New-York tribune., 1902-04-06

Cecil Rhodes's viii is magnificent in its
enlightened craftsmanship and in its catholic
philanthropy. But it is not therefore IL the
-1east degree surprising. 1t IS as we have
already declared. quite characteristic of the
man and just what TO be expected from
him. Those who affect to see in ii 4 strange
contrast TO his active career must be accounted
guilty Of either ignorance or a wilful attempt 10
suppress essential facts To those who have
sntelligently and impartially followed the career
pf Cecil Rhodes. and whose purpose it is neither
TO extenuate nor TO set down in malice nothing
could be more natural more logical or more
fitting as a sequential elimination of his life
work than that he should leave the bulk Of
his great fortune 10 his fellow men for the
culture of intellect. the development Of charac-
fer and the promotion of friendship and safe
guarding OF peace among the nations Of the
world.
He gives many millions for education. But
NIL his life he was an earnest advocate of edu-
cation and of the highest possible education.
When his course at Oxford was interrupted by
failing health and he had TO go TO South Africa
20 save his life. he still kept up his studies and
revisited England every summer TO keep
lis standing at oxford and in time get his
degree Thereafter he never missed oppor-
sunifv of expressing his appreciation Of the
for the business as well for the professional
man. He gives his millions thus. Also with a
view to the promotion of sympathy and friend
shin among provinces and nations. That. TOO. is
Sc fulfment of his theory Of many years ago.
chat education is one of the greatest of unifying
and peacemaking forces If lads and young
men are comrades in college, pursuing the same
studies, engaging in the same sports, speaking
the same language. reading the same literature.
thinking the same thoughts, cherishing the same
ambitions and ideals they likely to remain
On friendly terms all through their after life.
That was Rhodes's belief. and TO il he has given
effect upon unprecedented scale.
he gives his millions moreover. 10 other lands
than British Nor is that surprising British
amperialist he was in an exceptional degree.
But above that he believer In the destiny
of the Teutopic race. both Anglo-Saxon and
Germanic. He recognized the essential kinship
of the British Empire with Germany and with
the United States and he realized how irresist-
ible force for peace and for progress would be
generated ID an harmo cons cooperation OF the
three There was prc5ahly no man in the Old
World who was more friendly TO this country
or who had more intelligent and sincere admi-
ration for its institutions than he. He sim
flarly friendly TO Germany. as was shown when
be turned TO that country and to its Emperor
Tor ald ID the execution OF ms great African
projects. practically making Germany partner
OF Great Britain in the opening of the Dark
Continent. Nor was there nor is there. in his
plans the slightest thought of Turing men from
native allegiance. The young men from Ger
many and America who fill his oxford scholar
ships are not to become Englshmen, but are TO
remain just as true Germans and Americans as
before That was his desire. That is the ex-
plicit intent of his will.
-'Impe-ialist'' was the supreme reproach
hurled at him by his bitterest critics implying
therein combination Of Nero Attila and Timur
Leng He was an imperialist in the nobier