The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-03-27
CAREER FULL OF SURPRISES.
Lord Grey Describes the Qualities Of
the Noted Dead.

New York, March 16.-EarI Grey.
before sailing for England. gave
to the Associated Press an inter
view concerning Cecil Rhodes, the earl
having received cablegrams from South
Africa which led him to believe that
Mr.. Rhodes had but few days to
live. Lord Grey knew the famous
South African leader intimately, hav-
ing served with him on the board Of
the British South Africa company, and
the intimacy grew when the earl was
governor Of Rhodesia. Lord Grey said;
Cecil Rhodes is the only exemplar.
perhaps, in our generation Of those
ideaiists who in the days Of Elizabeth
an adventure made the Anglo Saxon
the predominant partner In the worlds
firm. I need not call up their names
and titles.
They were all after their kind, both
the admiration and the terror of their
contemporaries, and I believe that with
all of them, from Drake to Robert
Give. terror, rather than admiration,
was the keynote they struck The con-
servative forces are those which nat
urally are in control OF governments.
We never know what he viii do next
said a friend to me of Rhodes. Some
thing big, some great development that
might involve perhaps a change in the
very constitution of our empire. The
world, at least its governors, do not
much like such men as these, who keep
them awake at night, and so the great
est Englishman of our day has come to
be looked upon. and not by the British
mandarin only. with somewhat mixed
feelings
One thing I should like especially to
point out. He had a never-failing con-
fidence in the growth of the federal
principle of government. He admired
the American nation enormously. but
for this strange and detached reason
he believed that you owed your pro-
digious. orderly development to the
splendid construction Of your cOnsti-
tuition I personally have always op-
posed home rule; being at that time
in the house Of commons, I left Mr.
GladstOne's party over this issue.
Rhodes. however. never WeaTied Of as
surfing me that I ought to have gone
forward. that in this direction alone
was safety that the Irish We're build
ing better than they at all knew, that
their demand was on Sll fOurs with
/. the American state right platform. and
that in the very rapidity Of the pro-
posed change was our best promise Of
safety He gave, YOU may recall. e10.-
O00 to Mr. Parneu. This gift was
rock Of offense to the best whig ele-
ment in our countTy-for example, to
the pectstor-but Rhodes believed
with Sir Hercules Robinson that Ire
( land would make one or two orderly
states of federal union. he saw that
rr.l7.
agreeably arranged and that in the
Canadian settlements a race problem
had been solved; that the time for
Australian federation was now at
hand; that a peaceful Gas he thought
federation Of South Africa was newt
able, and that. with certain modifica-
lions in our second chamber. so that
it might evolve as an imperial senate.
the federation OF these various COM
pOnents into an imperial union would
he secured and in our time"
Earl Grey then turned the cOnversa-
ton to the famous jameson raid call
ing it the unhappy raid which OBJ
secured my friends bright light
But let Us be fair TO him" continued
Lord Grey Rhodes in the first place
was premier in Cape Colony; ne knew
that Kruger would fight TO the death
T any feQefaLlOn OF couI1 africa unQer
our flag He knew that either South
Africa must come under the Dutch flag
OF the English flag. or that the alterna-
tive was the national system OF.
rather the weiter and chaos you see
in South Africa today If the Transva8l.
arming to the teeth, continued this
1 condition of preparation, then, also, ev-
Z cry man in our colony Of Natal must
similarly arm. 1t is no longer possible
that a chess board Of little armed ma
tions' can be permitted; they menace
the peace and orderly progress of the
entire world. You have got this in
south Africa; ne have got it in the
Balkan peninsula and. therefore, war
clouds gather at all times over central
and eastern Europe. Rhodes saw this
he saw that independence on the Kru-
ger plan was Incompatible with indi-
vidual freedom; that it involved all
round militarism
Then. again, he had great financial
interests in the Transvaal: these gave
him the moral right 10 effect a rev0-
/ luton if he could. Here was a So