Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-06-04

tragedies are for all times. His name
shall remain in the memory of the people
for all times. He occupies a throne apart
in the ideal and immortal kingdom of SUI
preme creative art poetical genius and
dramatic truth.
Robert G.. Ingersoll' was Miss Martha
Fish'S subject. She said in part:
"One of the most remarkable men that
has lived during the nineteenth century
and one of whom Americans are justly
proud is Col. Robert G. Ingersoll.
MI. Ingersoll was a member of the
Grand Army. and was often called upon
to address their conventions. On one or
these occasions he said. speaking of the
freed slaves: We look, and instead Of
slaves. we see men, women and children.
The wand of progress touches the auc-
ton block, { slave pen, the whipping
post, and we see homes, fresides, school
houses and books. and where all was
want, crime. cruelty and fear. we see the
faces of the free Many of 1ngersolfs
lectures. essays n speeches have been
published, the best 10 of which are
Hereto and Heresies.' Ghosts The
Gods Humboldt. Foundations Of the
Faith and Mistakes of Moses
"Ingersoll was a great lover OF art ana
music and all things beautiful, and love
was the corner stone of his life. NO one
ever loved his family or his home more
dearly than he.
'Ingersol was a man hat was honored
and beloved by everyone, and even those
who do not believe his ~achin love ms
! purity of life. He died on July a. 1897
at his beautiful country home, Walston'
surrounded by all those nearest ana ceai-
est to him. His death recalls the closllls
words of his eulogy on Lawrence 'arre.t
in 1891. In the drama of our human ne
all are actors and not one KNOWS nAs
part. In this great play the scenes arg
shifted by unseen forces anu u ~
mencement. plot and end are stun ul-
known. are still unguessed. one ps one
the PLAYERS leave the stage n others
take their places. There is no pause-tne
play goes on. No prompter's voice IS
heard and no one has a cue as 70 Wnae
the newt scene will be. Will this drama
! have an end? Will the curtain IAN a.
last? Will it rise again upon some 11ne a
stage? Reason says. perhaps anu IVY
still W Yes.
sigmund Myer delivered a cnarac,ea
sketch of Cecil Rhodes, Tie 6ieo' ~
African. He said: roo;,
In the land that bears his name tecii
Rhodes receives the homage OF a mon
arch. He stands for his Iise
or fall. and in the present contest pe,
tween Great Britain and the IransVaal
the name Of Cecil Rhodes ranks iore-
most as the greatest of living English
men and the greatest financier and poll
ician of the age.
He was born in Hertfordshire, eng
land, in 1858. After a short stay AT a
summer school he went to Natal for the
/ benefit of his health, where his brother
was a planter. Subsequently he wan
dered to the diamond fields, where ne
amassed a fortune, and became consplc-
uous all over the world as The
Magnate of South Africa
He does moi enjoy the life OF a rich
man, but lives as a simple every day
man. The natives working for him
would not trust anybody but him. In
his dealings with his own working peo-
| pie, Rhodes is just and generous. 1t has
been the fashion to denounce his treat
ment of the Kaffirs, but after the Chris
tian missionaries, no one has done SO
much for these people as Cecil Rhodes.
Ministers have praised him for the kind
ness shown these people. Mr.. Rhodes,
in the ordinary sense of the word, is a
religious man of.
Cecil Rhodes IS just what he has
wished to be; but, like the imperialists,
he is always scheming to invest and to
broaden out the land in which he lives,
and when he dies to cave a history of
! himself behind. How posterity will es-
innate him we do not nov
If it is true, as Carlyle says, that the
history of the world is the biography of
great men," then the name of Cecil
Rhodes hou not have an inconspicu-
Gus place in the narrative Of nations,
since up to the present time the history
of South Africa is to be read in the life
Of this great man, who has achieved
eminence by success and Jealous patri-
OtiSm.
1.-THE Wonderful Century, was Miss
Susie Arnold's theme. She said:
During the nineteenth century the ad-
yancement in civilization, the marvellous
discoveries, the Improvement in art and
literature all over the world would far
surpass those of any preceding period in
human history.
The American, although admitting
this, Is inclined to exult in the progress
his own nation has made in these one
hundred wonderful years now almost
passed away. He cannot be blamed in
this, for comparing America now with
America at the close of the Revolutions
airy war, the difference is so great that
we can hardly realize it. In his time a
nation has been born and grown to I'M
parallelled power and position among
the nations of the earth, and a few feeble
colonies ave excelled all nations in the
arts OF peace, and astonised the peonle
or Europe with their achievements. and
nave become the admiration and pattarn
of all nations.
we see the elevating influence of orr
time, especially in the generosity with
which charitable and philanthropic inst;
buttons have been founded and supported
AS the country has grown in size oon,.
lation and wealth and religious condit;o,
of our race has been elevated the world
over and relief has been widely extanda5
to human suffering.
~ 1t was this noble trait in the Amer;co,
character, also the sacred light in which