The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1902-06-12


have In the new world afforded man.
kind one Of the most signal illustra-
tons Of the art and craft political that
the modern world has ever seen. All
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-Indian, 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 a state Of the Union
Mr.. Stead says:
Cali these things render 1t by no
means improbable that piteous appeal
from the Irish, after the next famine,
or, more likely STILL after the next
abortive instruction, 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 1t less convincing. He
writes:
$50 little Is knownof 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 jeai-
Ousy Of American influence. 1t is COM
mon ground that this war dates from
the Jameson raid. The raid begat the
ornaments, the armaments 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 hips
Of the man who conceived the conspir-
acy and risked everything to carry 1t
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 nutcn. Man for
man, he knows that che Boer is bet
ter physical, virile creature tnan the
city bred people Of Great Britain. Po-
litically 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 con
spiracy to overthrow President Kru~
ger?
German Jews. Frenchmen. Russians,
Poles, Hollanders and Americans Il
was a motley crowd that the great
golden magnet had attracted TO johann
nesburg, of which one thing at least
could be stated without hesitation
viz, that it had as little enthusiasm for
the union jack or fol anything more
ideal than dollars and cents as any as
semblage Of human beings that could
be collected on the planet 1t was
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.
"But gross Mammon worshiper
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 underestimated the resisting
force of the Beers.
"Tn fact said Mr.. Rhodes to me
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
soon make short work Of President
Kruger. Then I 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 nave 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 a center, and we should have lost
South Africa. 70 avert this catastro-
phe, tc rope in the uitlanders before It
was too late, did what did,
8Oer Prisoners Improve Their Time.
Many Of the Beers in the British con-
finr oArorc MO ry,,y,1ox1srrr