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1https://books.google.com/books?id=KWhPAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA735&lpg=PA735
2	W. T. Stead
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4	...One of the foremost, if not the foremost, of the Jingo journalists in London, flung it in my face the other day that he had taken his imperialism from my teaching in the "Pall Mall Gazette," and, he added, he considered that Mr. Seeley, but his book on "The Expansion of England," and myself in "Pall Mall Gazette" and "Review of Reviews," were the two persons who, more than any other men, had created modern Imperialism. When many of those who now vaunt themselves as Imperialists of the genuine brand were in the petticoats of infancy, I was labouring in the attempt to lay broad and deep the foundation of the Imperialistic faith.
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7http://spartacus-educational.com/Jstead.htm
8	...Stead left the Pall Mall Gazette in January, 1890, and established the Review of Reviews. As his biographer, Joseph O. Baylen, pointed out: "Established in a brief partnership with George Newnes, which was soon to be superseded by a loan from the Salvation Army and a subvention from Cecil Rhodes, the journal was a highly successful venture, with counterparts quickly instituted by Stead in the United States (1891) and Australia (1892).
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11https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._T._Stead
12	He was an early imperialist dreamer, whose influence on Cecil Rhodes in South Africa remained of primary importance; many politicians and statesmen, who on most subjects were completely at variance with his ideas, nevertheless owed something to them. Rhodes made him his confidant, and was inspired in his will by his suggestions; and Stead was intended to be one of Rhodes's executors.
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15https://archive.org/stream/lastwillandtest00steagoog/lastwillandtest00steagoog_djvu.txt
16	The Last Will and Testament of Cecil John Rhodes
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18	by Cecil Rhodes , William Thomas Stead
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21	Finding that I sympathised with his ideas about English- 
22	speaking reunion and his Society — although I did not see eye 
23	to eye with him about the tariff war — Mr. Rhodes superseded 
24	the will, which he had made in 1888, on a sheet of notepaper, 
25	which left his fortune to " X.," by a formal will, in which the 
26	whole of his real and personal estate was left to " X." and to 
27	'* W. Stead, of the Review of Reviews." This will, the . 
28	fourth in order, was signed in March, 1891. 
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30	...Since Mr. Rhodes's death I have had opportunities of making a close inquiry among those who have been most intimately associated with him from his college days until his death, with this result. I found that to none of them had Mr. Rhodes spoken as fully, as intimately, and as frequently as he talked to me concerning his aims and the purposes to which he wished his wealth to be devoted after his death. This is not very surprising, because from the year 1891 till the year 1899 I was designated by Mr. Rhodes in the wills which preceded that of 1899 as the person who was charged with the distribution of the whole of his fortune. From 189 1-3 I was one of two, from 1893 to 1899 o^^ ^^ three, to whom his money was left; but I was specifically appointed by him to direct the application of his property for the promotion of the ideas which we shared in common.
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32	I first made the acquaintance of Mr. Rhodes in 1889. Although that was the first occasion on which I met him, or was aware of the ideas which he entertained, he had already for some years been one of the most enthusiastic of my readers — indeed, ever since I succeeded to the direction of the Pall Mall Gazette (when Mr. Morley entered Parliament in the year 1883), and began the advocacy of what I called the Imperialism of responsibility as opposed to Jingoism, which has been the note of everything that I have said or written ever since.
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34	...Cecil Rhodes, brooding in intellectual solitude in the midst of the diamond diggers of Kimberley, welcomed with enthusiasm the Pall Mall Gazette. He found in it the crude ideas which he had embodied in his first will expressed from day to day with as great an enthusiasm as his own, and with a much closer application to the great movements which were moulding the contemporary history of the world.
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36	...Before we parted we had struck up a firm friendship which stood the strain even of the Raid and the War on his part and of " Shall I Slay my Brother Boer ? " and " Hell Let Loose " on mine. From that moment I felt I understood Rhodes. I, almost alone, had the key to the real Rhodes, and I felt that from that day it was my duty and my privilege to endeavour to the best of my ability to interpret him to the world. 
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39https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_Rhodes
40	One of Rhodes's primary motivators in politics and business was his professed belief that the Anglo-Saxon race was, to quote his will, "the first race in the world".[3] Under the reasoning that "the more of the world we inhabit the better it is for the human race",[3] he advocated vigorous settler colonialism and ultimately a reformation of the British Empire so that each component would be self-governing and represented in a single parliament in London. Ambitions such as these, juxtaposed with his policies regarding indigenous Africans in the Cape Colony—describing the country's black population as largely "in a state of barbarism",[4] he advocated their governance as a "subject race",[4] and was at the centre of moves to marginalise them politically
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42	...Rhodes supported the infamous Jameson Raid, an attack on the Transvaal with the tacit approval of Secretary of State for the Colonies Joseph Chamberlain.[28] The raid was a catastrophic failure. It forced Cecil Rhodes to resign as Prime Minister of the Cape Colony, sent his oldest brother Col. Frank Rhodes to jail in Transvaal convicted of high treason and nearly sentenced to death, and contributed to the outbreak of the Second Boer War.
