Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-11-09


him at all. Next to religious fervor
the predominating sentiment in Dom
Paurs mind is hatred for this grand
EngliShman who towers as a Colossus
among his countrymen in South At
RIGA, just as Dom Paul himself towers
u master spirit among the Beers there.
They are two giant figures in the
world in these closing months of the
century-giants locked now in a death
grapple in which either one or the 9TH
er must go down with a crash never
to rise again. One of the first acts of
the Boer campaign was to put a price
on Cecil Rhodes head. About the first
concerted strategic move was against
the place where he was intrenched.
When in 1871 Cecil Rhodes health
gave way and he was obliged to leave
college, he consulted n physician, who
told him he must go TO milder eli
mate. He was n methodical old doctor,
and in his private memorandum of the
case he wrote as a footnote, Cannot
live six months" lie was n thin faced
lanky lad of IS then. with dull eyes.
His countenance did not suggest in
telligencc and indicated nothing of
force. That was only IS years ago.
Now he is the diamond king. the gold
king, the railroad builder. the multi
millionaire among multimillionaires
in his private humdrum capacity. In
his public capacity he is the founder
of Il vast empire, a statesman who
in GladStonc's time was counted sec
Ond only to the Grand Old Man him
self; since GladStone's death counted
second to none in all the vast British
dominions for relentless force and
sheer weight of personal power.
1t naturally would be n good deal of
a man who could make hatred for him
self the one Oycrshadowing passion of
n character so broad and full of force
as that of Kruger. 1t is impossible to
think of the Transvaal leader indulg-
ing himself in real hatred for anything
smaller than giant. 1T is no use for
us to have big IDEALS said Rhodes
once in conversation with his friend,
Chinese Gordon. unless we have mon
ey to carry them OUT
That sentiment was the keynote of
his early career in South Africa He
had big ideals, and he needed a colos-
sal fortune to carry them out. So he
went and got the colossal fortune. just
as a carpenter would go and get his
tools TO do n piece of work. His one
ideal. around which all other ideals
centered, was n vast United States of
South Africa. His dream was a COM
pact federated nation like the United
States of America. He stood first and
above all things for the right of the
governed to 4 voice in the government.
No taxation without representation!
No rule of an oligarchical ringi are the
cries with which he has made South
Africa ring until they eliminated in
the demands for representation which
made Dom Paul throw down the
gauntlet. How thoroughly he is i'm
bued with American ideas he is con-
stantly showing in his utterances, pri-
waite and public. When the home rule
agitation was going on in England, he
exclaimed impatiently: why don't
they go and read the constitution of
the United States instead of speculat-
ing on this and doubling about that?
There is no speculation or doubt about
IL. Home rule is not an experiment.
1t has been worked out and solved in
the United States for more than 100
years.
Another time. commenting on the
utilization that was being poured in
the English papers on South African
ambitions and on him personally, he
said: That is the sort of talk that led
to Bunker Fill. l am loyal. The Cape
is loyal. But continued injustice and
Misrepresentation will ALLEVIATE the
most loyal II England interferes with
us-well. the United States of South
Africa is not an i'll sounding name"
AS to his wealth, it is up somewhere