Waterbury Democrat., 1902-03-29
THE TOBACCO WAR
The Spectator Discusses the
 Situation in London.
LITTER FROM CECIL RHODES

Just Been Brought to Light And Has
 Caused a Wild ensation-Rhodes'
 Fortune Estimated at Fifteen Mill
 lion-John Wanamaker is Coming
 Home-Death of Former South Afri-
 can Judge.
 London. bMar. o9-The tobacco War here has created degree of na- tional interest far greater than usuai- 1y associated with trade disputes. The Spectator draws q curious comparison Of the rival methods English capital ists'' says this paper. will risk mil lions iE q trade war with the greatest pluck: but. American capitalists will actually sacrifice them rather than be beaten. Such wars are the enjoy ment of their otherwise rather dull and oVer-worked life. They will feel disgraced if they do rot win. and will stake their last dollar rather than be pitied on exchanges which, to them, are fields Of glory or humiliation What else have they to live for, Poii- tics offers no career They cannot found families. in the English sense and as for luxury. they enjoy It like the Roman nobleS, while they nave it, or do without in serene content.
 London. Mar. 29.-Amid the maze or bio@faphies. character sketches, criti- cisms and eulogies of the late Cecil Rhodes which continue to appear here there was d letter published to-day which throws new light on the historic lobengula treaty by which MT Rhodes made Rhodesa. It is signed "One Who Knows and points out that neither MT Rhodes, MT Mcguire nor Mr Rudd deserve credit for the famous concession. but. that it belongs to F. +. Thompson, member of parliament for Wyndberg. Cape Colony, known. as s.AIatabele Thompson" As proof of the writers assertion, this characteris- lie letter of MT Rhodes to Mir Thomp- son. dated London, July 1889, is ad- duced:
 Dear Thompson: Stick to it. I trust to you alone Upon you de bends the whole thing. The concession consider to be your work. The chart CT is mine Without the latter the former would be unavoidable. Nature abhors yacum. l ask you is there q better chance i'll the world for you? ! in the colony you will have the kudos tgloryl Napoleon was prepared to share the world so long as he got Flu rope 10 work oa these lines. Can't you give the whites who are in the country something? After all they deserve something. If any doubt your power show them this G- will pay all checks you draw. feel you won't fail me. Stick to the post"
 '.One Who Knows adds: Without MT Thompson's nineteen months of daily palaver and peril at the Kings Kraal at Buluwayo, there would have been no Rhodesia. to-day"
 A financial authority of the Daily Telegraph estimates MT Rhodes's for tune at over S15.000,000, and in a fore cast of the future of Rhodesia. draws curious comparison between the agri- cultural possibilities of that country and those of Iowa. The selection of Iowa is due to the fact that Robert Benson, director and leading spirit of q land company of Iowa, is now a director of the Chartered Trust com pany, and is otherwise largely interest ed in Mir Rhodes 'sterritories. It is said that net work of farms will be start ed in Rhodesia, on the American plan.
 New York. Mar 29.-John Wana- maker, former postmaster general of the United States, ends his visit to London to-day, and sails for America, says a London dispatch to the Tribune. He has declined to give interviews on public affairs.
 London, Mar. 29.-Sr Sidney Go dolphin. Alexander Shippard. formerly judge of the supreme court of Cape Colony and who had held various other positions ill South Africa, is dead