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45https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._T._Stead
46	However, at the time of the Second Boer War Stead threw himself into the Boer cause and attacked the government with characteristic violence, and consequently his name was removed from the will's executors.[23]
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49https://muse.jhu.edu/article/646781/summary
50	NOT LONG AFTER the beginning of the Boer War, W. T. Stead wrote two letters to his friend, Lady Aberdeen, in which he exposed his attempts to save Cecil Rhodes from disgrace, his anguish at having erred in judgment, and his attempt to atone for what he had wrought. It was with a strong sense of guilt for his role in bringing about the conflict that he confessed: My responsibility in South Africa is very great, and no one knows it more than myself.	
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53https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_the_War_Committee
54	The Stop the War Committee was an anti-war organisation that opposed the Second Boer War. It was formed by William Thomas Stead in 1899.[1] Its president was John Clifford[2] and prominent members included Lloyd George and Keir Hardie. The group was generally seen as pro-Boer.[3]
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56	Against the background of political campaigning for the khaki election of 1900, Stop-The-War distributed millions of posters, cartoons and broadsheets, handing out leaflets to commuters on trains.[3]
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58	Its resolutions were religiously-inspired and utopian in their approach. The Committee united various Nonconformists who held different views in relation to socialism. However, the high moral tone of its pronouncements failed to achieve support from the working class, and provoked stronger antagonism than the more rational approach of the South African Conciliation Committee.[4]
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62https://books.google.com/books?id=hOrnAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA174#v=onepage&q=Stead&f=false
63	Since the essence of the Stop-the-War Committee's appeal was a religious one, it was possible for a socialist nonconformist, such as Clifford, and nonconformists who were not socialists, such as W. T. Stead, to work together on the committee in support of the peace movement. Their resolutions were full of references to the anti-Christian policies of the government. The committee was utopian in vision, and precisely because of this high moral tone it failed to attract working-class support. The Stop-the-War Committee was less rational in its nature and methods than its allied body, the South African Concilation Committee (SACC), and therefore incurred a far greater hatred and provoked more opposition.
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69	Mr. W. T. Stead moved as an amendment that, The Hague Conference, having recommended four different methods of avoiding war--namely, mediation, international commission, special commission, and arbitration--the congress declared that any State which refuses to adopt any one of these when proffered by its opponent, lost its right to be regarded as a civilized Power, and was exommunicate of humanity, that while while war lasts no public religious service of any kind should be held that is not opened by a confession of bloodguiltiness on the part of that State, and closed by a solemn appeal on the part of the congregation to the Government to stop the war by the adoption of The Hague methods.
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71	Dr. Darby, referring to Mr. Stead's speech in support of the resolution, said that Mr. Stead had exploded, but he earnestly appealed to the congress not to explode but to keep calm and act with dignity.
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73	MR. Quidde (Munic) said it was preposterous to say that there was any strong Anglophobia existing in Germany, for Germans had always clung to English example. At the same time the German people recognized that the British Government had acted in a very reprehensible manner in refusing arbitration for settling the difficulty in South Africa.
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75	Mr. Stead explained that his resolution did not condemn the British Government. It laid down a general principle that could be applied to all Governments.
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77	The Chairman did not think the resolution would help the cause they had at heart. They should not damage their work by wild assertions.
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79	Mrs. Mead (Boston, U.S.A.) sympathized heartily with Mr. Stead's feeling because she recognized the bloodguiltiness of her own country. She proposed as an ammendment to Mr. Stead's resolution that, after the words "Proffered by its opponent," the resolution should continue "has forfeited one of the primary claims to be regarded as a civilized nation, and that every citizen who consents to such a position on the part of his Government shares in the guilt of the war which may ensue."
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84https://books.google.com/books?id=hOrnAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA174#v=onepage&q=Stead&f=false
85	...The pro-Boers came in for criticism from both the Christian World and the British Weekly. During the mob violence which occured early in 1900, the anti-war element was accused of 'provoking the wrath of their fellow-citizens, and were ambitious of the honours of martyrdom. Posing as peacemakers, they are ... bellicose and provoking.' The Christian World was scathing in its attacks on the stop-the-War Committee in general and W. T. Stead in particular.
