Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1900-04-14
SALISBURY HOLDS ON.
Results Which Would Naturally
Follow the Retirement of
the Prime Minister.

The rumors are SO frequent that one
cannot help noticing them, that LordeSal-
isbury's resignation is close at hand. SAYS
the London Mail. In politics there is al
ways this tendency toward the intelli-
gent anticipation of events.
The fact that the premier has passed
his seventeen year, that he is bowed un-
der the atfiiction of terrible bereave-
ment, and that his recent speeches have
shown certain wearlneSs-all these
things are quite sufficient to create a CON
slant growth of such a rumor.
Whether the rumor be we'll or i'll found
ed, it must be left to time to decide; in
the meanwhile it will be well to give
something like an idea of the personality
of the prime minister, and of the results
that might flow from his retirement.
A Hard but Easy Worker.
Salisbury to be at once one Of the most
hard-worked men in England and, at
the same time, to always appear at ease.
His guests at Hatfield are astoundcd
to ind him nearly always about-ready
to enter into conversation on any sub
ject; to discuss the latest book and to
astOnish everybody by the up-tO-dateness
of his reading, and, in fact, generally to
give the impression of a country gentle
man most of whose time is spent either
in his library or over his account books.
The account books must be mentioned
because Lord Salisbury is, in the knowl-
edge and interest he has of his vast prop
erty, a model squire of the old school
Indeed, one of the curiosities of this most
interesting figure is his combination Of
the old and the new.
In some respects he would remind you
of a great noble of the spacious days
of Queen Elizabeth; in others, you have
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you are not speaking TO a Woodworking
electrical engineer. For the heart Of
Lord Salisbury is as much in science as
in literature, in his laboratory as in his
library.
And finally this man of sardonic
tongue, of somewhat frigid and pessi.
mistic expression. is so alive TO the sor-
rows and sufferings of the world that he
with his late wife made Hatfield a refuge
and an asylum for a fair proportion of
the misery that was within their reach.
In the foreign office Lord Salisbury is
specially at home. He has studied this
subject for years, and studied a good
deal OF it at first hand. His intimacy
with foreign affairs, and his interest in
them. is largely due to a small fact,
namely, that at an early age he learned
French thoroughly.
Influence of French.
He was once asked by a close political
friend whether he dld not mink there
was something in the objection which Mr..
Gladstone so strongly aud 50 frequently
urged against the combination ia the one
person Of the high offices Of prime minis
ter and foreign secretary. Lord Sails
bury admitted the force Of the objection;
but he excused the arrangement for a
reason at once startling and significant.
AS everybody knows, the foreign minis
ter mas TO receive the foreign ambassa-
doris and representatives once week;
and the conversation is always carried On
IN French.
Lord Salisbury has some of the most
gifted men in England as his colleagues,
but there is only one among them who
speaks French thoroughly, and that j.
Lord Lansdowne; and Lord Lansdowne
Mt the foreign Office does not seem a f.
hcitous arrangement. And for this small
reason Lord Salisbury had TO keep On the
foreign secretaryship.
Training a Journalist.
Part Of the rapidity with which Lord
Salisbury works is undoubtedly due 10
his old training as a journalist. As ev-
erybOdy knows, there is no training
which gives a man greater idea Of the
value Of time Of prOmptitude, and which
facilitates more the power Of rapid ex-
preston Of thought. When, therefore,