Morris tribune., 1902-04-12

that may be said in criticism Of the
way in which they gained or use their
! power only enhances the wonder of it.
Landing at Castle Garden penniless
| ignorant and despised, they have made
| themselves in less than half century
! the overlords of the greatest cities in
the new world. The Anglo-1ndian, with
all the empire at his back, has not a
| firmer grip upon the administration OF
Calcutta than plain Richard Croker has
enjoyed for half lifetime over the
commercial capital Of America. Men
who have done so much with so little,
men who have created satrapies out OF
nothing and constrained states that ex-
PEELED the British to submit to their
yoke may be criminals, but they have
in them the genius of craftsmanship"
In concluding his argument or proph-
ecy-call it what you will-that Ire
land may become state of the Union
Mr.. Stead says:
Cali these things render it by no
means improbable that piteous appeal
from the Irish after the next famine,
or, more likely still, after the next
abortive insurrection, will find the
American ear quick to hear the cry
from weeping Erin, Come over and
help u.s. "
Mr.. Stead writes with absorbing in
terest when he peers into the future OF
South Africa. and he tells some secret
political history which must be more
tersely recounted here, even at the risk
of rendering it less convincing. He
writes:
$50 little is known of the inner springs
of political action that it is possible
most of my American readers will hear
for the first time in these pages that
the present disastrous war in South
Africa is the direct result of the jeal-
ousy of American influence. 1t is COM
mon ground that this war dates from
the Jameson raid. The raid begat the
ornaments, the ornaments begat Lord
Miners intervention, and that inter
vention brought on the war. But what
begat the raid? Upon this point can
speak with authority, as have fire.
quently heard the whole story of that
most disastrous blunder from the lips
Of the man who conceived the cOnspir-
acy and risked everything to carry it
out.
''No mistake can be greater than the
vulgar error of imagining that Mr..
Rhodes Matched the Jameson conspira-
cy out of any animosity or fear of the
Beers. Mr.. Rhodes has always been
very partial to the Dutch. Man for
man, he knows that the Boer is a bet
ter physical, virile creature than the
city bred people Of Great Britain. Po-
lidcally he had always worked with
them. He never would have been pre-
mier except by their. aid, and no man
ever formulated more emphatically the
axiom that without the support Of the
Dutch you cannot govern South Africa.
"Why, then, did he enter into a con-
spiracy to overthrow President Kru-
ger?
German Jews, Frenchmen, Russians,
Poles, Hollanders and Americans it
was a motley crowd that the great
golden magnet had attrac ted to johann
nesburg, of which one thing at least
could be stated without hesitation
viz, that it had as little enthusiasm fer
the union jack or for anything more
ideal than dollars and cents as any as
semblage Of human beings that could
be collected on the planet 1t was a
goddess crew, Of whom one shrewd OBJ
server remarked that it was too much
addicted to gambling, women and whis-
Ky to have the proper revolutionary
fiber
Put gross Mammen wershiper
though IT might be, Mr.. Rhodes believ-
ed it was the brain as well as the
pocket of South Africa. He knew it
was fretfully impatient of the irksome
restrictions enforced by President kru-
ger. He underestimate the resisting
force of the Beers.
"'In fact said Mr.. Rhodes to me
when he was explaining how he came
to make the one fatal blunder Of his
career, it seemed to me quite certain
that if | did not take hand in the
game the forces on the spot would
SOOu uudhS SuOII WOIh VI L ISSIuSuI
Kruger. Then / should be face to face
with an American republic-American
in the sense Of being intensely hostile
to and jealous of Britain-an American
republic largely manned by Americans,
and Sydney Bulletin Australians would
care nothing for the old flag. They
would have all the wealth of the Rand
at their disposal. The drawing power
of the uitlander republic would have
collected around it all the other colo
MES They would have federated, with
it as center, and we should have lost
South Africa. To avert this catastro-
phe, to rope in the uitlanders before it
was too late, l did what did