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P A R T I I I — Co n tz nued
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C HAPTER XX II I
R H OD E S A T H OM E
PA GE

His h o me ife l a nd c harac t e r . H is a pp e aran c e an d h a it s b . E re c t s

h o use on L O B e n gul a
’
s K l L ivra a . es in hu t s in t he M at o p o s .

H is ne g li g en c e in m o n e y m tt a e rs . A n ec d o t es . Pur c h a s e of

G S c hu ur
ro o t e E re c t s . t y h
c o un r o us e . F o rm at io n of par k .

l y
Par t ia it fo r simp l e ife l . C h ara c t e rist ic s s u mm e d up

C HAPTER XX I V
R H O DE S IN R H OD E S I A ,
1 89 1

Visit s En lan g d . H is fo u r t h W ill . An ec d o te s . R e t ur n s t o t he

C ap e S p ea s t o t he B o n
. k
B o rc e nha e n a n r Rho es d . k g gy . d
wri t es t o t he B o n d
S p e a s at t he P aar" S pea s in . k . k
l
Par iam e n t The B an Act
. W rit e s t o o t her C o o nia k . l l
Pre mi e rs W r it es t o S t ea
. Tr an s aa rai in t o Rh o e sia is d . v l d d
he a e dd
03 P o it ic a affair s
. l
Rho e s i n D u r a n l
Visit s . d b .

Pie t e r m ari t z b g
ur . L an d Del ago a B ay
s at La n s at B e ira . d .

Dispu t e w it h o c a l l au t h o r it ies Pr o c e e s u p Pun w e R i e r

. d g v .

R ea c he s ac e u e c e
q M . Re ac h e s mt a i Met Dr U
am es o n l . by . J .

Ar ri v es at l b y
S a is ur . M eet s Lo r d R an d l ph
C hu r c hi
o ll .

C o n t inu e s his o u rn e Visit s j

az o e y . M . An d C hart er And .

Vi c t o r ia A n d Z im a w e D e W aa o n
. bb . l t he c o un t r Rho e s y . d
arr i v e s at o r t Tuli And F a c o u t s ie Vi sit s Pa ap e
. M l . l y S . e es

K hama A r ri e s at
. afe i n v
A t Vr ur At M k g
im . yb g . K b ly er e

C HAPTE R XXV

THE F I RS T R H ODE S M I N I S TRY , S E S S I O N S O F 1 89 1 1 892 -

Hi s ill h ea t h
-
l . H is ac c i d ent . His m an y a n x i e t ie s . I mp e n in d g
sh a d o ws . A p pr o ach of w ar . C o n t ra s t b et ween t he R e p buli cs

an d t he C o l o ni e s . B et w e e n K g ru er a n d R ho d es . O pen i g f
n o
vi CE CI L JOHN RHODE S
PA G E
C ape Par ia men t D e at h o f l in of o l an R ho es o n . K g H l d . d
Gl d
a st o n e Pr e fe r en t ial t a rifis
. The B a l o t B i The ‘
ua
'

. l ll . d l
po sit io n
’
Rho e s an d . u n ic i pa t ax at io n d
A S c ho o o f in e s M l . l M .

l
C o s e o f S e s sio n a e s his fift h W i S t ea o n R ho e s
. Mk ll . d d .

d
R ho es o n Tar iff R e fo r m i e s £ 5 000 t o Li e ra Par t . Gv b l y .

d
C o rr e sp o n wi t h S h dh t A dv t
en c e T c na o rs . o ca e s e ac hi g n

U i v it y T v l ff i Op i g f t l g p h li t
n e rs . ran s aa a a rs . en n o e e ra ne o

S li b y
a sVi it ur E gl d . C p P li m t f 1 8 92 s s n an . a e ar a en o .

A t t k d b y S p igg
ac e M im B dg t Rh d Sw i r . e rr an s
’
u e . o es o n az

l d F hi Bill D
an . ran cd W if S i t B ill Th se . e c ease e s
’
s er . e

D t h l g g
u c C v t iv
an th wua b y Gl d t e . o n ser a es o v er ro n a s o ne .

T v l h t il it y t t h C p C l y P g t i f
ran s aa os o e a e o on . ro ro a on o

P li m t
ar St a g p it i f t h Rh d M i i t y Rh d
en . ro n os on o e o es n s r . o es

on t A id t
o ur . Kimb l y E hi bit i cc Rh d p k en . er e x on . o es s ea s

at K imb l S i w ight k ight d

er e y Rh d vi it E gl d
. ve r n e . o es s s n an .

A dd Ch t
r e s se sd h h ld T v l P id t i l ar e re s ar e o ers . ran s aa r es en a

El t i ec Rh d on . Ug d A f i T ti t lo es on an a . r can ra ns c o n n en a

T l g ph C mp y
e e ra Rh d h f i t o l di i i an . o es e ars o n e rn a s s e ns o n s n

hi M i i t y
s Rh dn s r l v E gl d I id t f B it i h
. o es ea es n an . nc en o r s

g v t B m pl t
ra e s a oo aa s

C H APTER XXVI
TH E S E C ON D R H ODE S M I N I S TRY , S E S S I O N O F 1 8 93

Th e S iv e wright q u arre or e n e o a o ns o fm e r l A b t iv g t i t i
e c in es . y d l . H
t o t a e o ffic e k e us c e an o es . C hi f J t i
R ho e s re si ns d Rh d d g . .

F o rms n e w in is t r Par ia men t o p ens MThe u a p o s it io n y . l d l.

a aing I n n e s o n t h e L o an c o n t rac t
. e at e e at e s g H d db . .

l
C o o nial win es Rho e s o n t he t ariff W e st C o as t Ra i w a
. d . l y .

d
Rho e s a o cat es a dv
i nis t er fo r A r ic u t ur e R ho e s o n M g l d .

G e rman S o u t h W e st Afri c a -
. F o re s h d w g
a l l ti
o s e n e ra e ec on .

Cond e mn s Trans aal p o ic v l y . Pr o ro g t i f P li m t

a on o ar a en .

Rh d o e s at im e r e K b ly

C HAPTER XXVI I
THE M ATABE LE W AR ,
A N D A TE R, 1 893 F
Rho d es an o pt imis t . Lo B e ngu la . D aw s o n
’
s w ar n i n g H lm
. e
’
s

w ar nin g
dy D J m
. J Cl b d
C apt ain L e n . r . a e so n . . o en ra n er .

B d or l K er l vi Umj
Po i c e d h i im p i F igh t
hama s’
. e es . aan a n s .

i g
n th B mb i
on A ll W il d t h Fl ight f t h
e e ez . an so n s
’
ea . o e

K i g Rh d p k t B l w y R t t h L b h
n . o es s ea s a u a a o . e se n s e a o uc e re

crit i i m Vi w f S l
c s L d K t f d
s . D l g B y e s o e o us . or nu s o r . e a oa a

g ti ti
ne o Si H al R bi Hm Rl
o ns . r e rc u e s o n so n o n o e u e
 C ONTE NTS v ii

C HAP TER XX VI II
A B US Y Y E AR ,
1 89 4
PA G E
M t bll dOd i
a a e e an C o unc i R es i nat io n o f A t t o r n e
r er n e n e ra l . g yG l -
.

Rh d p k i
o e s S ea s n C ap e To w n E xc it e m e n t i n E n lish p r e ss . g .

C p G a e l Ele n era e c t io n Rho e s w in s S p ea s a t im er e . d . k K b ly .

A t B kly W t
ar es At ip am A ffairs o f P o n o a n. Kl d
is t o ri c . dl d H .

v y Rh d
sur e o e s v is it s a n d ann e x e s al l Po n o an
. Par i am e n t dl d l .

o pe n s Th er o n C hair m an o f C o m mit t e es
. Rho e s o n pre fe r d .

e n t ial d u t ie s . Th e
‘
R ho d es l
c a us e . H igh C mmi i
’
o ss o ne r

a rr i v gl d Vi it P t
es fr o m E n an . s s re o r a i Th fl g i id
. e a nc ent .

L h woc K g D b t i th
ar n s ru er . e a es n e C p P li m t
a U it e ar a en .

l d giv
an er T v lG r e an c e s . r an s aa re en B k G wi g
oo t . ro n u nr e s .

V and W lt C l i l C f
er a . o on a o n er e n c e t Ot t w a G m a a . er an

tro ubl i S t h W t A f i S
es n ou -
es r ca . ca b A t G l G y Bill c . en re .

P li m t p
ar ag d Vi it t G t S h
en S h i
ro r o ue . s o rs o ro o e c u ur . c r e ne r

t t
r e u rn s ffi Rh d g N t h J h H y H mm d
o o ce . o es o es or . o n a s a on .

Rh d o i it E gl d
es Ag m t
v s t B it i h C t l
s n an . re e en as o r s e n ra

Af i Rh d L d A v id p b li k g ‘ ’
r ca . Li op i es a on on on . o s u c s ea n

XX I X C HAP TER

TH E G ATH E R I N G S TOR M 18 95 ,

Rh d P ivy C ill B l kb ll d T v ll Cl b ’
o es a r o u nc or . ac a e at ra e e rs u .

R f m d At h
e or m Cl b l t him M t i g f C h
an e n ae u u s e ec . ee n o ar

t d ereh h ld K g s d G m y
are D L yd
o ers . ru er an er an . r . e s .

S w il d Am t g l d
az an M St L g. M Edm d a on a an . r . . e er . r . un

G t t R t i m t f S i H L h Rh d i H
arr e . e f re en o r . oc . o es n o u se o

A mb ly
s se A d t d t iv A iv l f S i H R b i
. n e u ca e na e . rr a o r . o ns o n .

A ti f B h
n n e xa l d M im on ll f p p
o ec u ana an . e rr an ca s or a e rs .

W lfi h B y H fm y
a sc b i t hd y H a
p g d M. o e r s
’
r a . o use ro r o ue . r .

C h mb l i a S l T v l pi p i k O g F
er a n . e o us . ra n s aa n- r c s . ran e r ee

S t t p li y a eH igh C mmi i o i it T
c v l A j mp
. o ss o n er v s s ra ns aa .
‘
u

i g ff n g d D ift q t i
-
o G vit y f p it i
ro u n . r s u es on . ra o os on .

Jm a R id eso n a

C HAPTER XXX
TH E R AI D AN D I TS R E S ULTS ,
1 8 96

K ais er s c a
’
bl e
gra m . Mr S c hre in er
. d . Rh o es r e si n s g . In l
s e c u s io n

at G ro o t e S c hu u r . O bj t f R idec s o a . Rho d es in K im b l y er e .

R e t u rn s an d sai s fo r l E gl d L v
n an . ea es fo r Rh o d e s ia . F at e

of J o h an n e s b gR f ur e o rm C o mmit t e e . Tr ia l of Dr . J am es o n .

Rho d es at S li b y
a s ur . S ec o n d Mtbl a a e e w ar . M as h o n a Re
 CE CI L JOHN RHODE S
PA GE
b lli
e on . R ho d es sp ea k s at Bu l aw a y o . Pe ac e ne g o t iat io n s .

I nc i d ent s of t he c a mpa i n g . R ho d es s t a rt s fo r C ape To w n .

G ro o t e S c huur ur ntb d o wn . Re c e pt io n at P o rt E iz a e t h l b .

Pr o c e e d s to K b ly
im e r e . D e B eers m e e t in g . Ar r i v es in C a pe
To w n . An e c o t e s d

C H APTER XXX I
TH E C APE PA R LI A M E N T , 1 896

Gvo e rn o r s
’
sp e e c h . M e rrim an on t he w arp at h Gv
o e rn o r s
’
de
p art ur e . De b at e on t h e Ra i d . Se l
ect C o mm it t e e D e at e o n . b
l v
ea e o f a b se n c e . S c hr e in e r d e fen d s . R ep o r t o f C o mm it t e e .

S c hr e ine r s
’
g r ea t sp e e c h . Pro ro g at i o n o f Pa r iam e n t l

C HAPTER XXX I I
TH E S EL EC T C O MM I TTEE O F TH E H OU S E OF C O MM ON S ,

AND A F TE R ,
1 897

B ri t ish s u pr e m ac y . A c q u isit io n of l d F
an . r uit y m it far ms . D na e

fac t o r y . R e c e p t io n
S c hu u r an u e nat r G a ro o t e . B q t i D ill H l l .

d
Rho e s an d La o u che r e S ail s fo r E n an b a es o an . gl d C b l t d .

fro m t h e S ir ar R ho e s i n L o n o n d . r u e r an u dc a d . K g d J di i l
B ench Rho e s e fo r e t he C o mm it t e e
. d b S ails fo r S o u t h Africa . .

Re e nt e r s t he o us e o f A ss e m
-
H
S p e e c h e s o ut s i e Pe bly . d .

si ev Fde erat io n Lor R o smea r e t ir es

. S ir A d
i ner d . . Ml .

d
Rho e s a fa t a is t Vie w s o n r e i io n l .o u se o f C o mm o n s lg . H
C o mmi t t e e R e po r t I vis it Rh o e sia A t t he . at o p o s Tr e d . M . k
wit h R ho e s A n e c o t es d . d
C HA PTER XXXI I I
S E RI O US I LL N E S S

Tran sc o nt in e n t a l Tel g ph R h
e ra . Op en in ofo de s at In y g an a. g
Ra i w al y t o Bu a a o l w y N t iv
a e n e w s p ape r
. S u sc r i e s t o par t . b b y
fu n d Hg s . i h C o m m iss io n e r in Rh o es ia Rho e s ac to d . d b k
Sa li b y
s ur . Trans aa C aim fo r v l l o r a a n d I n t e e c t u a D a ma es M l ll l g 2 14

C HAPTER XXX I V
A S TRE N U OU S Y E A R ,
1 8 98

M a t o po D a m . R ho d
in C ape To wn
es I n t e r ie we Cap e Ti mes . v d by .

N e w Or d e r in C o u n c i A l
re ss e s C ap e e e c t o rs
. dd
S ai s fo r l . l
gl d
En an . Pr ese n t a t me e t in o f C ha r t e re C o m pa n g
At t en s d y .
d
m ti gee n Tr an s c o n t ine n t a Te e raphs l
C ape Par ia me n t lg . l
 C ONTE NTS ix
PA GE

a ss e m bl esgg b y S h i d th
Effo rt s t o o v e r t h ro w S pr i c r e n e r an e

B d R d i t ib t i B ill gg d f d hi l t t t
.

on e s r u on . S pri e en s s e er o

C h mb l i G v m t d f t d A pp l t t h t y
.

a er a n . o er n en e ea e . ea o e c o un r .

Rh d p
o l it i l p
es sh R l
’
t f G l Eol t i S p igg ca s e ec es . e su o e n era ec on . r

ig
r es S h i ns d Rh d p t t h V Ri
. c r e n er s u c c e e s . o es r ese n s e an e

b k t t t C p T w At t d t h D B
e ec s a ue m ti g o a e o n . en s e e e e rs ee n .

S il f E gl d
a s or n an

XXXV C H APTER

TH E S TR U GG L E FOR S U PR E M A C Y 1 899 ,

I mp t t i
or a f m Rh d
on o t b li v i w ar Rh d b ys . o es n o a e e er n ar . o es us

i n L d Vi it E g y p t
on I t vi w w it h t h
on . Ki t s s . n er e e a se r a

B li er A gm t
n . iv d t I t i w wi h Ki g f
rr an e en s arr e a . n erv e t n o

t h B l gi
e M d D C L b y O f d A t t d Ch t d
e an s . a e . . . x or . en s a r ere

m ti g ee Ov fl w m t i g
n Rh d
. b k i Cp Tw er o ee n . o es ac n a e o n .

P bli u dd H c f A a mb ly Rh d p k
re s s e s . o u se o ss e . o es s ea s re

p t dl
ea e y G w i g i H. t d p l it i l d b tro n u n eas n e s s . ea e o ca e a es .

R w d im p t t i
en e f m e E d f m th R d C p
or a on o ar s . xo us ro e an . a e

G v m t w k d v ill t i g P li m t d i mi d
o e rn en ea an ac a n . ar a en s ss e

XXXVI C HAPTER

TH E S I E G E O F K I M BE R L E Y 1 899 ,

Pre para t i f d f
o ns A l i b t or d w i t h t t h
e enc e k . on cu r e u rn e ou an s .

O g F S t t d T v l d wi g t g t h A g i t
ra n e r ee a e an ran s aa ra n o e er . a ns

p t t
r o es s R h d t h w h im l f i t K im b l y
o B
es U l t im ro s se n o er e . o er a

t m
u M i l L w At t k d t i S t t T
. art a k ill d
a . ac s an so r es . co -
urn e r e .

L b m m k
a ra L g C il B a
p ly w i t h
es L ‘
g T m on ec .
’
o e rs re
‘
on o .
’

L b m k ill d
a ra G i m h ff iv e F i fight
. arr s o n r e su e t e o en s e . ur o u s

i g
n G. l F h iv B i t t A d t
e n era re n c ar r es . o e rs n re r e a . n ec o es

C H APTER XXXVII
G TH E E N D 1 900 N E A RI N ,

Aft e r t h Si g e Rh d F d ti e N t iv F
e . hi L d o es o n e e ra on . a e ran c se . or

R b to Rh d A dd
er s o n d pp i ti S pp t o es . r e s se s an a re c a o ns . u er a

O i lr e Mi i g w k . m d L tt t A hb i h p n n M il or re s u e . e er o rc s o . n er

an d Rh d Vi it t E gl d S i F
o k L ll R t
es . s o n an . r ra n as c e es . e ur n s

t th C p
o Vi it t R h d i
e F ll f S h i
a e V il d
. s o o es a . a o c re n e r . e e

di l y l t y S i G d
s o S p igg J m
a .d id t L t t r or on r . a eso n a ca n a e . e e rs

f m
ro pp t S t h Af i
su L g Rh d M g
o r e rs . ou r c an ea ue . o es on u

w mp u D ti t C th d l
s . C i fB t t it y
o na on o a e ra . ess o n o aro s e e rr or
x CE CI L J OHN RH ODE S
C HAP TER XXX VI I I
THE L AS T YE A R ,
1 90 1
PA GE
dd g
S ch o larship fo u n e M H
S h a n a ni . o n um e nt o n o ur e D ea . d d
M M b yH l
e m o ri al . g
o w ra o st e Pla ue C a mp Ch in e se La o u r
. . b .

M g e e t in g of S A M g Hl
L e a u e at . afe kin e ps im e r e . K b ly
To w n C o un c il y k
Visit s B ul aw a o
. S pe a s t here P an s a
. . l
d d bl d by g
s eas i e re s i e n c e Tro u e . fo r er ie s Visit s E n an . gl d .

k dg
Ta e s Ra n no c h L o ly egy Visit s I t a an d E pt
. Re t u rns t o .

gl d
E n an .l j d
P u rc hase s D a ha m Pr o e c t s a L an S c he me
.

C H APTER XXX I X
CL OS I N G DA YS
S us pen sio n of t he C o n s t it u t io n . G ro win gi nfir mi t y . R e mo vla to
M u iz e n b g er . L e t t e r t o Ar c h is ho pb . The Mat o po Dam . Le t t e r
fro m a l dya c o rr e s po n d ent . D ai ly b ll t i
u e ns . S ufie ri n gs
'

L a s t h o urs . D ea t h

APPENDI X
C O PY O F TH E WI LL O F TH E R I GH T HO N . CECIL J OHN R H O DES

I NDE X
 I L L U S TR A T I O N S I N VO L U ME II

D E AT H MA S K OF C EC I L R H O DE S , fr o nt isp ie c e
‘
ON TR E K ’
IN R H OD E S I A , f ac ing p a g e 1 72

R H O DE S S
’
GR AVE O N TH E M A TO P O HI LL S
FA C SI M I LE OF N OTE BY H ODE S W I TH
MR . R

R E F ERE N C E To H I S S PE E C H I N W HI C H

HE A DVO C A TE D E " UAL R I G H TS ,

’
 TH E RI G H T H ON .

CECI L JOHN R H O DES

CHAPTE R XX I II
RH O DE S AT H O ME

H is h o m e l if e an d c harac t er— H is a
pp e aran c e an d h a it sb Er e c t s h o u s e
on L O B engul a s ’
K l r aa — Liv es in hu t s in t heMt a o o s—
p H is ne glig enc e

in m o n e y mat t e rs — A n e c o es — dt P h
ur c f G
ase o ro o t e S c huur — E r ec t s
c o unt r y F
h o u s e — o rmat io n o f par k P t i lit y f
— ar a or l l
s imp e ife — C har a c

t erist ic s su mme d
up .

WE have had glimp s es Rhode s under various a spects of .

We have s een him at work cotton growing and diamond -

winn ing We have s een him enter t he arena O f p ublic

.

life not ill equipped fo r t he conte s t We know ho w

,
-
.

he bore hi ms elf before t he world both in b us ines s ,

and in politics But what o f his private life " I n

.

what a spect did he present hi ms elf in hi s own home ,

under hi s own roo f tree and among his more intim ate -
,

friend s The ans wer is unamb iguo u s He was wholly .

lovable I n t he strain and s tress o f great affairs he

.

cou ld be at times abru pt hard a nd repellent, but t he ,

mood w as a passing one His s te el blu e eyes were .

-

curious ly changeable in expression he had a qu aint ,

break at times in his vo ice and his handshake with a , ,

crooked finger was a thing to be remembered B ut

, .

unle ss a fiam e at meeting cra ss s tup idity he w a s kind ,

ness itself especially to tho se who need ed kindnes s

,

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2 CE CI L J OHN RHODE S
mo st I n hi own ho us e he w as an in comparable ho s t
. s ,

a delightful and s timul ating companion a tho ughtful ,

and affectionate friend If his political antagonis ts .

refus e to s ay o f him withou t qu alification what F itz , ,

patrick said o f Charles James Fox A patriot s even ,

’

co urs e he s te ered mid faction s wildest s torms un

’ ’

moved no man who knew hi m well will refu s e to com

,
’

p l e t e t h e famo u s qu atra in and s a y o f him By all ,

who marked hi s min d revered By all wh o knew hi s , ,

heart beloved
’
.
,

The modern cu lt o f t he S im ple s trenu ous life so ,

o ften preached so s eldom practised had in him a

, ,

devou t worshipper Sim plicity wa s his domin ant note

. .

Like Caleb Garth hard work was his creed The ,

’
.

brilliant trifler t he elegant lounger were hi s abomina

, ,

tion Hi s love o f cleanl iness was very remarkable

.
,

and he wo u ld not camp o ut in t he veld if a jam t in were

fo un d at t he pla ce s elected I n his early days in Natal .

he w a s c o n tent to live in a Kafir hu t and on t he Diamond ,

Fields in a tent When he and Dr James on forgathered

. .

at Kimberley in 1878 they Shared an unpretentious ,

bachelor es tablishment in a modest cottage on t he

main s treet I ndeed intimate as w as hi s association
.
,

with Kimberley he never had a residence there He

, .

built an admir ably plann ed model vill age fo r hi s whi te

workmen but he built no hom e fo r hims elf I n hi s
, .

later years and during t he siege he resided at t he ,

Sanato rium a place he wa s ins trum ental in erecting

,

fo r t he comfort o f E n ghsh invalid s o f whom he was ,

always mindf ul a s he was o f t he poor consumptive

,

s econd cla s s pa ss enger O f w hom we have a lready ha d

-
,

a glim p se as voyaging with him to Natal in early

days .

I t w as t he s ame in R hode sia Near B ulawayo on .

,
 RH ODE S AT H OME 3

t he very site o f t he Royal Kraal o f t he las t o f t he

Matabele kings he built a commo di ous residence as a
,

Governm en t Ho us e On t he lawn s till s ta nds t he tree

.

o f j u dgment under w hi c h L O B e n gu la s at and decreed

nameless tort ures fo r s mall and s ometimes imaginary

O ffence s . I t s gnarled and twis ted tr u nk no longer
grows on open veld bu t amid a trim parterre des ign ed
,

by t he S kill o f a landscape gardener I t is a grim .

,

dumb witness to an era o f cruelty that thanks to Rhodes , ,

has fo r ever pa ss ed away The ho us e is co mforta b le

.
,

t he pro spect agreea b le t he s eclus ion complete bu t

, ,

Rhodes did not care to live there I n full view o f t he .

mans ion acro ss t he wide plain ris es on t he horizon

, , , ,

t he mo urnful hill o f T haba s I nd una t he s cene o f a

—

s t ill remembered
-
Matabele tragedy but even t he —

his torical a s sociation s o f t he place co u ld not tempt

him . From t he hous e toward s t he to wn runs t he mile
, ,

long avenu e whi ch he planted fo r t he s ake O f future

generations Y o u say
. he remar ked to a friend
,
’

that I Shall not live to s ee tho s e trees grow I tell yo u .

that in imagination I already se e people passing and

repassing under their S hade But even this did not .
’

move him to reside there more than occa sionally .

Urgent b usiness made upon him a higher claim and ,

a s a rul e he pre ferred to occ upy a s m all and unco mfort

,

able cottage o n t he main s treet O f t he dus ty town I t .

wa s t he s ame in t he Matopo s where later on he made , , ,

his home and hi s grave Ami d a riot O f hi lls enc irclin g

.

a singu larly beau tifu l valley he erected not a ho us e , , ,

bu t a gro up o f native hu ts and lived there in perfect

happ ine ss N O E ur opean ho us e intru ded on t he tran
.

quil s cene until he had pass ed away .

I t wa s t he s ame when he p urc ha s ed a s erie s o f pro

t i in t h e valley o f t he Drakens te in near Cape
p er es
4 CE CI L J OHN RHODE S
Town They were s tudded with fin e examples o f tho se
.

O ld Hu gu enot home s tead s in whi ch his s o ul delighted .

B u t he occu p ied none O f them Their former owners .

,

a simple kindly ho spitable folk were permi tte d to

, , ,

remain in un di sp u ted po ss ession and he built hims elf ,

a tiny cottage on t he mounta in side lookin g down upon -

a panorama o f enchanting loveline ss Whi le an ordi nary .

member Of t he Cape Parliament he lodged at a small ,

private hotel or took his meals at a club Long a fter .

he had ama ss ed a fortune his pers onal expendi tur e ,

w as incons iderable tho u gh hi s genero sity to other s

,

w a s suspected to be uns tinted I s ay suspected becaus e .

,

no man knew He w as very reticent about his boun ty

.
,

nor did he allow hi s right hand to know what his left

hand di d He had mas tered t he pro found secret
.

that a man s life does not cons is t in t he things that he

’

possesses .

Soon after he became Prim e Minis ter I undertook , ,

at his requ es t to supervis e his hous ehold and other

,

expenditure and sub sequ ently he tricked me into

,

holding his power o f attorney alleging that it wa s to ,

meet a temporary ab sence from t he Colony When .

he returned I s ent him back t he docum ent bu t he ,

refus ed to receive or revoke it and I held it till he died , .

By his expres s desire I not onl y paid away su ch amo unts

a s were legally d u e by him bu t made grants and dona ,

tions at my dis cretion To a banker brought up in .

t he s tricte s t tenets o f hi s s ect he w as an un do u bted ,

trial He once lo st a diamond worth £70 bu t h took

.
, e

no s tep s to recover it I n su ch matters he wa s hab itu

.

ally careless He never had any money in his pocket

.
,

and his bankin g account w as frequently overdrawn .

He refus ed to check or investigate any financial s tate

ments I submitted to hi m nor did he ever know what ,
 RHODE S AT H OME 5

he wa s worth until I framed a balance S heet fo r him -

.

The comp ilation o f t he document wa s a work o f diffi

culty and research His s ecurities were o ften found
,
.

to be regis tered in t he names o f third parties Some .

were in t he pockets o f di sus ed coats and s ome in O b s cure

corners o f his es crito ire He never kept a s e t o f books
.

or a lis t o f sums due to him Secretaries o f p ublic .

compani es were apt to compla in that his dividend

warrants were un duly o u ts tanding and he ha d to be ,

s earc hed ere they co u ld be fo und When I s equ es tered .

his chequ e book in his own interes ts he is su ed c hequ e s

-
,

on half sheets o f note paper and on some occa sions-

S igned them in penc il While in Rhodesia during t he

.

Matabele war hi s heart bled fo r t he pecun iary lo sses

,

s uffered by his s ettlers a s he called them and in t he

’

, ,

S pace o f a fe w week s he ca lled on me to di sb ur s e more

than to relieve t he distress When t he fin der .

pest ravaged t he Cape Colony and threatened t he

des tru ction O f his valuable wild anim als in t he paddocks
o f Groote Sc huu r I telegrap hed to him at t he ins tance
,

o f t he Veterinary Departm ent s ugge s ting t he tempo ,

rary exclusion o f t he p ublic from t he es tate in order ,

to mi nimise t he risk o f infection Promptly came .

back t he uncompromising ans wer Certainly not ,

t he place belongs as mu ch to t he p u blic a s to me

’
.

On one occa sion I received a remittance from a

trader in a small village in t he Northern Transvaal ,

w ho wrote that Rhode s had s e t him up in b u sine s s year s

before and having pro spered he now desired to repay
, , ,

t he lo a n with intere s t Upon my mentioning t he fact

.

to R hodes he onl y snorted indignantly at t he world in

,

general remarking An d yet they say men are not

, ,

hone s t " On another occa sion I remarked to him Y o u ,

don t seem to care fo r money

’
For it s own sake no .
’

, ,
’
6 CE CI L JO HN RHODE S
he rep li ed emphatically I never tried to make it fo r
,

it s own s ake bu t it is a power and I like power

’
.
, ,

I w a s once weather bo u nd at a ways ide S hanty in

-

Ma shonaland kept by two German s torekeepers

, ,

brothers On hearing that I knew Rhodes one o f

.
,

them exclaim ed Ah he is a whi te man all thro ugh

,
.

We are on t he old Portugues e bo undary and o ur ,

farm s were delimi ted as be ing on t he Rhode sian S ide .

Owing to endles s red tape at Salis b ur y we fa iled to get ,

title and decided to approach Mr Rhodes direct I . .

ha d met him once bu t only once and had been O f s ome

, ,

s light s ervice to him bu t it w as long ago and I co ul d

,

not expect hi m to remember me We hesitated to .

tro uble him while t he Matabele war las ted but when ,

that wa s over and we learnt he was coming o ut via

Beir a and mus t pass o ur door we determined to inter ,

view him B u t t he day before he arr ived we heard his

.

ho us e w a s b urnt to t he gro un d and that he wa s mu ch

dis tres sed s o we agreed not t o worry him Well he
, .
,

came and ou tspann ed at o ur place and greeting me by ,

name he remin ded me o f o ur la s t interview and asked

,

wa s there nothin g he co ul d do fo r us Then we S poke

up . He wa s very angry and walked up and down like ,

a b ul l in a ring fence but he got on t he wire at t he

,

next s tation and withi n a week we received o ur title

, ,

with an apology fo r t he long delay .

’

Many su ch illus trations o f t he human interes t he

took in all sorts and conditions o f men might be given .

When he arrived at Groote Schuur a fter t he fir e he fo un d

that his bedroom had been s aved I went over very .

early t he following morning and walk ing into t he ,

room a s us ual addressed him by name But t he figure

,
.

in t he bed when it turned toward s me wa s not that

, ,

o f R hode s bu t o f his Secretary

,
I am down with .
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Sou thern hemis phere I t s long level ridge broken by .
, ,

bu t one imm ens e cleft s tru ck t he early navigators with ,

awe I n t he fir s t days o f t he s ettlement it s sides were

.

clothed with indi genous forests t he haunt o f lions and

leopards Ki pling s ays o f it
.

H il t h d a d b t d ft f m h d t h d
s na c e an ar e r e o ro an o an ,

I d m my d m by
r ea k d h t h d pi r ea ,
ro c an ea an ne ,

O f Empi r e , t o t he N o r t hw ar d . Ay , o ne L an d
F r o m L i o n s H ea d t o L in e
’

E arly in t he eventeenth century t he au thoritiess ,

o f t he Du tc h E a s t I ndi a Company finding Cape Town ,

un plea s antly wind s wept began to build here and -

, ,

there on t he S lopes o f t he Hill who s e summit towered

,

3600 feet above them Some excellent soil wa s fo und .

at t he ba s e o f t he mountain a fe w mi les away from ,

t he s ettlement Farms and cattle po sts were gradually

.

es tablis hed where now s tand residential suburb s em

,

bowered in trees The early Du tch unhke their .

,

de scendants were keen a ffo rest e rs and planted an oak

, ,

avenu e in t he town and another at Nieuweland t he ,

present Newlands At De Rondedoorn Bo sc hje (Ronde .

bo s ch) they erected a granary wi th a residence fo r t he

Superintendent and hence it s name De Schuur I n , .

1791 t he Company bein g S hort o f fun ds s old t he place

, , ,

to a b urgher Hendrik Christian who divided it into

, ,

two lots calling t he larger De Groote Schuur and t he

, ,

s maller Kle in Schu u r

,
The former pa ss ed s u cce ss ively .

into t he hands o f t he Du To it and Ho fmeyr fa mi lies ,

bu t in 1868 w a s p ur cha s ed by a De Smidt From .

1 873 to 1876 dur ing S ir Henr y B arkly s Governorshi p

’

, ,

it w a s us ed a s his co untry re sidence S ub s equently it .

came into t he ha nds o f a well known Dutc h lady o f -

good famil y Mrs Van der Byl who modernised t he name

, .
,

to t he Grange Sir Hercules Rob ins on lived there fo r a

.
 RH ODE S AT H OME 9

time bu t t he place was leased to Rhodes in 1891 and

,

pur chased by him in 1893 Characteris tically he at .

,

once renamed it Groote Schuur and reb uilt t he hous e ,

in t he Hu gu enot s tyle with a thatc hed roo f I t

,
.

never was a lordly plea sur e hous e but a country ,

’

gentleman s comfortable mansion S imple in design

’

bu t extremely p icture s qu e The interior was remark

.

able fo r it s lavish u se o f teak but there w as no super ,

flu o us ornamentation anyw here The enclo sures and .

fences on t he es tate are all o f u nu su al size and s trength .

Y o u can recognis e a R hode s gatepo s t anywhere by

it s ma ssive cons tru ction Rhodes graduall y acquired
.
,

from vario u s holders 1500 acre s o f surro unding land

, ,

on whi ch he planted oaks camphor wood and other ,

-

trees formed S heltered hydrangea bed s constructed

, ,

roads and mountain paths and paddocks fo r wild ,

animals threw t he estate open to t he p ublic and finally

, ,

le ft it by Will to t he firs t Prime Minis ter O f a Sou th

African Confederation The ho u s e w a s b urnt to t he
.

gro und in 1896 and priceless specimens O f antiqu e

,

Du tc h and Frenc h furniture p eris hed in t he fir e bu t ,

t he library was s aved and als o t he fin e bronze panel

,

over t he front entrance representing t he landi ng o f

Van Riebe eck on t he sixth day o f April in t he year ,

1652 .

Rhodes at once reb uilt t he house on t he s ame spot ,

and on t he same lines only enl arging t he s ervants

,
’

quarters and sub stitu tin g Du tch tiles fo r t he thatched

roo f I t was on thes e premis es as I have j us t des cribed
.
,

them that Rhodes fo r s everal years kept a tru ly open

,

ho us e I t s ho sp itable doors were open to both nation

.

a lit ies and to t he ever increa sing s tream o f dis tin

,
-

u ishe d s tranger s from t he mother co untry O did

g n e .

not know t he real Rhodes until one s at at his table and

10 CE CI L JOHN RH ODES
heard him dis cours e at large on t he great political
events and s ocial questions o f t he day or at rarer , ,

intervals on tho s e pro fo under problems o f t he fu tur e

, ,

to which he bent a forward and far s eeing gaze The -

.

freedom he allowed t he p u blic w as s ometime s a s evere

trial to hi s fri ends On one occa sion a picni c party
.
,

b ivo u acked on t he marble s toep in front o f t he hou se ,

and commenced 130 u npack a hamper there Shall I .

turn them O ff s aid an impu lsive companion NO

" .
‘

I 11 go mys elf repli ed t he ma s ter Opening t he front

’ ’
.
,

door he s tepped o ut mu ch to t he dismay o f his visitors

, ,

w ho probably tho ught t he ho us e w as un occu p ied .

Good morning my friends said Rhodes sit there

, ,
’

and enj oy yo ur selves but plea se don t light a fire on t he

,
’

s toep
’
.

Yet even t he tranquil S plendo ur o f a modern residence

w as in t he long run les s to his ta s te than a dwelling
, ,

where he could rough it at his eas e For s ome time .

prior to his death he grew to dis like Groote Schuur

, ,

and as all t he world knows he finally breathed his la st

,

by t he sea shore in an u npretentiou s cottage surro unded ,

only by two or thr ee devoted fri ends .

I t mus t not be tho ught that t he u rbanity whi c h sa t ,

s o well on R hode s in his own ho us e was wholly lackin g ,

in hi s interco urs e with t he o u tside world He took on .

,

all occa sions a singularly human interest in t he welfare

,

O f yo ung men and read the ir c haracters with dis cern

,

ment To t he yo unger O fficials o f t he Ho us e o f As s embly

.

he w a s grac io us and pol ite On e o f them write s to

.

me When he w as Prime Minis ter I naturally a w mu ch

,
s

o f him He di d not hims elf take charge o f t he work O f

.

t he Ho u s e I mean in regard to t he Order lis t bu t he ,

o ften came into my room while t he Ho us e was s itting ,

and wo uld interes t hims elf in anything that he fo und

 RHODE S AT H OM E 11

interes ted me S O mu ch so that in a few minu te s I s eemed

,

to have nothing more t o tell him At one time I .

dra fted a s emi public s cheme fo r him whi ch he intro

-
,

du c e d into t he Ho u s e in a lengthy speech He w as S O .

plea sed with t he deta ils I ha d worked up fo r him ,

that he walked up and down my room trying to give ,

s u b s tance to his appreciation witho u t hu rting me with

bald flattery and he ended by insisting on su b s cribing

,

toward s s everal public institutions to do uble t he amo un t ,

I ha d been persu aded to su gge s t Thes e sub s criptions .

were continued till hi s death He appeared to me to .

have an imm ens e capacity fo r b u sine ss bu t he made ,

things seem S O S imple that one was apt to overlook t he

geni us that made them S O .
’

An other and older fr iend a member o f t he Ho us e , ,

writes For years I was frequ ently at his house and

,

he at mi ne He u sed o ften to come over on S unday

.

mornings and chat over men and thi ngs but above all , ,

abo u t t he fo undations O f Life and Being a s he regarded

them We s eemed at su ch times to live in t he atmo
.
, ,

s p here o i that wide horizon whi c h s ur ro unded hi m like

a halo If t he Colo ssus had feet o f clay they were

.
,

hi dden but t he splendid reach o f his intelligence wa s

,

fully revealed
’
.

To an O ld Kimberley acquaintance who had left t he ,

country but who wrote from E ngland that although ,

their lives had drifted far apart he would like to see ,

him once more were it bu t fo r fiv e min u te s he re ,

plied
‘
PR I ME MI N I S TE R S OFFI C E C APE TOW N
’
, .

( N o date, bu t da te o n envelo e
p 5 Dee .

MY D E AR am very glad yo u wrote to me

G —
I .

I s ho u ld like to se e yo u aga in not a s y o u s ay fo r , , ,

fiv e minu te s or with endle s s fellows waiting bu t away

, ,
12 CE CIL J OHN RHODES
down t he river (t he Modder River near Kimberley)
to talk over O ld times and modern diffic ul t ies .
’

Rhodes was very fond O f dis cussing t he various

points o f E nglish politicians and there w as one member
,

o f t he Glad s tone Government o f 1 892 whom he cordi ally

detested He told me once ho w he had fo und hims elf

.

s eated next him at a dinn er party in London and w a s

,
-
,

so bored with hi m that in t he middle O f one o f hi s

arguments on s ome political problem he turned away

from him and began talking to hi s other neighbo ur .

I t w a s very ru de o f me I know he s aid very ru de

’
.
, , ,

People who live in London can t do thes e things ’

I ca n . I can do it on t he ba sis o f a barbarian

An O ld p ioneer inv a hde d from Rhode sia by fever
, ,

once called at Groote Schuur fo r relief Out o f work .

,

o u t at elbows and red u ced to a p itiable s tate from

privation he was abo u t to ventur e to s tate his cas e

, ,

when to his inexpre ssible delight he was hailed by

, ,

name The Chief had recognis ed him despite a ll

.

changes P utting his hand on t he man s S houl der

.
’

Rhodes s aid Not a word a good square meal fir st

,

An d to t he kitchen he took hi m fo r that p urpo s e tellin g ,

hi m to retur n to t he s toep a fterwards He then heard .

his s tory and gave him an order on his Secretary in

town to give him money fo r what clothes he wanted ,

and telling him to retur n t he next day W hi ch he di d , .

He fo und Rhodes in a passion Y o u only took ten .

s hillings The man had been a shamed to ask fo r

’
.

more Rhodes at once took him into town in his own

.

cart went hims elf to t he outfitters completely clothed

, ,

him and gave hi m money and a free pa ss back to

,

his work I never he s a id forget an O ld face

’ ’
. .
, ,

On be ing acc us ed once o f c hanging his views rather

 RH ODE S AT H OME 13

hurriedly, he replied Y e s a s hurriedly as I could fo r

, , ,

I found I w a s wrong
’
.

E very day he s a id later in li fe I try to become

’

, , ,

humbler bu t it is hard
’
.
,

Once when twi tted wi th hi s preference fo r yo un g

,

men he retorted Of cours e o f cours e they mu st s oon

, , , ,

take up o ur work we mus t teach them what to do and

what to avoid .
’

On another occa sion hi s s entim ental atta chm ent to ,

t he Boers wa s made t he matter o f a je s t They were

t he Voortrekkers he replied t he real p ioneers They
’

, , .

have always led t he way I t is yo ur b us ine ss to s e e .

that o ur flag follows .

’

When he travell ed he read Plu tarch s Lives The ,

’

M editat io n s o f M arc us Aurelius and Gibbon s Dec line

’

and Fa ll and he literally pored over t he map O f Afr ica

, .

Bu t t he onl y novel I ever heard him prais e w as The

C ho ir I nvisible .

He took a great interest in t he Society o f Jesus and

was sincerely attac hed to s everal o f t he Je s ui t Fathers ,

who s e s elf sac rific ing labour s in Rhodesia he readil y

-

and repeatedly recognis ed His admiration fo r t he .

world wi de organisation o f t he Salvation Army is als o

-

well known .

B u t I have s a id eno u gh The anecdote s O f others .

and my O wn personal memories crowd upon me Let .

it su ffice to record that in private life and e spec ially ,

u nder his own roo f even more especially perhap s

—
, ,

u nder t he va ult o f heaven in tho s e long trek s whi c h he

S O mu c h enj oyed he w as a fa s cinating pers onality

—
,

attractive in t he highes t s ens e O f t he word at times ,

wayward and to s trangers even taciturn ; bu t a s a

, ,

ru le with a charm all his own which no man I have ,

ever met with cou ld successful ly resis t and whi ch ,

14 CE CIL J OHN RH ODES
impelled almos t all men with whom he wa s brought
,

into contact to own that behin d that imm ens e and

,

brooding spirit there existed a heart o f gold a heart ,

qui ck and eager to respond to every call however ,

va st that hum ani ty cou ld make upon it

, .

His daring specul ations on t he futur e o f t he E mp ir e ,

and o f t he world will be remembered by many and t he

, ,

depth o f his conviction that t he greatness o f E ngland

is traceable not O b s c ur ely to t he paris h churche s near
, ,

whi ch t he village Hampdens lived unregarded lives

and sleep their la st s leep in forgotten graves He .

coul d proj ect hi s mind says a correspondent into t he

,
’

future a s ea sily as one turns t he page s O f a book

’
.

There is one tr ait in t he character o f Rhodes to

which I feel b ound to refer with disapproval For .

many years he allowed hims elf to be persuaded that

indis criminate alms givin g ha d it s reward that loyalty ,

could be pur chased by la rgesse and that bread thrown ,

u pon t he waters always returned a fter many days .

B u t in j udi ciou s c harity proved at time s a c urs e not ,

only to hi ms elf but to t he recipient This he sa w .

before he died In March 1901 he wrote to me as

.
,

follows

As to he is like many plants or I S ho uld s ay , ,

t rees ; once y o u s tart watering them y o u mus t con

t inu e to do S O . w as well watered fo r many years ,

bu t it wa s tho u ght unj us t that he sho uld require it

fo r ever so watering w a s s topped
,
He firs t became .

threatening and finally ab us ive Moral don t water

,
.
,
’
.

Y rs C J RHO D E S .
, . . .
’

In Mr Mortimer Menpes War I mpression s compiled

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by his daughter (A and C Black . there is a .

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CHAPTE R XXI V
RHO DES I N RH O DE S I A ( 1 8 9 1 )
Vis it s E n gl d H i f t h W il l A d
an —
R t s t th
o ur C p — nec o t e s— e urns o e a e

Sp k t t h B d — B
ea s o k hg e g y R h don w it t th o rc en a en an r — o es r es o e

B d Sp k
on — t th P l S p k i P li m t Th B k A t
ea s a e aar — ea s n ar a en — e an c
— W it t rth C l i l P mi
es o oW it t St d T
er v l
o on a re e rs — r es o ea — rans aa

R id i t Rh d i i h d d ff P l it i l ff i
a n o o es a Rh d s i D b ea e o — o ca a a r s— o es n ur an
— Vi it Pi t m it b g L d
s s t D l g
e er B y L dar z t B iur — an s a e a oa a — an s a e ra

D i p t w it h l
s u e l t h it i P d p P gw Riv R h
o ca au or e s— r o c ee s u un e e r— eac es

M q ac e R h
uece —U mt l i M t b y D J me ac esA iv t a — e r . a es o n — rr es a

S l i b y M t L d R d l ph C h
a s ur — hill C t i
ee s hi j
or y an o urc — on n u es s o ur n e

Vi it sM s A d Ch t A d Vi t i
az o e — A d Z imb b w
n D ar e r — n c o r a— n a e— e

W l aath t y
on Rh d iv t F t T li A d M l
e c o un r — t i o es a rr es a or u — n ac o u s e
— Vi it P l p ys S s Kh m A iv t M f ki g At V yb g
a a e— ee s a a.— rr es a a e n — r ur
— A t K im b l y er e .

I HAVE already referred to abortive attempt made t he

by Rhodes in 1890 to enter Mashonaland in t he track
o f hi s p ioneers and ho w t he Hi gh Commis sioner e x e r
,

c is e d his infl u ence and even his a u thority to place , ,

a practical veto on t he adventure Rhodes while .

,

eventu ally bowing to what was un dou btedly a j udi

c io u s decision fu lly re s olved however to vis it t he new
, , ,

Territory and j udge o f it s capabilities at t he earlies t

po ssible moment I left him it may be remembere d .
, ,

at Ki mberley where he arrived in November 1890 ,

from t he Trans vaal and where he was j us t in time ,

to take part in t he festivities that marked t he com

l et io n o f t he ra il way to t he Diamond Field s on 3rd
p
December E arly in 1891 he aga in proceeded to
.
,

E ngland on urgent b us ine ss where he is s aid by Mr , .

W T Stead to have execu ted hi s fourth Will dated

. . ,

in March I t mus t have been exec u ted very early in

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 RH ODE S IN RH ODE S IA 17

March becaus e there is evidence that he w as back at

,

Kimberley before t he clo se o f that month .

On e o f t he reminis cence s furnished to me by a

corre pondent dea ls with this period and may there
s , ,

fore be given here

,
Y o u a sk me when I firs t met
.

Cecil Rhodes he says I think it w as early in t he year

,
’
.

1 891 if he wa s in E ngland d uring that year

,
I w a s in .

t he Ho u s e O f Co mmons at t he time as member fo r ,

t he centre o f an agric ul tu ral dis trict and I w a s what ,

”
perhap s yo u may call a B imetallic heretic with a ,

view to findin g s ome remedy fo r t he terrible depression

a ffecting agricul ture I remember having an argument .

with him on t he subj ect He wa s mu ch oppo s ed to me .

,

arguin g that t he balance wo u ld be set right by natural

caus es and that Sou th Africa wo u ld ta ke a leading part
,

in reviving price s by t he increa s ed prod u ction o f gold .

I s a id that t he agric u ltural depress ion ha d la s ted fo r a

long time and w a s becoming more acu te that I and my ,

neighbours were being S lowly bu t s urely rui ned and that ,

I wa s s eeking fo r t he tru e remedy Rhodes argu ed that .

t he E nglish farmer a s we knew hi m w a s an anac hronism

, , ,

and that he mus t either conform to t he new order o f

things or peris h I remember being much s tru ck by
.

t he ea s e with whi ch he brus hed a s ide what I had t o

sa I n a fte r year s he o fte n reminded me o f o ur
y
.

dis cus sion Once d uring t he Matabele war we were

.
, ,

on t he march one lovely moonlight ni ght expecting ,

a sharp engagement at daybreak when he s u ddenly ,

s a id ,
How glorio us this and ho w lu cky yo u are to be ,

here " B u t why are yo u here " Becau se turni p s di d

not pay in S hire Had they paid yo u wo uld have
.
,

remained an average coun try gentleman and a fairly

respectable member o f Parliament How mu ch better .

t o be here under t he s tars thi nking o u t great problems ,

VO L . II . B
18 CE CI L J OHN RH ODE S
and takin g yo ur part in a mu ch more direct and practical
way toward s t he development O f t he British E mpir e
and I shall always recollect when I w as leaving fo r home
at t h end o f t he campaign and was saying good bye
e ,
-

to him at his lonely camp in t he Ma t o po Hills ho w , ,

in his qu ick s hy way he excla imed

, I have very fe w ,
”
friend s in t he world now : don t forget me
’
.

The obj ect o f Rhode s in returni ng very hur riedly

from E ngland to So u th Afr ica wa s t he nece s sity under
which he lay a s a practical poli tician o f cementing
, ,

his alliance with t he Bond be fore t he co mmencement

O f t he approac hi ng s e s s ion O f t he Cape Parliament .

I n compliment to their new ally t he Bond ha d dec ided ,

to hold their annu al Conference fo r 1891 at Kimberley

its elf and it w a s O f co ur s e important that Rhode s
, , ,

S ho ul d be there He accordingly on landing at Cape

.
,

Town p us hed on at once fo r t he Diamond Fields there

, ,

bv flu ttering t he dovecote s o f t he metropolis and s ome

what s candalising his Mini sterial colleagu es He arrived .

in Kimberley j u s t in time to attend a banqu et given to

t he Bond on t he evening o f E a s ter Monday and to ,

propo s e t he toa st o f welcome to that great organisa

tion Hi s speech can onl y be briefly summaris ed
.

here . He O pened by referrin g to his having j us t

arrived from E ngland where he had received t he
,

highe t cons ideration from politicians and t he hono ur

s

o f di nin g with Her Maj e s ty and then went on to s a y

, ,

I n t he pa s t it wo u ld have been an anomaly fo r one w ho

po ssess ed t he confidence O f Her Maj e ty s Government s
’

to come to s uch a gathering a s this bu t I feel entirely ,

that t he a spirations O f t he Bond are now in com

l e t e to u ch with loyalty to t he Q u een I come here
p .
,

therefore to show that there is no longer anything

,

antagonistic between t he people o f this Colony and

 RH ODE S IN RHODE S IA 19

t he mother co u ntry provided that t he latter recognis es

,

t he princ iple o f Colonial s el f government and o ur -

,

capacity to deal with every internal question that may

aris e The only time I ever di ffered s erious ly from
.

t he Bond w as when I s aw that y o u were relying too

much on a s entimental regard fo r t he Rep ublics At .

one time yo u were prepared to let t he whole o f t he

Northern Territories go from yo u in t he vain belie f ,

that at s ome future period they wo u ld be returned

, ,

to yo u Bu t my ru le is never to abandon a po sition

. .

I have no antagonis tic feeling to t he Transvaal bu t if ,

your amb ition is t he union o f South Africa t he Colony ,

mus t keep a s many cards a s it may po ssess That idea .

dominated me in t he s ettlement o f Bechu analand and ,

in regard to Zambe sia I t is not fo r u s to interfere

.

with t he independence O f t he neighbour ing State s ,

bu t it is fo r u s to s eek to O btain Cu s toms relations ,

railway communication and free trade in produ cts

with them I t took me twenty years to amalgamate
.

t he Diamond Mine s here I t w a s done in deta il.

,

s tep by s tep and S O o ur Federation will be done in

,

detail and yo u mu t edu cate your children in this

,
s

policy I may meet with oppo sition in carryin g

.

o u t my idea s bu t I will never abandon them

, If yo u .

desire t he cordial c o operation o f t he E nglis h s ection o f

-

t he co untry remember that we have been tra ined at

,

home we have o ur his to ry to look back u pon bu t we

, ,

believe that with your help it is po ssible to obtain

, ,

clo s er union and complete s elf government bu t yo u -

mu st not ask u s to forfeit o ur loyalty and devotion to

o u r mother co u ntry
’
.

This w as plain S peaking Rhodes was willi ng to .

work with t he Bond bu t hi s terms were s tated with

,

preci ion There w a s no novelty in hi s a ttitude

s . .
20 CE CI L J OHN RH ODE S
He had fo r yea rs with mu ch pertinacity endeavo ured
, ,

to ra is e their political s tandard which was local and ,

parochi al His desire w a s to broaden their n arrow

.

ideals and teac h them t he elements o f a wider patriot

is m s o that they and the ir c hildren might grow u p
,

in t he s o und belie f that their primary du ty w a to their s

own Colony and to t he great E mpire o f whi ch it formed

a part rather than to t he petty and ephemeral Repu blic s
,

on their borders His speech made a deep impression

. .

The Kimberley corre spondent o f a London paper de

c lar e d that t he Congre s s w as e ffu sively in hi s favo u r ,

onl y one member fo r pur ely local and pers onal rea sons
, ,

being anti Rhodes Throughou t So u th Africa and

-
.

E ngland t he s peec h came in fo r mu c h mu tu ally des tr u o

tive criticis m I mperialis ts o f t he j ingo type de
.

n o un c e d him fo r his working alliance with t he Du tc h .

The s ombre S hadow o f Maj uba s till re s ted on t he mi nds

o f many excellent men Borckenh agen on t he other
.
,

hand t he German E di tor o f t he irreconc ilable Free

,

S ta te E xpr es s fiercely a s s ailed hi m a s planning t he

,

eventu al incorporation o f t he Republics in a Federation

who s e flag wou ld be that o f England That there .

s ho u ld be no po s s ible mis conception a s to his de s ire

to welcome t he Du tc h in Rhodesia but onl y under ,

that flag Rhodes a fe w days later wrote t he follow

, , ,

in g important letter to t he Bond ( 17t h April

TO t he Secretary
Cape Town Branc h of t he
O f t he Afrikander Bond .

S IR — I have been a sked in cons equ ence o f t he

, ,

meeting O f t he Afrikander Bond which I am informed , , ,

is to be held this a fternoon to place in writing fo r t he , ,

information o f it s members my own ideas abo u t t he ,

 RH ODE S IN RHODE S I A 21

s ettlement subj ect to t he approval o f His E xcellency

,

t he High Commis s ioner o f that portion o f t he territory

,

proclaimed a s within t he S phere o f British infl uence ,

whi ch is at pres ent in t he po ssess ion o f t he Chartered

Company and I take this opportuni ty o f doing s o
,
.

The regu lation s regardi ng mi ni ng whi c h as yo u are ,

aware have alr eady been p ublished provide int er a lia, , ,

fo r t he s ec urity O f tenure by t he in di vid u al mi ner o f his

”
claims and render j umping whi ch w a s so fruitfu l
, ,

a s ource o f tro uble in other co untries impo ssible ,

.

Deep levels are likewis e u nknown t he cla im holder ,

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following t he ree f thro u gh a ll it s dip s and variations .

These mi ning regulation s have been accepted generally

a s liberal and s atis facto ry A regards t he land I
. s
,

think that s o s oon as a s ettlement becomes po ssible

, ,

farmers accus tomed to practical farming s ho u ld be

invited in to t he co u ntry in order to pers onally occ u py
and work farms W ho se s ize will naturally vary according
to their s uita b ility fo r pa s toral or agric ultur al purpo s es .

The manner in whic h t he farms S ho ul d be given o u t is a

s u bj ect fo r fu tur e con s ideration depending in a great
,

meas ure u pon t he number o f applicants Sho uld t he .

applications exceed in number t he farms available I ,

s ho u ld then s ugge s t that a commi ttee o f repres entative

men ( from amongst t he applicants ) Should be appo inte d
fo r t he p urpo s e o f s electing and s en di ng in t he n ames
o f tho s e whom they con sider to be t he mo s t suitable

farmers fo r t he occ upation and working o f a new co untry .

Altho ugh an arrangement ha s been alrea dy made fo r

t he a dmission o f over one hundr ed farmers from t he

Trans vaal and although there will be no obj ection

, ,

when opport unity o ffers fo r t he admi ssion o f others

,

fro m t he Trans vaal Free State and other So u th

, ,

African communi ties s till I can give t he a ss ur ance

,
22 CE CI L J OHN RH ODE S
that in t he final s ettlement o f t he country with t he ,

co ns ent o f t he High Commis sioner no u ndu e preference

,

will be shown to them over Her Maj es ty s subj ects ’

w ho may de sire to proceed from thi s Colony or from

elsewhere I n order to pave t he a fo r thi s I would
.
,

s u gge s t that a dep u tation s ho ul d proceed from t he Cape

Colony fo r t he pur po s e o f ins pecting and reporting upon

t he co u ntry . My idea is that farms S hould be given
o u t s u bj ect to a rea s onable annu al q ui t rent and that -

none o f t he farmers shoul d be handicapped at t he

ou ts et by being called upon to pay a capital amount
u pon the ir land S O that whatever fund s they may
,

po ss ess S houl d be available fo t he s to cking and develop

r

ment o f their properties Every intending farmer

.

will be required to S ign a declaration that on entering

t he territory he will be u nder t he fla g and co nform to
t he Chartered Company s laws which will be ba s ed
’

in princ iple on tho s e o f t he Cape Colony with t he right ,

o f appeal from t he local co urts to t he S u preme Co ur t

in Cape Town .I S ho u ld greatly valu e any practical

s u gge s tions whic h yo ur members mig ht have to make

on this qu e stion o f a land settlement in a new country ,

bu t I mus t tell y o u now that t he C hartered Company

cannot permit any other than tho se w ho are willing to
place thems elves under it s j uris di ction to enter t he
territory I t is s tated that a trek is being organis ed
.

in t he Tran s vaal by certa in pers ons w ho in de fiance , ,

o f t he conce s s ion grante d by L O B e n gu la t he paramo u nt ,

chi ef o f t he country intend attempting to enter t he

,

territory fo r t he purpo se o f s etting up a new republic

there within t he proclaimed s phere o f British influence ,

in dependent O f and antagonis tic to t he Charte red

, ,

Co mpany Bearing in mind t he fact that t he Pioneer

.

force and t he Company s po lice compo s ed excl us ively

’

,
24 CE CIL J OHN RH ODE S
livered an important speech in which int er a lia he
, , ,

s a id

I t has been borne u pon my mind o f late that t he

bes t thing fo r a Prime Minis ter to do is to make as
fe w p u blic speeche s a s po ssible and es pecially is thi s
,

t he ca s e in So u th Africa fo r in So u th Africa we have

,

to deal with t he feelings o f t he Englis h people who have

lent us all t he money we have borrowed we have to
deal with t he s entiment o f t he neighbouring Repu bli cs
we have to deal with t he development o f t he Northern
territory and then with t he li ttle sis ter colony o f Natal
,
.

I de fy any one to make a S peech a s Prime Mini s ter o f

this Colony withou t hurting t he feelings o f s ome one .

I w a s reflecting only to day that t he C a pe Times ha s

-

thought it worth whi le to spend a couple o f hundr ed

pounds on a cable from England giving a criticism ,

from t he London Times o f my S peec h at Kim berley ;

and when I read that criticism I discovered that t he
E nglis h people were not s atisfied with me They think .

that I am too Afrikander Then I have j us t received

.

t he Free S ta te E xp ress in whic h Mr Borcken hagen S late s

, .

me in t he mo s t fearfu l langu age becaus e I am too mu c h

an E nglis hman I mention this to show yo u t he
.

diffic ulty in which one is placed But I do feel that I

.

am s teering t he right co ur s e between Jingoism on t he

one s ide and sensitive feelings on t he other if I confine ,

mys elf to s tating what is t he policy o f t he people o f Cape

Colony I have to thank t he gentleman who has pro
.

pos ed my health fo r t he s tatement o f t he fact that I

,

am not devoting my mi nd s olely to imagin ative s chemes

in t he North bu t am care fu lly cons idering t he intere s ts
,

o f this Co lony and amo ngs t other thi ngs t he ind us tr

, y
in which yo u are all s o deeply in tere s ted I mean t he ,

wine ind u try I will take yo u into my confidence

s .
 RH ODE S IN RHODE S I A 25

to ni ght and sa y that when I wa s at home and w a s

-

talking to t he Prime Minis ter o f England I said If , ,

y o u w is h to reta in t he.s entiment o f t he colo ni e s y o u ,

mus t consider day by day ho w yo u can give t he p e ople

s ome commercial advantage and thus S how them that
,

t he t ie with E ngland is one that is o f practical advantage

”
to thems elves . I told him that in 1858 or 1860 I —

am not qui te clear whi ch we had an arrangement

—
,

so fa r a s o u r wine w a s concerned which indu ced t he ,

E nghs h people to p ur cha s e o ur wines and to work ,

them u p into wines fo r t he people o f that country ,

ba sing my state ments upon t he fact that Mr Gilbey .

,

t he great wrn e I mporter had to ld me that until t he

,

change in t he du ty he imported very largely from t he

Cape and had intended pu tting a great dea l o f capital
,

into t he trade with t he Cape As it w a s however he

.
, ,

ha d bo ught Vineyard s in France and imported wine ,

from Fr ance and Spa in and even fr om Gree c e

, When .

I dis cus s ed this with Lo rd Salis b ury I adopted t he ,

s u gge s tions I ha d ha d fr om Mr Hofmeyr abo u t a .

differential rate and sa id t he greates t t ie England

,

coul d make with t he Cape Colony wa s to return to t he

s ys tem o f 1858 .I there fore agree with t he gentleman
w ho has propo s ed my health that we mu s t in thes e
,

matters look more deeply than into sentiment and that ,

t he right co ur s e fo r t he E nglis h people is to o ffer thi s

Colony s ome preferential tariff in regard to their win es
over t he wines o f France and Spain and so give them a ,

practical comm ercial advantage .

’

Sp eakin g o f Rhodesia and t he thr ea tened Boer trek ,

he added , Now that is t he po sition An d what am I

, .

threatened wi th l I will tell yo u in very S imple

language Yo ur young men becaus e they are your
.
,

youn g men have gone up sixteen hundred mi les

, ,
26 CE CI L JOHN RH ODE S
have lept in their boots every ni ght and have felt
s ,

they would be mur dered at fo ur o clock in t he morni ng ’

— Oh
,y es every one s a id s o from t h e Pre s ident ,

o f t he Trans vaal downward s They went right thro ugh

.
,

however and took t he co u ntry ; bu t I now own to

,

y o u th at o f all,my tro u ble s t hat w a s t h,

e mo s t pre s s ing ,

fo r I felt I o u ght to be with them and when at las t I

fo u nd that they were thr o u gh to Fort Salis b ury I do ,

not think there was a happier man in t he cou ntry than

mys elf Bu t let me contin u e t he s tory What ha
. . s

happened s ince 2 They have taken t he cou ntr y

and I have contin u ed t he po sition I took up I kept .

on taking any one o f yo ur people who cared to come to

me and I am preparing a land s ettlement on that ba sis
,
.

I have a ked yo u to s end men to report on t he co u ntry

s

s o that we S hall not idly take them away with no

pro spect I have done all thes e things and now what
.
,

ha s happened " A gentleman named Mr Ade n do rff .

,

and Mr B arend Vors ter and Mr Du Pre e z s ay they

. .
,

are going to take t he resul t O f t he labour s o f yo ur s ons .

When I came down from Tuli I Visited Pietersb urg ,

and I met Mr Vors te r and Mr Adendo rff I saw them

. . .

on s everal occasions and Mr Vorster fin ally came to me

,
.

and s aid he ha d got a local grant from a native chi ef

and wanted me to buy it I s aid I did not recogni e .
s

local chi efs a s agains t t h chief o f t h co untry but if

e e ,

he woul d s end t he grant to me I wo u ld look it over

and give it carefu l consideration thou gh I said to him ,

fra nk ly that I ha d not mu ch op ini on o f his grant .

He s aid I f yo u don t buy it I shall give yo u trou ble

,
’

,
.

I then s aw t he R e v Mr Helm who w as a s to un ded at

. .
,

what I told him I t is a new country and yo ur yo ung

.

p eople have taken it I t is no question o f t he kind

.

that aro se in t he Transvaal I t is a qu estion o f a new .

 RH ODE S IN RHODES I A 27

country whi ch your people have tried to res cu e from

,

barbarism and add to civilis ation Bu t thes e people .

came to me and s aid unl ess I gave them S O many

,

tho usand pounds they wou ld indu ce ignorant farmers

to go in and mur der o ur people in t he country That .

is t he ca s e a s it s tands ; y o u cannot get o u t o f it I .

hope y o u won t be annoyed at this Because I wo uld

’
.

not give Mr Barend Vors ter and Mr Adendo rfl a

. .

certain sum o f money they have threatened me in t he

,

Z o u t p an sberg that they wo u ld give me tro u ble An d .

that is t he cas e ; and tho s e ignorant farmers in t he

Trans vaal are being rushed in this way Y o u know .

that all w ho desire to come into thi s new country ,

whether they come from t he Trans vaal from t he Cape ,

Colony from Natal or from t he Free State are

, , ,

only too welcome I have no feelings a s to where a

.

man was born all I desire to know is whether he is a

good man and then I want him Now when thes e
, .
,

gentlemen say they a re going to take from my young

men their rights and dispo ss es s them o f t he re sul ts
,

O f the ir labo ur s then I confe s s I do lo s e my temper ;

,

and I tell yo u to night that if they continu e with it

-
,

and if thes e people will not accept o ur ru le and law ,

then there will be a di fference between us and I may ,

have to leave t he po s ition whi c h I at pres ent hold .

B u t I know that if I ha d not taken u p t he attitu de I

,

have they wo u ld have got into great tro u ble with

,

Her Maj esty s Governm ent and we might have had

’

tro ubles again like that which occurred at Maj uba .

Now if thes e tro ubles were to occur with people who s e

independence wa s taken away yo u mi ght have s ome ,

s ympathy with them ; but I ask y o u what s ympathy

y o u can have w ith people w ho w hen p ioneer s h ave made
,

an effort to lift a co untry from barbaris m and when it ,

 28 CE CIL J OHN RHODE S
is proved that t he Matabele need not be feared ru sh in ,

and commi t an action o f this s ort " I t is not fair or

right So uth Africa will say it is not fair and I feel
.
,

confident I have t he feeling O f Sou th Africa when I say

it is a wrong thi ng
’
.

The only other speech o f importance made by R hode s

this year was delivered in Parliament on a propo sal by ,

Ho fmeyr to increas e t he voting power o f tho s e who

po ss ess ed a certa in property or edu cational qualific a
tion The O bj ect o f t he measure wa s indir ectly to
.

redu ce t he power o f t he native vote which wa s felt on

,

both S ides o f t he Ho us e to be a menace to t he Colony ,

while at t he same time it was recognis ed that it s

, ,

direct withdrawal was impolitic AS a compro mi s e

.
,

Rhodes was in favo ur o f t he propo sal but hi s Cab inet ,

wa s not u nanimo us on t he po int and he declined to

,

do more than give an undertaking to cons ider careful ly

t he whole qu e s tion d ur ing t he recess On e o f his .

colleagu es Sau er moved an amendment whi ch Ho f

, , ,

meyr accepted and t he motion w a s then carried by

,

45 to 33 Mu ch legis lation o f a quiet us eful kind

.

characteris ed t he Cape Ses sion o f 1891 no les s than ,

38 Acts rece iving t he Royal a ss ent A co uple O f ra ilway

.

mea sur es and a valuable Fencing Ac t were pa ssed

, ,

and a Colonial Medical Co uncil wa s s e t up Local .

option in regard to liqu or licences wa s fo r t he firs t ,

time es tablis hed and t he Deeds Office w a s reformed

, , .

B u t t he two princ ipal enactments were attrib u ta ble to

t he lo s s e s and s u fferings infli cted on t he communi ty
by t he recent fa ilure o f t he Cape o f Good Hope Bank ,

a s a ls o by that O f an important E nglis h Life Assu rance

Company A mea sure wa s there fore adopted re

.
, , ,

quiring such assur ance companies to depo sit with t he

Colonial Secretary adequate s ecurity fo r t he perform
 RH ODE S IN RHODE S I A 29

ance o f their contract O bligations ; whil e a s tringent

Bank Ac t w as pa ss ed not witho u t oppo sition from ,

many qu arters o wing to t he drastic nature o f it s

,

provis ions The principle o f a completely protected

.

note is su e wa s laid down as well as o f t he publication O f ,

periodical balance sheets occasionally o f a surpris e

-

nature so a s to prevent what in London is known a s

, , ,

window dre ssing B u t Rhodes was determined that

.
’

bank depo sitors Sho u ld be s afeguarded s o far as this ,

can be arranged witho u t t he responsib ili ty o f t he State

and Mr Merriman in who s e hands t he measur e was
.
,

placed s teered it through all ob stacles with cons picu o us

,

tact and ability with t he result that fo r t he las t

, ,

twenty year t he Banking ins titu tio ns O f t he Colony

s,

have carried on their b us ine ss wi th s atis faction both

to their S hareholders and to t he public recurrent ,

cris es have been avoided and co nfidence has never in ,

t he mo s t anxio us time s been fo r a moment S haken , .

