Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-06
Cecil Rhodes is Very Popular
in London
SUNDAY NEWSPAPER WAR
Seven Day Papers We're Not Sue.
c.sstul.- Returns From
Her Continental Trip

London. May 6.-(Special Gable Letter.
copyrighted by the Associated Press.)-]
The personality of Mr.. Cecil Rhodes has
been a towering figure this week. His
welcome at the meeting of the Chartered
British South African company at the
Cannon street hotel on Tuesday, was one
of blind enthusiasm. Mr.. Rhodes carried
his audience away with his breezy optim-
ism, which served as a gilded coating for
the unpleasant fact that the negotiations
with the government for aid for his
Cape to-Cairo railway had failed and
that the company needed another G3,o00,-
000 The audience, among whom were
number Of fashionable ladies, checred him
wildly. At the conclusion of his speech
Mr. Rhodes was obliged to address an
overflow meeting outside the hall. Such
an enormous crowd surrounded him, en-
Enthusiastically cheering him, that police
men were required to escort him back to
the offices of the Chartered company. The
after effect of Mr.. Rhodes speech was less
favorable, however, and shares of the
British South African company suffered
decline. Mr.. Rhodes reference to the
Carnegie company's tender of railway
iren for the Rhodesia road and his ex-
planation Of it's rejection has attracted
considerable attention. The correspond
ent here of the Associated Press inter
viewed Mr.. Rhodes upon the subject. Mr..
Rhodes said:
"NIy policy has been to support home
industry wherever it can be dome from
business point of view, but there is no
need for Americans to be discouraged.
We positively will go into open markets
in the future. I personally believe the
open market to be the best in every in
I terast can see no reason why the Amer
lean iron and steel industry should not
| watch us even more closely than in the
past, for Rhodesia is going forward
without government support and we want
to attract enterprising AnglO-Saxons and
let them see the enormous scope before
them. The governments caution in sup
porting us is no new thing. Take NADIA
gascar for example. No man has done sc
much for that island as Gen. Gallieni, and
| even now he is obliged to go upon his
knees and supplicate the French govern
ment to follow even our limited example
! and open up the country. The German
emperor, who is a man of immense intel
,ieenee sees clearly the ultima te value of
present support in similar cases l be-
lieve that Americans are quicker to see
business possibilities than the average
Englishman who is cautious, conserva-
tive and insular as a. rule, but once the
Briton sees clearly then no amount Of
capital is enough to sink. You can say
that Americans are as welcome in RhOd-
esia as brothers Three years will see us
on the crest of an enormous wave Of
prosperity
Regarding the opening up of the Phil
| ippines, Mr.. Rhodes said:
! IF my observation is correct the
Americans will be quick to see the great
| possibilities Of trade in that direction and
will not stand waiting but will rush with
car,ital to develop the industries of the
islands. 1t is impossible to believe that
the American government with such facts
| and possibilities beyond shadow Of
doubt will hesitate moment, as the Brit
ish government has done regarding
Rhodesia."
Mr.. Rhodes concluded the interview by
the statement that the whole of the
f3 9. 600, 900 needed for railways in Rhod-
esia has already been assured
| Queen Victoria returned from her stay
at Cimiez to Windsor on Friday. Her
majesty was delayed one day at Cher
bourg by rough weather on the English
channel. 1t is expected that the birthday
honors will include peerage for the
| British ambassador to the United States,
Sir Julian Pauncefote, in recognition of
the part he has taken in the promotion
| of an Anglo-American understanding.
This distinction will come very apropos
| in view of Sir Julian Pauncefote's selec-
| ton as the British representative at the
peace conference. The queens birthday
will also be the occasion for an act of
grace toward Mullett, O'Hanlen and Fitz-
Harris the three men sentenced to penal
seryitude for life for completely in the
| murder of Sir Frederick Cavendish, chief
secretary for Ireland, and Mr.. T. H.
Burke the permanent under secretary
for Ireland, in Phoenix park, Dublin, May
G. 1882. The case of these men has been
considered by the cabinet and it is un-
derstood that the prisoners will be liber-
ated on the queens eightieth birthday.
The queen has overcome her dislike of
electric light which has now been intro
duced in all the royal palaces. The Prince
Of Wales has just taken an opposite step