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minute speech Of the most careful
and deliberate character he denounced
the proposed abandonment of free
trade and the Unionist policy OF tariff
reform.
! 1t was in a way a memorable scene.
There was no idea then OF war or or
the necessity of a coalition admins
tration. 1t seemed that the only al
tentative to Asquith's wholly Liberal
Cabinet was an entirely tnionist Min
istry, and ii was felt that Lord Rob-
ert in proclaiming his free trade opin-
ions, was virtually sacrificing his then
certain prospects of high Cabinet Of
fice on return OF the Unionists to
power.
1t was realized, moreover that he
was sacrificing on hat occasion eX-
pediency to principle. a sacrifice rare
indeed in these modern days. But
principle rather than policy has al
ways been his guiding star, and in this
he has much of the religious fervor,
the infexible character and indomita-
BILE will which distinguished the late
Lord Salisbury.
He was listened to with respect
from all quarters of the House. True,
his fellow members, at any rate the
majority of them, were not in SYM
pathy with his views. But they felt
that they We're listening to the
honest words of a man of great
strength Of character. a typical Eng
lishman and a fit descendant Of the
great and noble house of Cecil. which
has played so great a role in the
history of Great Britain.
1t can never be forgotten hat Will
lam Cecil, Lord Of Burghley, was Sec
rotary Of State to Edward VI. and
Prime Minister to Queen Elizabeth
at the time of the projected invasion
of England by the Spanish Armada
that his son Robert, first Lord Sails
bury, succeeded him in hat Office In
the closing years of the reign of the
Virgin Queen, securing at her death
the succession of the English crown
to the Stuart dynasty in the person
Of James VI. of Scotland, who became
James |. of England and Ireland; tina
the eighth Lord Salisbury was Lore
President of the Privy Council %
Queen Victoria, and that his son, the
late Marquis, was for man. years
her Minister of Foreign Affairs ant
Premier.
Indeed the day after tomorrow
Just thirty-seven years will hav'
elapsed since he brought home t
England the Treaty of Berlin. whicl
was hailed on his arrival in triumph
In London as peace with honor b,
means of which Great Britain ha'
reestablished her position in the from
rank of the concert of Europe as on
of the great Powers of the world. an
as such entitled to play a dominan
role in international affairs. Prior t
that time, thanks largely to the pref
orence of Gladstone and of tn
Liberals generally for domestic owe
foreign affairs, Great Britain's statu
and prestige had suffered severed,
abroad. she had, in fact, come to b
regarded as an almost negligible guam
, thy until the administration in wh!c'
Lord Salisbury then filled the offic
Of Foreign Secretary brought the Eng
I FISH fleet from the mediterranean u
through the Dardanelles to the wall
: of Constantinople, and thus halted tn
, onward march of the victorious Rus
i. sian army in 1877, when it was al
ready within sight of the cupolas an
, of the minarets Of the Turkish me
2 tropolis,
; OF that Treaty Of Berlin little re
. mains on It's thirty-seventh birthday
= 1t is the fate of treaties to lie broker
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