Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1902-04-17
CECIL RHODES DREiM
Stead on the Utmost Aims of
the South African Leader.
UNIVERSAL PEACE HIS CHIEF WISH

ciety Patterned After LoyoIa's,
which Would In Time Control
Wealth and Mind.
An article on Cecil Rhodes by Will
| liam T. Stead will appear in the forth
coming number of the American Re
4 view of Reviews. The article, excerpts
/ from which follow, consists of frank.
| powerful explanation of Cecil Rhodes
views on America and Great Britain
and for the first time sets forth his
| own inmost aims. II was written by
Cecil Rhodes to w. T. Stead in 1890.
For originality and breadth Of thought
1t eclipses even his now famous will,
yet t is merely collection Of disjoint-
ed Ideas, hurriedly put together by the
Colossus, as a summary of long con-
versatlon held between himself and
Llr. Stead.
| In its three columns of complex SEN
| fences the Whole philosophy of Mr..
Rhodes international and individual
| life is embraced Perhaps it can best
be summarized as an argument in IA
vor Of the organization of a secret so.
ciety, on the lines of the Jesuit order,
| for the promotion of the peace and
welfare of the world and the establish.
ment of an American-British fedora.
ton. with absolute home rule for the
component parts.
/ Ar. hn1ne nntaraapon1 with daaio
ing that the key to his idea for the
development of the English speaking
races was the foundation of society
copied as to organization, from the
! Jesuits." Combined with "a differen-
tial rate and a copy of the United
States constitution" wrote Mr.. Rhodes,
lis home rule Or federation" An or
ganization formed on these lines in the
house of commons, constantly working
| for decentralization and not wasting
time on trivial questions raised by "Dr.
| Tanner or the important matter of
| O'Brien's breeches," would, Mr.. Rhodes
| believed, soon settle the all important
question of the markets for the products
of the empire.
/
! important but that is deeper than Ia
Dor" America, both in its possibilities
of alliance and its attitude of CONNER
cial rival, was apparently ever present
in Mr. Rhodes mind.
The world. with America in the fore
'front.'" he wrote, lis deyising tariffs to
boycott your manufactures. This is
/
England, with fair play, should manu-
| faeture for the world. and, being free
| trader, | believe that. until the world
comes to its senses, you should declare
! war-l mean a commercial WARMTH
| those trying to boycott your manufac-
! lures. That is my programme.
"YoH might finish the war by union
with America and universal peace after
hundred years But toward this
millennium Mr.. Rhodes believed the
| most powerful factor would be "a Sc
cret society. organized like Loyola's,
supported by the accumulated wealth
of those whose aspirations is a desire
10 do something and who are spared
| the "hideous annoyance" daily created
| by the thought as TO which of their in
competent relations they should leave
their fortune. These wealthy people,
! Mr. Rhodes thought would thus be
greatly relieved and be able to turn
their Ill gotten or inherited gains to
some advantage"
Even a Labouchere, who possesses
no sentiment, should be taught that
the labor of England is dependent on
the outside world and that, as far as
can see, the outside world, if he does
not look out, will boycott the result of
English labor
Once again the personal feelings of
the man crop out, They are calling
| the new country Rhodesia." he wrote
Il find | am human and should like to
be living after my death Still, per.
haps. If that name is coupled with the
object of England everywhere it may
convey the discovery of an idea which
ultimately led to the cessation of all
wars and one language throughout the
world, the patent being the gradual alb
sorption of wealth and human minds
OF the higher order to the object"
Here Mr. Rhodes used the sentence
cabled In Mr Stead's article of April
4 w hat an awful thought it is that
If even now we could arrange with the
present members of the United States
assembly and our house of commons
the peace of the world would be Sc
cured for all eternity! We could hold
a federal parliament five years IN
! Washington and Eve in London" MIR
Rhodes added; The only thing feast
! BILE to carry out this idea is a secret so
ciety gradually absorbing the wealth
ni the world, to be devoted to such an
| object"
This was Mr.. Rhodes dream of
transatlantic greatness: Fancy" he
says the charm to Young America
just coming on and dissatisfied for
/ they have filed up their own country
and do not know what to tackle next
10 share in a scheme to take the gov
ernment Of the whole world Their
present president CIR. Harrison is
! dimly seeing it, bet his horizon is lin
TIED TO the new world. north and south.
! and so be would intrigue Ia Canada,