The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-03-28
PRAISED
BY OLD FRIEND
v. N. Clement, Former AssOci.
ate, Talks of Great Man.
CALLS DEATH A MISFORTUNE
BELIEVES He WOULD FAVE so
LIDIFIED SOUTH AFRICA.

~ hEhE are rev men IN tnlS country
who were more intimately ac-
eusintsd and associated with
Cecil Rhodes. the dead empire builder.
than Victor H. Clement, the mining
. engineer. For a number Of years Mr..
Clement was in the employ Of. Rhodes
as consulting engineer in some of the
magnate's largest Transvaal enter
prises. He was connected with Rhodes
closely enough. in fact, to be sentenced
TO Punishment from South Africa for
having been a member of the famous
reform committee at johannesburg
Mr Clement. who is spending a few
days iu Salt Lake. talks Interestingly
of his former associate. and his event
full career in south African politics,
THE history of the unfair alien laws
in the TTansvaal is familiar 20 all
Americans" said Mr.. Clement THE
government did not attemJt to keep its
promises Of making redress and finally
the reform committee of johannesburg
was organized. ] was a member of it.
We saw that a great big blur would
De necessary 10 convince the govern
ment that we were in earnest. and we
accordingly made an armed display.
We were Just successfully treating
with President Kruger, when jameson.
against our expressed wishes, crossed
the border with an armed force, with
the intention. no doubt. Of COnqueTinS
the country. although he moved un-
der the British flag. it was plainly an
unauthorized act of fIibvstering 1t
was a wild move. too. He was cap
tured and sentenced TO death and was
saved only by the reform committee
surrendering its arms and promising,
in the vernacUlsr Of the day, TO be
good"
Rhodes Not the Inst gator.
"They could never prove that Rhodes
was the instigator Of the jameson raid.
Knowing the man. I do not believe that
he instigated it, for two great reasons.
First of all, it was against all of bis
political prOgra NINE. which had in
the consolidation IF the whole Of South
Africa into a United States Of South
Africa. Then. again, il was an act of
sheer madness and far unworthy Of the
clever Cecil Rhodes. for a handful Of
men 70 be sent on such an expedition
of invasion. It was a failure before it
was born, and Rhodes would never
have cOuntenanced it.
Was Powerful Among Beers.
prior to the raid Rhodes was a pow
eTful factor among the Beers He was
naturally a leader Of men. and in the
idea of independence he had all the
Dutch in South Africa at his feet
Later, Of course, political differences
precluded the possibility of this leader
ship. He was an unusually clever man.
very talented and able. and a great
schemer. He was modest and Of a
quiet. retiring disposition, but a man
Of la Of
his chief characteristics. The men un-
der him received higher salaries than
We're ever before paid for the same
Gle IS OF work and without even a re-
quest he paid several millions in raid
damages. None who was acquainted
with the man Cecil Rhodes can speak
word against him. He had a host Of
enemies, but they were political, not
|. personal.
"The death of Rhodes at this time is
extremely unfortunate. There is not a
man i'm England or South Africa so
able to simulate and bring harmony
among all the elements as was he"
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