During thi s s e ss ion R hode s fo und time to write to ,

S ir Jo hn Macdonald t he Prime M ini s ter O f Canada , ,

and to S ir Henry Parke s t he Prime Minis ter o f New ,

So u th Wales Both letters bear date t he 8t h May

.

1891 and deal with qu e s tions o f Tariff Re form and

,

Colonial Pre ference The letter to S ir Jo hn Macdonald.

w s a follows
a s

D E AR S I R , wis h to write and congratu late y o u

-
I
on winning t he elections in Canada I rea d yo ur .

manife s to and I cou ld unders tand t he iss ue If I might .

express a wish it would be that we could meet b efore

,

s tern fate claims u s I might write page s bu t I fee l.

,

I know yo u and yo ur politic s as if we had been fri end s

fo r years The whole thing lie s in t he qu es tion : Can
.

we invent s ome t ie with o ur mother co untry that will

30 CE CI L JOHN RH ODE S
prevent s eparation " I t mus t be a practical one fo r ,

fu ture generations will not be born in England The .

c urs e is that English politicians cannot se e t he future .

They think they will always be t he manu factur ing

mart o f t he world bu t do not u nderstand what pro ,

t e c t io n co u pled with rec iprocal relations means I .

have taken t he liberty o f writing to y o u and if y o u ,

hono u r me with an ans wer I wil l wri te again Yo urs —

,

C J RHO D E S . . .

PS . might not know who I am S O I will say

.
— You ,

I am t he Prime Minis ter o f this Colony that is t he —

,

Cape Colony .
’

He als o s eems to have written with colloquial freedom ,

and unre s erve to Mr Stead on vario u s topics o f t he

, .
,

day including Fiscal Reform and Home Ru le An

, .

As s embly he s ays that is responsible fo a fifth o f

’

, ,
r

t he world has no time to di s c us s Dr Tanner or t he .

matter o f Mr O B ie n s breeches The labour qu es tion

.
’
r
’
.

is an important one bu t deeper than t he labo u r q u e s tion

,

is that O f t he market fo r t he produ cts o f labo u r and a s ,

your local produ ctions can only su pport abo u t ix s

mi llions o f people t he balance depend s u pon t he trade

,

o f t he world E ven a Labo u c here wh po ss e s s e s no

.
, o

s ent iment s ho u ld know t hat t he labo u r o f E ngland i

, s

dependent on t he o u ts ide world and t h o u tside world e ,

s o fa r a s I can s e e will boycott t he re u lts o f E nglis h

, s

labo ur The American has been tau ght t he lesson O f

.

Home Rule and t he su ccess o f leaving t he management

,

o f t he paris h p u mp to t he beadle He doe not b urden . s

hi s Ho us e O f Commons with t he re spons ib ility O f cleans

ing dr a ins I f y o u ha d ha d s tate smen y o u wo ul d
.
,

at t he present moment be commerc ially at war with

32 CE C IL J OHN RH ODE S
desiring to s top t he Ra id but that J o u bert s so n in law
,
’
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was taking an active interes t in it Again on t he .

,

following day acknowledging rece ipt o f my informa

,

tion that Rhode s wa s coming up to Ma shonaland via

Beira my corre spondent expres sed a doubt whether
,

t he Portu gu e s e a u thoritie s wo u ld permit hi m to travel

by that rou te He added that t he Trans vaal B ur ghers
.

were mu ch annoyed with Ho fmeyr and t he Bond

over their alliance with Rhodes a procedur e they ,

des cribed a s worshi pping t he golden calf .

’

E arly in June 5000 Boer s were reported to be wa iting

t he word o f command to move B u t t he word was never
.

given Sir Frederick Carrington in command o f

.
,

I mperial troop moved u p to Ma feking and D

s, , r .

James on with t he Company s Police guarded every

,
’

fordable drift on t he Lim popo R iver Under thes e .

circums tances a despatch from Sir Henry Loch read

, ,

alou d in t he Volksraad ha d a s obering e ffect The

, .

Pres ident produ ced a dra ft Proclamation threatening ,

t he trekkers with fin e and imprisonment and t he ,

is su e o f t he document w a s s u lle nl y a u thoris ed The .

great maj ority f t he raiders remain ed at home and

o ,

only a limite d number ignored t he law On 10t h June .

an air o f comedy was s ought to be a ss ociated with t he

movement by a Rus tenburg Boer telegraphing to t he
High Commissioner that t he trekkers were passing
throu gh there in their thous and W herea s on inqui ry s,
’

, ,

he admi tted that he w a s only re ferring to a flight O f

locus ts .

On 24t h June t he irreconcilable s mus tering with

, ,

camp followers abou t 200 men arrived at t he main drift

,

on t he Limpopo Colonel Ferreira and two other

.

lea ders cro ssed t he river but were arres ted by t he police
,

under ins tru ctions from t he H igh Commis s ioner Dr . .

 RH ODE S IN RHODE S IA 33

James on arriving on t he s cene S hortly afterwards

, ,

relea s ed t he pris oners and accompani ed them to t he

Boer camp which wa s by thi s time s eething with
,

excitement There fo r s ome hours he argu ed wi th them

.

on t he folly o f forcibly entering t he cou ntry dis owned

by both Governments wherea s t he Chartered Company ,

w as willing to allot land to bo n a fide s ettlers w ho were -

prepared to accept it s ru le His cour age and tact .

prevailed and when t he Boers foun d in t he morning

,

that under c over o f t he ni ght Maj or Goold Adams

, ,
-
,

with reinforcements had j oined t he Company s Police ,

’

they melted entirely away withou t firing a shot Of .

co ur s e t he ext reme Repu blican pre ss foamed at t he

mo uth They s eem very rabid with Loch wrote hi s
.
,
’

predecess or to me and have even taken to prais e me

,
.

Temp ora mut a nt ur Mr Rhodes appears to have .

acted with great j udgment I hope t he trek and .

his vario u s other tro u ble s wil l not impa ir his hea lth .

Were he to break down I know no man w ho co u ld take ,

hi s place
’
.

The Times als o wrote that t he fa ilu re o f t he trek

w a s du e to t he admirable preca u tions O f t he Company ,

and to t he fact that President Kru ger wa s wis e enough

to accept t he inevitable The President however .
,

w as u nder no illu s io ns Rhodes he sa id is p u tting ’

.
, ,

a ring fence ro und me and that is why I mus t fight ,

him .
’
Long a fterwards referring to t he incident ,

Rhodes declared that Kruger w as t he arch ra ider in

Sou th Africa and ha d been at t he back O f all suc h
,

movements fo r a generation .

On 18t h Au gu s t 1 891 t he s e ss ion came to a clo s e , ,

t he Governor s S peech reporting that a censu s ha d

’

been taken and a Liqu or Law Amendment Ac t pass ed

,

in t he hi ghes t interes ts o f t he people bu t that t h

’

, e

VO L 11 . .
C
34 CE CI L J OHN RH ODE S
Bank Ac t had been res erved fo r t he s ignification o f Her
Maj es ty s plea ure Meanwhile a controver y ha d
’
s . s

aris en in England over Ho fm eyr s plural voting ’

proposals whi ch were held by uninstru cted champio ns

,

o f t he native s to ind icate a re s olve to s u ppre s s t h e

colour ed vote entirely The Times p ublis hed an in .

t e re s t in g article on t he franchis e debate hi nting that ,

Ho fmeyr wa s aiming at a Sou th African Uni on o u ts ide

t he E mp ire The c hi e f players it sa id keep their ’
.
, ,

heads . Rhode s ha s a nation at his back Ho fmeyr .

is t he older perhap s t he cooler certa in ly t he more ex

, ,

rie n c e d o f t he two He h as been g iving way ever

p e .

s ince R hode s returned from E ngland

,
He now a sks .

fo r his equ ivalent more Du tc h vote

’
—
s .

Mr F Mac karn es s made in reply a s trong defence

. .
, ,

o f t he alliance between R hode s and Ho fmeyr a s erting ,

s

with j us tice that t he latter s attitu de at t he Colonia l ’

Conference o f 1887vo u ched fo r his loyalty and pointed ,

o u t his very recent appo intment by t he High Com

mi ssioner to proceed on a special mis sion to Pretoria ,

a s a proo f o f t he e s timation in whic h he w as o ffic ially

held . Mr Ma c karn e ss added that Ho fmeyr was not

.

a sking fo r more Du tc h vote s over Englis h b i t fo more ,

r

E ur opean vote s over uncivili s ed native s Only one .

further re ference need be made here to t he work o f t he

s e ss ion Mr Merriman s B udget which he de s cribed ’
. .
,

as t he S hort and s imple anna ls o f t he poor threw a

cold do uc he on t he glowing es timate s f his predecess or o ,

Sprigg and condemned with great force t he latter

,
’
s

neglect o f t he policy o f internal development in order

to become a great carrying agent to t he Rep ublic s .

Sprigg retaliated by attacking Rhodes in his vulner

able d ual po sition to which Merriman retorted that,

Sprigg whi le in England had spoken in quite a contrary

, ,
 RH ODE S IN RH ODE S IA 35

s ense and that t he Hous e well knew that it was onl y

,

t he exigency o f party politic s that led to t he change o f

Once free Parliament and having transa cted

o f his ,

neces sary b us ines s in Kim berley Rhodes on 14t h , ,

September left Cape Town fo r Port Elizabeth in

, ,

company with Mr de Waal and Maj or Frank Johns on

. .

He ha d res olved at whatever inconvenience to Vi sit

, ,

Mashonaland and s e e fo r himself what were it s pa s toral ,

agricul tur al and mineral pro spects At Port E lizabeth .

t he party ca u ght t he Drummo nd C as t le a ve ss el o nl y ,

remembered now fo r t he terrible fate that s ub s equ ently

overtook it On t he evening o f 17t h September Rhodes
.

reach ed Durban t he port at which a s a delicate and

, ,

friendle ss lad he ha d originally landed twenty one

,
-

year before Time permi tting he Vis ited Pie t ermarit

s .
, z

burg to pay hi s respects to t he Governor Sir Charles ,

Mitchell but returned to t he coa s t t he following day

,

and embarked on t he N orsema n taking with him a ,

Colonial travelli ng cart and a number o f hors es De .

Waal complains b itterly o f t he cockroaches whic h

infe s ted t he S hi p and o f R ho de s s s corn at his com
’

plaints Y o u are a S illy man s aid t he Prime Mini s ter

.
,
’

to be a fraid o f su ch harmless creatures AS fo r me .

,

I treat them like fli e S

’
.

On 22nd September t he travellers were at De la go a

Bay ( Lour enco Marqu es ) t he insanita ry condition o f
which under Portugu es e rule is noted by De Waal
, ,

with wrath and contempt Sailing again t he s ame .

evening they next landed at another Portu gu e s e port

, ,

I nh ambane where R hode s engaged S ixty s talwart

,

natives to ac c o mpany him t o Rhodesia a s camp foll owers .

The a u thoritie s ra is ed techni cal O bj ections to this

recrui ting and a s their protes t wa s disregarded two o f
, ,
36 CE CI L J OHN RH ODE S
t he O fli c ia ls clung to t he ship and were carried on to
Beira Arrivin g there on 26t h September they pro
.
,

cured an order from t he local Commandant prohibiting

t he land ing o f t he natives Fortun ately H M S Magic i . . . .

en ne w a s lying in t he r iver and t he j u d ic io u s di plomacy ,

O f he r Commander backed by t he payment o f ex

,

t o r t io n a t e fee s at length s olve d t he problem and t h

, , e

party were permitted to proceed up t he P ungwe R iver

in a fla t bottome d boat -
An c horing at n ight in mid
.

s tream t he traveller
,
fo u nd it d iffic u lt to leep owing
s S

to t he concert kept up by lions and hyaenas on both

s ide s o f t he r iver while by day t he low is land s and m u d
,

fl ats were s een to be swarming with croco dile s and ,

t he river with lu mbering hippopotami After a while .

Rhodes abandoned t he river rou te and took to t h e

road if road it co uld be called Herds o f buffalo and

,
.

zebra were met and t he country was low lyin g and

,
-

u nh ealthy u ntil on 8t h O ctober they reac hed Maceq u ece

, ,

t he s cene o f t he enco u nter with t he Portu gu e s e t he

precedi ng May But t he Commandant now in charge
.

o f t he frontier town wa s a gentleman and bore no ,

malice and a ssiste d t he little expedition to provision

,

and refit On 9t h October they arrived at O ld Umtali

.
,

within View o f Mt asa s mountain home The coming

’ ’
.

O f R hode s is plea s antly de s cribed in t he Advent ures o f

t wo Ho spi ta l N urs es in M as ho na la nd .

He w as besieged they say with petitio ns o f ,

’

all s orts Malcon tents and chro nic gru mblers went to
.

his hu t and came away c heer fu l and s atis fied Not .

that anything w as altered in t he condition o f a ffairs

t he man s pers onal magnetis m wro ught t he c hange
’
.

His s tay wa s not to exceed two days s o we di d not ,

expect to see hi m Great was o ur as to nishment .

when on t he morning o f t he l 0t h o f O ctober one O f

 RHODE S IN RH ODES I A 37

t he rus hed in breathless to say Mr Rhodes

o fli c ia ls .

was coming Mr Rhodes rode up alone His appear

. . .

ance and Roman emperor type o f head are too well

known to need description AS s oon as he w as s eate d .

on a box in o ur hut he a sked fo r pen and ink aying

, ,
s

he wo u ld give us s omething fo r t he ho sp ital How .

mu ch would we have Wo uld £100 do Make it

I f we ha d a sked fo r £500 he wo uld have given
it
. E verything abo u t t he man is big fa u lts Virtu es —
, ,

proj ects We were e specially charmed with t he great

.

man s S imple manners

’
.
’

James on and other p ioneers met Rhodes at Umtali ,

and ta king advanta ge o f t he excellent road cons tru cted

by Selou s t he party reached Fort Salis b ur y on or abou t
,

1 8t h O ctober where Rhode s w a s received with great

,

enthus ia sm by t he entire population T heir only .

recorded complaint is that t he s toc k o f co nsumable

liqu or had run perilous ly low a po sition never very ,

acceptable to a hard working min ing commu nity in

-

a new country Rhodes had no difficul ty in allay

.

in g the ir fears He was alrea dy fami liar with t he

.

generous thirst which pervaded Kimberley in it s early

days .

After a week s a dmi nis trative and other work he

’

cont inued his j o urney accompanied fo r a while by ,

Lord Randolph Churchill who wa s then in Mashonaland ,

as correspondent to t he Daily Graphic and who s e ,

fretfulne ss is noted b y De Waa l w ho was apparently ,

ignorant that t he ca u s e wa s readily traceable to t he

chronic ill health destined ere long to carry t he
-
, , ,

brilliant s tatesman to an early grave .

The party a fter Vis iting many anc ient gold workings
,

at t he Mazoe and els ewhere and having had excellent ,

s port along t he Hun a ni R iver arr ived at Fort C harter

y , ,
38 CE C I L J OHN RH ODE S
where to t he general j oy they were j o ined by Selous
, , ,

who enlivened the ir evening camp s with Vivid narrations

o f s port and adventure in t he territory thro u gh whic h

they were pa ssing Fort Victoria was reached a few .

days later from which po int an excursion was made to

,

t he mys terio us rui ns o f Z imbabwe a s to t he date o f ,

whi ch s cience has not yet s aid it s la st word On 3 d . r

November t he travellers were again on trek De ,

’

Waal a typ ical Dutchman in hi s ab ility to know good

,

land when he saw it waxing enthu siastic O ver t he pro ,

s ec t s o f t he co untry am lly per aded wr te ’

p I fu s u h e
. i s , ,

that t he day will come when we S hall see large cities

round abo u t Zimbabwe and when t he produce o f t he ,

country will sur pa ss that o f any other part o f Africa .

Now is t he time to trek here Ma shonaland is .

s till open to all and I wou ld be glad to s ee the de s cend

'

ants o f t he daring O ld Voortrekkers occupy this fin e ,

healthy fertile land

, Let not o ur people hesitate .
,

bu t se t o u t at once to inhab it a region than whic h

there are few if any more beau tiful on t he globe
, ,
.
’

The party s u b s equ ently went on to s e e t he Chi e f ,

Chi be who s e alleged cession o f rights to Ad endo ff

,
r

and Vorster had led to t he recent Banyailand trek .

His rep u diation o f their claim is amu singly told by De

Waal : indeed poor Chibe S O far from being an inde ,

pendent chi ef was raided s hortly a fterwards by his

,

overlord L O B e ngula and ma ssacred he and all his

, , ,

— a n atroc ity whic h

was one O f t he determining ca u s e s
o f t he Company s action aga in s t t he Matabele a year or
’

two later On 14t h November Rhodes arrived at Fort

.
,

Tu li and a few days a fterward s at t he Bas e Camp

, , ,

Maclo utsie thus accomplishing t he ta sk he had s e t his

,

mind upon o f traversing a portion o f his new domini o ns

,

and returni ng in t he track O f his pioneers From there .

 40 CE CIL J OHN RH ODE S

CHAP TE R XX V
THE FIR S T R H O DE S MIN I S TRY : S E S S I O N S O F 1 8 9 1 1 892 -

His ill hea t h— His

-
l ac ci d ent— H is man y an xi e t i e s— I mp en in d g shad o w s

A ppro ac h of w ar — C o n t ras t b et w e e n t he R e p u b li c s an d t he C o l o ni e s

K g d Rh d Op i g f C p P li m t D t h
— B e t w e en ru e r an o es— en n O a e ar a en — ea

f K i g f H ll d R h d
o n o Gl d t o P f an ti l t iff
— Th o es o n a s o ne — r e er e n a ar s— e

B l l t B ill Th
a o d l p it i -
Rh d d M i ip l t
e
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ua ti os on — o es an un c a axa on

A S h l f Mi c Cl
oo f S o i M k hi fift h Will S t d
n e s— o se O e ss o n — a es s — ea

onRh d Rh d o T iff R f m G iv
es — £ 5000 t L ib
o es l P ty
on ar e or — es o e ra ar
— C p d
o rres w i t h S h d hon t A dv
en c e t T h i g U iv it y c na o rs — o c a es eac n n er s
—T v l ff i Op i g f t l g ph li t S li b y Vi it
ra n s aa a a r s— en n o e e ra ne o a s ur -
s s

E gl d C p P l i m t f 1 8 92 A t t k d b y S p i gg M
n an — a e ar im
a en o — ac e r —
e rr an s
’

B dg t u Rh d e — S w il d F hi Bill D
o es d W if
on az an — r an c se — e ceas e
’
e s

Si t B ill Th D t h l g g
s er — C t iv e v t h w b y Gl d
u c an ua e — o n s e rv a es o er ro n a

t
s o n e- T v l h t il it y t t h C p C l y P g t i f P li
r an s aa os o e a e o on — ro ro a on o ar a

m t St en g p it i f t h Rh d M i i t y Rh d
— ro n os on t o e o es n s r — o es on o ur

A id t cc Ki mb l y E hibit i Rh d p k t K imb l y
en — er e x o n— o es s ea s a er e

S i w ight k ight d R h d
ve r vi it E gl d A dd
n e Ch t
— d o es s s n an — r e s ses ar e re

Sh h ldar e T v l P id t i l E l t i Rh d
o e rs — ran s Ug d aa r es en a ec o n— o es o n an a

Af i T
r c an ti t l T l g ph C mp
ran sco n y Rh d h n en a f i e e ra o an — o es ears o n

t l d i i i h i M i i t y R h d l v E g l d I id t
ern a s se n s o n s n s n s r — o es ea es n an — nc en

o f B it i h g vr t B mpl t
s ra es a oo aa s .

I HAVE already glanced at parliamentary proceed t he

ings at t he Cape during t he brie f rema inder o f t he
s e s sion o f 1 890 in t he co ur s e o f whic h R hode s a s s um e d
,

o ffice I have a ls o briefly alluded to t he s es sion o f

.

1891 A more deta iled s umm ary o f t he latter may now

.

be foun d conven ient .

Rho de s s fir s t Mini s try la s ted from 17t h J u ly 1890

’

to 3rd May 1893 when it broke up from within His ,

.

po sition as Prime Minis ter remained indeed un , ,

c hanged but he never again enj oyed t he support O f

,

s u c h experienced and competent coll eagu es and from ,

hence forth s ome f his old friend s to the ir grie f and o ,

 THE FI RST RH ODE S MI NI STRY 41

his ,
were to be s een in t he ranks o f t he Oppo sition .

His h ealth moreover began to give way un der his

, ,

manifold activities and anxieties as to t he peace o f So uth

Afri ca and he probably never altogether recovered from
,

t he S hock ca us ed by a bad fall from hi s hors e while

riding with Mr Merriman on 22nd December 1891
. .

From abo u t this date onward to t he actual o u tbreak ,

o f ho s tili tie s in 1 899 t he fli ckering shadow O f im

,

pending war lay athwart t he land he loved At times .

t he s ombre clo u d s eemed to lift only aga in to de s cend

with added gloom There were not wanting men o f
.

goodwill on either S ide both in t he Du tch Rep ublics

,

and in t he British Colonies ; but t he great maj ority ,

ranged in oppo sition camp s sa w some with a stern , ,

delight others with pro found concern that there wa s

, ,

no peacefu l is su e to t he confli ct o f ideals whi ch dr ew

to a climax with all t he inevitab ility o f a Greek tragedy .

The pres s with hono urable exceptions infl amed t he

, ,

animo sity o f t he contendi ng parties The clergy O f .

t he Du tc h Re formed Chur c h were as vehement politic ians

a s are I r is h prie s ts and their langu age s eldom made
,

fo r peace The man in t he s treet generally o f alien

’
.
,

des cent beat t he drum and waved t he flag and wa s

, ,

always ready to embark on war by depu ty with a light , ,

heart and a c heerfu l irre s pons ib ility The su b continent .

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w as thus fu ll o f loo s e comb us tible s There w as elec .

t ric it y in t he a ir NO man knew where t he blow

.

would fall or when bu t that a blow wa s coming every

,

one ins tinctively felt On one side s tood t he two

.

Republi cs soon to be on terms o f s trict alliance pra c ti

, ,

cally cont rolled by one despotic rul er and po ss essing ,

t he incalc ul able advanta ge o f having many blood

relations and fri ends in t he coas t Colonies Their .

adherents in Natal were formidable not so mu ch from ,

 44 CE CI L J OHN RH ODES
line lway t o Vry burg o n it s way to t he far No rt h
o f rai

to Bloemfon t ein on it s way to Pre toria an d to Simon s ’

Town t he I mpe rial Nava l Station My Minis t ers

, .
,
’

he a d d ed have visited B lo e mfon te in and ent ere d on a

,

fresh Co nv ention fo r t he exte nsion o f t he line t o t he

Vaal River R eferring to native a ffairs he we n t on
.
’

t o say that Umquikela was dead and t hat there was

much unres t in Pond o land but that t he Ca pe and .

Natal had successfully prese rved pea ce o n their re

On 27t h May Rho d es move d and Ho fmeyr seco n ded

,

a motion t o pre pa re and transmit an address o f sym

pa thy on t he d eat h o f t he King o f Ho lland a small ,

but not insign ific ant ac t of c o urt es y which was appro

c is te d by t he Co l on ia l Du t c h .

On 4t h J un e d uring t he co urs e o f a dis c ussion o n

,

t he wine ind ustry Rhod es aga in d ec lared that it had

,

been ruined b y G lads to n e fo r t he be nefit o f fore ign

co unt ries and that, in his opinion there should be
, ,

c lo se r co mm erc ia l union be twee n t he mother co untr y

and her Co lonies ba sed on a sys tem of rec ipro cal

,

t eres t ing d etails . Prior he ,

’
sai d , to t he re vised
tariff o f 1860 , Ca pe wine pa id a duty of t wo shillings

was ab lished , o o ur e xpo rts nce fro m

fell at o

gallo ns t o and we mus t ho pe that this Fre e

Trade craz e will pass awa y as co n cessions t o
, t he

but in t he
, mea nwhile t he Cape wine industr y has been
,

pra c t ica lly an nihila te d Rho des wo und up t he de bat e

by sa ying t hat Lo rd R and ol ph Churc hill had ve ry
 THE FI RST RH ODE S MI NI STRY 45

rec en t ly enc our aged him to apply fo r pre ferential rela

ti on s O u t he gr ou nd tha t among t he working cla ss es o f
grea t Br it ain there exis ted a s tr ong d esir e to regai n t he

On 5t h Jun e a divisio n on t he Ballot Bill t he

, in ,

Hous e tied 33 t o 33 and t he Speaker gave his cas ting

, ,

vote fo r t he measure whereupon Ho fmeyr move d to

,

g o i nto Co mm i ttee tha t day th r e e mont hs Th e .

Minis try wer e di vid ed on t he point and t he motion ,

was car rie d by 35 t o 32 Th e B ill ther efore dropped

. .

On 1 7t h Jun e Sprigg in Committe e o f Su pply

, ,

returned to t he attack on t he Premier s dual po sition ’

.

Merriman in defen c e sai d Every patriotic man in

, , ,

this Hou se should wi sh t he Chartered Company well

and endea vo ur to help it in eve ry po s sible way Uping .
’

t o n s uppo rt e d Sprigg while Sau er in a ca u s tic rej o inder

, , ,

s ai d he believ ed t he Colony wo uld b enefit ve ry mu c h by

t he op e rati ons o f t he Company and he po inted o u t to ,

t he Ho us e t ha t Spr igg at a m e eting o f his c ons t itu ents

, ,

ha d bless ed t he Company al together and on t he 19t h ,

Jan uary 1 890 ha d sent a formal Mi nu te to t he Go vernor

,

t o t he effec t that Mi nis ters were in entir e acc o rd with

t he Co mp any s m anaging direc tor b elieving t he enter
’

pris e o n which he was eng aged would be an incalculable

ben efit to t he Colony and to Sou th Africa Ho fmeyr .

followed s trongly s upport ing Rho des

, Thereon a .
,

lea ding memb er o f t he B ond d eclared that Rho des s ,

’

id eal bei ng s elf go v ernment he S ho uld receive t he help

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,

o f all tru e Afr ikanders Bu t t h e mo s t interes ting

.

incid ent in t he deba te was t he fac t that Jo hn Laing ,

t he origin al mover in t he atta ck during t he previo u s

sess ion, now ros e and pu blic ly recante d exp ressing ,

t he opi nion that t he Ho u s e and t he c o unt r y had every

r e ason to be sa tis fied wi th t he Premier and his work .
44 CE CI L J OHN RH ODE S
line o f railway to Vryburg on it s way to t he far North :
to Bloemfontein on it s way to Pretoria and to Simon s ,
’

Town t he I mperial Naval Station My Minis ters

, .
,
’

he added ,have vis ited Bloe mfonte in and enter e d on a

fre sh Convention fo r t he extens ion o f t he line to t he
Vaal River Referring to native a ffairs he went on
.
’

to say that Umquike la was dead and that there was

mu ch unres t in Pondoland but that t he Cape and ,

Natal had s ucce ssfully pre served peace on their re

s e c t iv e border s
p .

On 27t h May R hode s moved and Ho fmeyr s econded

,

a motion to prepare and trans mi t an address o f sym

pathy on t he death o f t he King o f Holland a small ,

but not ins ignificant act o f co urte sy which was appre

c ia t ed by t he Colo ni al Du tc h .

On 4t h June d uring t he co urs e o f a dis c us sion on

,

t he wine ind us try Rhode s aga in declared that it ha d

,

been ruined by Glads tone fo r t he benefit o f foreign

countrie s and that in his opini on there sho uld b e
, , ,

clo s er commercial uni on between t he mother country

and her Colonies ba sed on a sys te m o f reciprocal
,

preference Ho fmeyr concurred and gave s ome in

.

t e re s t in g deta ils Prior he s aid to t he revis ed ’

.
, ,

ta riff o f 1860 Cape wine paid a duty o f two shilli ngs

,

and tenpence per gallon and foreign wine paid fiv e ,

s hilling s and S ixpence per gallon When this preference .

w as abolis hed o ur exports fell at once from

,

gallons t o and we mus t hope that this Free

Trade craze will pa ss away as concessions to t he ,

Colonies will tend to cons olidate t he E mp ire The .

’

craze tho ugh vis ibly weaker has not pass ed away
, , ,

but in t he meanwhile t he Cape Wine indus t ry has been

, ,

practically annihilate d Rhode s wo und up t he debate .

by saying that Lord Randolph Churchi ll had very

 THE FI RST RHODE S MI NI STRY 45

recently enco uraged him to apply fo r preferential rela

tions on t he gro und that among t he working cla ss es o f
gre at Britain there exis ted a s trong desire to rega in t he
trade o f t he Coloni es .

On 5t h Ju ne in a di vis ion on t he Ballot B ill t he

, ,

Hous e tied 33 to 33 and t he Speaker gave hi s cas ting

, ,

vote fo r t he mea sure whereupon Ho fmeyr moved to

,

go into Co mmi ttee that day three months The .

Mini s try were divided on t he po int and t he motion ,

w as carried by 35 to 32 The B ill there fore dropped

. .

On 17t h June Sprigg in Commi ttee o f Su pply

, ,

returned to t he attack on t he Premi er s dual po s ition

[

’
.

Merriman in de fence sa id Every patriotic man in

, , ,

this House s hould wish t he Chartered Company well

and endeavo ur to help it in every po ssible way Uping .
’

ton upported Sprigg while Sau er in a caus tic rej o inder

s , , ,

s aid he believed t he Co lony wo u ld bene fit very mu c h by

t he operation s o f t he Company and he po inted o u t to ,

t he Ho us e that Sprigg at a meeting o f his co ns titu ents

, ,

ha d bles s ed t he Company altogether and on t he 19t h ,

January 1890 had s ent a formal Minu te to t he Governor

,

to t he e ffect that Minis ters were in entire accord with

t he Company s managing d irector believing t he enter
’

pris e o n whi ch he was engaged wo ul d be an incalculable

benefit to t he Colony and to So u th Africa Ho fmeyr .

followed , s trongly s u pport ing Rhodes Thereon a .

,

leading member o f t he Bond declared that Rho de s s ,

’

ideal being s elf government he sho uld rece ive t he help

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,

o f all tru e Afr ikanders Bu t t he mo st interesting

.

inc ident in t he debate w a s t he fact that Jo hn La ing ,

t he original mover in t he attack d uring t he previo u s

s es s ion
, now ro se and pu bli cly recanted expres sing ,

t he op ini on that t he Ho u s e and t he co u ntry had every

reason to be s atisfied with t he Premier and his work .
46 CE CI L J OHN RH ODE S
After a s pirited clo sin g s peech from Rhodes his o p ,

p o n e n t s pr u d e n t lyg fe a r e d to c hallenge a d ivis ion and ,

t he qu e s tion dr opped .

On 30t h June a private member moved fo r t he

,

abolition o f t he sys tem o f protection by means o f

preferential railway rate s on Colonial products bu t ,

Rhodes avowed that he w a s and always had been in , ,

favo ur o f a fford ing t he farmer moderate protection in

regard to tho s e food s tu ffs which t he Colony co uld
-

produ ce The motion wa s negatived withou t a divi ion

. s .

O n 2nd Ju ly R hode s moved that Government property

,

within Muni cipal areas sho u ld in futur e be liable , ,

to taxation from which it ha d been hi therto exempt

, .

His main obj ect he s a id w a s to au gment t he Muni cipal

, ,

revenu e o f Cape Town becaus e that city w as and o ught

, ,

to remain t he cap ital o f So u th Africa His motion

, .

w as agreed to by 40 to 1 8 On 1 3t h Ju ly on t he
.
,

propo s ed Railway Convention he harply reb uked ,

s

Upingto n fo r missing his opportuni ty in 1886 when ,

Kruger w a s willing to allow an extension o f t he line to

Johannesb ur g and ha d been s ore ever since at t he
rej ection o f hi s overtures A couple o f days later he
.

s poke s trongly in favo ur o f t he pre ferential u s e o f

Colonial coal and other produ cts thus carrying o u t ,

t he So u th African policy to whic h he had pledged hi ms el f .

On t he 20t h July in a di s c us sion on t he advis ab ility

,

o f e s tablis hing a Sc hool o f Mine s in order to tra in t he

yo u th o f t h cou ntry in a knowledge f it s greate s t

e o

indus try he s a id that he did not want a lad to compete

,

fo a bit o f paper ( a d iploma ) bu t he wo u ld like to

r ,

s e e t he ins tr u ction s o practical that a s tu dent co u ld

always leave t he I ns titution with t he o ffer o f a mining

appointment in his pocket On 18t h Augus t Parlia .
,

ment w a s prorogu ed with t he usual formalitie s The .

48 CE C I L J OHN RHODE S
that is necess ary help in gui ding yo u r party to consider
,

politics other than tho se o f E ngland I do not think .

your visit to Kimberley did yo u harm either physically

or politically and I am glad to s end yo u t he contrib u tion
,

I promis ed The fu tu re o f E ngland mu st be L iberal

.
,

perhaps to fight Socialism I make but two condi tions .

plea se honour ably ob s erve them : 1) that my c o n t ribu

tion is secret ( if o f cours e yo u feel in honour bo und
, ,

to tell Mr Glad stone yo u can do s o but no one els e

.
, ,

and he must treat it as confidential) ( 2) If t he exi

g e n c ie s o f party nec es sitate a Home R u le B ill witho u t
representation at Westmins ter yo ur a ssociation mus t ,

retur n my cheque Yo urs C J RHO D E S

—
,
. . .

I am horrified by Morley s speec h on E gypt

’
PS
. .
—
.

I f yo u think yo ur party hopele ss keep t he money bu t ,

give it to s ome charity yo u approve o f I t wo u ld be .

an awful thing to give my money to breaking up t he

E mp ir e
’
.

It will be s een that t he only vital condition annexed

to t he donation w a that it shou ld be retur ned if t he
s

party pa ssed a Home Rule B ill which excluded t he I ris h

members from Wes tmins ter I n a po s ts cript however .
, ,

Rhode s expre ssed alarm at a recent speech by Mr .

John Morley which appeared to foreshadow t he evacua

tion o f E gypt Su b s equ ently his u nea siness deepened
.
, ,

owing to a report that Mr Glads tone hims elf favour ed .

t he ab horred policy o f s c u ttle and he a cc ordi ngly w hile , ,

on hi s way back to So u th Africa addr essed a s econd ,

letter to Mr S c hn adho rs t to t he following e ffect

.

“
On board the Du no tta r , Ap ril 25t h, 18 9 2 .

MY S C H N AD H O RS T
D E AR I am s orry to have mi ss ed
,
—

y ,
o u but glad to he ar that yo u are s o mu c h better ,
 TH E FI RST RH ODE S M I NI STRY 49

though it rob s one o f t he chance o f s eeing yo u again

in So u th Africa I gather in E ngland that yo ur party
.

is almo s t certain to come in tho u gh there may be ,

s u b s equ ent diffic u lty a s to t he s h ape o f t he Home

Rule Bill The matter that is trou bling me is yo ur

.

poli cy a s to E gypt I was horrified when I retur ned

.

from Ma shonaland to read a speec h o f Mr Glad s tone s

’
.

evidently foreshadowing a s cu ttle if he came in I .

could hardly believe it to be tru e and sat down to

write to yo u but thought it better to wait and s ee yo u
,
.

I have now mi s s ed yo u so mu s t trus t to writing ,

I do .

hope yo u will do yo ur be s t to c heck him fr o m t he mad

s tep which mu s t bring r ui n and mis ery on t he whole o f

E gypt whils t o ur retirement will u ndo u btedly bring it

,

u nder t he influ ence o f one or other o f t he foreign powers ,

which o f co urs e by reciprocal treaties will eventually

manage t he exclusion o f o ur trade However if your .
,

respected leader remain s obdur ate when he comes into

power and adopts this policy o f scuttle I shall certainl y
, ,

call upon yo u to devote my sub scription to s ome

public charity in terms o f my le tter to yo u a s I certainl y , ,

though a Liberal did not su b scribe to your party to

,

a ssis t in t he one thi ng I hate above everything namely , ,

t he policy o f disintegrating and breakin g u p o ur E mp ire .

As yo u are aware t he qu e s tion o f E gypt w a s t he only

,

condition I made and it seems rather extraordinary

,

to me that t he first pu blic speech yo ur leader sho uld

make which sketc hes generally hi s views upon t he near
,

approach o f o ffice sho uld declare a poli cy o f abandon

,

ment I asked yo u at t he time I wrote to se e him and

.

tell him o f my action and I su ppo s e yo u must have

,

mentioned t he Egyptian qu estion which w as really all

I cared abo u t We are now one third o f t he way
.
-

with a te legraph through t he Continent from t he s ou th ,

VO L 1 1 . . D
50 CE CI L JOHN RHODE S
only to hear of your policy of s u c ttle in t he north .

Yo urs , C J RHO D E S
. . .
’

Mr . S c hn adho rs t
’
s reply is su bj oined
‘
N ATI O N AL L I B ER AL FE D E R ATI O N ,
42 PAR LI AME N T S TRE ET, S . W .
,

June 4th, 1 8 92 .

MY regret very mu ch I did not

D E AR R H O D E s , -
I
s ee y o u when y o u were here a s yo u r letter place s me ,

in a s itu ation o f extreme perplexity Yo ur donation .

was given with two cond itions both o f whi ch will be

ob served but in a pos ts cript yo u referred to John
,

Morley s speech on E gypt in t he s ens e in which yo u have

’

written abo u t Mr Glads tone s reference to t he same

.
’

s u bj ect I t is 18 months ago since I s aw yo u when

.
,

y o u re ferred to t h e s u bject in convers ation and I told ,

t en a s I think now t hat J M s s peec h w as

’

y o u h , , . .

very unwis e and that it did not represent t he policy o f

,

t he party The General E lection has been co mi ng near

.

and is now clo s e at hand Your gift w as intended to .

help in t he Home R u le s tru ggle I t co u ld do so onl y .

by being u sed before t he election ; being s atisfied that

I co ul d ob s erve yo ur conditions and that J M s speech
’
. .

w a s s imply t he expre ss ion o f an individ u al O p inion ,

I felt at liberty to pledge yo ur funds fo r vario u s p ur po s e s

in connection with t he election This was done to a .

large extent before Mr G spoke at Newca s tle I am . . .

bo und to s y that in my View his re ference to E gypt

a

w a s no more than a p io u s op inion I t did not alter .

my feeling that a Liberal Governm ent wo uld not

attempt withdrawal S ir W Harcour t wa s annoyed . .

at Mr G s reference at t he time and since I heard

. .
’
,

from yo u I have s een Lord Ro s ebery w ho will become ,

Foreign Minis ter and who I am satis fied from what

, ,
 THE F I RST RHODE S MI NI STRY 51

he said to me wo uld not s anction su ch a policy Mr

,
. .

Glads tone I expect ha d been worked on by a fe w

, ,

in di viduals bu t in my opini on it wo u ld be s im ply

,

madness fo r him to add to t he enormous difficulties

with whi ch he will have to deal by risking complications ,

on such a subj ect There is no danger besides t he next

.
,

Foreign Secretary will be a s trong man who will take

his own co urs e very di fferent from t he pliant and
,

s u pple Granvill e Of co ur s e I may be wrong : time

.

alone can show but if I waited fo r that t he p ur po s e

, ,

fo r whi ch I a sked yo ur help wo u ld go unaided You .

will se e what a fix yo u have pu t me in 1 will not make .

any further promise s u ntil I hear from yo u With all —

good wishes I am Faithfully yours

, , ,

F S C H N AD H O R S T . .
’

The inc ident is worth recording becaus e s ome years ,

later in 1901 a long su sta ined controvers y aro se over

, ,
-

an anonym o us letter in t he S pect at o r which acc us ed ,

t he L iberal party and s pec ifi cally S ir W Harco ur t

, .

and Sir H Campbell Bannerman o f having been

.
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,

bought fo r £5000 The accus ation was o f cours e .

, ,

outrageou s Rhodes wa s ad mittedly alarmed at occa

.

sio n a l indis creet u tterance s o f prominent politic ia n s ,

whi ch conveyed to his mind an impression that t he

little Englanders were endeavo uring to limit t he r e
s o ns ibilit ie s
p o f E mp ire regardle ss o f t h e natio nal ,

hono u r but he warmly re s ented t he charge that his

,

money had been given with a View to square t he

Liberal party A great deal more wa s made o f t he
.

incident than it de s erved and Rhode s believed a s a ll , ,

s e ns ible people now believe that both t he great partie s ,

in t he State can be equ ally tru s ted to u p hold t he integ

rit v o f all terr itory once bro u ht u nder o ur control
g .
52 CE CI L JOHN RH ODE S
The Marquess o f Salis b ur y wa s not slow to recognis e
t he growing a s cendancy o f R hode s Speaking at .

Gla sgow on receiving t he freedom o f that city in May

1 891 he s a id
, There is t he British Sou th Africa
,

Company which y o u will probably know better in t he

,

concrete form o f Mr Cecil Rhodes a very considerable

.
,

man a man o f very many remarkable powers and

, ,

remarkable res olution and will .

’

During t he year with whi ch I have j u s t dealt R hode s ,

made a s trenu ous e ffort to es tablish a Teaching Uni

versity at t he Cape o ffering a s ite and large endow
,

ment o ut o f his own pocket bu t his plans were thwarted

by t he oppo sition o f t he Du tch educational authoritie s
at Stellenbo s ch and els ewhere who pre ferred a May
,

n o o t h o f the ir own to a tr u ly Nat ional Uni ver s ity .

The po sition in t he Trans vaal als o continu ed to ca us e

hi m great and growing anx iety His vario us over
.

ture s to Kru ger were d isregarded and even t he support

,

o f t he Bond in t he Cape Colony which he s til l ,

enj oyed had no e ffect on t he ir on ob stinacy o f t he

,

President .

On t he 17t h Febru ary 1 892 t he telegrap h line to

,

Fort Salisbur y w a s completed and Rhodes and I had

,

a long and interesting talk over t he wires with Dr .

Jame son t he Admi nis trator a talk whi ch resulted in

, ,

t he e s tablis hment o f t he fir s t bank in R hode s ia on 20t h

Ju ly .

I n March Rhode s s ailed fo r E ngland in connection

with Chartered finance leaving t he admini tration o f
,
s

t he Cape Colony in t he hand s o f Mr Merriman But. .

he w as back at his po s t when t he fo urth s e s ion o f t he s

eighth Parliament wa s opened by Governor Loch on t he

3rd J u ne 1 892 a fe w days s u b s equ ent to t he opening o f
,

t he railway to t he Trans vaal border I n His E x .

 THE FI RST RHODE S MI NI STRY 53

c e ll e n c
y peec
’
hsh e sanno u nced t he tranq ui llity o f

Native Affair s referred to t he rapid expansion o f t he

,

Transvaal gold indus try and added that hi s Mi nis ters,

ha d made a provis ional agreemen t t o advance

to t he Netherlands Sou th African Railway Company
fo r ra ilway extensio n in order to s ec ure fo r t he Colony
,

it s fa ir share o f Transvaal trade The s e ssion ha d no .

s ooner opened than R hode s w a s called u pon to de fend

hi ms elf aga ins t persis tent attack s by Sir Gordon

Sprigg The firs t trial o f s trength occur red on 24t h
.

June when t he Oppo sition endeavour ed to wreck t he

,

Franchis e B ill bu t were defeated by 52 to 16 On 28t h

,
.

June Merriman in trodu ced t he B udget in a speech o f

,

s ingular ab ility clo sing with t he remark that t he mo s t

,

hardened pe ssimi s t mu s t admi t that t he pa s t year had

been one o f undo ubted pro sperity and that t he financ ial
po sition o f t he Colony was so und and s table On .

30t h Ju ne a typ ical ins tance occurred o f t he equity

with which Rhodes generally met what he considered a
reasonable Tr ansvaal claim He does not as a rule .
,
.

receive credit fo r having been considerate in that

direction Mr van der Walt a Du tch member a sked
. .
, ,

whether Swaziland was to be annexed to t he Trans vaal ,

and Rhodes in reply s tated that certain paragrap hs

, ,

in t he E nglish pre ss accu sing t he Cape o f ho s tility

,

to t he claims o f t he Republic were malicious and ,

mischievo us Such statements he added were o p

.
, ,

po sed to t he Views o f t he Cape Cab inet as a whole ,

and contrary to t he Views o f every individu al member

o f hi s Mini s try On 5t h Ju ly Sprigg moved what w a s
.
,

practically a vote o f censure on Rhodes fo r an alleged ,

delay in t he completion o f t he line o f rail from Vryb urg

to Mafeking There had been s ome delay necessitating
.

an appeal to t he De Beers Cons olidated Mines fo r

54 CE CI L JOHN RH ODE S
financial as sis tance but on 20t h April 1892 a loan
,

had been arranged The attack in t he As s embly

.

drifted into t he O ld grievance O f t he du al po sition o f

t he Prime Min is ter bu t t he Ho u s e by an overwhelming
, ,

maj ority rej ected t he motion On 1 1t h July R hodes

, .

moved t he s econd readi ng o f his Franchis e and Ballot

B ill and a fte r a debate extending over many days
, ,

carried t he point by 45 to 20 Ho fmeyr being a s t re nu ,

o us s u pporter of t he mea s ure On going into .

Commi ttee a wrecking amendm ent wa s thrown o u t

,

by 48 to 9 and vario us other amendm ents fared no

,

better The B ill was fin ally pa ssed on 1st Au gus t

.

by 47 to 13 An interes ting amendment to grant

.

Women s S uffrage was resisted by Merriman who

’

qu oted a Du tc h proverb Women and brandy are ,

excellent things but yo u mus t handle them cau ti

,

o u sly The Hous e ungall antly negatived t he pro

.
’

po sition witho u t a division but I cannot find that any ,

su f fragette demo ns trations ensu ed The following qu o .

t a t io n from a recent article in t he Times correctly

de scribes t he Ac t and t he prior Franchis e Ac t o f
1887 Sir Gordon Sprigg in t he year 1 887 introdu ced
a B ill to make better provision fo r t he registration
o f per s ons entitled to t he electoral franchis e under t he
”
Constitu tion Ordinance The real obj ect o f t he B ill
.

was to s trike at t he ab u s e O f t he j o int occupation “

clau s e in that Ordinance ; and in hi s speech on t he

s econd reading S ir Gordon Sprigg sh owed ho w a s t he ,

cons equ ence o f that ab u s e t he native vote had in ,

crea sed to an alarming extent The figures which he .

gave may be summaris ed as follows ( Cape Hansard fo r

1 887 p 67)
, .
56 CE C I L J OHN RHODE S
E uropean pop u lation in t he Trans vaal and this Colony .

The Ac t o f 1887 aimed only at remedying an ab us e o f

t he provisions o f t he Cons titu tion Ordi nance It .

did not to u c h t he ba sis o f t he property qu alification

fo r t he franc his e laid down by that Ordin ance An d .

it was not till t he year o f 1 892 that any further atte mpt
wa s made to alter t he condi tions governing t he exercis e
o f t he franc hi s e in Cape Colony That attempt w as
.

made by Cecil Rhodes then Prime Mini ster Follow

,
.

in g o ut t he policy which he had enunciated in 1887 ,

he ra is ed t he property qu alification fo r t he franchi s e

from £25 a s fix ed by t he Cons titu tion Ordinance to
, ,

£75 le ft t he s alary qu alification at £50 per annum

, ,

and more important than either requir ed every pers on

, ,

who cla imed a vote to pa ss an edu cational tes t

’
.

On t he 2ot h Ju ly t he ladi es were again un der dis

,

c us s io n on a motion by a private member in favo ur o f

,

legalis ing marriage with a deceased wife s sis ter On ’

.

t he q u e s tion that t he B ill be read a s econd time t he ,

Minis try were d ivided Rhodes and Siv ewright voting

,

fo r t he mea sure and their colleagues agains t The .

di vis ion re su lted in a t ie and t he Speaker gave his

,

ca sting vote fo r t he s econd reading The B ill ev en t u

.

ally pa ssed both Hou ses but w as res erved by t he

,

Governor fo r t he s ignification o f Her Majesty s pleasure ’

.

On t he 2nd Au gus t Ho fmeyr moved that t he Ho us e

,

concur in t he recommendation o f t he E ducation Com

mission that in t he elementary s chool examination
, ,

t he pro fic iency o f candi date s in both langu age s s ho u ld

always be as certained Rhodes approved o f t he
.

propo s al declaring that t he recomm endation o f t he

,

Commission afforded him great pleasur e as in View , ,

o f t he increa s ed interco u rs e that wo u ld follow t he

expans ionO f t he ra ilway system it behoved Parliament

,
 THE F I RST RH ODE S MI NI STRY 57

to protect t he two mother tongues o f t he Colony .

After thi s frank recognition by t he Premi er o f t he

exis tence o f t he Du tch taal t he motion was agreed
,
’

to witho u t a division On 19t h Au gus t there arrived

.
,

news that t he Cons ervatives had fallen and Gladstone

was once more at t he helm The ins and o u ts
.

had cro ss ed over to Os borne t he previo us day t he one ,

to kis s hands on appointment t he other to deliver up

,

t he s eals o f o ffice . A fe w days later on 24t h Au gu s t

, ,

came a ru mo ur that t he Trans vaal had suddenl y

framed a new Cu s toms Tariff bearing with extreme
,

harshne ss on many Cape indus trie s A general choru s

.

O f indignation aro s e alike from Du tc h and E nglish

members The tariff was declared to be alm o s t pro

.

hibit iv e and to be contrary t o agreement A motion .

in t he Ho us e to prote s t aga in s t t he propo s ed mea sur e

wa s carr ied unoppo s ed Rhode s being t he o nl y man
,

to keep his head and urge members to say and do

,

nothing to disturb t he relations between t he Republic

and t he Colony I t w as by ill advis ed and inj u dicio us
.
-

legis lation that Kru ger so frequ ently pu t t he friendshi p

o f t he Du tc h in t he Cape Colony to a s evere te s t Rhodes .

a greed to make immediate fri endly representations to

t he Tran svaal Government bu t on 29t h Au gu s t he had
,

to admi t that they had not elicited t he courtesy o f a

reply and a Du tc h member thereupon pa ssionately
,

declared that t he Cape Du tch papers were treating

t he Trans vaal too leni ently in t he matter Rhodes .
,

tru e to his conciliatory policy s till counselled forbear

,

ance and promis ed t he Ho us e that one o f t he Minis try

,

wo ul d visit Pretoria if t he su bj ect were left in his hands ,

and this co urs e was finally agreed to This was t he .

last important debate o f a singu larly qui et s ession ,

Parliament being prorogued t he s ame day The po si .

58 CE CI L J OHN RH ODE S
tion o f t he Minis try had never once been s erio us ly
endangered and t he prestige o f Rhodes was alm o s t
,

at high water mark He had passed forty Acts o f

-
.

Parliament mo s tly o f a domes tic nature but it is per

, ,

hap s s ignificant that exis ting legislation dealing with

t he Colonial force s w a s revi ed and s trengthened and s ,

that a mea sure became law fo r res tricting t he im porta

tion o f arms and ammuni tion .

Shortly afte r t he prorogation v iz on t he 3rd Sep , .

tember 1892 Rhodes and Siv e wright s tarted on a tour

,

through t he Sou th Wes tern dis tricts o f t he Colony

-
,

and were at Montagu e t he following day A few .

days later they were snowed u p in t he Swartberg Pass ,

and sub s equ ently were thr own o ut o f their cart and
s everely bru is ed t he acc id ent re su lting in their having
,

to retur n to Cape Town .

The Kimberley E xhib ition whic h attracted vis itors ,

from all parts o f So u th Africa w as opened by Governor ,

Loch on t he 12t h September in t he presence o f General ,

Cameron t he O fficer commanding t he forces ; t he

,

veteran Sir Richard Sou they Mr I nnes t he Attorney .

,

General and Mr Sau er t he Commissioner o f Works ;

, .
,

bu t owing to his acc ident R hode s w as not there

, ,
.

He sub s equ ently arrived however and visited t he , ,

E xhi b ition acce ss to which is s aid to have been tempo

,

ra ril
y den ied to him ow in g to h is inab ili ty to fin d a
coin in hi s pocket with which to pay t he charge fo r
admission A correspondent o f t he Times who contri
.
,

b u ted to that paper from Ju ly to O ctober 1892 remarked ,

in one o f his letters To t he Du tchman space is e ss ential

,

and space alone Mr Rhodes wa s heard to s y in a

. . a

London drawing room la st year that it w a s t he reading

-

o f Zola s Germina l whic h ha d fir s t ca u s ed him to rea lis e

’

t he nece s sity o f providing decent home s and harmles s

 THE F I RST RH ODE S MI NI STRY 59

plea sures fo r t he Kim berley min er Thes e and t he .

compounds have created condi tions o f life s atis factory

to white and black .
’

The ope ning s entence in t he above qu otation ex

press es in few words a pro found tru th There is no .

intensive c u ltivation in So u th Africa Kip lin g s Va s t ’

.

s pace s wa shed with su n have come to be es s ential to

t he Du tc h and their s tru ggle s fo r more elbow room
,

than t he exigencies and t he s a fety o f t he E mp ire co uld

allot to them were bound in t he long run to result in
, ,

war But through war and thr ough that clo ser uni on
.
,

whi ch has followed war t he problem o f orderly expan

,

s ion on t he part o f t he two rac es u nder one flag is in , ,

a fair way to be s olved The allusion o f t he Times.

correspondent to decent homes is o f co ur s e to t he , ,

model village o f Kenilworth now so widely known , ,

where t he white employees O f t he De Beers Conso lidated

Mines are hous ed in excellent detached cotta ges each ,

with a garden plot and where a working man sits

,

literall y under his own vine and fig tree and lives a -

life o f self respect almo st unknown to t he denizen o f a

-

crowded slum fo r he po ssess es t he ines timable adv a n

,

tage o f fresh air a chur ch a recreation gro und a club

, , ,

fo r hims elf and an elementa ry s chool fo r his children

, .

On 26t h September R hode s spoke at Kimberley to

,

advocate t he a ssimilation O f t he j udicial procedure o f

Bechu analand with that O f t he Cape Colony His .

tho ughts were always o f union and o f t he welding o f ,

l inks o f union however small Two days earlier he

, .

had di ned with his mi ners and declared that great

wealth begot great obligatio ns and that he fo r his ,

part acknowledged t he va lidi ty o f t he doctrine O f ran

s o m and propo s ed to u t it in pract ice in hi s own ca e
, p s

by developin g t he far North .

60 CE C I L JOHN RH ODE S
S iv ewright , who s e energy in railway matters wa s
beyond praise was knighted fo r his s ervices abou t this
,

date He and Rhodes proceeded to E ngland together

.

in t he N o rka m C as t le on 5t h O ctober t he Governor being ,

a pass enger by t he s ame steamer Before leaving .

,

Rhodes handed to me a formal Power o f Attorney ,

authorising me to supervis e t he commercial and financial

affairs o f t he Chartered Company o f whi ch he wa s
managing director t he administrative responsib ilities
,

remaining o f cour s e with Dr Jameson He als o

, , . .

handed me a letter o f t he following tenor

‘
C APE TOW N , 5ih Oct o ber 18 92 .

MY GE N E RAL During my ab s ence in England

D E AR ,
—

Mr Michell has my power to represent t he Charter

.
,

so I s hall be glad if will con ider him it s r e re se n

y o u s p
t at iv e till further notic e Y rs —
,

C J RHO D E S . . .

To His Excellency General Cameron ,

Acting Governor
’
.

On arrival in England Rhodes gave t he reporters ,

t he s lip mu ch to their indignation

,
I fin d him calling .

at t he Foreign Offi ce on 27t h October to pay his respects

to Lord Ro sebery fo r whom he entertained a strong
,

regard He was invited to t he Cu tlers Feast at

.
’

S heffield on 3rd November and als o on t he s ame day , ,

to a banqu et given to Lord Loch at t he Hotel Metropole ,

but he ab horred thes e p u bli c fu nctions o f a carnivoro u s

character and was pres ent at neither On 29t h
,
.

November however he wa s in his element addressing

, , ,

a great meeting o f Chartered shareholders at t he Cannon

Street Hotel t he President o f t he Company t he Duke
, ,

o f Abe r c o m presidi ng His S peech a ma sterly one is

,
.
, ,

fu lly reported in Vindex Among t he s u bj ects

’
.
 THE F I RST RH ODE S MI NI STRY 61

to u ched u pon w a s that o f t he African Trans Continental -

Telegraph Company one o f hi s favourite proj ects

,
.

Thus When t he Charter w as granted I formed t he

,

idea o f an overland tele grap h to E gypt and t he other ,

day when homeward bound I saw with alarm that a

, ,

s ection o f o u r people were des iro u s o f abandoning

Uganda I do not propo s e to fight t he Mahdi but to
.
,

deal with hi m I have never met any one in my life

.

whom it was not a s ea sy to deal with a s to fight This .

’

is t he origin o f t he famo us phr a s e s qu aring t he Ma hdi

but having su cceeded in transa cting b us ine ss with t he
feroc io us Matabele Chie f it w as not perhap s wholly
,

u nrea s onable fo r R hode s to think that he co u ld bargain

with t he despot o f t he S udan I t may be that he .

fa iled to realis e t he religio u s fanatic is m O f t he latter ,

a trait entirely ab s ent from t he character o f LO B en gula ,

bu t t he idea u nderlying his remark w a s in ord inary ,

ca ses a s ound one

,
.

The pa ss age from whi c h I have qu oted w as c haracter

is t ic o f Rhode s in another re spect He w as exquisitely
.

s ens itive to any r um o ur o f t he abandonment o f Britis h

territory anyw here fo r he kept always b efore him t he

,

neces sity o f ample elbow room fo r t he expansion o f

t he Anglo Saxon race in who s e governi ng capac ity he
-

had implic it faith The clo s ing word s o f his s peec h

.

were a summary o f it s general tenor I never .

,
’

he sa id lo s e an opportuni ty o f poin ting o ut to t he

‘

people that in view o f t he fact that thes e islands can

onl y support S ix o u t o f their thirty six millions and in -

view als o o f t he action o f t he world in trying to exclude

o ur good s we cannot a fford to part with one inc h o f t he
,

world s surface whi ch a ffords a fr ee and open market

’

t o t he manufac t ures o f o ur co un trymen

’
.

Before pa ssing away fr om t he year 1892 I mus t refer

62 CE CI L J OHN RHODE S
b riefly to approaching Transvaal Presidential
t he
election The candidates were Kruger Piet Jc ubert
.
,

and Mr Ju stice Kotz e A Tr ansvaal correspondent

. .

wr ote to me on 24t h September that t he better cla ss

Boer thou ght t he time had arrived fo r a change o f
President and was in favour o f electing General Jo ubert
that t he back veld burghers and als o all Concession
-

hunters were s olid fo r Kru ger ; whi le t he Uitlanders ,

who were fo r Kotz e had no vote s He added that t he

, .

Church qu estion then before t he Cour ts was causing

, ,

much bad blood and that t he Dynami te Monopoly

,

w as t he s ubj ect o f b itter compla int The Trans vaal .

National Uni on an Uitlander body was formed abou t

, ,

this time and it was to a depu tation O f theirs that

,

Kruger replied on t he 1st September in t he memorable

, ,

words GO back and tell your people I shall never give

,

them anything and now let t he s torm bur st " During

,

O ctober I rece ived many letter s from t he Rep ublic .

One O f my correspondents s a id S ir Henr y de Villiers

is here I met hi m at di nner la s t ni ght ; he animad
.

verted s trongly on t he pres ent s tate o f affairs at Pretoria

and thinks there must be a thorough cleaning o u t .

As we know no su ch cleans ing o f t he Au gean s table

,

took place Kr u ger by 7881 votes against 7009 fo r

.
,

Jo ubert was re elected not withou t suspicion o f t he

,
-

Ballot havin g been mani pulated by his friends a ffairs

then went from bad to wors e un til t he Ship o f State
finally drifted on t he rocks I n November R hode s .
,

addressed t he following letter to t he Secretary o f State

fo r Fore ign Affa ir s .

M o st co n fiden t i a l .

MYL Understanding that Her Majes ty s

O RD , —
’

Government is considering t he qu e tion o f t he retention s

64 CE C I L J OHN RH ODE S
graph s ys tem now existing in E gypt which I believe ,

exte nds a s far a s Wady Halfa bu t I am fully aware ,

that under existing circumstances at Kharto um su ch

an undertaking cannot be at pres ent carried o ut .
’

I t will be ob served that he confine s hims elf to s trict

b us iness and does not tou ch on t he delicate question
,

o f t he abandonment o f Uganda I n t he event t he .

,

territory is s till our s and promis es to become a great

,

and pro sperous Colony Bu t althou gh t he letter I have

.

qu oted made no allu sion to high politics there is ,

rea s on to believe that Rhodes made strong verbal

repres entations to t he party in power as he did not ,

feel altogether at ea s e a s t o Gla ds tone s intentions

’
.

He had been reading Ru ssell s book The Ra in f t he ’

, o

S uda n and w as mu c h s tru ck by s ome letters therein

,

from Mr Francis William Fox a keen advocate o f

.
,

railways and telegraphs as civilising factors who ,

pres sed fo r t he cons tru ction o f a line since b uilt from , ,

Mombas a to t he Victoria Nyanza The Anti Slavery .

-

Society were als o fo r once on t he side o f t he Emp ire

, , ,

and ur ged t he retention o f territory where if anywhere , ,

it w a s in o ur power to make a su cce s s ful e fio r t to heal

what Livings tone had rightly called t he open sore o f
t he world
’
.

I t is ea s y to se e now that t he de sire o f Rhode s to

throw a wire acro ss t he Dark Continent w as doomed to
failure . He was too early becau s e t he I mperial sp irit
,

s tirred by B e a c o n s fie ld w a s s till in hal f S l umbering

-

mood He w a s too late becaus e s tatesmen responsible

.
,

fo r o ur de s tin ies had permitted other nations to occ upy

territory along t he lin e o f rou te and effectually bar t he
,

completion o f an all red line But so far a s t he .

,

telegraph wir es have penetrated they have been o f ,

essential service to mankind Financially t he proj ect

.
,
 THE F I RST RH ODE S MI NI STRY 65

may not be a success Some o f t he world s greates t .

’

achievements are not trans latable in to visible profit

in po und s s terling B u t a wire from Cape Town to
.

T ete and far Uj ij i though only a fr action o f t he original

,

s c heme is s u cce ss fu l in accelerating co mm uni cation

,

between otherwise sundered communities in checking ,

t he s lave trade promoting civilis ation and help ing t he

, ,

p ioneers o f o ur race to pu sh ever forward on their hi gh

and frui tful mission to replenish t he earth and subdu e
it. The line a s it s tand s is a living te s timony to t he
, ,

genius and determination o f Cecil Rhodes I t mu st .

,

however be frankly a dm i tted that his re ferences to t he

,

Trans continental Telegraph line were ill received in t he

city The fear o f t he Mahdi wa s wide spread t he
.
-

proj ect w as characterised in s ome qu arters as o f t he

wild cat order and as a will o t he wisp
-
Magnifi -
’
- -
.

cent s aid t he Stock E xchange bu t not b us iness

,
’

,
.
’

The share s O f t he Chartered Company flu ttered and

fell and Rhode s alone held on hi s way re s olu te and
, ,

u na fr aid .

Whi le in E ngland he received t he unwelcome in ,

t e lli ge n c e that there were internal dis s ensions in hi s

Minis try o f a menacing natur e his colleagu es bein g ,

unani mo u s in de s iring t he retirement o f Sir Jame s

Siv e wright A considerable amo u nt o f c o mm uni c a

.

tion by cable failed to resu lt in an amicable s ettlement

o f t he di s p u te With a Vi ew to smooth matters over
.
,

he propo s ed or t he s olu tion w a s propo s ed to hi m

, ,

that Sir Charles Mills t he Agent General shou ld be ,

-
,

placed on pension and his O ffice filled by Merriman ,

who in tur n co u ld be su cceeded it w a s tho u ght by

, , , ,

S ir Gordon Sprigg on who s e readine ss to j o in any ,

Minis try it was always considered safe to rely But .

t he cris is w as not to be averted by su ch a mea sure a s

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66 CE CI L J OHN RH ODE S
thi s Persons who s e retirement is arranged fo r them
.

frequ ently S how a s trange dis inclination to recognis e

t he expediency o f t he co ur s e propo s ed I t wa s so in .

this cas e S ir Charles declined to retire t he s cheme

.
,

fell thr o ugh and toward s t he end o f December R hode s

,

left E ngland fo r t he Cape but by t he leisurely E astern ,

rou te via Mars eilles E gypt De lago a Bay and t he

, ,

Trans vaal His cho ice o f route wa s dictated by

.

b usiness rea s ons o f a very important nature a s will ,

appear later on He arrived in Cape Town on t he

.

8t h Marc h 1893 bu t Siv e wright did not return until

,

nearly t he clo s e o f April .

At t he ris k o f u nd uly prolonging thi s chapter I ,

mus t refer to one pleasing incident which pa ss es like a

ray o f light acro ss t he gloomy atmo sphere o f t he year .

On 13t h May 1 892 Governor Loc h wrote to Pre sident

,

Reitz o f t he Free State w ho had su cceeded Sir John,

Brand that it w a s reported to him that t he graves o f

,

t he Britis h o fficers and s old ier s who fell at B o o m pla at s

in 1848 were in a s tate o f s erio u s d isrepair and he ,

inquired whether t he Government o f t he Rep u b li c

woul d au thoris e him to do what was necessary in t he
matter On 18t h May Reitz replied promising prompt
.

inve s tigation and add ing , S hou ld it be found that ,

t he grave s requ ire repa ir I hope y o u will permi t o ur ,

Government to S how it s respect fo r t he brave British

s old ier s who fell there by havin g t he nece ss ary repair s
,

effected at o ur own co st .
’

The O ffer s o co ur teo u s ly made was grate full y

, ,

accepted ; t he graves were repaired and res tored and ,

s u rro unded by a wall and on 30t h June t he Q u een

, , ,

with t he gracefu l tact whi ch never fa iled he s ent to r,

t he Pres ident an expre s s ion o f her high apprec iation

o f his action in t he matter .
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CHAPTE R XXVI
THE S E C O N D R H ODE S MI NI S TRY : S E S S I ON OF 1 8 93

The S iv e w right q uarr e — A g ti ti H fm y d li t t k

l b o rt i v e ne o a o ns — o e r ec n es o a e

J
c ffic e — C hie f d Rh d
u s t ic e Rh d ig F m
an w o es — o es re s ns — or s ne

M i i t y P li m t p
n s r — Th d l p it i
ar a en gi I o thens — e ua os on a a n— nn e s o n e

L g
o t
an t H t d d b t C l i l wi
c o n ra c — ea eRh d th e a es — o on a n e s— o es on e

t iff W t C
ar — t R il w y
es Rh d o as dv t Mi i t f Ag i
a a — o es a o ca es a n s er or r

cult Rh d
ur e — G m S t h w t Af i F h d w g l
o es o n er an ou -
es r ca— o res a o s e n e ra

l t i C d m T v l p l i y P g t i f P li m t
e ec o n— on e ns ran s aa o c — ro r o a on o ar a en

Rh d o t K im b l y
es a er e .

I N OW arrive at a painful chapter in t he career o f

Rhodes as Premier o f t he Cape Colony in other word s ,

at t he dissolu tion and reconstru ction o f his Mini s try ,

which left him s till at t he head o f a ffairs bu t sho w o f

his clo s e s t friend s and mo s t experienced colleagu es .

I record t he c ircum s tance s I do not s eek to apportion .

t he blame The partie s have all s poken fo r them

.

s elve s .

The s torm ha d long been threatening to b ur s t S ir .

James S iv ewr ight wa s connected with more than one

public company who s e a ffairs were t he subj ect o f private
go ssip and press comment So far back a s t he 21st .

May 1891 Sir James Ro se I nnes a man o f t he nices t

,
-
,

s ens e o f hono ur ha d wr itten to Rhode s that t he

,

Jc hannn esbur g Waterwork s Company o f whic h S ive ,

wright was a director w as being made t he s ubj ect o f ,

s erio us all egatio ns and he went on to sugges t that

,

S iv ewright S ho u ld be call ed upon to clear hims elf The .

inc ident s eems to have blown over bu t other ca us es ,

68 CE CI L J OHN RH ODE S
fo r distrus t aro s e and on his arrival at t he Cape Rhodes
,

fo und hims elf in t he thick o f a Mini s terial cris is and ,

w as called u pon to take s ide s in a d is p u te between

tho s e who had hitherto worked under him in at all ,

events ou tward harmony S u ch qu arrels were very

, .

dis tas te fu l to hi m bu t this one there wa s no avo iding

,

except by s acrificing three colleagues or one Mo s t .

Prime Minis ters acting along t he line o f lea st resis tance

, ,

wo u ld have S ided with t he majority but thi s w as not ,

always his way Merriman Sau er and I nnes declined

.
, ,

ab s olu tely to sit in t he same Cab inet as Siv ewright ,

and Rhodes was relu ctant to ej ect t he latter on ground s

which he apparently deemed inadequate I n this .

emergency he O ffered to retire in favour o f Ho fmeyr ,

bu t that a s tu te s ta te s man declined to a ssume t he

responsib ilities o f o ffice Rhodes then approached t he
.

Chief Jus tice Sir Henr y de Villiers o ffering to s erve

, ,

u nder him witho u t portfolio on t he gro u nd that his ,

frequ ent bu t unavo idable ab s ences from t he Colony

rendered hi s relinqui hment o f o ffice desirable He
s .

added however that he woul d s erve under no chi efs

, ,

bu t De Villiers or Ho fmeyr S ir Henr y in t he co urs e

.
,

o f an ho ur s convers ation on T u e sday 28t h April 1893

’

intimated that t he Premiership had no attractions

fo r him s ave to promote that policy o f Federation
,

whi ch he believed he and Rhodes both had at heart .

