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.Post M0RMIMG H Vol. IX RALEIGH, N; C., THURSDAY, MARCH 27,1902 No. 94 CECIL RHODES Tie Amassed Millions and Laid the Foundation of British Empire in South Africa Ctipo Town. March 28. Cecil Rhodes, in iilti-inillioiiaire and empire-builder, is .ir.i 1. He died at 5.57 o'clock this af ternoon (about 1.20 o'clock Washington ;:;ii't. The end was peaceful. Mr. Rhodes had been gradually grow j i; weaker for several flays, and .it wars i bought early today that the end tva i ir. lie slept during the afternoon, i. u hit breathing became more difficult .im! hi strength perceptibly diminished n iiil lie passed' away. Mr. Rhodes was striken with his last ncs about three week$ ago. He was J From the time he reached that conclu ver robust and was in feeble health "'sion he bent every effort to the consol ; years. A few days ago the physi-! idatiou of the various companies, and in s diagnosed- the case as agina pec- :cns. ins neart gradually eniargea, en i j . a hing on the lung space and making respiration difficult. Relief was nh- ilned only by the periodical adminis tration of. oxygen. ' BEn.IRK.tBLB CAREER Cecil Rhodes Died tit I ntrtnned Kiuy r Sontb Africa Although shorn of the great powers which be once held. Cecil John Rhodes '!: .1 the "uncrowned king of South Af 'ira." That was the title which he I ore during the years that he was Pre mier of Cape Colony, when he was man aging director of the Imperial British Si.u h Africa Company and when he " ill. X IV .-mi lit ' ' X I ' IT. . 1 I died. He resigned the Premiership and lie resinged his iflace as director of the Chartered company, so that at his death he was only the official head find front of the greatest mining syndi cate the world has ever known. And yet. because of the work he did, be cause of the battle he won for England In the Dark Continent, because of his Jong record of achievements, Cecil Rhodes, had he been stripped of all his ttles and practically all his yast fortune- would have been spoken of still in England at his death as "the un crowned king of South Africa." Cecil Rhodes was one of the nine chil dren and the fourth son of the Rev. Francis William Rhodes, who died the Vicar of Bishop Stortford. Herts, in the vuith of England, a few miles north of Southampton. Of the two daughters i'i the family, .Miss. Edith Rhodes went l ir literature and gained some fame as the author of "The. Adventures of Five Spinsters in Norway."' Of the sons. Herbert, the oldesf. sU?d while hunting elephants in the Shire Rner region in 1877. Francis William, the second son. is Colonel of the First 'Royal Dragoons, and is now in South Africa. Ernest Frederick, the bird, is a 'aptain of the Royal Engineers; Elm hirst, the fifth, is a Captain of the Royal Berkshire Regiment;- the sixth. Arthur M., is an ostrich farmer near Port Blizaleth, South Africa, while iiie youngest, Bernard M., is a Captain in the Royal Artillery. So it happens i hat of the seven son of the clergyman f the Church of England four became officers in the British army and the greatest of the seven was a civilian. (Veil was born at Bishop Stortford em July 5. 1853. He was prepared for the university at one of' the English public schools and entered Oriel Col ice. Oxford. He was a delicate lad. and the fear of the family was that he would hp stricken with consumption. These fears seemed about to be realiz-f-l ;it the end of his seco'nd year at tin university, when he. returned home n;niost literally a physical wreck. . The f amily physician directed that he be im mediately sent no the Highlands of South Africa in the hope that the dry climate would be beneficial. And so he was sent to his brother Herbert, who was then a planter in 'Na '.d The lad began 'to thrive at once t in 'I when the rush no the ''blue earth" "i Kimberley set in and Herbert Rhodes ; ' ided to try his luck there. Cecil was throng enough 1o go along with him. The two yoifng men shouldered picks "! shovels and went into the mines t: dig for diamonds along with the fr. They got what ithey went after. I'nr when the first excitement wore off - il Rhodes concluded that he knew a! l Mer game than (Jigging his own jew r - lie made up his mind, young as he Vvns. that there was more moneyt for "im in South Africa in hiring men to do th" digging for him. - ' So he'left the mines and went on the T (r of the Kimberley Mining Ex'4 Muge. With what money'he had he " f i-an speculating in mining stocks. In ih vif. hfgh-fever days there weie V big 'h ancps and big slumps every "?ew", ";rs. When there was a slump young K'i"!e.s plunged and when there was an ;' h ance he sold. He was always a win !" . It seemed impossible tor him to 1 ' ii:e n unprofitable play. And thus it ' "i "tipired - that, when he had barely ' : hed his majority, he found himself ;l niparatively welPto-do young man. the midst of thaf early success J Rhodes thought of the degree i.iri Oxford owed him after he had 