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V ol. 9 , N o.6 (L ette r # 94)"Mv People Are Destroyed For Lack Of Knowledge" HOSEA 4:6

J un e 1 99 4fonOR: Samuel L BlumenfeldThe purpose of this newsletter is to provide knowledge for parents and educators who want to save the children of Americafrom the destructive forces that endanger them. Our children in the public schools are at grave risk in 4 ways: academically,spiritually, morally, and physically - and only a well-informed public will be able to reduce these risks."Without vision, the people perish."

The R hodes Legacy :A re Its A gen ts S hap ing Am erica 's D es tin y?

On June 8, 1994,President Clinton re-turned to Oxford University for what theN ew York Tim es (6/9/94) called "asentimen-tal journey to the university where he didn'tinhale, didn't get drafted and didn't get adegree." The Times article goes on:

The last got rectified by Oxford University in aceremony conducted by men in black gowns speak-ing Latin in a 325-year-old stone building designed byChristopher Wren. Mr. Clinton, who studied politicsat University College as a Rhodes Scholar from thefall of 1968 to the spring of 1970, was awarded anhonorary doctorate in civil law .

At the gilded Sheldonian Theater, the univer-sity Chancellor, Lord Jenkins of Hillhead, read thetext of the degree in Latin, featuring eight clausesbeginning with Whereas, one Therefore and oneWitness Whereof. Lord Jenkins said Mr. Clinton washonored for being "a doughty and tireless championof the cause of world peace," for having "a powerfulcollaborator in his wife," and for winning "generalapplause for his achievement of resolving gridlockwhich prevented an agreed budget." ...

Hillary Rodham Clinton was given a claret jugwith a Latin inscription hailing her as "the Lady incharge of Universal Health."

After a reception at Rhodes House the Clin-tons visited Blackwell's bookstore andbrowsed. TheUniversity had issued a list ofthe books Clinton had borrowed from theUniversity College library, which included"Presidential Leadership, the Political Rela-tions ofCongress and the Chief Executive,"Clinton also walked around the universitygrounds with his old Oxford roommate,Robert Reich,Secretary ofLabor. The Timesarticle continues:

The President had originally planned to visitOxford when he was in England the weekend beforethe commemoration of the 50th anni versary ofD-Dayin Normandy. But the White House changed the stopto the end of the President's European trip, presuma-bly to avoid having embarrassing stories about Mr.Clinton's activities as aVietnam protester crop up theeve of D-Day. Mr. Clinton arrived in England in 1968as a 22-year-old Rhodes Scholar, just out of Geor-getown University in Washington, at the height of theVietnam War.By his own admission, it was here that Mr.Clinton rode out part of the war, and it was here hewrote the now infamous letter to the commander ofthe Reserve Officer Training Corps back home inArkansas - "Thank you for saving me from the

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hoped to maintain his "political viability."The young Oxford student said in that letter, "lam writing too in the hope that my telling this onestory will help you to understand more dearly how somany fine people have come to find themselves stillloving their country but loathing the military." ...George Stephanopoulous, a 33-year-old Presi-dential aide who was also a Rhodes scholar at Oxford,said Mr. Clinton did not get his degree because heswitched from one program to another, ultimatelypursuing a B.Phil. in Politics, and had a year left to goto get a graduate degree when the opportunity cameup to go to Yale Law School.A Rhodes scholarship provides for two years ofstudy atOxford University, with the third year grantedby application. Most Rhodes Scholars earn degreesduring their time at Oxford, and all are expected to re-main full-time students until they complete theirprograms, but Mr. Clinton is not the only one to haveleft after two years without having done so.

Obviously, a lot ofpeople who voted forClinton thought he was just a good old boyfrom a backward Southern state whowouldn't do much harm in the White Houseand would certainly not promote socialism.Butthe simple fact isthat Clintonhas been onthe high road to Establishment power sincehis days at Georgetown where his historyprofessor, Carroll Quigley, wrote the bookon how tobecome one of the EstablishmentInsiders. And now that the President of theUnited States is a Rhodes Scholar, there is agrowing interest in what that means andwhy so many Rhodes Scholars are in keypositions of power in America.

