Evening star., 1923-04-01

church element of AngIicanism, as
we'll as the extremes of toryfsm, and
has pronounced contempt for money
in fact, the one thing that sanctifies
money in his eyes is antiquity. and
TO him property becomes sacred II II
can be shown that it is inherited from
long descent or medieval oequest
Better an acre received as royal
boon from some diSmembered monas-
terry than a whole county purchased
by the profits from the manufacture
Of soap. Naturally, under the circum-
stances, he has no liking for the new
rich. But, on the other hand. the ap-
peal to antiquity which characteriZes
all his views and prejudices, is so i'm
pra ctfcal and so out of touch with
things in this twentieth century that
1t is doubtful whether any prime min
lister, unionist or even tory would
ever venture to intrust office TO Lord
Hugh.
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Lord Hugh's parson brother, who.
after having served as a missionary
in China and as a crusader aginst
the evils of opium, is now Bishop of
Exeter rejoices in the singularly un-
episcopal nickname of Fish" He is,
perhaps, the most unconventional
member of the entire bench of spir-
vine of the most progressive nature.
taking a very broad and human view
of life. He lost two sons in the great
war, the elder of whom, Randle Cecil,
figured, after being expelled from OK
ford for painting some of the statu-
cry red and adorning others with
nightcaps and petticoats, besides
making several of the most impress
sive dons the butt Of undergraduate
and townSmen ridicule, was for a
time on the stage, both in England
and in New York, and married here a
Broadway footlight favorite of the
name of Dolly Jannaway. whom he
was compelled to divorce in 1916.
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Lord Robert Cecil's other survir-
ing brother, and the least known of
the three, is "Jim." the eldest, the
present and fourth Marquis of Sails
bury, who forms part of the Bonar
cabinet as lord president of the privy
council and as deputy leader of the
government in the upper chamber.
member of the entire house of Cecil,
and anyhow the least amenable to
persuasion. Residing almost entire
Iy at his magnificent Elizabethan
country seat at Hatfield. where the
VIRGIN Queen spent most of her
youth, and where she received the
momentous tidings of her succession
to the throne-that is to say, living
in such an environment of the long
ago, surrounded by so much feudal
splendor, yet utterly devoid of any
thing in the nature of ostentation,
it is inevitable that Lord Salisbury
should be more Influenced by the ira
ditions and the customs of the past
than by the necessities of the present.
That is why he is denounced by the
radicals as reactionary; as opposed
to all progress and reform. and as a
pronounced case of atavism. Yet,
type of the English gentleman of
today. and of the great English noble
of the Tudor, of the Stuart. of the
Georgian ages. and also the early
Victorian era.
Lord Salisbury has served in many
public ofiices-not for the sake of
power or profit. but solely from a
sense of duty to crown and state.
He has been lord privy seal and min
lister of commerce, and also under
secretary of state of public affairs.
where he made rather mess of his
job. For. when asked to reply in the
house of lords to question as to
whether the Anglo-Japanese treaty
of alliance, which came to an end
by mutual consent during the dis
armament conference at Washington,
had been sought by England. he re-
piled: Great Britain does not ask
for treaties; she grants them" So
great was the sensation created by
this utterance in the Land of the Ris
ing, Sun, where 1t was resented as a
gross affront to the national pride
of Japan, that 1t was necessary to