'id Oxford two more years of study. H - -made up his mind to get that de i, e, and so he disappeared from the idated Mines. Limited, and that is the Is"" w enecje to JJr. Darnell tor iu, Vtle that he would probablv have borne I000- The wf. ,ittltf opposmon he had he lived to the allotted tbree-score J barter. The history of South Africa 'unr ten after the organization of the Chartered But of all the official poskions which ! company. and P the time of -the 1... once held he had only one when he j eswi ra.d during Christmas week of PASSES AWAY floor of the Kimberley Exchange for a while and began to study. The same careful attention he gave to speculation and mining" stocks he'gave to his books, and when he felt tlnrt he was ready he went back to Oxford, took his degree of A. B., after passing the necessary ex aminations, and returned to South Af rica. In the meantime, one of the many mining companies which had been or ganized in Kimberley was the Be Beers Mining Company,, whose capital was 200,000., Rhodes became a stockhold er in the company and not long after ward become its president. At the .same time all.the other companies were fighting one another and the - price of diamonds became ruinously low. Rhodes saw that it the fortune of which he had dreamed was to be made the rivalry between the various dia- mond mining companies must cease. j 1859 every mining company in Klmbe'r- ley was incorporated into the one great De Beers Consolidated Mines, Limited, with a capital of 3,950,000 and with Rhodes at its head. Just what that consolidation meant for Rhodes and his associates is best told by quoting from one of the early reports of the company, which stated: "In the fifteen months ending June 30, 1802. there were hauled from the mines 3,338.553 loads of blueground, yielding 3.035,481 carats of diamonds, which re alized 3,!)31,542. Then came the organization of the Imperial British South Africa Company, for which Rhodes obtained the charter from Parliament. In order that all op position from the Irish benches might be shut off. Rhodes, apropos of nothing ... .- . . . . , 181XJ is the personal history of Cecil Rhodes. He, not only became the richest man on the Dark Continent, but one of the richest men in the world, and he was probably regarded, outside the Prime Minister of England, the mos; iwwer ful subject of the British sovereign. It was at this time lliat William T. Stead said of him: "He is the only man in the west with ideas that can be com pared for a moment with those. of the Pope of Rome for comprehensive scope and breadth of h'fs purpose." Then came the Jameson raid. It is now known that Rhodes planned it and used all the power of the oltice he held to further it. That he did not succeeed whs due, some have said, ro the fact that Rhodes left the arrangement of iniKrtant details to others. When it failed the, feeling against Rhodes was so' great that it was generally be lieved that the star of the "uncrowned king of South Africa"' had set. When he was summoned to London to' testify before a "Parliamentary committee,' ap pointed to investigate the raid, some of his friends advised him to be dis creet. To. them his answer was: "I'll be discreet, but I'm not going to li about it."' And later, after Jameson had been convicted and sentenced and Rhodes was asked what he thought f it, he made a characteristic repIT. "What a tribute," he said, "to the moral worth of a nation that has jump ed the world!" Not long after the Parliamentary In vestigation, Rhodes' successor as Pre mier of Cape Colony was appointed, and h sent in his resignation as a director of the Chartered Company. Xo one doubts, however, that, although only a stockholder. Rhodes still remained the directing spirit in that great corpo ration. When the war between England and the South African republics came on Rhodes was in Kimberley. There be was held a prisoner for many months until the siege was raised by General French and his forces, who had fought their way up from the sonth. It was the capture of Rhodes that the Boers desired above all things, and had the capture been effected there is little doubt, that Rhodes career would have ended then and there, for the Boers hatedCecil Rhodes as a nation seldom hates an individual. Rhodes has lately come into prouii nence again through the arrest of Prin cess Radziwill, who is charged with forging the name of Rhodesand other prominent South Africans to notes for a large amount of money. Rhodes maintained a town house at Kimberley and a country place near Cape Town, which he called Groote Schwr. The name Hs the Dutch for great barn. The place was destroyed by tire a few days after the Jameson raid, but was rebuilt. ' Rhode's fortune was erffmated any where from $00,000,000 to $100,000,000. He never married. - N ati ve t h ri sti a ns M assacred Shanghai. March 2fl. Another massa cre of fourteen native christians has occurred at Xanyang, province of Ho aian. An imperial edict has been issued degrading the local officials. The de cree states that no foreigners have been killed. .'