The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-22

friend, Chinese Gordon, unless we have
money to carry them out"
That sentiment was the keynote of his
early career in South Africa. He had
big IDEAS and he needed a colossal for
tune to carry them out So he went and
got the colossal fortune, just as a car
penter would go and get his tools to do
a piece of work His one IDEAL around
which all other ideals conferred was a
vast United States Of South Africa. His
dream was a compact federated nation
like the United States of America. He
stood first and above all things for the
right of the governed 10 a voice in the
government No taxation without rep
resentation! No rule of an oigarchcal
ring! are The cries with which he has
made South Africa ring until they cul-
minated in the demands for representa-
ton which made Dom Paul throw down
the gauntlet How thoroughly he is i'm
bued with American ideas he Is constant
ly showing in his utterances, private and
public. When the home rule agitation was
going on in England he exclaimed impa-
tiently:
why don't they go and read the con-
stitution of the United States instead of
specializing on this and doubling about
that? There is no speculation OF doubt
about it, Home rule is not an expert
nent 1t has been worked out and solved
in the United States for more than nun
dred years"
Another time commenting on the Will
fcation that was being poured in the
English papers on South African ambi-
tons and on him personally, he said:
That is the sort of talk that led 10
Bunker Hill. I am loyal. The Cape is
loyal But continued injustice and mis-
representtlon will ALLEVIATE the most loyal
If ENGLAND interferes with us-wen, the
United States of South Africa is not an
ill-sounding name"
As TO his wealth, it is up somewhere
among those predigious figures where a
million or so does not matter either way.
some place it at S75,O0OO00 and some at
sl5O. 100000 and a figure between the two
Is probably about right. In his money
getting days he was a money-getter and
fond of money and that which represents
money. The story is told of him in Kim
berley that he filed a pail full of dia-
mouds, all his own, and poured out the
glittering heap again and again with all
most childish pleasure.
But that epoch quickly passed and he
turned to graver things.
He would now no more think of hoard
ing money" said an acquaintance of his
recently. than party leader would think
of boarding votes. To him II 900 900 sim
ply means a lever. an instrument of pow
err"
1t Is impossible for those who see him
now to think of him as ever having been
weaking sent abroad to die. He is 6
feet ! inch tall in his shoes and heavy
and muscular in proportion. His appetite
is a marvel. Chief Lobengula called him
"the man who eats a whole country for
his dinner"
HE had the face of Caesar, the am
bition of a Loyola and the wealth of a
Croesus," says one writer"
His gray eyes, somewhat sunken IN their
orbits have an almost melancholy express
sion, in curious contrast with the bold res
olution of the other features. Washington
had such eyes, so did Lincoln. In speech
Cecil Rhodes is simple and direct, and in
manner frank. He has waged several
fierce wars with natives, he is building
railway and telegraph line from Cairo to
the Cape, to say nothing of the lines he
has built in the Cape country itself he
has founded an empire-and he is but 46
years old. Yet his great reproach against
himself is that he is lazy-has led on the
whole rather an indolent life