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Show A Good and Faithful j Servant i r, . With the passing of Dr. Jacob H. ', Oalllnger on August 17, the United ( States Senate lost Us Grand Old 1 - Man, the Nation lost one of the' abl est and sanest legislators, the City ot Washington lost Its best friend, And New England added one more star to her crowa ot great statesmen. states-men. Forty-seven years of public service as a representative of the people, beginning with his election to the New Hampshire house of representatives rep-resentatives In 1872, during the days of reconstruction, terminated with tho close' of a distinct epoch In 'American history. But two men during dur-ing that period broko the continuity of Republican control ot tho. destinies destin-ies ot tho country, Grovor Cleveland and Woodrow Wilson. Under the party of which Galllnger was one ot tho acknowledged leaders, ho saw this country emerge from the Civil .war, exhausted and saddled with debt, recuperate and become econ-, omically tho most powertul nation on tho globe, Its indcstrlcs devel- j -- oped to a pitch whlclTTins enabled Sit to stand the terrific pressure of a great war and which will ultimately ultim-ately score a decisive victory over the enemies ot popular government. How much of this Is due to the j statesmanship of Jacob Galllnger re mains for his biographer to Inform us, for his career merits a compendious compen-dious volume. An ordinary, every-day American , cltlen, on the 28th ot March last, ' wrote a note to Senator Oalllnger, congratulating him on having reached his eighty-first birthday, to which the Senator respoded: "To know that I have the respect ot men like you Is the best reward that I can ask for in thli life." The ex-i ex-i presslos waa characteristic ot the Iman. The respect and love ot his fellow citizens waa recompense en-j en-j ough for him. He might 'hare ; turned his wonderful talents to sel fish ends and achieved riches and dl- rectorates, but, choosing rather to serve the commonwealth, he died, a comparatively poor man, a splendid example, however, ot the testamentary testamen-tary that "a good name is rather to be chosen than great riches." 1 Galllnger was educated to the medical profession, and he had already al-ready scored a success in that voca- tlon, when, heeding the call ot the commonwealth, he left tho bedside of the sick and entered into the larger sphere of legislating to cure social Ills. Twenty-seven years of this practice was as a United States Senator. His cllentlle grew from 63,000,000 to 105,000,000, and Galllnger Gal-llnger prescribed what he believed to bo best for the wholo country, and not for a section or a class. Ho was a tariff protectionist, he was for sound money and tho currency system which Aldrlch outlined and the Democrats borrowed. He championed cham-pioned the child labor laws, and ho was stalwart In his maintenance of i national honor, without quibble or compromise. It Is, perhaps, with tho effort to build up an American merchant ma-rlno ma-rlno that Galllnger was most prominently prom-inently identified. Ho was probably .the greatest authority In tho United States Senate on this subect, and ho advocated tho policy of reasonable subsidies to establish routes of travel tra-vel for American ships. Aldrlch did not llvo to seo Ills currency system put Into operation becuso of Democratic Demo-cratic minority opposition. Galllnger Galllng-er died without seeing his measure for a merchant marine adopted, but In its place, he saw saddled onto tho taxpayers of the country, by the very men who had opposed subsidization, subsi-dization, a Government controlled, government operated system, socialistic social-istic in its nature and costing Infinitely In-finitely more than the plan he had espoused, ' p I His pet legislative hobby was tho beautifying and modernizing of the National Capital; and Rock Creek Park, the Lincoln Memorial, and many other civic embellishments In Washington will endure for years to come and remind the American tourist ot ttie large of this man, while the Galllnger hospital will testify tes-tify to his sympathy for human suffering. suf-fering. Ferhaps.lt Is, well he died (before learning that the beautiful Mall, in which he took' such an interest, in-terest, and over which he so often drove, is to be the permanent site of the war huts ow desecrating its I beauty. His services to the atlon entitle him to undisturbed repose. |