The Wichita daily eagle., 1903-08-30
OF LORD SALISBURY
Life Of EngIand's Great States
man.
REVIEW OF HIS DEEDS
His Fall Down in Chinese
Policy.

Salisbury passes the greatest living Eng
Iishman Ten years ago half the nation
only would have asserted so much; today
there is no dissentient voice. To the last
day of his Premiership Lord Salisbury
remained exclusive and aristocratic In
life and thought; yet the whole nation
learned to trust his guidance and his over
whelming sense of public duty.
Lord Salisbury was the third Marquis
the first Marquis having succeeded his
father the sixth Earl Of Salisbury, in
1850. The first Earl of Salisbury was Rob
ert Cecil. youngest son of William Cecil,
Lord Burleieh, Queen EliZabeth's famous
Minister History repeated itself in that
the two great queens of England had Cecil
as their chief counsellors and statesmen
at an interval of more than two centuries.
In the last twenty years Of the Victorian
era Lord SaIisbury's influence in the po-
litjcal arena and in the direction OF i'm
periaI concerns, though never obtruded
nor prominent. was strongly felt, and his
figure will stand in history at the side OF
Queen Victoria as identified with the part
played by Great Britain in the world
affairs during that period.
Robert Cecil was born at Hatfield House
Hertfordshire, February 8. 1880. thus being
seventy three years Of age at his death
He was a second son. A sister, Lady
Frances Cecil, became the wife OF MT.
James Balfour of Whittinshame, and the
mother Of Mr. Arthus Balfour, who fol-
lowed his uncle in the Premiership as his
natural political successor. His elder
brother Lord Cranborne, was extremely
delicate, and moreover. totally blind from
his birth He never married, but this fact
and the probability Of his succeeding to
the earldom did not prevent Lord Robert
Cecil from carving out his own career. AT
Eton he did not attract attention in any
marked degree. and he spent but two
years at oxford. weak health compelling
him to be content with taking only pass
degree Like Mr.. Gladstone and many
more statesmen. he found in the Oxford
Union Debating Society the arena. for ex-
ercising his debating and oratorical pow
ers.
After trip to Australia and New Zea-
land he entered Parliament in 1858. and his
power as debater was quickly recognized
on the tory side. His tongue was caustic
and his speeches brilliant.
He devoted himself mainly to questions
o. foreign politics and education. interest
Ing himself particularly in university re
form. He attained Office when he was ap-
rointed Secretary for India in 1866 in Lord
Berbys second administration.
In the meantime he had married, in 1857,
Georgiana. daughter of the Hon. Sir Ed
ward Hall Anderson. Baron of the tx
cheduer. The marriage turned out one of
the happiest kind. Lady Salisbury was an
ACCOMPLISHED woman who thoroughly
shared her husbands tastes and aided his
career. Their early life was not without
ics cares and anxieties. Lord Robert Ce-
CHS income was but the slender portion
or a younger son. \ difference with his
father. a somewhat eccentric man, threw
Lord Robert on his own resources, and for
several years while a young family sprang
up around him, he was a contributor to
journalism. welding a trenchment pen in
the Saturday Review, the Quarterly Re
view and other magazines of a political
character.
III health Of the NIarchioness occasioned
much anxiety during Lord Salishury's
third Ministry and at a critical moment in
English history, when the Boer war was
In its darkest phase, the Premier was
stricken with the bereavement of his wife.
His fourth son at the time was shut UP in
aEafeking with Colonel Baden-Powell,
where his services enhanced the reputa-
ton he had made, as aide-de-camp to Lord
Kitchener in the Khartoum campaign.
Four other sons, each in various ways,
have displayed possession of the heredi
tary talents The eldest daughter married
Lord Selbourne. the present First Lord of
the Admiralty. while the second. Lady
Ciwendolen. remained her fathers con-
stant companion.
BY the death of his cider brother in
1855 the Robert Cecil of the House OF
Commons became Lord Cranborne and di-
rec; heir TO the marquisate of Salisbury
His fathers death. in 1868. placed him in
the House of Lords. a change which in
the opinion Of many. threatened TO eclipse
his political career. In the three preceding
years he had rapidly made his way to the
front rank
DisraeH recognized the loss Of Lord
Salisbury's assistance in Parliament we
must have Robert Cecil back was a re-
mark he made, and when in 1874 he was
returned 10 power with the first conserva-
tive working majority for half century
he at once replaced Lord Salisbury in the
India Office.
The change in the electorate through
household franchise once made had been
frankly accepted by Lord Salisbury asd
though there were occasional differences
OF opinion between the two leaders. their
practicar harmony was maintained until
lord Beaconsdeld's death. when Lord Sal
isbury succeeded to the vacant leadership
OF the party.
one incident has been frequently seized
upon as marking an unwilling alliance be
tween TIE two. In referring 10 Lord Sails
burys protest in the House OF Lords
against the Public Worship act. which
was fraImed for the suppression OF ritua-
Ism in the Church Of England. Disraeli
spoke of his colleague as a master Of
Eibes, fiouts and sneers." Political oppo-
nents used this designation against Lord
Salisbury Tor al that il was worth but II
did not make breach between the two
statesmen. who We're. on the contrary.
soon 70 be actively cooperating in tn
direction Of the foreign policy. of the coun-
Try
When the chronic eastern question
broke out in 1876 Lord Salisbury was Of
fered the post Of Foreign Minister unon
Lord Derby's resignation and in this ca
pacity h accompanied Lord Beaconsaeld
10 the Berlin conference.
At Berlin. If Lord Beaconsheld attract
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