According toQuigley, all of this startedin 1870 with the appointment ofJohn Ruskinas professor of fine arts at Oxford. Quigleywrites in Tra ged y a nd H op e C p . 130):

[Ruskin] hit Oxford like an earthquake, not somuch because he talked about fine arts, but becausehe talked also abou t the empire and England's down-trodden masses, and above all because he talkedabout all three of these things as moral issues. . . .Ruskin spoke to the Oxford undergraduates asmembers of the privileged, ruling class. He told themthat they were the possessors of a magnificent tradi-tion of education, beauty, rule of law, freedom, de-

cency, and self-discipline but that this tradition couldnot be saved, and did not deserve to be saved, unlessit could be extended to the lower classes in Englanditself and to the non-English masses throughout theworld ....Ruskin' smessage had a sensationalimpact. Hisinaugural lecture was copied out in longhand by oneundergraduate, Cecil Rhodes, who kept itwith himfor thirty years. Rhodes (1853-1902) feverishly ex-ploited the diamond and goldfields of South Africa,rose to be prime minister of the Cape Colony (1890-1896).... With financial support from Lord Rothschildand Alfred Beit, he was able to monopolize the dia-mond mines of South Africa as De Beers Consoli-dated Mines and to build up a great gold miningenterprise as Consolidated Gold Fields. In the middleof 1890's Rhodes had a personal income of at least amillion pounds sterling a year (then about five mil-lion dollars) which was spent so freely for his myste-rious purposes that he was usually overdrawn on hisaccount. These purposes centered on his desire tofederate the English-speaking peoples and to bringall the habitable portions of the world under theircontrol. For this purpose Rhodes left part of his greatfortune to found the Rhodes Scholarships at Oxfordin order to spread the English ruling class traditionthroughout the English-speaking world as Ruskinhad wanted.

Quigley goes on to explain how a jour-nalist by thenameofWilliamT.SteadbroughtRuskin's disciples atOxford into associationwith Rhodes, the result being the formationof a secret society on February 5, 1891 of.which Rhodes had been dreaming for six-teen years. Quigley writes:

In this secret society Rhodes was to be leader;Stead, Brett (Lord Esher), and [Alfred] Milner were toform an executive committee; Arthur (Lord) Balfour,(Sir) Harry Johnston, Lord Rothschild, Albert (Lord)Grey, and others were listed as potential members ofa "Circle of Initiates"; while there was to be an outercircle known as the "Association of helpers" (laterorganized by Milner as the Round Table organiza-tion) .... Thus the central part ofthe secret SOcietywasestablished by March 1891. ... This group was able toget access to Rhodes's money after his death in 1902

Rhodes died onMarch 26,1902 inSouthAfrica. On April 9, 1902, the New York Tim es

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published the following story on its frontpage:

MR . R HODES 'S ID EA L OFA N G L O -S A X O N G R E A T N E S SStatement of His Aims, Written for

W. T. Stead in 1890.He Believed aWealthy Secret Society

Should Work to Secure the World's Peaceand a British-American FederationLONDON, April 9.-An article on the RightHan. Cecil J.Rhodes, by William T.Stead, will appearin the forthcoming number of The American Reviewof Reviews. The article, excerpts from which follow,

consists of a frank, powerful explanation of Mr.Rhodes's views on America and Great Britain, and forthe first time sets forth his own inmost aims. It waswritten mainly by himself for Mr. Stead in 1890. Fororiginality and breadth of thought it eclipses even hisnow famous will, yet it is merely a collection ofdisjointed ideas, hurriedly put together by "TheColossus," as a summary of a long conversation be-tween himself and Mr. Stead. In those days Mr. Steadwas not only one of Mr. Rhodes's most intimatefriends, as indeed he was till the last, but also hisexecutor. Mr. Stead's name was only removed fromthe list of the trustees of Mr. Rhodes's will on accountof the Boer war, which forced the two men into suchvehement political opposition. Of this episode Mr.Stead says:"Mr. Rhodes's action was only natural, and,from an administrative point of view, desirable, anditin no way affected my attitude as political confidantin all that related to Mr. Rhodes's world-wide policy."In its three columns of complex sentences thewhole of Mr. Rhodes's international and individualphilosophy is embraced. Perhaps it can best besummarized as an argument in favor of theorganization of a secret society, on the lines of theJesuit order, for the promotion of the peace andwelfare of the world, and the establishment of anAmerican-British federa Han, with absolu tehome rulefor the component parts."I ama bad writer," says Mr. Rhodes in one partof what might be called his confession, "but throughmy ill-connected sentences you can trace the lay ofmyideas, and you can give my idea the literary clothingthat is necessary."

