The life and times of the Right Honourable Cecil John Rhodes 1853-1902 . number of the Dutch in thiscountry will throw in their lotwith us on this basis, thatneither race shall claim anyright of preference over theother. We have no feelingagainst them. We have livedwith them, shot with them,visited with them, and wefind, owing I supose to therace affinity, that there is notmuch difference between us.But they have been misledin Pretoria and Bloemfontein,and even in Cape Town. Although his speech, on theface of it, dealt mainly withthe two white races, he ad-hered without flinching to hisold for

The life and times of the Right Honourable Cecil John Rhodes 1853-1902 . number of the Dutch in thiscountry will throw in their lotwith us on this basis, thatneither race shall claim anyright of preference over theother. We have no feelingagainst them. We have livedwith them, shot with them,visited with them, and wefind, owing I supose to therace affinity, that there is notmuch difference between us.But they have been misledin Pretoria and Bloemfontein,and even in Cape Town. Although his speech, on theface of it, dealt mainly withthe two white races, he ad-hered without flinching to hisold for Stock Photo
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The life and times of the Right Honourable Cecil John Rhodes 1853-1902 . number of the Dutch in thiscountry will throw in their lotwith us on this basis, thatneither race shall claim anyright of preference over theother. We have no feelingagainst them. We have livedwith them, shot with them, visited with them, and wefind, owing I supose to therace affinity, that there is notmuch difference between us.But they have been misledin Pretoria and Bloemfontein, and even in Cape Town. Although his speech, on theface of it, dealt mainly withthe two white races, he ad-hered without flinching to hisold formula that an educatedcoloured man should be per-mitted, if otherwise qualified, to exercise the franchise.When approached shortlyafterwards by the colouredcommunity on this point, hewrote his views, characteris-tically enough, on a scrap ofnewspaper, of which a fac-simile is subjoined. In this speech at Kimberleyhe used the phrase that for 284 CECIL JOHN RHODES all commercial undertakings the best asset In the worldwas Her Majestys flag. Opponents endeavoured totwist t