Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1906 — Difference Between Men. [ARTICLE]

Difference Between Men.

It was said of Cecil Rhodes that his ■real force was most conspicuously shpwn in his successful effort to live down such a title as “The Diamond King," and to become known as an empire builder. Ills most noteworthy associate. who has recently died, earned no such praise. Although his enterprises involved him in politics, even in world politics, and were the proximate cause of pushing to the decision of arms the radical issue in South Africa, which it always seemed to many might have been peacefully decided, yet the war was with him simply incidental to hisjnisiness. In money getting he was surprisingly successful, insomuch that ten .rears ago he was reputed to be the “richest man in the world,” and even since then to be, in dollars, a billionaire.—New York Times.