Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-04-26

Of the great De Beers mine. with its
81 100000 capital. Other properties
were secured until at last every mine
in the Kimberley district was united
III the De Beers Consolidated. with a
capital of $4,000, 900 and a revenue
that has been phenomenal.
The English government had not
been called into his plans thus far.
Meantime Rhodes was establishing his
political influence at Cape Colony He
secured the complete confidence of Sir
Hercules Robinson, the governor lie
impressed him with the boundless
prospects ahead in the settlement Of
Africa.
The race for Matabeleland began
and Dom Paul Kruger was defeated
in it by Rhodes.
His soldiers streamed through Be
chuanaland and Mashonaland. He
found Mashonaland harried by the
Matabeles and sent machine gun ex-
pedition against them.
This resulted in thousands of dead
savages and the absorption of Mata-
beleland The Mashona people were
left to till the soil in peace.
Finally the dominion of his com
pany, which is the dominion OF
Rhodes. extended all over "Rhodesia.'
He had kicked out the Portuguese AMI
shot out the natives, and his empire
was safe. In this aggression he was
backed by the Cape Colony govern
ment. because it believed that he in
tended to make of Cape Town the po-
litical and commercial center OF the
United States of South Africa"
Germans, Beers and Portuguese were
claiming the country. Mr.. Rhodes be-
lieved that the domination of an oil
garchy of Dutchmen who resisted nat
ural expansion was doomed. Later on
he acted
In 1890 Mr.. Rhodes became premier
of Cape Colony, which office he held
for five years. Under his rule German
ambition and designs had been baf-
fed by him singlehanded and vast
| territory gained for his native land
| The iron rule of the Dutch premier il
L
lish settlers. Rhodes became theil
champion.
That he was connected with the
| Jameson raid into the territory of the
| Beers is no longer doubted. Its failure
gave the Beers the opportunity to pre-
pare for a struggle with the Englisf
when it should be backed by the gov
ernment.
Rhodes never expressed regret fo
the attempt.
He declared that he had proof tina
the Pretoria government had been in
triguing with Germany.
While the Boer war was raging Mr.
Rhodes was shut up in Kimberly
while the Beers besieged the place. |
is said that if they had captured hin
ransom of $4,000, 900 would hav
been demanded, in case his life wa
not declared forfeited.
A reward of $4,000 was offered 70
his body, dead or alive. To the Orang
Free State officials and the Transvaal
ers his personality and ambitions wer
| lldlClul w lht idSt uN . AbN- HiA
escape is well known.
An Englishman wrote OF Rhodes
"He has the face of a Caesar. the am
bition of Loyola, and the wealth {
a Croesus.' AS to his ambition an
wealth there can be no doubt. Rhode
had the scholars brow and the steel
blue eyes and thin lips of the man {
indomitable will.
Like all successful men he battere
down opposition and forced his ides
on those by whom he was surrounds
Those ideas, however, were not ma
rowed to self, but as broad in the
scope as national British aspiration
II England ever succeeds in planting
second America on the soil of Asia 81
will owe that treasure to the fact tn;
the young oxford graduate was drive
, from home by the ravages Of drea
consumption. His subsequent adveI
lures will ultimately become fabulou
DES' HOME.