The two men met aga in that eveni ng at Wynberg ,

and again t he following morning On this latter .

occa sion Rhodes commi tted t he mis take o f produ cing

a lis t o f t he members o f a propo sed Cabinet drawn up
in Ho fm e yr s handwr iting To this t he Chief Jus tice
’
.
,

not unnaturally demurred s tating that if he formed

, ,

an Adminis tration he mus t choo se t he Minis te rs

,
 THE SE C OND RH ODE S M I NI STRY 69

hi ms elf He added that he mi ght not improbably

.

o ffer an appointment to one or more o f t he dissentient

three To this Ho fmeyr and po ssibly Rhodes also
.
, ,

rais ed obj ections and a fter s ome further fruitless nego

,

t ia t io ns t he proj ect fell thro u gh

,
Rhodes writing , ,

I fo und yo ur cond itions impo ss ible to carry o u t s o ,

mus t do my bes t to p ull through There remained .

’

o f co ur s e t he alternat ive o f s u bmi ss ion to t he demand

,

o f his thr ee co lleag u e s bu t fo r rea s ons only imper fectly

,

known Rhodes wis ely or unwis ely wa s indi spo s ed to

, , ,

do thi s and on 3rd May he placed his resignation in t he

,

hands o f t he Governor a re s ignation whic h in volved ,

that O f all his colleagues On t he following day he .

entered on his s econd Mini s try whic h s o far as he hims elf ,

wa s concerned w as merely a prolongation o f t he fir s t

, .

All t he Minis ters who s e differences had created t he cris is

were excluded and t he s ervice o f t he country wa s t he
,

poorer fo r t he exclu sion Sprigg as had been antici .

,

pated readil y su cceeded Merriman He would have

,
.

taken co mmand o f t he Channel Fleet with equal

alacrity Jo hn Laing another opponent su cceeded
.
, ,

Siv ewright Sau er s o ffice o f Colonial Secretary was

.
’

filled by Mr now Sir P ieter Faure w ho had previ

_
.
— —
,

o us ly been Secretary fo r Native Affa ir s The latter .

duties were temporarily entru s te d to a respected

Colonis t Mr now Sir JO hn Fro s t but in t he ensui ng
,
.
— —
,

s e ss ion R hode s carried an Ac t abolis hing t he O ffice and

requir ing t he Prime Minister to di s charge it s fun ctions .

I t w a s thus he became a ss oc iated with Native Affa ir s ;

hence his s ub s equ ent pa ss age o f t he well known Glen -

Grey Ac t The Attorney Generalship held by I nnes

.
-
,

with general acceptance w as given to Mr W P ,

. . .

Schreiner o f whom we shall hear more at a later stage

,
.
70 CE CI L J OHN RHODE S
The text o f his letter a ss enting to t he O ff er o f t he O ffi ce
runs as follows
‘
C APE TO W N , Tuesday E vening,

MY R H O D E S I was s orry to be away when

D E AR ,
—

y o u called A s s oon a s I came home I went ro und and

.

saw Ho fmeyr who expla ined t he obj ect o f yo ur vis it

, .

I can work if y o u wish me in t he a ss ociation whi ch

, ,

u mentioned ; and I told Ho fmeyr so I wi h u

y o s
y o .

wo u ld get a more experienced man than I at pres ent am

in t he hu rly b ur ly bu t I believe that we shall work
-

well together if t he opportunity ranges me b y your

S ide , and I shall be prou d to work with yo u I only .

write in cas e I miss s eeing yo u to morrow morning -

.

I mu s t fr y fish in Co urt at 10 o clock Your s tru ly ’

—
,

W P S OHRE IN E R . . .
’

I mus t not deny mys elf t he plea sure o f recording

here t he following manl y note from one Rho de s
’
of s

o utgoing colleagu es
‘
C APE TO W N , 4 th May 1 8 93 .

MY R H O D E S Only a word The coming and

D E AR ,
— .

going o f Ministers mus t be bu t o ur s everance is to me

a pain I S hall ever look back to my a ss ociation with
.

u s one o f t he hono urs and plea s ure s o f my life

y o a .

Yo ur S incere f i end r J W S AU E R
, . . .
’

On t he 1 6t h Jun e Sir Henr y Loch opened Parlia,

ment His speech re ferred to negotiations as having

.

taken place with t he Trans vaal regarding their imposi

tion o f onerous duties on Cape produ cts bu t no s ettle ,

ment wa s foreshadowed His Excellency reported .

t he openi ng to Pretoria o f t he ra ilway cons tr u cted

 72 CE CI L JOHN RHODES
we o btain t he su pport o f t he Hous e to th ose
is , if
measu res whi ch we sh all bring for ward in t he public

obvious that a Ministeria l crisis o f t he severit y

I t is
of charac te r I have j ust reco rd ed c o uld not in any ,

plana tio n than this The fac ts wer e o f pu blic no to riety

.

and t he co mments o f t he press had been o f a div e rsifie d

na tur e The sec e din g Min ist ers if t he t erm may be

.

fit ly us ed owed it to th ems elv es to thei r cons ti t u ents

, , ,

an d t o t he c o u ntr y to give clea r express ion to t he

,

mo tives whic h had co mpel led them fo r cons ci en ce ,

’

sa ke t o brea k u
, p a n exc e pti ona lly st r ong Adm inisma
'

tio n in t h e zeni th o f it s po wer They entr us ted th eir

.

deser vedl y high He no w ro se to state that t he Minis t ry

.

had not be e n ren t as under on any qu est i on o f po licy ,

bu t on c o nsider a ti ons o f princ ip le an d hono ur Three .

o f t he Minis te rs he sa id fo und th ems elves una ble

, ,

a n y lo n er to give th ei r confidence to a fo urth w hil e

g ,

t h e la t te r ne ver th eless st il l received t he su pport o f

, ,

his c hi ef He reca lle d ho w Rh od es an d Siv e wright

.

in t he firs t wee k o f Octo be r 1892 sa iled fo r England ,

and ho w the ir c o lleag u es left be hind t o carry o n t h e

,

business o f t he co untry disc o ver ed a few w eeks la te r

,

tha t Siv ewright in his ca pa c ity as Co mmiss ioner o f

,

Ra ilwa ys had e ntered be fore sailin g u po n a new

, , ,

Ra ilw a y Re fres hme nt co ntrac t giving inc reas ed an d

un d ue ad van ta ges t o a rs ona l frie n d M in i t er ia l
pe s .

in ves t iga tio n e lic ite d tha t o n 13t h Se ptem be r t he

co nt ra c to r had a pplied for w ha t w as a virtu a l mo no o ly
p ,

and t ha t Siv e wri h t ha d ame n t e d to it Th C l nial

g e o o.

Sec re ta ry added Innes was away and so was Mr

’

, , .

Sa uer We dec id ed t o a wait t hen re t u rn but I wrote

.
,
 THE S E C OND RH ODE S MI N I STRY 73

to Mr Rhod es on 8t h November that t he contractor

.

had been given a monopoly fo r twenty years witho u t ,

t he leas e be ing s ubmitted to t he Attorney General s

’
-

Office . I requ es te d him to s how t he letter to Siv e wright ,

adding that it wa s a j ob and I dis liked hanky panky -

.

On 1 8t h November a fte r a Cab inet Co uncil we ca b led

, ,

to t he Premi er urging hi m to cancel t he contract .

The same day we rece ived a j o int cable reply that t he

contr act w as given on t he advice o f t he railway au thor
ities bu t that they ( R hode s and S iv e wright ) wo u ld
,

confirm whatever we did S O far S O good We replied

.
,
.

that t he contract mus t be cancelled La ter on we .

,

ca bled t o Siv ewright direct that Ho fmeyr and Graa ff

advis ed us that t he contract wa s known and w as
ca us ing grave d issa tis faction weakeni ng t he Ministry
,

and placing it s fri ends in a fals e po sition I added .

,
”
Retreat in time S how R hodes ,
What wa s my .

s urpris e to fin d on t he latte r s retu rn that he ha d never

’

b een shown t he cable " The contract had been given

to a pers onal fr iend witho u t tenders and witho u t
,

t he knowledge o f colleagu es and we rep u diated it ,

.

The contractor took legal proceedings cla iming fulfil ,

ment o f t he contract or damage s We pleaded .

that t he contract wa s not in t he pu blic intere s t and

advis ed S iv e wr ight o f t he plea whereupon he replied ,

that he co uld not concur a s he was convinced t he

contract w a s in t he p ublic interes t We rej o ined that .

t he plea was t he only po s sible one u nder t he c irc u m

s tance s and we inq uired if he wis hed t he trial delayed
,

until a fter his retu rn On 15t h Febr u ary S iv e wright

.
,

prote s te d aga ins t t he rep udi ation o f t he contract ,

adding that he w as s a iling on t he 1 1t h March On .

1 6t h Febr u ary we cabled that we were unanimo us ,

includi ng Fa ur e
’
.
74 CE CI L J OHN RHODE S
I nne s went on to describe other imm aterial cables
and futile negotiations fo r an ami cable settlement ,

fa iling whi c h on t he 2n d May his re signation and that

o f his two colleagu e s were dr awn u p but were not ,

actually s ent in when on t he afternoon o f t he sa me

, ,

day Rhodes himself resigned rather than repudi ate

,

t he Commis sioner O f Ra ilways I t is not a light thing

’
.
,

I nne s added to leave a Mi nis try but s peaking fo r

, , ,

mys elf there Were cons iderations whi ch rendered

,

freedom from t he trammels o f t he Trea s ury benche s

not alto gether di splea sing to me We have been call ed .

mu tinous Minis ters Mutinous agains t whom Not

.
"
mutinou agains t t he Premi er ( Cheers ) Mu tino u s
s .

agains t monopolies I f s o I am prou d to be a mu tineer

,
.

The co u ntry will now pa ss j u dgment to that Verdict

we shall bow and we await it with confidence ( Lo u d .
’

cheers ) .

S iv e wr ight de fend ing hims elf admi tted that R hode s

, ,

telegraphed to him in Scotland that he thought t he

contract should be cancelled but he s till ma intained ,

that it was a good bargain fo r t he Colony and that fo r ,

his part he le ft a s ta inl e ss record behi nd him

, Merri .

man and Sauer both s poke but declared that they had
,

little to add to what had been s aid by I nnes with ,

every word in who se speech they fully concurred The .

dis cus sion then terminated but on 20t h June S ive , ,

wright in a sp eech o f portento u s length moved fo r all

, ,

papers connected with t he contract A debate ens u ed .

in which both I nne s and Merr iman S poke a fter whic h ,

t he motion w as agreed to O n t he following day

.

Sa uer by leave o f t he Ho us e made a personal explana

, ,

tion t o deny what he unders tood had been s tated in

,

t he previo us debate v iz that he and his friends

, .

had o ffered to re s u me o ffice on cond ition Rhodes s .

,
 THE S E C OND RH ODE S M I NI STRY 75

w ho ha d rather kept o u t o f t he fray now ro se and ,

recapitu lated t he s tep s he ha d taken to heal t he breach

amongst his colleagu es Innes and Merriman replied
.

defendi ng t he s tand they had made fo r p ur ity in t he

admi nis tration o f pu blic a ffairs t he latter exclaiming , ,

Why di d t he Prime Minis ter who is generally con ,

s id er e d a man o f extraor di nary ab ility s acrifice three ,

colleagu es who had done nothing ( Hear hea r) who ,

had t he confidence o f t he co u n t ry ( Hear hear ) , ,

aga ins t who s e Departments there w as not a breath o f

compla nt i " S iv e wr ight replied and t he matter aga in
dr opped .

On 22n d Ju ne O R e illy bro ught forward hi s motion

’

agains t t he dual po ition and ma de s arca stic re ference

s ,

t o t he pliab ili ty o f Sprigg in j o ini ng R hode s Scherm .

bru cker a sub s equ ent s peaker declared that Rhodes

, ,

had p u blicly a ss erted that every man co ul d be s qu ared .

This bro ught Rhodes indi gnantly to his feet I .

s a id he remarked that it was ea sier to deal ami cably

’

, ,

wi th a man than to fight him I n other words if one

.
,

s a t down and rea s oned with a man it w a s almo s t always

po ssible to arrive at a s ettlement I am not ashamed .

o f t he p hr a s e " He then went on to de fend hi s d u al

po sition and t he opportuni ty it gave him o f p ushing

t he intere s ts and even t he bo u ndarie s o f t he Colony ,

and u pon a division he had an extraordinary triumph

, ,

O R e illy being beaten by 56 to 2

’
.

On 29t h Ju ne Krige a Dutch member moved fo r

, , ,

papers relating to t he I mperial du ties on Coloni al

wines I n reply Rhodes narrated t he s tep s he had
.

taken when in E ngland to b ri ng t he qu e s tion before

Her Maj e ty s Governm ent in order to obtain relief
s
’

and he read a letter he had written to Sir William

Harco ur t showing ho w t he Cape wine trade had been
76 CE CI L J OHN RH ODE S
ru ined by t he Cobden Treaty The d iffic u lty he went
.
,

on to explain w as that Treaties exis ted with foreign

,

Powers whi ch prevented t he mother co untry making

any Tariff Concession to her Coloni es Several members .

o f t he L iberal Cab inet ha d a s s ured him however that , ,

a s s oon a s they sa w Britis h s entiment turn in t he

direction o f su ch pre ference they would take s teps

,

in accordance therewith .He pers ona lly believed

, ,

that t he E mpire as a whole w a s tending in t he direction

o f a freer interc hange o f good s and prod u ce on a pre

fe re n t ial ba s is a s to t he re s t o f t he world The papers .

called fo r were then laid on t he table .

On t he s ame day another private member a sked if

any line o f railway was in contemplation s tarting from ,

Wa lfis c h Bay Rhodes replied that no propo s als had

.

been made to his Government regarding su ch a line ,

nor woul d he enter u pon negotiations withou t s ubmi tting

them to t he Hous e He admi tted however that in
.
, , ,

his op ini on there w as a dis tinct po s sib ility o f Wa lfis c h

,

Bay eventu ally competing fo r Sou th African trade bu t ,

he had been care fu l in all dea lings between t he Chartered

Co mpany and Her Maj es ty s Government on railway
’

cons tru ction to s tipu late that no competing line should

,

enter t he Protectorate withou t t he Company s cons ent ’

.

This he had done to protect Cape trade and he was will ,

ing to trans fer thi s Conce ss ion to t he Cape Accord .

ing ly on 5t h J u ly a b irthday pre s ent from R hode s in

t he s hape o f a letter from t he Britis h So u th Afr ica
Company w as read to t he Ho us e s tating that by ,

agreement between Her Maje sty s Government and t he’

Co mpany no competing line o f railway from t he

,

Wes t Coa st to any point in Bechuana land or t he

Prote cto rate wo uld be cons tr ucted witho ut t he s anction
o f t he Company t he latter having an excl us ive righ t
,
 THE SE COND RHODE S M I NI STRY 77

to b uild su ch line Rhodes now gave t he Ho us e his

.

a ss ur ance that t he Company s rights wo u ld not be ’

exercis ed withou t t he approval o f t he Cape Parliament .

On 7t h Ju ly a warm dis cus s ion took place u po n

another O f Siv ewright s railway contracts that dealing
’

with t he cartage o f goods at Johann esb urg Unedifying .

charges were made and t he produ ction o f papers called

fo r
. On t he l 0t h Ju ly S iv e wright moved fo r a Select
,

Commi ttee to inves tigate t he Refr eshment Contract ,

whi ch was agreed to bu t his novel propo sal to elect it s

,

members by ballot was oppo s ed by I nnes who moved , ,

as an alternative that Rhodes sho ul d nomi nate t he

,

members s t he Hou s e had full confidence in t he

,
a

Premier s impartiality I t w a s a courteous and even

’
.

a magnani mo us O ffer but Rhodes shr ank from t he

,

delicate du ty and moved that t he matter be le ft to Mr .

Speaker which was agreed to Later in t he same day

,
.
,

Rhodes moved t he s econd reading o f a B ill to create a

Minis ter o f Agricu lture and spoke s trongly fo r agri ,

cultur e as t he real permanent interes t o f a co untry

rather than mi ning t he nature o f which w as precariou s
, .

There is he s aid a bottom to every mine The

,
’

, .
’

debate w as adj o urned .

On t he 25t h Ju ly Merriman moved fo r papers con

n e c t e d with t he propo s ed renewal o f a Ra ilway and

Cu s toms Convention with t he Orange Free State .

Rhodes in reply mentioned incidentally that on his

, ,

way back from E ur ope via t he E as t Coa st rou te he ,

ha d vis ited t he Rep ublic s and dis c us s ed t he whole

qu es tion with t he President at Bloemfontein He .

hoped t he Ho us e wou ld not t ie t he hands o f Minis te rs .

On this hint t he motion was withdrawn His s peech .

gave great pleasure to President Reitz as t he subj o ined ,

letter will S how .

78 CE CI L J OHN RHODE S
‘
KAN TOO R VA N D E N S TAATS PR E S I D E N T,
B L O E MFO N TE I N , 28th Ju ly 1 8 9 3 .

MY R H O D E S I have read your speech on

D E AR MR .
,
—

Ra ilways report o f whi ch yo u kindly sent me with

— —

mu ch pleasur e What yo u say there is as tru e a s

.

”
go spel and as clear as twice one are two
,
Your s .
-

t rul y F W R E ITZ ’
. . .
,

On 28t h July Rhodes a fter a powerful speech

, , ,

carried t he s econd reading o f t he Minis ter fo r Agri

c ulture B ill On 7t h Au gus t in dis cussion on t he
.
’

estimate s an important qu estion was ra ised A private

, .

member complained that t he Government o f German

Sou th West Africa was permi tted to import arms and
-

ammuni tion into t he Territory thro ugh t he Cape port

o f W lfis c h Bay
a whi le private traders were under
,

prohi b ition even when British subj ects Rhodes in .

,

reply s a id T here is no unfairness in t he matter Any

, ,
.

British subj ect desiring to land arms and ammunition

fo r t he p urpo s e s o f legitimate trade can apply to t he ,

Magis trate fo r a permi t The question has to be treated .

with delicacy because there is already a certain feeling

aro us ed in Germany owing to my recently s tatin g ,

that no line o f Railway wi ll be allowed to enter t he

Bechu analand Protectorate from any port on t he
Wes t Coa s t bu t that t he ba is o f t he Sou th African
, s

Ra ilway ys tem mus t be Cape Town I hold that

s .

a fter o ur immens e expenditure on Docks here it wo ul d

be foolis h fo r us to a ssis t any rival port to develop o ur
trade with t he interior .
’

On 14t h Au gus t t he Select Commi ttee on t he Ra ilway

,

Re fres hment Contractreporte d condemning t he Contract ,

on fo ur main gro unds it s long dur ation it s non sub —

,
-

mis sion to t he Attorney General it s completion witho u t -

,
80 CE CI L JOHN RH ODE S
un f riendly isolation But he di d not read his tory .
,

as his grea t rival a s sid u o us ly di d .

On 7t h September t he Ho u s e witho u t debate , , ,

approved o f t he Select Commi ttee s Report on t he ’

Ra ilway Refreshment Contract and two days later ,

Parliament w as prorogu ed withou t t he cus tomary

formality o f a Governor s speech Thirty fiv e Acts o f ’
-
.

Parli ament had been added to t he Statu te Book

'

On t he whole Rhodes su rmo unted t he d ifficu lties O f

,

t he s e ssion with greater ea s e than might have been

expected B u t there was no factious oppo sition
. .

His thr ee ex colleague s were s till u nder t he s pell o f his

-

pers onality and treate d him with cons iderate courtesy .

Later on other and graver differences aro s e to widen

,

t he breach B u t at pre s ent the ir attitude w a s one o f

.

friendly neu trality rather than acrimonio u s oppo s ition .

They had a grievance m any will say a legitimate griev ,

ance fo r Minis ters are but men and men especially when
, , ,

s tru ggling fo r what they hone s tly believe to be t he ca us e

o f p u rity in p u blic life cannot be un moved when they ,

se e them s elve s de s erted by a C hi e f to whom they were

u ndeni ably loyal Their patriotic condu ct merits there

.
,

fore commendation from a ll who hold wi th Welli ngton

,

that t he Q u een s Government mus t be carried on

’
.

I t is noticeable that Rhodes fo und time to be ab s ent

from his po s t fo r a fe w days during t he s es s ion On .

t he 30t h June he w a s at Kimberley pres idi ng at t he

,

annu al meeting o f t he shareholders in his great Minin g

Company His s peech made no reference to politics
.
,

altho ugh t he gathering dis content manifes t in t he

Transvaal O ffered a pretext not easily thrus t a side .

B u t hi s s elf denying Ordinance is rea di ly acco unted fo r

-
.

At t he moment he wa s under an anxiety more pre ssing

than any connected with Cape or Trans vaal politics .
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CHAPTE R XXVI I
TH E MATABEL E WAR AN D AFTER ( 1 8 93)

R ho d es an op t im is t —
L o B en gl
Daw s o n s w arn in
o a—
’
e m s w arn in g Hl— ’
g
— C a t ain L en
p
— Dr a dy
m e s o n — J. JC o l e n b ran d e r — B o r e r P o ic e d l
K l
h ama s e vie s— U mj aa n an d his im pi
’
Fg
i ht in o n t h e B e m e z i
-
g b
ll ’
l
A an W i s o n s e at h — d
i h t o f t he Fl g K g
in — Rh o e s sp e a s at B ul a d k
y
w a o — Vi e w s o f S e o u s— L o r l dK d
n u t sfo r — D e l ago a B ay n e o t iat io n s g
—S ir H
er c ul e s R o ins o n o n bo me R u e H l .

I T was not to be expecte d that a warlike tribe like

t he Matabele wo u ld acqui e s ce witho u t a s tru ggle in t he
lo ss o f pres tige ins eparable from t he lodgment in their
mi ds t o f a s mall bu t power ful white pop u lation LO .

B e ngul a proba b ly recogni s ed t he fu tility o f an armed

s t ru ggle with t he s u bj ects o f t he mys terio u s great

whi te Queen acro ss t he water but despots are frequently ,

driven into dangerous co ur s es by t he irresis tible pres sur e

o f their people Rhodes who six yea rs later was wrongly
.
,

o f op ini on that t he Boers di d not mean figh ting w as ,

here equ ally mis taken in holdin g that s elf interes t alone -

would res train t he Matabele ru ler from aggression .

On 29t h November 1892 at a meeting o f t he Britis h ,

Sou th Africa Company wi th whi ch I have alr eady

dealt he expres sed him self a s an optimi s t regarding t he
,

peaceful development O f Rhodesia I have not t he .

lea st fear he s aid o f any trouble in t he futur e from

,
’

L O B en gu la His confidence w as ba s ed on t he latter s

’ ’
.

undis guis ed pl e a sur e at rece iving a monthly s u b sidy

from t he Company in hard cash B u t he forgot that .

though t he king received money his warriors were ,

not partners in t he trans action Avarice therefore .

, ,

VO L I I . . F
82 CE CIL J OHN RH ODE S
ha d no restraining power over them and a s avage ,

despot can onl y effectually control his armed forces

by allowing them an occasional tas te o f t he blood to
whi ch they are accu stomed So it was in this ca se . .

Lo B engula was a man o f considerable mental ab ility ,

and he had no desir e to fight t he whi te men who were

po uring gold into his co ffers But his impis were us ed
.

to perio di cal raids involvin g ma ssacre and plunder ,

and they obj ected to an enervating peace T hey .

clamo ur ed to be allowed to wa sh their S pears and t he ,

’

king had to sub mi t Various minor raids and in di vidu al

.

murders had already taken place A pretext fo r killing .

o ff ino ffens ive Ma shona s was now fo un d in t he alleged

theft by them o f royal cattle On 29t h June Mr .

, .

James Daws on t he king s s cribe despatc hed t he

,
’

following letter

‘
B U LAW AY O, 2 9th J une 1 8 93 .

To t he Magis trate or other Officer in Charge

at Victoria .

S IR —
An imp i is
at pres ent leaving this neighbour
hood fo r t he p urpo s e o f p u nis hing s ome o f LO B e ngula s
’

people who have lately raided s ome o f his own cattle .

The imp i in it s pro gress will probably come acro ss

s ome white men who are a sked to u nder s tand that it
,

has nothing whatever to do with them They are .

likewise asked not to oppo s e t he imp i in it s progress .

Al s o if t he people who have commi tted t he o ffence

,

have taken re fuge among t he white men they are as ked ,

to give them up fo r punis hment Written at Lo —

B e n gu la s requ es t by J W DAW S O N
’ ’
. . .

E arly in July t he I mpI wa s in motion . On 14t h

 THE MATAB ELE WAR ,
1 893 83

July Mr Helm a mis sionary at Morgens ter

.
, , s ent a
letter to Captain Lendy to this effect
‘
MOR GEN S TER Ju ly ,
14, 1 8 9 3 .

Captain Lendy Resident Magistrate Victoria , ,

.

DE AR S I R Al armi ng reports have reac hed us a s to

,
—

t he attitu de o f t he Matabele toward s t he white people

in and abo u t Victoria We do not know whether there .

is any danger or not Will yo u kin dl y send u s s ome .

information by o ur me s s enger and at t he same time ,

let us know what we shou ld do " What we really

wish to know is whether there is any immedi ate danger .

—
I rema in dear Sir Obe di ently yo ur s
, , ,

S P HE LM ‘
. . .
’

The approach o f danger was unfort unately beyond

question For some days an impi under Umgandin e
.
, ,

had been in t he s ettled dis tri ct o f Victoria and t he ,

alarm was general Captain Lendy t he local magis .

,

trate wa s away but his lo c um tenens wired to Dr

, , .

Jameson fo r ins tru ctions and received t he follo wing

"

reply Y o u can give up nothin g On Lendy s arrival

,
.
’

t he indun a can lay his compla int agains t hi m as a

Magistrate On 12t h Jul y Jameson again wired
.
’

Leaving fo r Victoria t o morrow Keep t he induna -

.

till my arrival Tell him I will give him a reply to t he

.

king s orders mys elf

’
.
’

To explain t he tenor o f thes e messages it is n ec es

s ary to s ay that Co le n bra n d er another E ur opean agent ,

o f t he king s ent on t he latter s behalf t he following

’

, , ,

telegram to Captain Lendy on 9t h July or at all events ,

it reached it s de s tination on that date I wis h to .

let yo u know that t he men yo u met were s ent by my

orders to recap t ure some cattle s tolen from me by t he
84 CE CI L JOHN RH ODES
Amaho li, and I als o wish to warn yo u and t he people
in yo ur vic inity that I am despatc hin g wi thi n a day or
so a very mu c h larger force to p unis h Bere and others
,

fo r the ft and vario us other rea s ons bu t I do not wish to ,

frighten y o u or yo ur people and there fore s end y o u

warnin g that my impis will pa ss your way but have ,

orders not to moles t any whi te men Why should I .

s end an imp i aga ins t t he whi te men " We have not

quarrelled I have given yo u now my reasons fo r
.

punishing thes e Am aho li and yet t he people will say

,

that I am killing human beings unnecessarily .

’

Attached to this royal mes sage Co lenbrander adds ,

thes e words While I was at Hope Foun ta in yes terday

, ,

t he k ing s ent fo r me in order to addre ss a letter to yo u

to be s ent direct to Victoria by special messenger but ,

finding me away went to Mr Daws on who has s ent

, .
,

t he me s s engers fo r me and I tr us t the s e will reach y o u

,

in good time fo r a warning This wou ld appear to be ’

.

a s econd letter from Dawson unless t he former letter ,

and telegram were both delayed in trans mission .

Dr Jame s on to whom t he te legram was no do ubt

.
,

retrans mitted s ent t he annexed reply witho ut t he loss

,

o f a day .

Thank t he king fo r his friendly message and tell ,

him that o f co urs e I have nothi ng to do with hi s

, ,

punishi ng hi s own Maho lis But I mus t insis t that his

.

imp is be not allowed to cro ss t he border agreed u pon

by us He not being there they are not under control
.
, ,

and Capta in Lendy tells me that s ome o f them have

actually been in t he streets o f Victoria b urning kraals ,

within a few miles and killing s ome Ma shonas who are

,

s ervants o f t he w hite men als o that they have captur ed

s ome cattle o f t he Governm ent and o f other whi te men .

I am now ins tru cting Capta in Lendy to s e e t he head

 THE MATAB ELE WAR ,
1893 85

ind una and tell him tho s e cattle mus t all be retur ned
at once His impi mus t retire beyond o ur agreed
.

border otherwise he is to take his poli ce and at once

,

expel them however many they are The k ing will

, .

s ee t he nece ssity o f this otherwis e it is po ssible t he w hi te

,

men getting ir ritated his expedi tion may never retur n

,

to B ulawayo at all .
’

At t he s ame time James on wired to Capta in Lendy ,

Have yo u heard t he king s message to me Y o u will ’

s ee he is very anx io u s and in fact frigh tened o f any , ,

trouble with t he whi te s But yo u have done ab s olu tely .

right in taking all precautions What yo u shoul d do .

now is this See t he head induna as s oon as po ssible .

Tell hi m o f t he king s message and my reply and if

’

, ,

necessary that yo u wo uld act up to it with police

, ,

volunteers and yo ur machine guns At t he s ame time .

remember t he excessive importance o f not hi nting at

this if avo idable From a financial po int o f view it
, .
,

woul d thr ow t he country back till God knows when .

I n short yo u have a u thority to us e extreme meas ur e s

,

if necess ary but I tru s t to yo ur tact to get rid o f t he

,

Matabele withou t any actu al collision .

’

This desire to avoid a s truggle unl ess it were ab s olu tely

unavo idable was du e in great part to t he fact that
, ,

t he finance s o f t he Ch artered Company rendered

t he stricte s t economy nece ss ary James on had recently .

s u cceeded beyond his expecta tion in redu cing ex

, ,

p e ndi t ur e and w
, a s rel u ctant to face a h eavy s u pple
mentary b udget On arrival at Victoria he wired to
.
,

Rhodes at Cape Town explaini ng t he S ituation and ,

adding that if a blow were once s tru ck it might become ,

necessary to assume t he O ffens ive and march on B ula

wayo Rhodes then sitting in t he Ho us e replied
.
, ,

laconically Read Luke xiv

, On receipt o f this .
86 CE CIL J OHN RH ODE S
mess age James on called fo r a B ible and replied Al l
, ,

right His decis ion was soon trans lated into action
.
’
.

On 18t h Ju ly t he imp i entered t he o u tskirts o f t he

,

little town Dr Jameson who had arrived interviewed

. .
, ,

t he head induna who t here u pon a greed to retire bu t

, ,

t he yo unger bloods got o u t o f hand and wo ul d have

continu ed their murderous career had not Lendy ,

with a s mall force O f thir ty four men attacked and -

s cattered them in all directions The whole impi .

then retired on B ulawayo and a demand was made ,

on t he king fo r 1000 head o f cattle as a fin e fo r damages ,

and expenses incurred T his he agreed to pay provided

.
,

t he Ma shona s in and aro u nd Victo ria men women and —

,

childr en were handed over to him fo r execu tion

— .

To thi s inadmi s sible ultimatum no di rect reply was

given but t he High Commis sioner exchanged mess ages
,

with LO B e ngula withou t result until it became clear ,

that war was inevitable L O B engula recalled an imp i .

5000 s trong which had been raiding in Barots eland

,

beyond t he Zambesi and made other arrangements ,

fo r an immediate campaign .

On t he other hand t he Company duly au thoris ed ,

by t he High Commi ssioner rais ed volunteers s trength , ,

ened t he police and prepared to s trike a blow fo r

,

c ivilis ation To effect a demons tration on t he other

.

flank o f t he Matabele S ir Henr y Loch s ent up 220,

men o f t he Bechuanaland Border Po lice to t he wes tern

border where they were j oined by a contingent o f
,

1880 men O ffered by Khama The native levie s s oon .

ran away Rhodes s old

. O f his own s har es in

t he Chartered Company to provide funds and on ,

18t h September a fe w days a fter Parliament ro s e he

, ,

proceed e d coastwis e in t he Germa n to Beira and thence ,

to Salisb ury where he j oined t he little column then

,
 88 CE CIL JOHN RH ODE S
was attacked and entirely surro unded by 5000 Matabele
from t he I nsukam eni and other famo us regiments ,

u nder Umj a an I n sp ite o f a pani c fli ght on t he part

.

o f o ur native levie s t he col umn wi th it s machi ne gu ns

,

rep ulsed thr ee furiou s charges and finall y rou ted t he

Matabele with great S laughter and Un o n do t he com , ,

mander o f t he leadi ng regiment hanged hims elf on t he ,

neares t tree rather than face LO B engu la after a defeat .

On t he 1 st November near t he head waters o f t he

,

Bembezi River another s evere action wa s fought

,

agains t even larger numbers than before The splendi d .

co urage o f t he enemy was unavailing They lo st 1000 .

men t he I mbez a and Ingubo regiments being prac t i

,

cally annihilated The war w as virtu ally over L O

. .

B e ngula fl e d a fter giving orders to make a Mo s cow

,

o f B u lawayo his great Kr aal and his E u ropean ho u s e

,

there ; and this was done On t he 2nd November .

t he advancin g colu mn heard lo u d explo sions in t he

dir ection o f t he Kraal The following day they entered
.

and occupied B ulawayo Dr Jameson at once despatc h

, .

in g a flying column un der Forbes and Allan Wils on

, ,

in p ur sui t o f t he king The latter now su ed fo r peace

.

and s ent in a large sum in gold by t he hands o f two ,

troopers as an earnes t o f good faith To their eternal

, .

shame the s e men embezzled t he money and made no

,

report as to it s being in their possession They were .

a fterwards convicted o f t he crime and s entenced

to a long term o f impris onment bu t their action had ,

meanwhi le res ul ted in t he death o f Allan Wils on and

all his men who were des troyed by t he Matabele imp i
,

engaged in acting a s reargu ard to t he flying k ing .

Forb es also was hard press ed being only res c ued by

, , ,

t he arrival o f a rel ie f colu mn among whom wa s R hode s

 THE MATAB E LE WAR ,
1893 89

Lo B engu la was never again heard o f and with him ,

exp ired t he capable but ferocious and short lived

,
-
,

Matabele dynas ty The campaign co st t he Company

.

abo u t and had a very tranquilising effect

u pon t he Terr itory The fear o f t he trained regiments
.

o f t he king was removed Pro spectors who had .

,

walked in t he valley o f t he S hadow o f death now went ,

abo ut their business with fresh hope and in perfect

s ec ur ity : trade revived and whi te settlers pour ed in
,

from all parts o f So u th Africa .

On 1 9t h December R hodes made an excellent s peec h

,

at B ul awayo to t he di sbanded forces in which he ,

recapitu lated t he caus es o f t he war and drew a p ictur e

O f it s incidents and e ffects With s ome heat he .
,

re s ented certain captio us criticisms whi ch were being

made in England principall y by Mr Labo uchere on
, .
,

t he hero ic action o f t he s ettler s in de fend ing the ir

live s and property agains t a formi dable fo e You .

wo uld have tho ught he s aid that E nglishmen wo uld

,
’

have been s atis fied On t he contrary yo u are called

.
,

freebooters marau ders and m

,
u rderer s and s o on B ut ,
.

thi s has not been s aid by o ur people as a whole bu t ,

onl y by a s ection I am as loyal an E nglishman as

.

any one but I cannot help s aying that su ch condu ct

,

as thi s alienate s colo ni s ts from t he mother co u ntry .

We asked them fo r nothing neither fo r men nor money , ,

bu t s till we are vilified There are no more loyal people

.

than o ur colo nis ts in Africa but persis tent misrepre ,

s e n t a t io n will alienate t he be s t o f u s Y o u were t he .

fir s t to conqu er thi s Territory and tho ugh o ur s ettle ,

ment with t he natives mus t be a fair one it cannot be ,

left entir ely to t he negrophilis ts o f E xeter Hall All .

arrangements regarding t he settlement are s ubj ect to

t he approval O f t he High Comm issioner and that is ,
90 CE CI L J OHN RH ODE S
t he principal reas on why I am hur rying back to Cape
Town to confer with him .
’

That t he criticis ms to which Rhodes all uded were

fo u nded on imperfect knowledge fe w will now deny ,
.

Mr Selo us a singularly humane man who s erved with

.
, ,

dis tinction dur ing t he war arrived back in E ngland on ,

4t h Febru ary 1894 and at a pre s s intervi ew whi le on

, ,

hi s way home he delivered hi s views a s fo llows

, The .

reporter s ays
He considers that t he war is over and that no ,

further ris ing o f t he Mata bele is to be feared He .

think s that t he want o f cohesion among t he Mata bele

ha d a great deal to do wi th t he rap id su cce ss o f t he
”
Chartered forces Y o u will unders tand
. he con ,

t inu e d , that t he greater portion o f t he s o call ed -

Matabele are what is called Maho lie s low class Kafirs ,

-
,

many o f whom have since t he las t few years been to

work on t he gold fields For them t he u nbridled -
.

despotism o f t he Mata bele made life not worth living .

Under t he cruel rul e o f rapine and murder o f t he la tter

they were not s afe fo r a moment as to life and property .

No s ooner were a few cattle accumul ated than t he owner

w a s kill ed by order o f t he k ing These men who .
,

made t he maj ority o f t he s o called Matabele power -

,

prefer t he j us t government o f t he whi te men to t he

ru le which has been over them till now They have .

s een Khama s people li ving in peace and wis h to do t he

’

s ame .

Mr Selo us was a sked if he ha d qu ite recovered from

.

t he b u llet wo und rece ived at t he Fort Adam s attack on

t he rear colu mns o f R aa f s force s The great hunter
’
.

s mi led and opening his flannel S hi rt showed two

, , ,

na sty spots healing rap idly j us t below t he third rib

, ,

on t he right side where t he b ullet had hit t he bone

, ,
92 CE CIL JOHN RH ODE S
within sight o f even t he whi te women living at Fort
Victoria Wo uld y o u hold argument with men whom
.

u commit fl agrant m rder i open dayl igh t "

y o s e e u n

I consider t he action o f Captain Lendy was fully

j us t ifie d
’
.

The Company was not without it s influential sup

porters I n June 1894 Lord Knu ts ford an ex Secretary
.
, ,
-

o f State s peak ing at a p u blic dinner s a id

, I cannot , ,

regret that dur ing my term o f O ffice t he Charter wa s

granted to t he Britis h Sou th Africa Company by Her
Maj es ty (Loud cheers ) The Company have loyally
. .

performed t he covenant s they entered into and I thi nk ,

they may treat with contempt t he denun ciations o f

Mr Labo u chere (Lo ud cheers) denunciations whi ch
.
,

he is very ready to make witho u t any fo undation .

( Renewed c heer s ) .

The attacks o f Mr La b o u c here and others while

.
,

dis credited in all well informed quarters and deeply -

res ented in Rhodesia its elf had t he effect o f lowering ,

Chartered Company shares to un der par But they .

s oon recovered The pers onal b itterness o f t he o riti

.

c is m de feated it s own obj ect Sir Herc ul es Rob ins on .

,

then in London wrote a s ensible letter to t he Times

,

on 7t h November whi ch met wi th general approval

, ,

except from t he L abbyit es a s he called them who ,

’

— to u se hi s own word s to me were as impracticable —

a s ever with the ir cry o f Take care o f t he poor natives ,

bu t don t s pend anything " T hey wo uld like to

’ ”

play t he part o f t he good Samaritan witho ut t he o il

and two pence .
’

Later on 17t h November Sir Hercules wrote to me

, , ,

The Matabele debate la s t week was a Victory all along

t he line fo r t he Chartered Company La bo uc here s
’
.

indis creet remark that t he advent o f t he L iberals to

 TH E MATABE LE WAR , 1 893 93

power was always followed by a ma ssacre in Africa ,

made t he G O M furious and probably led to hi s

. . .
,

taking a s tronger line on t he Chartered s ide than he

otherwis e woul d .
’

The e fforts o f R hode s to ro un d o fl t he Britis h p o s

s e ss ions in So u th Afr ica and de feat Rep u blica na sp ira

tions fo r an E as t Coas t port by obta ining Delago a ,

Bay fo r E ngland continu ed over a period o f s everal

,

years but a s his principal negotiations were in or

,

abou t 1893 they may be referred to here So far back

,
.

a s 22nd Janu ary 1 892 Merrim an then in London , , ,

wrote t o Rhodes that a s requ ested he had interviewed

, ,

a well known international financier who sa id that t he

-
,

Cape o ught to purcha se all t he So u th E as tern Afri can -

po ss essions o f Portugal that it woul d s olve t he Sou th

,

African problem and that t he trans action w as not

,

beyond t he limi ts o f probab ility as Portugal was in ,

s ore s tra its fo r money On 5t h Febru ary Merriman

.
,

cabled to Rhodes Am in constant communi cation,

with I fully S hare yo ur Views as to import ance .

’

During t he whole o f 1893 R hodes was in clo s e corre

s p o n de n c e w ith t he Cape Agent General and with a -
,

repre sentative he had despatched to Lisbon He also .

address ed Her Maj e sty s Government on t he su bj ect ’

bu t rece ived fo r reply on 23rd May a s omewhat frigid

, ,

note to t he effect that as a Governm ent they coul d , ,

do nothing to help hi m although he was warmly ,

s u pported by t he High Commi ssioner A gleam o f .

hope is Visible on 26t h Au gus t 1893 when a highly ,

placed O fficial informed him that it might be possible

to take action upon publication o f t he Berne Award .
"

I t was accordingly arranged to o ffer fo r t he

Terr itory but on 15t h September Baron
, cabled
that another competitor was in t he field o fl erin g one
94 CE CIL J OHN RH ODE S
million sterling and reques ting dis cretion to
, bid up to

In March 1894 Rhodes prepared an elaborate mi nu te

,

on t he subject from which I make t he following extract

, ,

I have fo r s everal years done my bes t to obtain fo r t he

Colony by pur cha s e or otherwis e t he Portugu es e ,

Provin ce o f Lo ur enco Marqu ez With that View .

went to Lisbon in 1891 and endeavoured to effect

purcha se on my behalf He found t he national s enti .

ment oppo s ed to partin g with any territory Lord .

intervened and kept me advis ed o f t he po sition It .

w as arranged that sho uld favo urable occa s ion aris e ,

he w as to act When in England with Siv ewright

.

at t he end o f 1892 Baron wa s introdu ced to me by

,

t he Colonial Ofli c e a s a man o f mu ch influ ence in

Lisbon He thou ght t he time ripe but was onl y to
.
,

receive a commission if t he deal went thr o ugh I .

then left fo r E gypt and while there I heard t he moment

,

ha d arrived and I cabled to

,
to take t he matter
up . At Zanz ibar I a ls o received cables For several .

months po u rparlers proceeded Siv e wright retur ned .

to t he Colony in April 1893 : there was a change o f

Mini stry in Portugal and thing s took an unfavo ur able
,

tur n At one time success s eemed assur ed but America

.
,

intervened on behalf o f Mac Mur do s relatives Sive ’

.

wright paid £3000 fo r t he option over their interes ts ,

bu t t he option expired be fore anyt hing co u ld be done

and t he money was lo st I cou ld not a sk Parliament .

to pay so I pa id it myself The whole circ ums tance

,
.

w as known to Her Maj e s ty s Government They are ’

.

aware that t he Cape Governm ent is prepared to p urchas e

t he province The Trea sur er ( Merriman) conc urred
.

and w a s a help to me while in England .

’

On 26t h April 1894 R hodes being at B u tterworth

, ,
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t he transaction whi ch Rhodes had at heart and to ,

overcome t he reluctance o f a bankrupt State to part

t h any fraction o f it s oversea po s s e ssio ns .

I have referred more than once to corre spondence I

received from S ir Hercules Robins on from time to
time and I may perhaps conclu de thi s chapter with a
,

reference to his views on t he Home Rul e B ill then before

t he Ho us e o f Co mm ons . Like Rhodes he held tenaci ,

o us l
y to t he v iew t h at u nder certa in re s tr ict ions and
with certain s a fegu ards Home Rul e would tend to
,

federate rather than disintegrate t he E mp ir e Bu t he .

s hall s peak fo r hi ms elf.

On 17t h February 1893 he wrote as follows

,

Nothi ng is talked o f here but t he Home Rul e B ill ,

whi ch I think is not a bad bill I t is t he Cape and

.

Victorian system p lus repres entation at Wes tmins ter .

I t will pa ss t he firs t r e a di ng to day and I expect t he

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s econd rea di ng w ill be carried by a maj ority o f 40 .

I like t he propo s al chi efly from a Federal po int o f

view as it could be extended to England Scotland
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and Wales and to t he s elf governing Coloni es whenever

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they may be prepared to hear their fair share o f t he

common b urdens O f British citizens hi p .
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CHAPTE R XXVI II
A B US Y YEAR ( 1 8 94 )
M t b l l d O d i C il R ig t i f At t y G l Rh d
a a e e an r er n o rl n c fi

es na on o o rn e -
e n e ra — o es

p k i
s ea C p T w
s E it m t i E gl i h p
n a e oC p Gn— l xc e en n n s r ess— a e e n e ra

El t iec Rh don—wi Sp k t K imb l y

o es A t B kly W tn s— ea s a er e — ar es

A t K l ip d m Afl i f P d l d H i t i S v y Rh d vi i t
'

a — a rs o on o an — s or c ur e — o es s s

and ll P d l d P l i m t p
an n e x e s a Th onCh i m o an f — ar a en o ens— ero n a r an o

C mm it t
o Rh d p f
ee — t i l d t i Th
o R h d l
es on re e re n a u es —
e
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o es c au s e

H igh C mmi i o iv f m E gl d Vi it P t i
s s o n er arr Th fl g es ro n an — s s re o r a— e a

i id t
nc L h w
en — K g D b t i t h C p P li m t
oc ar n s ru e r— e a es n e a e ar a en

U it l d g i v
an T
er v lG r e B k G wi g
a n c e s— t V r an s aa re en oo — ro n u n re s — an

d W lt C l i l C f
er a — t Ot t w
o on a G m t bl i S t h o n er enc e a a a— er an ro u es n ou

w t Af i
es S b A t Gl
r ca G y B ill P li m t p g d
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ca c — en re — ar a en r o ro ue

Vi it s t G t Sh
o rs S h i
o t
ro o e t ffi Rh dc guu r— c r e n er r e ur n s o o c e— o es oes

N th J h
or H y H m m d R h d vi i E g l d A g m t
— o n a s a on — o es s ts n an — re e en

t B it i h C t l A f i Rh d L d Av id p b l i ‘
as o r s e n raLi r ca — o es a on on on — o s u c

s
p k
ea i g n .

WE have een that at t he clo s e o f 1893 R hodes had

s

to hurry back to Cape Town to confer with t he High

Commi s sioner to u ching his future admini stration o f
Matabeleland as well a s t o s ettle tho s e many details
,

ins eparable from a general election Hitherto t he .

,

p ioneers in Rhodesia had perforce to be content to , ,

occupy and develop Ma shonaland its elf leaving Mata ,

be le lan d s everely alone Bu t t he k ing s fli ght rendered

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it nece ssary to provide fo r t he government o f hi s

Territory which wa s lap sing into a condition o f anarchy
, .

As t he resu lt o f t he negotiations between Rhode s

and Sir Henr y Loch Her Maj es ty s Government on ,
’

18t h Ju ly 1 894 is su ed t he Matabeleland Order in Co unc il

, ,

which wa s at once acted on tho ugh not promulgated in ,

t he Cape Gaz ett e u ntil t he l 0t h September The Order .

VO L I I , . G
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handed over t he work o f government to t he Chartered
Company re serving t he u ltimate control to t he Hi gh
,

Commis sioner The Company a s I have shown were

.
, ,

already in po ssession o f t he land and min eral rights by

vi rtu e o f Conce ssion s ratified by t he Secretary o f State ,

and they now O btained t he complementary adm ini

s t r a t iv e r ights The limits o f t he Company s juris di c
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tion were defin ed a s comprising that portion o f Sou th

Africa whi ch wa s bo unded by t he Portu gu e se E a s t
Coas t po ss essions : by t he So uth Afr ican Republic to
a point oppo site t he mou th o f t he River Shashi : by
t he River S ha shi its elf and t he terr itorie s o f Khama
,

o f t he Bamangwato u to t h Zambe i : and finally

p e , s , ,

by that river a s far as t he Portugu es e boundary on t he

West Coa st inclu ding an area o f ten miles ro un d
,

Fort Tu li but excluding t he district O f Tati already

,

dealt with in t he original Charter .

Unfort un ately Great Britain by t he Treaty with

, ,

Germany comm only called t he Heligoland Agreement

,

( l s t J ul y 1 890) h a d s po ilt t he natu ral bo u ndary o f

Rhodesia which w as t he Linyanti River by granting
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Germany access to t he Zambesi by a twenty mile s trip -

O f terr itory whic h c u ts like a wedge into t he extreme

north wes t border o f Matabeleland A glance at t he

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map however will show ho w large was t he acces sion o f

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terr ito ry accrui ng to t he Company and to t he Empire

as it s revers ionary he ir As he s ur veyed t he two .

fertile provi nce s now un der his control R hode s might ,

well have excla imed E x egi mo num e nt um aere peren

,

nius But political and other anxieties claimed all

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his le is ure On his arr ival in Cape Town he wa s

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,

confronted with t he resignation o f Mr W P Sc hreiner . . .

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his Attorney General who s e place a fte r s ome little

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delay was taken by Mr H H Ju ta Mr Sc hr einer

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made t he s eiz ur e o f t he interior a paramount O bj ect o f
my politics everything els e was su bordinated to that
,
.

I knew that Africa was t he la s t u ncivilis ed portion o f t he

E mp ire and that it mu s t be c ivilis ed
, I o ften try to .

imagine what my colleagu e s mu s t have tho ught o f me

as I was s itting in t he Ho u s e brood ing beca u s e o f a

telegram that t he Mashonas were being murdered

within o ur own district o f Victoria that t he s ettlers ,

would not s tand it and would trek unless I faced t he

,

po sition Well sir in tho se long hour s we spent in t he

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, ,

Ho use I made up my mind that at t he conclusion o f

,

t he s es sion I wo u ld go u p to Ma shonaland knowing ,

full well what w as be fore me When I arrived at .

Salisbury I fo und that ho stilities were in progress and ,

that o u t O f 1500 people 650 had already gone to t he ,

front . Thes e men went to face a power equ al to that

o f t he Z u lu s and with t he idea that they mi ght never

return B ut they went and they won and they

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, ,

occupied B ulawayo Remember please not only t he .

, ,

two great fights in which they were Victorious bu t t he ,

daily and nightly apprehens ion that t he Matabele

mi ght be on them at any moment t he fifty occa s io n s ,

when t he waggons were laagered and t he Maxims got

ready And thus a few hundreds o f o ur people con
.

quered a s avage power which otherwis e to subdu e , ,

wou ld have co s t Her Maj es ty s Governm ent millions o f ’

money An d yet t he Aborigines Protection Soc iety

.

communicated with Lord Ripon and s tated that in , ,

their op inion t he Province should be a ssigned to t he

,

Crown and not to t he Chartered Company whi ch they , ,

added would govern t he co untry in t he interes ts o f

,

u ns cru p ulo us trader s

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The s peech wa s a S ledge hammer one rang ing over -

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a wide variety o f top ic s and it clo sed with t he pa ss ionate

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declaration that although fo r his efforts on behalf o f ,

unborn mill ions o f t he E mpire he claimed t he hi ghe s t ,

reward that a human being could desir e that reward ,

wa s o nl y t he trus t and confidence o f his fellow c itizen s -

.

As with Sir Hercul e s Rob ins on on a s omewhat simi lar ,

occasion t he necessarily condens ed cabled reports o f

,

this speech conveyed a very fals e idea o f it s general

tenor The English press with s ome honourable
.
,

exceptions rais ed a shrill cry o f reprehension The

, .

S pec t at o r declared that there w as in t he speech an un

mis takable threat o f independence if t he mother
country did not yield The S a t urday Review con .

s ider e d that t he langu age us ed was o f a very qu e s tion

able character The Pa ll M a ll Gaz ett e had yet to learn

.

that t he Hous e o f Commons co uld be browbeaten by

a fter di nn er speeches Even t he Times more in s orrow
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than in anger thundered it s dis a pproval On t he

, .

other hand t he provincial press express ed s aner views

, .

The West ern M orn ing N ews s aid that Mr R hode s had .

u t hi s ca s e s trongly bu t dis creetly and as he ha d borne

p ,

t he b urden and heat o f t he day he was entitled to it s

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frui ts . The N o t t ingha m Da i ly Guardia n a ss erted that

Her Maj esty s Governm ent co uld not permanently
’

thwart Colonial opinion and it wo uld be an act o f ,

wicked folly to try The N ewcas t le Daily Chro n ic le

.

remarked that Mr Cecil Rhodes and t he popul ation o f

.

Sou th Africa were pitted agains t t he Marquis o f Ripon ,

with t he odds imm ens ely agains t t he latter .

When t he text o f t he speech arrived in London thi s ,

s torm in a tea c u s u b s ided in a remarkable mann er

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Meanwhile Rhodes to ok an active part in t he Cape

,

general election whi ch dur in g January was in fu ll

, ,

s wing . On 15t h Janu ary he w as enterta ined by hi s

whi te employees at Kimberley and dealt with a charge ,
1 02 CE CIL J OHN RH ODE S
that was being made t o t he effect that they co uld only
vote a s they were bid Let us he s aid get id o f
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this ridi culo us s tatement whi ch s carcely des erves

refu tation My te s t in regard to yo u is not yo ur
.

political idea s but your manual work and your ability

to keep your po sitions and though in one s ens e it
, , ,

wo ul d be plea sant to me if yo u supported tho s e who

s upport my policy and thus make me s ec ur e fo r t he

next fiv e years at t he same time it would be almo s t a

,

s atis faction if s ome o f y o u voted t he other way j us t to

refute this wretched ins inuation .

’

Af ter this unconventional political speech Rhode s ,

proceeded to hi s own cons tituency having meanwhile , ,

however addre s s ed his shareholders at their annu al

,

meeting on t he 18t h January On 29t h January he

.

made a declaration o f po li cy at Barkly Wes t s ta ting ,

that t he aim o f t he Cape sho ul d be to pool all Sou th

African railway rece ipts and divide t he proceeds .

He added that in regard to native land tenure his idea ,

wa s to give in di vidu al title to agricul tural land and ,

comm unal title fo r grazing land Pondoland he said .

, ,

was t he greate s t problem he had to deal with at t he

moment Speaking as Minis ter fo r Native Affa ir s
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,

he declared that altho u gh t he Colony mus t proceed

tactfully and with t he approval o f t he High Com
miss ioner yet t he Pondo s mus t be s ternl y dealt with
,

if they continu ed the ir cru el internal diss ens ions .

On 30t h Janu ary Rhode s spoke to other co ns titu ents

o f hi s t he river diggers at Klipdam and ans wering t he
, ,

taunt that his was a Bond ridden Minis try he a sked

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them to say whether they had ever had such a volume

o f progress ive legislation before his a ssumption o f
o ffice The election s truggle over all parts o f t he
.

Colony was s evere bu t t he final issue was a triump h fo r

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perpetrated and permi tted called aloud fo r intervention .

S ir Henry Loch attempted by a pers onal visit in

1893 to recall t he c hie f to a s ens e o f hi s du ty bu t ,

Sigc au kept His E xce llency wa iting fo r thr ee days

before he would accord him an interview and in this ,

and other ways behaved with great arrogance The .

visit therefore w as frui tless Rhodes was not to be s o

, , .

treated Negotia tions with Her Maj esty s Government

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and Natal resul ted in an agreement that Pondoland

s ho u ld be a n nexed to t he Cape and a s s oon as t he ,

general election was over Rhodes s et o ut fo r t he Terri ,

tory accompani ed by his private s ecretary Mr now

, , .
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S ir William Milton and an e s cort o f 1 00 Mo unted

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Police under Colonel Stanford Strong representations .

were made to him not to undertake such a dangero us

j ourney but he persis ted The omens were not pro pi
,
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tio us On one occasion an immens e bo ul der blocked

.

t he road and rendered fur ther wheeled trans port

impracticable Whether it fell by accident or was
.

placed there by de sign t he effect on t he native mind ,

w a s dec is ive and t he camp following de s ert ed in a body

, .

E ven Sta nford an experienced o fficer advocated a

, ,

retreat but Rhodes replied that he wo ul d go forward

,

if he went alone and t he little party tho ugh mu ch

, ,

diminished in numb ers pushed on The firs t Vis it was , .

paid to q iliso The meeting took place on t he .

8t h April 1 894 at a spot abo u t fifteen mile s from

,

Umtata t he chi ef s Great Place but now t he S ite o f

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a flourishing townshi p with an An glican Cathedral .

Nqwiliso and his co uncillors B o kleni and Nqweke t o , ,

attended by 300 armed followers came to t he Indaba ,

in barbaric s tate Rhodes informed them that their

.

country was annexed and that all he s aid and did was ,

with t he au thority o f t he great White Q ueen : that

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he wa s actu ated by no greed fo r territory bu t in t he

in teres ts O f t he tribe and o f humani ty q iliso now .
,

an old man and weak rather than wicked rais ed many

, ,

qu erul ous obj ections wi th all t he ingenuity o f a Kafir

lawyer But Rhodes whil e making conciliatory replie s
.
,

to rea sonable reques ts put his foot down whenever ,

t he chi e f blus tered and when a yo ung ind una Valelo , ,

ques tioned Rhodes s au thority in an ins olent manner ,

he wa s peremptorily told to take hims elf o ff q ilis o .

fin ally submitted to t he inevitable and entered upon a

long his torical dis quisition to show that from t he days
o f hi s grandfather Faku t he tribe had always been ,

loyal adding that he had s ent a message to Sigc au

,

advis ing him to be amenable Rhodes lis tened with .

patience bu t a fter t he articles o f annexation were

,

s igned he called B o kleni a side and addressing hi m

, ,

with s tern s everity told hi m that his numberless crimes

,

were known to him and t hat if he continu ed hi s career ,

o f mur der he wo u ld fare badly I am now yo ur .

chi ef he said and what I say I will do I f yo u talk

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mis chi ef even at ni ght I shall hear yo u Y o u will

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never be sa fe I will kill yo u if yo u deserve it as I

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killed Lo B en gula .
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B o kle ni was speec hle ss and terror s tricken and what -

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to him was wors e t he tribe saw it Rhodes now , .

proceeded to St John s and from there to t he neigh

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bo ur ho o d o f Sigc au s chi ef kraal Bearing in mi nd

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t he c hi e f s treatment o f t he High Co mmiss ioner Rhode s

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p itched camp and ins tead o f s eeking an interview

, ,

s ummoned Si c au to attend on him at once Af ter

g .

s ome he sitation t he c hi e f complied bu t on one pretext

, ,

or another was kept waiting fo r thr ee days t he precis e ,

treatment he had meted o u t to t he Hi gh Comm issioner .

The p u ni shment exactly fitted t he crime and a p ,

1 06 CE CIL JOHN RH ODE S
pealed irresis tibly to that s ens e o f humour which is so
m arked a characteris tic o f t he native race s o f So u th
Africa S igc au fo und hims elf t he obj ect o f ridi cu le and
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,

fo a time it humbled hi m
r When at length an inter
.

view was granted Rhodes us ed that tone o f authority

,

whi ch is alone intelligible to t he native mind Sigc au .

,

fo r t he firs t time in his life heard hi s condu ct des cribed

,

a s it de s erved a nd s ull enl y acquie s ced in hi s fate

, .

I t may be s tated here that Rhode s wa s cens ured in

s ome qu arters fo r not di s armin g t he Pondo s bu t t he,

recent failur e o f t he dis armament policy in Basu toland

doubtless infl u enced him and his decision has been
,

amply j ustified by resul ts He w as also blamed.

abo ut this date fo r a declaration made at Umtata

that no conces sions by Pondo chi efs woul d be recog
n is e d by Government until they ha d pa ss ed t he s cru tiny

o f t he High Commissio n er The re s ervation wa s a very

.

wis e one .

On 17t h May in t he ab s ence o f Sir Henr y Loch t he

, ,

firs t s e ssion o f t he new Parliament wa s opened at Cape

Town by General Sir W Cameron His speech recorded
. .

t he peace fu l and pro spero us condi tion o f t he Colony ,

bu t s tated that Pondoland was s till dis tur bed Sigc au ,

having declined to admi t t he Re sident altho u gh all ,

other chi efs had loyally submitted To avert civil war.

a Colonial force had been concentrated in t he Territory

un der t he control o f t he Chi e f Magis trate o f Te mbu lan d .

On t he s ame day Rhodes gave notice that at an

early date he wo uld move t he formal ann exation o f all
Pondoland On 21st May he moved accordingly and
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,

gave t he Hous e a graphi c des cription o f t he s tep s he

ha d alr eady ta ken to main ta in order and pu t down
witchcraft He s aid t he chiefs had pleaded fo r Home
.

Rule as in Ba sutoland fo r which they were a s yet

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fis cal policy He read in extenso his Minute on t he
.

s u bj ect dated 22n d May

,
a Min u te whic h had rece ived —

t he s upport o f t he High Comm is s ioner bu t in which ,

Her Maj e s ty s Governm ent had declined to acqu ies ce

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u nl es s t he p hra s e British goods wa s altered to read

imported good s so as to ens ur e aga ins t Great Brita in
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obtaining any advantage over foreign competitors .

The provis ion he s aid wa s s u gge s ted b y me to

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prevent t he imposition o f prohibitive duties hereafter

and in t he interes ts o f Great Britain who se people are ,

beginn ing to se e that t he only retur n that can be made

by t he Coloni es they have founded fo r all t he blood
and treasur e they have spent is a preferential tariff ,

in favo ur o f home manufacture s If Her Maj es ty s

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Government persis t in rej ecting this o ffer t he onus ,

res ts with them The ins ertion o f t he claus e Is Im

.

material to t he Chartered Company and is s olely in

t he interes ts o f t he mother co untry The matter is .

over fo r t he pres ent but t he views o f home politicians ,

change and I shall continu e to us e all my influ ence to

,

in sis t on my o ffer being carried into e ffect I mean to .

fight u ntil Her Maj es ty s Government give in and I am

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qui te sure that wis er c o us els will ultimately prevail .

( Hear h ear
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and ,

Rhodes was a s good as hi s word He fo ught s t renu .

o us ly fo r fo ur years with t he r esult that cla us e 47 o f ,

a new Order in Council a ss ented to on 20t h October ,

1898 runs as follows

,

No c us t o ms t
d u ie s l e vied o n an
y ar t ic e s l pro d u c ed o r m anu
He r Maj e s t y Do minio ns
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fa c t ure d in an y p a rt of s or in an
y
Brit ish Pro t e c t o ra t e , a nd impo rt e d in t o S o u t hern R ho de sia ,
sha ll e xc e e d in a m o un t t he d u t ie s l vi
e ed o n s u c h ar t ic e s a o l
c o rdin g to t he t ariff in fo rc e in t he S o u t h Afric a n C u s t o ms
f t his Order ,
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Unio n at t he c o mm e n c e m e nt o et c .
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By Virtu e o f this provis ion t he s ettlers in Rhodesia

have fo r many year s enj oyed t he tariff rates preva iling
in 1898 altho u gh far hi gher d u tie s have S ince been
,

levied by t he remaining parties to t he So u th Afr ican

Cus toms Uni on and s econdly they have been led to
,

trans act t he bulk o f their trade with Great Brita in ,

owing to t he ris e in t he duties on foreign goods .

O ther more important over s ea do mi nions o f t he

E mp ir e have since followe d where R hodes led t he way .

A day or two a fter t he above speech was delivered ,

t he High Commis sioner arrived from E ngland but ,

proceeded at once to Pretoria under ins tru ctions from

t he Marquis o f R ipon to dis c uss with Pre sident Kru ger
t he b ur ning qu e s tions o f t he future o f Swaz iland t he ,

commandeering o f British subj ects agains t their will ,

and t he other growin g grievances o f t he Uitlanders .

I t is important to note that this t he fir s t s tep to protect

,

British subj ects in t he Tr ans vaal wa s taken by a Liberal

,

Government .

Unfortunately Sir Henry Loch s arrival in Pretoria

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w a s made t he occa sion o f an u ns eeml y demons tration ,

t he British flag being o ffensively displayed mu c h to ,

t he Pre sident s annoyance This was an inaus piciou s

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prelude to a delicate negotiation Ul timately t he work

.

in g ba sis o f an agreement in regard to Swaz iland w as

arrived at and Britis h subj ects at t he front o r in gaol
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fo r re fus in g to go to t he front were relea s ed but t he

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redr ess o f other sub s tantial grievances was evaded .

A month a fter t he High Commi ssioner s Vis it a ma ss

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meeting at Johannesb urg having demanded t he fran

chis e t he Volks raad by a piece o f lightni ng legis lation
, , ,

pa ssed at a single sitting an Ordi nance prohi bitin g ,

un der threat o f fin e and impris onm ent any o u td oor

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meeting compo sed o f more than six persons .

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This was a poor return fo r t he High Commis sioner s ’

acquies cence in t he President s requ es t that he woul d

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not Visit Johannes bur g His letter in reply to that o f

.

t he Pres ident is dated 27t h Ju ne 1894 and is a model ,

o f di gnified cour tesy I am encour aged by your

.

franknes s to be equally frank with yo ur Hono ur he

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sa id , and to explain t he views I have formed from an

impar tial and fr iendly O b servation o f t he exis ting
S itu ation. British subj ects have I think s ome very
, ,

real and sub stantial grievances I t is not fo r me

.

to make any detailed suggestions to your Honour on

this subj ect but I may bring to yo ur notice one con
,

s ideration whi c h will prove to yo ur Hono ur t he import

ance o f dealing with any grievances that may exis t

in a s ympathetic sp irit There is I believe an alien
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, ,

whi te popul ation at pres ent in t he Rep ublic o f abou t

persons A fe w years may se e thi s population
.

almo st doubled and if they suffered under t he same

,

grievances it woul d be alm o s t impo ssible to avert t he

,

dangers whi ch have already thr eatened I am sur e .

your Hono ur will not mis un ders tand my motives in

makin g thes e ob s ervations They are made in t he
.

s p ir it o f a tr u e fr iend w ith a genui ne des ire to promote

t he pro sperity o f t he people o f this co untry and I shall ,

be gra t ified to learn that any grievances o f which

British subj ects may complain will receive t he early
consideration o f yo ur Hono ur and your Honour s ’

Government .
’

The President may be exc us ed fo r do ubting whether

t he alien pop u lation were anxi o us to po ss es s a fran
chi s e whi ch with b urgher rights entailed b urgher
, ,

respons ib ilities ; but it is regrettable that he di d not

recogni s e t he ring o f s incerity underlying thes e u tter
an c e s o f an E nglish gentleman .
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rea son and weight o f population to win over t he ,

Transvaal .
’

B ut I mu s t return to t he Cape Parliament who s e ,

Du tch members were mu ch moved by t he pre ss reports

o f t he alleged ins u lt to t he Rep u blican fla in Pretoria
g .

For once their allegiance to Rhodes was s eriou sly

s tra ined Blood was thi cker than water and they did
.

not as a rule po ssess that larger patriotis m which

, ,

regarded t he welfare O f So uth Africa a s a whole Their .

anx iety was rather les t their Republican cou sins shoul d
be coerced to abate their s overeign rights Our suze .

r ain t y they ignored A grave warning given by t he

.
,

Hous e o f As sembly to Kr uger on t he lin es o f that

formulated by Loch wo ul d have carried great weight
, ,

bu t it w as never given and t he President was thu s

,

tacitly enco uraged to persevere in t he co ur s e which

led to his undoing .

On 27t h Jun e Van der Walt s ub sequ ently a rebel to ,

his own Government moved a s an unoppo s ed motion

, ,

T hat thi s Hous e desir es to express it s regret at and

disapproval o f t he uns eemly dis play o f dis res pect
towards t he President and Government o f t he Transvaal
Rep ublic by individuals representing thems elves a s
British subj ec t s on t he occa sion o f t he o fficial and
friendly vis it o f His E xcellency t he Governor and
High Commi ssioner An obj ection being raised t he
.
’

motion cou ld not be put but t he mover attained hi s ,

obj ect by now moving t he adjour nment o f t he Ho use .

Rhodes as a practical politician wa s anxiou s not

, ,

to break with his Bond followers but on t he other , ,

hand he s incerely believed that t he Pre sident s o bs t i

’

nacy threatened t he peace o f Sou th Africa He accord .

ingly ro s e and while condemning t he flag incident

, ,

pointed o ut that t he High Co mmis sioner s visit was a ’

 A BUSY YEAR 113

timely one and conceived in t he bes t interes ts o f t he

co untry After cons iderable dis cu ssion t he motion
.
, ,

at hi s requ es t was withdrawn ,

.

On 3rd Ju ly t he su bj ect o f t he approac hing Colonial

Co nference at Ottawa wa s dis cus s ed and led by Rhodes , ,

t he Ho us e rea ffir med it s ad he sion to t he policy o f

‘

preferential relations with other Colonies and with t he

mother country .
’

On 4t h Ju ly in dis c u ssion on t he E s timate s t he

, ,

Hous e exhi bited a desire to reimpo s e Cus toms du ties at

Walfisc h Bay whi ch had been s u spended in favo ur o f
,

t he German Government Rhodes while admi tting that

.

Germany had blocked hi s Trans continental Telegraph

Company fo r two years on paltry pretexts s till depre ,

c a t e d t he s ys tem o f repris als and t he matter dropped , .

On 7t h Ju ly an attempt annu ally repeated w as made , ,

to emas cu late t he law fo r t he eradi cation o f s cab in

S heep . The Cape Du tc h fl o c km as t e r always an in ,

di vidu a lis t and unable to gra sp t he value o f corporate

action pa ssively and s ometimes actively resis ts a
,

mea sure designed to improve t he qu ality o f Colonial

wool Rhodes wo uld not yield to t he O b s olete pre
.

j udi ces O f hi s su pporte rs on t he point and in vario u s ,

divisions he won by large maj orities .

