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portant question of the market for the
products Of the empire.
The labor question" he wrote, sis i'm
portant, but that is deeper than labor
America, both in its possibilities of aui-
ance and ifs attitude Of commercial rival
was apparently ever present in M
Rhodes mind.
IIans a Secret Society.
''The world, with American in the fore
front, he wrote, lis devising tariffs to
boycott your manufactures This is the
/ supreme question. I believe that Eng
land, with fair play, should manufac-
ture Tor the world, and, being a free
| trader, L believe that until the world
| comes to its senses yoL should declare
war, mean commercial war, with those
trying to boycott your manufactures.
Inat is my programme You might win
the war by union with America and
universal peace after a hundred years"
But, toward this millennium Mr. Rhode9
believed the most powerful factor would
be "a secret society, organized like 10y
/ ola, supported by the accrued wealth of
those whose ambition is a desire to do
something and who are spared the hide
Gus annoyance daily created by the
thought as to which Of their fncompetent
ANAc'SAOI4o lA4S1 Si4OulO ItdNG IIitlE money.
Those wealthy people, Mr. Rhodes
thought, would thus be greatly relieved
and able to turn their iIl-gotten or in
heflted gains to some account"
Referring to himself Mr.. Rhodes said:
1t IS fearful thought to fix up a pat
ent and not know whether your life wiz
last to suffice for the circumlocutfon Of
the patent Office. I have that inner con-
viction that if I live L have thought OUT
sonnet thing that i- Of
tered in the patent Office. The fear is
shall l have time and opportunity. and (
believe with all the enthusiasm bred in
the soul of an inventor that it is not
self-glorifcation that L desire, but the
wish TO live and register my patent for
the benefit of those who l think are the
greatest people the world has ever seen.
but whose fault is that they do not
know their strength, the greatness or
their destiny, but who are wasting their
time in minor or local matters. but be-
ing asleep, do not know that through the
invention of steam and electricity, and
in view OF their own enormous increase,
they must now be trained to view the
world as q whole, and not only to con-
slider the social conditions Or the British
isles.
Would Like to Live After Death.
Gwen Labouchere, who possesses no
sentiment should be taught that the
labor Of England is dependent upon the
outside world, and that. as far as can
see, the outside world, il he does not
look out, viii boycott the result of Eng
lish labor"
Once again the personal feelings of the
man crop out:
''They are calling the new country Rho
| deshla,' he wrote, 'I find I am human
| and should like to be living after my
| death. STILL If that name is coupled with
| the object of England everywhere It may
convey the idea, which ultimately led to
| the cessation Of all wars and one Ian
guage throughout the world the patent
| being gradual absorption Of wealth and
| human minds Of the higher order to the
| object"
Here Mr.. Rhodes used the sentence
cabled to the Associated Press in Mr..
Stead's article Of April 4:
What an awful thought 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 werld would be secured for
| all eternity. We could hold federal
| parliament five years in Washington and
| five years in London"
WouId Combine Magnates' Wealth.
| Mr.. Rhodes added:
''The only thing feasible to carry out
| this idea is a secret society gradually alb
| sorbing the wealth of the world, to be
devoted to such an object
There is Baron Hirsch," interpolated
| Mr.. Rhodes, with $20000, coo very soon to
| cross the unknown border and struggling
| in the day to know what to do with his
money, and so one might go on ad In
! genitun.''
This was Mr.. Rhodes dream Of trans
Atlantic greatness. Fancy the charm -
he said, Ito young America just coming
on and dissatisfied, for they have filled
up their own country and do not know
what to tackle next, to share In a scheme
to take the government Of the whole