The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-06-15

fought and intrigued. both under Eng
lands cross and France lilies.
The Hudson Bay house is proud OF sts
old traditions, ard the courteous sscreta-
~ who made me welcome was ready 10
talk OF our governors-James OF York
and Marlborough were among the ea-li-
est. an ironic linking of namts-and
our servants" and 20 tell OF the comps-
nys achievements. as of the new su6sti-
tuition CT improved breech-loeGing rides
for the older fashion he himself remem-
bered. History enough. political. ad-
venturous. commercial. if one had time
to trace IL
found myself thinking OF the Charter
ed Company. OF which all men are talk
ing now and wondering az the space
crossed by a walk from St Pauls 10
Lime street.-The distance between the
African veldt, trodden by the urgent
strife and need OF today. and the trails
across Canadian SHOWS. trodden and ef-
faced two centuries ago. Cecil Rhodes
England is full Of the large rumor OF his
name. yet 1 thought Of II only in passing
as I looked up at the portrait Lines OF
comparison and contrast link together
Enthusiastically those two alien characters
and destinies- The man who looks down,
in weary and tolerant disdain. from
the canvas where an unknown master
hand has set him. had his widc-reaching
dreams OF Engiand's conquest. and her
sovereigns rule. he. too. knew the far
places OF the world. trod African soil,
won the natives. and braved the Dutch
and he, in the brief intervals OF action,
turned for rest 70 invention and art; lover
of beauty. though he wrought with the
harsh facts OF life. The whimsical par
allel is arbitrary enough. drawn because
l CHANGED 10 look at the sealed charter
of the Hudson Bay Company. and TO
stand before Prince Rupert's portrait
while London muttered of the deal OF
Cecil Rhodes
And yet. though the connecting threads
be of fancy's own lightness. i; links what
history binds. For Englands empire has
from the beginning gone in stanch fellow
ship with Englands commerce: her ven
turers in the grand old Elizabethan
sense have often been 'adventurers' in
lie meaning which the HuCson Bay Com
pany gives TO the world. And so Prince
Rupert. the futile ardors Of his cavalry
charges being spent and his naval bat
ties drawing 10 their close, gave his name
and patronage TO more than one company
which was TO fling the English flag 10 the
winds Of the new world-and bear the
booty OF the world back TO england.
His Highness lives in the traditions Of
the Hudson's Bay Company as an indef-
ferent man to business. curiously vague
% y
profits But he won the charter from his
cousin. Charles live may see the
parchment today. with its grabbed let
tiers and Ieaden seal and a portrait OF his
most sacred majesty smiling sardonkcally
atop. And though he left some practical
details 10 his homogeneous colleague. Lord
Ashley-Earl OF Shaftesbury to be-Ru-
pert gave himself eagerly enough TO the
great scheme, was .closeted with the
French pioneers. went to dr. good for
tune to the first outbound ship. and stud
led with curious care the lists of Indian
tribes with which the company was TO
form alliance. Rupert had ideas as 10
fair dealing with the natives. as he prov
ed more than once in his own voyaging.
To the soldier and venturer. the check 10
Louis ambition. the sailing OF far seas.
and the tracking of far plains meant
more we may surmise, than the beaver
skins sold at Garroway's. That shore at
which. for all his wanderings, he never
touched. bears his name Ieeply stamped
in Ruperts river and Rupert's land; and
the proud records Of the Great Compa-
ny hand down his memory. II is less
often recalled that the prince was inter
ested in African enterprise.
In his voyages-those heroic, piratical
voyages-he touched at the African shore
Later, in the Restoration days of mock
ing peace and ironic fulfilment. he belong
ed to the Royal African Company, and in
1864 there was plan that he should COM
mand a feet to the Guinea coast. there 70
protect English interests and to stop
Dutch encroachments; the combination
sounds as modern as the posters which
today placard English advances and
Dutch reverses. Concerning this scheme
Pepys wrote waspishly: Il doubt few
VIII be pleased with his going. he being
accounted an unhappy tunlucky) man.
Unhappy-the word accents the differ
ence IN the two lives the contrast be-
tween the man who wrested success from
the world and the wilderness and the
man whose roaming and daring were
alike scaled with the Stuart fate Of fail
ure. Save for q link with the prosperous
company OF merchant adventures, and
for the victorious issue of some OF his
sea fights with the Dutch. Ruperts en-
deavors and achievements Passe with the
dust Of his charges. with the cleavage Of
his keel. All passed with hlm-and into
futilitv-except the vaior which mae hii
brief tr.umphs. the unpuesti0ning loyalty
which perhaps made his long defeat. =
different life story. indeed. from that
which has 50 lately ended with the CRY
Of so much 10 do" Another type oil
man from the one who sleeps among his
solitudes near Buluwayo Of the siivei
shield And yet England needs hei
knights Grant. obeying the stir and stinf
OF uncouquerabIe dreams. men not borr
10 rossession or 10 the bounded triumph'
Of ACCOMPLISHMENT. impraeticsule spir
its. who. walking straight shroug tn
combinations Of life. walk straight 20 N
surcess- a few q Us. even IN these In
pe-ial days. give our WHAT'S 70 those WI
have failed. sirce they. toe. have handet
down their heritage 81 The trumpet not
o. name. in the standard not stoo3e'
10 any wIpd of fate Bat far apart res
these founders q England great corrpa
nies. 81 Tar that Only a dreamer vnin
and the chance . an hogr could lial
them
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