Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-03-29
President Taft's Address.
President Taft said:

President Taft said:
You do a great deal of dining in
Washington. 1t is one of those allure
ments that my friend. Senator Bailey,
would have dispensed with in order that
the senator's and representatives might
go home without grief, but YOU could
not use the function of a dinner for
better or higher purpose than TO testify
your gratitude, and that Of all good cit
liens of the United States, 10 a servant
and senator who does things because
they are to do good to the people. l do
not like to be inVidious in my distinc-
tons or have anything more drawn from
what / say than what / really mean, but
You will all agree with me that there
Is class Of legislators who favor legis-
lation because of the good that it is
going to do when it is enforced, and that
of legislation wholly without regard to
what 1t is going to accomplish as an en-
forced law. but who take an interest
simply In respect of and because OF the
votes that the advocacy of the law is
going to give them. Now, Senator Gal
linger belongs to the former class. And
that virtue-for it is a virtue-cannot be
demonstrated any more conclusively than
by the work and the time and the at
tention and the industry that a senator
or a member of the House devotes to the
cause Of the District Of Columbia. This
Is what 1 understand we are here for-to
that Senator Galiinger has done.
A Safe Legislator.
'They have in New England what they
call safe men. By that they mean men
who from their youth up feel charged
with the responsibility of looking out for
the community in which they live; first.
the village, then the town, then it may be
the county. then the state, and. finally,
the nation. They seem to be able by what
they do to impress the people with the
idea that II they are given a public trust
they will regard it as q trust for the peo-
pie, and can themselves he trusted as safe
men for the people to put in power Now,
that Is the kind Of man that Senator Gal
linGer is, and that is the reason for his
hold on the state Of New Hampshire.
ut Is pleasant to be here and hear such
an eloquent tribute from a democratic
leader in the Senate to a republican
senator with whom he has beeatassoci-
ated for ten years and whose personality
in the intimacy of the Senate he is able
to testify to from the best standpoint of
observation.
TT is . great pleasure to hear a tribute
from one senator Of New Hampshire to
another. because that is even as excep-
tional as 1t Is to hear a tribute from q
leading democratic senator to a republic
can senator.
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But to get away from personalities and
to come down to the real basis of this
meeting, which is the good which Sena-
tor 0allinger has done to the District by
his industry. his attention and his serious
care for the development of the city of
Washington. l hope he will continue in
the Senate for many years. The truth
Is. those Of us who live in Washington
N fiS11A WOO loo hon u,
lose in effective legislation by rotation in
ONCE Of their senators and representa-
tives. Experience is as essential to make
good legislator as it Is to make a good
doctor or q good lawyer. and you know
as we'll as I do that the men who come
here without experience, selected on the
theory of rotation for several years, count
only as voters and not as men who lead
to its excellence. Therefore it is that
when We get a good man in the Senate
we all ought to pray that he shall stay
there
II observe that a few Of that principle
differ according as you are in the Senate
or you are out OF it. But those of us
who are laymen and haven't any hope
OF being in either house can retain the
sensible view that I think l have ex-
pressed
More Improvements Needed.
Il have spoken so often on tho
growth of the city of Washington and
on the possibilities of it's future
growth that I feel in this presence I
am only guilty of reiteration. A great
deal has been done for the city Of
Washington. and it IL today the most
beautiful city Of this country beyond
all possibility of dispute; but that
there is a great deal more to do: thai
there are possibilities that present
themselves every time one takes a
drive or a walk, those of us who take
drives or walks know. 1t takes money
to huild n heaufiflIl city q nd No,, - q