The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-03-27

dominant partner in the worlds firm.
1 need not call up their names and titles
'Admirals all, they went their way
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"They were all after their kind. both
the admiration and the terror of their
contemporaries, anu I 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 in
control Of governments. we never know
what he will do next said a friend 20
me Of Understanding big, some great
development that might invoke, perhaps,
a change in the very constitution of our
empire. The world, at least, its gov
ernors, do not much like such men, as
these, who keep them awake at night,
and so the great Englishman of our day
has come to De looked upon-and net by
the British mandarin only-with some
what mixed feelings.
Zone thing I should like especially to
point out. He had never failing con-
fidence in the growth of the federal prin-
ciple of government. He admired the
American nation enormously, but for this
strange and detached reason: He believ-
ed that you owed your prodigious or
derby development to the splendid con-
struction Of your constitution. I per-
sonally have always opposed home rule;
being at that time in the house of COM
mons, I left Mr.. Gladstone'S party over
this issue.
Rhodes for Home Rule.
Rhodes, however, never wearied of as
surfing me that I ought to have gone for
ward; that in this direction alone was
safety; that the Irish were building bet
ter than they at all knew; that their de-
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lean state right platform, and that in
the very rapidity of the proposed change
was our best promise of safety. He
gave, you may recall 10000 to Mr..
Parnell. This gift was a rock Of offense
to the best Wing element in our country
for example, the Spectator-but Rhodes
believed with Sir Hercules Robinson that
Ireland would make one or two orderly
states Of a federal union. He saw that
the federation 81 Canada had been agree
ably arranged, and that in the Canadian
settlement race problem had been solv-
ed; that the time for Australian fedora
ton was now at hand; that a peaceful
federation of South Africa was inev1ta-
BILE, and that with certain notifications
in our second chamber, so that it might
evolve as an imperial senate, the fedora
ton of these various components into an
imperial union would be secured, and in
our time"
Earl Grey then turned the conversation
to the famous Jameson raid, calling it
the unhappy raid which obscured my
friends bright light.
But 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 death
any federation of South Africa under our
flag. He knew that either South Africa
he into 10 bn
English flag, or that the alternative was
the national SYSTEM or rather the chaos
you see in South Africa today. If the
Transvaal, arning to the teeth, continued
this condition Of preparation then, also,
every man in our colony of Natal must
similarly arm. It is no longer possible
that a chess board of little armed ma
tons can be permitted; they menace the
peace and orderly progress of the entire
world. You have got this in South Amer
lea; we have got it in the Balkan PENN
sula, and therefore war clouds gather at
all times over Central and Eastern Eu-
rope. Rhodes saw this; he saw that in
dependence, on the Kruger plan, was in
compatible with individual freedom; that
it involved all-round milftarism.
Planned a Comp d'Etat.
Then again he had great financial in
terests in the TransvaaI; these gave him
the moral right to effect a revolution
If he could. Here was a so-caIIed re-
public refusing to a majority of it's COM
munity the franchise, while levying taxes
at the, rate of $50 per capita per annum.
and turning two-thirds of this misbegot-
ten revenue into munitions Of war.
Kruger aimed at arming all the Dutch
in South Africa with the gold levied
from the Rand mines. 1 don't want to
discuss the ethics of our war or tho
causes OF that war, but I do want to
make II clear that my friend hoped by
an efectlve coup d'etat to destroy at a
blow Krugerism and to secure for The
Transvaal the same political conditions,