The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-20

slightly masked hoSu1ty TO DlSraeH
and to that exalted faith in the aris-
| tccracy which, from first to last caus-
| ed him to oppose the strongest of the
| Democratic tendencies of the time and
| left him unable or disinclined to enter
into an enlightened sympathy with the
| masses.
In 1868. by the death of his father,
! he became Marquis of Salisbury, and
in May of that year took his seat in the
] House of Lords at the age of SO years.
| Upon his resignation of the secretary
ship for India, and doubtless because
of the mastery ability he displayed
office, he undertook the duties of chair
man of the Great Eastern Railway
| performing them with distinguished
success during three years.
Part Os Eastern Question.
When Disraeli became Prime Minister
in 1874 he invited the Marquis to ac-
cept the post of secretary of state for
India for the second time. When he
| had held this Office two years Lord
| Salisbury was chosen as the British
representative at the conference of the
powers in Constantinople in 1876, when
the Bulgarian atrocities had aroused
| the indignation of Christendom. and
| the powers vainly conferred for the
| PulpOSC VI GAdClIHS VI turkey SuCH
| concessions to her Christian subjects
and such other reforms as might pre-
vent the impending war against the
| Sultan by the Gear.
| The dreaded war was declared, and
| Lord Derby resigned the post of Sec
| rotary of State for foreign affairs. to
! be at once succeeded by Lord Sails
bury, who thus. at 4S years of age
in 1S7S-while in his most vigorous man
| hn I'D nd
of those matters beyond the domestic
concerns of England which are be-
| lieved to have interested him more
than any other public duties he ever
| undertook.
! The Berlin Congress, in June, 1878,
five months after the close of the Rus
| so-Turkish war, had its inception in
Lord Salisbury's noted dispatch to the
| Powers, and to that Congress he was
sent in company with Lord Beacons-
field. One result of the Congress was
| the autonomous character and Chris
| tian government which are possessed
by Bulgaria to-day The two English
members of the Congress were receiv-
ed at home with hearty welcome and
the plaudits of the nation.
| In 1879 Mr.. Gladstone put to the test
his demand for an ending of the So
called vigorous foreign policy of
Britain and for the recognition of the
rights of other nations. He did this
in his celebrated Midlothian campaign
"a contest marked by vigorous, ag-
gressive daily speeches of such intel
lectual force that what Bea-
consfield at another time char
acterized as ''exuberant verbos-
ity' proved invincible eloquence
and swept Glandstone in and Beacons-
field and Salisbury out by a Liberal
ma jority of ia votes.
Premier In 1855.
When Lord Salisbury again took Of
flee, five years later, in 1885, it was as
premier of Great Britain. The increas-
ingly powerful Home Rulers of that
/ day combined with the Conservatives
and the Gladstone government resign
ed. Lord Salisbury resumed his work
as Secretary of State for Foreign At
fairs, in combination with his premier
ship, but his government was not sol
idly founded, and in the next year
Gladstone led the Liberals back to
power
Gladstone now embraced in his pro-
gramme a scheme for home rule III
Ireland, and, being defeated, gave the
Conservatives, or Unionists, another
lease of power with Lord Salisbury
as premier for the second time, and
for term of six years, or until 1892
In the second year of his administra-
ton he again took to himself the man.
agement of foreign affairs, and that
secretaryship he retained during the
remainder of that period.
Again, when he came to the COM
mand for the third time, in 1895, he
filled the dual post of premier and for
eign secretary, only resigning the sub
ordinate place after Queen Victoria s
DEATH when he conferred it upon Lord
Lansdowne, a statesman whom he
both admired and trusted.
Given To Concession.
Like every foremost figure in
nation, the English view
Lord Salisbury's conduct of %ffairs
as either wise or mischievous,
according as they are Liberals, Radi-
Gals, nti-Imperialists or Unionists.
There are those who argue that his
desire for peace or the intense aver
sion to war of the royal mistress he
served so often and so long, was in
dulged to such an unwise extreme as
to make his graceful concessions"
take the form of distinct and great
losses to England both in prestige and
in territory.
He has given the best of himself TO
England and given it willingly. His
recreations have been found in books
and scientific pursuits. He has been
an omniverous reader of all that is
best in the old and new literature or
the times, and there has seemed to
those who both shared his tastes and
enjoyed his society nothing of note or
moment that he has not read. one OF
these gentlemen told me that one day
he succeeded in securing a first copy
of an important French philosophical
work and hurried to Hatfield to air his
acquaintance with it. He preached
the subject to the Premier, who at once
replied: Eyes, l read that work in
advance proofs sent me by the auth
or" and proceeded to discuss 1t in
timately.