The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-04-09
THE DREAM OF RHODES
FEDERATION or THE ENGLISH
 SPEAKING PEOPLES.
In Three Columns, Inchoats and Rough. is' Confined the Whole Philosophy of the Life of
 the "Colossus."

London. April s.--An article on Cecil Rhodes by William T. Stead will appear l in the forthcoming number of the Amer ican Review of Reviews.
 The article, excerpts from which fol- low. consists of a frank. powerful expla- nation of Cecil Rhodess views on Amer tea and Great Britain and for the first time sets forth his own inmost aims. It was written by himself to W. T. Stead in 1890. For originality and breadth of thought it eclipses even hts now famous will. yet it is merely a collection of dis jointed ideas, hurriedly put together by the Colossus as a summary of long conversation held between himself and Mir Stead.
 Tn its three columns of complex sem tenoes, the whole philosophy of MT Rhodess international and individual life l Is embraced. Perhaps 1t can best be summarized as an argument in favor of the organization of q secret society on the lines of the Jesuit order for the pro- motion of the peace and welfare of the lcan- British federation with absolute home rule for the component parts: Mir. Rhodes commenced by declaring that the key" to his ideas for the de- velopments of the English-speakins race was the foundation of society copied, as to oreanizaii ton. from the Jesuits.' Combined with "a differential rate and a copy of the United States Constitution, wrote Mir Rhodes, lis home rule. or fed eratior."
 An organization formed on these lines in the House of Commons constantly working for discentralizstion and not wasting time on trivial questions raised by 'Dr. Tanner. or the important matter of o'Briens brooches would, Mir. Rhodes believed. soon settle the all-important l question of the markets for the products of the empire.
 The labor question he wrote, Ifs inn portant but tsat is deeper than labor" America both in its possibilities of alli-
 ance and its attitude of commercial rival. was apparently ever present in MT. Rhodes's mind.
 The world with America in the fore- front. he wrote. lis devising tariffs to boycott your manufactures. This is the supreme question. believe that Eng land. with fair play should manufacture believe that. until the world comes to it's senses you should declare war. I mean commercial war. with those trying to boycott your manufactures. That is my program. You might finish the war by a union with America and universal peace after a hundred years' but toward this millennium. Mir. Rhodes believed the most powerful factor would be "a secret soci- by the accumulated wealth of those whose aspiration Is a desire to do something. l and who are spared the ''hideous annoy. | snce" daily created by the thought as to they should leave their fortune. These | wealthy people. Mir. Rhodes thought | would thus be greatly relieved and be able to return their ill-gotten or inheri'
 tied gains to some advantage | Reverting to himself. MT. Rhodes said | II have that inner conviction that if 1 can live 1 have thought out something
 that is worthy of being registered in th'
 patent office. - They are calling th'
 man and should like to be living aftei
 my death. Still. perhaps if that name il
 coupled with the object of Englapd every
 where 1t may convey the discovery Of al idea which ultimltely may lead to th' | cessation ot all wars and one language | throughout the world, the patent beins
 the gradual absorption of wealth and hu
 man minds of the highest order to the ob ject.
 What an awful thought 1t is that if | even now, We could arrange with thu present members of the United States As
 sembiy and our House of Commons tn'
 peace of the world would be secured fo | all eternity We could hold federal par iiament, i've years in Washington. ant five in London. The only thing feasible
 to carry out this idea is secret societ!
 gradually absorbing the .,,cn wealth onfsct Et !n
 MT. Rhodes says the American has beer
 taught the lesson of home rule and O 1 the success of leaving the management
 of the local pump to the parish oeadl and adds: -
 Tt would have been better for Europe l if Napoleon had carried out his idea o
 a universal monarchy. He might have succeeded If he had hit upon the idea o
 granting self-government to the comp'
 On On the matter of tariffs. Mir. Rhodes
 was characteristically positive.
 T note" he wrote, with a satisfactioi
 into % the he McKinley tariff reports that il
 certain articles our rades have fatlen or or
 50 per cent. Yet the fools do not SC
 that if they do not look out they WI
 have England shut out and isolated WI,
 sO.ooo,ooo to feed and capable Of internal ly supporting about 6,00o.0Oo. If they ha'
 a statesman they would at the presen
 moment be commercially at war with th
 United States and would have boycotte'
 the raw products of the United state
 untiI she came, to her senses. and I sa,
 this because l am free trader. YOU
 people have not known their greatness
 They possess oue-fifth of the world an'
 them. They spend their time in discuss
 ing MT. Parnell and pr: Tanner tn
 character of Sir Charles Dilke, compen
 sation for beer houses. and omne no
 genus fonr supreme question sshnn at att pres fs
 the next election. Read the Australia bulletins and see where undue panderinl
 to the labor vote may lead you: But
 any rate the eight-hour question is no
 possible without union of the English
 speaking world: otherwise you drive you
 manufactures to Beisiun. Holland am ! Germany. just as you have placed grea
 deal of cheap shipping trade in the hand ! of Italy by your stringent shipping reg ulations" s'
 Here this political will and testament. as MT. Stead calls it. abruptly breaks on
 Mir Stead, commenting on this. says:
 -'It is rough and tncaoate and almos
 as uncouth as one of Cromwell's speech
 es: but the central idea glows luminou | throughout Its ideal Yin the promotio of racial unity on the basis of the prin } ciples embodied in the American Consti 7 tution." Kipling on Rhodes.
 London, April 9.--The Times this norr