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88Stead was an ardent promoter of the imperialist cause. Through his writings and contacts with him he influenced Cecil Rhodes, who started the second Boer War. Steed took responsibility and took a leading role in the Stop-the-War Commission, but his efforts were counter-productive there.
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93https://books.google.com/books?id=XeokAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA746&lpg=PA746&
94	HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
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97	...Mr. FISHER (Wellington City).--As one of the strongest objectors to the payment of this £260 to the Review of Reviews, I wish to make a few remarks in order to make clear the position so far as I am concerned. The object to the payment of £260 to the Review of Reviews was not that it gave too great prominence to Mr. Seddon, the Premier of this colony. My objection to the payment of £260 to Mr. Stead, or of any other sum to Mr. Stead, was that he was a man strongly suspected to have been suborned to write in the Boer interest, and he was condemned by a vast majority of the people of England accordingly. I stated flatly and plainly that secret-service money--the moneys of the Boers--had been circulated extensively in America and England, in order to influence journals of a type who were open to influence of that kind; and I put it as a hypothetical case that it was not impossible that Boer secret-service money had been circulated in Australasia in the same way. ...I objected to the payment of the £260 on the ground that while this colony of New Zealand was proud of the position it had taken up in reference to the South African War, it was not proud of the payment of £260 to a man who was an undoubted ally of the Boers and an enemy of the British Empire, that man being Mr. W. T. Stead. He is the largest owner of this Review of Reviews, and we have no right to pay the money of the colony to an enemy of this colony, and of the British Empire as a whole.
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100https://books.google.com/books?id=n-gkAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA707&lpg=PA707
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103	...Mr. HUTCHESON (Weillington City) moved, That the item, "Copies of Review of Reviews for Australasia for January, 1901, £2260," be struck out.
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105	Mr. MONK (Waitemata) said he noticed in a journal the Rev. Mr. Berry had made the statement that he had arranged with the New Zealand Government to deliver twelve lectures. He would like to know what remuneration he was receiving for that service.
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107	Sir J. G. WARD said he understood he got £100.
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109	Mr. MONK said that Premier had previously informed him, in reply to a question, that no arrangement had been made with Mr. Berry.
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111	Mr. PIRANI (Palmerston) asked for an explanation of the item referred to by the honourable member for Wellington City (Mr. Hutcheason).
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113	Sir J. G. WARD said ten thousand copies had been obtained; five thousand were sent to the Agent-General for distribution at Home, and five thousand were distributed through America, India, and the Australasian Colonies.
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115	Mr. PIRANI thought it was going too far to spend £260 to circulate copies of this production. If the House had been consulted as to circulating ten thousand copies of this publication broadcast he felt sure it would not have consented. The point he wished to make was this: he did not think an expenditure of this sort ought to be made by the Government without the authority of Parliament, and that Parliament should be afterwards asked to whitewash those who authorised the expenditure. ...If the Government wanted to spend money in circulating literature of this kind, they could get more useful literature to advertise the colony than ten thousand copies of a production like this issue of the Review of Reviews. If the Premier wished to advertise himself and his personal appearance, why did he not pay for the cost out of his own pocket? Why should the ratepayers have to pay £260 for circulating a periodical of the kind, considering the small benefit that must attach to the colony from it?
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117	Mr. SEDDON (Premier) thought it was only fair to the Government that, before members condemned their action, they should have the fullest information on the matter. When that explanation was given he was sure that members would not complain of the course the Government had taken. The matter was introduced in this way: The Queensland Government arranged for an article, and certain illustrations were to be inserted in the Review of Reviews of their colony, at a cost, for ten thousand copies, of something like 6d. a copy, and, in a communication the New Zealand Government received from the proprietor of the magazine, it was intimated that the Rev. Mr. Berry was to write an article on New Zealand on lines similar to what had been written on Queensland. ...The colony had received good value through what the Government had done; and, after the sanctioning of the article, the only question was whether the Government should hide the amount in "Unauthorised," as they could have done, or whether it should be brought before the House openly. Of course, to bring it before the House was the proper and constitutional way, and that was the way the Government had adopted.
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119	...Mr. MASSEY said that, instead of being worth £260 as an advertisement, the article was not worth 260 pence.
