Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-08-28
PREMIER SALISBURY GONE.
ENGLAND'S GREAT POLITICAL
LEADER PASSES AWAY.
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The Marquis of Salisbury, one of
England's greatest statesmen, EXPIRE
mier of the empire, died at his country
seat Hatfield House, Saturday, in the
73rd year of his age. He had been
kept alive for hours by the constant
administration of oxygen. but the raw
ages of the disease-Bright's disease of
the kidneys--were such that all meth
DDS of scientific stimulation could not
put off the final collapse. The end was
a peaceful one. Viscount Cranborne,
who now assumes the title of Marquis
of Salisbury. Immediately notified
King Edward and Queen Alexandra,
the Prince and Princess of Wales and
others, including Lord Edward Cecil,
the soldier son of Lord Salisbury. who
is now in Egypt as military secretary
of the Egyptian army. The coffin of
the dead statesman was finally closed
Monday and the funeral will be held at
the end if this week when Lord Cecil
reaches England.
The ex-premier, though retired from
| political life, was an important figure
in many ways and came from a distin-
guished line. He was a second son
and educated at Eton and oxford. He
entered parliament in 1868, when but
% years of age. He devoted himself
mainly to questions of foreign politics
and education. In 1866 he became sec
rotary of state for India. In the mean
time he had married in 1857 Georgiana,
daughter of the Hon Sir Edward Hall
Anderson, a baron of the exchequer.
The marriage turned out one of the
happiest kind. For several years Lord
Robert Cecil was contributor to Jour-
nalism.
BY the death of his elder brother in
1865 the Robert Cecil of the house of
commons became Lord Cranborne and
direct heir to the marqusate of Sails
bury. His fathers death in 1868
placed him in the house of lords. In
1866 he entered Lord Derby's cabinet
and later was a member of the cabinet
of Disraeli. He became foreign secre-
tary and the peoples idol.
Lord Salisbury first reached the dis
tinction of the premiership in 1885,
holding it only year. In 1894 he was
recalled to power and served until the
accession of Lord Balfour, about two
years ago. He was an opponent of
home rule for Ireland, believed in the
protection of all home industries. was
ultra conservative regarding internal
policies, but was aggressively radical
in his foreign policies. He proved,
however, the barrier to the dismem-
berment of Turkey by other European
powers. He astounded Europe by die
tating to all nations at the Berlin con-
ference by drawing his finger through
the map of the Balkan Mountains and
saying. England draws the line
there" Bismark declared it was the
boldest speech that ever came from an
English premier's lips. But the ulti-
matum stood.
Lord Salisbury ranked among ora
tors as a master of the art of clear
succinct oratory that could occasional
ly rise into fierce, scathing invective. |
The United States, its statesmen and |
its people, came to know intimately |
the intellectual worth, the consummate |
statecraft and broad policy of Premier |
during the Venezuelan con-
troversy when he converted the whole |
British Empire to recognition of the |
of the United States's claim |
that the Monroe doctrine had legal |
in international affairs and |
should be respected.
The precedent" he said that grew
out of the Venezuelan treaty undoubt-
eddy gives the United States the right
to intervene on behalf of the smaller
American republics and TO protect
them if necessary