On 26t h Ju ly he moved t he s econd reading f his o

principal mea sure t he Glen Grey B ill whi ch he propo sed

, ,

a s a s olu tion o f t he vexed q u e s tion o f native land

tenure and a s calcu lated to ra is e t he s tatu s o f t he

,

colour ed races by interesting them in a simple sys te m

o f local s elf government -
He propo unded his s cheme
.

in a s peech extending over an ho ur and forty minu te s .

Briefly put he desired to prevent whi te men from

,

obta ini ng a footing in native territories and o us ting t he

natives from t he s o il He therefore propo s ed to es tab
.

VO L 11 . . H
114 CE CI L J OHN RH ODE S
lish Vill age and Dis trict Co uncils on which natives co ul d
s it to di s c u s s edu cational and other q u e s tion s with ,

power to levy rate s and partially remi t them where

t he applicant ha d s erved a white ma s ter fo r a s pec ific
period I t w as in many respects a novel and co urageo u s
.

B ill and was received by t he Ho us e with approval

, .

The debate wa s continu ed on 30t h Ju ly and on 2n d

Augus t Criticis ms there were bu t no important
.
,

member challenged t he principles o f t he measur e .

Merriman made a fin e speech critical but appreciative ,

.

Sau er and Inn e s displayed t he s ame sp irit and Rhodes , ,

having s u mmed u p t he s econd read ing w a s carried

,

by 62 to 3 .

The following week in Commi ttee t he B ill met with ,

a s tormi er reception c u lminating in ob s tru ction where

, ,

u pon R hode s anno unced t hat he wo u ld s it all night

rather than give way An d S it he di d till s even o clock

.
,
’

on t he foll owing morni ng The Government maj orities.

,

s ave in regard to one u nimportant s u b s ection were -

,

always sub s tantial and on 9t h Au gu st t he B ill wa s

,

read a thi rd time by 51 to 16 and after s ome s light ,

amendments in t he Upper Ho us e it was finally pas sed ,

into law .

As it is important to defin e t he attitu de o f R hode s

to t he natives in his own words I su bj oin t he following ,

extract from hi s introductory speech .

There s eems he said a general feeling that t he

,
’

natives are a distinct s ource o f tro uble and lo ss to t he

co untry I take a di fferent View When I se e t he
. .

troubles that are go ing to aris e in England over t he

s oc ial and labo ur q u e s tion s I feel glad that here t he,

question o f labo ur is a native q uestion We shall .

,

therefore not have here what recently occ urred in

,

Chi cago where t he labo ur party wrecked t he c ity

,
.
116 CE CI L J OHN RH ODE S
all (La ughter ) With regard to t he franchis e it
. .
,

will remain t he same a s before If natives are already.

validly on t he regis ter they will have a vote and in any ,

ca se t he erection o f a hous e o f t he valu e o f £75 will

qualify them I propo se to displace tho s e who have
.

been improperly placed on t he regis ter fo r party pur

po s es The next featur e o f t he B ill is t he Labo ur Tax
. .

I t is not S lavery bu t a gentle s tim u lu s I think it will.

prove an indu cement to men to go o ut and work .

T ho s e w ho do will be better o ff under t he Ac t than they

were before I wo ul d tax t he native s moderate ly
.
,

bu t by means o f a native Co uncil I wo u ld allow

, ,

them to deal with their own revenu e and their own

local a ffairs their road s bridges and s chools Veldman
, , .

( a F ingo c hi e f) w ho s e name
, is a h o u s e hold word ,

begged me to do s omething o f this kind Then as to .

t he liqu or . I know it s c urs e : I have s tu died t he

Report o f t he Labo ur Commis sion 1 have pers onally .

helped at t he Diamond Field s to make o f the s e

poor adu lt childr en healthy and happy I n their .

former cond ition they were living in a hell upon earth .

I wo u ld clo s e t he canteens with compens ation .

Now I come to t he qu e stion o f T itle My idea is .

that t he natives should be in Reserves and not mi xed

u p with whi te men I wo u ld allow no native allotment
.

to be s old withou t Government consent and I wo uld ,

for feit an allotment fo r crime or neglect to c u ltivate ,

and lastly I wou ld prohib it subdivis ion I t is now

,
.

fo r t he Ho us e to determine whether t he B ill carries

o u t t he policy a imed at I t is an earne s t e ffort to deal
.

with t he natives fo r their own benefit and o urs and ,

to teach them ho w to cont rib u te to t he common pro

s perity by giving u s s ome return fo r t he good govern

ment we have a fforded them ( Lo ud cheers ) .

’
.
 A BUSY YEAR 117

The insight displayed in this speech contribu ted to

t he pa ss age o f t he B ill and a s s oon as t he mea s u re w as
,

through both Ho u ses t he s ession terminated Rho des s ,

’

parting words being The Government are perfectly

,

s atis fied with t he s e ssion ( La u ghter and c heer s

.
) 1 .

have been fo urteen years in t he Ho us e and have never

kn own a s ession (more laughter and cheers ) well t he
— —
,

decis ion can be left to t he co untry ( Hear hear ) .

,
.

Dur ing t he s ess ion R ho d e s had fo und time to s end

a long letter to t he S a t urday Review to elucidate his
Views on t he Tariff ques tion and to remove t he appre ,

hens io n s o f that paper as to t he po ss ible re su lts o f his

Fis cal policy .

Groote Schuur by this time had become an open

, ,

ho us e fo r political and private fri end s and d is tinguis hed

visitors The Archb ishop O f Ar magh was there during
.

t he s es s ion followed later by Baron Ferdinand de

, , ,

Roths chi ld by t he Duke o f Abercorn and many others

, .

Bu t Rhode s w a s s eldom at home On 10t h September .

Schreiner returned to t he Minis try as Attorney General -

,

and Rhodes s tarted fo r t he North There w as no .

longer any necess ity fo r travelling coa s twis e by way o f

Beir a On this occasion therefore he proceeded over
.
, ,

land via Kim berley and B u lawayo taking wi th him as ,

travelling companion t he well known American mini ng -

engineer Mr Jo hn Hays Hammond He left s ome

, . .

threateni ng complications b ehind hi m The tro uble s .

O f Germany in So u th We s t Africa were already coming

-

to a head whi le on t he E a s t Coa st t he Portugu es e

,

were vir tu ally besieged by native tribes who threatened ,

Lo urenco Marquez its elf Tru e to his policy o f su pport

.

in g whi te rul e aga ins t native revolt R hode s o ffered ,

armed a ssis ta nce to t he Portu guese which on 1 1t h , ,

O ctober was grate fully declined a s u nnece s s ary

, .
1 18 CE CIL J OHN RH ODE S
The Swazis were als o dis contented at t he terms o f
S ir Henry Loch s Convention whic h Virtu ally handed
’

their Territory over to t he Boers and they s ent a ,

dep u tation to England praying fo r a British protectorate ,

whi ch wa s re fu sed .

Mr Hammond S hall te ll t he s tory o f his trip with

.

R hode s in his own words Under date t he 31st O ctober

.
,

1907 he write s to me
,

There is an impression in this cou ntry where little ,

is reall y known O f Cec il R hode s that an important part

,

o f his fame re s ts u pon t he fact that h e wa s a great

financier and w as not altogether s crup u lo u s as to his

,

methods o f finance Thi s is a great inj us tice to him

.
,

and my b usiness relations whi ch were mo s t intimate

, ,

entirely refu te such impressions .

He was a man who cared little fo r money s ave to do ,

big thi ngs c hie fly fo r t he benefit o f So u th Afr ica and

, ,

he w as exceptionally s cru p u lo u s as to t he method s

employed to make money I think I can tell yo u an
.

experience that I had wi th him which was strikingly

characteris tic o f him in this regard .

I n 1894 I made a trip with R hode s and Jame s on

, ,

throu gh what was then known a s Matabeleland and

Mashonaland I Vis ited tho s e co untries in a pro fes
.

s io n a l capac ity to determ ine the ir valu e from a mi ni n g

po int o f View I t was o f t he greate s t moment to

.

Rhode s at t he time that my report sho uld be favo ur

able both fo r political and financial reas ons No t wit h
,
.

s tanding this fact d u ring t he many days that we rode

,

and drove together there was not t he slightes t attempt

on his part to influ ence my op ini on nor indeed did he , , ,

endeavo ur to obta in from me any premature expression

o f op inion as to t he val u e o f t he co u ntry He showed .

mo st exceptional delicacy in ab staining from embarrass

120 CE CIL J OHN RH ODE S
s acrifice his bes t friend and I was told a fter o ur arrest ,

and impris onment dur ing t he time o f t he James on

Raid in 1896 that it was not worrying Rho des
,

very mu ch On this point I have ab s olute refutation

.

from information that I rece ived s ome time a fterwards

from tho s e pers ons who were pre s ent with him when he
heard o f o ur death s entence He wa s alm o s t frantic .

at that time w t h anx iety abou t us I met him a

r .

fe w months a fter o ur relea s e in London t he fir s t night , ,

he arrived from So u th Afr ica in connection with t he

Raid investigation I called at his hotel at his reques t
.
, .

There were a great many very important persons to

s ee hi m on his arr ival He espied me in t he back o f t he
.

crowd and came forward and took me by t he hand and

”
s a id ,
Hammond I want to see yo u old fellow I
, , .

s aid ,I can wait awhile fo r there are a lot o f others ,

ahead o f me here and if y o u have not any other engage

,

ment I will s tay and take dinner with yo u to ni ght

,
-
,
”
and we can have a long talk then He replied NO .
, ,
”
come with me now He took me to hi s bedr oom
.

and was greatly a ffected when he told me ho w anxio us

and dis tress ed he had been abo ut t he four leaders ,

and especially abou t me as my wife was in delicate

, , ,

health at t he time .

On another occa s ion shortly a fterward s there w as , ,

another epis ode which indicated greatness o f character

in Mr Rhode s . Soon a fter hi s return to England on
.
,

t he occa sion I have re ferred to t he Barone s s B ur dett ,

Co u tts gave a large dinner and reception in his hono ur .

Mr s Hammond and I were invited and as we entered

.
, ,

t he door Mr Rhode s w ho w as receiving with t he

,
.
,

Baroness grasped my wife by t he hand and took her

,

a ide and s aid Mrs Hammond I know what yo u

s ,
.
,

have been thinking abo u t me The la s t time I saw yo u .

 A BUSY YE AR 1 21

I told yo u that I never spent sleeple ss nights but I ,

have spent many o f them since that time Y o u have .

”
als o thought he went on that thi s s etback that I
, ,

have ha d in my career wo u ld be a good thi ng fo r me ,

a s I w as getting too arb itrary in my way s o f thi nking

and acting and I want to tell yo u that yo u are entirely

,

right I t is a terrible humb li ng o f my pride bu t in t he

.
, ,

long run it will be a splendi d thi ng fo r me becau s e it will

, ,
”
make me a far more rea sonable and cons iderate man .

An other compa ni on o f R hodes dur ing t he trip s with

Mr Hamm ond wr ite s to me a s follows
.

On e inc ident o f o ur to u r may be de s c ribed

.

It .

occurred on t he way o u t to t he Ayrshire Mine We .

met a pros pector walking to t he mine Mr Rhodes . .

pu lled up at once and insis ted on his getting into t he

waggon and travelling with us t he res t o f t he way .

At dinn er that ni ght at Mr Rho de s s requ e s t he related

’
.
,

s ome o f his experiences and told u s he w a s go ing home

to be married at t he end o f t he year Mind yo u let .

”
me know t he date s aid Mr R hodes and t he man got
, .
,

a hands ome pres ent when t he event came O ff I t w a s .

by su ch acts a s thi s that he made hims elf so beloved .

He always had a sympathetic ear and never refus ed an

interview and he frequ ently s o u ght o u t and helped t he
,

pioneers o f 1890 and t he members o f t he Matabele field

force o f
On 23rd O ctober Rhode s back at Kimberley from t he
,

Nort h again left fo r Cape Town where on 27t h o f t he

, , ,

s ame month he attended a banqu et given to Dr

, .

James on In respons e to t he toa st o f t he Mini s tr y

.
,

Rhodes paid a high trib u te to t he co ur te s y love O f order ,

and cons ideration fo r opponents characteris ing t he

vario us Cape Parliaments in whi ch he had been privileged
to S it .
1 22 CE CI L J OHN RH ODE S
Fo ur days later he s ailed in t he Duno ttar C ast le
,

fo r E ngland where he arrived on 17t h November and

, ,

at once plunged into negotiations with t he Foreign

and Coloni al Ofli c e s regarding t he admini stration o f
that portion o f South Central Africa now known as
North E a stern Rhodes ia The arrangement finally
-
.

come to took effect from 31st December but t he ,

document signed fo r Her Maj es ty s Government by

,
’

H Percy Anders on and fo r t he Chartered Company by

.

Rhodes is dated 24t h November only a week a fter

, ,

t he latter landed NO wonder one O f t he Foreign

.

Office o fli c ials ru e fu lly de s cribed him a s a hus tler

’
.

Moreover this trans action by no means exhau s ted hi s

,

b usiness activities fo r he thr ew himself simul taneo us ly

,

heart and s o u l into his great proj ect o f t he Cape to Cairo

Trans continental Telegrap h Company ; and he fo und
time to Visit Constantinople intervi ew t he S ultan and , ,

contrary to all precedent obtain permission to export ,

thoro ughbred Angora goats to South Africa .

The whole year 1 894 is indeed a s ignal example O f , ,

R ho de s s u ntiring and s u cce ss ful energy At it s clo s e

’
.

he aga in fo u nd hims elf one o f t he li ons o f t he London

s ea s on ,
a transient glory fo r whi ch he had no fancy .

On Friday 7t h December S ir Herc u les Rob ins on writes

, ,

to me
I met Rhodes at dinner la s t ni ght He is in great .

form and being made mu c h o f all ro u nd He dined and .

s lept at Wind s or on T u e s day la s t and next S u nday is ,

to s tay with Lord Ro sebery at Mentmore I advised .

him on landing to avo id s peec hmaking and he ha s

, , ,

done s o I think with mu ch advantage

— .
’

On 20t h December Rhode s received a note from

,

S ir W Vernon Harco urt from which I quote a c har

.
,

a c t e ris t ic s entence : I s there any c hance o f per suading

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CHAPTE R XX I X
TH E GATHE RIN G S TO R M ( 1 8 95 )
Rho d es a Pr i vy C
l kb ll d t T v ll C l b R f m d
o un c i ll o r— B ac a e a ra e e rs
’
u — e or an

At h m Cl b l t him M t i g f C h t d h h l d
e n ae u u s e ec —
ee n o ar e re s are o e rs

K g ru d G m y D L yd
er an S w il d A m t g l d M
er an — r . e s— az an — a on a an — r .

S t L dg. M E dm d G
e e r— tt R t i m t f S i H L h Rh d
r . un arr e — e re en o r . oc — o es

i H n fA mb ly A
o us e o d t d t iv A iv l f S i H R bi
s se — n e uc a e na e— rr a o r . o n so n
— A ti f B h
nn e x a l d M im ll f p p W l fi h
on o ec u a n a an — e rr an c a s or a e rs — a sc

B y H fm y
a — b i t hd y H
o e prs
’
g d M C h mb l ir a — o u se r o ro ue — r . a er a n

S l T
e o u s— v l pi p i k O g F S t t p l i y H igh C m
ran s aa n- r c s— ran e re e a e o c — o

mi i i it T
s s o n er v s v l A j mpi g fl g d D ift q t i
s r an s aa —
‘
u n -
o
"
ro u n — r s ues on

G vit y f p it i J m R id
— ra o os o n— a eso n a .

TH E year 1895 will long be remembered in South Africa .

The Uitlander qu es tion in t he Trans vaal developed day

by day At fir s t a little cloud no b igger than a man s
.
’

hand it gradu all y overspread t he political fir m ame n t

, .

Reflective min ds saw as a po ssibility that an armed , ,

confli ct between t he two white race s might open up

t he far greater q u es tion o f t he attitu de o f t he native
population towards both .

Dur ing t he year R hode s to u ched both hi gh and low

water mark On l st Janu ary he was gazetted a Privy
.

Coun cillor and on 2nd February at t he Co urt at Osborne

, ,

Hous e he took t he qu aint oath to lett and withs tand

,

anyt hing s a id or done agains t t he Dignity Royal .

’

On 31s t December his uni qu e power and pre s tige tumbled

into ruin and he w a s apparently a broken man
,
.

During Janu ary he rema ined quietly in E ngland ,

gathering up t he threads o f his multifario us b us iness

a ffairs Sir Hercules Rob ins on writing to me on
.
,

18t h Janu ary s a id I ha d a long talk with R hode s

, ,
 THE GATHERI NG ST ORM 125

yes terday He is well and less ir ritable than on hi s

.

las t visit .
’

His headqu arters were a s u su al at t he B ur lingt on , ,

Hotel and it s manager s till recalls with plea sure that

, ,

having a s o n born to him that month R hode s made ,

daily inquiries as to t he health o f t he baby 1

.

I t was a ls o in Janu ary that he came up fo r election

at t he Travellers Club and w as blackballed I n c o n ’
.

s ic u o us
p re s pectable me
,
di ocr it ie s generally pa s s this

ordeal su ccessful ly bu t a mu ch advertised candi date ,

-
,

t he theme o f new s paper go s sip t he man with many ,

fri ends and there fore with many foe s O ften find s ,

t he ballot box u tilis ed agains t him -

An ind ignant .

fri end and admirer wrote to R hodes that t he Commi ttee

o f t he Re form Clu b were prepared to make amend s

by electing him a s one o f three emi nent pers ons whom ,

they were entitled annu ally to appo int members

witho ut a ballot R hodes however had returned .
, ,

to t he Cape in t he At hen ia n arriving there on 19t h ,

Febru ary The following wa s his reply which fo r a

.
, ,

wonder bears a date ,

‘
l ot h Ap r il 1 8 95 .

MY Many thanks fo r yo ur kind o ffer

D E AR SI R ,
-

a s t o t he Re form Clu b I have however fo r a non .

,
—

resident club s enough as I belong to St James s

—
, .
’

and Uni on I hear they declined to have me at t he

.

Travell ers : I suppo s e becaus e I am written abo u t

’
.

I w as not aware I w as up a s I was pu t down by an O ld ,

friend Guy Dawnay dead the s e ten years ago and I

, , ,

had forgotten all abo u t it Your s tru ly .

—
,

C J RHOD E S . . .
’

D i g t hi m t h h
ur n tt d d t h I mp i l I t it t
s on ie a en e e er a ns u e o n o n e o c c as o n

wh enD J m r d liv d l t
. a Th P i
es o n f W l
e w p
e re t a e c u re . e r nc e o a es as re s e n
,

an d m d a h t p h whi h
e a s t i d g f l
or f
s eec t th p c c o n a ne ra c e u r e e re n c e o e rese n c e

of Rh d o es .
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The Commi ttee o f t he Athenaeum however on t he , ,

propo s al o f Mr R H Meade s econded by Lord Ro s e

. . .
,

bery elected him while he wa s on t he water and cabled

, ,

to hi m that they ha d done so .

Before leaving E ngland Rhodes on 18t h Janu ary

, , ,

s poke at a meet ing o f t he share holder s o f t he C hartered

Company held at t he Cannon Street Hotel The meeting .

w a s fix ed fo r noon bu t an ho u r be fore t he door s had

, ,

to be thrown open owing to t he va s t crowd a ss embled .

The Duke o f F ife wa s in t he chair s u pported by E arl ,

Grey and others Rhodes and James on who w as

.
,

with hi m had an enthu sias tic reception The Duke

, .
,

w ho made an excellent s peech clo s ed with thes e,

word s : I t ha s s ometimes been said that my fri end ,

Mr Cecil Rhodes exercis es a S pell over o ur fellow sub

.
,
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in So u th Afri ca I do not know if t his be tru e

j ec t s .
,

bu t when I made his acqu a intance six years ago and ,

when he sketched o ut his Views and emp ha sised them

by huge pencil s t rokes on a map I cou ld not bu t s e e ,

what va s t po ssibilities fo r British enterpris e and

colonis ation were opening o u t in this almo s t t he la s t , ,

u nocc u p ied s pace o f t he world and it will always be to

,

me a plea sure to have been a ssociated however humbly , ,

with this great Company whi ch has added two imm ens e
provinces to t he Britis h E mpire .
’

Rhode s in hi s sub sequ ent speech was in his happies t

vein and while holding o ut hopes that t he country
,

wou ld eventually become a great asset o f t he Emp ire ,

he wa s care fu l not to promis e d ividend s ; indeed he ,

remarked When y o u S hareholders came into o ur

,

Company yo u came into a spec ulative concern certainly ,

not into Cons ols or Frenc h Rentes He even a d .

’

mi tted that portions o f t he Territory were unhealthy ,

and that t he drawbacks to success were many and

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becaus e that might have ended my own power But .

I wo ul d have made my new pop u lation comforta ble and

given them j us tice The law as we know is under t he
.
, ,

heel O f t he Pre s ident A Ju dge give s a dec is ion and

.

.
,

then a motion s lipped thr ough t he Raad revokes it

, , .

E very conce ss ion almo s t every p iece o f Departmental

,

b usiness transacted mus t be arranged wi th bribes , .

’

Here is t he po sition in a nu tshell Rhodes having .

,

power wou ld have clung to it like Kruger but by

, ,

other methods by contenting t he people a s to their

,

material interes ts ; by making friends with them ,

a s Brand s agac io u s ly advis ed The great body o f t he .

Uitlanders valued franchis e rights only a s a means to

an end and that end rational legislation a s a ffecting
,

t he gold indu s try and p ure adminis tration , .

I n accordance with t he terms o f t he Swaziland

Convention t he President now issued a Proclamation
,

assuming t he government o f that Territory t he a o ,

u i s it io n o f whic h he regarded a s a s t ep towards obta in

q
in g acces s to t he s ea I n this he was dis appo inted
. .

Her Maj es ty s Government promptly checked this

’

dangero us amb ition by annexing t he whole o f Am at o nga

land which lay between Swaziland and t he coas t
,
.

The Pre sident expre ss ed hi s a s tonis hment and regret

’

and declared that t he act was an unfriendly one .

B u t a fter t he Pretoria s peec h no other co urs e w a s

po ssible .

E arly in 1895 an event occ urred in So u th Africa ,

s u perfic ially u nimportant bu t not witho u t re s u lts The .

C a pe Times w a s then as now t he lea di ng organ o f , ,

Britis h Colo nial opini on in t he co untry I t s edi tor .

,

Mr F Y St Leger an able cra fts man dis tinguished fo r

. . . .
,

his high s ens e o f hono ur and no less keen s ens e o f humo ur ,

retired o wing to ill health and was succeeded by one o f

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t he young lions o f t he London press a dis ciple o f Stead

,

and trained on t he s taff o f t he Pa ll M a ll Gaz ett e Mr . .

E dmund Garrett w as a brilliant writer and po s s e ss ed

o f extraordinary energy I nto t he whi rlpool o f Sou th
.

Afr ican politic s he thr ew him s elf with infinite ze s t and ,

ul timately s ec ur ed a s eat in t he Cape Parli ament .

His foes accus ed him o f taking him s elf too s erio us ly ,

and he hi ms elf probably overes timate d hi s influ ence

over Rhodes but there can be no qu es tion that he and
,

his paper became a power in t he land and on more , ,

than one occa sion he may fairly claim to have deflected

,

t he co urs e o f o ur his tory His independent s u pport wa s

.

o f es s ential s ervice to R hode s altho ugh t he attitude

,

o f candi d friend is not always a palatable one .

At t he exp ir ation o f hi s term o f O ffice in 1895 S ir ,

Henr y Loch left t he Colony withou t awaiting t he

arrival o f hi s su ccess or and Parliament w as opened on
,

2n d May by General Goodeno u gh The Admi nis trator s

’
.

s pee c h s tate d that t he completion o f t he Tr ans vaal

Railway from Delago a Bay had s timul ated competition

and u nfavourably affected t he thro u gh trans it trade o f
t he Colony ; that a conference o f t he State s concerned
had recently been held in Cape Town bu t witho u t ,

arriving at any agreement a s to a d ivision o f tra ffic .

As a remedy fo r thi s di minu tion o f exte rnal trade ,

Minis te rs recommended internal development throu gh

t he mediu m o f branc h ra ilways A red u ction in cable
.

rates S O long s triven fo r was anno unced a s well as

, , ,

t he extens ion o f t he Glen Grey Ac t to t he Trans keian

territories The annexation o f Pondoland was des cribed
.

as complete desp ite temporary local resis tance

,
.

General Goodenough added that in p ur suance o f s ettled

policy a Res olu tion woul d be sub mi tted fo r t he ann exa
tion o f t he Crown Colony o f British Bechu analand .

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Transvaal amb itions in thi s d irection were thus finally
extingui shed .

On t he fir s t day o f t he new s ession R hode s vo iced ,

t he regret o f t he Ho us e at t he enforced ab s ence o f

Ho fmeyr owing to continu ed ill health -
.

He him s elf his coll eagu es and t he whole Ho us e

,

regretted he s aid t he ab s ence o f it s distingui shed

,
’

member He was a man o f broad mind who had

.
,

deeply cons idered all qu es tions a ffecting t he Colony .

Thro ugh his efforts t he Swaziland Convention had

been bro ug t abo ut a Convention which was he
h —
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believed an act o f j u stice to t he Transvaal The

, .
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motion was carried unani mously The skill will be .

obs erved with whi ch R hode s identified Ho fmeyr and

his foll owers with t he poli cy o f e ffecting wherever ,

po ssible an ami cable s ettle ment o f o u ts tandi ng So u th

,

African difference s .

On 16t h May I find R hode s and Merriman in friendly

correspondence on t he subj ect o f colonis ing t he Kalihari
to relieve t he distress o f landless Colonis ts Y o u are .

right s ays Merriman in thinking t he subj ect o f great

,
’

importance
’
.

Among t he lighter to u che s o f t he time I qu ote from

a letter to Rhodes from an edu cated native s tating
int er a lia I never forgotten t he well treatment I
,

received from yo u at Q ueens Town I consider yo u .

my father and beg to inform yo u that I want to come

and work fo r yo u in Cape Town .
’

I t is evident that employment w as given fo r t he ,

letter is endors ed in t he handwri ting Of Rhodes The ,

faithful native " He worked a week bu t ho us ehold ,

duties beneath his di gnity .

’

On 29t h May t he new Governor and High Com

missioner arrived in t he person o f S ir Hercules Robin s on ,
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t he hi s tory both Territories To uching on t he
of .

Royal Charter he s aid hi s effort had always been to

,

create a sys tem o f free Tariffs from t he Cape to Tangan

yika that t he Chartered Company co uld not perman
ently admi ni ster it s extended po ss essio ns and that s ome ,

day they wou ld be uni ted to t he Cape Colony either

by amalgamation or thro ugh Federation He appealed .

to Sau er to withdraw his rider as not germane to t he

precis e qu es tion before t he Hous e Schreiner in sup .
,

port declared that altho ugh t he land and mineral

,

rights in t he Protectorate had unqu es tionably fo r t he

mo st part been already ceded to t he British South
Africa Company it s admini s tration wo ul d s ooner or
,

later accru e to t he Cape Colony I n t he end t he rider.

w as rej ected and t he motion carried by 45 to 23

, .

Previo usly on 6t h June Merriman had launched

, ,

another attack upon t he Charter by moving fo r copies

o f a ll corre s pondence between t he I mperial and Coloni al

Governments and Rhodes a s managin g director o f t he

Britis h South Africa Company relating to t he propo sed
,

s tip u lat ion in t he cons titu tion o f all Territories a d

minis tered by t he Company prohi biting t he impo sition

,

o i Cus toms d u tie s in exce s s o f any d u tie s then in force

in t he Cape Colony He whims ically obj ected to thi s

.

provis ion on t he gro und that he was a Fr ee Tr ader ,

thou gh it was not ea sy to s e e why a Free Trader sho uld

obj ect to a clau s e which prohib ited protective d u ties .

The Ho us e be ing tran sparently u n ympathetic his s ,

motion was not press ed to a division .

On 1 8t h June R hode s aga in took an opport unity o f

referring to t he acquis ition o f Damaraland by Germany .

He admitted having been in t he Minis try at t he time ,

and that he and Merriman then a coll ea gu e us ed

— —

to say daily We mus t have Damaraland like t he old

, ,
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Roman ins is tently crying Delenda es t Carthago , ,

’

bu t other Mini s ters were sup ine and when t he telegram ,

w as at la s t s ent it w as too late .

The following day Merriman in a de b ate on t he

, ,

E s timate s admitte d hi s dis like O f t he intrus ion O f Ger

,

many in t he s phere o f So u th Afri can infl u ence and ,

he again urged as a retaliatory mea sur e t he impo sition

, ,

o f Cus toms d u tie s at Wa lfis c h Bay whi ch remained ,

Cape territo ry altho ugh Germany had annexed and

,

occupied t he hinterland Bu t Rhodes adhered to hi s.

previo us decision and declin ed to be led into t he thorny

,

path o f retaliation .

On 4t h Jul y Ho fmeyr celebrated his fiftieth b irthday

by giving a reception at his Cape Town hous e at whi ch
there was an infl u ential gathering Rhodes propo sed .

his health and e ulogis ed his patriotis m s tating that hi s ,

great and succ ess ful tas k had been to induce Du tc h

Co lo nis ts not to s tand o u ts ide politic s but to come in ,

and take their legitimate share in t he government O f

t he Colony .

Dur ing t he whole s essro n Rho de s s three colleagu es

’

made s trenuo us efforts as in du ty bo und to overthrow

, ,

hi s Government e spec ially on hi s ra ilway policy

, But .

consis tently supporte d by Bond members he held ,

his own in a s eries o f di visions and in t he end his , ,

Railway B ill was carried by 39 to 26 and t he Bechu ana ,

land B il l withou t a di vision .

On 3rd Au gus t t he Ho us e was prorogu ed having ,

pa ssed forty three mea sure s mo stly o f a us eful domes ti c

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character includi ng one entirely exempting property

,

in t he United Kingdom from Cape S u cces s ion d u ties ,

and als o exempting similar property in sis ter Coloni es ,

condi tionally on t he latter granting reciprocal privi

leges Rhodes had again every rea son to be s atisfied
.
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with t he results o f t he s ession fo r in spite o f t he parlia , ,

mentary experience and ab ility o f t he Oppo sition leaders ,

he ha d s u s tained no de feat and appeared to be firmly ,

in t he s addle .

A word may be s a id regardi ng events occ urring this

year o f general if not o f exclusive interes t to So u th
, ,

On 28t h June Mr Chamberlain became Secretary o f

.

State f o r t he Colonies thus inau gur ating what was ,

practically a new era by dr awing t he mother co untry

,

and her overs ea domi ni ons clo s er together and st imu ,

lating t he long dormant idea o f I mperial unity .

Mr F C Selo us t he great hunter and attractive

. . .
,

writer who had performed yeoman s ervice in Rhodesia

,

a s a p ioneer and during t he Matabele war but who

, ,

had le ft t he co u ntry witho u t intending to return fo und ,

hims elf in 1 895 drawn to t he theatre o f his former

explo its Sailin g on 30t h March he spent s ome time
.
,

in t he O ld Colony and els ewhere bu t su b s equ ently on ,

20t h Au gu s t reac hed B u lawayo and wa s s till in t he ,

neighbo urhood when early in t he coming year t he

,

Ma shona rebellion b ur s t in thunder and flame on t he

s cattered white pop u lation o f R hode sia .

At t he time o f his arrival however t he peace o f t he , ,

Territory appeared to be in no danger The one lower .

in g clo u d w a s t he daily increa sing probab ility o f a

conflict between Her Maje sty s Government and mili ’

tant Rep ublicani m in So u th Africa I ncident after

s .

inc ident occ urred to lower confidence in a peace fu l

s olu tion o f exis ting d is p u te s and tho u gh R hode s even
, ,

to a mu ch later date believed or j udged it politic to

,

a ffect to believe that there wo uld be no war b usines s

, ,

men tho u ght otherwis e and made preparations fo r t he

worst On 14t h March t he acting State Secretary at
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fir med by t he High Commissioner who in a Pro , ,

clamation to that effect dated 18t h October admi tted , ,

t he withdrawal o f hi s d irect j ur is di ction and it s trans fer

to t he British So u th Africa Company and expressly ,

a uthoris ed t he latter to appoint and control a force

s u fli c ie n t to ma inta in peace order and good govern , ,

ment in t he territory .

I n O ctober occ ur red what is known as t he Drifts

qu es tion on whi ch I need onl y to u ch with brevity
, .

The Pre sident a zealo us su pporter o f hi s De la go a Bay

,

line had permi tted t he railway company to put in force

,

a prohi b itive tariff between t he Vaal River and Jo hann es

b ur g and when in rej o inder Cape merchants res orted
, , ,

to waggon t rafli c a Transvaal proclamation wa s issued

,

( l s t O ctober ) clo sing

,
t he D rifts into t he Rep u bli c on
t he Cape s ide while leaving them open on t he s ide o f
‘

Natal This was a clear infracti on o f Article 13 o f t he

.

London Convention and Rhodes called upon Her ,

Maj es ty s Governm ent to enforce their treaty rights

’
.

On 22n d O cto ber he read to me a confidential telegram

to t he e ffect that Kruger wo uld give t he Cape one
third o f t he heavy tra ffic as agains t two fift hs whi ch -

t he Colony cla imed whi ch meant a lo ss o f

,
a
year to t he Cape Revenu e He asked my view a s to .

whether an ami cable s ettlement w a s worth that s acrifice .

I ans wered witho u t he sitation in t he a ffirmative and ,

he conc ur red bu t s aid he mus t cons ul t Ho fmeyr

,
.

Whether this O ffer wa s sub sequ ently withdrawn or

rej ected I cann ot s ay but no s ettlement was arrived
, ,

at ; and Mr Chamberlain having on 1st November

.
,

arranged with t he Cape Government a s ecret agree

ment to s end an armed force into t he Transvaal at j oint
expens e an intimation w as despatched to t he Pres ident
, ,

which convinced hi m that t he position was a s erio us

 THE GATHER I NG ST ORM 1 37

one and he at once climbed do wn and reopened t he

,

Drifts on 5t h November .

The inc ident however w a s not lo s t on R hode s

, , ,

who imm edi ately began to s trengthen t he Britis h

Sou th Afri ca Police Force on t he Transvaal border .

Kru ger on his side was ur ged by hi s extreme supporters

, ,

to s trike at once and s t rike home I n reply and with .

,

a to u ch o f that homely humour fo r which he was note d ,

he s tated that be fore one co ul d kill a torto is e he mus t .

p u t his h ea d o u t .

AS t he year dr ew to it s clo s e t he tension deepened .

A correspondent in t he Tra ns vaal ( 27t h Decembe r)

wr o t e to me : The situ ation is grave There is a .

s tampede o f women and c hildren People are trans .

ferring their money to t he Colony At any moment an .

insurrection may take place The lea ders s ay they .

are prepared but I think they undere stimate t he Boer

,

s trengt h Moreover t he Uitlanders are di vided amongs t

.
,

thems elves .
’

I t is o f co urs e now known that Dr James on had

, , .

been fo r s ome time in po ss ess ion O f an undated letter

from t he Re form leaders u rging him to come in fo r
t he protection o f women and children .

Meanwhile Rhodes made no S ign What he knew .

and what he o nl y gu ess ed cannot even now be s tated

with precis ion But at 1 1 o clock at night on 29t h
.
’

December he verbally informed t he I mpe rial Secretary

that Jameson was moving in with an armed force .

The H igh Commis sioner commanded hi s ins tant recall ,

threateni ng to advocate abrogation o f t he Charter .

For two days So uth Afri ca trembled with excitement

and fear Kr u ger appealed to Germany Telegrams
. .

fl ashed continu o us ly over t he cable s and t he O ld year ,

di ed amid a s cene o f pa ss ion and re s entment to whi c h

138 CE CI L JOHN RH ODE S
it wo uld be difficul t to find a parallel S ince t he boul e
v a rd s o f Paris res ounded in 1870 with t he cry a
B er lin .
’
To this po sition unyielding ob s tinacy on one
s ide and prec ip itate retaliation on t he other ha d bro u ght

Sou th Afr ica and changed in a moment t he whole face

,

o f a ffa ir s .

AS a matter o f record it may be added that Ja meso n s

’

column left Ma feking on S unday evening 28t h De ,

c e mber wa s rein forced at P its ani t he following day

, ,

received on Tu esday an order from t he High Com

mis sioner to return immedi ately and disregardin g t he
, ,

warning pushed on and came into action on 3l s t

,

December thu s bringing a fate ful year to a di s a s tro us

,

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t he British Agent in Pretoria ; but it was too late to
recede and he contented hi mself with calling on t he
,

Johannesb ur g Reform Committee to s end o ut a column

in a id . B u t t he Committee as my corre spondent ha d,

predicted were divided among thems elves and un

, ,

prepared fo r hero ic action or even fo r action o f any,

kind The raiders were left to their fate Jameson

. .
,

a fter s everal skirmishes by t he way made a la st s tand ,

at Doornkop on 2nd Janu ary wa s crushed by superior ,

numbers and surrendered

, .

The s ame night t he High Commis s ioner in a d e ,

l r a ble s tate o f health s tarted fo r Pretoria He w

p o ,
as .

intercepted at Salt R iver Station b y Rhodes who ,

tendered his resignation but was requ es ted to retain

,

o ffice fo r a few days .

I t w as I thi nk on 1s t Janu ary and aga in t he follow

, ,

in g day that R hodes s ent peremptory telegrams to

,

Salis b ur y to s top t he reported mobilis ation o f t he

Rhodesian Horse .

Two days later 3rd January t he President re

— —

c e iv e d t he following con s olato ry mes s age from t he

German E mperor I tender yo u my sincere con

gratulations that withou t appealing to t he help o f
fri endly Powers yo u and yo u r people have been s uc
c e ss fu l in oppo sing with yo u r own forces t he armed

bands that have broken into yo ur country to dist

t he peace in re s toring order and in mainta ini ng t he
, ,

independence o f yo ur co untry agains t attacks from

without .

This imp ul s ive communi cation was o f es sential ser

vice to So uth Africa as showing to what lengths foreign
intervention mi ght be carr ied unl es s we compo s ed ,

o ur own internal differences Tho s e who loved E ng .

 THE RAID AN D I TS R E SULTS 141

land b ur s t into a flame o f resentment The Times .

regarded t he s tep a s a dis tinctly unfriendly one E ven .

men who loved England little bu t who loved Germany ,

less took t he message ill I t drew from Ho fmeyr an

, .

indignant reply Allow me he wrote to hi s Du tc h

’
.
,

organ 0 n s La nd to s ay pu blicly what I have repeatedly

,

s ta ted to friend s privately ever S ince Ka is er Wilhelm s

’

blundering u tterances on recent Sou th African occur

rene es became known I took hi s interference fo r mere
.

blu s ter not des erving any cons ideration Nobody .

knows bette r than His I mperial Maj es ty that t he fir s t

German S hot fir ed agains t E ngland woul d be followed
by a comb ined French and Russian atta ck on das
”
Vaterland and by t he acquisition by E ngland O f all
,

German coloni es Damaraland inclu ded whi ch wou ld

, ,

not be an unmixed bless ing fo r t he Cape .

’

The power behind t he T hrone became vis ible a little

later when to t he accompanim ent o f ribald laughter
, ,

it wa s a nno u nced that Dr L e yds t he Trans vaal .

,

agent w as in Berlin at t he time cons ul ting a t hr o a t

,
.

s pec ialis t
’
.

Rep uls ed in thi s direction t he Kaiser now applied ,

to Portu gal fo r permis sion to land marines at De lago a

Bay to gu ard German Consulate s in t he Trans vaal .
’

The requ e s t was re fus ed .

Meanwhile Rhodes continued to press fo r t he accept

ance o f his resignation and on 8t h Janu ary it w as ,

known that S ir Gordon Sprigg had agreed to form a

mini stry Owing however to t he refus al o f Mr
.
, , .

Schr einer to accept t he po sition o f Attorney General -

delay occ urred and t he cab inet were not gazette d until
,

1 3t h Janu ary The comb ination as fin ally arranged

.
, ,

w as not a s trong one bu t not even his political enemies

,

ever accus ed Sir Gordon Sprigg o f want o f courage

1 42 CE CI L J OHN RHODE S
where t he acceptance o f minis terial responsib ility was
concerned .

The s incere attachm ent O f Sc hr einer to hi s late leader

breathes not withou t patho s in a letter from him date d
, ,

Kalk Bay 13t h Janu ary ,

Whatever yo u suffer
and whatever yo u s eem to have lo s t or be lo sing don t ,
’

let them indu ce yo u to do anything small Y o u mus t .

go on living your life on big lines Res t and wait .

,

and yo ur gra sp will return I am so anxious abou t yo u .

,

and my anxiety abou t your health is less keen than my

apprehension foolis h perhap s that yo u may be per
, ,

s u ade d not to take and acknowledge your fu ll re

s pons ib ility fo r all that has occ urred I f yo u were not .
,

as I know s haken by t he pa s t fortni ght I wo u ld not s ay

,

a word bu t yo u will unders tand ho w my heart yearns

,

towards yo u As fo r me I am all right in a way : I

.
,

catch s mall fish with my little boy o ff t he rocks here

and I dream stil l .
’

I will not spo il t he e ffect o f this letter by any comm ent

o f mi ne .

Mrs Schreiner s eni or w as one o f Rho des s mo s t

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.
, ,

devoted friends To her on 29t h December with a

.
, ,

forebod ing o f approachi ng tro u ble he mus t have ,

written manfully yet tenderly fo r he preserved her ,

reply which I here ins ert

,

‘
GR AH AMS TOW N , 2 9th J anuary 1 8 96 .

S ur ely my gu ardian angel prompted yo u to write

to me on 29t h December The words have been as .
—

u s a id they wo u ld b e plea s ant and help ful to me —

y o

in thes e dark days So too are words j us t t o hand

.
, ,

from my dear so n Will He write s I know ho w yo u.

,

valu e t he friendshi p between me and dear old Rhod es .

For yo ur comfort let me a ss ure yo u that political

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s topped walking up and down all ni ght He looked .

terribly worried .
’

On t he morni ng o f 4t h Janu ary Rho d e s s body

’

s ervant came to me with a message that t he ma s ter

was calli ng fo r me I had hi therto re spected his
.

privacy but now went over and had a long talk with
,

hi m . At fir s t he w a s qui te u nmanned and witho u t

.

a word spoken we held hands like two s choolboys

, .

I was s tru ck by his shattered appearance Af ter a .

while never cea sing to walk t he room like a caged

—

lion he poured o ut his s oul and s wept away many

—

o f t he mis conceptions whi ch then and s u b s equ ently

possessed t he public mind The idea he s aid was .

, ,

Firs t . Ra id w as to be sub sidi ary to a ris in g

The
withi n t he Republic I f and when t he latter occurred
.
,

t he Chartered Company were to s trike in a lo ng wit h

other forces .

S eco nd The Rep ublic w a s not to be overthrown

. .

A Conference w as to be called t he H igh Commis sioner ,

to be convener The independence o f t he Boers was

.

to be gu aranteed in retur n fo r redress o f gri evances .

Third A Cus toms Union : equ alis ation o f ra ilway

.

rates : a common Cour t o f Appeal : leading on to

u ltimate Federation .

Fo urt h Zu lu land to be annexed to Natal and Ba su to

.

land to t he Free State provided recogni tion o f British

,

Su premacy wa s frankly accepted Result a Federal .

—

Union under t he Crown powerfu l eno ugh to say Hands,

O ff to Germany .

This great conception he s a id had been marred by , ,

t he precip itancy o f t he Ra id t he u npreparedness o f ,

t he Rand and t he timidity o f Ho fmeyr when t he

crisis came .
 THE RAID AND I TS RE SULTS 145

Reverting to t he litter o f telegrams on t he floor he ,

s tated that he ha d not replied to any o f them I .

reminded hi m that he was s till Prime Minis ter that ,

po licy requir ed them to be acknowledged and that I ,

w a s ready to s end s a fe repli e s to every one o f them .

Read them he repli ed and then yo u will u nder

,
’

s tand I waded thr o u gh them and s aw hi s difli c ult y

’
. .

A maj ority were from Du tc h su pporters a s s erting the ir

pers onal regard and continu ed po li tical support con ,

dit io n ally on hi s p u blic di s avowal o f James on Y ou .

s e e my po int he s a id and why there can be no

’

, ,

reply .
’

On 7t h Janu ary R hode s wrote to me in penc il ( letter

u ndated ) requ es ting me to come over to him again
,
.

He was recovering hi s balance but dis liked t he intrusion ,

o f vis itors s o we le ft t he ho u s e by a s ide door and

,

took refuge in a shady rece ss where he went fully into ,

his plans and pro spects E ven here we were followed .

by a man to whom Rhodes was abo u t to speak sharply ,

when I persuaded him to be silent The vis itor a .

—

market gardener came forward s omewhat timidly

- —

and laid on t he bench a ba sket o f flowers I t s all .

’

I Ve got he s a id and wa s gone Rhodes w as mu ch

’ ’
.
, ,

a ffected .

I t goes witho u t s ayin g that t he world di d not ta ke

t he silence o f R hode s in good part Journalis ts are .

not t he onl y people eager fo r t he lates t news The .

p ublic u ninformed and therefore apt to be cens orio u s

, ,

demanded O f t he hermi t o f Groote Schuur that he

s ho u ld emerge from his cell B ut in his more spacio u s .

days he never wore his heart upon hi s sleeve and now , ,

in dishono ur and de spa ir he looked s tonily upon a ,

garrul ous uni verse vocal with anger A thou s and ,

.

s pec u lative and contra di ctory explanations o f his

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146 CE CI L JOHN RH ODE S
attitude were given His reticence was attri bu ted to
.

wounded pride to callo us indifference and to cons cious

, ,

gui lt Bu t Gallic like he cared fo r none o f thes e

.
,
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,

things He s tood in t he po sition o f an accused man

.
,

and whi le t he ca s e was s ub judice he wou ld not s peak .

I n thes e days o f unr e s trained p u blic ity thi s w as regarded

as intolerable and many o f his fair weather friends
,
-

dis covered that their idol had feet o f clay A dumb .

oracle was felt to be ins u fferable and Rhode s w as ,

ins is tently call ed u pon to draw a side t he veil and reveal

t he s prings o f action u nderlyin g recent events .

I t is clear now that he deliberately c ho s e t he line

o f policy mo s t d iffic u lt in its elf bu t lea s t compromis ing ,

to his a s sociate s The Right Hon James Bryce

. .
,

writing to him help fully from London on 1 0t h Janu ary

, , ,

advis ed hi m not to attach too mu ch importa nce to

attacks whi ch polit ical and pers onal advers aries cou ld
not be expected to lo s e t he O pportuni ty o f making .

He hims elf was under no illus ion He recognis ed .

that t he Raid was a reversion to t he mediaeval right o f

private war and as su ch indefensible ; and that an
, ,

attack on t he Transvaal apparently under his general ,

au thority even if not on his s pecific order wa s an

, ,

event carryin g wi th it swift and terrible retrib ution .

Smi tten with blindn es s like a modern Sams on he had ,

e ssayed to p ul l down t he p illars o f an oppres sive

commonwealth and having failed he mus t ab ide t he
, , ,

resul t or in his own word s face t he mu sic He had

, , , .
’

not ordered t he a s au lt bu t cogni s ant o f t he prepara

s ,

tions he mu s t have known a ll along that his hand wa s

,

l iable to be forced His precau tions were not in .

thems elves unwis e becau s e tro u ble was inevitable

, ,

bu t in being clandes tine they became impolitic Had .

he acted thro ugho u t on higher a u thority he wo u ld

148 CE CIL JOHN RH ODE S
6t h Febru ary he vis ite d Mr Chamberlain at t he Coloni al
.

C fli c e and rema ined two ho ur s The Times declared

.

hi s return to E ngland wo u ld be generally recognis ed

a s t he right co ur s e to p ur s u e and in it s issu e o f l 0t h
,

Febru ary it added

I t is diffic u lt to conceive that fo r t he next fo ur
or fiv e years Mr Rhodes could be more pro fitably
.

occupied than in t he a ssidu ous and legitimate develop

ment o f this prov ince ( Rhodesia ) By t he realis ation
.

O f his views concerni ng it he will s trengthen every t ie

which b ind s together Great Britain and Sou th Africa .

He will a ssis t in a manner to which his genius is pe c u

liarly adapted in t he development o f British influ ence
in So u th Afri ca . He will at t he same time caus e Sou th
Afr ican influ ence every day to acquire more im port
ance in Great Britain Gradu ally by t he s a fe channels
.
,

O f s u cce ss fu l ind u s try and commerc ial interco ur s e he,

may look forward to cementing a uni on o f whi ch hi s

own Vi ew has always been that it sho u ld be ba s ed on
an elevated conception o f mu tu al interes ts and in t he ,

p ursuit o f thi s obj ect by t he means to which he propo ses

to devote hims elf his energy may be s afely pu t forward
to it s fu ll extent .

The mo s t s ens itive o f foreign neighbo urs cannot

deny o ur right to develop t he great British s phere won
fo r t he nation c hi e fly by t he exertions o f Mr R hode s .

t he lea s t rea s onable can hardly fa il u pon re flection to

perceive that su bj ect to t he j udgment o f Her Maj es ty s
,
’

Government and to su ch restrictions in respect o f

,

mi litary and police a u thority a s it may be tho u ght

proper to impo s e t he first duty which Mr R hodes now
,
.

owes to his co untrymen is to redeem t he late disa s ter

in So u th Africa by devoting his be s t e fforts to t he
realisation o f a peace ful and sub stantial Britis h su ccess .
’
 THE RAI D AND I TS RE SULTS 149

Meanwhi le a Du tch supporter writing to him on

, ,

25t h Janu ary s ays On arriving at Groote Schu ur

, ,

I wa s amazed to fin d y o u gone Feelin g is calming .

down and Kr u ger s demand to be free o f t he S u zerainty

,
’

has ca us ed a revu ls ion Onl y to day at t he Paarl .

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,

S how leading men declared that it cou ld not be toler

,

ated .
’

Du ring t he exc itement o f t he moment enemi es o f ,

Rhodes both in and ou ts ide o f Parliament di d not

, ,

fa il to s eek to improve t he occa sion by demandi ng t he

revocation o f t he Charter bu t t he Dir ectors o f t he ,

Company cons cio u s o f their innocence were undis tur bed

, ,

by t he clamour and at their meeting on 5t h Febru ary

,

they pa ss ed a Res olu tion to proceed at once with an

extension O f t he Beira Railway from Chi mo io to Umtali .

The Britis h pre ss had hardly gra sped t he fact o f

R ho d es s arr ival be fore he was gone aga in As t he
’
.

Pa ll M a ll Gaz ett e s a id He has faced t he music o f hi s ,

di rectors and o f Mr Chamberla in to whom he is r e .

s pons ible and having done that there w a s no need fo r

, ,

more He has done t he b usines s that bro ught hi m here

.
,

and has gone back to go on with hi s work in Charter

land .
’

Another London paper a fford s t he deta ils Mr . .

Rhodes it s ays left London early on t he 10t h ins t

,
’

,
‘
.

fo r t he Continent embarking at Naple s on t he 13t h

,

idem by t he German boat K a nz ler whi ch is due to ,

arrive at Beira on March 16t h He is en ro ut e t o Rhodesia .

,

bu t will return in time fo r t he trial o f Dr James on .

s ho u ld his pres ence be requi red

’
.

AS a matter o f record R hode s arr ived at Be ira on

20t h March and a fter a long interview with t he Portu
,

u e Governor there h proceeded to Umtal i w here

g es e , ,

fo r t he pre s ent I mus t leave him .

150 CE CI L J OHN RH ODE S
The High Commis sioner remained in Pretoria until
by diplomatic action marked by consummate ability
, ,

he s ec ur ed t he relea s e o f Dr Jame s on and hi s O fficer s .

w ho were su rrendered to Her Maj e s ty s Government fo r

’

trial in England es corted to t he Natal border taken

, ,

thence to Durban and s ent home by t he E as t Coas t

,

rou te in t he troo p shi p Vict oria .

I t is to t he honour o f t he Pre sident that he dealt

thus leniently with t he Raiders especially a s in do ing s o , , ,

he ran co u nter to his own Boer s talwarts who clamo ured ,

fo r t he death penalty B u t with a ll his limi tations

.
, ,

Kru ger wa s a s trong man With t he four leaders o f t he .

Reform movement and als o with t he Comm ittee as a

,

whole he dealt with far greater s everity Colonel

, .

Frank Rhodes Mr Hays Hammond Mr Lionel Phillip s

, .
,
.

and Mr now S ir George Farrar were all s entenced to

.
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death bu t eventu ally owing to a well organi s ed

, ,
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agitation on t he part o f practically all Sou th Africa ,

es caped with a fine O f each while subordi nate ,

members o f t he ill s tarred comm ittee ha d to pay

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£2000 ap iece Ou t o f his own pocket a s t he fir s t

.
,

frui ts o f t he Raid R hodes pa id ,

towards thes e
penalties .

On 16t h Janu ary S ir Herc u le s Rob in s on was back in

Cape Town having performed a consp icu ous pub li c
,

s ervice in ma s te rly fa shi on Hi s retur n he cabled to .

,

t he Secretary O f State was du e to his pres ence being

,

u rgently needed on acco unt o f a c hange o f M ini s try .

On 31s t Janu ary Lord Loch wrote to me The ,

s hortcoming s o f t he Government o f t he Rep u blic made

t he Ra id a po ss ib ility bu t do not j u s tify it ,

In .

one way what has happened has done good fo r t he ,

Continental Powers now know that we would go to war

if they interfered in So u th African q u es tions We have .
1 52 CE CI L J OHN RHODE S
to have a maj ority J H Ho fmeyr fears if yo u return
. . .

many O f his party will leave hi m and follow yo u D C . . .

de Waal and yo ur friends cannot too s trongly ur ge yo u

to come Only yo ur opponents hope yo u may not
. .
’

The date o f this me ss age is 8t h April B u t by this .

time Rhodes had a s terner s tru ggle on hi s hands .

E ven in Febru ary be fore hi s arrival at Salis b ur y there

, ,

were mu tterings o f a coming s torm On e o f t he mo s t .

experienced native commi ssioners reported that t he

proceedings o f t he U mlimo t he Makalaka witch ’
—

doctor presaged revolt E arly in March rinderpes t

—
.

s wept thro u gh R hode sia and d is tur bed t he minds o f

t he native s who at t he s ame time heard very ex

,

a t e d acco u nts that t he Raid ha d wiped o u t t he

a
gg er

whi te man .

Rhodes was at Salis bury and exerting all his powers

to help his territory along t he path o f peaceful progress ,

when on S unday 22n d March he heard o f t he mur der

, ,

O f a native policeman and O f other o u trage s by t he

Matabele in t he Filab u si and I nsiza districts Shortly .

a fterwards Selo us and his wife living qui etly at E ss ex ,

Vale were driven to take refuge in B ulawayo and

,

their cherished homestead went up in flames Parties .

o f t he Matabele now occ u p ied t he rocky fortres s e s S O

numero us among t he Mat o po Hills I t wa s clear that .

a crisis was impendi ng and Rhodes with all his c us, ,

t o m ary energy re s tored to him took imm ediate mea s ure s ,

to protect his s ettlers E xcellent accounts o f t he war

.

were su b s equ ently written by Lieu tenant Colonel Baden -

Powell and Lieu tenant Colonel Herbert Plumer Here

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.

it can onl y be lightly to u c hed u pon .

Within ten days o f t he receipt o f t he news o f t he

revolt Rhodes wa s on t he march from Salis b ury
,
.

Telegraphing on 31s t March to t he Hon Mauric e .

 TH E RAI D AND I TS R E SULTS 153

Gifford at B ul awayo he s ays I m O ff to Gwelo with

, ,
’

150 men 1 00 mo unted —

I have news that 140 o f .

Jameso n s police will arrive 2nd April from E ngland

’

and will rej oin The reply he received w as a curt

.
’

one Mu ch more s erious than yo u think To go into

, .

Matopo s with les s than 500 is madnes s .

’

On 1 l t h May a force un der Colonel Nap ier le ft B u la

wayo to meet him and t he columns j oined forces on
,

20t h May With Rhodes were Colonel Beal hi therto

.
—

besieged in Gwelo S ir Charles Metcalfe and other

—

well known Rhodesians With Napier were Ar thur

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.

Rhodes Spre c kle y Molyneux Wrey B urnh am t he

, , , ,

Sco u t and Father Barthelemy a devoted Catholic

, ,

pries t fo r whom R hodes had a hi gh regard I t is .

noticeable that a Du tch contingent u nder Van Rens b urg

and Van Niekerk were with t he B u lawayo colu mn and
performed splen did s ervice .

An eye witnes s s ays-

I tho u ght Rhode s looked well
, ,

bu t hi s ha ir is turning grey and t he s trong face tells

a tale o f excessive mental s train There was s evere .

fighting all along t he ro u te The comb ined colu mn

’
.

reached B ulawayo on t he 3l st May and shortly a fter ,

ward s S ir Frederick Carrington arrived with s ome

Regul ar troop s and a ssumed t he command .

The po sition w as aggravated in June by t he Ma shona s

unexpectedly j o ini ng the ir hereditary foe s t he Mata ,

bele fighting wa s furio us over a wide area and Rhodes ,

was o ften u nder fir e Negotiations fo r peace began in

.

July bu t it w as not until late in October that t he troop s

,

were disbanded a fter nearly eight months active s ervice ’

and even then it was t he diplomacy o f Rhodes that

bro ught t he war to a clo s e .

I s hall now let him s peak fo r hims elf At B ulawayo .

,

s hortly a fter his arrival he w as calle d u pon to s peak at

,
154 CE CIL J OHN RH ODE S
a pu blic meeting After expressing his heart felt sym
.

pathy with t he s ettlers and his confidence in Carrington ,

he o u tlined hi s policy fo r t he future and added I t is a , ,

wonder to me ho w we have got through o ur difficul ties

a s we have . Nearly everything has had to be carried
s ix hu ndred mi le s Providence s ent rinderpest among
.

o ur cattle and ho rs e S ickne s s continu ally kills o ur hor s e s

,
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.

Bu t do yo u know they do witho u t hors es in E gypt "

They have however excellent donkeys and when
, , ,

recently there I arranged fo r a monthly shipment o f

,

them to Beir a Now gentlemen I ob s erve that

.
, ,

all t he neighbo uring State s are dis cussing and s ettling

your future fo r yo u : they have forgotten that yo u
mus t have a voice in it I f I am allowed to remain and .

work wi th yo u I look fo r t he Charter to u ltimately

,

lap s e and fo r yo u to become a s elf governing body I -

.

s e e clearly that u will become anot h er State in

y o

So u th Africa Y o u have onl y to look at t he map

. .

I wis h to clear away t he idea that becaus e one s situ a

’

tion changes one s policy changes My poli cy will

,
’
.

never change I sho u ld be a very small man if I altered

.
,

thro ugh recent troubles t he ideas o f a lifetime I ,

.

hope yo u will prepare yo ur mind s fo r s ome mode o f s el f

government as t he means o f making yo u one o f t he Sta tes
o f So u th Africa that t he end o f o ur e fforts s hall b e So u th
,

African Federation
’
.

This is t he old Rhodes not cas ting backward glances —

,

not crying over spilt mi lk but looking forward in hi gh ,

hope and with s tead fa s t fa ith Late r on in t he cam .

i n when t he war w as practically over and he w as

p ga ,

abo u t to leave B ulawayo he spoke again and s aid , ,

Y o u have done me t he hono ur o f calling this co untry

by my name My return fo r that will be to make t he
.

co untry as great as I can We mus t develop t he Sta te .

,
156 CE CI L J OHN RH ODE S
they co uld have assegaied t he leading men o f t he
country His idea w as to terminate t he war at t he
.

earli es t po ssible moment a s t he expendi tur e o f t he

,

Chartered Company wa s very heavy The Matopo s .

are s eventy miles long and thir ty broad The Mata .

bele s eldom made a s tand but t he troop s co u ld do no,

more than drive them o ut o f t he caves and kopj es at

heavy s acrifice The next day t he enemy were back
.

again Mr Rhodes gra sped t he S itu ation He was

. . .

convinced that t he o nl y thing to be done was to get

t he c hie fs to come o u t o f t he hills to s e e him and come
to terms I t took him six weeks before t he firs t chief
.

wou ld come from his stronghold Old Babyan was t he .

fir s t to come He was very nervou s t he firs t ni ght

.
,

bu t Mr R hode s gave him food and blankets and made

.

him feel at home I n a few days Babyan looked

.

well pleased with him s elf He s eemed greatly to

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.

appreciate t he attentions paid to him He ate dr ank .

, ,

and s lept well and frequ ently remarked that this new
,

life suited him admi rably and that it was a great ,

contra s t to t he one he had led in t he hills There he .

,

s tated when he felt cold in t he early morning and

,

longed to pu ll his blanket round hi m he had to get up ,

and spy from his hidi ng place to fin d o ut whether t he

-

British indunas were not marching on him Here .

in t he camp it was different He coul d sleep till t he .

s un was high and till his food wa s bro u ght to him .

An d so it came abo u t that Babyan at la s t con

s ented to s end fo r his ind una s to come o u t o f the ir

fa stne ss e s to see t he w hi te man They came and by .

,

degrees other chiefs were persuaded to come als o .

After many week s they ha d all been to t he camp

, .

A big indaba wa s then arranged at whic h all were ,

pres ent Several head o f cattle and sheep were killed

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fo r t he occa sion Two or thr ee meetin gs were held and

.
,

eventually peace wa s concluded .

We spent in all abou t two months in t he Matopo s ,

and during that time I marvelled at Mr Rho des s .

’

patience The native mind moves slowly and even

.

.
,

when t he chiefs had gra sped a simple fact they always

returned to their people in t he hills where they wo ul d ,

s it ro un d the ir fir e s and repeat and repeat w hat they

had hea rd at t he white man s camp till everybody

’

u nders tood t he po sition The chi e fs wo ul d then ta ke

.

their own time abou t returni ng to camp They had .

no conception o f t he valu e o f time and three or four ,

days or even a week made no d ifference to them

, , .

I n t he meanwhi le Mr Rhode s wo u ld anxio us ly awa it

.

their retur n to know ho w t he men o f each particul ar

chi ef took his messages This was t he principal rea s on
.

why t he negot iations were s o protracte d From t he .

time that Babyan fir s t came to t he camp Mr Rhode s .

s pent h o ur s and ho urs every day talking to hi m and ,

a fterward s to t he other chi e fs as they came preparatory ,

to t he big indaba s when all wo ul d be pres ent I t .

was a V ery ho t time o f t he year j us t be fore t he ra ins —

commenced but Mr Rhodes never heeded t he heat

—
. .

He us ed to sit day after day in t he blazing s un ta lking

to t he chi efs and cracking j okes with them u ntil we
were all tired to death o f them Bu t hi s patience .

and pers everance gained t he day He insp ir ed t he .

chiefs with confidence and eventu ally he was able to

,

conclude t he mu ch desired peace -

.

Mr Rho de s s physical s trength and powers o f

.
’

endurance were phenomenal at this time Sometimes .

his morning ride wo ul d extend from 5 A M to 12 noon . .

,

bu t he us u all y returned between 1 0 and 11 o clock

’

a fter having been fiv e or six hour s in t he s addle Some .

158 CE CI L JOHN RH ODE S
times I felt almo s t too tired to di s mo unt but Mr , .

Rhodes never s eemed to feel t he s train o f a long ride

in t he lea s t He u s ed to hurry through his breakfas t
.
,

and then s tarted talking to t he chiefs right thr ou gh

t he heat o f t he day till fo u r in t he a ft ernoon when t he ,

hors e s wo u ld be s addled aga in and he wo ul d ride

till dus k After dinner t he chi efs would tur n up again
.
,

and he wo ul d chat with them till late at night Some .

tim es after an unusu ally long ride on a ho t morning

he wo u ld quietly ris e from his cha ir at t he breakfa s t
table throw hi ms elf down under t he neares t tree on
,

t he bare gro und and fall a s leep at once

, He wo uld .

s leep fo r abo u t hal f an ho u r and then commence his

chatting with t he chiefs .

I o ften think his work in t he Matopo s at thi s time

w a s t he greate s t he ever achieved I do not think any
.

other man coul d have done what he di d The natives .

loved to chat with him and althou gh he was then,

bere ft o f all au thority (having re signed as Director o f

t he Ch artered Company) he was looked u pon by them
a s t he head o f t he white men I t w a s a great plea sure
.

to watc h him whi ls t thes e informal indabas were going

on He wou ld chaff and teas e t he chi efs and s ome
. ,

times one alm o s t fancied he was one o f them by t he

way he adapted hims elf to their c us toms His face .

wou ld beam all over when he thought he had t he bes t

o f an argu ment and ha d them in a corner .

We left t he Matopo s in October 1896 s tayed a ,

l ittle whil e at B ulawayo and then trekked to Salis b ury

,

by mul e waggons Mr Rhodes w s very fond o f

. . a

s hooting and we ha d grand sport Travelling abo ut

.

twenty fiv e miles a day we generally s tarte d at day

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,

break halted at abou t 1 0 or

,
had breakfa s t at
1 1 and res ted till 2 P M when t he waggons wo uld be
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View . Well he replied I shall try and if I
, , ,

fa il it will be s ome s atisfaction to know I have made

”
t he attempt .

The s ervice s o f S ir P hi lip Cu rrie a s he then w as , ,

t he Britis h Amba ss ador at Cons tantinople were e n ,

lis te d o u hi s behalf and to his delight an interview was

,

arranged fo r t he following morning Abou t 10 A M . . .

next day he tur ned u p at t he Palace in his ordinary

garb a sui t o f flann el and w as met there by t he
— —

Am ba ss ador who s e face fell very mu ch on s eeing his

,

co s tume Good gracious he s aid yo u can t go

.
, ,
’

and see t he S ultan like that yo u must go and get your

” ”
frock coat That is impo ssible replied Mr Rhodes
.
, .
,

fo r I don t po s s e ss one I n t he end a compro mi s e w a s

’

effected by his taking o ff his flannel j acket and squ e ez

in g into t he Am ba s s ador s overcoat whi c h w a s mu c h
’

too s mall fo r him He met t he S ultan who was mu ch

.
,

taken with him and agreed to let hi m have a consider

,

able num ber o i his Angora s t he benefit o f whi ch So u th ,

Africa is reap ing to day -

.

During t he war he w as pre s ent at s everal engage

ments a t Thaba Z am amba Kantora and various
—
, ,

other fights in t he Matopo s When t he rebels had been .

fin ally dr iven to t he hi ll s he s a id that in fighting there ,

though we might be victorio us t he system which they ,

had adopted made o ur lo s s e s heavier a s a ru le than

their s s o he su gges ted to Maj or General Carrington
,
-

that he shou ld con s ent to his a sking t he lead ing chi efs
to co nfer with him At fir s t Carrington oppo sed t he
.

idea bu t eventu ally agreed and abo u t t he 7t h Au gu s t

, ,

1 896 Mr R hode s le ft B ul awayo fo r thi s p urpo s e

,
. His .

party travelled to Uml ugulu and camped abo u t a mile

from Colonel Plum e r s fighting colu mn At once Mr
’
. .

Rho des se t to work Thr ee or fo ur well known natives

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w ho had remained loyal undertook to carry a message

to t he chi efs and ear ly one morning they were s ent o ff
,
.

Part o f t he way they were accompani ed b y Mr J C . . .

Richards on who was attached a s interpreter to Plum er s

,
’

column and there is no dou bt that it w as largely owing

,

to his support that they carried their undertaking

through That they were doubtful as to their recep
.

tion is certain but his pres ence with them till they had
,

reached a deserted kr aal where a very old woman had ,

been left to tell them that t he chi efs wo ul d receive

t he me ssa ge provided no white man accompanied
,

them prevented them from tur ning back The rebels

,
.

Were o f co ur s e aware o f t he s tart o f t he native

delegate s a s soon as they se t o u t from o ur camp owing ,

to t he well known sys tem o f signalling which they

-

po ssess .

Mr Richar ds on returned late on t he ni ght o f t he day

.

t he fo ur boys were s ent o ff and he told us abo u t t he ,

O ld woman and O f certa in b its o f whi te cloth whic h

had been tied to tree s s o we all felt very hope ful as ,

to t he resul t but we realis ed that two t o four days

,

mus t elap s e before o ur mess engers co uld retur n and ,

Mr Rhodes at once s aid we mus t not pass t he time

.

idl y and su gges ted we s ho ul d form S hooting par ties

, ,

and so show t he rebelliou s natives that we s tood in no

awe o f them .

On t he fo urth day o ur mess engers arrived and s a id ,

a few o f t he older chi efs wou ld s ee Mr Rhodes but that .

,

there were not to be more than four all told fr om

o ur party s o it came to a qu e s tion o f dec idi ng who
,

S ho u ld go and in t he end Dr Sa u er w a s c ho s en and a

, .
,

newspaper correspondent from Plum er s column ’

Mr V Stent E arly next morning they were O ff Mr

. . .
, .

Grimm er and I going a few miles with them and then

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1 62 CE CI L J OHN RHODE S
waiting abo ut half a mi le from t he spot arranged fo r
what is known a s t he fir s t indaba After s ome thr ee
.

ho ur s t he party retur ned and informed us that peace

wa s in S ight a s t he c hi e fs ha d pro mis ed to call a big
,

meeting o f all t he others not pres ent fo r that day week ,

at a point s ome twenty fiv e miles further west in t he

-

hills . We at once se t to work packing up and trekked ,

O ff next mornin g to fix o ur camp at t he new place and

be all ready by t he day appointed Colonel Plumer .

and his column followed u s abou t a day later Mr ,

.

Rhodes ins is ting that no troop s sho uld come nearer

o ur camp than two mi le s a s he wis hed to S how t he
,

rebels he ha d full confidence in their word that until

they had dis cuss ed matters fully at t he s econd indaba
there wou ld be no further fighting I t had been .

arranged that s even o f us mi ght attend this meeting ,

bu t th at all o f u s s ho u ld be unarmed and this condi ,

tion wa s agreed to on t he unders tandi ng that t he

reb els sho ul d als o carry no weapons .