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123	The Review of reviews
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126	...An earthly paradise — a delightful climate ; superb scenery ; a socialised state ; a people without caste or poverty or excessive individual riches, well-born, well-bred, healthy and stalwart, self-reliant and generous — such is the picture given of New Zealand in the Australasian Review of Reviews by the Rev. Joseph Berry. This is his mingling of fact and forecast : — 
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128	The factors which will tell upon the coming New Zealander are such as these : A healthy climate, with the lowest death rate in the world. A population mainly agricultural. Two-thirds of the people now live in the country, or in towns of less than 5,000 inhabitants. The whole population lives and will continue to live within sight or sound of the sea. There is not an inhabitant of the colony more than a day*s journey (seventy miles) from the sea, and nearly all are within an hour or two. The land is so rich and productive, and food is so plentiful and cheap, that poverty will be at a minimum. Again, the land is so subdivided that there is not much chance for the millionaire. New Zealand has no millionaires, and not more than ten or a dozen of its citizens are worth more than £10,000 per year. Timber is so abundant and cheap that a house does not cost more than half as much as a similar house in Australia, for most of the houses are of wood. Horses are plentiful, noble rivers abound. The people are pretty generally on one social level. The scenery is superb. Such are the facts, briefly put. 
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130	The result is a race of big, healthy people. Hospitality is a charming feature of New Zealand life. . . Caste barriers are little known. Under such conditions, people become healthy, self-reliant, generous, independent, and self-respecting. Such are the prominent characteristics of the New Zealanders of today. . . New Zealand has always been generous in the matter of education. She endows her secondary schools with a liberality unknown in Australia. . . There is a newspaper of some kind for every 1500 adults. . . . The English spoken there is purer than in Sydnev or in Adelaide . 
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132	I have visited four out of the five continents of the earth ; I have crossed the United States twice ; Canada once ; but I have seen no land which combines so many advantages as this. 
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135https://books.google.com/books?id=n-gkAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA707&lpg=PA707
136	...Mr. FISCHER said that what he objected to in this matter was that the money had been paid to a traitor of the Empire. Dr. Fitchett was not a traitor, but Mr. Stead was, and the money went to the business firm of Stead (Limited). The Boers had voted £50,000 of their secret-service money for the purchase of English newspapers, and it was beyond doubt that Mr. Stead had received his share of that money, and now this colony was giving him £260 more.
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138	Mr. SEDDON.--It has nothing to do with Mr. Stead.
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140	Mr. FISCHER asked if Mr. Stead was not the owner, or part owner, of the magazine.
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142	Mr. MASSEY said that the Premier had stated he made the arrangement with Mr. Stead.
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144	Mr. SEDDON had said nothing of the kind. He had no communication whatever from or with Mr. Stead. Mr. Stead had no connection with the Australasian Review of Reviews whatever. Mr. Fitchett had stated that Mr. Stead was not the editor of the Australasian Review of Reviews, and it was absolutely distinct from that published in England.
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146	Mr. FISHER said that the two editions of the magazine were run separately, but their business interests were the same. As to the article on New Zealand which appeared in the January number of the magazine, there was nothing in it that was original and had not appeared before in our own publications. If this article was so valuable as was represented by the apssing of this vote, what became of the statement that the Agent-General was so able an exponent of everything that affected the interests of New Zealand? If it were not for the fact that this moeny had been paid he would vote against it as strongly as he had spoken against it.
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148	Mr. SEDDON (Premier) said that months ago he was given to understand, and he still believed, that Mr. Stead was not the owner of this paper. When the Government were asked to insert the article that appeared in the Australiasian Review of Reviews in the Review of Reviews at Home the Government did not see their way to do so.
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150	Mr. G. W. RUSSELL (Riccarton) held in his hand a copy of the issue of the paper for which the House was asked to vote £260. On one of the pages appeared the words, "Review of Reviews for Australasia: English editor, W. T. Stead; Australiasian editor, W. H. Fitchett."
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152	Mr. SEDDON said that did not prove anything beyond what the world knew, namely, that Mr. Stead was the editor of the English Review of Reviews.
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154	Mr. G. W. RUSSELL asked what more the honourable gentleman wanted than that this man Stead was the English editor of the Australasian paper Review of Reviews. He would also find page by page and letter by letter the reprints from the English issue of that magazine, and to say that Stead was not interested in this magazine was childish on the part of the Premier. When the Boer war started they were obliged to form themselves into a company for the purpose of trying to disassociate themselves from the ignominy and contempt attached to the name of W. T. Stead for his connection with the pro-Boer party at Home. With regard to the Rev. Mr. Berry, who wrote this article, he had been away from the country for some eleven or twelve years, and the consequence was that he had had to obtain everything for his article from books or information sent to him. There were hundreds of men who could have written a better article than Mr. Berry. The Government had not been wise in incurring this liability to pay the concern £260, when they might, be looking at the entry before the contract was entered into, have seen the name of Stead, and have said, as hundreds upon hundreds of other clients had done, that while that man was connected with this periodical they would have nothing to do with it.
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