Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-03-26

| Rhodes had but few days 10 live
Lord Grey knew the famous South Az
rlcan leader intimately having served
with him on the board Of the British
south Africa company and the lntim-
acy grew when the earl was governor
Of Rhodesia Lord Grey said
Cecil Rhodes is the only exemplar,
perhaps, In our generation of those
ideallsts who In the days Of Elizabeth
an adventure made the Anglo-Saxon
the predominant partner In the worlds
trm J need not coll up their names
aud titles.
They Were after their kind both the
admiration and the terror OF their con-
temporaries and | believe that with all
of them, from Drake TO Robert Give,
terror rather than admiration, was the
keynote they struck
zone thing | should like especially to
point out. He had never.falling
confidence In the growth OF the federal
principle of government He admired
the American nation enormously but
for this strange aud detached reason
he believed that you owed your prOdl-
gious orderly development to the splen-
did construction Of your Constitution.
Earl Grey then turned the CONVEX
satiOn 70 the famous J1moston raid,
calling Il the unhappy raid which OBJ
scurcd my friends bright light
But LEI us be far to him continued
Lord Grey Rhodes In the first place
was premier IN Cape colony. he knew
that Kruger would fight to the death
any federation OF South Africa j,ider
our dag lie knew that either ,Luth
Africa must come under the Dutch nag
or the English flag, or that the alter
native vas the natural system, or
rather the welter and chaos you see In
South Africa today
Then again he had great financial
interests In the Transyaal. these gave
aim the moral right 10 effect a reyo-
luton II he could. Here was so-called
republic refusing to majority of It's
community the franchise while leyying
taxes at the rate Of 800 per capita per
annum and turning two-thirds of this
misbegottcn revenue into munitions Of
war Kruger aimed Mt arming all the
Dutch In South Africa with the gold
he levied from the Rand miners. |
don't want to discuss the ethics Of our
war or the causes of that war, but |
90 want 70 make II clear that my
friend hoped by an effective coup a. etat
10 destroy Mt a blow Krugerism to SCI
cure for the Transyaal The same polti-
cal conditions. namely equal rights for
an white men as obtain In Cape colony
End Natal He failed the raid failed
Dr jameson upset my apple cart as
Rhodes phrased Il, and the abortlye
raid presented Rhodes himself to oil
manknd In q false light"
Passing 90 the expected death Of his
friend Lord Grey said:
1.-THE world VIII be poorer; no one win
dream such dreams and try TO draw
them on map no one living perhaps
viii try as he would have tried to fed
crate our empire on the American sys-
tem Rosebery yes he win try, we win
many Of us try and we viii succeed
Others can carry on his work. ! am
happy th0t | went 10 Washington
where these things alone are fully ac-
such men as your presi.
dent, Senator Hoar and others I could
name, give those who come near them
much encouragement. a great genius
goes out with Rhodes: true. his work !
VIII 60 forward IN some ways more
smoothly. perhaps because he had In
Citahly aroused great antagonimns
but we shall not see his like again and |
his passing win for me and many 9th |
ers take much color from our lives. |
other nations. he once said % me, will |
pursue peace; but the two great Eng |
nations standing together |
can enjoln H."
Lord Grey concluded by saying
When his will Is read II win be
known with what intention Rhodes
who never wasted q precious moment |
on pleasure or self-lndulgence, had coli
Iected a great modern fortune"