.'-..::- ' ',:" ''-" It is possible that the massacre'-reported above is identical' with the one reported yesterday from Pekin. as hav ing occurred at Piyang, province of Ho nan. in which fifteen converts were said to have been killed. RELIEF FOR CUBA ' President Will Urge It Upon the Attention of Congress Washington. Mawh 20. President Roosevelt will send a message to Con gress tomoiTow announcingi the ap proaching withdrawal of the United States forces from Cuba and the in auguration of the independent govern ment May ,20th.' It is possible that he will again call the attention of Congress to the importance and necessity of re ciprocal tariff relations between Cuba and the United States. Senator Aldrich, the Republican man ager of the Senate, who is a -member of- the Committee on Cuban Relations, had a conference with the President tonight at the latter' request, and the details of the eoiitroveitsy over the Cuban tariff question were discussed at length.. Mr. Aldrich is confident that the bill of the Ways and Means Committee will pass the House, .but des not know what action will be taken iii the Senate. He is one of the large number of Repub lican Senators who think that the pro posed 20 per cent reduction is too small and that the time fixed for its operation is too brief. He believes, however, that eventually the Republicans of the Sen ate and House will come to an amicahle agreement and will give such commercial relief to Cuba as 1s demanded by the situation there. , TO RAISE THE MAINE ' Gen. Wood Advances Reasons Why It Should Be Done Washinton, March 20. General Wood has brouht to the attention of the War Department, through the medium of a formal letter, the propriety of making some arrangement foir raising the wreck of .the Maine from ..the ooze and-nlud in which she lies fmbedded'in Harana harbor. It is stated by him that not' only are there sentimental reasons for this, owing to the common belief that the remains of forty or fifty American sailors lie within the sunken hull, btiu this heavy steel structure is also a me nace and obstruction to navigation; in the harbor of Havana, and it is our -duty to the Cubans to remove 'it. The ex pense attached to the undertaking is very heavy, the bids ranging anywhere from $400,000 to $700,000. Secretary Root, upon securing a more detailed statement of the facts from General Wood. '.will submit the question to Con gress, prolittbly without recommendation as io whether the Maine shall be raised. CORNERING CORN - v- v An Eastern Syndicate Forc ing Up Prices in Chicago Chicago, March 26. Corn is being cor nered. A coterie of eastern speculators declared to have $1H).1KH.KM) at its com mand, began aggressive operations on the Board of Trade today. At the finish today May corn closed 114" higher than yesterday, selling at "sy4 Cd ?& to 50, dosing at SW. et 50. Intense excitement accompanied the rise and the scenes of the days of Phil lips' rule were enacted again. The corn pit was jammed with frantic sellers and again they were dominated by cool buy ers. The firm of Harris, Gates & Co. conducted the buying, acting as the agents of the, eastern manipulators. The -com bihe is long 10.000,000 bush els of July and 5.O00.00O of May corn in Chicago alone, and Harrw. Gates & Co. js buying all that is offered. paTricTguiijy ' Murderer of Millionaire Rice Headed for the Elec tric Chair Xew York, March 26. Albert T. Pat rick Was declared today guilty of mur der in the first degree. He will be sen tenced a week from Monday by Recor der Goff, when his counsel wilj move that the verdict of the jury te set aside. Unless that motion is granted,, and no body expects that it will be, Patrick will be 'taken to Sing Sing that day. His counsel will then tile a notice of appeal which will act as a stay of exe cution, and the case will probably get to the Court of Appeals in Septemler. So, notwithstanding -today's verdict of the jury, the Texas lawyer has several months to live iu any event, and in hjs opinion and tha of his lawyers, Fred. B. Hf)use and Rolert M. Moore, the verdict of guilty ha only postponed his getting freedom and the millions of the late William M. Rice, of whose murder now stands convicted. The -recorder began his charge prompt ly at 10.45 o'clock and talked for three hours. He submitted the case to the jury at 1.50 o'clock. There was but lit tle comfort for Patrick in what he saidW The prisoner was apparently much more worried by the charge than he had been by the closing argument of the prose cuting attorney or by the confession of Jones, the valet. He was as calm as ever, but he looked like a, man with a bad: headache and for the first time since the trial began, nine weeks ago, he found nothing to laugh at. - At the request of Patrick'. lawyer the recorder charged as follows: "That if you believe Jones, you must be sure that Rice was alive