The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1902-04-17
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

or else hoped for his forgiveness. At any
rate he brought back with him charming
young bride, whom he had met while on
three months holiday, and the two were
about to start north from Cape Town for
Buluwayo, escorted to the station by
deputation of friends. At that moment
telegram arrived from Rhodes saying that
the climate OF Rhodesia was ruinous to
a wOman'S complexion-and every one I'M
derstood.
Cecil Rhodes exercised little personal
magnetism, excepting for few intimate
friends. But his powerful will and the
fact that he usually accomplished what
ever he undertook conspired to furnish
him funds for vast operations. He was
gigantic promoter.
Rhodes's method was to send out cir
culars to the stockholders of all the various
concerns in which he was interested, in
yiting them to subscribe to some new I'M
dertaking If they declined, he usually
found some method OF forcing them, as,
| for example. when he asked the De Beers
| Company for loan to carry on the war
| against LObenguls.
| On receiving a telegram from kimber-
| ley, "Wish you luck with your war, sorry
can't help you," Rhodes promptly sold a
block of shares in the British South Afri-
can Chartered Company in which De Beers
| was largely interested. This caused a
panic. for with Rhodes ont Chartered soon
dropped to zero and the loan was quickly
negotiated.
1t was through this war, in which the
blacks were moved down with Maxims
and Martini Henrys, that Rhodes secured
for the British crown a territory greater
| than the combined area OF France and
Germany-an achievement that will make
his name famous in English history.
| HAVING npnuIrpd these liUUU
square miles. Rhodes set about to develop
them, surrounding, as usual, every diff
Guilty. When the people Of Umtali COM
planned because the railroad connecting
Rhodesa with the Indian Ocean did not
pass through their town, as Rhodes had
promised II would, the giant promoter
moved the whole town nine miles, giving
| it better location than before. He spent
his own money like water, irrigating, ex-
perimenting with fruit trees and making
roads. He opened up nine farms near the
Matoppo Hills, place tabled as the scene
of King Solomon's mines, and employed
instructors to teach the natives farming
and ranching. 1t was on the giant Matop-
DO powders that Rhodes was accustomed
to sit and dream of one empire stretching
from Lions Head to Line" 1t is in their
fastness that his body will be finally buried
and monument erected.
lnOuSn IkHOueS ultu WIFI IL ut
was in no sense q miser Indeed he had
poets contempt for money, whether in
millions or mills. He used it simply as a
means to an end in the way that Napoleon
used soldiers.
The last days of Cecil Rhodes were i'm
Uttered by the greatest disappointment of
his life. II the judgment of President
Kruger is correct. Mr.. Rhodes was pri-
marily responsible for the Boer war, his
object being to get money from the Trans
vaal mines for the development Of
Rhodesia In addition to that Rhodes, as
he himself announced several years ago.
was intent upon painting red the map of
| South Africa. He neglected to say
whether with ink or blood.
Mr.. Rhodes became Disguised with the
conduct of the war while imprisoned at
Kimberley, where he made so much
trouble for the English officers that Kitch-
ener photographed to Col. Kekewich, Put
Cecil Rhodes in irons If necessary" From
| that time on Rhodes's contempt increased
and he became more or less estranged from
those with whom he had planned the war
What he thought and predicted only DR..
| jameson and a few close friends know.
All the public heard was that classic la
ment, $50 little done, so much to do"
Even at the moment of dissolution there
was apparently no remorse; only disap-
pointment that his life's work should be
cut short.