RHODES'S ROUGH NOTES UNEDITED.But Mr. Stead wisely refused to edit or dress itup, saying:"I think the public will prefer to have theserough, hurried, and sometimes ungrammatical notes

exactly as Mr. Rhodes scrawled them off, rather thanhave them supplied with literary clothing by anyoneelse." Mr. Rhodes began by declaring that the "key" tohis idea for the development of the English-speakingrace was the foundation of "a society copied, as toorganization, from the Jesuits." Combined with "adifferential rate and a copy of the United StatesConstitution," wrote Mr. Rhodes, "should be hornerule or federation." An organization formed on theselines in the House of Commons, constantly workingfor decentralization and not wasting time on trivialquestions raised by "Dr. Tanner, or the importantmatter of O'Brien's breeches," would, M r. Rhodesbelieved, soon settle the all-important question of themarkets for the products of the empire"The labor question," Mr. Rhodes wrote, "isimportant, but that is deeper than labor."

THE MENACE TO BRITISH TRADEAmerica, both in its possibilities of alliance andits attitude of commercial rivalry, was apparentlyever present in Mr. Rhodes's mind. "The world, withAmerica in the forefront," he wrote, "is devising

tariffs to boycott your manufactures. This is the su-preme question. I believe that England, with fairplay, should manufacture for the world, and, being afree trader, I believe that, until the world comes to itssenses, you should declare war, I mean a commercialwar, with those trying to boycott your manufactures.That is my programme. You might finish the war bya union with America and universal peace after ahundred years." But toward securing this millen-nium Mr. Rhodes believed the most important factorwould be "a secret society, organized like Loyola'S,supported by the accumulated wealth of those whoseaspiration is a desire to do something," and whowould be spared the "hideous annoyance" daily cre-ated by the thought to which "of their incompetentrelations" they should leave their fortunes. Thesewealthy people, Mr. Rhodes thought, would thus begreatly relieved and be able to tum "their ill-gotten orinherited gains to some advantage."Reverting to himself, Mr. Rhodes said:"It is a fearful thought to feel you possess a

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Education Letter, Pg. 4, June 1994 ~--~.-------.--patent, and to doubt whether your life will last youthrough the circumlocution of the Patent Office. Ihave that inner conviction that if I can live I havethought out something that is worthy of being regis-tered in the Patent Office. The fear is sha11I have timeand opportunity? And I believe with all the enthusi-asm bred in the soul of an inventor, that it is not selfglorification that I desire, but the wish to live andregister my pa tent for the benefit of those who I thinkare the greatest people the world has ever seen, butwhose fault is that they do not know their strength,their greatness, or their destiny, but who are wastingtheir time in minor or local matters; but being asleep,do not know that through the invention of steam andelectricity, and, in view of their own enormous in-crease, they must now be trained to view the world asa whole, and not only to consider the social questionsof the British Isles. Evena Labouchere who possessesno sentiment should be taught that the labor of Eng-land is dependent on the outside world, and that, asfar as I can see, the outside world, if he does not lookout, will boycott the result of English labor."Once again the personal feelings of the mancrop out. "They are calling the new country Rhode-sia," he wrote. "I find Iam human, and should like tobe living after my death. Still, perhaps, if that name iscoupled with the object of England everywhere itmay convey the discovery of an idea which willultimately lead to the cessation of all wars, and onelanguage throughout the world, the patent being thegradual absorption of wealth and human minds ofthe higher order to the object."