On t he day appo in ted we s e t o ff being accompani ed

,

by Mrs Co lenbrander and her s is ter all o f us being

.
,

well mo unted on hors eback The spot fixed was s ome

.

two miles from o ur camp and abo u t four from t he fight

ing column . Abo u t fifteen to twenty natives were
Vi s ible when we arrived bu t s u ddenly s ome 400 to 500
, ,

armed to t he teeth came o u t o f t he bus h and sur

,

rounded us . Keep on yo ur hors es shou te d Mr ,

.

Co le nbran d er and we all did s ave Mr Rhod es who

, .
,

dismounted and walked right up to t he rebels des pite ,

Co lenbra nde r s entreaties and began u pbra iding them

’

in no mea sured terms regardin g their broken promis e

”
as to coming u narmed . How can I trus t yo u "

he qu es tioned .Y o u a sked us to carry no guns and

s tated y o u wo ul d not and w hat do I fin d
, Until yo u
1 64 CE CI L J OHN RH ODE S
y o u have
killed women and chi ldren Many su ch .

have been killed o r murdered rather Now if

—
, .
,

any o f yo u here have ha d a hand in su ch work leave ,

thi s conference fo r I wis h to talk to men not , ,

”
murderers .

I nko si they sho u ted , it is well s a id but there , ,

”
are no su ch dogs here s o let u s talk A fin e looking , .
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c hi ef named Um lev u to whom we all took a fancy

, , ,

w a s lo u des t in his prote s tatio ns Be qui te sur e ”

.
,

s aid Mr R hode s . fo r t he Great Q u een will never res t

,
”
u ntil all murderers have been tried and hanged It .

”
is o nl y what su c h cur s de s erve w a s t he reply , .

For t he next thr ee ho urs t he chiefs po ured o u t all

their tro ubles s ome o f whi ch Mr Rhodes s aw were
, .

genuine and promis ed to rectify O thers he pointed .

,

o u t to them were t he re s u lt o f the ir own folly

, I n t he .

end a perfect understanding w as arrived at but before ,

getting up Mr Rhodes s aid to t he chiefs Are yo u all

. .

here all t he c hie fs o f t he Matabele "

,
They looked
mu ch up set at this qu es tion then one o f them came ,

forward and s a id No Hela e and Mapisa wo uld not, ,

agree to come and meet yo u ; they s till want to fight .

”

Where do they live s aid Mr R hode s and on be ing .

,

told it w as s ome eighteen miles further in t he hills he ,

s aid ,
Well tell them I S hall go to t he door o f their
,

kraals and s tay there till they come o u t He lae and .

Mapisa it may be mentio ned controlled a very large

, ,

number o f Matabele and had mu ch influence , .

”
An d now he s a id is it peace
, Yebo , ,

Inko si ( Y e s Ma s ter ) it i
,
s peace We look at y o u , .

now with white eyes Hail L amula mkun z i ( separator .

,
’

o f t he Fighting B u lls ) Lamula mkun z i La mula ,

’

mkun z i s ho u te d t he imp i and t he hills r e ec hoed

’
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t he name given him by t he native s who were now over ,

 THE RAID AN D ITS RE SULTS 1 65

j o ye d at t he end o f t he war but who a few mi nute s ,

before were full O f bitterness .

The old c hi e fs approac hed him aga in We S hall .

”
call y o u always L amula mku n z i they s a id (An d ’

, .

they did till he died and he is s till s poken O f by that ,

name ) B ut now that we have no longer Lo B e n gu la

.
,

y o u are o u r fat her o u r friend and protector and to,y o u ,

”
we S hall look in t he years that are coming I t is .

”
well he replied yo u are my chil dren and I will
, , ,
”
see to yo ur welfare in futur e .

Turning to t he imp i t he old men called La mula , ,

mkun z i o ur father s ays he will protect us and give u s

’
, ,
”
his co uns el always He is o ur father and o ur chief . .

The imp i with wild S ho u ts o f Baba ( father ) I nko si

, , ,

L am u la mku nz i sprang forward and rus hed among us

’

, ,

S ho u ting and la u ghi ng and danc ing and begging all o f ,

them fo r s alt and tobacco their arms and grievances

, ,

forgotten to gether We gave them what tobacco we .

had and a sked s ome twenty o f them to come to o ur

,

camp fo r s alt etc includi ng Umlevu already referred

,
.
, ,

to and Babyan one o f L O B en gula s chief co uncillors

, ,
’

who ha d Vis ited t he Q u een in 1 889 and who w a s held in ,

great repu te by t he Matabele .

The ret urn to o ur camp wa s in t he nature o f a

triumphal march Though we only a sked s ome twenty .

o f t he imp i to come with u s at lea s t fifty came all o f , ,

them singing and shou ting t he mo s t lavish praise o f

u s and e ul ogising Mr Rhodes in unmeasured terms . .

After reaching o ur waggons they were liberally s upplied

with food and given as mu ch salt and tobacco as we
co ul d spare and all o f them left fu ll o f protestatio ns o f
,

loyalty Next morning we broke camp and trekked

.

towards t he s trongholds o f t he two chiefs who had

refus ed to come to t he indaba Helae and Mapisa
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166 CE CIL JOHN RHODE S
It took us three days travelling to reach o ur o b ’

j ec t iv e ,and Mr R hode s w as fu
. ll o f h ope th at in a week
t he two recalcitrant chi e fs wo u ld hand in their sub
mis sion Colonel Plum er s column followed but was
.
’

not allowed nearer than four miles this bein g arranged ,

so a s to give confidence to t he Matabele many o f whom ,

”
were cons tantly coming to s e e their Father To a .

message s ent them t he two chiefs vou chs afed no reply , ,

s o Mr . Rhodes s aid Very well we will S it here till , ,

they come o u t and s eek us I t will not be long . .

B u t it w a s not fo r s ix week ( 9t h O ctober and s

tho s e who know t he impatient natur e o f Mr Rhodes .

would have marvelled at his persis tency Nothin g .

s eemed to tro u ble him s ave t he one thing t he con ,

qu ering o f these two men Many people ur ged him .

to give t he matte r up and leave one o f his lieu tenants

to deal with it bu t he wo uld not He had he s aid
,
.
, ,

s ta ted he wo u ld end t he rebellion and till the s e c hie fs ,

had s ub mitted t he embers were s till there

,
.

On e morning in company with E arl Grey and Mr

, .

George Wyndh am he went o ut riding and when they , ,

came back abo ut one o clock he was full o f a dis covery ’

he had made We fo und a hill in t he Matopo s

.
,

he s a id from whi ch a per fectly wonderful View

,

can be obtained I t may be considered one o f t he

.

Views o f t he World We mus t have a road made to .

”
it later on He talked o f little els e that night at
.

dinn er and got both Lord Grey and Mr Wyndham to

,
.

des cribe it to us .

Riding in another direction one morni ng he fo un d ,

an ideal spot fo r cons erving a large qu antity o f water ,

with s ome wonderfully rich s o il underneath it Pro .

"

vid o nce he sa id le ft this gap in t he hills at this

”
, ,

point fo r a purpo se and we must respond Get a , .

1 68 CE CI L J OHN RH ODE S
Sh owed us a fine gold bangle with t he ins cription
To B abyan from t he Q u een engraved on it .

The days went on and s till no s igns o f yield ing

on t he part o f t he rebels they wo ul d receive no one ,

and tho ugh they di d not s eek to molest us when we

were o ut S hooting they looked o u t at us from their
,

kraals in a very sul ky fashi on A missionary t he .

,

Rev D Carnegie came from his s ta tion s ome cons ider

. .
,

able dis tance s o u th O f B ulawayo and o ffered hi s s ervices ,

and though he made a plu cky j our ney into t he hi lls

it bro u ght us no nearer to a s olu tion Still Mr Rhodes . .

never wavered and ta ught all o f u s a lesson never to

,

be forgotten On e day hi s private s ecretary arrived

.

from Cape Town with a hu ge ba sket o f corre spondence ,

but he declined to d e al with it until he ha d gained

his po int S ir Charle s Metcalfe to o ur s urpris e rode
.
, ,

into o ur camp one morning having ridden acro ss co untry ,

s ome hu ndred odd mi le s all alone Mr Rhodes was . .

delighted The native s never gave yo u any tro u ble

.

”
he a sked Not a bit repli ed Metcalfe they were
.
, ,
” ”
mo st fri endly I knew it
. s a id Mr Rhodes I t ,
. .

wa s indeed wonderful that from t he ho ur peace w a s

declared never another shot wa s fir ed by t he Matabele
,

— their word w as indeed their bond .

Day su cceeded day bu t s till He la e and Mapisa ,

were obdur ate No trace o f impatience was however

.
, ,

to be noted in Mr Rhode s The days were S pent in

. .

all s orts o f expedi tions and t he evenings in di s cus sing

,

t he development o f Africa On e remark o f his I .

remember whi ch mi ght well be recorded Y o u cannot

, ,
”
have real pro sperity in So u th Africa he s aid u ntil , ,

y o u h ave fir s t e s tablis hed complete confidence between

t he two race s and hence forth I s hall make that part o f

,

my work but all mus t help all mus t help

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 THE RAID AND I TS RE S ULTS 1 69

News o f t he o u tside world s eldom reached us and ,

no one s eemed to mi ss it Some S ix weeks had elap s ed .

S ince we came to t he doors o f t he two rebel kraals ,

and all o f us s ave Mr Rhodes were mu ch surprised .

when one evening j us t at dark a message came from

t he c hi e fs carried by thr ee o f their co uncillors to s ay
, ,

they would come and talk to Mr Rhodes shortly after .

s unris e t he next day Get everyt hi ng ready to move

.

”
to B ulawayo by noon to morrow said Mr Rhodes -

,
. .

Why s aid s ome one

”
,
ho w do y o u know they ,
”
will submi t How did I know yo u mean w a s , ,

t he reply ; they have already submi tted when their

”
mess engers are here .

Next morni ng t he two chiefs with their head men -

tur ned up abou t 7 o clock and in two hour s everything

’

had been s ettled Helae pu t hi s points clearly and

.
,

Mr Rhodes dealt fu lly with them and they parted

.
,

in t he mo s t friendly manner and sure eno u gh we ,

on t he way t o B u lawayo at 12 o clock and next day ’

Mr Rhodes was trekking to Salis b ury

. .

On t he way t he little village o f E nkeldoorn w a s

,

passed thro ugh and he fo und t he inhab ita nts living in

,

laager a fraid to move o u ts ide As king t he rea s on

, .
,

he w as told that a large body o f Ma shona s w ho lived ,

in a kraal s ome ten or twelve mi le s o ff came o u t s nip ,

in g daily and were s trong eno ugh to keep them in

laager till they ha d s ome a ssista nce Well he s aid .
,
”
,
”
I ll a ssis t y o u We mu s t go and clear them o ut
’
. .

He arranged t he whole thi ng and personally led t he

party ( Three fo ur ths o f t he men onl y went t he
.
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,

others had to remain in laager in case o f failur e ) Ao .

companied by Sir Charles Metcalfe and Mr Grimm er .

,

he led t he party from t he la ager at 3 A M s ur ro unded . .

,

t he kraal a s day broke and called u pon t he rebels

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170 CE CIL J OHN RHODE S
to surrender A volley from their rifles was their
.

reply Lea di ng t he men he rus hed t he kraal and

.
, ,

a fter twenty minu te s o f ho t fighting pu t t he natives ,

to flight and they tro ubled Enkeldoorn no more

, .

When he left t he Matopo s fo r Salis b ury people ,

s aid he wa s flinging t he live s o f hi ms elf and party away ,

bu t he replied that he w a s a s s a fe a s in Pi ccadil ly and

that he desired to show that t he roads were qui te safe
and fit to reopen fo r mail s ervice .

I t took him s ome sixteen days travelling to reac h

’

Salis b ur y where he was given a great reception

, .

From there he went on to Umtali and paid a visit to

I nyanga regard ing whi c h he had heard a great d e al
, ,

and was s o s tru ck with it s po ssibilities fo r sheep raising

that he p urchas ed s ome acres fo r t he p urpo s e
o f experimenting with s heep
’
.

Among t he amusing incidents o f t he campa ign this

may be qu oted A detachment on patrol with whom
.
,

he wa s once travelling w as dis tracte d by t he rival

,

claims o f two o fficers o f equ al rank Rhodes vainl y .

tried to s ettle precedence and failing sugges ted that

, ,

he sho ul d comm and a s colonel To this both o f them .

agreed and t he press gave him t he title mu ch to t he

, ,

dis quietude o f t he High Commis sioner who wa s ap ,

r e n t ly nervo us o f re s ul ting comment in E ngland

p a .

The Admini s trator E arl Grey wa s under t he nec ess ity

, ,

o f s ending t he following me s s age

Fro m E a rl Grey t o High C o mmissio ner .

Your E xcellency s wire o f May 11t h Rho des

’
.

accepted colonelcy becaus e o f fr iction between o fficers

in charge o f different columns neither o f whom wo ul d ,

s erve u nder t he other bu t both agreed to s erve under

,

Rhode s I f Rhodes had not taken po st column

.
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172 CE CI L J OHN RH ODE S
wa s . Tony replied Royalty doesn t break fas t sir
,
’

, ,

bu t yo u can h ave it in t he di ni ng room at h a lf pa s t - -

”
ni ne .

On 24t h Jun e 1896 when on Macfarlane s Patrol

,
’

news reached Rhodes through ru nners s ent by E arl

,

Grey o f t he ris ing o f t he Ma shona s and he determi ned

, ,

to get back to B u lawayo at once We were by no .

means certain that there w a s not a large force o f Mata

bele between u s and that place fo r althou gh Colonel ,

Plum e r s Patrol down t he Gwaa i had been moving

’

parallel with us it was a wide extent o f cou ntry to

,

cover with a small force We s tarted o ff fo r o ur ride

.

o f s ixty m ile s at 3 o clock in t he a fternoon Rhodes

’
.
,

Metcalfe Colonel Nichols on (7t h Hus sars) and myself

, ,

with an es cort o f twenty men and o f cours e Rho des s ’

s mall travelling waggon with t he redo u btable Tony .

Shortly before mi dni ght we were approaching t he

Nya m o n dhl o v o Kraals and were very u ncerta in whether
,

they had been cleared by Plumer Hearing a number .

o f dog s bark ing we came to t he conclu sion that t he

,
”
Ka fir s were at home fo r t he Kafir dog a s a rul e is
, , ,

rather aggressive if his ma ster is near but s links away ,

into t he b us h if he is not Nichols on and two men

.

went forward to reconn oitre and returned with t he ,

report that t he kraals were occupied and we had a ,

s hort conver s ation a s to ho w we sho ul d rus h t he

place R hodes laying great stress u pon t he fact that
,

a few men shou ld be told o ff to remain with t he waggon

u ntil we made it s a fe to proceed as he s a id
“
fo r , , ,

at all co sts Tony mus t be protected

There was prob ably no man more misunders tood
by a certain s ection o f t he British nation than Cecil
Rhodes and t he following little anecdote should bring
,

a blush o f shame to t he cheek o f tho se who us ed to

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The prize o f long life however wa s not to be hi s , , ,

and he wa s already aware o f it .

I f there w as one thi n g in t he world R hodes di s liked

more than another it wa s t he feeling o f being cramped ,

and confined withou t elbow room so to speak ,

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,
.

He als o hated many o f t he di s comforts o f a camp

u nles s there w a s lots o f room Natur ally when on .
,

t he march in a b ush co un try in s avage war fare it w a s

'

ess ential that t he waggons s ho u ld always be formed

into a clo s e laager t he hors es be ing p ickete d ins ide , ,

and t he men deta iled to each waggon in cas e o f attack .

Rhodes always res ented having his little travelling

waggon inclu ded as part o f t he laager and if po ssible , ,

s elected a s pot o u ts ide between t he laager its e lf and t he ,

line o f o u tpo s ts .

Colonel Plumer ha d left B ulawayo on 29t h June to

attack a large force o f Matabele reported to be at
T haba s a Momba Rhodes j o ined t he column on 30t h
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.

June when camped clo s e to Thaba I nduna and had his

, ,

waggon ou tspanned s ome hundr ed yard s or so o u ts ide

t he laager On 1 s t Ju ly a fter t he early morni ng trek
.
, ,

Frank Rhodes and I went o u t to loot s ome kraals

fo r gra in fo r o ur hors e s leaving Cecil lying down by ,

hi s waggon rea din g a book When we came back in .

t he a fternoon we fo und him mu c h amu s ed abo u t s ome

thi ng and after a few mi nu te s he said I wish yo u
, ,

fellows had been here this a fternoon y o u wo u ld have ,

b een mu ch amus ed I wa s lying here rea ding when .

a trooper came across from t he laager and said Good ,

day .
’
Good day s aid I Have yo u got any fis h
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,
’
.

s a id t he man I tumbled to t he s itu ation at once. .

‘
No s aid I I m s orry to say I v e got no fis h
,
’

,
‘ ’ ’
.
’

Got no fis h sa id he ; have yo u got any jam " No

,
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,
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s a id I I m s orry to sa y I m o u t o f jam
’
Y o u ve
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 THE RAID AN D I TS R E SULTS 1 75

got no fis h and got no j am what have yo u got 2 s aid

, ,

t he man Y o u may well ask me that s a id I

’
I ve
’
.
.
,

got precious little left and what I ha ve got they are all , ,

trying to take away from me as fa s t a s they can .

’

I m s orry fo r that s a id t he man Bu t ( looking at

’ ’
.
,

s ome s ix or e ight book s lying on t he gro u nd ) y o u v e

’

got s ome books I see and (p icking one up on Bud

, ,

dh ism ) pretty deep s u bj ect s too Well " s aid I ,

I certa inly do read a bit that s my recreation Y ou

’
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,

s ee it s pretty hard work s elling fis h and jam a ll day

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,

I sho uld thin k it mu s t be s a id t he man Well ’

,
.
,

I m s orry fo r y o u fo r yo u r e a c ivil spoken kind o f

’ ’
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,

chap and I m s till more sorry that yo u v e got no fish

,
’ ’

or j am bu t it can t be helped good day

,
’
Good day — -
.
’
-

,
’

”
s a id I and he went back t o t he laager
,
.

We naturall y laughed heartily over t he incident ,

and wondered what t he man s feelings wou ld be when ’

he sa w Rho d e s riding with Plu mer t he next morning

at t he head o f t he column and dis covered that t he man
he ha d mis taken fo r a p urveyor o f tinn ed s tore s to t he
troop s w as t he greates t E ngl ishman o f modern days .

Thr ee and a half years later early one morning ,

d uring t he Boer War in November 1899 I was o ut wi th , ,

t he Sco u ts o f my s qu adron in t he direction o f Bryce s

’

s tore between T u li a n d t he L impopo R iver

, We were .

waiting fo r daylight and t he men were dis cussing ,

vario us incidents amongs t themselves The convers a .

tion turned upon t he Siege o f Kimberley and t he name ,

o f Cec il R hode s w as mentioned when one o f t he m e n ,

named Gooch said I shall never forget in all my life

, ,

t he fir s t time I saw Cecil R hode s When w as that C

l .

s a id another Oh u wo ld none of u
y o . u y o re
”
member s aid Gooch but yo u woul d sir ( tur ning
, , , ,

to me) fo r yo u were there I t wa s in t he Matabele

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1 76 CE C I L J OHN RH ODE S
War when Colonel Plumer was marching to Thabas a -

Momba and I didn t know him by sight and he had got

,
’ ‘

hi s waggon s tu ck o u t side t he laager Wa it a

”
minu te Gooch s aid I interrupting him I believe
, , , ,

y o u are t he very man I v e been looking fo r fo r thr ee

’

and a half years I ll finis h t he s tory and yo u shall

.
’

,
”
correct me if I am wr ong I there upon told t he other
.

men t he s tory o f t he fish and j am Gooch looking ,

more a s tonis hed every moment a s I proceeded and ,

every now and then ejaculating That s Go spel ,

’

tru th How t he other men laughed over it and I

.
,

only wish Rhodes had been there hi ms elf to renew

his acqu aintance with his wo uld be c u s tomer o f former -

days .

R hode s was very fond o f a sking men to come and

dine with u s at t he waggon when on t he march or in
camp and there w as rarely a ni ght that we hadn t on e
,
’

gues t at all events to share o ur frugal meal whi ch

, ,

t he c u linary art o f Tony always made appetis ing .

I well remember u pon one occa sion o ur gu e s t fo r

t he eveni ng be ing Father Barthelemy o f t he Jes uit
Mission in B ulawayo a man who had endeared hims elf
,

to every one in t he column by his s elf sac rific e and -

devotion always ready to lend a hand as brave as a

, ,

lion and about t he bes t pars on I ever met

,
.

After dinn er t he conver s ation turned upon religion ,

and Rhodes a s tonished o ur Jesui t friend by describing

t o him in detail t he co ur s e o f probation he ha d been
obliged to undergo fo r s eventeen years before he co uld
be thought worthy to be raised to t he digni ty o f a
”
Father How is it Mr Rhodes at las t s aid
.
,
.
,

Father Barthelemy that yo u know so much abo ut us

,

and o ur cour s e o f training " ” ”

Well said Rhodes , ,

I s tu dy all thes e qu e st ions and I am not at all sure

,
1 78 CE CIL JO HN RH ODE S
For s ome we eks after that memorable day in Au gus t
1896 when R hode s met S o m abul ana S eko mbo Nyanda
’

, ,

and t he other native chi efs in t he Mat o po Hills and

bro ught t he rebellion to an end he camp ed clo se to ,

t he hill s witho u t any es cort or gu ard in order that he ,

might be ea sily accessible to any o f them who desired

to come and co nfer with him and restore confidence in
British rule The fact o f his being unarmed s oon proved
.

to them that they had nothing to fear and a day ,

rarely passed witho u t an informal I ndaba taking

place bet ween t he Great Whi te Chi ef and hi s dusky
”
childr en who in a very short tim e learned that
,

all he desired w a s that they shoul d once more return

to their peaceful avocations and let bygones be ,

bygones .

There wa s however at this time in Matabeleland an

, ,

o fficial who shall be nameless who considered that

, ,

Rhodes should have taken him into his co nfidence with

regard to t he terms he was making with t he chi e fs ,

and de sired that arrangements shoul d be made fo r a

grand I ndaba at whi ch he should be pres ent The .

date was fixed and t he time arranged fo r t he meeting

,
.

The chi e fs who were s till s omewhat sus p icio us o f every

,

white man except Rhodes hims elf were lur king on t he ,

ou tskir ts o f t he hi lls before comi ng to t he rendezvo us ,

when this great o fficial was s een riding over t he pla in

towards Rho des s camp wi th an es cort o f twenty
’

men armed to t he teeth and t he Union Jack flying in

,

t he breeze .

After exc hanging greetings with R hodes t he Union ,

Jack wa s planted in t he gro un d and t he great man ,

s at down u nder it s fold s u pon t he only c ha ir avail

able Rhodes sitting beside him on a bis cuit box

,
.

Not a native arrived Af ter a time R hodes looked up

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at t he fla g and s aid to his visitor What s this " ,

’

”
The Union Jack w a s t he reply I m we ll aware
’
.
,
”
o f that , s a id R hode s bu t what is it do ing here
,

I t is my symbol o f a u thority
”
w as t he reply Well " ,
.

”
do yo u expect t he Kafir s to come " s a id R hode s .

I tho u ght y o u had arranged fo r them to meet me

”
here to day -
w a s t he ans wer
,
So I had s aid .
,

Rhodes bu t I don t expect them to come when they

,
’

are all watc hi ng fr om t he hills and have s een y o u

arrive with this flag and an armed es cort T hey wi ll .

come and s ee me bu t o f co urs e they will now expect

,
”
they are summoned in order to be arre s ted and shot .

The o fli c ial looked rather foolish and a fter wa iting ,

s ome time longer R hode s impat iently s a id I thi nk ,

I had better go into t he hi lls and tell them this is all

nons ens e and that they are perfectly s afe in coming
, .

After s ome di s c u s sion he wa s di s su aded from go ing

,

hi ms elf bu t a me ss enger w a s s ent and in a short time

, ,

they came dropping in evidently s omewhat ill at ea se , ,

and sat down on their haunches in a s emi circle -

.

Rhodes had been having some luncheon and threw

them s crap s o f food a s one wo u ld to a dog and turning to ,

t he great o fli c ial s aid Y o u will think me a fi m n y fellow

, .

I a m a funny fellow bu t yo u mu s t remember I a m a

,

Privy Councillor The o ffic ial returned to B ul awayo

a sadder and a wis er man .
’

I t w as not until D ecember that R hode s wa s able to

leave Rhodesia I t was on t he 17t h o f that month
.

that he and Sir Charle s Metcalfe travelling together , ,

overtook Colonel Baden Powell on t he R ev e w e River -

.

I am s orry he s aid to Baden Powell bu t I s hall

’
-
, ,

not be able to give yo u accomm odation at Groote

Schuur it has been b urnt to t he ground Providence
, .

has not been kind to me thi s year what with J ames o n s

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1 80 CE CI L J OHN RH ODE S
Raid rebellion famine rinderpes t and now my ho u se
, , , ,

b urnt I feel like Job all but t he boils

, , .
’

The little party went ro und to Durban in t he Po ngo la

and arrived at Port Elizabeth on 23rd December all ,

bu t Rhode s transhipp ing into t he M o o r and reac hing

Cape Town on 27t h December The reception o f .

Rhodes at Port E lizabeth wa s enthusia stic Depu ta .

tions from all parts o f t he E astern Province were there

to meet him The genuinene ss o f t he welcome pleased
.

him greatly A luncheon w a s given to him in t he

.

Feather Market at which 500 delegates and lea din g

,

townsmen were pres ent His ab s olutely impromptu .

s peech ranged over a wide area and is far too long

fo r ins ertion in extens o here Q u otations mus t .

su fli c e .

If I may put to y o u a tho ught he s aid it is that ,

’

t he man w ho is continu o u s ly pro pero u s doe s not know s

hims elf his own mi nd or character

,
I t i a good thing . s

to have a period o f adversity Y o u then fin d o ut w ho .

are yo ur real friend s I will admit Mr Mayor that I

.
,
.
,

have ha d a tro u bled year From tho s e fr om whom I

.

expected mo st I got lea s t bu t from many quarters ,

s ome t he mo s t remote I received a kindly s upport

—

I never anticipated I am confident eno u gh to s y

. a

that I do not feel that my p ub lic career has clo sed .

I am go ing home to meet a Committee o f my own

co untrymen As s oon a s they releas e me I am comi ng
.

back I shall keep my s eat in t he Cape Ho use Y o u

. .

may tell me my faults but u ntil yo u turn me o ut I

, ,

mean to remain with yo u I am determi ned s till to .

s trive fo r t he clo s e r u nion o f So u th Afr ica I only .

hope that in my fu t ure career y o u wil l recognis e that I

have never abandoned this programme
’
.

This wa s t he speech that caus ed res entment in s ome

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On his arrival and when t he p ub lis hed report ap
,

p e a re d o f hi s s peec h at Port E liz abeth I w a s a fra id ,

t he b itin g p hr a s e unctu o u s rectitu de — wo uld give

—

occa sion to t he enemy to bla spheme and I su gges ted ,

to hi m that t he reporters were in error and that t he ,

expression he us ed or meant to u se w a anxious s

rectitu de B ut he wo uld have none o f it remarking

.
’

, ,

I s a id it and I s tick to it I ndeed t he u nco gui d

’ ’
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, ,

s o ready to take a mote o u t o f a brother s eye while

’

obliviou s o f t he beam in their own were always an ,

abomi nation to him On vario us sub s equ ent occasions

.

he returned to t he s ubj ect Thu s in a letter dated

.
,

26t h Ju ly 1897 he wrote to me from B ulawayo

,
I ,

notice t he Home Committee have made me t he sacrificial

lamb I wonder whether t he decay o f o ur race will
.

come thro ugh unctuo us rectitu de

I t ha s o ft en been s aid and tho u ght that R hode s w a s
a woman hater and it may be conceded that a really
-
,

frivolo u s woman w as dis ta s te fu l to him bu t a womanly

woman and a woman o f c ultur e and ab ility were always
s u re o f re spect and fr iend shi p at his hand s During .

t he trying months o f t he Mata bele war he rece ived

many hearteni ng letters from women o f all ranks and , ,

contrary to his practice he replied to them Here is

,
.

a charming ans wer to one o f them which I have been ,

privileged to pu blish
B U LAW AY O , K I N G
’
‘
J u rt e S K R AAL .

My D E AR am j us t in from t he Wes t
DU C H E s s , — I ,

on t he Gwaai R iver ; t he natives bolte d so we had not ,

mu ch fighting I find abo u t 100 letters I turn them

.
,

over and find this one from yo u and read it I t is ,

.

dated March 1 1t h I am do ing my bes t and yo u need

.
,

not fear that in my adver ity I shall cave in I mus t s .

 THE RAID AND I TS RE SULTS 1 83

do my duty I wanted j us t to say to yo u one t hi ng

.
,

now do not be annoy ed Y o u always make me feel

.

that yo u are my exact idea o f an Englis hwoman .

Yo urs tru ly
,
C J RH O D E s
. . .
’

Before pa ssing away from t he painful subj ect o f t he

Raid I desir e to make one clo sing remark The idea
, .

prevalent in s ome qu arters that t he inception o f t he

Ra id is s till wrapped in my s tery is wholly erroneous .

The vital fact s are all in print and there are no u n

,

revealed s ecrets The sooner this is recognis ed t he better

.

fo t he peace o f So u th Africa
r .
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CHAPTE R XXX I
THE C APE PARL I AME N T ( 1 8 9 6)
Gv
o e rn o r s
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s
p e e c h -
M e rri man on t he w arp at h— Gv o e rn o r s
’
dp e art u re

De b at e on t h e Rai — S e d l ect C o mm it t e e — De b at e on l v
ea e of a b se n c e

S c hr e in er e fen
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d
Re po rt d s— of C o mmit t e e — S c hre in e r s
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g r e at spe e c h
— g
Pr o ro at i o n o f Par iam e n t l .

ON Thur sday 30t h April t he Cape Hous e o f Assembly

, ,

met to elect a new Speaker in t he place o f Sir David

Tennant who had resigned I t s late leader as I have .
,

already shown w as not there having other than , ,

political battles to fight nor did he attend during t he ,

s e s s ion .

On t he following day Parliament was opened with t h e

c us tomary formalities by Sir Hercules Rob inson who ,

s a id in ter a lia
,
I cannot re fra in fr om re ferring to an
,

event which has recently occ urred which although ,

o u tside t he limi ts o f this Colony was o f t he firs t magni ,

tude a s regards t he interest it has excited and it s far

reaching cons equence s throu ghou t Sou th Africa .

An armed force from an adj o ining Territory cro ss ed

t he border and entered t he So u th Afr ican Rep u b lic
contrary to t he rul es o f international law .

Su ch entry deeply deplored by every right mi nded

,
-

Colonis t ha s produ ced t he mo s t lamentable results

,
.

My advisers have entire confidence in Her Maj es ty s ’

Government taking s u ch step s as sha ll prevent t h e

recurrence o f a calamity which has stirred so deeply

t he s entiments o f all people in So u th Africa and s o
186 CE CIL JOHN RHODE S
Company such as t he British Sou th Afri ca Company is
not cons iste nt with t he peace and prospe rity o f South
Africa that Her Maj esty t he Q ueen be reques ted by
respectful addr ess to take t he matter into her gracious
consideration and by t he revocation or alteration o f
,

t he Charter grante d to t he s aid Company to make s u ch ,

provision fo r t he government o f t he Territories com

pris ed therein a s may to her s eem desirable .
’

Mr Sau er als o gave notice to move That in t he

.
,

opinion o f this Ho us e t he ab s ence o f His E xcellency

,

Sir Herc u le s Rob ins on Governor and High Com ,

missioner from Sou th Africa at t he pres ent tim e is

,

detrimental to t he bes t interes ts o f South Africa .

’

On 5t h May Mr Hay a private member gave notice

.
, ,

o f an amendment to Merriman s Motion an amend ’

ment framed in a more vi olent form and demanding a

s earc hing inq uiry .

On 7t h May Sau er anno unced that on s econd tho ughts

he de sired to s u b s titu te fo r his Motion one expre ssing ,

t he deep s ens e o f t he Ho us e o f t he great s ervic es o f t he

Governor deploring his approaching ab sence and
, ,

hoping fo r hi s s peedy retur n I n it s altered shape t he .

,

Motion after debate was carried withou t a di vis ion

, , ,

Mr Theron on behalf o f t he Afrikander Bond a ss ert ing

.
, ,

that t he Governor po ss ess ed t he entire confidence o f

that body .

On 8t h May Schr einer as an amendment to Merri ,

man s Motion gave notice to move on 12t h May to

’

expres s regret at t he Ra id and appoin t a Select Com ,

mit t e e o f s even members to inquire into it s origin and

character .

On 12t h May I nnes moved a s till fu rther amendment ,

express ing an earnest hope that su ch s teps would be

taken in t he So uth African R epublic towards t he
 THE CAPE PARL I AMENT 1 87

favo ur able cons ideration o f any legitimate grievances

o f t he pop ul ation whi c h ha d s ettled in that State from

t he Cape Colony and els ewhere as mi ght condu ce to

,

t he peace uni ty and welfare o f So u th Africa

, .

The great debate on t he Raid originating in thes e

,

various Motions opened on 12t h May with a powerfu l

,

s peec h from Merriman , w ho admitted having w hi le ,

s itting in t he s ame Cab inet as R hode s given t he C harter

,

rea s onable a ssis tance and support bu t added that ,

recent events had opened hi s eyes to it s danger .

Schreiner followed on t he lines o f his amendment and ,

declared that he moved fo r a Commi ttee becaus e a full

inve s tigation w a s nece s s ary be fore a j u s t and final
j udgment on t he subj ect co uld be given and that , ,

meanwhile it wa s not t he duty o f t he Ho use to cry

, ,

Away with t he Charter

’
.

On t he following day I nnes s poke at s ome length in

s u pport o f his propo s al to expre ss a de s ire on t he part o f

t he Ho us e that Kru ger wo uld endeavo ur to content his

large Uitlander populati on and urged Dutch members
,

never to forget in their indignation at t he Raid that

, ,

t he cau s e s whi ch led to it s till exis ted Wis e words and

.
,

well befitting t he speaker who s e j u di cial intell ect now

adorns t he Tr ansvaal Bench .

The dis cus sion a fte rward s became general t he great ,

bu lk o f members o f both races feeling it incumbent on

them not to give a silent vote Rhodes o f cours e .
, ,

w a s s everely critic is ed bu t fo und s ome s ta unch de

,

fenders and many o f t he s peeche s aga ins t him were

,

delivered more in s orrow than in anger As a deliber .

ative Assembly t he Cape House thro ughou t it s long,

and not undis tinguis hed career has ever exhi b ited an
,

impartiality and s obriety o f j udgment whi ch wo u ld be

creditable to any Parliament in t he world I t s char .
1 88 CE CI L JOHN RH ODE S
acter fo r fair play did not des ert it on thi s unprecedented
occa sion Feeli ng necessarily ran high and t he wrong
.

done to t he Tr ansvaal was common caus e on both

s ide s o f t he Ho us e but a veteran member vo iced t he
,

opinion o f t he maj ority when he exclaimed We are ,

told not to o ffend t he Tran svaal but we mu s t consider ,

o u r own people ( C heer ) T h U itlander h ave i ev

.s e s
gr

—
an c e s ( c h eer s ) and th ey —o u gh t to h ave been redre ss ed
before now ( Renewed cheers )
.
’
.

Mr Ho lt hausen a Du tch member declared that

. z , ,

he did not believe it wo u ld be good fo r t he co untry

if Chart e rla nd w as taken over by t h I mperial e

Governm ent .

Mr P de Waal tru sted t he Ho us e would treat t he

. .

Chartered Company leniently Mr Venter followed . .

,

and s a id Rhodes w a s his bes t friend and there w as ,

no bette r state sman in t he co untry and it was ne c e s ,

s ary that R hode s ia s h o u ld be le ft in t he hand s o f t he

Charter .

Mr D C de Waal thought that in t he years to come

. . .

t he Cape Colony wo u ld find o ut what t he C harter had

done fo r So u th Africa He did not regret havin g .

followed Mr R hode s . .

Mr van der Walt wou nd up by a sserting that t he

.

s p iri t o f t he s peec he s o f many Du tc h members w a s

one o f latent confidence in Mr Rhodes . .

The great debate a fte r frequ ent adj o urnme n t s

, ,

came to a clo se on 28t h May when Merriman s Motion ,

’

was pu t and lo s t by s ixty vote s to eleven Mr I nnes s ’

. .

various amendments were then put and rej ected and ,

Schreiner s propo sal was finally carried witho ut a

’

divi sion t he feeling o f t he House being unmis t a k

,

ably in favour o f s uspending j udgment pending t he

Report o f a Select Co mmittee .
1 90 CE C I L J OHN RH ODE S
necessary B ill drafted and read a first and s econd time
w ithin t he s pace o f a fe w minu te s On 8t h June it .

w a s read a thi rd time witho u t amendment ,

.

A few days later one o f Rho d e s s opponents not a

’
—

Du tc h member endeavo ured to s t rike a side blow at

—

hi m by interfering with t he legal rights o f t he D e Beer s

Mines in regard to t he maintenance o f Native Com

pounds but t he Hou se detecting animu s woul d have
, , ,

none o f it .

On 25t h June t he Premier anno u nced ami d general ,

cheering that he had o ffered t he a ssistance o f t he

,

Colony to Rhodesia to subdu e t he rebellion whi ch ,

Rhodes w a s then engaged in suppressin g and he read ,

a telegram from E arl Grey t he Admini strator thank , ,

in g him fo r t h o ffer and s tating that t he force s in t he

e

field were adequ ate fo r t he p ur po s e and that t he ,

Company s difficulty w a s t he transport o f food and

’

material Again amid cheering Sir Gordon Sprigg

.
,

added that he ha d s ent a Minute t o t he Governor

fo tran s mission to t he R hode s ian au thoritie s o ffer
r ,

ing to organis e and s end up a Transport Corp s witho u t

delay Afte r considerable correspondence over t he
.

wires t he o ffer o f t he Colony wa s co ur teous ly declined

fo r t he time but s u b s eq u ently in J u ly wa s accepted
, , , ,

and acted u pon .

A s torm long brewing aro s e however on 14t h Ju ly

, , , ,

when Schr einer moved that leave o f ab sence be granted

fo r t he s e ssion to t he s e n ior member fo r Barkly
West his colleague in t he representation o f that con
,
’

s t it u e n c
y I t w as
. a del i cate ta sk and grace fu lly
performed He admitted that Rhodes thr o ugh a
.
,

common friend had expres sed a wish that t he Motion

,

s ho uld be made by him if not embarra ss ing and he

, ,

hims elf tho ught that he wa s t he appropriate c hannel

 THE CAP E PARLIAME NT 191

thr o ugh whi ch t he appli cation shou ld be bro u ght

before t he Ho us e .

I move he added with t he deepes t regret fo r all

’

, ,

tho s e cir cumstances whi ch have comb ined t o take t he

Honour able Member away from t he place he has
adorned in times pa t ( cheers) but with no wish to
— s —

rais e any dis cus sion or give a clean bill o f health o r

a s has been su gge s ted to whitewash t he Right Hono ur
—

able gentleman He has shown by his action

.

in t he North that he is determi ned to do hi s be s t to

carry o ut t he great p urpo s e he ha s se t hims elf and ,

it wo u ld ill become t he Ho us e if it were to waver in

g rant in g hi m what I hope tho u gh I dare not be li eve , ,

will be an u nanimous leave o f ab s ence leaving on one ,

s ide t he j udgment whic h will have to be prono u nced

by t he Select Commi ttee .
’

Several Du tc h members obj ected to t he Motion with

great heat E ven Merriman took t he s ame line bu t
.
,

Theron in a spirited speech deprecated t he action

, ,

o f his compatriots and s aid t hat hi s s ens e o f fair play

,

made it impo ssible fo r him to adopt their view After .

considerable debate t he Motion came to a division ,

and was carried by t he overwhelmi ng maj ority o f

fift y two to twelve t he Ho us e thus again a ss erting
-

it s traditional s ens e o f j u s tice Fo urteen Du tc h .

members voted with t he maj ority and t he issu e

wou ld therefore have been decided by their votes
, ,

alone .

On Friday 17t h Ju ly S ir T homa s Up ington at

, ,

length bro ught up t he Report o f t he Select Committee ,

with a Minority Report attached to it signed by hi m

s elf alone The Speaker to mark t he importance o f
.
,

t he occa sion read t he whole Report to t he Ho u s e a

, ,

docu ment o f forty fiv e claus es I need not qu ote here

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more than principal conclusions After sum
it s .

maris in g t he evidence t he Commi ttee say ,

As regards Mr R hodes yo ur Commi ttee can come

.
,

to no other conclusion than that he wa s thoroughl y

acqu ainted with t he preparations that led to t he inr oad
bu t there is no evidence that he ever contem
plated that t he force at Pitsani shou ld at any tim e
invade t he Trans vaal uninvited I t appears rather .

to have been intended to support a movement from

but yo u r Committee cannot fin d that
that fact relieves Mr Rhodes from respons ibility
.

and they are relu ctantly forced to t he conclusion upon ,

t he evidence be fore them that t he part taken by hi m ,

in t he orga ni s ation whi ch led to t he inroad w as not

co ns is tent with his du ty as Prime Minister o f t he
Colony .
’

Sir T homa s Up ington s Minority Report differed

’

from t he others mainl y by t he follo wi ng clau s e That ,

Mr Rhodes was not only wi tho ut knowledge o f Dr

. .

James on s intention to move t he armed force under

’

hi s control into t he So uth African Rep u blic at t he

time bu t when he became aware o f Dr James o n s
,
.
’

illegal act he did all that lay in his power to prevent

,

further inr oad

’
.

On 24t h July Schreiner in an ex ha u s tive and ma s terly

, ,

s peech whi ch will s till repay perus al as a dignified and

,

clo s ely rea s oned example o f parliamentary oratory ,

moved t he adoption o f t he Maj ority Report The .

Ho us e and t he gall eries were crowded and t he s cene

w a s an impre ssive one The mover s conclu ding s e n
’
.

teno es were a s follows

I wo uld j us t s ay that nothing in t he co ur s e o f t he
inquiry ha s caus ed me in any way to waver in t he
es timate I hold a s to t he motives o f Mr Rhod es Mis . .
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CHAPTER XXXI I
THE S E L EC T C O MMITTEE O F THE H O U S E OF
C O MMO N S AN D AFTER ( 189 7)
B ri t ish su
p r e m ac y — A c qu isit io n of l d F
an — r u it farm s — Dy n am i t e fa c t o r y
G t Sh
R e c e p t io n B q t i
at ro o e c uur — an ue n D i ll H l l
r a — Rho d e s an d

L b ah S il f
o uc E gl d C b l
ere — t
a s or n an — a es o an d fro m t he S ir ar d
Rh d i L d
o es K g d J di i l B
n on o n— ru e r an u c a e n c h— R ho e s d b
e fo re t h e

C mmit t
o S il f S t h A f i
e e- R a t s or ou r c a— e e n e rs
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t he H o u se o f A s se m b ly
— Sp h t id
e ec P mi iv F d
es o u s ti e— er ss e e e ra o n— Lo r d R m d ti
os ea re r es

S i A M il
r Rh d
. f t li t Vi w
n e r— o es a a a s — e s on l igi H
re o n— o u se of

C mm o C mm it t
o ns R p t I vi it Rh d
o ee e or — s o esia — At t h M t p e a o os

T k wi t h Rh d
re A dt o es— nec o es .

ON reaching Cape Town at t he end o f 1896 and before ,

leaving fo r England to appear before t he Select Com

mi t t e e o f t he Ho us e o f Comm ons R hode s took s tep s ,

to carry into effect a poli cy he had elaborated while in

Rhodesia Durin g t he weary months in whi ch e n
.
,

camped under t he s tars he strove to induce t he Matabele ,

chi efs to sue fo r peace his thou ghts do ub tless s trayed ,

far afield and e spec ially in t he direction o f t he futur e

,

o f t he Britis h in So u th Afr ica The e fforts o f su cce ss ive .

Governors o f t he Cape t o s trengthen t he position o f

Grea t Brita in as t he predominant partner in t he affairs
o f t he s u b cont inent ha d fa iled
-
The attempt to achi eve .

by arb itration t he acqui sition o f t he E as tern port o f

Dela go a Bay had failed The belated e ffort o f t he .

Cape Colony to annex t he territory now known as

German So uth Wes t Africa had failed E ver since -
.

Maj uba and t he retroces sion Dutch asp irations had ,

s tea dil y s oared u pward For a while t he a lliance be .

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1 897 195

tween Rhodes and t he Bond had afforded E ngland

breathing time but t he death o f President B rand had
,

given a racial bent t o t he politics o f t he Orange Free

State and t he extraordinary extent o f t he mi neral
,

discoveries in t he Transvaal had placed it s hitherto

impec uni o u s B urghers in po sse s sion o f wea lth beyond
t he dream s o f avarice De spa irin g to untie t he Gordian
.

knot Rhodes had planned to c ut it : unab le to trace

,

any clear indications o f a broad hi ghr oad he essayed , ,

or allowed to be ess ayed a short c ut The results were

, .

dis a stro u s .A co ur s e o f patient di plomacy co uld now

alone be relied on to restore o ur lo s t prestige .

Meanwhile Rhodes o ut o f power in South Africa

,

and o ut o f favo ur in England never fo r a moment lo s t

,

hi s gra sp o f t he e s s ential fact that t he peace and pro sper

it y o f t he co u ntry co u ld only be achieved b y union under
t he Crown and flag o f Great Brita in His s leep ing and
.

his wak ing tho ughts were centred on this problem and ,

he saw a s indeed he had always s een that one o f t he

, ,

ma in requi site s to su ccess w as to au gment t he E nglish

s peaking pop ulation in Sou th Afr ica and especially ,

on t he land The Witwatersrand mining indust ry

.

w as e s s entially co s mopolitan and little reliance co uld

,

be placed on a floating population anxio us only to

accumul ate wealth and be gone The man on t he s oil .

w as t he permanent factor to be reckoned wi th and t o ,

plant o ut more E nglishmen on t he soil now became

t he leading idea o f t he I mperial dreamer I n this .

d irection he worked with ever increasing energy till -

death terminated his labo urs fo r ever .

Nor di d he work altogether in vain I n Rhodesia he .

allotte d enormous blocks o f land to influential companies

in t he expectation a s yet only imperfectly realis ed
—

that they wo ul d subdivide their va s t holdings witho u t

1 96 CE CI L J OHN RH ODE S
u ndu e delay and thu s create t he more homes fo r
which he sighed For hims elf and to give t he terri tory
.
,

an o b j ect lesson in s tock farming and agricultur e he

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,

acquired acres in Matabeleland and a similar

estate in Mashonaland and added to hi s Will a co di cil
,

dealing with their permanent upkeep S imilarly in .

,

t he heart o f t he Cape Colony he p urcha s ed a large

intere s t in properties o f abo u t equ al size .

He now submitted to me a plan fo r acquiring a

preponderating influence in t he sugar indus t ry in Natal ,

and a nother fo r creating a frui t growing indu s try in t he

-

very centre o f t he Du tc h dis tricts in t he Cape Penins ul a .

The former proj ect w as balked by u nexpected ob s tacle s ,

bu t he carried thro ugh t he latter regardle ss o f expens e ,

and by placing t he development o f t he estate s in t he

hand s o f Californi an experts he b u ilt up a trade whi c h
,

ha s had t he mo s t important re su lt s be side s inc identally

,

s trengtheni ng t he British electorate exactly where it

h ad fo r years been pers is tently weak .

On s imilar lines and under t he management o f

Americans fo r who s e thoro ughne ss he always express ed
,

pro fo und a dmir ation he s tarte d in t he Wes tern districts

,

a s an o ffs hoot o f D e Beer s Mine s a Dynami te Factory ,

whi ch became one o f t he largest in t he world and whi ch ,

conferred an immens e benefit on t he whole mining

indus try o f t he co u ntry by breaking t he monopoly
hitherto enj oyed by a fore ign Company under t he pro
tection o f t he Transvaal Government .

The y e ar 1896 tho u gh an anxi o u s one in many

,

re spects wa s thus a year o f great ac hi evements

,
.

Any do u bt that may have exis ted a s to t he reception

o f R hode by t he inh ab itants o f Cape Town wa s s peedily
s

s e t at re s t On a n ight s hortly a fter his arrival an

.

immen s e crowd wended it s way fiv e m ile s by road to

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in t he end no name will be inscribed hi gher than yo ur s
on t he roll o f tho se w ho have brought pro sperity to o ur
co untry (Loud and prolonged cheers )
.
’
.

Rhodes who se rising was t he signal fo r a remarkable

,

demonstration o f enthusia sm made a long and interes t ,

in g speech o f an ho u r and forty minu te s d ur ation in

’

which he traversed t he whole gro und o f his pa st political

career and declared that in spite o f many faul ts and ,

errors he felt that he rested s ecurely in t he confidence

,

and a ffection o f hi s fellow citizens -

.

The next day a fter arranging to reb uild Groote ,

Schuur and acquire t he various properties to whi ch I

have allu ded R hode s s a iled fo r E ngland in t he Dur wega n
,

C as t le From t he city to t he docks he wa s cheered by

.

immen s e crowd s and no le s s than 5000 people a ss embled

,

on t he pier to witness his departure I t wa s a memorable .

s end o ff The la s t letter he received w a s from a

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.

pro mi nent Du tchman at Worces ter who concluded ,

with May t he year 1897 bring yo u mu ch happiness

,

and success and may yo u s oon be o ur Premier and

,

leader again And t he la st letter he penned w as to

.
’

me authorising a payment o f £2500 towards t he pro

,

po sed memorial at B ulawayo to thos e who had fallen

in t he war and as a contrib u tion to party fund s
,

in t he Cape Colony s o as to ensure a s atis factory regis tra

tion before t he general election I t is he wrote .
,
’

t he crisis o f t he co untry I think we may j us t .

I believe it wo uld be better fo r t he herea fter if we lo s t ,

s o that I co u ld devote my whole time to R hode sia ,

bu t I owe mu ch t o t he Cape and mus t pay my debt to

’
her .

On hi sarrival in E ngland he received a cablegram

from Lord Kitc hener dated Cairo 30t h January 1 897 , ,
.

Can yo u spare three locomotives Gordon asked yo u

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1897 199

fo r Wo uld a ssist me immens ely E ndorsed on t he .

’

message in his own handwr iting is his imm ediate reply ,

Y e s only too plea s e d to help yo u Rhodes ’

, . .

Dur ing Febru ary he bombarded me with cablegrams

urging expe di tion in acquiring land fo r s ettlement
p urpo s es Current events in Sou th Africa convinced
.

hi m o f t he pressing need o f action The dis tur b ed .

condi tion o f t he Trans vaal entered in Febru ary on a , ,

new pha se t he President havin g followed up hi s other

,

s u cce s s e s by a determin ed attack on t he independence

o f t he Ju dicial Bench So far back as Septemb er

.

1 895 a critical qu e s tion had aris en as to whether a

,

Volksraad Res olu tion had t he force o f law in other ,

words whether a s ettled s tatute could be overridden

,

at any moment by a chance maj ority o f t he Raad .

On 22nd Janu ary 1897 while R hode s was on t he water

, ,

a ca s e came before t he High Court at Pretoria ( Brown

v . L eyds ,
in which t he Government nakedly
avowed this doctrine but t he Chief Justice and his
,

colleagues were unanimous ly agains t their contention

and gave j udgment accordingly I t is onl y fair to add .

that in 1884 and again in 1888 t he Co ur t had s eemed

, ,

to favour a different View .

By Law No I o f 22nd Febru ary 1897 Kru ger now

.
,

s o u ght to deny t he right o f t he Co ur t to te s t any Volk s

raad Re solution to see if it conformed to existing law .

The Ac t w a s pa ss ed thr o ugh all it s s tage s in three days ,

and t he Chief Jus tice (Kotze) was dismi ss ed from

o ffice and although he appealed to t he B urghers he
,

obtained no satisfaction Nevertheless all fiv e j udges

.
,

had t he co urage to issu e on 1st Marc h a declaration

that t he law was invalid The Chief Justice o f t he .

Cape Co lony thereupon on 12t h March visited t he , ,

Transvaal and under his advice t he Bench fin ally

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200 CE CI L J OHN RHODE S
agreed to recognise t he Ac t provided t he Grondwet or
Co ns titu tion were altered to meet t he case But men .

felt that a s erio us blow ha d been dealt at t he adminis tra

tion o f j us tice .

Meanwhile Rhodes was now fairly before t he Select

,

Committee o f t he Hous e o f Comm ons one o f who se ,

members as s tated by Mr Fu ller wa s t he E di tor o f

, .
,

Trut h a virul ent and prono unced enemy o f t he man

,

practically on hi s trial .

The Commi ttee met on 1 6t h Febru ary and R hode s , ,

being anxio us to return to So uth Africa was t he fir s t ,

witnes s called and made a frank admi ssion that he

,

had s ympathis ed with t he intolerable grievances o f

t he Uitlanders a ssis ting them with his purs e and
,

advice that he placed t he Britis h Sou th Africa Com

p y
a n
’
s Pol ice wit hi n s trikin g d is tance o f Jo hanne s b urg

withou t informing t he High Commissioner or his c c

directors o f t he s tep he had taken but that t he actu al
Ra id took place witho u t hi s au thority His action .
,

he s a id was greatly infl u enced by a belie f that t he

,

Trans vaal Government s ou ght to introdu ce t he int e rv e n

tion o f a foreign power in t he already compli cated affairs
o f So u th Africa .

Rhodes was o f co ur se subj ected to cro ss examination

, ,
-

o f a rigid c haracter and he placed a wr itten s tate ment

,

before t he Commi ttee but sub s ta ntiall y his defence

,

w a s t he s imple one that he had acted u nder gr eat

provocation and in t he interes ts o f t he Empir e His .

examina tion was spread over eight days in Febru ary

and March .

I n his de fence o f Rhode s (4t h J une Mr Pope .

quoted t he view o f a not too friendly critic Mr Jus tin , .

M Cart hy who had already written Now whatever

‘
, , ,

one may come to think o f t he policy and action o f Mr .

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favo urite p t he Ta nta llo n Cas t le He arrived in
s hi .

Cape Town on t he 20t h o f t he same month and was ,

rec eived by t he Mayors o f Cape Town and Port Eliz a

be th and an imm ens e gathering o f citizens to whom , ,

in ans wer to a cordi al addres s he s a id he had retur ned ,

to s trive fo r equal political rights fo r every whi te

man s ou th o f t he Zambesi But I shall fight he
. .
,
’

added cons titu tionally

, .
’

He found that t he Afrikander Bond sitting at ,

Malmes b ury ha d been in ho t dis cus sion regarding him

, .

On e member Mr Du Plessis , . had t he co ur age ,

to sa y that he believed Rhodes to be a s good an Afri

kander a s ever and other members admi tted that in
, ,

s pite o f t he Raid Rhodes would head t he poll in any

,

Du tc h cons titu ency ; bu t t he rank and file were t o o

deeply hurt to be appeas ed and pass ed a resolution ,

declining to c c operate wi th him further though they

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,

als o rej ected by 29 vote s to 12 a propo sal to c o

— —

operate with their brethren in t he two Republics .

Their aim was to sec ur e t he re entry o f Hofm eyr -

into Parliament and failing thi s to indu ce t he Chie f

, ,

Jus tice to enter t he arena Both s chemes failed . .

The day a fter his arrival Rhodes took his s eat in t he

Hous e o f As sembly and received a warm welcome ,

onl y one irreconcila b le Du tchm an u ttering a s epul

chral groan ami d general laughter The Ho us e Rhodes .
,

inclus ive immedi ately adj o urned to take leave o f t he

,

retir ing High Commissioner who s ailed that after ,

noon in t he N o rma n From that date until t he .

3r d June R hodes w as a diligent attendant but not

,

a conspicuous contribu tor to debate tho ugh he voted ,

s te ad ily with his party and labo ured ac t ively in it s

reorgani sation He had un dergone his great trial and

.

emerged from t h ordea l not indeed s catheless bu t

e , ,
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1897 203

carrying with him t he openl y express ed conviction o f

hi s country men at home and a b road that des p ite t he
terrible c heck to hi s career he wa s s till a force to be ,

reckoned with and t he foremo s t man in t he Colonial

,

E mp ire I t w as a s o urce o f s incere gratification to

.

him that on 2nd April t he Colonial Office wrote to t he

High Co mm iss ioner that in view o f t he fac t that t he ,

term Rhodesia w as in December 1895 accepted by Her , ,

Maj e ty s Governm ent fo r po stal p ur po s es and looking

s
’

als o to it s general us e in South Africa in o fficial and

non official documents it was now res olved henceforth
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,

to u se this designation fo r all p urpo ses to de scribe

collectively t he territories under t he ad mi nis tration
o f t he Britis h So u th Afr ica Company .

His reception on arrival wa s by no means t he only

recogni tion Rhod es received On 22nd April 1500 .
,

trade repres entatives railway artisans and others ,

marched in t he evening with torches to Groote Schuur ,

ere rea chi ng which their numbers increa s ed to 5000 .

He readily complied with their demand fo r a speech .

I have had eno u gh —hé told them o f physical

agitation Henceforth it mus t be constitutional and
.

based on votes Y o u are partners with me in t he far

.

North whi ch is if I may ventur e to u tter t he word

,
—

u nder t he Britis h fla Take my adv ice Jo in no

g . .

party who s e direct programme is to keep race feeli ng

alive Us e your time your energy and any influ ence
.
,

at t he polls yo u may po sses s to s e e that t he hopele ss ,

s ys tem prevailin e l ew here in So th Afr ica h all end

g s u s .

We mus t a s a party be fo r equal rights and equ al laws

fo r every white man Let us have free trade through
.

o u t t he co untry and let t he be s t man win irre spective

,

o f his race Lo d c eer ng

’

( u . h i ) .

On 23 d April he s poke with equ al force to t he Typo

r
204 CE CIL JOH N RH ODE S
graphi cal As sociation and p u blic references to hi s
,

work by t he Salvation Army and t he Young Men s ’

Chr is tian As sociation were enthusia stically received .

I ntens e feeling w a s aro us ed abo u t this time by

President Kr uger in a speech at Bloemfontein desc rib
ing t he Q u een a s een kw a aje vro u w bu t it is do u btfu l
’

whether any o ffence was intended t he words being ,

capable by a fair interpretation o f meani ng a deter

, ,

mi ned woman .

An active campa ign aga ins t S ir Gordon Sprigg w a s

abou t this time in progress bu t all Briti h s ections
,
s

o f t he pop u lation drew together in t he face o f what

now s eemed a comm on danger .

I n Ju ne R hode s granted trans fer to t he inh ab itants

o f Mowbray and contigu o u s s ub u rb s o f a large p iece

o f land be ing an o u tlying portion o f hi s Groote Sc hu u r

,
.

E s tate fo r t he p urpo s e s o f a recreation gro u nd and

, ,

recas t his Will vesting t he remainder o f hi s property

,

in t he Federal Government fo r t he early formation

,

o f whi c h he w as now s trenu o u s ly re s olved to work .

Rather than s e e any delay in this direction he w a s ,

prepared to advocate t he passing o f an Ac t in t he

Cape Parliament in favo ur o f permissive Federation ,

provided t he general election gave him even a s mall

maj ority and he arranged with Mr Harry E s combe
, .

to introdu ce a similar mea sure in t he Natal Legislatu re .

I n April b us ines s required my pre s ence in Pretoria

, ,

and before leaving I s aid good bye to t he retiring Hi gh

, ,
-

Commis sioner Lord Ro smead His su ccessor Sir

, .
,

Alfred Miln er arrived and a s sumed o ffice on 5t h May

, .

Rhodes had proceeded to Kimberley on 3rd June and ,

gone on to B ulawayo on 17t h o f t he month While .

at t he former p lace he took t he important s tep o f in

d uc ing t he De Beers Mine s to help to develop t he coal
206 CE CI L JOHN RH ODE S
s id e re d religion o f t he Greeks and read t he works
t he ,

o f Aris totle ; in all t e s ame idea aro s e t o rais e

h —

humani ty hi gher The idea wa s not new it was as

.
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old as t he beginning o f civilis ation in t he world What .

they had to be thankful fo r that day was that t he

s upers tition s o f t he religions o f t he pa s t were di s appear

ing .One wa s t he superstition in connection with

human s acrifice If they only looked back a short
’

time in t he his tory o f t he country ( Rhodesia ) they ,

woul d find t he superstition o f t he M limo whi ch gave ’

t he happy de spatc h to s o many That was also a .

religion but a bad one The obj ect o f all religions

,
.

in t he fu ture wo u ld be t he betterment o f hum anity ,

and he wou ld ask all those present to help in however

s mall a degree toward s t he s ettlement o f that obj ect
’
.

During July he telegrap hed to me from B u lawayo

almo s t daily Even after writing an ordinary letter he
.
,

generally telegraphed to say he had done so I fin d .

that I telegraphed t o him with congratulations on his

birthday (5t h Ju ly) and again on 15t h July to say I
,

ha d care fully read his Will and fo und it intere s ting

rather than amusing .

Fo iled in hi s hopes o f cro ssing t he Zambesi owing

to adminis trative b usiness requiring his early presence
in Salis b ury he now urged me to come u p to B u lawayo
,

and accompany him in a mule waggon Meanwhi le -

.

t h Ho u s e o f Commons ha d received and cons idered

e

t he Report o f it s Select Committee I t had originally .

been appointed on 30t h July 1896 and consis ted o f ,

fifteen member s inclu ding t he Attorney General ( S ir

,
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R Web s ter) and t he Chancellor o f t he Exchequer

.
,

( S ir M ic h ael H ick s Beac h ) and it s term s o f,re ference

were To inquire into t he Origin and Circums tances
,

o f t he I nc ur s ion into t he So u th African Rep u bl ic o f

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an Ar med Force and into t he Admini s tration o f t he

,

British So uth Africa Company and to report thereon ,

and furt her to report what alterations are desirable in

,

t he government o f t he Territorie s under t he contro l o f

t he Company On 14t h Au gu s t t he Committee decided
’
.

that at that late period o f t he s ession it was undesir

ab le to pro secu te t he inquiry and a po stponement was ,

cons equ ently s anctioned .

On 13t h July 1897 t he Committee pres ented it s

Report in a volume with annexures o f 780 pages , , .

They had examined a very large number o f important

witness es and a sked nearly questions They .

admi tted having had before them t he Report o f t he

s imilar Committee appo inted by t he Cape Parliament ,

and recorded that Rhodes had expressed hi s willingness ,

generally to accept t he finding o f that Committee

,

a s to t he facts and that he ha d made it clear to them

,

that he accepted respons ib ility fo r t he actions o f tho se

w ho had s erved directly or indirectly un der his orders
, , .

Their conclus ion w as in brief that whatever j ustification

, ,

there may have been fo r action on t he part o f t he people

o f Jo hanne sb urg there was none fo r t he condu ct o f a
,

person in t he o fii c ial po sition o f Rhodes but they ,

added a s t he Cape Commi ttee had vir tu ally added

, ,

that in regard to allegations that t he Raid had been

engineered fo r s tock j obb ing purpo ses t he charge was
-
,

entirely witho u t foundation .

I t may be noted that when t he Report whic h was ,

dr a fted by t he Cha ir man came up fo r cons ideration on,

6t h Jul y Mr Labo u chere endeavo ured to sub s titu te

,
.

fo r it an alternative report o f hi s own but he fo und ,

hims elf in a minority o f one The Report was finally .

adopted by 10 vote s to 1 Mr Lab ou chere ab senting , .

himw lf .
208 CE CI L JOHN RHODE S
During t he debate that ensued in t he Ho u s e f o

Commons it became clear that t he obj ect o f s everal

,

extreme members w as not s o mu ch to punish Rhodes

a s to get at Mr Chamberlain and t he Colonial Ofli c e
.

fo r p urely party p urpo s e s Ultimately Mr Phi lip . .

Stanh ope moved That this Hous e regrets t he in

,

conclusive action and Report o f t he Select Co mmi ttee

on British So u th Afri ca and e specially t he failur e o f ,

that Commi ttee to recommend specific s tep s wi th

regard to Mr Rhodes The rob us t common s ens e
. .
’

o f t he Ho us e threw o u t t he Motion by 304 vote s to

77 amid lo u d c heers and altho ugh a pre s s controver sy

, ,

raged fo r s ome weeks t he subj ect gradually dropped , ,

especially as t he nation came to s ee that tho u gh t he ,

Ra id w as dead and buried t he ca uses that led to it ,

were till very mu ch alive and wo u ld probably resu lt

s ,

s ooner or later in an appeal to arm ,

s .

On t he 4t h Augus t I at length paid my fir s t vis it to

Rhodesia reaching rail head at Francis Town fiv e
,
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days later and B ulawayo on 1 1t h Au gust T here I

, .

fo und Rhode s deep in conference with ra ilway con

tractors traffic managers and with a formi dable body
, ,

o f wo u ld b e interviewers lo unging at his o ffice doors

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.

Not caring to disturb him I retired to my bedroom , ,

and there mi dway in a leisurely bath wa s surpris ed by

, ,

him . He b ur s t u pon me like a whir lwind threw ,

hims elf on t he bed and while I dre ss ed plunged into

, , ,

local Colo ni al and I mperial politic s with t he abandon

,

o f a man w ho ha d long been tongu e tied He was -

.

at times a diffic ult man to convers e with a s he o ften ,

assumed that yo u knew more o f t he workings o f hi s

mi nd and o f his plans than was actu ally t he ca s e .

I n t he cool o f t he evening we rode together to Govern

ment Ho us e and as it was dark ere we aga in reached
,
210 CE CI L JOHN RHODE S
it was not good poli cy to have all t he malcontents
under his eye and control rather than allow them

to live s cattered over a vast area to be centres o f

s edi tion
.

Af ter an early breakfa s t he rode with me to what

he called t he view o f t he world in order to po int o u t
,

t he exact s pot in whic h he de sired to be b ur ied and ,

he lay down there to s ee ho w it felt

On t he S unday a fternoon we held an indaba o f
t he induna s We sat in a s mall group surrounded
.

by at leas t fifty s talwart natives and Rhodes a d , ,

dres sing them in their own langu age s aid a few word s ,

to each chief To s ome he spoke gracio usly mu ch

.
,

to their delight With others he w as j ocu lar where

.
,

u pon t he whole a s s embly a fter t he immemor ial c u s tom

,

o f co u rt iers lau ghed immoderately To one man

,
.

alone he wa s mi natory and s evere a man who was

—

reported to be still mis chievo usly dispo sed To hi m .

Rhodes addressed a few s cathing remarks till t he fellow ,

s lowly c hanged from darke s t bronze to a s hen grey ,

and t he beads o f perspiration s tood o ut upon his aba shed

forehead .

Finally he spoke to them collectively on a subj ect

,

very near hi s heart o n t he dis tinction drawn by whi te

—

people between killing in fair fight and mass acring

un protected non combatants on lonely farms On
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.

this theme he appea red to speak with real eloqu ence ,

and a s t he crowd in excitement clo ed in upon us he

, ,
s ,

u t t h e cru c ial q u e s tion Will y o u promis e never to

p ,

kill o ur women and c hildr en aga in " An immediate ,

u na ni mo us and u nmis takable cry in t he a ffirmative

w a s given bu t Rhode s looked dis concerted and a

, ,

s mile fli ckered on t he faces o f tho s e who knew t he

language fo r t he reply as I a fterward s a s certa ined

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At Charter we had an amusing experience The .

young non commi ssioned o fficer in charge came to

-

report that a local chi ef Umswit c hwe wa s mu tino us , ,

and required to be promptly dealt with as he ha d ,

s hot Maj or Ridley in t he foot and killed one o f his

troopers and a policeman He even defies me sir .

, ,
’

s aid t he compla inant a s if that fill e d u he c hie f s

’

p t ,

c up . Rhodes mildly reminded hi m that he hi ms elf

‘

w as no longer a man in a u thority as t he armed forces ,

o f t he Company ha d been ve s ted in S ir R ic hard Martin ,

bu t t he o fficer gave a tolerant smi le at this ab sur dity

and s to od hi s ground The following di alogue then .

took place
R H O D E S B ut ho w did t he chi ef defy yo u
.

N C O FF I C E R
.
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. He j eered at me . .
’

R H O D E S Jeering does not cons titute a cas us

.

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belli .

N C OFFI C E R Well I m bles t

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. .
,
’

R H O D E S I tell y o u what yo u can do Y o u go right

. .

u p to t he kraal and be fired at That will be a casus .

’
belli .

N C O FF I C E R
.
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.
( s a lut ing ) . Very good ,
sir , I 11
’
go
on Wedn esday ’

T his tranquil arrangement rather took my breath

away bu t a day or two a fter o ur arrival at Salis b ury
,

t he impertur bable non commi ss ion e d o fficer rode in -

,

bringing t he chief a pris oner He had drawn fire on .

t he Wedne s day a s arranged s tormed t he kraal and ,

captured Umswit c hwe red handed Of s uch is o ur -

.

I sland brood .

I had a ple as ant time at Salis b ury ro ugh dra ft ing ,

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A cts and Ordinance s req uired by R h odes and fi nally ,

left t he Territory by way o f Beira and reached Cape

Town on 17t h Septemb er Rhodes tho ugh suffering .
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1897 213

from influenza , wa s a delightfu l compani on and com

rade as all w ho ever travelled with him will testify
, .

thoughtfulness fo r others was proverb ial and

,

he was never s een to b etter advantage than when on

trek.
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CHAP TE R XXXII I
S ERI O US I L L NES S

Trans c o nt in e nt al Te e
p lg
h — Rho e s a t I n a n a —
ra O d
p in
e n y g g l ytof Rai w a o

y
B ulaw a o — N at i v
e n e w s pap e r — S u s cri e s t o
p a rb
t b f d
y H igh
un s—

C o mmiss io ner in Rho ia— Rho es d ac at S a isd b k l b y T v l

ur — ran s aa

l l
C aim fo r Mo ra an d I n t e ec t u a D ama e s l l g .

