The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1915-04-10
WILLIAM H. JACKSON.

Inc Qeatn OF the hon. William II.
Jackson, known Familiarity and affec-
tionately throughout this Peninsula
as Uncle Bill" brings a great loss,
not only to his own city, but to the
State. Mr.. Jackson's brusque manner
was all on the outside; on the inside
was a very tender and very generous
heart which responded to many a
private appeal for help and which
made him one of the States most val
ued patrons of our philanthropic in
situations.
Mr.. Jackson cared nothing for the
ostentation of wealth and though one
of the richest, if not the richest man
in Maryland, he regarded his money
as simply means to an end-and so
used it. With it he founded great in
dustries, wherein were employed many
workmen who always loved him as
an employer. With it he endowed and
supported public charities, and was
always relieving personal needs. With
it he fought political battles, giving
as generously to his party's campaign
was candidate. His community. his
ily-all will miss him sorely; but all
cause while he lived he counted
So much has been said and said I'M
fairly by little, mean souls about Mr..
jackson that we want here to repro
duce an editorial from the Baltimore
Evening Sun, that seems to us both
fair and true. and all the more force
full in that it comes from a Demo-
cratic paper:
The Hon. William H. jackson,
former Congressman, one of the
political magnates of the Repub-
llcan party III Maryland, a power
for progress in his section, saga
cious and far-sighted in business,
benevolent and helpful in personal
relations-there was much to ad-
mire and little to criticise in this
Self-made man of the Eastern
Shore. Extreme Democrats were
inclined to bear a grudge against
him because he flew the political
track when tariff reform was
made the paramount issue in the
Cleveland campaign of 1883, yet,
after all, if he could not support
such a program in the Democratic
party it was only honest for him
to get out of it and frankly OPP
pose it. Whether if he had not
been engaged in an industry af-
fected by tariff reduction he would
have seen new light at this par
ticular time few of US are war
ranted in inquiring too curiously,
unless we can show that our own
motives in similar circumstances
have always been free from suspi-
cion when we brought them frank
ly for examination before the bar
of our conscienceS. And it is
likely that he thought of the tariff
not as affecting himself only, but
as affecting the hundreds of per-
sons he employed. In any event,
it is certainly no crime for man
to act in accordance with his own
interests. That is what most of
us are doing every day in the
year, and though we always re-
GREETED Mr.. Jackson's abandon
ment of the Democratic party at
the particular period and on the
particular issue which he chose
for his secession, we have always
deprecated the criticism of which
he was for some time made the
object and respected the indepen-
dence and courage which were ne
cessary to such course.
Whether Republican or Demo-
crat, he was one of Maryland's
foremost and most valuable citi-
zens-valuable cOnstruCtiVe.y and
morally and as an example of and
stimulus to progress The East
ern Shore will not remember his
politics, but his liberality to all
deserving objects and to all good
men-the practical philanthropy
that converted waste places into
industrial centres and provided
remunerative employment for
hundreds of people, that trans
formed the section in which he
lived from an ordinary country
town into busting and progress
sive community. His contribu-
tions to humane and religious en-
terpriscs were continual and wide
spread, as were the personal kind
nesses which his right hand con-
cealed even from his left. 1t was
Burke, we believe, who said that
Napoleon made kings his sentinels
and royal potentates his outposts.
Mr.. Jackson made churches his
monuments. hospitals his memoir
ials and hosts of grateful men and
women his eu!ogists. A big-heart-
ed. useful man. who helped to
build up his State and to make
life better worth living. has pass
ed away in him, and all Mary
landers can unite in doing him
honor His career is an inspira-
ton to the farmer boy who thinks
there is no opportl nifty for him
in the country. William Fl. Jack
son showed that there is always
room anywhere and everywhere
for the man who is detnrmined TO