Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-01-23
CECIL RHODES ON TOP.
All Classes Dance Attendance on Him
In England.
HIS LATEST BIG SCHEME.
1t Involves the Expenditure of Only
S5O.OOO,OOO as n Starter, and He
May Get It-Britain In
North Africa.

= London, Jan. 23.-Great Britain seem
to shake to it's foundations wheneve
Mr.. Cecil Rhodes steps foot on the is
land. He Is the biggest man in tn
t kingdom today. Peers, cabinet minis
| ters, promoters with Munchausel
schemes, duchesses craving for tips OF
Kaffirs Cor South African securities)
workmen who cherish dreams of emf
grafton and bishops solicitous for Afri
can souls haunt his hotel and beg fol-
even the briefest interviews. The pop
, ular mind credits him with being the
potentate of the African continent. Ar
inconsiderate newspaper has described
how Mr.. Rhodes ate meals to the ac'
compartment of business, dismissed g
couple of millionaires while he cracked
an egg, sold mines over his beefsteak
and ate oatmeal while organizing a
company or two. 1t was therefore sug-
gested that the breakfast hour was the
surest time to see him, and the result is
that while he breakfasts his secretaries
repel the invasion of mobs of i'm
Fortunate spectators.
The cabinet met specially to discuss
Mr.. Rhodes scheme for government
guarantees Of the Cape to Cairo rail-
road and telegraph. Mr.. Rhodes after
ward conferred with Mr.. Joseph Cham
berlain the secretary of state for the
colonies, and Sir Michael Hicks Beach,
the chancellor of the exchequer. Mr..
Rhodes says G10,000,0O0 will cover the
entire cost of the work, and there is
little doubt that he will carry his point
with the government and raise all the
money he needs in the city.
| Britain In Egypt.
BY slow steps, SO as not to arouse the
violent antagonism of the powers, but
in pursuance of a definite plan, Great
Britain is tightening her grip on north
| Africa. The Egyptian convention. so
far as the Sudan is concerned, accom-
pishes all that those who prodded the
Marquis of Salisbury to declare a pro-
tectorate could have desired. Great
Britain no longer governs through the
khedive She becomes a coequal ruler
and ignores the mixed tribunals. This
means that the governor general is re-
sponsible only to Downing street and
parliament.
The comment of La Liberte of Paris
that Great Britain does not annex the
Sudan-she palms it like sleght of
hand professor" is a specimen Of the
spirit in which France, already incensed
at Great Britain, regards Great Brit
aims progress toward absolute sover-
eighty in Egypt.
Samoa commands but small interest
in Great Britain, and the belief seems
to prevail that the dispatches magnify
the Importance of the consuls' bat
ties and that Germany will manage to
gracefully disavow the acts of her
agents. A diplomat remarked that
German is filling for the United States
the role Russia has played in the eyes
of the nglo-Indian-that of the con-
spirator to be looked for behind every |
warcloud. The British government, |
however, welcomes the Samoan Incl |
dent as another link OF the Anglo
American understanding which they are
so DESTROYS of fostering.
British investors in the Philippines
are curiously ignorant of American pol
tiles and are seriously discussing the
possibility u President Mckinley APP
an Englishman to govern the
Stands. They argue that it is impossi-
Die to find in America an experienced
acquainted with the
of the Filipnos and suggest
--~ NANNY vi Ch-NIoNtIIlOT cream or |
British Borneo. who is now living in
england as being eminently qualified
'n' Wiling to take the post ~--
Think" Wen sehr Philippines.
sohe tinanciSrs are beginning to take
gloomy Si'tsW of the future of the Phil
ppipnes. Mr.. Ernest Ruffert, the head
f Lombard street house. who bought
arge tracts of land about Manila, said:
The land is useless under the present
onditions. We could not plant crops ,
With the possibility of the natives de- ,
troying them overnight. The United ;
tates will be unable to rule more than :
he fringe of the islands without an ,
rmy of 100 900 men. They might buy :
he native leaders. but they would not b
tay bought. and the United States n
lust rebuy them periodically. The end ~
the matter will be that the United -
tates will sell the Philippines" /
Great Britain presents a vivid con- 4
asst between the potency of civic and :,
Military fame. To put it badly. Glad r
tone dead Is quoted at 100000 in the =,
emorial market, while Kitchener alive ~
e12O 900. The promoters of =
lie Gladstone memorial. who expected
secure 100000 to establish libraries
the principal cities through popular O.
are greatly depressed at ~
lie results of the appeals to the people. =,
fter several months these appeals =,
ave only resulted in collecting one ".
nth OF the sum desired. But in the
se OF Kitchener, who dazzled the en- ~
re with the laurels of day spent in ~
owing down thousands of sayages nv y.
G perfection Of military discipline and q
achinery, the British climb over ono -
lother in their eagerness to pour =. ~,
oney into the college for blacks /" =. W
herwise the Gordon Memorial college ~
hhartum, to educate a people thew
We never seen in country they never
red for as tribute to the conoueror
le Gladstone fund, however will he ~. .e
ade up by wealthy men, who will W VI
idly give their money, but who arc w
evously chagrined at the lukewarm- ~
IS or the people who called him leader ~
whom they expected to contribnta lol
ontaneously ST.
The Church Crisis. WI
Nhen the conservative churchmen WV
10 persisted in shutting their ewes to
theological controversies read tho ,
adlines in The Times and Spectator
FISTS In the Church Of England" thew "a
re compelled to recognize that Tho po
tation against the mass and confes- as
nal started by kons't ana carried m
Harcourt had come TO a nars d. 80
ndlng settlement. The Eishors ho. ue'
ilnally driven tn arappie with th. IL
'oien' III at '.amhe.h rala,e las,
aK ana discussed It ; 1nt:.v oe ,Ss,,.,,
,anifesto. While the deepest socre,,
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