Here Mr. Rhodes used the sentence, cabled toAmerica, in Mr. Stead's article of April 4:''What an awful thought it is that if,even now,we could arrange with the present members of theUnited States Assembly and our House of Commonsthe peace of the world would be secured for alleternity! We could hold a Federal Parliament, fiveyears in Washington and five in London."Mr. Rhodes added:"The only thing feasible to carry out this idea isa secret society gradually absorbing the wealth of theworld, to be devoted to such an object.""There is Baron Hirsch," interpolated Mr.Rhodes, "with twenty millions, very soon to cross theunknown border and struggling in the dark to knowwhat to do with this money, and so one might go onad infinitum.""Fancy," Mr. Rhodes goes on to say, "the charmto Young America, just coming on, and dissatisfied,for they have filled up their own country and do notknow what to tackle next, to share in a scheme to takethe government of the whole world. The presentPresident [Mr. Harrison] is dimly seeing it; but his

horizon is limited to the New World, north and south,and so he would intrigue in Canada, Argentina, andBrazil, to the exclusion of England. Such a brainwants but little to see the true solution. He is stillgroping in the dark, but very near the discovery, forthe American has been taught the lesson of home ruleand of the success of leaving the management of thelocal pump to the parish beadle. He does not burdenhis House of Commons with the responsibility ofcleansing the parish drains. The present position ofthe English House is ridiculous. You might as wellexpect Napoleon to have found time to have person-ally counted his dirty linen before he sent it to thewash and to have recounted itupon its return."It would have been better for Europe if Napo-leon had carried out his idea ofa universal monarchy.He might have succeeded if he had hit upon the ideaofgranting self-government to the component parts."

COUNTRIES "FOUND WANTING"Dealing with the "sacred duty of the English-speaking world of taking the responsibility for thestill uncivilized world," and commenting upon thenecessary departure from the map of such countriesas Portugal, Persia, and Spain, "who are found want-ing," Mr. Rhodes said:"What scope! What a horizon of work for thenext two centuries for the best energies of the bestpeople in the world!"In regard to tariffs, Mr. Rhodes was characteris-

tically positive."I note," he wrote, "with satisfaction that thecommittee appointed to inquire into the McKinleytariff, reports that in certain articles our trades havefallen off 50 per cent. Yet the fools do not see that ifthey do not look out they will have England shut outand isolated with 90,000,000 to feed and capable ofinternally supporting about 6,000,000. If they had astatesman they would at the present moment becommercially at war with the United States until shecame to her senses; and I say this because I am a freetrader. Your people have not known their greatness.They possess one fifth of the world and do not knowit is slipping away from them. They spend their timein discussing Mr. Parnell and Dr. Tanner, the charac-ter ofSirCharles DUke, compensation for beer houses,and omne hoc genus. Your supreme question atpresent is the seizure of the labor vote for the nextelection. Read the Australian bulletins and see whereundue pandering to the labor vote may lead you. But,at any rate, the eight-hour question is not possiblewithout a union of the English-speaking world; oth-

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crwise you drive your manufactures to Belgium,Holland, and Germany, just as you have placed agreat deal of cheap shipping trade in the hands ofItaly by your stringent shipping regulations." Stead,commenting on this, says:"It is rough and inchoa te and almost as uncou thas one of Cromwell's speeches, but the central ideaglows luminous throughout. Its ideal is the promo-tion of racial unity on the basis of the principlesembodied in the American Constitution.

Carroll Quigley writes in Trag ed y a nd H op e(p, 950): "I know of the operations of thisnetwork because I have studied it for twentyyears and was permitted for two years, in theear Iy 1960's, to examine its papers and secretrecords. I have no aversion to it and to manyof its instruments. I have objected, both inthe past and recently, to a few of its policies. .. but in general my chief difference ofopinion is that it wishes to remain unknown,and I believe its role in history is Significantenough to be known."

"They are calling the new country Rhodesia,"he wrote. "I find that Iam human, and should like tobe living after my death. Still, perhaps, if that name iscoupled with the object of England everywhere itmay convey the discovery of an idea which willultimately lead to the cessation of all wars, and onelanguage throughout the world, the patent being thegradual absorption of wealth and human minds ofthe higher order to the object."'The only thing feasible to carry out this idea isa secret society gradually absorbing the wealth of the

world, to be devoted to such an object."Rhodes knew instinctively that only bycontrolling the wealth of the world could the

scheme become a reality. That meant bring-ing the rich into the plan to initially financethe scheme, and then gaining control of theworld's economy. The great foundations-Carnegie, Rockefeller, Ford, etc. - are allpromoting world government, and themultinational corporations have also becomepart of the scheme. The income tax hasdrained the general population of the cashneeded to stage any significant opposition tothe New World Order. The income tax wasalso needed to replace tariffs as the govern-ment's chief source of revenue. Rhodes be-lieved in free trade, and that is why theInternationalists have pushed throughGATT, NAFTA, and the Ee (EuropeanCommuni ty) as necessary steps towardworld federation.