when Jones applied the chloroform; that you niust consider whether or not Jones has any financial interest Jn the case, and that the fact, that Short and Meyer are un der indictment for forgery must not af fect your judgment relatives to their testimony." NORIEL CAPTURED Insurgent General Was Try ing to Escape to Hong Kong Manila,, March 26. Captain Bamford, of "the 2Sth infantry, has captured Gen. Xoriel with three officers, and five men acting as a body guard, as the party was -struggling towards the coast with the intention of escaping to Hong Kong, having ; abandoned opposition to the Americans. In General Xoriel's possession were found papers and effects belonging to Geu. Malvar. It is prob able that Gen. Malvar Is hiding in the vicinity of the place where his subordi nates were quartered. Gen. X oriel com manded the southern line at Manila early in the insurrection, but was driven southward. The cholera returns show that during. the week there were - forty-nine . cases and thirty-nine deaths. With the ex ception of one Spaniard no whites have been attacked. General Chaffee has as signed all the available army surgeons to assist the board of health in-fighting the disease. S - . DONE ON THE SLY Wharton Insurance Law Re pealed by a Sharp Trick Richmond. Va.. March 26. The Vir ginia Legislature today, without know ing it, passed a bill that repealed the Wharton insurance law. This law has been a big handicap to fire insurance companies because it made it an of fense punishable by heavy tine for any combination or agreement between com panies to fix rates. Senator Lyle of Roanoke offered a bill amending the charter of the Protective Insurance Company of Virginia, and it passed both houses before it was discovered that its provisions repealed the obnoxious Whar ton law. The bill has goue to the gov ernor, and if he does not sign" it it will become a law unless he vetoes it. A repeal would open up a tremendous fight. The general opinion is that the Wharton law is a dead measure in either event and the insurance men are jubi lant. Kvery effort was made to the victory secret until the bill signed. keep was RATHBONE'S SAY N - General Wood Denounces His Statement as Lies Hamilton, Ohio, March 26. Maj. E. G. Rathbone. convicted in Cuba for alleged postal frandis, cabld.the follow ing meceage to a newspaper here: "In mr case the verdict is the result t i.!enial Wood's orders to those -at the court. " " '. "It is a political conspiracy. "I will appeal the case." Washington. March 26. When Gen eral Wood . was shown a copy of the above purporting to have come from Major Rathhone. he indignantly denied the charges, and said: ' . "Rathbone's dateine'iit is utterly false and without foundation. "He had a fair trial in every detail, and great care was taken that there should be no government interference, and there was none. i ou can say tor me mat nis state ments as contained in this telegram are liesr PRESIDENT'S YACHT Ship of War Levied on for Private Use Washington, March 26. The United States yacht Mayflower, which is car ried on the naval list as a cruiser, is to be fitted up for the of President Roosevelt 'for the summer months.' She is now- at the Xew York navy yard where the necessary changes will be made. When ready for service the May flower will be ordeed to Washington. She" will take the. place of the dispatch boat Dolphin, commonly called the President's yacht. The Dolphin is to be kept on surveying service. The Mayflower is a magnificent steam yacht. She was built by the late Ogden Goelet of Xew York, and April 19, 1808, two days before hostilities with Spain began, was purchased by the gov ernment from Mr. Goelet for $430,000. Her name was not changed. In the war the Mayflower saw service as a gunboat and as dispatch boat in Cuba and Porto Rico. MILITARY JUSTICE Two Offenders Shot by Order of General Kitchener London. March 26. A week ago it was reported that General Kitchener had had certain, colonial officers shot for killr ing unarmed Boer prisoners. The story was revived yesterday, but no details were given. The correspondent of the Sun now learns that the facts are as follows: Four officers of the Bushveldt Car bineers were tried by court martial on the charge of shooting in cold blood a number of Boers who had surrendered as prisoners of war. The accused were convicted and two of them were shot and one sentenced to t, weuty-five years penal servitude The fourth officer acted as King's evidence anf was merely sen tenced to deportation.- N - s - " ; Senator Piatt's Bride-to-Be Washington, March 26. The report is bing circulated in Washington that tie engagement of Senator T. C. Tlati and Mrs. Lillian Janeway of this city is to b formally announced shortly. Mrs. Janeway, who with' Mrs. Barney of this city, accompanied the Senator on his recent trip to Cuba, has resignei her clerkship in the Congressional Li brary, which is the direct cause of the revival of the rpmor that she is-to marry Mr. Piatt.'' Pou Proposes Crumpacker He introduces a Resolution Calling for an Investiga tion of the Use of Boodle in Nation-, al Elections BYTHOmiJ. PEXfB Washington, March 26. Special. Congressman Pou introduced a resolu tion in the House today which will have the effect of making light of the 'Crum packer resolution..