Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-04-29

soldiers streamed through Bechuana-
land, which he practically wrested
from the Beers. He seized Mashono-
land. His machine guns piled the
plains of Matabeleland high with dead
natives and by similar arguments 9th
er provinces. the whole being now in
cluded under the general term Rho
desia. came under the sway of the
chartered company which was identi-
cal with Rhodes.
His NapoIeonic Ambition.
1t is probable that at the beginning
Rhodes conceived only of British
South African empire. But his ambi-
tion grew and when the Cape to Cairo
Railroad was projected his view en-
braced an empire extending from the
Mediterranean sea to the Cape Of Good
Hope, embracing tho lands of the
fharoahs, the territory of the Mabdi,
the almost unexplored region in which
the Nile has its many sources and on
down beyond the great lakes and
across the veldt to Table Bay, where
the warships of Great Britain tug at
their anchors. Truly Napoleonic con-
ception and Napoleonic task.
AS said, the Infamous Jameson raid
and the war with the Beers were in
furtherance of his daring scheme.
When the Beers We're subdued then
Rhodes would resume his empire build
ing without opposition. But he has
died too soon.
Rhodes was enormously wealthy be-
fore the Boer war, and although his in
terests suffered as a consequence of
that struggle he is credited with hav-
ing left fortuue approximating $780,
100000. But he never sought wealth
for itself. He was covetous of the
power that wealth gives and he was
generous with his money. Once he
shocked England during the heat of
the Land League agitation by contrib
uting $4,000 to the Irish Home Rule
fund. When criticised he turned on
his critics. told them to study the
American constitution and learn how
to govern Ireland. He believed In a
vast federation under the British flag,
with the most liberal form of govern
ment In each separate State. and thus
his home rule proclivities We're natural
and inevitable. He was a great ad-
mirer Of the United States. Its i'm
mensity and success attracted him.
Rhodes was simple in his tastes. If
kingly among kings. he was also a
farmer among farmers. and among the
Cape Dutch and Beers such n meta
morphosis is the necessary stepping
stone to the hearts and votes of that
numerous people.
When he was in the Cape Parlia-
ment. Mr.. Rhodes wore q hat which
was so shabby that it became the sub
tect Of newspaper Importance. When
he was in Rhodesia he donned the old
est suit Of clothing in his wardrobe,
and followed the habits Of the pioneers
who were settling the country. He
slept in a native kraal when not near
town, and ate Of the same canned
beef and crackers that his Chartered
Formality bored him, and he would
rather live month coatless and col
larleSs in a native kraal with an old
colony story teller than spend half an
hour at a state dinner in the govern
or's mansion.
Rhodes was too strong in character
to stoop to lie. He shouldered the
full responsibility for the Jameson raid.
and when his friends asked him to be
discreet and guarded in his utterances,
he replied: It am not going to lie about
it" The conviction and sentence of