The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1895-08-16

were 10 luQge him
by his spoken, and still more if one were
to judge him by his written. ntter-.
ances, ne would pass for one of the
most rancorous. the most h1a
AND the narrowest Of men. Mr.. Bright
spoke long ago of his "haughty unwis.
dom, and those who are old enough TO
remember his somewhat wild and SCOTT.
ter-brained political youth are still IN
able to throw off the unpleasant and
biting memories of some Of his fierce
ana malignant utterances in those DAYS.
He once, for instance, spoke of some
proceedings Of Mr.. Gladstone as worthy
OF a pettltogging attorney; and when,
some rays afteyward, he was asked to
APOLOGIZE, his reply was that hi apol-
ogized-to the attorneys. When we
were IN the midst Of the struggle over
the reform bill OF 1867 Lord Cranborne
tas ne then was cut some very fine
JOKES over the question whether a work
1nSnan VINO was in prison would BIZ
neid 10 nave qualified by residence; in
1act, LORD Cranborne of that day was
very much like the ~ill-mannered and
rather raEcorous youth whom we know
by that name in this day--with the very
important qualification that the elder
bearer or the name added great bril-
iancy to his gibes; il the humor was
sardonic, at least it was humor.
And yet those who know Lord Sails
bury give one the very opposite impress
sion Of his inner nature. There is a
strong movement at the present time to
drive him out of the premiership in case
the next election should return his party
10 power, m one of the reasons given
Tor this movement is that he is of so soft
and really amiable a disposition as to
De unit for the position of a ruler Of
men. He is described as one of that un-
happy class of men who are never able
TO say No, and who, accordingly, can
not De trusted to deal with incompe-
tence or imprudence or knavery after
the stern and pitiless fashion which a
leader OF men is bound to display for
the preservation of himself and his
party. Liberals, eVen, n are priVi-
legged with the personal acquaintance
OF; Lord Salisbury, declare that in pri-.
vate life nobody could speak more ami.
ably-more reasonably-more tolerant
ly-of political things, and even of poll
tical opponents.
The training of Lord Salisbury is, to
q certain extent. responsible for this
gulf Which stretches between the popu-
lar estimate and the inner life of the
man. Though he is now a nobleman Of
considerable wealth, and has reached
the highest place in the scale Of British
ambition, it was not always thus; and
his early years were years in which
poverty, struggle, and perhaps even bit
ferness, were not unknown. He was
not the eldest son of his father. In the
home Of Lord Salisbury, too, there was
another f~amily-for his father had mar
ried a second time; and it is not often
that In suck houses there is peace be-
tween the elder and the younger tribes.
If anything were wanted to %accentu-
ate the family differences which such
circumstances were SO well calculated
to produce, it would be" a marriage
which was regarded as a m~esalliance.
And Lord Robert Cecil, as he then was,
made such a marriage. In these days
It may appear somewhat ridiculous to
regard a union with the daughter of one
of the most distinguished judges of his
time as a mesalliance for anybody, how
ever exalted; out we have advanced
very much in the characterization of So
ciety since the days when Lord Sails
bury was a %resolute young lover; and
undoubtedly his marriage to Miss AL
derson was resented by his family.
It would be indiscrete to ask how far