The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1902-04-26
4 EW YORK, April 12.-Among the
men of our own times-men
who have impressed the world
4 -, with the siRnet. of their reninS-

man: or his deeds. To appreciate this
man we must journey into the future, and
when we attain the point of vantage Of
some now distant day. we may look back
| to see him In relief against the past. He
was one of those men who appear under
certain conditions. to perform a special
mission or TO fulfill a certain part in
the progress Of nation or a people. The
development Of South Africa will bef In
separately connected with his name.
lRhodesia in some later day may be par
Lcelled out into states or provinces elini-
mating all traces of his name, but it is
too deeply craven on its history to be
obliterated. Whatever destiny smay have
in store for the }Zambesi country the
blue-rimmed Matoppo Hills will attract
| the attention Of the student because one
HILL View Of the World. raises its crest
to bear aloft amid a scene Of solitary
grandeur the tomb Of Cecil Rhodes. The
traveller may invade the loneliness and the
primeval repose may be dissipated by the
| hum Of civilization. nature itself may
change its face from Wildness to caltiVa-
| ton, yet the influence of the silent sleeper
on the lonely mountain summit will per-
wade the land. He was the pioneer OF
the twentieth century; he was the founder
! Of the British empire in South Africa.
| Cecil Rhodes was the incarnation Of all
that Is distinctively Anglo-Saxon. The
Anglo-Saxon is at war with all other
races; 1t endeavOrs to force on all other
peoples its win. modes Of thought. ideas.
principles and institutions. India gave
| way to the Anglo-Saxon and Its raiahs
were hunbled; America gave way to the
Anglo-S Saxon and it's people barely sur
vivej complete determination: South Al
RIGA is giving way to the Anglo-Saxon and
! its ancient races read their doom III no
| uncertain signs. With the Anglo-Saxon
domination of India rise the names Of
! Give and Hastings, Of America Hudson,
| Myles Standish, Sir Walter Raleigh, the
| Apostle Eliot and scores OF others; Of
South Africa Livingstone. Stanley and
| Rhodes.
| Rhodes personifed the spirit of the
Anglo-Saxon at the latter end of the nine
| teenth century. A century has wrought d
change in the outward and visible form of
the Anglo-Saxon, but in his inward and
| spiritual grace ne is the same, ruthless
marauder as he was In the eighteenth
century. The vices and dement's Of Has
! tings existed, but in a different form, IN
Rhodes. Each reflected the age In which
| he lived Rhodes and Hastings reflected
the industrial age. Both pirates at heart;
both regulated by the laws as ne inter-
preted them. Each had a passionate de-
sire to Increase the area Of empire and
! each had the ambition to harvest personal
wealth. The law had not advanced to
meet the necessities under Hastings; it
! had under Rhodes Warren Hastings
would never nave been impeached mad he
been able to avail himself Of twentieth
century corporation laws. The advantage
was with Rhodes.
The life Of Rhodes reads like q novel
HIS ambition was great, SO great that 1t
has been styled visionary. The much ne
accomplished was due, however. to that
dream Of greatness which surpassed the
narrow limitations Of men who 90 not
dream. How high he aimed no one knows;
how bitterly he was disappointed no one
will ever know. Is the key to his bitter
ness TO. be found in his will? In that In
strument ne seems to express in selecting
his last resting place desire to be alone,
as though weary Of all men and all their
affairs. He ordered his body to be placed
In rock on the summit OF hill that ap-
pealed to him for its LONELINESS and
grandure.'
How much Of the deep, silent. secret
nature Of this wonderful man comes out
in this very extraordinary will. He was
a man of force. Of energy, and man
who worked himself out Knowing how
many men made use Of money acquired
by inheritance, he states bruskly as
preface to the devise of Dalham Hall to
his brother, Col. Francis Rhodes
fsa t tRaat It man Ia the 1e naTa ae o.
mite occupation, and as | object to an ex
pectant heir developing into what I cal,
loafer," ETC.
mat marvellous country which received
SO 1nuch from his labors and the secrets
VI whose mountains and valleys are yet
iinper1ectly known, received but little
from him. True ne LETT estates in Rhode
sia 10 De cultivated for the education OF
the people Of that province and his resi-
oence and estate near Cape Town to be
Ultimately public park-yet. save for
the annual expenditure Of $4,000 to pre-
Isserve and beauty his burial place on
the View OF the World. he left nothing
70 the country which had so wen served
MS purpose. Did this indicate disap-
polhtment? Some few years ago his enc
mics IN London stated that ne Urea med
VI empire. and they limited he also
dreamed who the emperor should be-
1t is evident that Cecil John Rhodes
did not cherish the idea SO common
among very rich men OF leaving his
wealth. to found family of 'loafers,'
A bachelor himself he might have singled
out brother or a relative for this dis
junction. His great wealth had to 60
somewhere. An Oxford man. yet there is
no indication prior to the reading Of his
Will that he intended to build I'D the
university by a colossal endowment: and
indeed: such Is apparently not the inten-
ton OF the restator. ~ -.
Now what was the intention of Cecil
Rhodes? Was It the love Of the man for
higher education or. sympathy for young
men seeking a college education: or was
1t to prone te the love OF peoples for
England by educating young men who
you'd return to the United States and
distant English scolonies and to Germany
to ac1 as missionaries? Certainly TIE
| first and second questions would be an
swered negatively. because If he had such
love for education and such >symDa thy
with boys he would have confined the
scholarships either to all competitors or
| to English bows exclusively. AS TO the
third question. he says: Whereas. 7 de-
sire TO encourage ana foster appreciation
or the advantages which implicitly be-
| 'leve will result from union of the Eng
disappearing people and to encourage in
students from the United States OF Amer
| lea. who will benefit for the reason above
given at Oxford under this will. an at
tachment to the country from which
they sDranR. but without. I hope, With
drawing them or their sympathies from
the land OF their adoption or birth"
Possibly Cecil Rhodes believed that the
education of one hundred American boys
levery three years In England might act
az leaven In the dough OF seventy mil.
lions OF people: but 1t is not reasonable
| to assume that he had any such idea
Then. what did he mean
/ lit, would be natural TO suppose Just one
| thing. and that is reasonable without de-
tracing from the benefit to be done All
over the world these Cecil Rhodes schol-
arships would be In view OF the world.
Competition for them would be before
many boys In many places and the sue
cessful ones would learn the life history
iof the man who founded them. And SO
the lonely summit In the Natappo hills
where Cecil Rhodes sleeps the endless