Evening star., 1915-02-13
RULE Of GREAT BRITAIN
IN SOUTH AFRICA PRAISED
Former Gov. Osborn of Michigan De-
seribes Four Trips to Dark
Continent.
Before National Geographic Society
He Says Beers Won Great Vic
tory, Though Defeated.

Former Gov Chase Osborn of Mlchl-
gan delivered an address yesterday aft
ernoon. which was repeated last night
before the members of the National
Geographic Society at New Masonic
Temple, in which he declared that
Great Britain has removed the causes
of unrest in South Africa, such as
caused the Boer war. He drew a strlk-
ing picture of the Union OF South
Africa, as the Boer country is called,
and told of the results of his studies
in Africa, covering four trips. in which
he Travelled $4,000 miles up and down
the continent.
Gov. Osborn declared that although
the Zulu may be short in the clothes
that make the man. he is, nevertheless,
long in those qualities that go to make
up a gentleman; as brave as lion. as
chivalrous as a knight errant and ca
good night with all the heartiness of
word and gracefulness of manner OF
Castilian gentleman.
Some men see in Africa one thing
and some another" declared the speak
err Some see its big game. some see
its great Ruwenzori mountains and
some see it's natives. But sided
Africa is a great continent. We could
consider and discuss it all winter long
and still there would be much about it
remaining untold"
Map Made in Fourteenth Century.
Gov. Osborn showed map of Africa
that dates from the fourteenth CEN
tury. and the original of which is pre-
served in an Italian library. 1t shows
the outlines of Africa just as we know
them today, although De Cana had not
yet circumnavigated the continent. 1t
even showed where the biggest ele-
phant tusks were to be found and
where lived a tribe of black people who
had ants trained to go into the ground
and bring out grains of gold for them.
The. governor vouched for the map ex-
cept as to the ant story.
Declaring that the Portuguese sail
ors were really seeking "a way to
heaven rather than passage to India,
the speaker told of the red images that
were sown on the sails of the ships
and how the church had promised a
safe conduct to heaven for those who
were lost in the enterprise.
Proceeding to his Immediate subject,
the Union of South Africa, the Michi-
gander told how the Beers have found
their greatest victory in their sore de-
feat. The treaty of peace ending that
war gave them peace with honor. No
Boer was to be prosecuted. and the
ognized. The result is that the Beers
now rule a greater country than they
did when they were free-and the les
sons of bitter experience in colonial
government that England has learned
during the past century made her kind
ly in her relations with them-so kind
ly that the Beers are now standing by
her.
The speaker paid a high tribute to
Cecil Rhodes, who was misunderstood
in life. but honored by all fair men in
death" He was an empire builder in
the highest sense. according to the lee
turer. who peered far into the future,
and upon whose wise statesmanship
the great development of South Africa
rests.
American Methods Used.
The diamond industry was referred to
by the speaker. who noted that American
mining methods have made 1t the sue
cess that 1t has been. and that America
buys IS per cent of the output; he won-
dered whether this could be the measure
OF American vulgarity.
The most mysterious ruins in the world
are to be found in Rhodesia," declared
Gov Osborn. ''They are as large in
area as two city blocks, built of granite
blocks without mortar joints. But no
inscription. no trace of clue is left as
to who built them or why. Some say
that the Egyptians built them, but their
architecture is a negative answer to that
some say the Phenicians had something
to do with 1t, but there seem to be in
surmountable difficulties in reaching that
conclusion"
The speaker paid tribute to South Af-
RIGA as region rich in resources, ex-
ceIlently governed, populated by splen-
did race and full of possibilities for the
future. The only cloud he could discern
upon the horizon of its future is the da rk
cloud of negro ascendency- The blacks
are no longer bushmen; they are civilized
! have their churches and schools, take
part in civic affairs and put forward their
claims to general recognition. And they