The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1904-07-16
CECIL RHODES MONUMENT

The opening, the other day. or tue
Southern division OF the Cape to Cairo
railroad in South Africa was a significant
event.
Ard strangely enough the chielest hon
or of the achievement was due to one
who has passed from this earth. 1t was
Cecil Rhodes conception. and when he
proclaimed it England and the world
stood aghast, holding it as altogether i'm
practical and impossible of accomplish
nent. But mingled with his sagaci,y was
The Imagination of the dreamer. only he
ion within the bounds of mathematics.
and he would not nurse a scheme hat
he could not demonstrate to his own sat-
isfacsion had practical terminals. he Ie-
allied that a thousand opportunities are
lost daily because of want OF courage.
that the first requisite Of success was an
invincib.e determination to investigate
any Obstacles before him and see If they
could not be overcome. When satisfied
that they could be. his next thought was
If, when overcome. they would justify the
cost, and when satisfied on this point.
then. with him. there was nothing 20 do
but go on with the work. When he an
nounced the project of building the road
he had calculated all the physical and
financial difficulties in the way. and was
the transformation which had been
wrought by our own first trans-conu-
mental railway. though much of 1t had
been laid across what seemed to be a re-
sourceless desert. IL is not strange II
then he permitted his imagination 20 nave
full play and 10 call up the ~splendors tna,
would be when a path of steel trayerseo
all the depths, and the electric Ugh IL
Illuminated all the gloomy recesses OF the
dark continent. He saw civilization come
and commerce.: he saw new states
rounding into form. he saw an outlet
where all The millions of over-crowdeo
Europe could find homes and their imme-
mortal haI dsnips all be. done away win.
To him. IL was a repetition in a nnIte
way of that first that rang
an ox,a~ tho 1a.l.a... .s -
light. and there was light. and-the iIgnl
was god Mole. he knew that his fame
would be secure. that when his country
men at last should see the completed
work they would recognize how far in ad-
vance Of them he had lived.
Prior to the Boer war the Cape railway
was completed for 1000 miles north OF
Cape Town TO Buluwayo In Rhodesla and
in 1882 there was a railway connection
made between Beira on the east coast
BY way Of Salisbury with Cape Town.
Now the further link from Buluwayo TO
the zambesi river at Victoria Falls. $40
miles. Is completed. and was opened 10
trafhc two weeks ago. The further line
from the Zambesi 500 miles north TO Lake
T~anganyika. has been surveyed and Will
be rushed TO completion. From the lake
II will be pushed through German tsrri-
tory TO Uganda on Lake Victoria Ny
ANA. There 1t will be met by The rail-
way being built up the Nile valley south
OF khartoum and then there will be an
unobstructed line of steel from Cairo to
the Cage. There is already constructed
a railway from Uganda. 54 miles, to
Membrasa, on the coast Of British Fast
Africa. and surveys have been made for
the road along the east shore of Lake
Targanyika from ujiji to Uganda. In a
little while more all eastern and south
ern Africa will be ready for settlement.
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