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There we have Rhodes's plan for worldfederation financed and ruled by the Eng-lish-speaking nations of the world, which isexactly the direction we are going in. Theimportant ideas in that Times ar ticlejust aboutleap off the page:Perhaps itcan best be summarized as an argu-ment in favor of the organization of a secret society,On the lines of the Jesuit order, for the promotion ofthe peace and welfare of the world, and the establish-ment of an American-British federation.Mr. Rhodes began by declaring tha t the "key" tohis idea for the development ofthe English-speakingrace was the foundation of "a society copied, as toorganization, from the Jesuits."Buttoward securing this millenni um Mr. Rhodesbelieved the most important factor would be "a secret

society, organized like Loyola's, supported by theaccumulated wealth of those whose aspiration is adesire to do something," and who would be sparedthe "hideous annoyance" daily created by the thoughtto which "of their incompetent relations" they shouldleave their fortunes. These wealthy people, Mr. Rhodesthought, would thus be greatly relieved and be able toturn "their ill-gotten or inherited gains to some ad-vantage."

The most important feature of the Soci-ety of Jesus was the requirement of absoluteobedience to the Pope. Rhodes wanted thatkind of obedience in his own secret society,but after his death it seems to have beensomewhat modified. Money, power, anddedica tion to the idea ofworld peace throughworld federation seem to have been the in-centives necessary to foster lifelong adher-ence to the organization. Is it still secret?


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"Fancy," Mr. Rhodes goes on to say, "the charmto Young America ... to share in a scheme to take thegovernment of the whole world."''What scope! What a horizon of work for thenext two centuries for the best energies of the best

people in the world!"The Rhodes Scholarships, as outlined inRhodes's will, became the main instrumentwhereby the most promising young peoplethroughout the English-speaking worldcould be recruited to serve an idea thatRhodes thought would take 200 years tofulfill.As Quigley writes in The Ang lo -Ameri -

can Es tab l ishment (p. 33): "The scholarshipswere merely a facade to conceal the secretsociety, or, more accurately they were to beone of the instruments by which the mem-bers of the secret society could carry out hispurpose."

The details of Cecil Rhodes's will werepublished in the New York Tim es of Apri113,1902. The will was dated July I, 1899 and theexecutors and trustees were the Earl of Rose-bery, Earl Grey, Lord Milner, Alfred Beit, Dr.L. S. Jameson, L. L. Michell, and B. F.Hawksley. They also became the custodiansof Rhodes's wealth which was to be used tocarry out the Rhodes plan. Milner becamehead of the secret society. It was Rhodes,Milner, and Jameson who were responsiblefor the Boer War (1899-1902) which broughtthe Dutch Afrikaners in South Africa underBritish control.The details of the Rhodes Scholarshipswere outlined in the will. Rhodes states:

"My desire being that the students who shall beelected to the scholarships shall not be merely book-worms, Idirect that in the election of a student to ascholarship regard shall be had to (0 his literary andscholastic attainments, (ii) his fondness of and suc-cess inmanly outdoor sports, such as cricket, football,and the like, (iii) his qualities of manhood, truth,courage, devotion to duty, sympathy for the pro tee-

tion of the weak, kindliness, unselfishness, and fel-lowship, and (iv) his exhibition during schooldays ofmoral force of character and of instincts to lead and totake an interest in his schoolmates, for those latterattributes will be likely in afterlife to guide him toesteem the performance ofpublic duties ashis highestaim ....' 'No student shall be qualified or disqualifiedfor election to a scholarship on account of his race orreligious opinions ...."In order that the scholars past and present mayhave opportunities of meeting and discussing theirexperiences and prospects Idesire that my Trusteesshall annually give a dinner to the past and presentscholars able and willing to attend, at which Ihopemy Trustees or some of them will be able to bepresent, and to which they will, Ihope, from time totime invite as guests persons who have shown sym-pathy with the views expressed by me in this my

will."

