Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-11-01

mf. Alfred MOSely, ~. H. u.
part is suitable for British use. Mr.. Nose
ly believes that the free education of the
masses of the people lies at the bottom of
American success and he wants England to
adopt all the good things of the world by
process of upprejudiced selection.
Mr.. Mosely's Idea.
The remarkable feature of these commits
sions is that they are the work of one man.
Mr. Mosely originated the idea Of their or
ganization their journey to the United States,
the subsequent reports and their general
distribution and out Of his own pocket will
come every dollar of expense incurred ex-
cept that which may be undertaken by
Americans who will act as entertainers at
various times and places. The tour of the
English labor commissioners will PRACTICAL
ly begin with the banquet to which they
are invited on November II and which will
signaliZe the opening Of the new chamber
Of commerce building in New York.
The expense of these two commissions
will be fully $4,000, all of which will be
born by Mr.. Mosely. If he were great
manufacturer or great employer some mo-
tive of personal gain might attach to his
experiment, though even in such a case the
enterprise would be eommendable He is
not, however. for his business interests are
all in South Africa and he has practically
retired from their active management.
He is merely wealthy man who has
taken up the question of the Improvement
OF EnglandS industrial condition as a hob
by. He has other hobbies, too such as the
collection OF priceless carved worries, picture
buying, and, as he expresses it. he has con-
ceived a hunger for English land the pres
ent stage of which is expressed In his pos
session of 200 acres at Hadley Wood Mid
dlesex. but few miles from London. Here
he lives at West Lodge, which was a hunt
Ing box for King James 1, but which is a
beautiful and spacious home for a modern
man of business. Here Mr.. Mosely houses
arf troo
joys the products Of his orchid and fruit
Conservatives.
What He Looks For.
Two of his boys he will shortly send to
Yale College where he expects them to
absorb the spirit Of American success His
best worries will go in time to the British
Museum, for he has a piece or two from
the tombs of the Egyptian queens, the du-
plicates Of which are not to be found But
at present all these matters are but side is
sues. He has been working day and night
for months past at his task of getting his
American commissions in order as to
produce the best results. He cannot say
himself what he expects these results to
be, but he has such firm faith in the
American spirit of enterprise and energy
and such an ardent belief In the necessity
of their adoption by England that he feels
sure that the visit of these representative
English laboring men to the United States
cannot but prove beneficial to those who
make the journey and through them to
their fellow workers
Alfred Mosely is a comparatively young
man, being but fortyseven.. He went to
South Africa when he was nineteen and
without capital other than his own energy
and shrewdness acquired a comfortable for
tune in the gold and diamond country The
Intimate friend of Cecil Rhodes, he believes
the latter to have been one of the greatest
men the world has ever produced. He says
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idea of an independent South Africa, but
always a greater South Africa under the
British flag. In common with other asso-
ciates of Rhodes Mosely processes to be
unable to explain the real motive of the
Jameson raid He says that the leaders of
that expedition did not understand It, and
that they simply obeyed the will of the
master mind.
Mr.. Mosely believes the South African
war to have been inevitable; that the ques-
ton of English or Dutch supremacy was
always present though siumbering. The
Jameson raid preeipitated the war, he says.
for it gave the Dutch the excuse for arm
ing. The war would have come sooner or
later, in his opinion. and 1t was better that
1t came as 1t did, Naturally he took a
keen interest In the war. and as soon as It
was required loaded a complete hospital
equipment for 200 beds upon a ship, sent
with 1t stan of 125 doctors. nurses, etc.,
and ran 1t near Durham for six months at
his own expense, and then presented 1t to
Princess Christian Hospital which played
an important part in saving the lives OF
hundreds of British soldiers.
Aroused Interest in America.
AS he has often stated. the fact that 1t
was American mining engineers who made
the South African mines profitable first led
to his keen interest in the United States
and its people. He pays high tribute to the
American engineers. Williams, Hammond.
Perkins. Jennings and others, Unidentified
with South African mining development,
including the late Louis Seymour who was
killed while repairing bridges for the British
forces. Mr.. Moselys first visit to the
United States was in 1897. He stayed four
months In the country and traveledexten-
sively. Everything interested him. and he
says that he soon realized why It was that
America produced the men of energetic
initiative who had made his African mines