The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-03-27
CECIL RHODES.

4 q A STAGE IN his world journey
u where the next turning might re-
veal the realization of his life's dream
~rcH Rhodes mas fallen asleep. He
was not an old man, but into his forty
nine years Of life he had crowded ex-
periences such as few men can compass
I'm twice that length of time, expert
ences such as not one I'm millions ever
accomplished 1t was Rhodes an5i-
ton 70 establish. under the British flag,
a federal dominion composed of Cape
CoIoay, Natal. the South African re-
uublic and the otheH countries Of South
Africa Had ne lived but a fe% years
longer he would have seen all this. I'M
less England can be persuaded to grant
freedom ID the Beers.
tt the was in South Africa can be
charged to any single individual, Cecil
Rhodes is that Individual The firsS
o. among the first Of the English, TO
see the mineral possibilities Of tAe
Transyaal republic, he worked unceas-
ingly to bring about conditions which
would force British control Rhodes
backed the Jameson raid hasco that
came SD near costing the lives Of DR..
Jameson. John Hays Hammond, Victor
Clement ana others. 1t was Rhodes
who led che protests against the al
legged impcsiticns indicted by the Beers
upon the UitanderS.
All this was in furtherance of his
dream Of British SOY ereignty over all
o. South africa that was worth hav-
ing. Was his course inspired by pre-
sonsl greed or BY patriotism? This Is
t1estion which must be answered by
hts intimate biographers. It is some
times hard to distinguish between in
tense seIfshness and burning patriot
tsm. There are those in this country
who insist that they advocate imperial
ism from patriotic motives, notwith-
standing the fact that many Of them
VIII be large personal gamers thereby.
Rhodes may have been a mixture Of pa
trioi and seIf-seeker
But whatever he was or Wa s not. he
was a busy man busy with world work
from his boyhood until the breath de-
parted from his prematurely broken
body in far-away South Africa. In his
character was found natures rarest
combination that Of dreamer and doer.
His mind was filled with visions of a
greater England, visions that many of
his feIiows pronounced chimerieaL but
he fought his fights and he won them.
as his brother EngIishman. Warren
Hastings. had done before him. And
e. England he added territory in South
Africa almost as vast as that which
Hastings added In India. Two dreams
he left for other hands to fashion into
actualites. One was the federal domin-
ion, the other the "CEpe to Cairo" rail-
road The gap between Knartoum and
the northern terminus of the Cape rail
way is stil untitled and If filed at all
it'must now cross French and German
territory. Had Gladstone given Rhodes
free rein. that lire would have been
built with every tie in English soil.
At an age when many young men
have not finished their education. Cecil
Rhodes was a power in Cane politics.
AS lad ne was attracted to the dia-
mond fields o. Kimberley and there
ne quickly acquired a fortune. The
story Of his life since then is known to
an. Dead at the age Of a. for more
than g score Of years his name and
his fame have circIed the globe. The
last two decades Of the nineteenth cen
fury and the opening years Of the
twentieth knew no more interesting
character. Rhodes and South Africa.
South Africa and Rhodes: the words
are SYNONYMOUS.
And now mis-
day IS past and gone:
The wcodmans ak lies Gree