D UR IN G j o urney between Bu lawayo and Salisb ury

o ur ,

Rhode s thought and spoke mu ch o f hi s proj ect o f link

ing up Cape Town with E gypt by means o f his African
Transcontinental Telegraphic Company For nearly .

two years he had frequently e erecte d t he section r -

between Salis bury and T e te a n unhealthy di s trict

—

220 mile s in lengt h Telegraphists died at their po s t

.
,

natives c ut t he wires elephants des troyed t he poles

, ,

and t he maintenance o f t he s ection s eemed to pres ent

ins uperable diffic u ltie s Beyond T ete to Tanganyika.

t he line was progre ssing s atis factorily bu t t he Salis b ury ,

T e te section caus ed continu al anx iety .

Soon a fter we left E nkeldoorn we fell in with Lieu ,

tenant Wood o f t he 7t h Dragoons with fifty men boun d , ,

to Salis b ury with telegraph material Therea fter Rhodes .

dropped into a brown s tudy o f at leas t an ho ur s dur a ’

tion terminated by an imperious call fo r a map o f So uth

,

Afr ica .This he s tudied intently fo r s ome time until

s udde nl y hi s brow cleared and he exclaimed Thank ,

God that s s ettled I n an ho ur he had entirely altered

,
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.
’

t he ro u te o f t he line abandoned Salisb ury a s a ba se

, ,

and decided to pu ll down t he poles and re erect them -

from Umtali carrying t he wires over t he high and

,
216 CE CIL JOHN RHODES
p ur chas e o f frui t farms All thes e had to be despatched
.

by native run ners to Umtali a distance o f sixty miles ,

.

On 7t h November 1897 he wrote to hi s agent at ,

B ul awayo as follows As regards t he farmers I am

,

help ing in t he Matopo s ins is t on their making b u tter

,

dail y and that they keep t he plough going now t he

,

planting s ea son is here People mus t learn that they

.

mus t work all day We mus t have no loafers ; o ur

.

farmers mus t work otherwis e they will fa il

’
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,

On 4t h December t he ra ilway w as opened to B ul awayo

amid general rej oicings bu t Rhodes o f cour s e was too
, , ,

ill to attend . I n Au gus t be fore he left fo r t he E a s tern

,

part o f Rhodesia he had however given ins tru ctions , ,

that all tho s e who came up fo r t he O pening ceremony

sho ul d be s ent o u t to t he Matopo s arranging that a ,

good road sho uld be cons tru cted and mule coaches
engaged fo r t he conveyance o f t he large number o f
visitors who came from all parts o f Sou th Afr ica a s well
a s from E ngland E very one was delighted beyond
.

mea sur e at hi s forethou ght and it wa s far and away t he ,

featu re o f t he occa sion .

Abo u t thi s time he was interes ting hims elf in a pro

r s tarting a re spectable native news paper in t he
j e c t fo

Cape Colony whi ch resulted in t he publication o f

,

I s wi La ba nt a ( The Vo ice o f t he People) as a rival to an

exis ting paper whi ch had been captured by t he Afri
kander party He a ls o au thorised cons iderable ad
.

dit io n a l political expenditure in co n nection with t he

approaching elections .

A delicate qu es tion w as als o remitted to hi m fo r

s ettlement owing to an anno u ncement that Dr Jame
,
.

s o n ha d been invited to s tand fo r t he Cape Parliament .

On 12t h and 13t h November telegrams were s ent to ,

hi m by party agents and by prominent politic ians ur ging

 SERI OUS I LLNE SS 217

that t he candidature should be withdrawn but Rhodes ,

dec lin ed to intervene and Dr Jameson was du ly elected

. ,

thus commencing a pu blic career whi ch rehab ilitated

hi m in t he good op inion o f So u th Africa and led at no
di s tant date to t he Premi ershi p o f t he Colony .

Meanwhile t he new High Commi ssioner had lost no

,

time in vis iting Rhodesia where on 25t h Novemb er , ,

at Umtali he received an address from t he inhab ita nts

,

whi ch inter a lia said

, ,

We desire to call yo ur Excell ency s attention to ’

t he fact that t he man who s e conception t he occu pation

o f this great co untry w as and w ho ha s led u s s u cce ss
,

fu ll y thr o u gh years o f do u bt and danger to a con

t in u a lly increa s ing pro sperity no longer hold s any ,

controlling or o ffi cial po sition in it s government and ,

to assur e your E xcellency o f t he determination o f t he

people o f thi s co untry to s ta nd firmly by Mr Rhodes .
,

who ha s s tood so well by u s

’
.

I n his reply t he High Commissioner s tru ck a bold

,

and sympathetic note . He cou ld not fail he s aid ,

’

to refer to t he promi nent s ervices o f Mr Rhodes . .

( Lo u d and prolonged c h eer ing ) He believed it w as

.

t he de sire o f t he co untry to s tand by Mr R hode s and .

,

it w as t he s trong and hearty support o f t he people

whi ch pu lled him thro ugh a s critical a time as had
ever occurred in t he life o f any contemporary British
s tate s man Lo d c eer
’
.
( u h s ) .

During December Rhodes tho ugh s till an inva lid , ,

managed to travel back to Salisb ury While there he .

received a j o int telegram from an influ ential gro up o f

fr iend s and political s upporters declaring that his ,

pres ence in Cape Town was urgently needed : that

Mr Ho fmeyr wa s exerting himself s trenu o usly at t he
.

Paarl and other Du tch dis tricts to ensure t he su ccess

2 18 CE CI L J OHN RH ODE S
of party at t he polls in t he following March and
hi s ,

that Tr ans vaal secret s ervice money was being di s

bur s ed with a lavish hand The doctors however
.
, ,

p u t a veto on t h e j o u rney and ordered him a long se a

voyage For a while he amus ed hims elf by planning a

.

trip to Canada to se e Sir Wilfrid Laur ier fo r whom ,

he always expres s ed great admiration bu t when t he ,

time came he fou nd that it was impo ssible to get away .

He accordingly proceeded to B ula wayo on 31s t December

1897 reaching that town on 3rd Janu ary 1898 his health
, ,

having temporarily improved He arrived in Cape .

Town late r in t he month and at once proceeded to ,

di s c u ss with me t he Trans vaal claim fo r fo r

material damages in connection with t he Raid but t he ,

further claim o f fo r moral and intellectu al

damages he refu s ed to regard as serious He sug .

ges ted t he appoint ment o f an arbitrator on each S ide ,

and requ es ted me to act fo r t he British So uth Afri ca

Company The claim a s we know came to nothing
.
, ,

— indeed there s eems rea s on to believe that t he Trans

,

vaal Government made a su b s tantial profit o ut o f t he

unfortunate expe di tion a s a War Tax ha d already
,

been levied on every property owning Uitlander who -

happened to be an ab s entee and t he fines on t he ,

Reformers levied with uns paring s everity came to a

, ,

large sum .

During this period o f enforced idlenes s owing to

ill health R hode s dwelt frequ ently in convers ation
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, ,

with friends on his desir e to be bur ied in t he Matopo s

,
.

Lay me there he wo ul d s ay ; my Rhodesians will like

,
’

t hey have never b itten me

’
it .

The approach o f death w a s fa mi liar to his mi nd and ,

although he was wont to refer regretfully to t he brevity

o f modern l ife and to sco ff at Methus elah a s a man
,
220 CE CI L J OHN RHODE S

CHAP TER XXXI V

A S TREN UO U S YE AR ( 18 98 )
Mat o po Dam— Rho i d es d b y C p Tim N w
n C ap e To w n — I nt er vie w e a e es — e

O d r ier C n il A dd
o un c C p l t— S il f E gl d
re ss es a e e e c o rs — a s or n an

P t t m t i g f Ch t
re s en a ee d C mp y A t t d m t i g T
n o ar e re o an — en s ee n ran s

con ti t l T l g ph
nen a C p P li m t
e e ra mbl E ff t t
s — av e ar a en ass e es — or s o o er

t h w S p igg b y S h i
ro r d t h B d R di t ib t i
c re n e rBill an e on — e s r u on

S p igg d f d hi l t t
r e en t sC h mb l i s Gv m t df td
e er o a er a n — o e rn en e ea e

A pp l t t h
ea o t y Rh d
e co un rp l it i l p h R -
l t f G o l ’
es s o ca s e ec es — es u o e n era

El t i
ec S p igg
o n- ig r S h i d Rh d p t t h
re s ns — c r e n er su c c e e s — o es res e n s e

V Ri b k t t
an e e ec t C p T w
s a ue At t d t h D B o m ti g
a e o n— en s e e e e rs ee n
— S il f E g l d
a s or n an .

HAVIN G s trenu o us ly endeavoured to give a favo urable

turn to t he fortunes o f his s ettlers in Rhodesia Rhodes ,

now address ed hims elf to t he ta sk o f giving an obj ect

lesson to that co untry by completing t he constr u ction
o f his imm ens e Da m in t he Matopo s capable o f plac ing ,

u nder irrigation an extens ive area o f good s o il on t he

flats below t he little kopj e on whi ch he had b ui lt hi s

res idential hu ts I t was a bold undertaking fo r su ch
.
,

works involve a cons iderable outlay and in So uth ,

Africa a co untry o f torrential rains are not uns eldom

— —

wa shed away with disa s trous results But his choice

, .

o f a Contractor a s well a s that o f a s u pervis ing engineer

, ,

wa s a wis e one The Dam has s tood t he tes t o f time

.
,

and below it there is now a smiling valley where formerly

there was nothing but bare veld .

I n Janu ary 1898 he wa s back in Cape Town a rra ng ,

ing with t he Co mmiss ioner o f Ra ilways fo r j o int working

arrangements and in trans it rates between t he Cape -
 A STRENUOUS YE AR 221

Colony and Rhodesia a task involving much delicate

,

negotiation .

On 1 1t h Febru ary a dep u tation from t he Progres s ive

organis ation t he So u th African League vi sited Groote
, ,

Schuur and di s cu ss ed t he rumoured clo ser uni on

between t he two Du tch Rep ublics when R hodes made ,

t he important su gge s tion that in s u ch a ca s e t he Cape ,

Natal and Rhodesia shou ld federate under t he British

,

flag .

On 8t h March he created a widespread s ensation by

according an interview to t he C ape Times at which , ,

in very o u ts poken fa shi on he declared that his old

,

s u pporter t he Bond u nder it s new leadership was

, ,

entir ely agains t progress uni ty and equ ality and was
, ,

domi nate d by a Continental gang in Pretoria He .

added that Rhode sia now o ffered more fa s cinations

fo r him than Cape politic s and that he w as willing to
,

retir e from t he latter provided t he people o f t he Colony

wo uld let him go .

Abo u t this time his many anx ietie s were aggravated

by t he announced intention o f Her Majes ty s Govern ’

ment to make important alterations in t he Matabeleland

Order in Co u nc il ( 1894) s o a s to limi t t he power o f
admini stration and control hi therto exercis ed by t he
Chartered Company Au thority over t he police had
.

already been withdrawn a s t he result o f t he Raid and ,

it wa s not an u nrea s onable contention o f t he Company

that any further res triction o f their powers mi ght re act -

dis as trous ly on t he native mind .

On 12t h March R hode s addre ss ed t he electors o f

Cape Town in support o f t he Progressive candi date s
then in t he field .

After dealing with local poli tic s and p u tting in a

weighty plea fo r a Colo ni al contrib ution to t he Royal
222 CE CI L JO HN RH ODES
Navy he to uched on t he b urni ng question o f t he
,

misgovernment o f t he Transvaal pointing o ut that , ,

tho ugh t he newcomers ou tnumbered t he Boers and were

practically bearing t he whole taxation o f t he country ,

t he Pre s ident was depriving them o f t he franchis e ,

forb idding t he u s e o f their langu age and t he right o f

p ublic meeting and tampering with t he independence
,

o f t he J u di cial B enc h Referring again to t he frequ ent

.

s u gge s ti on o f hi s opponents that he wo u ld do well to

di s appear from p u blic life he declared that he ha d

,

many faults to atone fo r and t he best atonement he

,

cou ld make wou ld be to work fo r great So uth African

obj ects and s acrifice everything fo r t he caus e .

Reu ter s cable to London reported that Rhodes had

’

a S plendi d reception from an imm ens e audience which

completely filled t he hall On 15t h March he was equally
.

well received when addressing a workman s meeting ’

at Salt River The report says he spoke with unu sual

.

eas e and never fo r a moment lo s t tou ch with his

,

au di ence .

The next day he le ft fo r England in t he Ta nt a llo n

C as t le u ndertaking to retur n if po ssible in time fo r
, , ,

t he meeting o f Parliament in May .

From Madeir a he cabled a large additional grant to

party fi m ds a grant supplemented later on Trans
— .

vaal s ecret s ervice money was rightly or wrongly , ,

believed to be t he great res o ur ce o f his political o p

n e n t s and rather than be u n fa irly beaten he wa s
p o , ,

prepared to help every Progres sive candidate who was

j udged unable to afford t he expens e o f t he general
election now approachi ng There is mu ch to be sa id
.

by t he p uris t agains t thes e su b sidies but let tho se ,

who have never accepted s u ch a ssis tance ca s t t he firs t

s tone .
224 CE CIL J OHN RHODE S
them fo r t he fir s t time thanked members fo r their loyal
,

welcome referred to t he shadow ca st over t he Empir e

,
’

by t he death o f Mr Glads tone and anno un ced in

.
, ,

gu arded terms that t he relations o f t he Cape with other

,

Sou th African States were cordi al and that Natal had ,

j o ined t he Cus to ms Uni on .

Sir Gordon Sprigg however was s oon t o feel that

, ,

t he anti R hode s party were determi ned to dr ive him

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from power On 31s t May Schreiner who s e ab ili tie s

.
,

were recognis ed and perhap s u tili ed by extremer men s ,

led t he a ssau lt by giving notice that at an early date

he wo u ld move That t he Government does not po ss ess
t he confidence o f t he Ho u s e The motion did not come
’
.

on fo r a fortni ght During t he interval s everal r e

.

actionary Du tch members gave a ta ste o f their qu ality .

I n a debate on Native Labo ur they reviled t he lazy

hab its o f t he native s bu t t he Pre mi er in de fence s aid
, , ,

t he native wa s a good s ervant if properly treated by

farmers and that under Rho d es s Glen Grey Ac t native s
’

, , ,

ins tead o f lo afin g and s tealing now went o u t to work , .

On 2n d Jun e a private member drew attention to a

res olu tion o f t he Ho us e o f 1st June 1897 requ esting t he ,

Trans vaal to res cind t he pro hib itive and unfriendly

tax on Cape tobacco bu t t he Premi er had t o reply that
,

his repre s entations to t he Pre sident had been un

availing .

On 1 0t h June an adjo ur ned debate on t he Parlia

mentary Repres entation B ill was resumed The measure .

had been re ferred to in t he Governor s s peech in t he

’

follo wi ng terms
S ince t he Co nstitu tion was conferred upon t he
Colony nearly half a century ago many changes have ,

occurred in regard to t he number and location o f t he

inhabitants and on this acco unt it has been generally
,
 A STRENUOUS YE AR 225

recognis ed that t he time has arrived when t he electo ral

di vis io ns and t he nu mber o f their repre s entative s
s ho u ld be bro u ght into line with t he dis trib u tion o f t he

people to day The Governor proceeded to add that

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.
’

an experienced Co mmi ttee had reported on this su bject ,

that their recommendations had been accepted in t he

main and that a B ill had been dra fted in terms thereo f
,

to provide fo r t he bette r repres entation o f t he people .

I n theory t he neces sity fo r s u ch a redistrib u tion

wa s unqu e s tioned bu t as we know in t he ab s ence o f
, , ,

any au tomatic sys tem every adj us tment o f t he fran

,

chis e by one political party is j ealous ly s cru tinis ed by

t he O ppo sition I t w as s o on this occa sion
. The .

towns whi ch during many years had grown to a con

,

s id e ra ble ext ent were now mu ch under represented

,
-

while t he country dis tricts had more than their share .

B ut t he towns were preponderantly British and pro

i e : t he ru ral d is tricts were Du tc h I t w a
g r e s s v a s .

bold s tep on t he part o f Sir Gordon Sprigg to endeavo ur ,

at this j uncture to redress t he b alance and t he Bond

, ,

were not unnaturally qui ck t o suspect that although

t he vo ice was t he vo ice o f Sprigg t he hand w as t he hand
,

o f R hode s .

Rhodes w a s pres ent during t he adjo urned debate ,

bu t beyond an interj ection o f dis agreement when at

tacked by Schreiner fo r fann ing racial flame a flag —

ra n t ly u nj us t c harge cons idering t he facts he aga in —

contented hims elf with a bare deni al o f t he s tatement .

I t wa s evident that his opponents were endeavo ur ing

to taunt him into inj udi cious speech but he was too ,

s hr ewd to be ca u ght and t he net w a s s pread in va in

, .

Afte r prolonge d debate t he s econd reading o f t he

,

Bill was carried on 20t h June by 42 to 35 Rhodes ,

voting with t he Government An analysis o f t he .

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226 CE CI L JOHN RH ODE S
di vis ion lis t ows that bu t fo r a certain amount o f
sh ,

un expected s u pport from a fe w moderate Du tc h mem

bers t he Government wo uld have been defeated I n

,
.

deed a few days earlier and on a minor point they

, , ,

had been left in a mi nority o f ten and they now ha d ,

to face t he direct issu e o f No confidence raised by

Schr einer .

This moti on occup ied t he Hous e fo r s everal days and

led a s mi ght have been expected to extravagant dis
, ,

plays o f racial feeling which Rhodes wa s s o anxio us to

avoid and t he respons ib ility fo r whi ch hi s tory will
,

probably place on Schr einer alone .

On t he 14t h Ju ne t he latter spoke fo r two ho urs, ,

and a ft er accusing Sprigg o f endeavour ing to prevent

t he Ra id inquiry in 1896 and critic ising all t he latter s
’

colleagues with eloqu ent acrimony he fell u pon Rhodes ,

with cold and calcul ated fury The next day a fter .
,

what all parties admi tted to be a ma s terly s peech from

I nne s in support o f t he Government Rhodes at lengt h ,

s poke in j us tice he s a id both to his cons titu ents and

, , ,

hi m s elf I f he added t he motion is carr ied we

’
.
, , ,

know what will be t he result We shall go to t he .

coun try As far as I am concerned I am only too ready

.

to go to t he co untry (Lo ud cheers ) .

’
.

On 22nd June Sprigg s u mmed up t he debate ,

Re .

plying to a debating po int that he had endeavo ure d

to whi tewash Rhodes in t he co ur s e o f a letter to t he
Secretary o f State fo r t he Colonies he replied that he ,

adhered to every word he ha d written and especially ,

to t he following which he read to t he Ho us e in ext ens o :

,

With respect to Mr Rhodes it is my beli ef that he .

,

s till retains to a large extent t he pop u larity he ha s

held in So u th Afri ca fo r s ome years Speaking fo r t he .

Cape ( b lony I sho uld say t he vast maj ority o f t he

,
228 CE CI L J OHN RH ODE S
he ever made defended t he policy o f his admini s tra
,

tion as cau tio us conciliatory and suite d to t he danger

,

o us time s in whic h t he co u ntry fo u nd it s el f bu t owing ,

t o t he de fection o f t he three notorio us mu gwu mp s ,

who se cons cience s frequently impelled them to vote

agains t their own party on critical occasions t he ,

Government on a di vision were left in a minority o f

, ,

fiv e and on t he following day Sprigg announced that

,

t he inter es ts o f t he co u ntry demanded a diss olution

o f t he Ho us e and that t he Governor w as prepared to
,

act accordingly The Oppo sition who had apparently

.
,

relied on t he immediate resignation o f t he Govern

ment were obvious ly chagrined and threatened to
, ,

refu se to pa ss t he Partial Appropriation B ill required ,

bu t a fter s everal days debate d urin g which R hodes

’

repeatedly spoke with di gni ty and effect more patriotic ,

co uns els prevailed supply w a s granted and on 28t h

, ,

June t he Ho use was prorogued .

The election that followed w as a memorable one .

The Bond a fter s erio us qu e s tionings had de finitely

, ,

broken with Rhodes and accepted Schreiner a s his

s u cc es s or.Party feeling ran high and neither side ,

woul d give quarter Rhodes threw hi ms elf into t he

.

contes t with great energy .

Dur ing Augus t he visited all t he o u tlying s tations in

hi s own cons titu ency o f Barkly Wes t speaking on t he ,

fir s t at Win ds o rt en and Barkly Wes t ; on t he s econd

at Klipdam twice again at Barkly Wes t on t he thi rd ,

and at Longlands on t he fo urth Later in t he month .

he aga in s poke at Klipdam E verywhere he wa s .

received with enthus iasm Schr einer hi therto his .

,

colleague wis ely di d not seek re election at Barkly

,
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Wes t a sa fer Bond seat being provided fo r him at

,

Ma lmes b ur y a Dutc h distr ict

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 A STRE NU OUS YEAR 229

On 3rd September he spoke at Taungs and twice at, ,

Vryb urg in support o f t he Progressive candi date s A

,
.

press report says

At Ta u ngs t he s tation w a s decorated with hun t ing ,

and a large crowd had a ssembled who cheered v o c ifer ,

o us ly as t he tra in s teamed in Mr Rhodes and party . .

having alighted Mr Green Secretary o f t he local

,
.
,

E lection Committee pre s ented an addre ss o f welcome

,

and congratulation .

Mr Rhodes in reply s aid : I have to thank yo u

.
, , ,

gentlemen fo r your kindness in coming from Taungs

,

to se e me and als o fo r t he address with whi ch yo u have

,

been s o good a s to pres ent me I thi nk I am j ustified .

in s aying that had it not been fo r mys elf this co u ntry

wo ul d now form a portion o f t he Trans vaal and it is ,

fo r y o u to j u dge whether y o u are better o ff u nder Her

Maj es ty s flag with all t he advantages accruing from
’

t he exte ns ion to t he North or whether it wo u ld have ,

been better if yo u had become an integral part o f t he

Transvaal Rep ublic But I do claim that owing to .

mys elf to a great extent t he map has been changed .

Y o u have given me a very cordi al greeting to day and -

we have at t he present moment entered u pon a con

tes t on t he ba sis o f progress agains t what is termed
retrogr es sion As yo u are no do ubt aware this is t he
.
,

la s t o f t he elections and if we have any success on t he

,

petitions that have already been ins titu ted against

t he retu rn o f s everal Bond members w e t he Pro ,
—

r e ss iv e s s hall be in a maj ority in t he new Parlia

—
g
ment B ut really t he whole fate o f t he country turns
.

u pon t he iss u e o f t he election whic h is now taking

place in this constituency I hope that yo u will u s e .

your best endeavours to return t he Progressive Candi

dates ( Cheers ) For if there is o n e part o f t he
. .
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230 CE CI L JOHN RHODE S
co untry more than another whi ch sho u ld give it s
u nd ivided s u pport to t he ca us e and t he party o f pro

gress it is I firmly believe thi s te rritory o f Bechu ana

, ,

land That is ii yo u agree with me that it is better

.
,

that y o u sho uld live un der t he rule o f Her Maj esty

than under t he flag o f t he Sou th Afri can Republic .

( Lo u d c h eer s ) T hat w.a s t h e battle w hi c h w a s fo u g h t

here n ine years ago with t he s u ccess ful resul t that
this country w as s aved and eventually added to
t he Cape Colony under Her Maj e s ty s flag Now ’
.
,

on Monday next yo u have once more to decide

, ,

thi s time at t he polling booths whether that policy ,

w a s right or wrong ( Cr ie s o f Q u
.i te r igh t and
cheers ) The is su e before t he country has been con
.

fu s ed and complicated by t he introd u ction o f all s ort s

o f s ide issu e s bu t s quarely faced t he paramo unt
, , ,

qu estion before t he country which one has taken and ,

t he old Cape Colony t he iss u e s whi ch are be fore y o u

—

— involve not o nl y t he pa s t bu t t he future o f this

country Y o u feel with me that if t he Bond party is
.

returned to power it means t he triumph o f Krugeris m

in t he Colony and it means als o t he development o f
,

a line o f policy tremendous ly ho s tile to t he North .

Well we can break loo se fo r we are in no s ens e depen

, ,

dent o n t he Sou th bu t yo ur ca se is ,

Y o u recognis e that t he t ie with t he North is a gro win g

one and to yo u in thi s part o f t he country it means
, , ,

a great dea l Y o u have lo s t a large portion o f yo ur

.

cattle but the se will be renewed and there is a daily

, ,

interco ur s e go ing on between yo ur s elves and t he people

o f t he North in w hi c h lie s t he be s t hope fo r t he fu tur e
,
.

Well gentlemen let me repeat to day that it is t he

, ,
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fir m and s ettled policy o f t he party o f progres s to

s tre n gthen tho s e tie s in every po ss ible way ( Ch eer s ) .
 232 CE CIL J OHN RH ODES
Looking at your faces I feel sur e that yo u do em
phatically prefer Her Maj esty s rul e to that o f any ’

”
other power ( Lo
. u d c h eer s ) .

Three cheers were given fo r t he Q ueen followed by ,

a fr esh o utbreak o f acclamation as Mr Rhodes resum ed .

hi s s eat in t he tra in .

At Vryb urg where he rece ived a vote o f confidence

, ,

both propo ser and s econder being Dutch Rhodes ,

declared that Kruger w as t he greate st Raider in Africa .

On 6t h September I fin d R hod es back at Kimberley ,

s endin g t he following cable me s s age to General Kit c he

ner : Glad yo u beat t he Khalifa We have j us t .

fin ished o ur elections and res ul t promis es to be a t ie .

I hear Frank is wo unded They certa inl y shoul d now

.

res tore his commis sion ; his heart is s et on it My .

telegraph will shortly b e at s outh end o f Tanganyika .

I f y o u don t look s harp in s p ite o f yo ur victory I shall

’

, ,

reach Uganda before y o u .

’

To this he received t he following reply

‘
O MDU R MAN , 2 6 S ep t ember 18 98 .

Fro m S irda r t o Rho des , Gr o o t e S chuur .

Thanks Frank well Reins tated

. . . My southern
s tat ion Sobat Hur ry up ’
. .

Rhodes ami d all his great enterpris es di d not

, ,

overlook minor matters o f s entiment I find him .

writing this year to a far o ff o fficial in North E as tern-

Rhodesia o ffering to pay fo r t he u pkeep o f t he lonely

grave o f Roza (hi s brother Herbert) near t he Shi re ,

River and receiving t he reply that an old native head

,

man who knew hi m saw to it and wo ul d accept no

, ,

reward .

Some fe w extracts from his election speeches may

 A STRENU OUS YEAR 33

be pres erved from t he s crap heap to which all such

ephemeral literature u ltimately goes .

I n s everal pa ss age s he des cribed his pa s t work

his prevention o f German and Kr u geria n extension and ,

his s c heme s fo r Afrikander uni on I n thi s co nn ection

.

he s a id I f it ha d not been my good fortu ne to thi nk

o f tho s e q u e s tions while looking fo r di amond s there is ,

not t he slightes t dou bt that thes e territories wo uld have

pass ed to other Eur opean Powers I do not claim .

any credit I S imm — y s ay that they were t he thoughts

that came to me that is all Y o u may dis cover t he
—
.

mi crobe o f t he rinderpes t bu t I de fy yo u ever to fin d

,

t he mi crobe o f t he hu man imagination Y o u do not .

know where it comes from but it comes and t he tho ughts

,

come and yo u are moved a s a hum an atom to carry

,

o u t tho s e tho u ghts and all that I can say is that before
and during t he period when I was your Prime Minis ter
these tho ughts came to me tho ugh later gentlemen , , ,

changes have been bro u ght abou t owing to my own

fault . I lo s t my po sition thro ugh my acts bu t I am ,

now simply p u tting this to yo u that during t he period ,

while I had t he responsibility and qu estions occur red ,

whi ch I dealt with I think that I dealt fairly with them

, ,

and long long a fter yo u and I are dead I think hi s tory

,

will say that certa in big qu es tions were dealt with by

me fo r t he benefit o f t he country at large .
’

I n connection with a d is c u s s ion on t he valu e o f

Rhodesia Rhodes s aid
, An y farmer in a sking hi m
:

( R h ode s ) abo u t t h e co un try wo u ld a s k if t here were

”
many native s and if he replied Y e s t he farmer wo u ld
, , ,

sa
y that it w as a good co u ntry T h e nat ive s ha.d
always s elected t he bes t land and here he wo ul d like ,

to relate a charmi ng s tory o f t he member fo r P iquet

berg ( Mr D C de Waal) Mr de Waal s people were
. . . . .
’
234 CE CI L JOHN RH ODE S
ab using hi m fo r having anythi ng to do with him
( R hode s ) b u t,h e repli ed Y o u know t h at R ,h ode s h a s

taken a co untry twice as big a s t he Cape o f Good Hope ,

and we S hall get that So far as Rhodes is concerned .

,
”
he will only get s ix feet by fo ur ( La u gh ter ) . .

I n even lighter vein he remarked Once as y o u know , , ,

Messrs Merriman Sauer and mys elf were all in t he

.
,

Cab inet and we u s ed to have a good deal o f cha ff

,

together Mr Merriman ha d a way o f giving ni cknames

. .

”
to everybody I wa s called t he yo ung b ur gher
.
,

becaus e at a banquet in Jo hannesb urg at which Kruger ,

w a s pres ent when s ome one I thi nk it w as t he then

,
—

Minis ter o f Mines had been talk ing a great deal abou t
—

t he old b urghers I s a id in reply that fo r my part I

, , ,

w as a yo ung b u rgher La g h ter Mr Sa er name ’

( u ) . u s . .

w as t he b umbler
”
( Lo u d la u g h ter
.
) W h y h e w as .

called t he bumbler I hardly know (lau ghter) —

bu t I think Mr Merriman mus t have invented t he

.

name fo r him becaus e he was s ometimes so mixed that

he did not know hi s own politic s At all event s he has .

remained t he b umbler down to t he present day .

( Lo u d la u gh ter ) B u t I t hi
.n k t h e mo s t am u s in g ni ck
name o f all was t he one Mr Merriman fas tened on to .

his pre s ent fri end Mr Ho fmeyr I remember that

. .

he always us ed to say How is t he Mole to day " -

I t s tru ck me a s rather a happy invention s o one day ,

I inquired from Mr Merriman what he meant . Oh .

he excla imed I call him t he Mole becaus e yo u never

, ,

s e e him bu t yo u know he is s omewhere near ; there

,

is a little he ap o f gro und thrown up whi c h tells yo u

he ha s been there bu t y o u never s e e him , ( Lo u d .

lau ghter ) There is a good deal o f tho ught in that

.

one word becaus e if a party has idea s it should have a

,

leader and that leader in stead o f b urrowing under

, ,
236 CE CI L J OHN RHODE S
agains t me — t he nfortunate incident in t he Transvaal
u .

B u t if y o u go into deta ils it will be bro u ght home to

y o u i n t he cleare s t ligh t th at t h e com ing Pr i me M i n is ter
( Sc hre iner ) once felt t h at t he cond u ct o f t h e Tran s vaal
Government was so hopelessly bad that he w as pre
pared to go to war with them ( cheers) and that t he — —

coming Commis sioner fo r Pu blic Works (Mr Merriman) .

ha d enco ur aged t he people in Jo hannesb urg to fight

t he qu e s tion o u t expre s sing t he hope that they ha d no
,

corns on their hands (Laughter and cheers ) Well

. .
,

that w a s t he po sition Two members o f t he comi ng

.

Minis try were equall y des irous that Kr u ger shou ld

either change or dis appear On hearing this t he Du tc h
.

people naturally s aid Well then what are we fight

, , ,

in g with Rhode s abo u t ( Ch eer s ) A t any rate

Rhodes has given u s a new countr y where o ur people ,

can live on equ al terms and with equ al rights ; why

sh o u ld we drive thi s man o u t o f t he co untry and p u t

in a Bond Mini s t ry two o f t he members o f whi c h are

,

equ ally de siro us that Kruger should dis appear one s tat ,

in g it openl y and t he other s tating it by means o f c o n fi

dential comm unications ( C h eer s and la u gh ter ) .

Now one o f t he accusations made agains t me

and made even by my friend s is that I have no right —

to interfere with Port Eli zabeth in t he pres ent election .

I will pu t to yo u t he ca s e very fa irly After co nsider .

able tho ught I have come to t he conclusion that in

o ur politic s ,
with t he po ints before us there is no ,

room fo r thr ee parties (cheers) that it wi ll take us a ll

— —

o ur time to beat Kr u geris m w hich I have already de ,

s cribed a s Afrikanderis m u pon t he ba s is o f t he Trans

vaal ( cheers ) which simply makes di fference between

— —

tho s e who are born here and tho se who come here .

We can s ee no difference (Lo u d cheers ) T hat is . .

 A STRENUOUS YEAR 237

what we are fighting and we cannot a fford to have a

,

third party ( Cheers ).

What is yo ur great desire " ( Several cries o f

”
Progress ) Y e s progress and that yo u sho uld
, ,

be properly represented in Parliament fo r progress .

( Lo u d c h eer s ) Yo u r de. s ire is th at y o u s h o u ld h ave

proper repres entation in your councils s o that yo u ,

will progress and lead t he Du tc h t he progressive

,
—

Du tc h to go with yo u
—
( Lo u d c h eer s.
) Now let .

us look at la s t s e s sion We ha d t he Redis trib u tion

.

B ill which wa s carried As s oon as it w a s carried t he

, .

leader o f t he Bond in t he Ho us e Mr Schreiner fo und , .

,

o u t that s ome o f t he I ndependents di d not like t he

Government They s aid that S ir Gordon Sprigg wa s

.

this and that Sir James Siv ewright was that and so ,

he pu t forward a motion o f no confidence He carried .

it and by what vote By t he vote o f t he I ndependents

— c heer s b h vote f Mr Hay Mr W iener Mr
( ) —
y t e s o .
, .
, .

Solomon Mr Beard and Mr Molteno in fact all t he

,
. .
,

I ndependents except the ir leader ( Ch eer s and la u ghter ) . .

Jus t look at my point Y o u had your chance o f proper

.

repres entation in Parliament and t he Bill was actually ,

carried whereupon t he I ndependents voted N0 con

,
”
fidence ,
and now we are fighting t he election over it .

An d suppo s e that we are beaten yo u will be witho u t ,

your proper repres entation fo r t he next fiv e years ,

and to whom do yo u owe this po sition " To t he

I ndependents aga in ( C h eer s .
) I can re s pect yo u r
Bondsmen and I can fight yo ur Bondsmen (Lo u d
,
.

and prolonged cheers ) I am a Progressive with t he

.
—

Progressive party (renewed cheers) and I am going

— —

to fight on their side whatever my po sition may be .

( Lo u d and prolonged c h eer s ) B u t th e s e I ndependents

.

I cannot s tand them ( C h eer s and . la u g h ter ) B u t I .

238 CE CI L JOHN RH ODE S
know exactly what is going to happen and I am going ,

to make a prophecy I only hope that t he I ndependent

.

here is not go ing to be retur ned ( C heer s and vo i

.ce s ,

N0 fear . Well t he num ber o f them is s mall and

, ,

they are going to end in t he arms o f t he Bond ( Cheers .

and laughter ) That is my prophecy Of cour s e they

. .

will give all s orts o f reas ons fo r their attitude They .

will say that they are going to hold t he balance between

t he two race s that they are going to avert bloodshed .

But ho w ab sur d all this is I have been amongs t t he

.

Du tch people and I know there is not t he s lightes t

,

desire fo r bloodshed All this comes from Camp Street

.

that is where all thi s talk comes from ( Lo u d cheers ) . .

Why t he co untry people t he Du tc h people have not

, , ,

t he slighte s t idea o f it ( C h eer s ) T.hey sa

y w it h
regard to t he Transvaal t he Progressive Du tc h s ay
—

they want a change in t he condu ct o f t he Transvaal

a s mu ch a s we do ( Lo u d .c h eer s ) B u t t he I nde .

pendents are to hold t he balance though I am not at ,

all sur e that we will not find t he old gentleman in

Camp Street ( Ho fmeyr) will hold t he balance I have .

marked them down in that character and every I nde ,

pendent I place a cro ss again st meaning that whenever ,

t he conte s t is over we can co unt them a s with t he Bond .

I know that yo u are all s trong in t he hope that t he

Progressive party may win (Lo ud and prolonged .

cheers ) Y o u need not thi nk that I have indulged in

.

this speech aga ins t I ndependents withou t due thought .

When I look back and s e e that they have wrecked

t he principle o f redi s trib u tion when I know that they ,

and especially yo ur member (groans ) nearly up set t he — —

railway to t he North and kept yo u o u t o f c o mmuni c a

,

tion fo r a whole year I think I have a right to speak

, .

( Lo u d c heer s ) I.am not a fra id o f t he Bond party .

240 CE C IL J OHN RH ODE S
qu es tion is Will t he Cape by it s own conduct be left , ,

in t he cold " ( No The people in t he

“
o ut ,

North are not go ing to have any feelin g fo r a State

in t he So u th whic h is not nece s s ary to them and whi c h ,

is dominated by t he tactic s o f t he Bond Assum e that .

a Bond Mini s try gets into power I n your respons ible .

po sition I talk to yo u boldly I mus t speak o ut . .

( C h eer s ) I se e t he danger t h at is com in g My North .

is all r ight N0 human beings co ul d have better

.

pro spects Five hundred tho us and miles o f territory

.

with a lo yal people ( Cheers ) Y o u might fairly say

.
,

Why don t yo u go there’

" I will tell yo u why .

I am determi ned not to leave t he So u th till I se e yo u

are clear o f t he ris k o f being dominated by Kru gerism .
’

( Lo u d c h eer s ) .

The Bond while perfecting their own political

,

organis ation deeply resented t he attempt o f their

,

political opponents to do t he s ame Mr Schreiner . .

,

elected by Bond support permi tted hims elf to us e ,

langu age whi ch even a general election hardly j us tifies .

I n his addre ss o f thank s he excla imed Y o u have ,

s hown by plac ing u s clo s ely together by a very large

maj ority at t he head o f t he poll an exceptionally —

heavy one that while yo u condemn t he fals e doctrine

—
,

that t he intrus ion o f unj us tified force provides a s atis

factory remedy fo r tardy growth o f e nlightened poli tical
ins titu tions yo u equ ally condemn t he more ins id io us
,

doctrine that under t he cloak o f cons titu tional methods

, ,

capita l perverted from it s proper us es may hope to

s u cceed in atta in ing obj ects which cons p iracy and
violence have failed t o compa ss .
’

A large dis co unt mus t o f co urs e be ded ucted from

election oratory o f this nature .

As Mr E dward Dicey s a id o f R hodes in t he Fort

.
 A STREN UOUS YEAR 24 1

n ight ly Review of O ctober 1 898, pport o f t he His su

Uitlanders cannot be regarded a s a criminal o ffence ,

’

s o it may be s a id o f his su pport o f hi s party at t he polls .

When t he elections were over it wa s clear that par

ties were very evenly balanced Several prominent .

members los t their s eats and numerous petitions were

,

lodged agains t t he retur n o f others The fir st s ession .

o f t he new Parliament met on 7 t h O ctober and elected

a Speaker in t he person o f Dr Berry t he Progressives .
,

thus weakening their available number by one The .

Hous e met again on l 0t h October fo r t he trans action

o f b u sine ss when Schreiner promptly moved a fresh
,

vote o f No confidence Several moderate Du tch .

’

men were at t he ou ts et inclined to t he policy o f giving

t he Government a fa ir tr ial bu t Mr I nnes refus ed to
, .

be a party to t he arrangement and t he fate o f S ir ,

Gordon Sprigg wa s sealed .

The debate w as over in an ho ur Schreiner be ing ,

almo s t t he only speaker and Sprigg dis da ining to reply .

On e Bond and one Progre ssive member were ab s ent ,

bu t otherwis e it w a s a fu ll Ho us e and t he Government

were defeated by thirty nine to thirty s even Rhodes o f
- -

, ,

co ur s e voting with hi s party The Progressives s till

,
.

po ss essed a small nomi nal maj ority in t he Legislative

Co unc il but Sprigg resigned witho u t delay altho ugh
, ,

s ome o f his followers were fo r fighting in t he la s t d itc h

by forcing t he Oppo sition to refus e supply .

The local press w a s s evere on I nnes fo r de s erting his

uncle Sir Gordon Sprigg and remi nded him o f L incoln s
’

, ,

s age advice not to s wap hor s e s while cro s sing a s tream .

Schr einer had s ome difficu lty in forming a Cabinet and ,

t he inclu sion o f Mr R Solomon a s Attorney General

. .
,

fulfill ed t he cyni cal co mm ent made by R hode s that

every I ndependent was a Bondsman at heart .

VO L I I
. .
242 CE CIL J OHN RH ODE S
The Times a sserted that Ho fmeyr wa s t he real head
o f t he M ini s try and t he Pa ll M a ll Ga z et t e a sked ho w
,

long Schr einer woul d las t agains t Rhodes in one Hous e

and a ho stile maj ority in t he other His tory has .

ans wered t he qu ery The Ministry la s ted fo r twenty

.

u nh appy months and wo u ld not have la s ted ten had

,

Rhodes not been locked up in Kimberley .

On 17t h O ctober t he new Premier made a s tatement

o f poli cy, to whi ch Rho des gave an energetic reply .

A Redis trib u tion B ill w a s promis ed so a s not to break ,

faith with t he Re s olu tion o f t he previ o us Parliament ,

bu t it was s peedi ly apparent that it was intend ed to

be an illus ory measure adding to t he size o f t he Hou se
, ,

but not redre ssing admi tted inequ ali tie s On 1 9t h .

,

and again on 27t h O ctober there were un usually s tormy

,

s cene s in t he Ho u s e over this mea sure Rhodes again .

s poke and at his su gge s tion s u pply w as re fus ed On .

25t h O ctober he addres s ed an imm ens e meetin g in Cape

Town and urged t he ab s olute necessity fo r a better
,

repres enta tion o f t he people I t was a good fighting.

s peech and enthus ia s tically rece ived .

Fo ur days later Schr einer unable to carry any B ill

,

that woul d not benefit t he other side foreshadowed t he ,

po stponement o f t he mea sure till a fu tur e s ession ,

remarking that he wa s no believer in government by

counting heads On 2nd November when in accord
.
’

, ,

ance with thi s policy he moved to adj o urn t he debate

, ,

t he votin g w as thi rty ni ne to thi rty ni ne and t he

- -
,

Ministr y were onl y save d by t he Speaker s casting vote ’

.

By t he irony o f fate this o f all days was t he day

, ,

when t he Governor and High Commissioner in respons e ,

to a reques t from Her Maj es ty s Government sa iled ’

fo r E ngland in t he S co t leaving behi nd hi m an excited

,

Parliament a dis credi ted Minis tr y and great and general

, ,
244 CE CI L J OHN RHODE S
still s ore remarked The po sition taken up by t he
, ,

Prime Minis ter is su ch that it is hopeless to expect from

him any co nsideration fo r t he Territorie s with which
I am co nnected
’
.

The s ame day on t he Meat Du ties B ill t he Govern

ment on a division coul d onl y mus ter thirty six sup
, ,
-

porters to thir ty S ix on t he other side and on t he fo llow

-
,

ing day they were actu ally de feated t he votes being ,

thirty s even to thirty six Rhodes voti ng with t he

- -
,

maj ority .

On s everal s ub sequ ent days an exa mi nation o f

Han s ard shows that Rhode s was in attendance and ,

on 15t h Decemb er he b rought forward an important

Motion fo r t he prosecution o f Irrigation Works whi ch ,

Schr einer at firs t resis ted but late r on his agreeing

, , ,

to introduce a B ill during t he ens uing s ession t he ,

Motion w as withdrawn Rho des s speech exhi bited .

’

his far s ighted gra sp o f t he mo s t e ss ential problem

-

then and now facing t he Cape Colony t he vital n ec es

—

s it y fo r t he co ns ervation o f water ; and it is to be noted

that this is t he la s t occa sion on whi ch he addressed

t he Ho us e d ur ing t he s e s sion .

On 1 9t h December on a qu es tion o f redu c ing by

,

a vote fo r t he Tab le Bay Harbo ur Works t he ,

Government were de feated by thi rty two to twenty -

eight and fo ur days later Parliament was prorogued

,

by t he Acting Adminis trator leaving t he Government ,

battered and shaken and apparently unable to carry

,

any contentio us b usiness .

Before Parliament finally ro se Rhodes having pre , ,

s ented t he c ity o f Cape Town with a fin e s ta tu e o f Van

Rie b e e c k t he fir s t Du tch Governor and completed

, ,

his s cheme fo r planting a s ettlement o f loyal Fin go e s in

Rhodesia with ten acres o f land fo r every adult male ,
,
 A STRENU OUS YEAR 245

proceeded to Kimberley There he applied hi m self

.

to t he s election o f candidates fo r t he new s eats in t he

As s embly and to preparing his de fence to an election
,

petition rais ed agains t his own retur n.

On 19t h December he pre s ided at t he annu al meet

,

in g o f De Beers Mines and on 28t h o f t he same month

,

he aga in sa iled fo r E ngland in t he ma il s teamer arriv

,

in g there on 14t h Janu ary 1 899 .

246 CE CI L JOHN RH ODE S

CHAPTE R XXX V
TH E S TRU G GLE FO R S U PRE MAC Y ( 18 99)
I mp o r t at io n of arms— R ho dd b yi
es no t a b li v e e er in w ar— Rho es us n

L d
on Vi it E g yp t
on — I t
s si w w it h t h Ki — t B li n e rv e e a ser a er n

A rran gm t e iv den s t I t vi w w it h K i g f t h B l g i
a rr e a — n er e n o e e an s

M d D C L b y O f d At t d Ch t d m t i g O fl w
a e . . . x or — en s ar e re ee n — ve r o

m t i g Rh d
ee n — b k i C p T w — P bl i dd
o es ac H
n f
a e o n u c a r e ss e s — o us e o

As se mb ly Rh d —
p k p t dly G w i g
o es s ea i sH td
re ea e — ro n u n e a s n es s— ea e

polit i l
cad b t R e w d i m
a e s— p t t i f m
en eE d fem t h or a on o ar s- xo us ro e

R d C p G v
an — a m t w k
e o d v ill t i g P li m t d i mi d
e rn en ea an ac a n — ar a en s sse .

T O W AR D S t he clo se o f 1898 and partly as a resul t o f

t he overt hrow o f t he Progre ssive Minis try at t he Cape ,

a ffairs in t he Trans vaal went fr om bad to worse The .

Boers were now fully armed and with rifles to spare ,

fo r o u tside friend s No less than Maus er rifles.

pa ssed into t he Rep ublic in one year via De lago a Bay

( E .T Cook
.
) and on 2 8t h D ecember
, a D u tc h paper ,

De Ra nd Po st openly advocated t he shooting down

,

o f all critic s o f t he Government The anxieties and .

res pons ib ilities o f t he High Commis sioner advis ed ,

as he w a s by a Bond Government at t he Cape ,

became overwhelming A vast maj ority o f Colonis ts .

now believed war to be inevitable and it has always ,

been an unexplained problem why Rhodes hims elf

continu ed to express a contrary view a v iew he backed —

with his money and lo s t ,

.

A then Cab inet Mi ni s ter write s to me I t w as in ,

t he year o f t he war R hode s and I met at Wind s or on ,

t he occa s ion o f t he Royal Co unty S how We returned .

to London by t he same train and while t he train was ,

248 CE CIL J OHN RH ODE S
Peace however was not to be had so long a s t he
, , ,

sinis ter figure o f Dr L e ds loomed large on t he E u ro

y .

pean horizon His vis its to various Chancelleries will

.

perhap s s ome day afford t he his torian material fo r an

intere s ting chapter .

On t he 23rd Janu ary R hode s wrote to me from t he

B urlington Hotel that t he whole o f t he new issu e o f
t he Ch artered Company had been enormo us ly over
.

s u b s cribed He wa s less su ccessfu l however in a

.
, ,

s trenu o us e ffort he made to indu ce Her Maj es t

’

y s

Governm ent to give a financial gu arantee fo r t he

further pro s ecu tion o f t he Cape to Ca iro Ra ilway
a guarantee whi ch wo ul d have enabled him to borrow

money on easy terms I t was in connection with thi s .

abortive negotiation that he always subs equ ently

des cribed t he then Chancellor o f t he Exchequ er a s a
man o f no imagination .

A private corre spondent in London wr iting to me

toward s t he end o f Janu ary remarked Rhodes is in ,

cap ital form and back to t he po sition he w a s in before

,

t he Raid He has had t he whole s tory abou t Glad

.

s tone Ro s ebery and hi ms elf rep u blished whi c h I regret

, , ,

bu t he is so s ur ro u nded by people ready to lick hi s

boots that he is apt to have his better j udgment
,

warped However he is a great man and all will co me

.
,

right He has s ettled many important matters and

.
,

talks o f going to E gypt next month .

’

The Times o f abo u t this date s aid o f him Mr , .

R ho d es s pre s ence in E ngla nd is now becoming a

’

matter o f ann u al recurrence E very year when t he .

,

prorogation o f t he Cape Parliament s ets t he local

politician free t he pro secu tion o f larger s chemes
,

brings t he s ta tesman to t he centre o f t he E mpire .

E ach vis it is conn ected with s ome spec ial p iece o f

 THE STRUGGLE FOR SUPRE MACY 249

work and hi s vis it this year is no exception to t he

,

rul e The dream o f a complete line o f British com

.

munic a t io ns by railway and telegrap h thro u gh Afr ica ,

from s o u th to north whi ch ten years ago appeared

,

to repres ent t he imaginat ion o f a visionary has by ,

t he late events in t he va ll ey o f t he Nile been bro u ght

within a measur able di s tance o f realis ation The .

whole p ublic is now able to perceive t he goal at whi ch

Mr Rho des s I mperial ambition aimed when ten years
.
’

ago he came to E ngland fo r t he p urpo s e o f obtainin g a

Royal Charter fo r t he British Sou th Afri ca Company .

He told his friends then that t he proj ect in his mind

wa s to uni te So u th Africa locally by a federation o f t he
Co loni es and States and to bind t he federated entity
,

to t he E mpir e by a chain o f British communi cation

whi ch S ho ul d s tretch un broken from t he Cape to Cairo .

Revers es ob s tacles and failures in whi ch he has

, ,

openl y acknowledged his own share o f shortcoming ,

have bu t s trengthened his dete rmined gri p upon t he

s cheme o f hi s life s work All is not done bu t hi s
’
.
,

measur e o f success has been on t he whole remarkable .

The end has never been abandoned and s te p by s tep ,

advance is made towards it s attainment He con .

fide n t ly hopes to carry thro u gh t he federation o f t he

British States o f South Afri ca in t he near futur e and ,

t he c ha in o f comm uni cations by whi ch t he federated

States are to be held in tou ch with British infl u ence
north o f t he E qu ator approaches by practical s tages to
it s completion
’
.

E arly in Febru ary 1899 R hodes visited E gypt ,

and on his way back to u ched at Berlin on l 0t h March ,

where on t he following day he w as received by t he

, ,

Kais er with whom he had a fort y minutes audience

,
’
.

On t he eveni ng o f 14t h March he d in ed with t he Britis h

250 CE CI L J OHN RH ODE S
Amba ss ador at t he Embas sy both t he Kais er and ,

Kais erin being pres ent and on t he following day an

,

agreement was reached on t he subj ect o f t he African

Trans continental Telegraph Company whi ch as he told ,

an interviewer he carried away in his pocket signed

,

by himself fo r t he Company and by Richtho fen Von , ,

Bu c hka and Sydow fo r t he German Government .

I im agine that a verbatim report o f t he intervi ew

between Rhodes and t he E mperor will never se e t he
light o f day bu t there is rea son to believe that durin g
,

their conversation t he E mperor a sk ed fo r his op in ion

o f his famo us Kruger telegram at t he time o f t he
Raid and that Rhodes repli ed I will tell yo u your
, , ,

Maj es ty in a very few words I t w as t he greatest

, .

mis take yo u ever made in your life but yo u did me t he ,

bes t tur n one man ever did another Y o u se e I w as .

,

a naughty boy and yo u tried to whi p me Now my

, .
,

people were qui te ready to whip me fo r being a

nau ghty boy but directly yo u did it they s aid No
, , , ,
”
if this is anyb o dy s b us iness it is o u rs The resul t
’
.
,

wa s that yo u r Maj es ty got yo ur s elf very mu ch dis liked

by t he E nglish people and I never got whi pped at
,

all
Be this as it may Rhodes came away with a vivi d
,

impr ess ion o f t he Kais er s great pers onali ty and ever

’

a fterwards spoke o f hi m with respect and admiration ,

and as a memento o f t he visit founded s cholarshi ps at

Oxford fo r Ge rman s tu dents leavin g t he s election ,

entirely in His Maj es ty s hands ’

.

A corre spondent write s to me At a visit whi ch I

paid to Sir F La scelles in April 1899 he mentioned
.
,

that t he E mperor w as delighted with Rhodes and ,

express ed s trong regret that he w as not his Prime

Minis ter called him a rea sonable man and sa id he
, ,
252 CE CI L J OHN RHODE S
Febru ary 1899 I received t he following laco nic letter
,

fr o m Mr Rhodes from t he Savoy Hotel Cairo

.
,

DE AR MAC D O N AL D I have s een what water can

,
—

do when it has brains and energy behi nd it Begin .

t he Ma t o p o Dam at once Thi s letter is au thority .

fo r Michell to finance yo u The work is le ft entirely.

to yo u Begin at once and have it ready fo r next

.

s ea s on s ra in s We mus t not let any floods go to

’
.

was te The cont racts are left to yo u ; yo u have my

.

”
au thority to go to work at once .

Whi le on t he Continent Rhodes also had an inter ,

view with t he late Ki ng o f t he Belgians but foun d hi m ,

an impracticable man to deal with His letter to an .

exalted person des cribing his interviews with both

,

monarchs would make interesting reading were publica

,

tion permis sible .

On his retur n to E ngland R hodes saw a good deal o f

Lord Kitchener o f who s e powers o f organisation he
,

held a very hi gh O pini on They were in t he hab it o f

.

ridi ng together in t he Park o f a morni ng and in t he ,

month o f Jun e they were at Oxford together receiving

their D C L Degree ami d t he mo s t enthusiastic s cenes
. . .

on t he part o f t he un dergraduates .

On 2nd May an extraordinary general meeting o f t he

British South Africa Company was held t o enable ,

Rhodes to meet t he shareholders and lay before them

hi s views as to t he future policy and pro s pects o f t he
Company S hareholders began t o arrive at t he Cann on
.

Street Hotel s oon a fter s even o clock in t he morning ’

and at noon when t he meeting was announced to be

,

held there w as not a vacant s eat in t he great ba ll

,
.

A large force o f t he City police were in attendance .

On t he arrival o f t he directors headed by t he Duke o f ,

 THE STRUGGLE FOR SUPREMACY 253

Abercorn , who w a s followed b y Rhodes an extraordinary ,

demons tration o f enthu sia sm occurred which wa s r e ,

p e a t e d w h en t he latter ro s e to s peak .

I n his openi ng s entences he declared that j u s t be fore

a speech su ch as he w as abou t to make and to su ch a
vas t au dience he w as t he mo s t u nhappy man alive
, ,

and cou ld feel sympathy with tho se o f o ur fore fathers

w ho in accordance with c us tom made an oration on
, ,

t he s ca ffold j u s t prior to their execu tion I t was a .

s trange remark if we remember that altho u gh he lived ,

fo r another thr ee years this w a s his dyin g speech and

,

co nfession fo r he was never able to addr ess his share

,

holders aga in The speech will be fo u nd in Vindex

’
.
,

and I will o nl y subj oin t he followin g extract respecting

his recent interv iew with t he Kais er .

Bu t I w a s fortunate in this thr o ugh t he kindne ss o f

t he German people ( c heer
—
s ) and ow
-
i ng to t he c har
acter o f t he German E mperor who whatever might have
, ,

been hi s feelings in t he pas t as to certain little in ci

dents ( laughter) whi ch resulted very uns atisfactorily
— —

to mys elf (laughter) and whi ch he deemed it right

— —

to cens ur e is s till a broad minded man (Hear hear )

,
-
.
,
.

Therefore when it came to t he qu estion o f t he develop

,

ment o f Afri ca and when I appealed to him in conn ection

,

with t he portion o f Africa which is under his rule he ,

met one with a breadth o f mind whi ch was admir able ,

and afforded one every help to carry o ut one s plans ’

—
( c h eer —
s ) w hile d ul y s a feg u arding t he intere s ts o f
his people I signed an agreement with hi s Mi ni s ter
.

within three days providin g fo r t he telegraph line

,

being extended thr o ugho u t his territory and though ,

at t he end o f forty years t he line passes into t he po s

s e ss ion o f t he Germans s till they are willing to ma in
,

tain o ur through line at actual cost ( Cheers ) I t was .

 254 CE CI L J OHN RH ODE S
a mos t j us t bargain on their part becaus e t he cu st om ,

o f E ur ope is to levy blackmail in connection with

every telegraph that pa s ses thro ugh it ably a ssis ted ,

by tho s e o f o ur own people who have inves ted their

money in telegraphs Y o u may have noticed that
.

Mr Henniker Heaton ha s moved fo r a Co mmi ttee

.

in t he Ho us e o f Commons on this qu e s tion and y o u ,

woul d be simply appalled at t he telegraph charges

whi ch exis t in t he world This enormous monopoly has
.

en up and I am glad to se e that s ome o f o ur fri ends

,

in t he Ho us e o f Commons are turni ng their attention to

it
. B u t in connection with t he a greement I have men
t io n e d ,
t he German E mperor c harged nothing fo r
thr o ugh telegraphy excepting t he co st o f t he main t e n
ance o f t he line (Lo u d cheers ) I think that that is
. .

s atis factory es pecially when yo u think that a few

,

years ago this telegraph in Afri ca was considered a

”
wild cat s cheme
-

(
. La u g h ter ) I t is no
. w ild cat -

s c heme nowadays if it was I am sure that t he German

,

E mperor wo u ld not have lent hi ms elf to it The qu es .

tion however is ho w s oon will it be completed and I

, , ,

thi nk it will be three years but I wish to point o u t to

y o u th at y o u will share in t he re s ul t o f that from a

mercantile po int o f view while t he limit o f demand on

,

y o u f o r h av ing a share in it will be co n fined to that

whi ch relates to your own terri tory .

’

He a fterwards dealt thus with t he pregnant less on

that t he rich but misgoverned Trans vaal co ul d not
borrow money in Europe altho ugh it was freely obtained
,

by Rhodes ia :
There is a neighbo uring State produ cing
o f gold per ann u m ; and what has it been doing "
I t ha s been aro und every Bo u rs e in E urope fo r
t he la s t two years to borrow and what
256 CE CIL J OHN RH ODE S
petent (Lou d cheers ) We have not lo s t o ur capacity
. .

fo r adminis tering new co untrie s e spec ially if they are ,

occup ied by what are called t he su bj ect races .

’

Rhodes sub sequ ently found it imperative to address

an overflow meeting on t he s taircas e o f t he Hotel ,

where he was received with t he s ame enthusiasm and ,

ha d to be es corted to hi s o ffice by t he police t he crowd ,

s howing no di s po siti on to melt away though it was ,

long after t he u su al luncheon hour in t he city .

Whi le Rhodes was addressing his S hareholders in

London t he High Commis sioner who had returne d
, ,

to Cape Town was pennin g his famous Despatch o f

,

4t h May in whi ch he gave a mas terly pre s entation

,

o f t he s erio us grievance s o f Britis h s u bj ects in t he

Trans vaal which led up to t he Bloemfontein Co nfer

,

ence (31st May to 5t h June) on t he failur e o f whi ch ,

war became inevitable .

Towards t he end o f Jun e a Kim berley correspondent

,

informed me that there w as an unea sy feelin g cu rrent

there as to coming events and that De Beers Mines ,

were qui etly preparing fo r t he wors t .

Abo u t t he s ame date a Pretoria corres pondent wrote

that t he situ ation there was critical and that unl ess ,

prominent Afrikanders like Steyn Ho fmeyr and ,

Fis cher wo ul d come up at once and urge moderation

,

on t he President a s truggle w as bound to ens u e

, .

Meanwhile Rhodes returned to t he Cape by t he

s teamer S co t arrivin g on 18t h Jul y Dur ing t he
,
.

voyage he had tho ught mu ch on hi s Will and it s ,

Scholarshi p provis ions and address ed a letter thereon

,

to one o f his fri ends who was sub sequ ently a Trus tee
,

o f his E s tate .

On 20t h Jul y he atte nded a ma ss meeting at t he

Muni cipal Hall Claremont when he received addresses
, ,
 THE STRUGGLE FOR SUPREMACY 257

from a large number o f public bo di es His speech .

covered a wide range and dealt with all t he great

So u th African qu es tions o f t he day venturing on a ,

prophecy whi ch ha s since been fulfilled that t he ,

moment all whi te inh abitants o f t he various So uth

African State s were granted equ al rights there wo ul d
be a Federal Uni on Referrin g to t he Trans vaal he .
,

sa id
,
I sho u ld feel alarmed if t he Czar were moving
on Pekin or t he Fr ench on t he Niger territories or
,

Fashoda bu t when I am told that President Kruger

,

is ca us ing tro u ble I cannot really think abo u t it

,
It .

is too ridi cul o us I f yo u tell me t he native s o f Samoa

.

are giving anxi ety to H M Governm ent then I will . .

,

dis cu ss t he propo sition that t he Tr ans vaal is a danger

to o ur E mpire .
’

He was to be speedily undeceived .

On 1 4t h Jul y Parliament had been opened by Sir

Alfre d Milner who s e addr ess wa s noticeable ma inly
,

fo r t he fact that all re ference s to t he Trans vaal were

s tu di o u s ly o mi tted Four days later Sprigg pointedly
.
,

inquired whether t he Government propo s ed to su b mi t

to t he Hous e any motion having reference to t he situa
tion o f a ffairs in t he Sou th Afri can Rep ub li c .

Schr einer in reply read a Res olution o f t he Ho us e

, , ,

dated April 1897 to t he effect that pea ce could bes t

,

be a ssur ed by t he reciprocal ob s ervance o f all obliga

tions under Treaties Conventions and other agree , ,

ments The answer begged t he question but it s erved

.
,

and t he matter dr opp ed .

On 26t h Jul y in a debate on t he Rhode sia Cus toms

,

Du ties Co ll ection B il l R hode s ami d cheers dr ew , , ,

attention to t he fact that t he produ cts o f t he Cape

entered Rhodesia free o f charge whereas Cape produ cts ,

s eeking a market l n t he Tran svaal were heavily taxed .

VC L 1 1 . .
258 CE CIL J OHN RH ODE S
The debate was continu ed on 31st Jul y when Rhodes ,

again spoke with force and effect .

On 4t h Au gus t in t he B u dget D ebate he s aid he

, ,

w as confident as to t he growt h o f t he Colo ni al Railway

revenu e provided t he Tr ansvaal qu es tion were s ettled
, ,

and he added I am confident it will be settled if

,
—

t he I mperial Governm ent s tands fir m and in two —

months withou t fir in g a shot a ssuming moderation

, ,

on both sid es He resum ed hi s s eat ami d general

.
’

cheers.

On 8t h Au gus t Schreiner made a violent attack on

,

Rhodes apparently fo r having des cribed t he atmo

,

s p here o f t he Ho u s e as that o f a human p igs ty ; bu t ,

in tru th t he s es sion thr o u gho u t wa s one o f u nbridl ed

,

tur b ulence singu larly at variance with t he decoru m

,

generally preva iling in t he As s embly .

On 22n d Au gus t R hodes aga in S poke on hi s favo ur ite

,

s u bj ect As fo r t he Trans vaal qu es tion he s a id

’
. I , ,

am perfectly clear that a s I have s aid before there is , ,

going to be no bloo ds hed ( cheers) I f Kru ger is a .

s en sible man he will c li mb down in t he end and there

, ,

will be a s ettlement The less we deal with that .

qu es tion in t he Hous e t he better Many o f us have .

been burnt over it (Laughter and cheers ) Many . .

s a y t he Tr ans vaal mu s t be an E nglis h s peaking com -

muni ty Once t he settlement is over we shall be better

.
,

fri ends in So u th Afri ca C h eer ’

( s ) .

In t he di vis ion that ens u ed t he cons olidated Du tc h ,

vote went wi th t he Government who won by a maj ority ,

o f ten. The ac t ion o f t he Ho us e o f co ur s e hardened , ,

Kr uger s he art
’
.

I t may be mentioned here that Mr Harry E s combe .

,

one o f t he leading s tates men in Natal shared t he views ,

express ed by Rhode s Writing to hi m on 4t h September

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with a View to tranquillising an angry Ho us e t he Prime ,

Minis ter finally read t he following telegram from t he

President o f t he Orange Free State
With reference to t he discus sion regarding t he im
p o r t a t io n o f arm s and amm u niti on fo r t he Orange Free
State I believe that no a ssurance from any side is
,

necess ary to contradict t he ridiculou s false and malici

, ,

o us reports that there exis ts in t he mind o f thi s Govern

ment or this people any intention or contemplation

o f takin u weapo n in any aggre ive or o ffen ive
g p s s s s

agains t t he British Government or any Briti h s

colony or territory ( Minis terial cheers) I t is now a s .

always o ur fixed principle that t he Free State will

never have reco ur s e to weapons otherwis e than when
attacked or in defence o f it s rights or in support or ,

in fulfilment o f it s obligatio ns ( Oppo sition cries o f

Oh I u tter t he de sire o f t he whole o f o ur people
when I s ay that no means wil l be left untried by me
to pres erve peace in Sou th Afri ca I s ee no reas on
.

w hy tho s e po ints o f difference between t he Britis h

Government and t he Sou th Afri can Republic cannot
be s ettled by peaceful methods and I remain o f t he
,

conviction that to have reco ur s e to arms upon differ

e n c es s u c h a s tho s e w hi c h exis t wo ul d be to commi t
,

an o ffence agains t civilis ation ( Minis terial cheers ) .

The Prime Mini s ter went on to expre ss his belie f that

this wa s a me ssage o f peace and not a message o f war ,

and he therefore declined to do more than watc h t he

fu rther removal o f arms . Yet he w a s withi n a fe w
weeks o f t he launch o f t he Boer u ltimatum followed ,

by t he immedi ate siege o f Kimberley

A pa s sionate debate followed . The Ho u s e s eemed
charged with electric ity I t w a s le ft to a shrewd
.

private member to po int o u t that President Steyn

 THE STRUGGLE FOR SUPREMACY 261

dis tinctly s tated that he would fight to fulfil obliga

tions i e o b ligations to t he Tr ans vaal su ch as had
, . .
,

already been contracted .

Schreiner fin ally tendered an apology to Rhodes ,

and a fter Sprigg had drawn attention to t he o ffens ive

,

and defensive alliance between t he two Re p ub lics t he ,

matter dr opped leaving a feelin g o f dis may in t he minds

,

o f all loya li s ts .

On 30t h Au gus t another heated debate took place

on t he alleged use o f Trans vaal secret s ervice money
dur ing t he recent Cape elections Rhodes spoke at .

s ome length and averred that his opponent at Barkly

Wes t a poor man had b een fed from that s o ur ce ;

, ,

that he came like a S wall ow from Preto ria and when

, , , ,

defeated flew b ack there He admitted having been

, .

s u ed fo r t he s tatement when t he plaintiff claimed ,

heavy damages bu t wa s awarded £5 .

Colonel S c hermbru c ker specifically mentioned another

cons titu ency in whi ch Trans vaal money had been dis
burs e d and a fter recrimi nati on all ro und t he s ubj ect
, , ,

was allowed to drop .

The next day R hode s in more conc iliatory mood , ,

bes ought t he Hous e to get back to t he practical bus iness

o f t he co un try and his intervention expedi ted t he
,

pa ssing o f t he Partial Appropriation B ill The next .

day on a Divis ion t h e Government had a maj ority

, ,

of 7.

On 4t h September there wa s a debate on t he continued

exodus coast wis e o f t he inh abitants o f t he Trans vaal ,

and Sprigg dr ew attention to an alleged further removal

o f rifl e s from t he Colony bu t t he Pre mi er denied having,

g ranted t he neces s ary permit .

On t he same day on t he Parliamentary Voters

’

Regis tration Bill Rhodes is reported in Hans ard a s

,
262 CE CI L JOHN RHODES
s aying that Schr einer contrary to all his pro fessions , ,

was s eeking to dis franchis e t he native s Under one .

o f t he cla u s e s he s aid a regu lar examination has to

’

, ,

be gone thro ugh ( Cheers) and that means t he ab solu te ,

dis qu alification o f every native ( Cheers ) I am .

s urpris e d to se e t he Attorney General lending hi m s elf -

to this claus e Y o u have dra fted a B ill whi c h

.

disqu alifies t he n ative voter and I wish t he natives to

wake up to t he fact I S hall fight this cla us e to
.

t he end
’
.

On 8t h September on t he Grant o f Lands to Native,

Chiefs B ill Rhodes always interes ted in native affairs

,
—

— s poke with e ffect on t he policy and advantage o f keep

in g faith wi th native s On 18t h September he aga in .

s poke earne s tly in de fence o f t he native vote and ,

rea ss erted his belief in t he principle o f e qual rights to

every civilised man irrespective o f colour On a .

Divis ion however Governm ent carried t he anti native

, ,
-

claus e by a maj ority o f 11 all t he Du tch supporting ,

Schreiner and all t he Englis h supporting Rhodes and

,

I nne s
.