- Mr. Pou's resolu tion is a paraphrase of that offered by Mr. Cruinpackei Its object is the ap pointment of a special committee to in vestigate the use of nioney by political parties in the last two campaigns. Speaking of his resolution, Mr. Pou said tonight: "I do not expect the resolution to pass, but I think it ougSt to pass no matter whom it helps or hurts. It is believed by "thousands of good men in the country that the election of 189i was bought with money, while thou sands of votes were changed in 100. I hear that some members of Congress paid thousands of dollars for then seat. "I have been told by a man whose word I believe that in 1896 the Re prl lican Xational Committee sent sixty nine thousand dollars to "North Carolina. I do not deny that the Democratic party, uses money too. I suppose it used all it could raise, but; it has not been as notorious in its methods as has the Republican party. It is wrong, no mat ter which party does it. There is a common. belief amongst the people that the Presidency of the great Republic goes to the party which can raise the most- money. While Mr. Crumpacker would investigate the legal disfranchise ment of the ignorant negro in the sonth, it woNd seem that he could do this country a service by using his great abilities in aiding to put an end to Mhclesale corruption practiced by his own party." . f The resolutions is as follows: "Whereas it has been repeatedly stated i i the columns of reputable newspapers in 'this country, as well as by numerous reputable citizens, that large sums of money have been raised and used by the official organizations of the several political parties, both by voluntary con tributions and-by a system of assess ment of public officials for the pur- -tipocse of purchasing votes and corrupt ing the elections held in this republic, therefore resolved that the speaker shall appoint a select committee con sisting of 13 member of the House, of whom six.shali.be of opposite political party frbni the remaining sev whose dntj- it. shall be and wiio rfTiii have full and ample power to inquire whether the official organizations of the political par ties offering candidates for President in the years 1896 and 1900" either used or authorized the use of money in attempt ing to elect tiieir canmoates for t resi dent, Vice President and House of Rep resentatives of said political parties for said years and for the year 1898. "It shall likewise be the duty of said committee to ascertain if pose-ibie the amount of money collected, used or au thorized to be used by the Xational and Congressional committees of said polit ical parties during the years before mentioned and the purposes for which said money were collected.,, used or au thorized to be used, and the sources from which said moneys were obtained and the manner of the collection of the same. And if the said committee shall find that moneys were improperly used in said elections or any one thereof, it shall be the duty of the" committee to ascertain , if possible to what extent the vote of American elections wascor rupted and to what extent the resuft of any one of said elections was changed or affected. '' "Said conimitteeshall have power to subpoena and examine witnesses under oath, to end 'for records and other evidence that may be necessary for a full and complete investigation of the several subjects herein mentioned; and it shall be; authorized to sit rTifl the session of thef House o" iTaring the recess of .Congress, and employ such clerical help and have such printing Mrs. Davis Sets Her Toot Down on Arch Question Xew Orleans, March 26. Sirs. .Varina Jefferson Davis,', widow of Jefferson Va vis, President of the Southern Confed eracy writes a letter today in which she protests against the decision of the Daughters of the Confederacy to use the money for a monument to her husband in tbr erection of the Jefl'ersOn Davis Memorial Arch at the corner of Broad and Twelfth streets, in Rich mond, Va.