Obviously, the way the secret societywould recruit its future leaders from amongthe Rhodes scholars was to dangle beforethem the prospects of future advancement inwhatever field they chose to pursue, be iteducation, politics, government, foundationwork, finance, journalism, etc. Thus, ifyouunderstood the implicit messages being givento you by your sponsors you might one daybecome president of Harvard, President ofthe United States, a Supreme Court judge, aU'S. Senator, or president of the CarnegieFoundation. The road to fame and fortunewas open as long as you played the gameand obeyed the rules. The Association ofAmerican Rhodes Scholars has an alumnimembership of about 1,600. They have be-come leading figures in the new ruling eliteinAmerica. The NYT imes (4/13/ 02)reported:

This scheme of imperial education had for manyyears been sketched out by the dead imperialist, whoconsulted Lord Milner, Lord Rosebery, Mr. W. T.Stead, and all his trustees before finally embodying itin his will.

Money will not be spent so much on bricks andmortar as in the foundation of scholarships on quitean original plan.The scholarships endowed by Mr. Rhodes at the

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Cape during his lifetime were really "trial trips," witha view of testing the possibilities of the larger schemeto come into operation after his decease.

Prof. Carroll Quigley s The Anglo-Ameri-can Es tab li shment, which provides the mostdetailed account of the Rhodes secret soci-ety, was published posthumously in 1981byBooks in Focus, a small company foundedby Stephen A. Zarlenga. In his Publisher'sNote, Zarlenga writes:

On very rare occasions a book appears whichforever changes the way in which we perceive theworld around us. Within a short while it becomeshard to understand how we could have functionedwithout the knowledge gained from it. The Anglo-American Establishment is such a book. In it Profes-sor Carroll Quigley presents certain "keys" crucial tothe understanding of20th century political, economicand military events - events of the past, present, andfuture. That the narrative ends in 1949 does notdetract in any way from what is presented .. and itsgreat value. It does, however, break open the way forcurrent writers and students to work more effectivelyin their areas.The fact that Carroll Quigley, a highly respectedprofessor at Georgetown University and an instruc-tor at Princeton and Harvard could not find a pub-lisher for this work, is in itself significant.How Books in Focus came to discover the exis-tence of the manuscript is a story in itself, whichbegan on a beach in Lindos on the Mediterraneanisland of Rhodes, in 1967, eight years before thecompany was formed; but that story will have to betold at a later time.

Carroll Quigley died in 1977. He wrotein The Anglo -Amer ic an E sta blis hmen t:No country that values its safety should allowwhat the Milner group accomplished-that is, that asmall number of men would be able to wield such

power in administra tion and poli tics, should be givenalmost complete control over the publication. ofdocu-ments relating to their actions, should be able toexercise such influence over the avenues of informa-tion that create public opinion, and should be able tomonopolize so completely the wri ting and the teach-ing of the history of their own period.

T h e S o c ia lis t C o n ne c tio nWhile Rhodes and many of his adher-ents benefitted from capitalism, many ofthem had strong socialis tleanings incu1catedby their professors at Oxford. Since theirgoal was world peace under a benign demo-cratic world government, they felt it theirduty topromote social equali ty through socialreform. In 1882, Milner gave six lectures on"Socialism."W. T. Stead, who was spiritually closerto Rhodes than perhaps anyone else, wasanother social radical. In fact, he joined withFabian Theosophist Annie Besant to formthe Law and Liberty League, described by

the authors of The Fabia n s as "an authoritar-ian organization more suited to a conspiracythan to normal political agitation. II It wasBesantwho introduced Stead to spiritualismand psychic research. Stead broke withRhodes over the issue of the Boer War butremained faithful to Rhodes's idea of worldgovernment ruled by the English-speakingpeople. In 1912, Stead was on his way toAmerica on the Titanic to lecture at the Menand Religion Forward Movement's Conser-vation Congress at Carnegie Hall, but nevermade it. He was last seen helping womenand children into the lifeboats.Not all socialists opposed the Boer War.We read in The Fabia n s (p. 269):

Apart from out-and-out imperialists, many lib-erals (and a significant section of the Fabian Society)could not tolerate the Boers, whom they saw as reac-tionaryreligious fundamentalists standing in the wayof progress. They were attracted to the ruthless,autocratic Milner, who had a mystical belief in Brit-ain's imperial destiny and in the civilizing power of asuperior British race,

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who not only listened to them but also werehelpful in getting the London School ofEconomics off the ground.

