and German Of
ficials, in their turn, were surprised al
Mr.. Rhodes candid allusion to future
political projects, including an Anglo
German partition of Portugal's East
Africa possessions, which Mr.. Rhodes
fully expects that Portugal viii be will
ing TO sell the two powers within three
years. At present, Mr.. Rhodes is al
Amsterdam, arranging for the finan-
cial support Of the Dutch financiers.
PROTECTION IN INDIA.
The Indian government bill. imposing
ccunterTajiing duties on bounty-fed
sugar has caused q fiutter in radical
circles. 1t is frankly and avowedly a
protecuonist measure. The secretary OF
state for India, Lord George Hamilton,
In the house of commons, declared the
object OF the bin was to prevent the
Indigenous trade of India from being
undermined by subsidized foreign pro-
ducts. This, the radicals point out, is
q protection pure and simple, and they
express fear ii may be the thin edge
of the protection wedge, and that 1t
may eventually be transDlanted to
Great Britain with quite as much rea-
son as in its adoption in America.
The Daily Chronicle remarks: There
is a strong impression that this Indian
( duty is intended as a feeier TO au Eng
Iish duty, and the whole free trade DO
sitiOn is imDeriled."
Mr. Henry Labouchere, in Truth.
calls the bill a 'contem9tible ana in
iquitous measure and says: The gov
eminent is going to try an Indian re-
dictionary Drotectionist theory which it
would not dare to introduce at home.
The bill may be the first step towards a
general system of protection, which Will
decide our claims Of supremacy once
and for ALL"
JOKE ON 4 CARDINAL.
The pope has just INDUCED in joke
at the expense of Cardinal Oreglia di
Santo Stefano, who, as cardinal cham
berlain OF the church and project of
lie congregation Of ceremonial, has to
make sure the pope is dead by tapping
him three times on the forehead with a
little silver hammer. When Cardinal