B u t tho u gh now completely o ut o f to u ch with t he

Du tc h o f t he Cape Colony his s ettler s o f that nation ,

ality in Rhodesia adhered to him On 15t h September .

he rece ived t he foll owin g telegram : From Du tc h

s ettlers Mels etter Kruger s attitude and policy s trongly ’
.
,

condemn ed by o ur comm unity here Y o u may place .

confidence in o ur fidelity .
’

On 27t h September on t he Voters B ill t he Govern

’

, ,

ment maj ority fell to 9 aft erwards rising to 13 but , ,

their principal financial measure was thrown o ut by

t he Legis lative Co unc il .

On 3rd O ctober when t he shadows o f impendi ng war

,

were deepening a private member moved That in

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CHAP TE R XXXVI
TH E S IEGE O F KI MBE RL E Y ( 1 89 9)

Pr e
p arat i o n s fo r li d b ftn
e e c e — d w it h t t h k O g
A on cu re ur n e ou an s — ran e

F S t t d T v l d wi g t g t h A g i t p t t R h d
re e a e an ran s aa ra n o e e r— a ns ro e s s o es

th w
ro him lf i t
s K imb l y B Ult im t m M t i l L w
se n o er e — o er a u — ar a a

At t k ac d ti s S tt T
an k ill d L b m m k L g
so r es — co -
urn er e — a ra a es
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on

C il
ec B ’
p ly—w i t h
o e rsL g T m
re L b m k ill d G i ‘
on o
’ — a ra e — arr s o n

m th
r es u ff iv
e F i fight i g G
e o e ns e—l F h iv B ur o u s n — en era re nc arr e s— o er s

in re rea —
t t A dt n ec o es .

T HI S a s I have s aid is not a hi s tory o f Sou th Afri ca

, , ,

nor is it a his tory o f t he Boer War nor even a chronicle ,

o f t he s iege o f Kimberley s ave in regard to t he con ,

n ec t io n o f Rh odes with that ep is ode .

That a stru ggle w a s im pending had fo r months been

t he fixed conviction o f t he va s t maj ority o f So u th
Afri can colonis ts Rhodes j udged by his utterances
.
, ,

and Schr einer by hi s actions were notable exceptions

, , .

So far back a s 11t h Jul y t he Q u eens land Government

ha d o ffered t he s ervice s o f a contingent a forecas t o f
—

t he enthu sia stic support a fforded later on to Great

Brita in by her Coloni es t he significance o f whi ch was ,

apparently overlooked at Pretoria .

On 19t h Ju ly t he Natal Parliament untro u bled by ,

t he rac ial divis ions which paralys ed that o f t he Cape ,

pa ss ed a unanimo us res olu tion to stand by t he mother

co untry No idle talk o f neu tralit y marred their loyal
.

action .

O n 1s t September s everal o f t he leading members o f

t he Jo hanne s b urg pres s were placed under arre s t and ,
 S IE GE OF KI MB E RLE Y 265

a week later troop s were ordered to So uth

Afri ca The inh a b itants o f Kimberley une
. th e ,

Cape Premi er pro foundl y distrus ted t he a ssur ances o f

,

Pres ident Steyn and they s ent Schr einer t he following

,

blunt telegram
I f yo u cannot , or will not , prote ct us , give us arms
and we will protect ourselves .
’

Th e answer received was to thi s effect

There is no rea son whatever fo r apprehending that
Kimberley is or will be in any danger o f attack and
your fears are therefore gro undless .
’

Fo iled in this direction t he Town appealed to t he

,

High Commissioner nor was t he appea l in vain Major

,
.

Scott Turner had already been s ent up by His Ex

-

c e ll e n c y to dr aw u a plan f de fence and organise a

p o

Town Guard On 13t h September Lieu tenant Colonel

.
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R G Kekewic h arrived and took over t he command

. . .

Kimberley wo uld have been even more anxious than

it was ha d t he cable s o f that date between L eyds and
t he Pres ident been p u blic property bu t they were not ,

published till they appeared in t he Vo lkstem in November

1908 .

E arly in September L eyds had s tated that Eur ope

wondered why t he Transvaal was lo sing time and on ,

27t h o f that month he expressly advis ed t he is su e o f an

u ltimatu m to b e followed by an attack be fore E ngland
,

wa s ready .

On 15t h September a B ur gher o f t he Orange Free

State with British sympathies wrote to me I have s ent
, , ,

my children to t he Colony and there is a black mark

to my name The feelin g has intensified enormous ly
.

s in ce u pa ed t hro u gh and men w h were a nx i o u

y o s s o , s
266 CE CI L J OHN RH ODE S
fo r peace are now clamouring fo r war The strain is .

more than t he country can s tand fo r lo ng and o ur ,

Maus ers will s oon go o ff by thems elves .

’

An incident d ur ing September has it s humoro us side .

Rhodes whether o ut o f pur e good natur e or with a spice

,

o f irony ha d pres ented t he Pretoria Zoological Gardens

,

with a fin e lion c ub He now received t he following

.

amusing reply
‘
PR E TOR IA , DEN 2 5ih S ep t ember 1 8 99 .

The Right Hon C J Rhodes . . .

,

The Grange R o ndebo s c h Cape Colony

, ,
.

S rR —
,
I have t he honour to inform yo u that my
Government and my Commi ttee are hi ghly di s pleased
at my li on trans action concluded with yo u at yo ur hous e
on Friday September 15t h ; they have forbidden me
,

to keep t he lion and have ordered me to retur n it to

,

y o u . I h ave made arrangement s fo r fee di ng t he lion

well on t he road down and hope it will arrive in good ,

condi tion .

I regret exceedingly I accepted yo ur genero us o ffer ,

which I cou ld have known woul d not be favour ably

received by my countrymen but onl y my great desire
to acquire t he anim al fo r o ur local Zoo made me forget ,

all exis tin g differences I have t he honour to be S ir—

, ,

Yours O bedi ently S d

( g ) D R J , W R G UN N IN G . . . . .
,

S tate M useum
’
Di rect o r o f t he .

On 27t h September t he Orange Free State Volks raad

by res olution agre ed to stand by t he Trans vaal though ,

curiously enough five days later President Ste yn

s ent another very pac ific telegram to t he High Com

missioner .

Kim berley however was now thoro ughly aro us ed

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I am writing as I feel so y o u must plea se pardon

Many other representations o fli c ial and private , ,

were made to him to t he s ame effect as Kimberley ,

fear e d that t he pres ence o f their formi dable towns man

in their mi ds t mi ght accentu ate t he Boer attack as it ,

probably did The following telegram reached him on

.

4t h O ctober

Fro m Mayo r Kimber ley

, , to Rt . Ho n . C . J . Rho des ,

Ro ndebo s eh .

C o nfide n t ia l Citizens generally feel that yo ur

.

pres ence here wo uld serve to in duce a rush wi th View

to do t he town your Company and all o ur j o int interests
, ,

great damage Under . all c irc u ms tance s wo u ld ask

y o u kindly to po s tpone co mi ng in order to avert any

po ssible ris ks .
’

His private secretary ur ged me to add my entreaties

to thos e o f other fri ends which I did until Rhodes
, ,

p u t it to me on a po int o f h ono ur K imberley h e .

,

s a id had made him : wa s he in it s ho ur o f di s tre ss

, , ,

to be ab sent from it s midst I co uld s ay no more ,

and he went .

The Boer ul timatum is dated 9t h O ctober and wa s

to expire at 5 P M on Wednesday t he 11t h o f t he month
. . .

On t he evening o f t he 9t h R hode s and hi s friend Dr, , .

Smart slipped away from Groote Schuur witho ut

,

giving notice to t he gu es ts s taying in t he ho us e and ,

entrained at a wayside s tation witho u t being ob served .

Their tr ain was due to arrive in Kimberley an ho ur or

two b efore t he exp iry o f t he Ultimatum but owing to ,

a s light accident en ro ut e they were s everal ho urs late

, ,
 S IE GE OF KI MB E RLE Y 269

and as t he Boers were already clo sin g in they narrowly

, ,

es caped captur e .

I t may be s a id at once that Kimberley was sa fe all

through t he siege from dir ect a ss aul t fo r it numbered ,

among it s defenders 4500 good shots and it s capture ,

wo u ld have enta iled a much larger lo ss o f li fe to t he

Boers than they were prepared to face But t he .

aggregate o f it s inhab itants whi te and black was , ,

rou ghly and it ran great risk o f being s tarved

into s u bmission I t s perimeter o f de fence exceeded
.

eight miles in addition to which it became necessary

,

t o hold t he Premier Mine another mine three mile s ,

away as t he town s only permanent water supply came

,
’

from there .There wa s als o t he po ssib ility o f being

s helled into s urrender bu t t he place wa s known to t he
,

bes iegers to be heavily mined and they were therefore

content to keep their distance .

On 15t h O ctober martial law w a s procla imed by t he

,

o fficer commanding and Rhodes tackled t he difficult

,

problem o f ho w to keep natives o ut o f mis chi ef .

Tho s e who cared to risk S lipping thr o ugh t he Boer lines

were encouraged to do so t he others were se t to work
to plant trees make roads and clear ground fo r t he
,

erection o f future sub urb s Strict dis cipline was main

.

t ain ed and everybody placed on half rations

, ho s pitals
and s o up kitchens were improvised and all pro mi nent ,

b uildings sand bagged

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.

Throu ghou t October t he pressure by t he Boers

gradu ally increas ed and in November t he garrison
,

fo und that t he inve stment was complete Rhodes s till .

occa sionall y found an adventurous spirit to renew

communication with t he outer world and ru mo urs o f ,

relief ever and again deluded t he town into t he tempo

rary hope that succour was at hand .
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On 4t h November Co mm andant Wessels summoned
t he garris on to s urrender and Colonel Keke wic h in
,

Homeric vein bade hi m march in if he coul d The .

bombardment thereupon commenced and it wa s j udged ,

necessary to make vigorous s orties from time to time ,

s ome o f whi ch led to t he acquis ition o f both pris oners

and provis ions ; but on 28t h November t he able and

fearle ss s econd in command Major Scott T ur ner w as,
-
,

kill ed to t he las ting regret o f Rhodes by whom he was

, ,

highly e s te emed .

D ecember w a s a month o f gloom The c ivil and .

military o fli c ers did not pu ll well together a fter Tur ner s

‘ ’

death Rhodes was t he life and s oul o f t he defence

.
,

bu t he w as apt to forget that Colonel Kekewic h was

responsible to t he Commander in Chi ef and co uld not - -

delegate his au thority even to a Privy Co un cillor .

The De Beers Company spent money lavishl y o nl y a ,

s mall portion o f whi ch w as s u b s equ ently repa id to

them Rhodes with Dr Smart and a few pers onal

.
, .
,

friends went t he ro unds daily and his e s capes were

, ,

very numerous as he persis ted in sp ite o f prote s t

, , ,

in wearing a conspic u o u s whi te s ui t His favo ur ite .

qu es tion to any fagged and anx ious o fli c ial was Do ,

y o u want anyt hi ng Nat ur ally replie s were s eldom

in t he negative As a ru le requirements were ea sily

.

met but on one occasion an artill ery o fli c er s aid

, ,

Y es I want forty three hors e s six ty two mu les s even

,
-
,
-

waggons and four carts to make my guns mobile He

, .
’

was rather s urpris ed three days later to hear that they

had all been de livered at his camp .

I t is o f co ur s e well known that t he Boer artill ery

o u tclass ed ours at t he sieges o f Ladysmith and Kim
berley and hence t he prophets o f evil cons is t ently
,

predicted t he fall o f both tho s e places A London .

272 CE CIL J OHN RH ODE S
a tower o f s tr ength thr oughout t he siege La bram .

was another As t he resul t o f mu ch dis cuss ion he

.
,

o ffered to cons tru ct a powerful gun He had no expert .

knowledge in any o f t he numerous proc ess es involved ,

he had not even t he necess ary tools : bu t he wa s a

man o f geniu s and Rhodes was another and t he De ,

Beers workshop s then s tanding idle were at his dis

, ,

po sal On 27t h December Long Cecil was put in

.
,

hand and on 1 9t h Janu ary 1 910 it w a s s ending heavy

, ,

shells into t he Boer camp s with C J Rhodes com ’

. .

pliments The incident has been narrated by abler

.
’

pens than mine I t was a to ur de force a verita ble

.
,

triumph o f mechani cal geni u s over what appeared in

s u rmo u ntable ob s tacles and it put heart into t he
,

s omewhat des pondent g arris on The Boer reply came .

on 8t h Febru ary when a s ensation was caus ed by t he

,

besiegers a fter incredi ble exertions bringing a 6 in

, ,
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.

Creus ot gun to play upon t he to wn The next day .

La bram w a s kill ed and b ur ied at ni ght amid a tornado ,

o f S hot and shell There was fo r a whi le a panic in

.

t he town bu t Rhodes w a s equ al to t he occa sion

,
The .

banks were clo sed and people betook thems elves to

,

dug o u ts
-
in t he d ébris heap s On S unday 11t h .
,

Febru ary a notice appeared signed by Rhod es o ffer

, , ,

in g shelter to women and children in t he sha fts and

galleries o f t he mines Food light and guides were
.
, ,

provided and ere suns et 2500 people were ac c o mm o

,

dated some hundr eds o f fe et below ground .

One inc ident o f t he siege mus t here in de fence o f ,

Rhodes be to uched on On l 0t h Febru ary he and

,
.

t he Mayor handed in a messa ge to Colonel Ke ke wic h

deprecating fu rther delay in relieving t he town In .

s ome manner never s atisfactorily explained t he

, ,

s u mmary trans mi tted to Lo rd Roberts conveyed t he

 S IE GE OF KI MB E RLE Y 273

impress ion that t he to wn had decided to sur render ,

and t he reply o f t he Field Marshal was an earnest -

entreaty to hold o ut to t he last But there was no .

s hadow o f a thr eat to s ur render in t he original me ss age .

On 14t h Febru ary t he garris on far from lo sing heart , ,

made an effective s ortie and occupied Alexanders

fonte in thr ee mi le s away
, The Boers bro ught up.

their artillery and t he struggle w as furio us and pro

,

longed but t he garris on ma inta ined t he po sition I t

, .

is c urio us to note that the ir la s t movement was an

o ffensive and not a defensive one On 15t h Febru ary .

—
t he 124t h day o f t he s iege a t P M a large — . .
,

mo unted force w as s een approaching from t he s o uth

eas t An Aus tralian o fficer was t he fir st to enter
.

Kimberley clo s ely followed by a war correspondent

, ,

and shortly a fter 7 o clock General French was con

’

ferring with R hode s at t he Sanatorium The long .

agony wa s over : t he Boers were in full retreat and ,

t he inh ab itants o f Kimberley had written one furt her

ins cription on t he glorio u s roll o f national his tory .

I t was a characteris t ic note o f t he general confidence

in Rhodes that d uring t he very cris is o f t he siege a
, ,

letter reached him from a neighbo uring vil lage appeal ,

ing to him fo r armed a ssis tance a s they had been ,

left defenceless by t he Governm ent and another

letter o f s ympathy from o u ts ide t he writer o f which , ,

tho u gh a hard b usiness man signed hims elf With , ,

u ndying attachment your mo s t devoted s ervant ’

.
,

Who will say that even in thes e pro sa ic days s enti

, ,

ment counts fo r nothi ng " Even from t he women

entombed in t he depths o f t he Kimberley Mine came
t he c heering me ss age Thank s fo r your many kind
,

ness es received We hope y o u are sa fe and well

. .
’

Safe indeed bu t far from well and never again to

, ,

VO L I I
. . S
274 CE CI L J OHN RHODE S
be well in this world Undaunted in spirit bu t
.
,

broken in health and surroun ded by many anxieties ,

Rhodes emerged from Kimberley a chas tened shattered

,

man with t he s entence o f death a s entence o f

,
—

and not o f man visibly imprinted upon him

— .
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number o f t he Dutc h in this
co untry will throw in their lot
with us on this ba sis that ,

neither race shall c laim any

right o f preference over t he
other We have no feeling
.

agains t them We have lived.

with them shot wi th them

, ,

vis ited with them and we ,

fin d owing I s uppo s e to t he
,

race a ffinity that there is not

,

mu ch difference between us .

B ut they have been mis led

in Pretoria and Bloemfonte in ,

and even in Cape Town .

’

Al tho ugh his s peech on t he ,

face o f it dealt mainly with

,

t he two white races he a d ,

hered withou t fli n c hin g to hi s

old formula that an educated

colour ed man sho uld be per
mit t e d if otherwis e qualified
, ,

to exercise t he franchis e .

When approac hed shortly

a fterwards by t he colo ured
comm unity on thi s point he ,

wr ote his Views c harac t e ris ,

tically enough on a s crap o f ,

newspaper o f which a fac

,

s imi le is s ubj o in ed .

I n this speec h at Kim berley

he u s ed t he p hra s e that fo r
all commercial underta kings
t he be s t a ss et in t he world
 NEAR I NG THE E ND 277

wa s Her Maj es ty s flag Opponents endeavo ured to

’
.

twis t this into an expression o f rank materialism but , ,

o f co urs e , his meani ng wa s not open to mi s cons true

tion on t he part o f any one po ssessing even a low
average o f ab ility His shareholders were not ex
.

c lus iv e ly British Many thous ands o f them were

.

s ubj ects o f France and Germany w ho mus t be acqui tted ,

o f any s entimental de sire to promote t he expa nsion

o f o ur E mp ire , bu t who s e intere s ts lay in s upporting

t he a u thority o f a p ur e and hone s t s ys tem o f govern
ment To them fr om ami d t he debris o f a battered
.
,

bu t un conqu ered Kimberley R hodes addre s s ed t he ,

pregnant qu estion Under whi ch admini s tration do

,

y o u pre fer to carry on yo u r b u s ine s s : u nder t he o li

g a r c hi c r ul e o f t he Tra n s vaal or t he j us t ,
and capa b le
j urisdi ction o f Great B rita in An d he answered
his own qu e s tion by a ss ert ing that nowhere in t he
world is a mercantile corporation surer o f equi table
treatment than under t he British flag .

The tru th o f his ans wer is demon s trated by t he fact

that in every Briti h Colony a large number o f German
s

and other Continental subj ects re side and flourish

u nder o u r ru le witho u t abating one j ot o f their a ffection

fo r t he co untry o f their b irth .

The e fforts o f Rhode s to keep t he flag flying were recog

ni s e d even in de sp ite o f the ir d ifference s by Colonel
, ,

K e ke wic h in his Despatc h o f 15t h Febru ary 1900 and ,

by Lo rd Roberts who in a Despatc h dated 20t h March

, , ,

wrote : I wo ul d add that t he citizens o f Kimberley seem

to have rendered valuab le a ssistance By t he active .

part which he took in raising t he Kimberley Light

Hors e and in providing hors es fo r all t he mo unted
troop s in Kimberley Mr Rhodes in particular contri
, .
, ,

buted materially to t he su ccess ful de fence o f t he place .

’
278 CE CI L JOHN RHODES
The inhab itants Kimberley were even more em of

phatic The minis ters o f all t he Free Chur ches ad

.

dress ed him as follows

‘
K I MB E R LE Y, 5 th March 1 900 .

‘
DIAMo N D FI E L D S MI N I S TE RS ’
AS S O C I ATI O N .

To t he Right Ho n C J Rho des , Kimber ley . . . .

DE AR S I R , behalf o f t he Eur opean Co lo ured

-
On ,

and Native Congregations to which we minis ter we ,

d esrre to express o ur hearty thank s to yo u and t he

Company o f which yo u are t he head fo r all that yo u ,

have done fo r t he town during t he fo ur months siege

’

which has s o recently been brought to a clo se .

We feel that t he town owes yo u far more than we

can expres s But we S hould not like t he occasion to
.

pass witho u t assuring yo u o f o ur appreciation and

admir ation o f what yo u have done fo r t he defence and
comfort o f t he inhabitants during thi s time o f s evere
trial We are glad to kn ow that a la sting memorial
.

o f Kim b erley s gratitude is to be erected in t he town

’
.

Meanwhile we venture to bear o ur tes timony to t he

genero sity and reso urcefulness whi ch yo u have mani fes ted
on o ur be alf We beg to remain yours fa ithfully
h —
, ,

S d
( g ) . J A M E S S C O TT We s leyan Metho di s t C hu
,
rc h .

C ME YE R Lutheran Church
.
,
.

W H RI C HARD S Presbyte rian Mini ster

. .
,
.

HARRI S I sAAC s Jewish ,

.

JO HN GIFF O RD Baptis t Minis ter ,

.

WIL LIAM P E S C O D Wesleyan Metho di st Chur ch ,

.

ARTHUR GE O R E NIE R Congregational Minis ter .

,
.

JOS E PH WARD Wesleyan Methodist Chur ch ,

.

P ETE R MI LN E B D Pres byterian Mi nis ter ,

. .
, ,

B eac o nsfield .

A. J . L I C HE N B E R G , Du tc h Re formed Minis ter .

280 CE CI L JOHN RH ODE S
attacks t he very cru el attacks made u pon them by
, ,

warlike savages dur ing t he long period o f t he siege .

And believe us Hono ur e d Sir yo u will be remembered

, ,

in a ll o ur prayers p ublic and private to Almi ghty God

, , ,

to t he end o f o ur exis tence .

I t will always be met with tha nk sgiving to hear o f

your welfare health and happiness and to be a ssur ed
, ,

that yo ur great work is progressing well and effecting

t he glorio us obj ect yo u have in view .

We have t he honour to sub scribe our selves fo r and

on behalf o f t he Mahomm edan Communi ty Yo ur —

hum ble and o b edi ent s ervants ,

CHI E F PR IE S Ts O F B E A C O N S FIE L D .

CHI E F PR IE S TS O F KI MB E RLE Y .

PRIE S T O F KI MB E RLE Y .

PRIE S T o F KIMB ERLE Y .

SE C ON D PR IE S T KI MB ERLE Y , .
’

Nor wa s Rhodes forgotten acro ss t he water On .

2l s t Febru ary a fr iendl y Do n wrote to hi m from Dx

ford
We had a big supper at Oriel at t he end o f la st term
to celebrate o ur winning t he Association Football Cup .

I n propo sin g t he health o f t he team I alluded to t he ,

plea sure it woul d give Oriel men all over t he world ,

no t forgett ing o n e a t Ki mber ley Then they stood up

.

and cheered and cheered and cheered again .

’

The Even ing Cit izen a Gla sgow paper s a id a little

, ,

later : Mr Rho de s s services dur ing t he siege are s carcely

‘
.
’

yet appreciated at their proper value In big things .

,

a s in little it was he who kept Kimberley together

,
.

While chi cken and suchlike delicacies la s ted he gave ,

u p his da ily ration to t he sick in ho sp ital He hims elf .

equipped fo ur fift hs o f t he garrison and his so up

-
,

kitc hen daily fed people Duri ng t he te rr ible

.
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days when Kimberley was bombarded by a 100 pounder -

g un at a range o f two m iles ( not fi v e a s at Lady s mi th) ,

it w a s he who devis ed t he s cheme o f sheltering women

and chi ldr en in t he De Beers Mi ne and he helped with ,

hi s own hands to pa ss t he c hildren do w n to their under

groun d shelter .
’

On 7t h Marc h De Beers recomm enced wa shi ng

’

although mining proper was delayed fo r another month .

Rhodes had proceeded to t he coa st on t he 2nd o f t he

month filled Groote Schuur with visitors and invalids
, ,

bu t hims elf re sided at t he little cottage by t he se a in

whi ch he ul timately died .

From there emanated t he foll owing brief note a d

dr ess ed to t he Archb ishop o f Cape Town fo r whom he ,

entertained sincere affection as one who never hesitated

to appeal to t he sp iritual side o f hi s natur e .

MU I Z E N B ER G, Mar ch 1 900 .

MY D E AR Thank yo u fo r your letter

AR C HB I S H O P ,
— .

I think matters are co mi ng all right tho ugh while ,

everyt hi ng is in t he melti ng pot there mus t be tr ou ble

-
.

I o ften think that prayer repre s ents t he daily expres sion

to oneself o f t he right thing to do and is a remi nder to ,

t he hu man s o u l that it mus t dir ect t he body on s u c h

lines Your s
—
, C J RHO D E S . . .
’

E arly in March t he native inh ab itants o f s everal

fr ontier di stricts telegrap hed the ir earne s t de sire to
receive a visit from Rhodes b efore he left fo r England ,

but t he s tate o f his health preclu ded him from complying

wi th their requ e s t and he s a iled from Cape Town on
,

18t h March taking wi th him a cordi al letter from t he

,

High Commissioner expre ssing t he hope that t he

voyage would s et him up .

Many efforts were made abo ut thi s time to s o w

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dis s ension between Lord Milner and Rhodes but they ,

wis ely arrived at a practical agreement to allow no su ch

interes te d influ ences to prevail .

The visit o f R hode s to E ngland w as a brie f one A .

friend under date 7t h April 1 900 write s to me : I met

, ,

him at So u thampton and he is in good spirits tho u gh

, ,

far from well . We hope to get him thoroughly over

hau led b y t he doctors He will make but a short stay
.

a s he is very anxio us to be aga in in R hode s ia

’
.

Under date 1 1t h April Sir Frank Lascelles wrote to

,

him from Berlin on t he subj ect o f t he war Publi c .

opini on is dead against us but t he Emperor hims elf

,

has been fri endly thro ugho u t He is di ning with me

.

on Tu esday but it may not be s o interes ting a dinner

,

a s t he one at whic h were pre ent ’

y o u s .

B ut neither friendly correspondent s nor medical

s pecialis ts co ul d detain him and in a fortnight he wa s
,

again outward boun d to South Africa On arrivin g .

at Cape Town he fo und that t he land route to Rhodesia

w a s clo s ed to him as t he war s till dr agged on and t he
, ,

coa stal s ervice being s omewhat intermi ttent delay ,

threatened in that direction But nothing daunte d

.
, ,

he c ut t he Gordi an knot by chartering a s mall s teamer ,

in which he s a iled fo r Beira early in May Before t he .

end o f t he month he wa s at Salisb ury from which ,

centre he toured around Ma shonaland visiting Mels etter ,

and other districts and then proceeded to Matabeleland

,

accompanied by Sir Charles Metcalfe .

The Cape Parliament met on 20t h July but be fore ,

that date t he Schr einer Minis try had fallen in dramatic

fa shion not by an advers e vote o f t he Ho us e but by
, ,

in ternal dis sension and becaus e t he ve iled di sloyalty

o f t he Bond wa s more than t he Pre mi er co uld s tand .

The crisis came to a head in June while R hode s was ,

284 CE CI L J O HN RHODE S
as to t he compo sition o f t he new Mini s try I n some .

qu arters a coalition w as advocated a s t he o nl y s olution .

A ro und table conference w as s ugges ted but t he

-
,

Bond held aloof and would accept nothin g short o f

an amn es ty to rebels wherea s Schr einer had s crewe d
,

u
p hi s co u rage s uffi c iently to propo s e th e ir dis franchis e
ment .

I t is beli eved that fo r a day or two Mr Ro s e Inn es .

-

wa s pu t forward a s a po ssible leader bu t ul timately ,

Rhodes wa s a sked by wire to prono unce hi s benedi ction

on a Minis try s upported by Schr einer in whi ch Sir
, ,

Gordon Sprigg was to be Premi er and Ro s e I nnes ,

-

Attorney General
-
.His acqui e s cence w a s s omewhat
u ngrac io us to t he latter I have no obj ection and
.
,

s wallow a mu wump if it will help t he Governor

’

g .

On t he 1 8t h June t he new Minis try w a s sworn in ,

and Rhodes to be o ut o f t he way o f fur ther moles ta tion

, ,

betook hims elf beyond t he reach o f t he wire Before .

t he clo s e o f t he month however he was in B u lawayo

, ,
.

On 22nd June Dr Jame s on made hi s fir s t appearance

.

as Parli amentary candidate fo r Kim berley by address ing

t he electors in t he Town Hall there I n hi s s peech he

.

thus referred to t he tenta tive efforts previo us ly made to

place him in Parliament .

Two years ago he sa id at t he General E lection

,
’

, ,

I w a s invited to become a candidate fo r a Coloni al

cons tituency with every pro spect o f being retur ned ,

but on my arrival at t he Cape I fo und that by ma ny

not very sturdy bu t very prominent Progressives my
comforta ble theory o f oblivion w a s not beli eve d in I t .

w as repres ented that my candidature and s till wors e , ,

my election might damage t he caus e and further

emb itter racial feeling Of co urse I s to o d as ide
.
,
.

Again la t year at t he elections bro ught abo u t by t he

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 NEAR I N G THE E ND 285

pa ssing o f t he Redis trib u tion Bill t he sa me result ,

awaite d me a fter a 6000 mile j ourney Y o u se e I

,
.
,

have been persis tent bu t fairly patient ,

Now I feel .

free to come forward in re spons e to yo ur requis ition

’
.

The speec h is s till wort h reading but I re fer to it ,

only becaus e there is evidence before me that timid

members o f t he party ur ged Rhodes to veto t he candi
dature and that he again refused
, .

Dur ing Jul y and Au gus t he continu ed to travel

extensively in Rhodesia On 2nd Au gus t he tele .

grap hed to me from Sa lis b ury : Sorry to mis s yo u .

Am go ing s tead ily thro u gh t he co u ntry The mi ne s .

are promi sing .

’

A fe w days later an infl u ential member o f t he Ho us e

wrote to hi m with gentle malice I am afraid it will
take another six weeks to carry t he Rebel B ill Ho fmeyr .

is hard at work trying to s ma sh up t he Sc hreiner Sprigg -

compact If it were not fo r Milner he wo u ld succeed

.
,

fo r Sprigg is not in t he s ame plane fo r cra ft as t he , ,

other s ide I nnes is very happy Everybody ladles

. .

treacle over him and yo u can hear hi m purring all over

,

t he Ho us e
’
.

On 31s t Au gus t another s ta unc h s u pporter addre ss ed

,

hi m at great length .

MY CHI E F I hear that we are to have t he

D E AR ,
—

plea sure o f s eeing yo u before t he s ession ends I n .

t he firs t place will y o u allow me to congratu late yo u

,

heartily on t he line o f action yo u have thi s year adopted 2

‘

Y o u have done ab s olu tely t he right thing in having

avoided t he quarrelling on t he Tr eason B ill bu t I ,

thi nk yo u would be making a mis take if yo u di d not

p u t in an appearance be fore t he s ess ion ends .

The ani mus again s t y o u on t he part o f t he ra nk

286 CE CI L J O HN RHODE S
and file o f t he Afrikander party is wonderfu lly dis
appearing Many more than yo u think no longer
.
— —

regard yo u with t he old distrus t and I speak sincerely ,

when I tell yo u that there are definite indi cations o f

a reaction in your favour .

South Africa is no t t he unknown factor it onc e was ,

and he who can reunite it s white races so as to make

them no longer a so ur ce o f suspicion to one another ,

or o f danger to t he Empire is not going s oon t o dis

,

app ear from t he ranks o f fame Utopian as it may .

now s eem to talk o f reunion I am quite sure that yo u

,

can do so within t he next six months and I am speak ,

ing with more information than I care now to expla in .

Don t imagine that there are s erio us difficulties in

’

t he way . There is not t he s lighte s t need o f any humi li

ating sacrifice on yo ur part as either t he Great So u th
,

African or as t he s till greater I mperialis t .

R ightly or wrongly o ur Afri kander friends have

,

regarded yo u as t he one who has disuni ted them and ,

I know they now look to yo u to reuni te them .

I am now wri ting a li ttle in parables and abso l

—

u t e ly in c o nfid e n c e
—
to give yo u s ome hints as to what
I know is b e fore yo u and to a sk y o u to pave t he way
,

fo r t he great future yo u have practically at yo ur feet

’
.

B ut Rhodes declined to be drawn and altho ugh he ,

w as back in Kimberley on 28t h September and arrived ,

in Cape Town early in O ctober and Parliament wa s ,

not prorogued till t he 15t h o f that month I do not ,

find that he took his s eat in t he Ho us e .

Before leaving B ulawayo he had been drawn fo r t he

,

firs t and la s t time in his life into writing a pre face to

an excellent book o f travel then abo u t to appear His .

unus u al compliance w a s d ue to t he fact that t he a u thor

was a yo un g ma n and one who had exhi b ited d uring

, ,
288 CE CI L J OHN RH ODE S
Afri ca through t he centre and t he ra ilway will pick
,

up trade all along t he ro u te The j unctions to t he

.

E as t and We s t coa s ts whi ch wil l occ ur in t he futur e

, ,

will be outlets fo r t he traffic obtained along t he rou te

o f t he line as it pa ss e s thr o u gh t he centre o f Africa .

At any rate up to B ulawayo where I am now it has

, , ,

been a payable undertaking and I s till thi nk it will

,

continu e t o be so as we advance into t he far interior .

We propo s e n e w to go on and cro ss t he Zambesi j us t

below t he Victo ria Falls I shoul d like to have t he
.

s pray o f t he water over t he carriages .

I can but fini sh by again congratu lating y o u and ,

by saying that yo ur success has given me great en

c o ura e me n t in t he work that I have s till to accomplis h
g .

Yours ,
C J RHOD E S . . .
’

On l 0t h O ctober , R hodes delivered an important

s peec h at t he Congre s s o f t he So u th African Leagu e ,

o f whi c h he ha d been elected Pre sident a s peec h that —

travers ed mu ch debatable ground and dealt with all

t he So u th African problems o f t he day His o bjec .

tion to lukewarm followers w as amu singly s tated at

t he o u ts et .

What h s aid I wo uld point o ut to yo u is that

,
’
e ,

t he practice in older co untrie s having parliamentary

government is to di vide into two parties In England .

there are Liberals and Co ns ervatives With us there .

are Progressives and t he Bond I t s houl d be dis .

t in c t ly u nders tood that yo u cannot s it on a fence

, .

( Lo u d c heer s ) Y o u m
. u s t take party government
with it s rules and bow to t he maj ority o f yo ur party .

If yo ur cons c ience tells y o u that yo u cannot go with

yo ur party yo ur du ty is to resign and ask yo ur con
,

s t it u e n t s to confir m yo u r po sition or reject y o u Bu t .

 NE ARI NG THE END 289

this is not my experience in this coun try When fir s t .

I entered t he Ho us e it wa s cons ider e d t he right thi ng

to sa y yo u belonged to no party and yo u would decide ,

each qu e stion a s co ns cience mi ght direct Well it is .

,

an excell ent theory but it won t work ( Laughter ) ,

’
. .

Now I will tell yo u what happened in this country .

Y o u have heard that s o and s o and s o and s o wa s t he - -

,
- -

caus e o f t he war I will tell yo u t he caus e o f t he

.

war We had a party in t he As s embly called Mug

.

wumps and they cau sed t he war and I will s how yo u

, ,

He then proceeded to show ho w on t he R edist ribu

tion B ill as introdu ced t he Progres sives wo ul d have
, ,

had t he maj ority to whi ch they were equi tably entitl ed ,

but t he Mugwump s wrecked t he mea sur e on a plea o f

conscience and placed their own invertebrate party
,

in po wer .

I hold he added that if we had carried t he B ill

’

, , ,

and had a maj ority in t he Ho us e Kruger wo ul d not have ,

dared to thr ow down t he gauntlet to Her Maj es ty s ’

Governm ent Thes e are hard fact s and so in a way

.
, , ,

we owe t he war to t he Mugwu mp s .

’

He went on to cong atu late t he members o f t he r

League on having risked the ir lives fo r their op ini ons ,

and he s trongly urged early preparation fo r t he next

general election Recognising t he obligations o f cap ital
.
,

he declared that De Beers had done it s d u ty in pro

t e c t ing Kimberley and in fo unding a grea t Cold Storage
,

Company to cheapen to t he poor man t he price o f meat ,

whi ch t he exigencies o f war had undul y rais ed .

Well gentlemen he continu ed we have had a

, ,
’

great battle not with t he Dutc h ( c heers) but with

,
— -

Krugeris m ( Cheers ) We mus t say o f this wretc hed

.

racial feeling— we will have none o f it Let us d op . r

VOL I I
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290 CE CIL J OHN RH ODE S
dispu tes evacuate o ur hostile camps and work fo r clo s er
,

u ni on with one another and t he mother co u ntry

’
.

Soon after delivering thi s speech Rhodes was laid ,

u
p w ith a bad to u c h o f fever imb ibed no
— do u bt d ur ing
his recent R hodes ian to ur and it w as not until 17t h
—

November that he was pronounced convales cent and

able to resum e hi s morning ride .

E ven d uring thi s illness he w a s b us y E arly in t he

.

month he gave £3000 towards t he building o f t he

Cape Town Cathedral and a handsome Challenge Cup
,

to t he Frontier Districts Rifle As sociation in order to

encour age accurate S hooting I n December he collected
.

a large number o f Tr ans vaal refugees and gave them a

din ner at Groote Sc huur whi c h he pers onally attended
, .

Abo u t this time an E nglis h correspondent write s to

me Lord Salis b ury says and I agree that Rhodes
, , ,

s ho u ld come o u t into t he open and a s s u me t he Prime

A day after his addres to t he Leagu e a highl y placed

s

Du tch o fficial on reading it wrote to Rhodes

, , I am ,

always telling my Afrikander friends that yo u are

their best friend if they will only recognise t he fact
,
.
’

Under ordinary circums tances there can be no dou bt

that Rhodes wo uld have responded to t he call with ,

W hat re sul t it is idle to s pecu late B u t imperative

.

co nsiderations o f health inte rvened He was under no

.

illus ions His life s work w a s practically done The

’
. .

inexorable shadow that s tands ever clo s er and clo ser

to us all was already beckoning hi m with decis ive
ges ture o f t he meaning o f which he wa s well aware
,
.

For a while he stru ggled strenu o us ly on performing ,

importa nt du ties with all hi s old ma s terfu l power ,

bu t t he Ho us e o f As s embly was to hear hi m no more

t he share holder s in t he great Corporatio ns he had
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CHAP TE R XXXVIII
THE L AS T YE AR ( 190 1 )
S c ho l hip f d d S h g i M m t H
a rs o un e — dD d Mm il
an an o nu en — o n o ure ea e or a

M wb y H t l Pl g C mp C hi L b
o ra os e — M ti g f S A
a ue a — n es e a o ur— ee n o .

L g t M f ki g
ea u e aH lp Kimb l y T w C il Vi it B l
a e n — e s er e o n o u nc — s s e
u a

w y a Sp k t h
o— Pl ea s id id T
ere — bl d b y f g i ans a s eas e r es en c e — ro u e o r er es
— Vi it E g l d T k
s s R nh L dg
an Vi it I t ly
— d E gy pt
a es an n o c o e— s s a an

R t t E gl d
e ur n s P h
o D lh m P j t
n an L d S h m
— u rc as es a a — ro e c s a an c e e .

TH E year 1900 pass ed away and it wa s well int o 1901 ,

before Rhodes su cceeded in arranging his propo s ed

vis it to E ngland His final Will w a s already exec uted
.
,

and he dwelt mu ch and with s atisfaction on thos e f , ,

o

it s provis ions which dealt with his great Sc holarshi p

s c heme B ut he began to manifes t feelings o f pardon
.

able curio sity a s to ho w they wo ul d work in actual

practice that is whether it wo uld be feasible to elect
, ,

hi s s cholars by t he j o int decision o f examin ers head ,

ma sters and s choolmates The idea wa s novel and .

,

s ome o f his friend s a ss erted that it wo ul d not work .

To tes t t he matter if po ssible in hi s own lifetime —

,

he determi ned to fo und at once an experimental s cholar

s hi p o n t he lines o f his Will at t he Dioce s an College ,

R o n d e bo sc h an ins titu tion withi n his own Province

, ,

in whi ch he took a s trong interes t .

On 28t h Febru ary therefore he addr ess ed a letter , ,

to t he Archb is hop o f Cape Town a s Chairman o f t he ,

Coll ege Co uncil in whi ch he o ffered a s c holarship at

,

O xford worth £250 a year to come into immediate

, ,

operation After des cribing t he method o f election

.
,

he conclud ed with the s e words I do not know whether ,

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yo ur governing body will accept thi s rather complicated

s c holarship bu t it is an e ffort to c hange t he dull m o no
,

tony o f modern competition There mus t have been .

s ome plea sure in viewing conte s t s in t he Gymna siu m

at Athens I am sure there is none in a modern com

.

e t it iv e examination B u t t he more practical po int

p .

is do we under o ur sys tem get t he be s t man fo r t he

, , ,

world s fight ’

During March he w a s gratified at hearing that

Tweed s bronze panels fo r t he S hangani Monument
’

were approachi ng completion a s he wa s anxious to ,

erect in t he Matopo s a la s ting memorial to Allan Wils on

and hi s brave men who perished in t he vicinity o f t he
S hangani River .

With a similar desire to hono ur t he fallen h e als o ,

threw hims elf into t he proj ect o f erecting in Kimberley

an Honoured Dead Memor al to Scott Tur ner and
i —
’

tho s e o f his comrades who fell glorio us ly in it s defence .

Few travellers now visit So u th Africa wi tho u t

paying a trib u te o f admiration to thes e magnificent
s tru ctur e s .

I n t he s ame month he too k s tep s to fo u nd at Mow

bray near Cape Town a ho stel or home fo r British
, ,

immi grants women w ho can thus u pon arrival in a

—
,

s t range land be s ure o f a temporary s helter u ntil they

,

s ec ure employment The I ns titu tion whi c h is s till in

.
,

exis tence is under t he auspices o f t he So uth African

,

I mmigration As s oc iation o f whic h t he devoted Pre s ident

,

is H R H t he Prince ss Chris tian

. . . .

Abo u t this time or a little earlier he o ffered gro und ,

on t he Groote Schuur E sta te fo r t he purpo s e o f forming

a Military Plagu e Camp that dread dis eas e having ,

effected a lodgment at Cape Town Many men but .

—

he w a s not one o f them wo u ld have he sitated to allow

—
294 CE CI L J OHN RH ODE S
t he formation o f s u ch a camp s o near hi own re sidence s .

The following lette r bears on t he ca s e :

‘
B AS E C O MMAN DAN T S OFFI CE , TH E C AS TL E ,
’

C APE TO W N , Ap r i l 6lb, 190 1 .

Pro po sed C amp at Gr o o te S c huur .

From Bas e Commandant Cape Town , .

To Right Henble Cecil R hodes . .

S IR,
I n re ference to o ur convers ation s ome weeks
—

ago when yo u kindly gave permis sion to form a Plagu e

Camp on your gro und at Groote Schuur should it
u n fortunately be nece ss ary to form a s eparate Plague

Camp fo r s oldiers I am now writing to tell yo u ho w

,

highly yo u r lib erality was appreciate d by t he Ge neral

Officer Commanding t he Line s o f Communi cation
and als o by t he Medi cal Military Au thorities Uh .

fort unately we are unable to ava il o urs elve s o f yo u r

permis sion as t he Colo ni al Government are very avers e
,

to forming a Plague Camp on t he site selected and in ,

deference to His Excellency t he Governor s wishes t he ’

General has directed a site to be sought elsewhere .

Aga in thanking y o u fo r t he prompt and co ur teo us

way in whi ch yo u met my reques t and expressing my ,

extreme regret that an ideal site fo r an infectio us

di s ea s e camp sho u ld be lo s t at t he pres ent moment I —

have t he hono u r to be S ir yo ur obedient s ervant

, , ,

S
( g )d H C O O PE R
. Colonel .
, ,

Commanding t he Base .
’

On 22nd March R hodes again Visited Kimberley ,

working with gr eat application there until 22nd May ,

when he went on to B ulawayo .

As dealing with t he qu e s tion whic h sub s eq u ently ,

a ssumed political prominence o f t he propo s ed intro ,

296 CE CIL J OHN RHODE S
u nnaturall y they decided that n o one but Rhodes w a s
,

capable o f dealin g as Prime Mini ster wi th t he delicate

, ,

S itu ation .

His conception o f his d uties wa s however o f a , ,

different natur e Stu di ou sly effacing hims elf so far a s

.

politic s were concerned he di vided his time between,

Kimberley and t he North .

At Kimberley he pers u aded t he De Beers Mine s ,

notwithstanding their grave lo ss es to extricate t he local ,

Municipality from financial embarra ssment by a grant

o f £8000 a year fo r three year s and then on 22n d , ,

May though t he rou te w as s till s omewhat unsa fe he

, ,

proceeded to B ulawayo arriving there with Dr Jameson

,
.

on 25t h May Five days later he met t he Chamber o f

.

Mines and early in June he made two short speeche

,
s

on matters o f local concern .

On 15t h June he laid t he fo undation s tone o f t he

Volunteer Drill Hall and in t he cour s e o f a S peech , ,

dealt with various qu estions .

On t he su bj ect o f t he Charter he s aid We that is ,

—
,

t he Chartered Company are o nl y temporary We

—
.

are preparing t he way fo yo u We shall be onl y too r .

ready to part with t he po sition o f admin istrators when

y o u are ready fo r s elf government -
.
’

On t he qu e s tion o f Federation he sa id The con ,

s iderat ion o f s tate s men will s hortly be t he um t y o f

Sou th Afri ca and yo u mus t get ready fo r that Y o u

,
.

mus t be prepared fo r t he time when a scheme o f federa

tion will be submitted This grea t dominant
.

North and I call it a domi nant North with t he

— —

Trans vaal will dictate t he federation

, The whole .

situ ation lie s with t he Nort hern State s and nothin can
g
alter it .
’

Regarding t he part ta ken by t he inhabitants o f

 THE LAST YEAR 297

R hode sia he s aid I f there is one thing that t he people

, ,

o f thi s co u ntry feel it is that they are a ssis ting in a new

,

development I wo uld put it to yo u that after all

.
,

even now at t he saddest time when yo u are worried ,

i I might pu t it s o with a s carcity o f cap ital worried

f —
,

with t he many difficulties o f a new country would yo u ,

prefer to be here or on t he old spot that yo u came from ,

here s haring in t he inte re s ts o f a creation " Thi s is

s urely a happ ier thing than t he deadly monotony o f an

E nglis h co untry town or t he s till more deadly me di o

,

c rit
y o f a Karoo village Here at any rate y o u h ave
, ,

your share in t he creation o f a new co untry yo u have ,

to d eal with tho se extraordinary ques tions whi ch aris e

in a new co untry and y o u have t he pro u d s atis faction
,

o f knowing that u are c ivili ing a new part f t h

y o s o e

world Thos e who fall in that creation fall sooner than

.

they wo uld have done in ordinary life but their lives ,

are t he better and grander For myself every time I .

,

go home it is a s atis faction to me to s ee t he progress

o f t he panels repre s enting t he dea th o f Allan Wils on

and hi s party I hope shortly to be able to erect them

.

in t he Matopo s This is no new idea as I am simply

.
,

copying Mo silikat z e (t he fir s t king o f t he Matabele) .

I fo und him sitting in his cave ( where at hi s requ e s t

they had placed him a fter his death) looking over t h e

wide Matopo s I t is t he idea and t he tho ught o f t he

.

native Matabele all we have done is to copy hi s

—

thou ght and if I coul d make a sugges tion to yo u it

, ,

is that when a maus oleum is b ui lt t he idea s ho ul d

be co ns idered o f recovering from t he unknown veld t he
remains o f t he various friends o f your s who as Rho d esi ,

a ns have fallen and are b uried in di fferent parts o f t he

,

Transvaal Orange River Colony and t he Bechuanaland

,

Protectorate Their graves are being well cared fo r in

.
298 CE CIL JOHN RHODE S
t he fi rs t ins tance but protections fail t he wild beasts
, ,

come in and if yo u think o f a hundr ed years hence

, ,

there wi ll be little to record their exis tence I t is a .

qu estion whether we sho uld not take t he opportuni ty

o f grad u ally wi th reverence collecting the ir bo di e s and

placing them in a maus oleum in thi s co un try as a record

o f tho s e who not o nl y have done the ir bes t t o a ssis t

in t he creation o f this new territory but who also when

'

called upon by their Sovereign to a ssis t in t he main

t e n an c e o f t he E mp ire s po s ition in So u th Africa le ft
’

their work and gave up their lives to prove that whe ,

r

ever we live as E nglis hmen we never forget o ur co untry

,
.
’

On 18t h June at t he requ e s t o f t he Town Co uncil he

, ,

ins pected their farm and on 21s t June he pre s ented t he

,

prizes at St John s School and made an excell ent speech

.
’
.

I hear he s aid there are over 100 children in

’

, ,

t he s c hool : S ix years ago there were only little bar

ba ian s in this locality
r E du cation is t he whole .

di fference between barbaris m and c ivilis ation This .

is perhap s t he only co untry in t he world where an

attempt is being made to solve t he religious diffi culty
in edu cation by allowing t he c hildren to be taught
,

their different religions in t he s ame s chool I f yo u .

children were at a Board School in E ngland yo u might ,

hear a chapter o f t he B ible read bu t if yo u a sked t he ,

tea cher What does that mean

,
" he wo uld not be
allowed to ans wer yo u He can read t he B ible to yo u
.
,

bu t mus t not ans wer qu e s tions I t is mo s t ridi c ulo us

.

fo r one o f t he mo s t advanced co untrie in t he world s .

B u t we have a ys tem that fo r half an ho ur in t he

s ,

morning t he clergy o f each Church can teach their

s pecial do ma s to t he c hildren o f t he members o f their
g
congregations but t he boy whos e father does not
,

want him to have any religio us teac hing does not get
300 CE CI L JOHN RH ODE S
On 20t h July he arrived at Southampton and pro
,

c e e d e d at once to London where fo r a few days he ,

transacted b usiness but declined to be interviewed

,

on t he plea that he was no longer a p u blic man He .

had s ome months before hired Rannoc h Lo dge in

, , ,

Perthshi re from Sir Robert Menzies and on 31s t Jul y

, ,

he le ft by t he n ight ma il fo r that place where he and ,

a s mall party enjoyed t he s hooting E ven there .

,

however his tho ughts were on his Will and on 25t h

, ,

Au gus t he address ed a remarkable letter to one o f his

,

designated Trus tees giving expres sion to t he view he

,
-

hoped and believed wo u ld preva il on his decea s e a s ,

to t he dis po sition o f his surplus revenu es a fter pay

ment o f t he annu al expens e o f his Scholarship s cheme .

The keen nort hern a ir s eemed to benefit hi m a little ,

bu t t he improvement w a s only temporary On 6t h .

O ctober he w a s aga in in London on hi s way to t he

,

Continent arriving at t he Hotel d es T hermes Sals o

, ,

Maggiore on l 6t h October
,
.

E arly in November he w a s at Bologn a motor ing , ,

from there to t he Hotel de Londre s Verona and pro , ,

c e e din
g on t he 9t h o f that month to Venice A fort .

night later he w a s in E gypt on hi s way to Khartum , ,

bu t t he heat a ffected his heart and he returned to ,

E ngland be fore t he end o f t he y ear Meanwhile he .

w a s kept continu o us ly po s ted in So u th African a ffa irs

by his numero us Coloni al correspondents .

The following telegram was I am s ure gratifying , ,

‘
R O N D E BC S C H, C APE TO W N , A ugust 20, 1 90 1 .

To Rhodes Rannoch Aberfeldy Scotland

, , ,
.

We have spent a very plea sant day at Groote Sc huur ,

and mu ch ad mired yo ur charming ho us e and place .

 THE LAST YEAR 301

We mu ch regret your ab s ence The Duchess is mo s t .

grateful fo r t he beautiful diamond s pre s en ted to her

by t he De Beers Company I am writing this in your .

own room .

S d
( g ) G E O.R G E D UK E C F C O R N W A
,
LL A N D Y O R K .
’

B u t in addi tion to t he su ffering attending faili ng

health and to a nx iety he felt at t he u nexpected pro
,

lo nga t io n o f t he war he w as fo r s ome months s till

,

worried by t he dis covery time a fter time o f forgeries, ,

bearing his name During September I wa s under

.
,

t he nece s s ity o f advis ing him repeatedly on this pa in

ful s ubj ect and t he shock to his simple tru s tful nature
,

w a s immens e .

He fo und time however t o pay his trib u te f respect

, ,
o

to t he memory o f t he late E mpress Frederick a s t he ,

following telegram will s how

i
Kaiserl c h Deu ts che Bots cha ft in London .

Coun t P Metternich German Min is ter on special

.
,

mission in charge o f t he German E mba ssy pres ents ,

his compliments to t he R ight Hono urable Cec il R hode s,

and has t he honour to inform him that he has been

ins tru cte d to convey to hi m t he thank s and warm
appreciation o f his Maj esty t he E mperor and King fo r

t he wreath which w as s ent on occa sion o f t he funeral

o f t he E mpre ss Fr ederick The wreath has been .

placed on t he hears e o f Her late I mperial Maj esty .

‘
GE RMAN EMB AS S Y , L ON D ON ,
S ep tember 2 5th,

On 21s t November wr iting to me from t he Savoy

,

Hotel Cairo , he declared hims elf

,
to be very fit but ,
’

t he whole tenor o f his letter wa s s o clea ly de signed r

to adj us t vario us long o uts tanding b usiness obligations

302 CE CI L J O HN RH ODE S
with as little delay a s po ssible that I drew from it
t he mo u rnfu l inference that he believed hi s time to be
S hort .

On 3rd December writing from t he Dahabea h ,

C o n as on t he Nile he w a s more spec ific Y ou ,

.

will be glad to hear he s ays I am better The heart ,

’

, .

ha s qui eted do wn tho ugh I s till have pain whi c h they

, ,

is t he enl arged heart pre s sing on t he l u ng T h

sa
y e .

great thing is rest .

’

Bu t res t w as t he one thi ng denied to him Abo u t .

this time t he E ditor o f a great London paper was

writing Won t yo u s ee Rhodes and tell him he must
,
’

come back " s ays e ither R hode s or sus pension .

Y o u might tell hi m this Bu t he sho u ld be here s oon . .

I have fa ith eno u gh in that man to believe that he ,

and he alone can end t he war quickly and not di s

,

gracefully .
’

While in E gypt Rhodes lo s t no opportunity o f ,

s tudying it s agricu ltural problems believing that it s ,

imm emorial experience mi ght be s erviceable to

Rhodesia Writing to his agent in B ulawayo in
.

December he s a id , With good land su ch a s we have

,

got and plent y o f water whi ch we wi ll have fo r I mean

, ,

to begin t he extens ion o f t he catc hment area in winter ,

there is no rea son why we shoul d not grow good crop s ,

but we mus t begin with t he water we have got whi c h ,

will irrigate 300 acres .

Y o u and I he went on will be t he laughing

’

, ,

s tocks f t he co untry if a fte r s pending twenty fiv

o ,
-
e

tho us and poun ds to get wate r we have not t he brains ,

t o find a man or men t o us e it properly and make a ,

s u cc e ss o f t he land Let us set to work I give yo u . .

a free hand again so get a good man I will be with , .

y o u in fo u r mont h s and we will d is c uss w hat cro ps ,

304 CE CI L J OHN RH ODE S
wis e have to be repatr iated at great co st He pleaded
.

fo r an I mperial gu arantee fo r but other

more elaborate and less convinc ing s chemes prevailed,

and t he opportuni ty o f an
ment wa s lo s t beyond recall
.
 CL OS I NG DAYS 305

CHAP TE R XXX I X
C L O S I N G D AY S

S us
pe n s ion of t h e C o n s t i t u t io n — G ro win g infir mi t y — R e m o vlt M
a o u iz e n

b g
er — L et t er to A r chbi h p s o — The M at o p o D am — L e t t er fro m a l dy
a

c o rr e sp o n d en t — Dail y b ll t i
u e n s—
'

S ufl e rin gs— La st ho urs — D eat h .

THE Cape Parliament prorogu ed on 15t h October ,

1 900 did not meet aga in u ntil 20t h Au gus t 1 902

, ,

thus violating t he letter o f t he Cons titu tion But .

in t he interval Martial Law preva iled and tho u gh ,

owing to a special agreement between t he Cape Govern

ment and t he Commander o f t he Forces civil a d ,

ministration did not wholly cea se Parliament was ,

not in a position to exercis e it s ordinary functions fo r ,

it w a s no longer supreme Several o f it s members were .

under s equ e s tration as s us pects Some were fighting ’

.

loyally fo r t he thr one ; one ,at lea s t was in t he enemy s ,

’

camp ; bu t t he bul k were sitting sullenl y on their

e state s To this pa ss had neu tr ality or muddleheaded
.

ne ss brought t he great body o f Du tch gentlemen who

once were t he devoted foll owers o f Rhodes
Under thes e circum s tances and as t he Constitution ,

ha d virtu ally sus pended its elf there is mu c h exc us e ,

fo r t he action o f tho s e Colonis ts who now petitioned

fo r a more formal bu t temporary a b rogation o f their
cherished Cons titu tion .

Fo iled in their efforts to captur e Kim berley Mafe ,

king and Ladysmi th s cattered into s mall comm andoes

,

by t he over whelming forces o f t he Empire t he Boers ,

were now condu cting a guerill a warfare and condu ctin g ,

vo L . II . U
306 CE CIL J OHN RHODE S
it to a great extent in t he Cape Colony itself aided and ,

abetted covertly or openly by British subj ects o f

, ,

Du tc h extraction .

A Report by General Smu ts to his Government ,

p ublis hed s ome years later is conclusive on thi s ,

point .

Since t he beginnin g o f September he write s

I have been in t he following di s tricts o f t he Colony .

He proceeds to enumerate twenty eight di visions into -

whi ch his mobile force had penetrated and he names ,

s even other di s tricts Vis ited by hi s lie u tenants It .

was o f co ur s e manife s tly impo ssible fo r the s e Raid s

, ,

to have been made with imp uni ty withou t t he secret

c o operation o f t he in h ab itants
-
.

A petition pre s ented to t he Governor opened with t he

un de ni able a ss ertion That owing to t he prolongation
,

o f t he war His Maj e s ty s Parliament in t he Cape Colony

’

h a s been unable to meet and t he ordinary registration

o f voter s a s provided fo r by law has not been carried
, ,

o ut .On thes e two qu es t ions t he Cons titution ha s

been practically violated .
’

The petitioners went on to recite that it wo ul d be

idle to expect M par t i al legis lation or obtain an in ,

d e mni t y fo r acts co mmi tted under Martial Law or ,

confirmation o f t he un au thoris ed expendi tur e whi ch

it had been fo und neces sary to inc ur An d they con .

cluded We are s trongly o f opini on that t he proper

,

s ol u tion o f t he problems now confronting t he Colony

is a temporary s us pens ion o f t he Cons tit ution fo r a

period dur ing whi ch His Maj esty wo uld be enabled to
deal with t he exis ting difficul ties and a fterwards to ,

res tore t he Cons titution as amended .

’

The fir s t signatur e attached to t he doc ument is that

of C J Rhodes who had returned to t he Colony in
. .
,
308 CE CIL JOHN RHODE S
follo wing kindly letter to t he Ar c hb ishop of Cape
Town :
‘
MU I Z E N B E RG, Fe bru a ry 1 90 2 .

MY D E AR AR C HB I S H O P, —
glad to hear that t he
I wa s
tes t fo r t he s cholarshi p pa ss ed o ff well and up to t he ,

pres ent there are no amendments sugges ted but we ,

mus t watch carefully and improve as we gain exp eri

ence I have been looking into t he question and have
.

an amendment to make I find £250 per annum is

.

s u ffic ient fo r Oxford bu t then t he yo u ng fellow spends

,

S ix months with his people Our yo ung So u th Afri can

.

will be withou t a home to ru n to and will have to pay

fo r hims elf fo r twelve months a s agains t t he ordinary
u ndergrad u ate w ho live s on his people fo r s ix months .

I thi nk there fore one mus t increa s e t he s cholarshi p to

£300 per ann um . I s end yo u a c heque fo r £1800 whic h ,

will provide fo r t he next six yea rs by whi ch time it is ,

probable that t he provis ions o f my Will may have come

into force un der whi ch a continu ance o f o ur attempt is
provi ded fo r .

Y o u will be glad to know that I have obta ined

from s ome friends a provision fo r a similar s c holars hip
fo r t he Kimberley P u blic Sc hool .

I am thank fu l to yo u fo r u ndert aking t he experiment

whi ch is a scholarshi p fo r a combination o f mental ,

moral and physical qu ali ties

Who knows it may be t he grain o f mus tard s eed
which produces t he largest tree Yo urs —
,

C J R HO D E S . . .
’

The Archb is hop , in s ending me thi s letter, added

The la s t convers ation I had with hi m w a s a few weeks
be fore his death I t was known that hi s life was
.

extremely uncertain and ,

I felt it was my d uty to have
 CL OS I NG DAYS 309

a convers ation o f a s erio us kin d with him Thi s was .

too s acred fo r me to enter upon here I need say only .

that he expressed himself mo st gratefu lly to me fo r what

I had s aid to him with t he hope that he wo ul d s e e me
,

again Thi s was never realis ed I was shortly after

. .

wards compelled to leave home and when I retur ned I ,

wa s not permitted to se e hi m He wa s then within a .

day or two o f his end .

Whatever Mr Rho de s s faults may have been I shall

.
’

always believe that he was at heart a really religio us

man and o f hi s noble ideals and breadth o f view there
,

cannot I think be any do ubt in any unprej udi ced

, ,

mind .
’

Towards t he end o f Febru ary he summoned from

Rhodesia t he tenant to whom he had entru sted t he work
o f c ul tivating t he valley below his great Da m in t he

Matopo s and having signed a new agreement with hi m

, ,

he s a id to u s Now t he Dam will be all right

,
I can se e .

it wi ll be a s u cce ss Y o u have now t he right man to

.

work it His j u dgment has s tood t he test o f time

.
’
.

E arly in Marc h a daily b u lletin o f his condi tion

began to be s ent to E ngland by cable to meet t he many ,

u rgent inquir ie s we were rece iving from there Thus .

on 4t h March I fin d t he following He is di stinctly ,

wors e .
’

On 9t h Marc h he took to his bed I am not sure .

whether he ever read t he following letter arrivin g

abou t this time from a lady fo r whom he had a s trong
regard .

MY D E AR MR RH O D E s
To my dis appo intment I
.
,
—
,

fo u nd on my retur n from Berlin that y o u ha d fl own to

s unnier clime s and so I wr ite thi s mu c h a s I know
( y o u

detes t getting letters) to tell y o u that when lunching

310 CE CI L JOHN RH ODE S
with t he E mperor at Pots dam I gave hi m y our message
,

abou t t he telegraph he actu ally knew where Ujiji

—

w as and s a id he had no idea t he telegraph had got so

far and he was delighted
— He talked o f yo u with
.

mu ch admir ation and thin k s yo u a wonderful man

—

— and he was s o intere s ted in u and yo u r interview

y o

with him I told him I wo uld tell yo u what he said

. .

He was mo s t kind to me and is as charmi ng as ever ‘

and we had a plea sant time in Berlin Didn t yo u leave .

’

E ngland s ooner than yo u intended I t was a plea sur e

havin g that little gli mme o f y o u and to see yo u looking
s o well
. How I shoul d like to be back at beautifu l Groote
Schuur I t was a delightful tim e I spent there and I —

s hall never forget yo u r kindne ss to me

’
.

On l 0t h March a m essage was s ent to London .

I ntellect q ui te clear He went thr o ugh all b us iness

.

matters yes terday with Michell .

’

On 21s t March t he de spatc h fr om Dr Jame s on ran .

,

Stevens on and I c v inc e d cas e hopeles s I t has la sted .

longer than we expected owin g to extraordinary vi tality ,

bu t t he end is certa in tho ugh patient s till anxio us to

,

s a il on Wednes day
’
.

His su ffering s were at times indes cribably pa infu l ,

and t he adminis tration o f oxygen a fforded him onl y

very temporary relief I n lu cid moments he continu ed
.

to deal with qu es tions that occur red to him with all his
old force endeavo uring to t he very la st to make arrange
,

ments fo r t he welfare o f his friends .

On t he a fternoon o f Wedne sday t he 26t h Marc h I , ,

sa t fo r a whil e by his bed s ide whi le Dr James on ,

.
,

worn o ut by persis tent watc hing day and night took ,

a short res t The patient was res tless and unea sy

. .

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his name a territory which in alien hands wo ul d
have barred o ur fu rther expans ion northward S erio us ly
,

shaken t he pres tige o f Great Brita in and rendered

nu gatory all pro spect o f friendl y u nion under t he flag

o f E ngland. We have als o to thank him that through
o u t his career he preac hed in s ea s on and o u t o f s ea s on

t he s al u ta ry doctrine o f equ al rights a doctr ine t he

—

negation o f whi ch drenched Sou th Africa fo r nearly

thr ee years in t he blood o f it s nobles t s ons .

Regard him as we may with critical or uncritical

,

eyes we mus t all admi t that he was a great E nglis hman

,

and one o f t he few who have left a permanent mark on

t he E mp ir e
. For my own part I confidently leave hi s
fame to t he verdi ct o f po s terity.
 APPE NDI X 313

AP P E NDI X

C OPY OF TH E WI LL OF THE RI G HT H ON .

CE CI L J OHN R H ODE S

I THE R I H T H ONOURABLE CECI L G O H N R H o DE s J

o f Cape To wn in t h e C o o n o f t he C ap e o f ood l y
H o pe G
he r e by v k
r e o e a ll t es t a m e n t ar y
di spo sit io n s he re t o fo re m ad e
by l
m e an d d e c are t his t o b e m y as t Wi whic h I m a e t hi s l s t l ll k
d ay o f ul 1899 J y .

1 . I a m a n a t ur a lb
B rit ish s u ec t an d I n o w d ec ar e t ha t
-
om bj l
v
I ha e a do pt ed a n d ac ui r e d a nd her e q
a d o p t a n d a c u ire a n d by q
in t e n d t o r et ain Rho de sia as my do mi c i e l .

2 . I
p a
p o in t A r c hi g
a d Phi ip E a r o f
t he R i ht H o n o ura bl e b l l l
b y
R o se er K G K T t he Ri ht H o n o ur a e Al ert H e nr
. . . . g
eo r e bl b yG g
E ar lG y
re Al fre d B eit o f 26 Par L an e L o n d o n Wi iam Tho m a s k ll
b y
S t e a d o f Mo w ra H o u se N o rfo k S t r e e t S t ran d in t he Co un t l y
o f L o n do n L e wis L o d Mi c h e y
o f Ca e To wn in t h e C o o n
p o f t he ll l y
G
Cap e o f o o d H o pe B an er a n d B o urc hier Fran c is H aw s e k kly
o f Min c in g y
L an e in t he Cit o f L o nd o n t o b e t he Ex ec u t o rs an d
ll
Tru s t e es o f my Wi an d t he an d t he su r i v o rs o f t hem o r o t her y v
t he Tru s t ee s fo r t he t im e ein o f m y Will are her ein a ft e r c a ed b g ll
my Tru s t e es
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.

g
3 I a dmire t he r an deur an d o n e in ess o f t he Mat o pp o s in
. l l
Rho d esia an d t herefo re I d esir e t o be urie d in t he Mat o ppo s o n b
l
t he hil whi c h I us e d t o isit an d whi c h I c a ed t he Vie w o f t heV ll
Wo rld in a s qu ar e t o be c ut in t he ro c k
t he t o p o f t he hi
on ll
co ve r ed wit h a
pl ain b ra ss
p l t a e wit h t hese w o rds t here o n
H ere lie t he r em ain s o f Ce c il J o hnRho des a n d a c c o rdi n gly
I dir e c t my E x e c u t o rs a t t he e x en s e o f m
e s t a t e t o t a e a ll
p y k
s t e s a n d d o all t hin s n e c ess ar
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p p
r o e r t o ig e e ffec t t o tyhi s gv
my des ire an d a ft e rw ards t o e e p my r a e in o rde r a t t he k g v
e x pens e o f t h e Ma t o
pp o s a n d B u a w a o F un d h e r e in a ft e r l y
me nt io n ed .

4 I
. giv e t he su m of t o K ahn of Paris an d I dire c t t hi s
l g yt
e ac o be paid fr ee o f all dut y wh a t so e v er .
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5 I . gi ve a n a nn ui t y o f £100 to e a ch o f m
y se r va n t s No rris and
t he o ne c a ll ed To n y dur in g l
his ife fr ee o f all du t y wha s o e ert v
an d in a ddi t io n to a ny wa g e s du e a t m y d e a t h .

6 I di r e c t my Trus t e e s
. on t he hi ll a fo r es aid to er e c t o r c o m

p l e t e t h e m o n um en t t o t h e m e n who fe in t he fir s t Mat a e e ll bl
g
War at Shan ani in Rho d esia t he bas re ie fs fo r which are eing -
l b
m ad e by J
Mr o hn Tweed a nd I des ir e t he s aid hi t o b e pre
. ll
v
s er e d as a b l l
uri a p ac e bu t n o p e rs o n is t o b e -
uri e d t here b
l
un ess t he Gv
o e rn m e n t fo r t he t im e e in o f R ho d e sia un t i t he b g l
v ario us s t a t e s o f S o u t h Afri c a o r a n
y o f t he m s h a h a e ee n ll v b
fe de ra t e d an d aft e r su ch fed era t io n t he F e dera o e rn m e n t l G v
by v a o t e o f t w o t hirds o f it s o ern in od-
gb y y
s a s t hat he o r she gv
ll
has des erv e d w e o f hi s o r her c o un t r y .

7 I giv f
. f ll du t y wh t
e re e o v my l n d d p p t y n
a a so e er a e ro er ea r

B ul w y in M t b l l n d Rh d i
a a o a a d my l d d p p t y
e e a o es a an an e ro er

a t or I ny n g n
n e ar S l isb u y i M h n l d Rho d i
a a e ar a r n as o a an es a

t my T u t e
o h r in b f
s es m ed Up n T u t t h t my t us t ees
ere e o re n a o r s a r

s h ll in u h m
a s c i t h i un ann e r t ll d di as ti n th y
n e r c o n ro e s c re o e

s h ll t hi nk fit ul t i t t h
a m c p t i v
va e ly f t h i t
e sa t i e r es ec e or e n s ru c on

o f t h p pl e f R ho d i
eo e o es a .

