The Hawaiian gazette., 1885-07-22

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mint has the right Indirectly by taxation, 10 call
upun tine planters TO bear tueir proportionate
share Of such expense, and tins the planters will
do witheut murmur. III the government fails to
perform a manifest duty, then the responsibility
for such failure Of duty rests upon the government
Tar Dew Premier Of Great Britain and
Ireland, Robert A. T. q. Cecil third Mar
quis of Salisbury, is imam of whom it may
be safely said, that independently Of any
extraneous advantages OF rank or wealth,
he would not have failed by force of char
acter to become a prominent statesman in
any f'ee country. T.tEF .tfIH
Born in 1880, he is now in the prime of
intellectual manhood, and his training has
been such as to cultivate every gift with
which ne has been endowed. He was ed
ucated at Eton and Oxford, but as a
younger son, with little prospect of inner
iting the position and honors of the family
To younger sons portion he added the
income Of Fellowship at Oxford obtained
at the age of twenty three, and became
prominent contributor TO several first
class political periodicals. He entered
the House of Commons in 1858 where he
soon became noted for terse and incisiye
reasoning and keen epigram and was
early counted upon as rising man.
The death of his elder brother made him
lby courtesy Viscount Cranbourne, and
heir to the Marquisate Of Salisbury, to
which he succeeded in 1858, thereby sever
ing his connection with the House Of Com
mons having already become Secretary of
State, and President of the Council for In
dia, and Priyy Councillor In 1878 he
became Minister for Foreign Affairs, and
was dispatched to Constantinople as spe-
cial ambassador to the Conference in 1876.
1t was owing to Lord Salisbury in con
| iunction with the late Earl Beaconsfeld.
that the Treaty of Berlin took the place of
that of San Stephano, to the gratiica-
tion of all Europe, Russia alone excepted.
From thence onwards he has been the
most prominent statesman on theconserv-
ative side of the House of Lords
The most important Immediate effect of
his accession to the Foreign Office will
probably be a ropprocJencai, or even it may
be said, reconciliation with Germany,
he being eminently a persona grdtG to the
Great Chancellor, who could not, orwould
not understand or appreciate the policy of
the Gladstone Cabinet
Lord Salisbury is descended from the
Youngest son Of Queen Elzabeth's great
Minister, Burghley, the elder branch of
the family being represented by the Mar
quis of Exeter. The first Lord Salisbury
was Secretary Of State to Queen Elizabeth
and to James |, but the name does not
again appear prominently in history,
though its bearers were implicated in JAG
obite plots in the time of William III.
"And thus the whirligig of time brings
in its'- repetitions The first Cecil was
the statesman who piloted Elizabeth
through her greatest difficulties His des-
.oendant, il may be hoped Will pro ,e to be a
wise Ceuneenor IN the existing difficulties
surrounding Queen Victoria.
Lord Salisbury is man of intense ear
nestness, in speech forcible, abrupt, i'm
peratiye, rather than persuasive His
premises laid down, his conclusions follow
logically, and are not rehdily disturbed by
side-issues.
Lord Salisbury, and his brother in-law,
Lord Derby, honorally agreed to differ on
the question of the administration of Cy-
prus, and the two great houses of Cecil
and Stanley are now found on opposite
sides in the Legislature. a..
HEeEgA -U "a
SrDDEN deathi Death is appalling un-
der whatever guise it comes, but in CIV
ilized community sudden death strikes
chord Of horror which yitrates in every
human heart. So civilized communities
have looked at the matter, and have dis
covered that sudden death is frequently
the fault of those who still are living: il
may be crime, as IN the case of willful muir
der. Ii may be carelessness, as in the
case of a man who smokes pipe in
mine, blowing himself and his co-laborers
into fragments. 1t may be no ones fault,
rs in the case of painter turning giddy,
and failing from seaffolding. Law comes
in and says that every sudden death should
be investigated, and so all properly con
stituted communities have provision for
a coroner.
Hawaii has her coroner, but we must con-
fess that deaths occur here which are never
properly investigated Sudden death oc-
ours and no official enquiry is held. ''The
man is dead, we know he fell from a scat
folding" or in whatever form death may
have come to the unfortunate, and that is
considered a sufficient answer to all en-
quiries. No questions are asked as to
whether the seafolding was rotten, or run
up in too cheap style. The man being
dead, why trouble about him.
Two cases now stand IN point with re
ference to neglect OF proper ''inquest"
Proceedings.S
The first is that of the late j. Tilden-
managg Of the HawEiiian Hotel. As far
as shown in. The public prints, Mr.. Tildea
retined for. the night: at talate ehpur the
house he was ID WIS found to be on fire,
his door was locked, it was burst open and
he was dragged out Of the burning room
only TO die inagohy forty-eight hours or
so afterwards.
Has there been any enquiry as to the
sir0nn Stances Of this deathi Absolutely
none No jury were called, no coroner
appeared
This as one Of those instances which
point the moral we wish to enforce. There
IS not a'thought Of foul play, the thing is