- The Fnited Confederate Veterans raised a considerable sum of money for the Davis Memorial monu ment and Richmond was selected for the sue by Mrs. Davis. The coiner of the monument was laid in Monroe Park with elaborate cerenionfes and a design selected.. The work of collecting the fund was turned over by the I'nited Confederate Veterans to the Daughters of the Confederacy. At their last meet ing the Daughters decided to abandon the erection of a monument and to erect instead a memorial arch. Pro esting against this arch, Mrs. Davis says: to Make Ridiculous and binding done as'it shall deem nec essary. "Said committee shall make a. full( re port to the House of the result Of its investigation at as early a date as niay be practicable:" , , FwlrFnnd Oat Congressman Chas. R. Thomas of the third district 'won his contest today before the House Election Committee Xo.. 2. More than that, a unanimous report was made -in his favor,, and it will probably be presented. in the House, tomorrow by Representative Olmsted of Pennsylvu nia, chairman of the commit tee. Ex-Congressman John E. Fowler (Populist) brought the contest for Mr. Thomas' scat. He was represented by ex-Governor Russell ami exSenatw Butler. This afternoon the sitting Con gressman was heartily congratulated by his colleagues when the action of1 the committee became known. Another con test was decided by the committee, that of Lentz vs. Tompkins from Ohio. The report is in favor of Tompkins, the Re publican: , The indications are that-there" are breaker ahead for Postmaster J. W. Mullen of Charlotte when his nomina tion comes up for confirmation by the Senate. As yet the President has not sent in the nomination, but it will bo forthcoming early. Senator Simmons has been furnished with letters by the opposition to Mollen and representa tions have been made to him that a number of -influential people in Char lotte are opposed to the nomination of the present postmaster. , Senator Sim mons will make an investigation ot these matters and will present the facts to the Senate committee. It is not known that the junior Senator will op pose confirmation, though, the develop ments the next few days are like.ly to b interesting . St-nator Simmons returned frsro Ral eigh this morning and was "very muell pleased as a result of the large com mittee meeting and the excellent feeling that prevailed. Speaking of. the meet ing today he said; "It was probably the finest meeting of the State commit tee in ten years; certainly the best since I have beeu Identified with it. The spirit manifested 'was magnificent, and those present were :. harmonious, de termined anit. confident. I have never seen more interest. Every one spoke with enthusiasm of the situation and prospects for the future." , At; last the House Committee on Ag riculture has-decided to 'report - favora bly the Appalachian 'Park bill, carrying a ten inilliou dollar appropriation and making available One million, at pres ent. The report of . thesub-comuiittetv w'lijch has been considering the bill wa adopted at the meetiug of fhefuU com mittee this morning. -Twelve members of lhe committee voted in favor-of the measure and three failed to vote. There were no votes against the- park bill, though it is understood that Haugheu of Iowa does not favor it: He did not vote, and neither did Williams of Mas sachusetts nor Allen of Kentucky. They will not oppose the park project. The friends of the park are delighted to night over the progress of the measure, which has leen favorably reported tin, both branches of Congress. Friday morning the two Senators and Congressmen Bellamy, Small ar.d Thom as will appear before the Senate Com mittee on Commerce iu behalf of North Carolina river and harbor projects: Sen ator Simmons introduced an amendmcut today providing for a servey of Mr. Small's proposed inlaud waterway through the North Carolina sounds., E. F. Lamb of Elizabeth City is here today. He is in favor of the retention of the present site for tile new public building at Elir.abeth City. The party of Baptist Ffnm'.S Univer-. sity young ladies spent' f"einl hours at the capitol today. They were given the privilege of the members' galleries by Congressman Claude Kitchin and en joyed looking down upon the law makers. " A verdict for $600 was awarded CV tain Tim Lee, formerly a citizen of Ral eigh, who was injured by being thrown, from a street car in this city. lie sued for $20.iH)0 damages in ' the Distrirt Court here. The judge promptly set aside the verdict, holding -that that amount Mas inadequate in accordance with the evidence. 'Captain Lee will get a new trial. "An arch has heretofore been built to perpetuate the deeds of thenrany, and geuerally has expressed the fact of some signal victory achieved by them, but a triumphal arch to the memory of a man whose cause failed, "not for the lack of self-immolation of strenuous effort, but because our troops were out numbered and he could not achieve th impossible, is an inappropriate expres sion of respect for his memory" and certainly would excite ridicule in many iuarter. The position suggested for the memorial arch is still more objec tionable 'to my daughter and myself.j We cannot associate the1 intersection off two noisy streets lined with whops and frequented by a .'noisy crowd, with a n.onument to the memory of nor dead,' and the choice of sucTt a site we consid er most inappropriate." Mrs. Davis is supported in ier oppo sition by .many other southern women, and the chances arc that the Davis memorial -arch will bs abandoned like the monument. - i -r- - i
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