The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-05
COMMENT OF THE PRESS.
How London Editors View the Munif-
cence of the Requests.

LONDON, April 5.-The London morning
papers all comment in various terms of
eulogy of the remarkable character OF the
munifcent beQuest of Cecil Rhodes and the
strong personality displayed in his tesla
mentary dispositions.
Seldom" says the Daily Chronicle, has
a human document of more curious interest
been given to the world. All the romance
Of his character, his passion Of patriotism.
his ideal of public service and his concep-
ton of the use OF money as a means of
enforcing his ideas are stamped indelibly
on his statement"
The Daily Mail says: "we venture to
think that the testament of Cecil Rhodes
will pass into the story OF his life as the
greatest and noblest deed he ever accom-
plished. The documen itself, so fun or lof-
ty ideals and noble aims, shows that, bust
nesslike and practical as he was, Cecil
Rhodes was one of the finest dreamers and
thinker of this or of any age"
The Morning Post says: Though he is
dead yet he liyeth. for the best and great
est in Cecil Rhodes is imDerishably pre-
served in the monument he built 10 him
self with elaborate fOrethought and munif1-
cent completeness"
The STANDARD comments on the striking
mixture of old-fashioned sentiment and in
tensely modern feeling exhibited in the
NS R6R
ion that the fantastic rules laid down for
the election OF scholars are likely TO lead
to the development OF priggishness. and
trusts that some means will be found to
elude these rules, which, the paper says,
seem better fitted TO figure in Rousseau's
Emile" than in the practical. modern
world.
Peculiarly noticeable is the general alb
sence of comment on Mr.. Rhodes's be-
quests OF scholarships to America and Ger
many. Except the Daily Telegraph, which
describes them as most characteristic
almost the only other paper touching on
this subject is the Daily Express, which
considers the endowment of American
scholarships TO be most remarkable, in view
of the fact that Cecil Rhodes bestowed
quite so per cent. more scholarships in the
United States than in the British empire.
Great, therefore. as the imperial element
Of the statement is, there seems TO be a
meaning in ii which is even greater" says
the Daily Express. and the paper asks:
Does 1T rot anticipate and aim at the
unity OF the English-speaking wOrld?'
According TO the Daily Telegraph tho
will of Cecil Rhodes deals with a total o.
6 ,000,0 600.
In an editorial the Times says that Cecil
Rhodes has furnished a modern parallel 70
Caesars will. as depicted by Shakespeare.
THE world will learn to-day" says the
Times. ito appreciate as il has not done
before the inner and personal character of
one or whom circumstances have presented
rather as an abstract force. There is a GER
tain intimacy, a touch of unconscious self
revelation in the provisions Of Cecil
Rhodes's will and the instructions given for
them, which bring the man nearer 10 most
haps ever could have been in life" The
Times, like the other papers, merely men
lions the fact that the United States viii
be able to have a hundred scholars per
'the rules for the selection OF these scholars
TO be both curious and business like"