The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-03-27
EARL GREY'S TRIBUTE.
Cecil RhOdes's Work and Aims Dis
cussed by an Intimate Friend.

Earl Grey. before sailing from New
York for England. gave an inter
view concerning Cecil Rhodes, the Earl
having received cablegrams from South
Africa which led him to believe that Mr..
Rhodes had but a few days TO live. Lord
Grey knew the famous South African lead
er intimately, having served with him or
the board Of the British South Africa
Company, and the intimacy grew when the
earl was Governor of Rhodesia. Lord Grey
said:
Cecil Rhodes is the only exemplar. per-
haps, in our generation Of those idealists
who in the days of EliZabethan adventure
mad the Anglo-SaXon the predominant
partner in the worlds firm. L need not call
up their names and titles
'Admirals all, they went their way.
To the haven under the hill
'"They were all after their kind. both the
admiration and the terror of their con-
tCmDOraries and / believe that with all of
them. from Drake TO Robert Give. terror
rather than admiration, was the keynote
they struck. The conservative forces are
those which naturally are lin control OF
governments. We never know what he will
do next said a friend TO me of Rhodes.
Something big, some great development
that might involve perhaps a change in the
at least its governors, do not much like
such men as these who keep them awake
at night and so the greatest English
man of our day has come TO be looked upon,
and not by the British mandarin only. with
somewhat mixed feelings.
one thing 1 should like especially to
point out. He had a never failing confidence
in the growth of the federal people of gov
eminent. He admired the American nation
enormously, but for this strange and de-
tached reasOn-he believed that you owed
your prodigiOus orderly development 10 the
splendid construction of your Constitution.
L personally have always opposed home
rule; being at that time in the House OF
Commons 1 left Mr.. Gladstone's party over
this issue. Rhodes, however. never wearied
of assuring me that / ought TO have zone
safety, that the Irish were building better
than they at all knew; that their demand
was on all tours with the American state
rights platform, and that in the very rapidi-
promise of safety. He gave, you
may recall. $1,000 TO Mr.. Parnell.
This gift was a rock of Of
Tense TO the best Wing element in our cOun-
try-for example To the Spectator. but
Rhodes believed with Sir Hercules Robin
son that Ireland would make one or two
orderly states OF "A federal union: he saw
that the federation OF Canada had been
agreeably arranged and that in the Cana
dian settlement a race problem had been
solved; that the time for Australian fedora
ton was now at hand. and that a peace
ful as he thought federation OF South
Africa was inevitable and that with GER
tain notifications in our second chamber
SO that IL might evolve as an imperial SEN
ate, the federation OF these various compo-
nents into an imperial union, would be Sc
cured and in our time"
Earl Grey then turned the conversation
to the famous jameson raid. calling il the
unhappy raid which obscured my friends
bright light. Blu let US be fair TO him. -
continued Lord Grey. Rhodes, In the
first place. was premier in Cape Colony.
he knew that Kruger would fight TO the