Preaching in the City Temple yesterday, Dr.Parker said people had always been accustomed tothink of Mr. Rhodes as an adventurer, an unscrupu-lous financier, and a shady character. But now opin-ion had changed. Though itwas difficult for him tounderstand so gigantic a man, who thought in mil-lions and summed up his calculations in astronomicaland bewildering calculations, he admired Mr. Rho-des's honesty in making no profession of religion inhis will.A P ro fe ss or D is se nts

TheNYTimesof(4/13/02) published thefollowing letter from Prof. Goldwin Smith:

Sir: Any friend of human independence and ofthe rights of small communities who accepts withrapture the bequests ofMr. Cecil Rhodes must, appar-ently, be acting on the principle of the utilitarianEmperor who thought that the scent of gain, fromwhatever source itcame, was always sweet. For therecan be no doubt that Mr. Cecil Rhodes was the primeauthor of the conspiracy against the lives of the twoSouth African republics [Orange Free State andTransvaal] ....Mr. Rhodes's paramount design seems plainlytobe political. His educational policy is subsidiary tohis policy of painting the world red [the color ofBritish colonies on maps], of which he presents him-self as the hero by his directions for his unspeakabletomb. He aims at drawing Great Britain and theUnited States into a league for the purpose of impos-ing peace, as it is phrased, upon the world; which, asthe world does not want imposed upon it by anyleague, is not unlikely in the end to lead to an Arma-geddon.

The direct effect, however, of Mr. Rhodes'slegacies will be to estrange more or less a number ofpromising American youths from their country. Myopinion has been sometimes asked as to the expedi-ency of sending young Americans or Canadians to beeducated in England. 1have always given it in thenegative, holding it to be the best for a youth to bebrought up and to have his ideas and sympathiesformed in the social and political elements in whichhis life is to be spent. My opinion would be the sameeven if I believed that the education now given atOxford or Cambridge were superior to that which isgiven at a first-class American university. But this Ido not believe ....Goldwin Smith

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Rh odes ~sFunera lOn April 10, 1902, Cecil Rhodes was

buried ina tomb chiseled out of solid rock onthe Matoppo Hills. The New York Times ofApril 11,1902reported from Bulawayo, Rho-desia:

The funeral party started from Fuller's Hotelhere early this morning. The procession was fivemiles long as itwound through the hills and gorges.Every sort of conveyance was made use of .... Whenthe procession was a mile from the grave everybodydismounted and concluded the journey on foot.Twelve oxen hauled the coffin to the almostinaccessible summit of the kopje, where the ChiefsShombli, Faku, and Umgula and 2,000 natives hadassembled to witness the Christian interment rites,which they afterward supplemented in their ownfashion by the sacrifice of fifteen oxen to the shade ofthe great dead Chief.Thousands ofwhite persons congregated. aroundthe wind-swept hill. The grave was encircled by sixboulders .... The Bishop of Mashonaland, who con-ducted the service, said:"Iconsecrate this place forever. Here he thought,here he lived and died for the empire."After the Bishop had read the poem written forthe occasion by Rud yard Kipling, Sekombo, the grea tIndian and orator of the Matabele, made a speech inwhich he said:"Both Cecil Rhodes and Umsiligazi, the founderof the Matabele Nation, are buried on the MatoppoHills, and the Matabele now consider tha t the spiri t ofUmsiligazi is with that of Cecil Rhodes."

While the funeral was taking place inRhodesia, a memorial service for Rhodeswas being held at Sf. Paul's Cathedral inLondon. Among the attendees were U.S.Ambassador Choate, J . P. Morgan, Mr. andMrs. W. T. Stead, members of the govern-ment and of the nobility, and many stockbrokers. TheNew York Times ofApril 12,1902reported:

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