8 I giv f
. f ll d t y w h t
e re e o v t my T t h in
a u a so e er o rus e e s e re

bf e o re n a m d u h m fm n y
e s c t h y h ll
a su fully as
o o e as e s a c a re oe r

t i a n d i th ian n t ll d di e r ti un c o n ro id mpl e nd sc re on c o ns er a e a

su ffi i t by it inv t m t t yi ld in m
c en s es m un t i g t t h
en s o e co e a o n o e

su m f o t ling p n um s er nd t l nd I dir
er a t my
n a no e ss a ec

Tu tr s e es t i v t th o m n um es nd t h id um
e sa d th i
e s a e sa s an e n

v t m n t f t h t im b ing p nti g it I h in ft
es e s or e e e ref re s e n e re a er r e e r

t o as t h M t o pp e d B ul w y Fun d An d I dir t t h t my
a o s an a a o ec a

Tu tr s e es s h ll f pp
a ly in u h m
o r ev er a nn in th i s c a er a s e r un c o n

t ll ed di
ro ti t h y h ll t hi k fit t h i
s c re on e m s f t h M t pp
a n e nco e o e a o os

an d B ul w y F d i p a a ovi g p t t i g m i t i in g d n
un n res er n ro ec n a n a n a or

ing nd b u t ify in g t h
a ea id b i l pl d hille sa d th i u ur a -
a ce an an e r s r

ro un di g n d h ll f
n s a v pply in h m nn
s a or e in t h i
er a suc a e r as e r

t ll d di
un c o n ro t i n t h y h ll t hi k fit t h b l
e s c re o e f th
s a n e a an c e o e

inc o m f t h M t pp e o ed B l w y Fu n d
a o d
o s an y t s nd
u a a o an an ren a

p fi
ro t f m ys o id l d d p p sa t i anB u l w e y i t
ro h l
er t i e s n ear a a o n e cu

v ti n
a o f id f u h p p t y A d i p t i l
a s a o res a o s c I diro t er n n ar c u ar r ec

my T u t th t
r s e es p t i f m ya S u a d l p p
or t y
on o p t f a er a e ro er a ar o

my id l nd d p p t y n
sa a e B l w y b pl t d wit h v y
ro er e ar u a a o e an e e er

p ibl
o ss t e d b m d
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e a d re se r e an a n a ne as a

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u a a o a a e co e e e

d m at my W t
a
p p t y if i
es ac ret i n t m p l t
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t h at o bj ect I a u t ho riz e a nd re qui re t he m t o e n de a v o ur to o b t ain
at t he ex
p e ns e o f my es t a t e a priv a t e o r o t her Ac t of Par iamen t l
or o t her s ufli c ie n t a u t ho rit y e na bli g n and re q uiring t hem t o

r e t ain t he s am e uns o ld .

12 I . giv t h sum f
e e fr ee o f all du t what s o e v er t o
o y
m y o ld c o e e r e ll g O i l C ll g
o e e in t he Univ e rs it o f Oxfo rd a nd I y
di r ec t t hat t he re c e ipt o f t he Bur sar o r o t her pro per o f c er o f fi
ll g l
t he Co e e shal b e a c o m p e t e di s c har e fo r t hat e a c l a nd g lg y
g
inasmu c h a s I at her t ha t t he ere c t io n o f an e x t e n sio n t o Hi h g
l g b l g
S t ree t o f t he Co l e e ui di n s w o u d c o st a o u t an d l b
l
t hat t he o ss t o t he Co e e re en u e c aus ed ll g v p ul in d o wn o f by l g
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b
b e a o u t £250 per annu m I dir e c t t ha t t he sum o f p art

o f t he s aid sum o f s ha b e a pp ied in t he rs t p a ce in ll l fi l

t he ere c t io n o f t he said n e w Co e e ui din s a n d t hat t he ll g b l g
r e m ain d er o f su c h a sum o f S ha b e he d as a fund ll l
by t he in c o m e whereo f t he a fo resaid o ss t o t he Co e e re e nu e l ll g v
sh a ll so far a s p o ssi e b e m ad e o od bl
An d in asmu c h as I g .

g a t her t ha t t h ere is a d e c ie n c fi
in t he Co l e e r e e nue o f y l g v
s o me
p er a nn um whe r eb t h e F e o wships a re im y ll
p o v e rished a n d t he s t a t us o f t he Co l e e is o we r e d I dir ec t t ha t lg l
t he s um o f fur t her part o f t he said sum o f sha l l
l
b e he d a s a fun d by
t he in c o m e w he r eo f t he in c o m e o f s u c h o f
l
t he r esid e n t F e l o ws o f t he Co e e a s w o r fo r t he ho n o ur a n d ll g k
y
dignit o f t he Co ll e e S ha b e in c re as ed g ll
An d I fu rt he r di re c t .

t hat t he s u m o f furt her par t o f t he s aid sum o f

sha ll be he d a s a fun d l by
t he in c o m e w here o f t h e di ni t a nd g y
co mfo r t o f t he Hi h Ta g
e m ay b e m ain t ain ed bl w hic h m ea ns by
g y
t he di nit an d c o mfo rt o f t he r es ide n t F e o w s m ay b e in c reas ed ll .

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t he said su m o f sh a ll
be he d as a r epair fun d t he in c o m e l
l
where o f sh a l b e e x pend ed in m ain t ainin a nd re pairin t he g g
ll g b l
Co e e ui di n s An d n a g fi lly
a s t he C o e e au t ho rit ies
. i e ll g lv
l
s e c u d ed fr o m t he w o r d and s o a re i e c hi dre n a s t o c o ml lk l
l v
m e r c ial m at t e rs I w o u d a d is e t he m t o c o n su t my Trus t e es a s l
v v
t o t he in e s t m e n t o f t hes e ario u s fun ds fo r t he w o ul d r e c ei e y v
g r e a t he
p l
a nd a ss is t an c e fr o m t he a dv ic e o f my Tr us t e e s in s u c h

ma t t e rs and I dire c t t ha t a ny in e s t m en t m ad e purs u an t t o v

s u c h a d vice sha ll v
wha t so e e r it m ay be b e a n a u t ho riz ed in es t v
m e n t fo r t he m o n e a pp ie d in m a in it y l k g .

13 . I gi ve my pro pe r o o t y f ll wi ng t h at is t o s ay my r es id en c e
kn o wn as De G
ro o t e S c huur
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s it u a t e n ea r Mo wb ray in t he
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v
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pl l
a t e a n d o t her a rt ic es c o nt ain ed t here in a t t he t im e o f m
y
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Mo un t ain in c udi n m y pro pert l g
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Mo s t ert s t o m y
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ll
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p o rt io n t here o f a t a n
y t i m e b e s o d l e t o r olt h e rwis e a ie n a t e d l .

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a r e s id e n ub
c b n
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t im e b e ere c t e d o n t he s aid pro pert a n d a ny ui din s y b l g
whi c h m ay b e e re c t ed t he re o n sha b e u se d e x c us i e ll
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p pr o s e s a n d S ha b e in a s t ell o f ar c hit ec t ur e yl
l
s imi ar t o o r in harm o n y
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iii
( ) T he s a id r e s id e n c e a n d it s a rd e n s a n d r o u n ds S hg
a g ll
be r e t ain e d fo r a reside n c e fo r t he Prim e Mini s t er fo r t he
b g
t im e ein o f t he s aid F e d e ra lGv
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v
S o ut h Afric a t o whi c h I ha e r e ferr ed in c aus e 6 he r eo f m y l
b g v
in t e n t io n ein t o pro ide a sui t a e o ffi c ia r e sid e n c e fo r bl l
t he Firs t Mi nis t er in t ha t o e rn m e n t Gv
e t t in t he di nit bfi g g y
o f his p o sit io n an d un t i t he re sha l
b e su c h a F ed era ll
o er n lG v
m e n t m ay be u s ed as a par fo r t he p eo p e k l .

i
( )
v T h e r a e o f t hg v
e a t e Ja n H e n dr i l
H o fm e r u p o n k y
t he s aid pro p er t sh a y ll
b e pro t e c t ed an d ac c e ss b e pe r
mit t e d t here t o a t all r e a so n a e t im e s bl
a ny m e m er o f t h e by b
H o fm e r fami y ly
fo r t he purpo s e o f inspec t io n o r m ain
t e n an c e .

14 I . giv e t o my Tru st ees herein b e fo r e n am e d su c h a s u m of

y
m o n e a s t he Sha c arefu y ll lly
a sc er t ain a n d in t he ir un c o n

ll
t ro ed disc re t io n c o n sider t o b e am p e an d suf c ien t t o ie d l fi y l
g
in c o m e am o un t in t o t he sum o f o n e t ho us and po u n ds s t er in l g
p e r annum an d n o t
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a
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p e n d e d fo r t he u
p pr o s es fo l o wi n ( t h a t i s t o l g
s ay )
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() O n a n d fo r e e
pin a n d m akin t ainin gfo r t he u s e o f t he g
Prime Mini st er fo r t he t im e ein o f t he s aid F e derab g l
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c arria e s an d su fli c ie n t s t a e s e r an t s bl v .

ii
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pin k g d an g
m ain t ainin in o o d o rder g
t he fl o w er an d kit c he n g d ar e n s appert ainin t o t he s aid g
resid e n c e .
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iii
( ) O n a n d fo r t he p a m e n t o f t h e w a e y
s o r e a rnin s g g
l
in c udi n gb l g g
o ar d a n d o d in o f t wo c o m pe t e nt m e n s erv an t s

k ly
t o b e ho us ed e pt a n d e m p o e d in d o m es t ic serv ic e in t he
s aid r es ide n c e .

i
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p a ir re n v
e w a a n d ins u r l
a n c e o f t he s aid res id en c e furni t ur e
p a t e an d o t he r art ic esl l .

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I di re c t t hat su e c t t o t he c o n di t io n s an d t rus t s herein
b e fo r e c o n t ain ed t he s aid F e d er a o ernm e n t sha l G v
fro m t he ll
ll v
t im e it S ha b e c o n s t it u t ed ha e t he m an a e m ent a dminis t ra g
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t io n a n d c o n t ro o f t he s aid d e vis e an d e ac a n d t ha t m y lg y
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de vise an d e ac l g y g v by
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c o rpo ra t e odb y bl
s o c apa e n ame d s uc h by
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in t he m ean t im e my Tru s t e e s sha in t heir un c o n t r o ed di s ere ll
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t io n m an a e adminis t e r a n d c o n t ro t he s aid d e ise an d e a c l v lg y .

16 . Wh ere as I c o ns ide r t ha t t he e du c a t io n o o o o s s fy un g C l ni t

v
a t o n e o f t h e Uni e rs it ie s in t he Uni t e d n o s o re aKi gd m i fg t
v g
a d an t a e t o t he m fo r i in gv g b
r e a d t h t o t h e ir v ie w s fo r t he ir

ins t ruc t io n in li fe a nd m ann ers a n d fo r in s t i in in t o t heir min ds ll g

v g l
t he a d a n t a e t o t he Co o nies as w e a s t o t he Unit e d Kin d o m ll g
o f t he r e t e n t io n o f t he u nit o f t h e E m ire
p y An d w he r eas in

t he c as e o f o un y g l
Co o nist s s t u d in a t a Uni ersit in t he y g v y
g
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r e a t im o r t a n c e t o t he Uni v ersit
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b
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l lv l
m o s t c rit ic a perio d o f t he ir i es e ft wit ho u t a ny superv is io n An d
whe re as t her e are a t t he pr es en t M e 50 o r m o re s t u den t s fr o m
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S o u t h Afri c a s t u d in a t t he Uni ersit o f Edi n ur h m an v y b g y
o f wh o m a r e a t t rac t e d t her e by ll
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I sho ul d i e t o e s t a ish so m e o f t he S cho arshi ps her ein a ft e r l
v y
m e n t io n ed in t hat Uni ers it bu t o win t o it s n o t havin suc h g g
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g
d o in s o An d where as my o wn Uni e rs it t he Un i ersit o f v y v y
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res u t fr o m ll l
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t he unio n o f t he E n is h spea in peo p e t hr o u ho u t t he w o r d
-
l g l
g
a n d t o e n c o ura e in t he s t ud e n t s fr o m t he Uni t e d S t a t es o f
320 CE CI L J OHN RH ODE S
19 I fur t her dire c t my Tru s t e es t o es t a ish a ddi t io n a
. bl l
l
S c ho arshi ps sufli c ien t in n um er fo r t he appro priat io n in t he b
n e xt fo o win ll g l
c au s e here o f dire c t e d a n d t ho s e S c ho arshi s I
p l
so m e t im es he re in a ft e r r e fer t o a s t he Am eric an S c ho arships l .
’

20 I . a
p pro
p ria t e t wo of t he Am e ric a n S c ho l ars hi
ps to e ac h

of t he pres e n t S t at e s and Territ o ries o f t he Unit e d S t a t e s o f

N o rt h Ame ric a Pr o vided t ha t if any o f t he s aid Te rrit o ries
s ha ll l
in my ife t im e b e a dmi t t e d as a S t at e t he S c ho arshi ps l
a ppro ri a t e d t o su c h Te rr it o r
p s h a b e a pp pro ria t e d t y
o s u c h ll
S t a t e a n d t hat my Trus t e es m ay in t heir un c o n t ro ed dis ll
l
c re t io n wit hh o d fo r s u c h t im e a s t he sha t hi n fit t he appr o y ll k
p ri a t io n o f S c h o a rs hi ps t o aln
y Te rr it o r y .

21 I di re c t t hat o f t he t w o S c ho arshi ps appro priat e d t o a

. l
y
S t at e o r Te rrit o r n o t m o re t han o n e sha be e d u p in a ny ll fill
y ear s o t hat a t n o t ime sha m o re t han t wo S c ho arships b e ll l
l
he d fo r t he s ame S t at e o r Territ o r y .

22 Th e S c ho
. l
b e paid o n
arshi ps s ha ll
o u t o f in c o m e a n d ly
in t he e v en t a t a ny t im e o f in c o m e ein in suf c ien t fo r pay b g fi
ll
m e n t in fu o f all t he S c ho arshi ps fo r t he t ime ein pa a e l b g y bl
j
I di re c t t hat (wit ho u t pre u di c e t o t he es t e d in t eres t s o f ho d e rs v l
b g l
fo r t he t im e ein o f S c ho arshi ps ) t he fo o win o rder o f prio rit ll g y
s ha ll g y
re ul at e t he pa m en t o f t he S cho a rs hips l .

i
() F irs t t h e S c h o l arshi
ps o f s t ude n t s o f o r fr o m R ho d esia
sh a ll
be paid .

ii
( ) S e c o n d t h e S c h o a lyp l
rshi s o f s t u d en t s fr o m t he sa id

ll b
S o u t h Africa n S t e en o s c h R o n debo s ch an d St An dr e ws .

l
S c ho o s sha b e paid ll .

iii
( ) Thir dly t he re m ain de r o f t he Co l o ni a l
S cho a rships l
l
sh a l be paid and if t he re sha n o t be ll s ufli c ie n t in c o m e fo r

t he purpo se su c h S cho a rships sha l ll a at e b ro o rt io n

p p
at e ly
; an d
i
( )
v F o u r t hl t h e Am e y
ric a n S c ho a rshi ps sha be paid l ll
a nd if t he re sha ll
n o t be s uffic ie n t in c o m e fo r t he pur po s e

l
s u c h S c ho arships sh a l a a t e pro p o rt io n a t e l b ly .

b g
23 My d es ire ein t hat t he s t ud e n t s w ho sha b e e e c t ed
. ll l
l
t o t he S c ho arships shal n o t be m ere l o o kw o rms I di rec t t ha t ly b
l
in t he e e c t io n o f a s t ud e n t t o a S c ho arship re a rd sha be had l g ll
t o (i) his it e ra r l y l
a nd s c ho as t ic a t t ain m e n t s ( ii ) hi s fo n dn ess

o f a n d su c c e s s in m an ly
o u t d o o r s po rt s s u c h as c ri c e t fo o t a k b ll
lk
a n d t he i e ( iii ) hi s q l
u a it ie s o f manho o d t ru t h c o ur a e d ev o t io n g
 AP PEND I X 321

to y y y
du t s m pa t h fo r a n d pro t e c t i o n o f t he w e a in dlin es s k k
ll
un s elfis hn es s a n d fe o wship a n d (iv ) hi s e xhi it io n durin s c ho o b g l
y l
d a s o f m o ra fo rc e o f c hara c t er an d o f in st in c t s t o e ad and t o l
k
t a e an in t ere s t in his s cho o m at es fo r t ho s e a t t er a t t ri u t es l l b
ll
wi b e i e l k ly l g
in a ft e r ife t o uid e hi m t o es t ee m t he perfo rm an ce
of
p u li c d b
u t ies as hi s hi h e s t aim A s m ere s u g es t i o ns f o r t he gg
g l
ui d an c e o f t ho se w ho wil hav e t he c ho ic e o f s t u de n t s fo r t he
l
S c ho arshi ps I r e co rd t ha t

( i ) My i d e a u a i e d sl q lfi
t u d e n t w o u d c o m in e t hes e fo ur l b
q lfi
u a i c at io ns in t he pro p o rt io ns o f 4/10t hs fo r t he rs t fi
2/10t hs fo r t he sec o nd 2/10t hs fo r t he t hird an d 2/10t hs fo r
q lfi
t he fo ur t h u a i c a t io n s o t ha t a c c o rdin t o my ide as if t he g
b
m aximum num er o f m arks fo r any S c ho arship w ere 100 l
y
t he w o u l d b e a pp o r t io n e d a s fo o ws — 40 t o t he rs t ll fi
q lfi
u a i ca t io n a n d 20 t o e ac h o f t he s ec o n d t hi rd a n d fo u rt h

q lfi
u a i c a t io ns .

ii
( ) Th e m a r s fo r r s t u aki c a t io n wfio u d be a q lfi
w a r d ed l
by e x amin a t io n fo r t he s e c o n d an d t hird u ali c a t io n s q fi by
b l by
al o t t he fell o w st ude n t s o f t he c an di d at es an d fo r t he
-

q lfi
fo ur t h u a i c a t io n by
t he head m as t er o f t he c a ndid at e s
’

l
s c ho o ; a n d

iii
( ) Th e re s ul t s o f t h e a w a r ds w o ul d be s e n t S im u t a n e l
o usly t o my Tru s t ees o r s o m e o n e a ppo in t ed t o re c eiv e t he

sa m e I s ay simul t an eo us so t hat n o aw ardin

ply
a rt g y
sho ul d k
n o w t he r es ul t o f t he a w ard o f any o t her a wardin g
p art y .

24 N o . s t u d e nt sha ll be q lified
ua or di s qu lifi
a ed l
fo r e e c t io n
to a S c ho l a rshi p o n a c c o un t o f his r a c e o r re ligi o us o ini o n s
p .

25 l
The e e c t io n t o S c ho arshi ps sha b e
. l
e Trus t e e s a ft e r ll by t h
l
c o ns u t a t io n wit h t h e m ini s t e r ha v in t he c o n t ro o f e du c at io n g l
l y
in su c h c o o n pro vin c e s t a t e o r t errit o r e x c e pt in t he c as e s o f y
l
t he fo ur s c ho o s herein e fo re m e n t io n e d b .

26 A . qu lifi a ed s t u de n t w ho has b e en l
e e c t ed as a fo re s aid

sh a ll wit hi n six l
m o n t hs aft e r hi s e e c t io n o r as so o n
c a e n dar l
t he rea ft er as he c an b e admi t t ed in t o residen c e o r wit hi n s u c h
e xt e nd ed t im e as my Tru s t e es sh a a o w c o mm e n c e re sid e n c e a s ll ll
g
a n un d e r r a du a t e a t s o m e c o e e in t he Uni er sit ll g
o f Oxfo rd v y .

l
27 The S c ho arships sha be pa a e t o him fr o m t he t im e
. ll y bl
l
whe n he sha l co mme n c e su c h r eside n c e .

28 I desir e t hat t he S c ho
. l ars l
ho din g t he S c h o l ars hi ps sha ll
VO L . II . x
322 CE CI L J OHN RH ODE S
b g
be dis t ri ut e d a m o n s t t he Co e es o f t he Un i ers it ll g v y of Oxfo rd
an d n o t r es o rt in un d u e n um ers t o o n e o r m o r e Co l e b l g es o n ly .

29 No t wit hs t an din
. a n t hi n g y
herein e fo re co n t ain ed m y g b
Trus t e es may in t he ir un c o n t ro ed di scre t io n suspend fo r s uc h ll
t im e as t he s ha t hi n y ll k
fit o r r em o e a ny S c ho ar fro m his v l
l
S c ho arship .

30 . My Trus t e es m ay fr o m t im e t o t im e m a k v y
e ar an d

r e pea l egul t i n it h g
r a o s e er e n era l o r a ffe c t in g S p e c ifie d S c ho arl
s hi ps nly wit h
o g dt re ar o all o r a ny of t he fo l o win l g m at t e rs
t ha t is t o sa
y
i
() T h e e e c t io n w h e t h elr a ft e r e x a m in a t io n o r o t h erwi s e

q lfi
o f u a i ed S t ude n t s t o t he S c ho a rshi s o r a n
p y o f t h e m an d l
t he met ho d whe t her by
e x ami n a t io n o r o t he rwis e in whic h

q lfi
t heir u a i c at io n s a re t o be a s c e rt ain ed .

(ii) Th e t e nur e o f t he S cho larships by s c ho l ars .

(iii) The sus pe nsio n and re m o v a l o f s cho l ars fr o m t he ir

S c ho l a rshi
p s .

(iv ) The m e t ho d a nd t im es of
p a ym ent of t he S c ho l ar

( V ) T h e m e t h o d o f i in gv g e ffec t t o my w ish e x pres s ed

in c l aus e 28 he re o f a nd

( ) Any andvi e v y
er m at t er wit h r e ard t o t he
o t her g
S c ho arshi ps o r l a ny o f t he m wit h re ard t o whi c h t h e g y
sha ll
co ns ider r e g l u a t io ns n e c es s ar o r d es ira e y bl .

31 . My Trus t e es m ay fro m t im e t o t im e a u t ho riz e re u a gl

g l
t io ns w it h re a rd t o t he e ec t io n w he t he r a ft er e xa mi n a t io n o r
o t he r wis e o f q lfi
ua i ed s t ud e n t s fo r S c ho a rshi s a n d t o
p t h e l
m e t ho d whe t her by
e x a min a t io n o r o t her wis e in whic h t he ir

q lfi
u a i c a t io n s a r e t o b e as ce rt a in ed t o be m ad e

i
() y B a s c ho o in l r es
p e ct o f t he S c h o l a rshi
ps t ena bl by
e

it s s t u d e n t s a nd
ii
( ) yB t h e M in i s t er afo r es aid o f a C o o n Pr o v in c e S t a t e l y
o r Territ o r y
in r espe c t o f t he S c ho larships t e n a e bl by
s t ude n t s fro m s u ch C o o n l y
Pro vin c e S t at e o r Territ o r y .

gl
32 R e u a t io ns m ad e u nde r t he as t pre c e din c a us e here o f
. l g l
if an d when appro ed o f and n o t e fo re v
my Tr us t e es sh al be b by l
q vl
e ui a e nt in a ll r es ec t s t o re u at io ns mad e
p m y T ru s t e es g l by .

33 No. g l
r e u a t io ns ma d e under c l a us e 30 o r m ad e an d appro v ed
324 CE CI L J OHN RH ODE S
D e p e n de n c yDep end e n c ie s whe t her he rein e fo re m e n t io n ed
or b
o r no t as my Tru s t e es sha ll
in t heir un co n t ro l ed dis c re t io n l
t hin k fit . An d I di re c t t hat e er su ch furt her S c ho arship v y l
sha ll co rrespo nd in all r es p e c t s wit h t he S c ho arshi ps h e rein l
b e fo re di re c t e d t o b e es t a bl
ished and t hat t he pre c edi n pro g
v is io ns o f t hi s my Will whi c h a pp ly
t o t he S c ho arships herein l
b e fo r e di r e c t e d t o b e es t a bl
ished o r a ny o f t he m s ha w he re ll
l bl
a pp ic a e a pp ly
t o s u c h fur t her S c ho arships l .

. l
39 Un t i t he S c ho arshi p fun d sha hav e l ll b e en s e t
p a a rt as

g
a fo res aid I c har e t he s am e a n d t h e S c ho l
a rshi
p s u po n t h e

l
r es idue o f my re a a n d pe rs o n a es t a t e l .

g
40 I iv e t he residue o f my rea a nd pers o n a es t at e un t o
. l l
s u c h o f t hem t he s aid E ar o f R o se e r E ar l
re Alfre d B e it b y lG y
ll
Wi iam Tho mas S t e ad L e wisi o yd Mic he a n d Bo urc hi e r ll
Fra n c is H aw s e kly
a s shall be liv in a t my d ea t h a s o u t e g b l ly
a n d if m o re t han o n e a s o in t t e n an t s j .

41 . My Trus t e e s in t he mi nis t ra t io n o f t he t rus t us in ess

ad b
g
m ay ins t e ad o f ac t in perso n a l e mp o a n d pay a S e c re t a r ly ly y
g
o r A e n t t o t ra ns a c t all bu s in ess ga nd d o a ll a c t s r e uir e d t o b e q
l g
d o n e in t he t ru s t in c udi n t he re c e ipt a n d pa me n t o f m o n e y y .

42 . My in t e n t io n is t hat t here shall be a lw y a s at l e as t t hr ee

ll
Tru s t e es o f my Wi s o far a s it re a t es t o t he S c ho arship Trus t s l l
a n d t he re fo re I di re c t t ha t w he n e er t here sh a b e es s t han v ll l
t hr e e Trus t e es a n e w Trus t e e o r n e w Trus t e e s sha b e fo rt h ll
wit h a ppo in t e d .

I N W I TNE S S where o f I ha v e he re un t o s et my ha n d t he d ay
a nd y
e ar fi
r s t a o e writ t e n b v .

Si gn ed by t heTes t a t o r The R i ht
s aid g
bl
H o n o ura e Ce c i l J
o hn R ho des as a n d

l ll
fo r his as t Wi an d Tes t am en t in t he
p re se n c e o f u s b
o t h pr es e n t a t t h e sam e
C J R H ODE S
q
t im e who a t hi s re u es t in hi s pres e n c e
a n d in t he prese n c e o f e ac h o t her ha e v
b b
he reunt o s u sc ri e d o ur n am es as wit
n es s es

CHA RLE S T ME TC AL FE , .

P. J
O UR D AN ,

ARTH UR SAW Y E R .
 AP P E NDI X

Jan 1900
Rea lly J a nu ar y 1901 .

On a c c o un t of t he e x t ra o r di na r y ec c e n t ric it y of Mr S t e ad .

g
t ho u h ha in v g a lw a y
fo r hi m bu t fe e in t he
s a g reat r es p e c t l g
o bje c t s o f my Will w o ul d b e e m arr as se d hi s iew s I here b by V by
re v k
o e hi s appo in t m e n t a s o n e o f m y e x ec u t o rs .

C . J . R H ODE S .

Wit n es s es
L E WI S L . MI C H E LL .

H . GOD D EN .

Thi s is a fu rt he r Co dic i t o my Wi I n o t e t he erm a n l ll . G

Em pe ro r has m ad e ins t ru c t io n in E n ish c o m pu s o r in erm an gl l y G
sc ho o s l I e av e fiv e e ar
. l y
s c ho ar shi s a t Oxfo rd o f £250 p e r
p ly l
arm t o s t ud e n t s o f
. erm a n G
ir t h t he s c ho ars t o b e n o min a t e d b l
by t he G
e rm an E m p e r o r fo r t he t im e ein E a c h sc ho ar b g . l
shi
p t o c o n t inu e fo r t hr e e ea rs so t ha t e ac h ea r a ft e r t he y
rs t y fi
t hr e e t he r e wi be ft ee n sc ho a rs ll fi
The o e c t is t ha t a n un d e r l . bj
s t a n di n gb
e t w e e n t he t hr e e r ea t Po w ers wi re nd e r w ar im g ll
p o ss i ebla l l
n d e du c a t io n a r e a t io n s m a e t he s t r o n e s t t ie k g .

C . J . R H ODE S .

Wit n ess es
G V WE B B
. . .

W G V CARTE R
. . . .

EN D O R S E D O N B A C K O F AB O V E

A ear y ly am o un t ld
be pu t in B rit ish Co ns o s t o pro
s ho u l
v id e fo r t he bqe u e s t s in m
y W i w h e ll
n t h e Diam o n d Min e s w o r k
o ut t he a b o v e is a n in s t ru c t io n t o t h e Tru s t e es o f m y Wi ll .

C R . J . .

Jan/190 1 .

As fur t he r Co dic i t o my Wi I ea e
a l
rimm e r t e n t ho u s an d ll l v J G .

p o un ds a n d t he u s e o f m y I n a n a fa rm s fo r hi s ife T hi s y g l .

bqe u es t t a e s t he
p a c e k
o f t he pre io us w ri t t eln pap e r i en t o v gv
him .

C R H ODE S . J . .

Wit n es s
W V CAR TE R
. G . . .

H . GODD EN .
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TH I S I S A CO D I C I L t o t he as t Wi a n d Tes t a m e n t o f m e THE l ll
G
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l y
To wn in t he Co o n o f t he Ca pe o f o o d H o pe whi c h Wil is G l
d at ed t he Firs t d ay o f u On e t ho us an d ei ht hundr ed a n d J ly g
nin e t y
nin e I a ppo in t t he R i ht H o n o ura e A fr ed L o rd
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l
Mi n e r t o be an E x e c u t o r a n d Trus t e e o f my s aid Wi o in t ll j ly
wit h t ho s e n am e d in m y s aid Wi a s my Ex e c u t o rs an d Tru s t e es ll
a n d in all r es e c t s a s t ho u h he h ad
p ee n o ri in a a pp o in tged b g lly
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y E x e c ut o r s a n d Tr u s t ees m y s aid W il A n d I by l
a sso c ia t e hi m wi t h m
y r esidu ar e a t e e s a n d d e is e es ylg
n am e d v
l
in c aus e 40 o f my s aid Wi d esirin an d d e c arin t h at t he ll g l g y
a n d he a r e m
y r es idu a r ylg
e a t ees a n d d e v is ees in o in t t e n an c j y
vk l
I r e o e c au s es 23, 24 a n d 25 in my s aid Wi an d in ieu t hereo f ll l
b ll
s u s t it u t e t he t hr ee fo o win g l c au s e s whic h I direc t shal be l
g g lly l
r ea d a s t ho u h o ri in a c au s es 23, 24 and 25 o f my s aid Wi ll
23 My d i . b i g t h t t h t ud t wh h ll b l t d
e s re e n a e s en s o s a e e ec e

t th S h l
o e hip h ll
c t b m
o ars ly b k w m I di t t h t
s s a no e e re oo or s re c a

i th
n l t i f t d t t S h l hip g d h ll b h d
e e ec on o a s u en o a c o ars re ar s a e a

to ()i h i lit y sd h l t ie rar t t i m ant i

( )i hi
sc f d
o as f
c a a n en s s on n es s o

an d i m ly
s u c c es s td p n t anh i ouk t f t b ll
oor s d o r s su c as c r c e oo a an

t h lik (iii) hi qu l it i
e e f m h d t th s a g d v ti t
es o an oo ru c o u ra e e o on o

d t y ym p t hy f
u s th p t ti a f t h w k ki dli
or e ro ec on o e ea n nes s u n

se lfi h s d f ll wship
n e ss a n d (i ) hi e hib it i
o du i g an h l v s ex on r n sc oo

d y
a fm
s o lf f h t
o ra d f i ti t t l d
o rc e o c d t
a ra c e r a n o ns nc s o ea an o

t k
a e i tan t i hi h lm t
n eres f th
n l t t t t ibut
s sc oo a es or o se a er a r es

will b lik ly i e ft lif t g i d hi m t

e n a t m th p f m
er e o u e o es e e e er o r

an c e o f p bli du t i hi high t im A m
u c es as gg t is es a S ere su es o ns

f t h g id
or e f th uwh will h v t h
an c e o h i o se f t d t o a e e c o ce o s u en s

f th S h l
or e hip I c d t h t ( i) m y id l q l ifi d t d t
o ars s re c o r a ea ua e s u en

l d mbi t h f qu lifi t i i t h p po t i
.

w ou co ne ese o ur a f ca o ns n e ro r o ns o

3/10t h f t h fi t 2/10t hs f
s or th e rs d 3/10t h f t h t hi d or e sec o n s or e r

an d 2/10t h f t h f th q lifi t i
s or eth t o ur di g t my ua ca o n so a ac co r n o

id e as if t h m i m m mb e fm k fax u y S h
nu l hip w
er o ar s o r an c o ar s e re

200 t h y w l d b e pp t i d ou f ll we 6 a0 t or h f t
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r ua h f th ca d
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fo ur th q lifi t i (ii) t h m k f t h
ua ca o ns l q lifi t i e ar s or e s e v era ua ca o ns

w ul d b
o w d d in d p d t ly
e a ar f ll w ( t h t i t
e e en y) t
en h as o o s a s o sa e

m k f t h fi t q l ifi t i
ar s or by x mi t i f t h
e rs ua ca nd
on e a na on or e se c o

an d t hi d q lifi t i r
p t iv
ua ly by cab ll t
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en s o did t d f th f
e c an t h qu lifi t i n by
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e c an l ts f a e s sc oo an e re su o

th e a w d (t h t i t ar y t hs m k a b t is d by
o sa h di d
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o f c e se n a s so o n as o ss e or on
328 CE CI L JOHN RH ODE S
heredit a me n t s in o r arisin in t he parishes o f Da ham Ga z e ly g l
l
Mo u t o n Ous den an d H ar rav e in t he Co un t o f Suffo and g y lk
y
in t h e parish o f Ashl e in t he Co un t o f Cam rid e an d in any y b g
j
a d o inin g
o r n e i h o ur in p g b
a r ish o r
p a ris h e g
s a n d in c udi n t h e l g
Mano rs o f D enham Da ham c um Dunst a a nd B o vil s and t hel - -
ll l
v
a d o wso n o f Da ha m R e c t o r l y
a n d all m y t it he re n t c har e issu -
g
in g o u t o f any o f my s aid he redit am e n t s in any o f t he s aid parishes
a n d all o t h e r t he h e r e di t am en t s fo rmi n m y D a h am H a E s t a t e g l ll
l
whe t her in c u de d in t he pur c ha s e (n o w in c o u rs e o f c o m p e t io n ) l
b l k
fr o m S ir R o ert Aff e c B aro n e t o r s u s e u e n t a c uire d b q ly q by
g l
m e ( whi c h m es su a es an ds an d heredi t a me nt s a r e here in aft er
l
in c ude d in t he e xpr essio n Th e Da ham H a Es t a t e t o t he l ll
u s e s a nd s u bj
e c t t o t he po we rs an d pro v isio n s here in a ft e r c o n

t ain ed t hat is t o say

4 To t he
. us e o f m y b r o t he r Fr an c is Rho de s fo r hi s ife wit ho u t l
impeachment o f w as t e Wit h remainde r .

5 To t he
. us e o f hi s rst fi an d o t her s o n s s u c c e s siv e ly ac c o rd

in g t o s eni o rit y in t ai ma el l Wit h rem ainder .

6 To t he u se o f my ro t her Ern es t Fre de ric

. b
Rho d es fo r k
l
his ife wit ho u t imp ea chmen t o f wast e Wit h rem ain der .

7 To t he us e o f his r st
. fi a n d o t he r s o ns s u c c ess iv e ly ac c o rd

in g t o s enio rit in t ai m a e y l l Wit h re maind er .

8 . To t he use o f t he de v is e e s of my g e n era l r e sidu ar y es t a t e .

9 If. a ny here
p e rso n by
m ad e t en an t in t a a e o f t he il m l
l ll ll l v g
Da ham H a Es t at e sha be i in a t o r b e o rn in due t im e b
a ft e r m
y d e a t h t h e n I r e o e t h e esvk
t a t e in t ai m a e h ere l l by
l v y
imi t e d t o a ny and e er s u c h pe rso n and ins t e ad o f and by
b
w ay o f s u s t it u t io n fo r t he es t a t e in t ai m a e he re re o ed l l by v k
o f an
y p e r s o n I d e v ise ( fr ee d a n d di sc h a r e d as a fo r es aid ) t he g
l ll
Da ham Ha Es t a t e ( bu t s u e c t t o an d in re m ain d er a ft e r bj
g
t he es t a t e s prec e di n s u c h es t at e in t ai ma e ) To t he us e o f l l
l
t he sa m e pe rs o n fo r ife wit ho u t im pe ac hm e n t o f w as t e wit h
r e m a in de r To t he us e o f his r s t and o t he r s o n s su c c ess fi
g y
iv ely a c c o rdi n t o s e nio rit in t a i m a e wit h t he i e re m ain d e rs l l lk
o v er as a re here in e fo re b l
imi t ed a ft e r su c h re o e d e s t at e in vk
l
t ai m a e l .

10 . Where as l
I fe e t ha t it is t he es se n c e o f a pro per ife t ha t l
e erv y g
man S ho ul d durin so me su st an t ia pe rio d t here o f ha ve b l
fi
so m e de ni t e o c c u a t io n a n d I o
p e c t t o a n e xpe c t a n t heir bj
vl g
d e e o pin in t o what I c al a o a fe r l l
And whe re as t he re n t a l
o f t he D a h a m H a l ll
E s t a t e is n o t m o re t ha n s uf c ie n t fo r t he fi
 AP PE ND I X 329

main t en an c e o f t he e st a t e a n d m y e xpe rien c e is t hat o n e o f t he

g k g g
t hin s m a in fo r t he s t re n t h o f En an d is t he o wn ership o f gl
c o un t r y l
es t at e s w hic h c o u d m ain t ain t he di nit g y
a n d c o m fo r t

o f t h e he ad o f t he fa mi ly
bu t t hat t his po sit i o n has een abs o l b
u t el
y ruin e d by t h e p r ac t ic e o f c r ea t i n c ha g
p g
r es u o n t he es t a t es

e it he r fo r y g l
o un e r c hi dre n o r fo r t he p a m en t o f d e t s wher e y b by
t he es t at es b e c o m e in su ffic ie n t t o m a in t ain t h e h e a d o f t he

fami ly g y
in di nit an d c o mfo rt An d where a s I hum e ie e bly b l v
gl
t ha t o n e o f t he s ec r e t s o f En an d s s t re ngt h ha s een t he e xis t
’
b
l
e n c e o f a c as s t e rm e d The c o un t r an dl o rds y l who d e o t e v
t heir e ffo rt s t o t he m ain t en an c e o f t ho se o n t he ir o wn pr o pe rt y
An d wh ere a s t hi s is m y o wn e x perien c e No w t her e fo re I
dire c t t hat if an y pe rs o n who un d er t he imi t at io n s he r ein l
b efo r e c o n t ain ed sh a ll b l
ec o m e e n t it e d as t en an t fo r ife o r a s l
t enan t in t ai m a e l l by p u rc h a s e t o t h e p o ss ess io n o r t o t he

r e c e i t o f t he re n t s a n d
p p fi
r o t s o f t h e Da h a m H a E l
s t at e ll
sha ll g g
a t t em pt t o a s si n c har e o r in c um e r his in t e r es t in t he b
l ll
Da ham H a E s t a t e o r any p art t he re o f o r sha d o o r perm i t ll
a ny a c t o r t hin g
o r a n y e e n t sha v h a pp e n ll o r in c o n se by
q u e n c e o f w hi c h h e w o l
u d c e as e t o b e e n t it e d t o s u c h in t e r e s t l
gv
if t h e s am e w ere i en t o hi m a s o u t e b l ly
o r if an y su c h p e rs o n

a s a fo r es aid ( e x c e t in
p i g
n t hi s c a s e m y said r o t he rs F r an c isb
R ho des a n d E rn es t Fre d e ric k
Rho d e s ) (i) S ha n o t w hen he ll
s ha ll b l
e c o m e so e n t it ed a s afo r esaid ha v e ee n fo r a t b
e as t t e n l
c o n se c u t i e v y gg
e a rs e n a e d in s o m e pro fe s sio n o r u sin ess o r b
i
( )i if n o t t h e n e n a e gg
d i n so m e
p ro f e s si o n o r u s i b
n e ss a n d ( su c h

p ro fe s sio n o r u b
s in ess n o t b g
e in t h a t o f t he Ar m ) n o t t he n a s o y l
b
a m e m e r o f so m e mi i t ia o r l vl o un t e er c o r s sha
p n o t wi t hin ll
o ne y
ea r a ft e r b
ec o mi n g l
s o e n t it e d a s a fo r es aid o r ( ein an b g
y
in fan t ) wit hin o n e ear a ft e r a t t ainin t he a ge o f t w e n t o n e g y -

y ears whi c h e e r sha v ll l l

a st ha pp e n un e s s in an y c a se pr e e n t e d v
by b gg
d eat h e c o m e e n a e d in s o m e pro fessio n o r u sin ess an d b
( s u c h p ro fess io n o r u b
s in e s s n o t e in t h b g
a t o f t h e A rm ) a s o y l
b b
ec o m e a m em e r o f s o m e mi it ia o r l vl
o un t ee r c o rps o r ( iii )

l gg
s ha l di s c o n t inu e t o b e e n a e d in an y pro fe ssio n o r u sin e s s b
b e fo re h e sha ll v b gg
ha e e en en a e d fo r 10 c o n sec u t i e e ars in v y
so m e pro fessio n o r b
us in es s t hen a n d in ev er su c h c as e a n d y
ll
fo rt hwi t h if su c h perso n sha be t en an t fo r ife t hen his e s t a t e l
l
fo r ife sha a so u t e ll b l ly
d et ermin e a n d if t en an t in t a i m a e l l
l
t hen hi s es t at e in t ai ma e sha a so u t e l ll b l lyde t ermi n e an d t he
ll ll
Dalh am H a E st a t e sha bu t su e c t t o e s t at e s if any prio r bj
t o t he es t at e o f su c h perso n imm e di a t e g oly t o t h e p erso n n e x t

l
in re m ain d er un d er t he imi t a t io n s herein efo re c o nt ain e d in b
330 CE CI L JOHN RH ODE S
t he sa m em ann er as if in t he c as e o f a p ers o n who s e es t at e fo r
life is so m ad e t o d e t ermi n e t hat perso n w ere dea d o r in t he
c a s e o f a p e rs o n who se e s t a t e in t ai m a e is s o m ad e t o de t e r l l
min e w e re d ead an d t here w ere a en era fai ur e o f issu e o f t hat g l l
p e r so n in h er i t a e tbl
o t h e e s t a t e w hi c h is so m a d e t o d e t e rmin e .

Pro vide d t hat t he d e t e rmin a t io n o f a n es t a t e fo r ife sha n o t l ll

p re j
u di c e o r e ffe c t a n y c o n t in e n t r e m a ign d e rs e x p e c t a n t t h e r eo n

a n d t ha t a ft e r s u c h d e t e rmi n at io n t he Da ha m H a l
E s t at e sha ll ll
bj
bu t su ec t t o e s t a t es if any prio r as a fo res aid rem ain t o t he us e
o f t h e Tru s t ees a
pp o i n t e d m y by
s a id W i a n d t h e C o di c illt h e r e t o l
b
d a t ed t he 11t h d ay o f Oc t o e r 1 90 1 d urin t he r esidue o f t he g
life o f t he p ers o n who s e e s t at e fo r ife s o de t e rmin es u po n t rus t l
g l
durin t he residu e o f t he ife o f t hat p erso n t o pay t he r e n t s an d
p fi
r o t s o f t he Da h am H a l E s t a t ellt o o r
p er m i t t h e sa m e t o b e

r e c eiv e d byt he perso n o r p ers o n s fo r t he t im e e in e n t it ed b g l

b
un der t he limi t a t io ns herein e fo r e c o n t a in ed t o t he fir s t e st ed v
e s t a t e in r e m ain de r e x p e c t an t o n t he d e a t h o f t ha t rs o n
p e .

11 . I gi v e all arre ars o f r e n t s an d

p d u e t o me a t my ro fit s

d e at h a n d all Shares an d pro po r t io n s o f r en t s a nd pro t s n o t fi

ac t u a lly l
c u e bu t ac c ruin g
d u e a t my d eat h an d pa a e t o my y bl
e s t a t e a ft e r m
y d e a t h fr o m t he Da h am H a E s t a t l
e b ut s u ec t ll bj
y
t o p a m en t o f all o u t o in s pro per g g
c har e a e a ain s t t he ly g bl g
g
s a m e a nd n o t di sc har e d in m y ife t im e a n d a s o all m y wi n es l l
lq bl
i u o rs a n d c o nsuma e s t o res a t my deat h in o r a o u t Dal h am b
ll g
H a a n d a ll my c arria e ho rses harn e ss and s t a e fur ni t ure and bl
e ffe c t s a n d g
ard e n a n d farm in g lv
i e an d d e ad s t o c and e ffec s k t
whic h a t m y de at h sha ll
b e in o r a o u t Da ham H a l o r t he b l l
st a bl b
es t he re o f o r in o r a o u t a ny o t her part o f t h e Da h am H a l ll
b
E s t a t e t o my ro t he r Fra n c is Rho de s o r o t he r t he pers o n who
a t my d ea t h sh a ll b l
ec o m e e n t it e d t o t h e po ssess io n o r t o t he

r e c e i t o f t he re n t s a n d
p pr o t s o f t he D a h a fi
m H a E st at e l ll .

12 I . giv l l
my p a t e in en c hi n a as s o o s pic t u re s prin t s
e all gl b k
l
furni t ure an d art ic es o f ho u seho d use o r o rn am ent w hic h a t l
ll b
m y d e at h sha be in o r a o u t D a ham H a (her ein aft er re ferred l ll
t o as t he heir o o m s l
un t o t he Tru s t e e s n am e d in my s aid Wi ll
a n d Co di c i l
Upo n t ru st t ha t m y Tru s t e es o r Trus t ee sha a l o w ll l
j y
t he sam e t o b e us e d a n d e n o e d s o far a s t he law pe rmit s by
t he pe rs o n o r pe rso n s who un d e r t he imit a t io ns here in e fo re l b
co n t ain ed is o r are fo r t he t im e e in b g
in t he ac t u a po ssess io n l
o r in t he rec e i t o f t he r e n t s a nd
p pro t s o f t he Da ha m H a fi l ll
E s t a t e bu t s o t ha t t he heir o o ms shal n o t l
es t a s o u t e l v b l ly
in a ny pe rs o n ein b g
t e n an t in t ai m a e p u rc has e who l l by
332 CE CI L JOHN RH ODE S
13I di rec t t ha t wit hi n t w o ears aft e r m y deat h my Trus t e es
. y
o r Trus t e e sha l l by
m e an s o f m o n e s fo rmin part o f o r rais e d y g
by l gg
sa e o r m o rt a e o f my S o u t h Afri c an o er t
p p
r s it u at e o u t y
o f t he Unit e d Ki n d o m
p g
ay o ff an d di s cha r e a n
y in c u m r a n c es g b
o n t he D a h am H a l ll
E s t at e o r a ny part t he r eo f c reat e d me by
a n d e xi s t in g
a t m y d eat h a n d
p ro c ur e t he in c um e re d
p ro b
p e r t yt o b e fr e e d a n d di s c har e d f r o m s u c h in c u m rga n c es a n d b
ll
in t he m e an t im e sha o u t o f t he i e m o n e s pay t he in t e res t lk y
p a ay bl
e in r es e c t o f s u c h in c um r a n c es
p b .

14 . Whereas I am n o t s a t is fi ed t ha t t he fo rt un e of my sa id

b ro t he r Fran c is Rho des is hi m t o e ep u p

s uffi c ie n t to bl
en a e k
l l
t he Da h am H al E s t a t e t he re fo re I i e t o hi m o u t o f t he in c o m e gv
o f m y S o u t h Afric a n ro er t
p p y
s it u at e o u t o f t he Unit e d Kin do m g
a n a nn ui t of y du rin his ife but o n so gon l
as he sha l ly l g l
l l
b e e n t it e d t o t he a c t u a po s s es sio n o r t o t he re c eipt o f t he re n t s
and
p fi
ro t s o f t h e D a ha m H a E l
s t a t e u n d e r t he imit ll
a t io n s l
b
her ein e fo r e c o n t ain e d .

15 If a t my d e a t h t he a fo resaid purc hase fro m t he said S ir

.

R Aff e c
. l k sh a ll
n o t ha e v b
e e n c o m p e t e d t he n I di re c t m y l
Trus t e es o r Tru s t e e a t t he e x pe n s e o f m y S o u t h Afric an pro
p e rt y s it u a t e o u t o f t he Un it e d Kin d o m t o p ay t he pur c ha s e g
y
m o n e fo r an d in all res pe c t s t o c o m p e t e su c h pur c has e an d I l
g fi
iv e t he m o r him all su f c ien t po w e rs a n d a u t ho rit ie s t o e n a e bl
l
t he m o r hi m t o d o s o in c udin po wer t o r aise m o n e fo r s u c h g y
l by
c o mp e t io n gg
t he m o r t a e o f t he s aid pu rc has e d e s t a t e s u c h
gg b g
m o rt a e e in fo r t he pur po se o f c aus e 1 3 her e o f c o n sidere d l
b
a n in c u m ra n c e c re a t e d by
m e e xis t in a t m y de at h a n d I g
di r e c t t hat t h e purchas e d es t at e sha l b e c o n e e d t o t he Trus t e e s l vy
n am ed in my s aid Will t o u s e s n e c es s ar or ro e r t o
p p i e e ffe c t y gv
t o t his pr es en t Co di c i l bj
An d s u e c t a s a fo re s aid I c o n r m m v fi
s aid Wi ll l
a n d t he s aid C o di c i o f t h e 11 t h d ay o f O c t o er 1 90 1 b .

I N WI TN E S S whe r e o f I ha e her eun t o s e t my ha n d t his v

g J y
Ei ht een t h day o f an u ar On e t ho us and nin e hun dre d a n d t w o .

S ign d by t h
e lJ
Ce c i o hn R ho de s a s a n d
e s aid

l
fo r a se c o n d Co dic i t o his s aid Wil in t he l
re s e n ce o f u s pres e n t a t t he sa m e t im e
p C J R H ODES”
wh o a t his req u es t in hi s pr ese n ce a nd in
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t he prese n c e o f eac h o t he r ha e he re un t o v
b b
s u s c ri e d o ur n a m e s a s wit n ess e s .

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.

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S e r a n t s a t t he B ur in t o n H o t e l g l , W L o ndo n .
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.

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s a m e ri ht s a s L o rd Mi n er L o rd R o s e e rb y Mr . Mic hell L o rd
G yre Mr B e it a nd Mr H a w s e y
. . kl .

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Wit n ess
G J. . KR I E G E R .

A HE L AL E R
. .
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G v m t d fi t Mi i t y C t m D i i
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.

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l fi g
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K v d b J
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H l
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t i o n , 2 17; i i 5 6 ; o n n a t i v e fra n c h i s e , S ir e r c u e s , i 8 2 , 122 , 1 88 , 1 90 ,

fi
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l J
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d ll
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.

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ld F
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et se q R o t h s c h i , Ba r o n d e , i i 1 1 7; a n d
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yl
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l
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s io n , 306 et s e q ; h o m e ife a n d 122

ll dd
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c har ac t e r , ii 1 et s eq fo u r t h w i , R u M r C D , i 60 188 , 24 1 , 2 56
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,

1 6 ; a n d t h e B o n , 1 8 , 202 , 22 1 i n R u s C o n c e ss i o n , i 25 6, 259 , 2 67

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fi ll
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25 7, 2 75 , 2 86, 296, 3 1 3 ; is it t o t he S ca n l e n , S ir Th o ma s , i 98 , 132 , 14 1 ,

l g d y
.

S u t a n , 159 ; fr u i t fa rm in i n u s t r , 14 9, 1 5 3, 1 75 , 1 89 , 203 ; i i 10 7
l
. .

1 96 ; a n d S e e c t C o m m it t e e , 200 et S c h e r m b r u c ke r , C o l , ii 75 , 2 6 1 . . .

s e q ; i n R ho d e s ia , 2 04 ; a n d Pro
. S c h n a d ho rs t , M r , ii 4 7 . . .
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S c h re in e r , Mr C r o n w r igh t , i 229 S t o w , M r , i 1 85
l ky
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l d v
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. . S w a z i a n , i 2 25 i i 5 3 ; C o n . . e nt io n ,
18 6, 1 89 , 2 24 , 228 , 236, 240 109, 1 18 , 1 2 8, 1 30
g
.

Pr e m i e r , 2 4 1 , 258 , 25 9 ; r e si n a
t i o n , 2 82 2 8 3 -
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S e c h e l e C o n c e ss io ns S n ica t e , i 324 .
Te n n an t , S i r Da v i , i 9 1 u 1 8 4 . . .

S e c o c o e n i , i 73 Th e r o n , M r , i i 1 0 7, 1 86 , 1 9 1
F d v l F k
. . .
. .

S e c r e t S e r v ic e u n s , Tr a n s aa , i i .
Th o m p s o n , M r r a n , i 24 1

y
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l H lg y
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S e e c t C o m mit t e e o f o us e o f Co m r a n s c o n t i n e n t a l Te e r a p h S s t e m ,
m o n s o n t he Ra i , ii 1 88 , 200 , 206 d i 2 76 ; ii 6 1 , 63 65 , 1 1 2 , 2 1 4 , 223,
l F
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.

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g g ll
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M g F
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d fi
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l
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S i ve w r i g h t , S i r 2 68 , 2 8 4 .
m a t u m , 2 68
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l l
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U k v
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g m o m aas r i e r , i 2 8
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S t Pa n c r a s , c o nn e c t io n w i t h R h o e s .

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TH E END

Pr i nt e d b y T . a nd A . C O N s TAs L s , Pr i nt e rs t o H is Maj e s t y
at t h e Ed in bu r gh Uni ve rs it y Pre ss
 T e l e r am sg an d M a dd o x S t r e e t ,
S c ho l ar l y , L o n d o n
W
.

Bo n d S t r e e t , L o n d o n , .

T e le p h o n e
N o veméer , 1
9 10
N o 1 8 8 3 M ay fair
. .

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L I ST OF N EW BO O
1 10
9 .

TH E L I F E O F T H E RI G HT H ON .

CE CIL JO H N R H O D E S ,

I 8 53 —
1
9 0 2 .

B y t he Hon . S ir L E W I S MI C H E L L ,

ME MB R OF
E T HE E XE C U T V OUN C L
I E C I , CA P OLON Y
E C .

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, 30 5 . ne t .

k ll k
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a n I n t im a t e p e rs o n a fr ie n d o f M r R h o d e s fo r ma n .
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it , e e n t h o s e w h o n e e r m e t M r R h o de s c an w e . u n de r s t a n d t h e ll
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m a ic in ue n c e h e s e e m e d t o e x e rt u po n al l w h o c a m e in c o n t a c t
w it h hi m in his ife t im e l -
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L O ND O N : E D WA RD A RN O L D , 4 1 43 MAD D O X S T R E E T , W .
 M r E dw a r d A r n o ld s A u tumn
.
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TH E RE MINI SC E N C E S O F A D MI R A L
MON T A G U .

Wit h I llust ra t io ns . O ne Vo lume . D emy 8vo .

, clo t h . 15
55 . net .

g b k
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g l g v b
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and o t h e rs . l g g
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ly
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.

p e r s l
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q ul a it ie s
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t o s ay a o u t s h o o t in , s h in , h u n t in , a n d c ric e t , a n d h is k
l g
s t o rie s o f ife in t h e y re a t c o u n t r h o u s e s w h e r e h e w as a fr e q u e n t
g v fl v
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c hild r e n infi l v
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o f t he re a l l b
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l v g ly
e x p o it s a n d a d e n t ure s , o f w h ic h a b ood n u m e r fe ll t o h is l o t .

C L A R A NO VE LLO S RE MINI SC E N C E S
’

W it h an I n t ro d u c t o r y M e m o ir by
ARTH UR DUKE CO LE RIDGE .

I llus t rat ed . One Vo lume . D emy 8120 , 10 5. 6d . ne t .

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l b g l y l
.

C ha r es L a m a n d a ll m an n e r o f dis t in u is h e d it e rar a n d m u s ic a
p pe o l e w e r e fre q u e n t g
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, c lo t h .
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Wit h Pho t ogravure I l lust ra t io ns . C ro wn 8110 .

55 . net .

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D emy 8o o .
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t h at t h e ro a d t o s u c c e s s is by v l g
d e e o p in t o t h e u t m o s t o u r o rdina ry
p o w e r s a n l
d fa c u t ie s ,
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T H E D E VE L O P M E N T O F
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A A E ETC .

I l lust ra t ed . D emy 8vo .

, c lo t h . 10 5 . 6d . net .

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t h o u h c o n c r e t e i l u s t r a t io n s a r e i e n t o m a e c e a r t h e p rin c ip e s gv k l l
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. o u m e s in c o n t e m p a t io n in v l l
w hic h t h e A u t h o r p r o p o s e s t o d e a w it h t h e O l d T e s t a m e n t a n d t h e l
ly
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in un t e c h n ic a l l g g
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l
s a c re d it e r a t u re s .

H O W T O D E A L W I TH L A D S .

21 b anb bo o k o f C hurc h W o rk .

B y t he R ev . P E TE R G R E E N , MA . .
,

RE CTOR OF C R D R N TY SA E T I I , SA LFOR D .

W it h a P r e fa c e by t h R ig h t R e ev . L O RD B I S H O P O F
G L O U C E S TE R .

C ro wn 8o o .
, clo t h. 2 5 . 6d . net .

b k w h i h h l d b f l i t t d v l t ll w h
T his oo , c s ou e o rea n e re s an a ue o a o
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a or n o ro e e en e ea es a

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s A u t umn A nno unc eme n ts .

NE W N O VE L S .

H OWA RD S E ND .

By E . M F O RS TE R
.
,

A U T HOR OF ‘
A R OO M T H WI A Vi E w ,
’
TH E L ON G ST JO U RN Y
E E ,
’
E TC .

C r o wn cl o t h . 63 .

R e a d e rs o f Mr F o rs t e r s fo r m e r o o s, o f A R o o m w it h a Vie w
.
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fr o m s o fac i e a n d fe lic it io u s a p e n In H o w ar ds E n d t h e a ut ho r
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y l
h a s al r e a d S h o wn h im s e f s o m u c h o f an a de p t .

TH E RE T URN .

By W AL TE R D E L A MA RE .

C ro wn c lo t h. 65 .

T h e R e t u rn is t h e s t o ry o f a m a n s u d de n c o n fro n t e d , a s if ly by
t h e c a p ric e o f c h a n c e , w i t h a n o rde a l t h a t c u t s h im a dr ift fro m e e ry v
l
c e r t a in h o d h e h a s u p o n t he w o r d imm e dia t e l
a ro u n d h im He ly .

b e c o me s ac u t e ly
c o n s c io u s o f t h o s e u n s e e n po w e rs w hic h t o m a n , y
l y g
w h e t h e r in r e a it o r in im a in a t io n , a r e a t a l l t im e s a u e p r e s e n t, v g ly
h a u n t in gl h h i
ife w it t e r in ue n c e s fl I n t h is s o l it u d
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t h e m in d w h ic h t h e b
u s in e s s o f e v e ry da ife c o n fu s e s a n d d ri e s yl v
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e s t he c an , an d ro p e s h is w a y t h r o u h h isg g
l
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l
c e a re r an d q u ie t e r k l g
no w e d e o f se f l .
 Mr . E dwa r d A r n o l d s A n tu mu A n no unc emen ts
’
.

TH E LI TT LE G R A Y M A N .

By j A N E W ARDL E
U T H OR OF S U LO R R G R Y G ON
,

MA
’
T H E PA " F
’
A E WE , E PI E , E TC .

C ro wn c lo t h. 68 .

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vl v
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a t e s t n o e , T h e L it t e G r a l y
M a n w hic h M is s W a rd e h e rs e f e lie e s ,
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t o c o n t ai n t h e e st w o r b k
s h e h a s s o fa r p r o du c e d, it w i b e fo un d ll
t h a t s h e ha s a s s u c c e s s fu l a o id e d t h e ly v
a d o n e s ide d n e s s o f m is bl -

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G ra M an c o n t a in s o t h r e a is m a n d ro m an c e in fu m e a s u re , in t h e
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t ru e r s e n s e o f o t h w o r d s T h e s c h e m e o f t he o o is in it s e f n o e ,
. b k l vl
t h e in t r i u e g b g
e in s e t o u t in t h e w o r d s o f o n e o f t h e c h ara c t e r s — a

s u p re m e s ly lfi
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w it h t h e n o bl
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l vv
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. l v -
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s t o r , in c o n u n c t io n w it h an e x c it in
‘
p o t
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g l .

TH E P U R S UI T .

B y F R A N K S AV I L E ,
A U T H OR O F S E E KE RS ,
’
TH E D E S RT V N T UR
E E E,
’
E TC .

C ro wn c lo t h . 65 .

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e n g t ih
n appe d, t o w hic h t h e ir re a r c es

ex p m l
o se st i m ill i i u i -
v y l
o n a re s , i s t at ly b i g er re a o ne, s c o n s an e n

re a ffi m d i t h
r e p tn t h t e preb l i h
or s d f t h a l b t
a re
p u s e o e e a o ra e re

c au ti m y fth m t k t p
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e a e l lib t y I it
o re s e r e e r e rs o n a er . n s

p t
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ase , i t h ge ret w l t
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c a e— t h o c e er ra s c a s o n e o e r,

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t h i fi l d b t hi
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w t l u h ld pl s ne h im w l l i t h f
a e s ou t k ac e e n e ro n ra n s

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con e y m o ra r Th p t g i t
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ld t b f i t ou d no t d m b t t h pl t
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en - a r l f m d a e d v
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c h t
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so e re a u -
oo e a n .
1 8 Mr . E dw a r d A r n o ld s A n t u mu A n no unc e men t s
’
.

NE W S C I E N TI FI C B O O KS .

PHYSICAL CHE M I STRY .

S t e B e aring on fi io io gg ano IB e Oic ine .

ByJ AM E S C P H I L I P, M A PH D B se
SS S T N T RO F SS OR P R T M N T OF H M ST R Y M P R L OLL G O F
. . . . .
, , .
,
.

A P DE C I C
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S C NC
IE CH NOLO GY
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TE
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.
, E IA E E

3 12
11
11 . C ro wn c lo t h .
7s . 6d . net .

Th e ad v y l
f P h s ica C h e m is t ry h a e an im mr t a n t e arin
an c e s o v b g
o n t he st u dy
o f al l i in lv g
s t ru c t ur e s, w h e t h e r in c u d e d u n d e r B io o gy , l l
y
B o t a n , o r Ph s io o p pry l gy
o e r T h e p r e s e n t o o . i e s t h e r e s u l t s b k gv
o f t h e m o s t m o d e rn r e s e a r c h e s in t h e a
pp i c a t i o n o f h
p y s ic o c h e m ic a l -
l
la w s t o t h e p r o c e s s e s w hic h are c h ara c t e r is t ic o f t h e li in o r an is m , v g g
l
a n d i l u s t ra t i e e x a m v
p e s a r e s p e c i a ll l c h o s e n fr o m t h e e d s oyf fil
b l gy
io o , p h s io o y l g
y a n d m e d ic in e A n e e m e n t a r n o w e
. d e o f l y k l g
p y
h s ic s , c h e m i y
s t r , a n d m a t h e m a t ic s is a o n e a ss u m e d in t h e r e a d e r l .

TH E P R A CT I C A L D E S I G N O F
MO T OR C A R S -
.

B y JAME S G U N N
CTUR R WON STM OOFTOR C OT L NNDG N CHRNNCG L OLL G
LE E
AN D E
-

S
C AR E
A
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TE
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C
,

E
G LA S Go w
E .

F ully I l lus t ra t ed . D emy 8 110 . 10 5 . 6d . net .

A b kf oo o r a ll de s i g
d ra u h t s m e n e n a e d in t h e p rac t ic a
n e r s an d g g g l
l g
m an u fa c t u r e o f p e t r o e n in es a n d C h a s s is fo r m o t o r c a r s E ac h -
.

p a r t o f t h e m e c h a n i s m i s t a e n in d e t a il , a nkd t h e e a di n t yp es o f t h e l g
v ar io us p a rt s a r e c o m p ar e d a n d d is c u s s e d , o ft e n w i t h c r it ic is m a se d b
o n e x c e p t io n a l
e x p e ri e n c e in p r a c t i c e , y e t a w a s w it h o u t ias o r l y b
p r e j
u d ic e T h.e s im p e d e s c p l
ri t io n s a n d c l e ar dia r a m s w i a so g ll l
re n d e r t h e oo b kof vl
a u e t o t h e n o n t e c hn ic a l m a n , w h o a s o w n e r o r -

p r o s p ec t i e u v b y
e r o f a c ar i s i n t e re s t e d i n it s m ec h a n is m .

MO D E RN M E TH O D S O F W A T E R
P U RI FI C A T ION .

By JO HN DON E ,
NG .
,

A d JO HN C HIS H O L M n .

I llus t r a t ed . D emy 8110 . 155 . net .

Mr Do n . w ho s e
pa p e r o n
, T h e F i t ra t io n a n d P u ri c a t io n o f
‘
l fi
W a t e r fo r P u ic S u pp bl w as s e e c t e d ly
t he C o u nc i o f t h e I n s t i l by l
t u t io n o f M e c h a n ic a l E n in e e r s fo r t h e g
r s t a w ar d o f t h e
‘
W at e r fi
b
Ar it ra t io n P r iz e , h as h e r e c o ll a o ra t e d w i t h M r C h is h o m , t h e
’
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g
m a n a e r o f t h e Air d rie , C o a t r id e a n d D is t ri c t W a t e r W o r s b g k .

The oo b k l
w i l in t e r e s t , n o t o n t h e w a t e r e n in ee r a n d P u lic ly g b
fi l
H e al t h O f c e r , b u t a so a l l w h o r e c o n iz e t he p a ra m o u n t im po rt a n c e g
t o m o d e r n t o w n s o f a w a t e r s upp a o e s u s p ic io n A fu -
ly b v . ll
v
d e s c rip t io n is g i e n o f m o d e rn m e t h o d s o f t r a t io n fil .
 Mr E d w a rd A r n o ld s N ew B o o ks
’
20 . .

R E C E N TL Y P UB L I S H E D .

WAR AN D T HE ARME B L AN C H E .

B y E R S KI N E C H I L D E R S , E dit o r o f Vo l V . . Of T he T i m e s
H is t o ry o f t h e W a r in S o u t h A fr ic a
’
.

W it h I n t r o d u c t io n by L O RD R O B E RT S .
7s . 6d . n et .

W he t h e r h e be r i gh t or w ro ng , M r C h i de r s l ’
s su b j ec t is fi
s u f c ie n t ly se r i o u s,
d vi ly vi d
.

an d h is in ic t me n t o f p re s e n t e w s s u ffi c ie n t con n c in g, t o c o m m an a t t e n t io n
a n d a n a n sw e r e q u a lly l o gi c a lly ar g u e d .
’
—S
p ect a to r.

A C R O SS TH E S AH A R A .

F R O M T R I PO L I To B O RNU .

B y H A N N S VI S C H E R , M A Po lit ic a l . .
, v
S e r ic e , N o r t h e r n N i g e ria .

W it h I ll u s t ra t io n s a n d a Ma p 12 5 . . 6d . net .

M r Vis c h e r
.
'
s n arra t i v e is o ne o f e n t h r a in ll g i n t e re s t .
’
— D ail G r a hic
y p .

A S UM M E R O N T H E C A N A D I AN PR A I R I E .

B y G E O R G I N A B I N N I E C L AR K .

S e c o n d I m p r e s s io n . W it h I ll u s t ra t io n s . C ro w n 8V0 .
, 68 .

Mi ss C l k ll
ar te s t he sto r y
f t w o E n g i s h g ir s
o rs t i s it t o C a n a l l fi v ’
d a w it h a
l igh t n es s a n d li y r ea t k
o f t o u c h t h a t m a e i t m o r e r e a d a b e t h an m a n a l y no vl e .
’

D a ily M ail .

A H I ST O R Y O F T H E L O N D O N H O S PI T A L .

B y E W M O R R I S S e c r e t a ry o f t h e H o s p it a l
. .
, .

W it h n u m e r o u s I ll u s t ra t io n s 65 n e t . . .

A N N E D O UG L A S S E D G WI C K S N E
’
W N O VE L .

F R A N KL I N KA N E .

B y AN N E D O U G L A S S E D G W I C K, A u t ho r of
‘
Va l e rie U pt o n ,
’

A m a e C h a nn ic e , e t c bl ’
. Os .

A fig v
u r e n e e r t o be fo r g o t t e n —S t andard ’

y d
. .

Th e r e a r e n o s t e r e o t p e p a t t e r n s h e r e — D a i ly C hro n icl e
’

v y l dy
. .

A e r g ra c e fu an d c h ar m in g c o m e —M a nchest er G ua rdia n .
'
.

A ST E PS O N O F TH E SO I L .

By M A RY J . H S KR I N E
. .

S e c o n d I m p re s s io n . 65 .

M r s S kr in e s ad mi ra b
’
l vl i e no e s f t h o se u n fo rt u n a t e
o ne o ra re bo o s ly k
g h h d f l
.

w hi c h , w i t h o u t e x t e n u a t in a c t s o f l I fe m a i n t a i n a n d r a is e o n e s be ie f
'
t e ar

y i im p l l ly
,

i n h u m an n a t ur e Th e sto r s s e b u t t h e m a n n e r o f i t s t e li ng is a d m ira b
ly v v
. ,

m mo n H e r po r t r ai t s q u it e e x t ra o r di n a r i i id — S pec t a t o r
'
unc o . a re . .

L O N DO N : E D W AR D A R N O L D , 4 1 43 M A D D O X S TR E E T , W .