646 FRANCIS AM ASA WALKER. 



The tear of affection has been shed, and we approach the life of our 

 friend with bowed head, ever the attitude of reverence and respect. 

 We can not, as personal friends, forget the magnificent presence of Gen- 

 eral Walker, nor do we wish ever to have the memory of his kindness, 

 his cordial support, his active cooperation in everything that. makes for 

 the upbuilding of humanity, as viewed from the personal standpoint, 

 effaced. ISTo eulogy, no tribute, however glowing, can do justice or fully 

 express the influence of personal relations. Such tributes must come 

 from the heart, which can not express itself fully and satisfactorily 

 thiough the medium of speech. Speech can recount the lives of men, 

 their deeds, their professions, their worth to the i3ublic, and thus in a 

 measure build a tomb to their greatness. The epitaph to goodness must 

 always appear less than the truth. * * * 



To my mind the life we commemorate to-night was a great orchestra, 

 all its parts and instruments attuned to harmonious results. The ver- 

 satility of General Walker's character, the great variety of his success- 

 ful duties, make this simile emphatically exj)ressive. We who have 

 watched him through the last (juarter of a century of his life know well 

 the full meaning of this. There were no discords under his magic leader- 

 ship; the orchestra ever rendered, obedient to his direction, the great 

 symphony of his life. Here, with the allegro of the soldier, in that 

 brisk, sprightly movement carried to the presto, he comes in his pro- 

 fessorial experience to the adagio, where, with grace and beauty and 

 diligent execution, he brings out the finest traits of his character, the 

 closing movement of his life being an andante, with an even, graceful, 

 onward progression; but through it all we discern the theme, the 

 motif of his life. There was music in General Walker's life, as we 

 contemplate all these movements in it, and this music makes it to us, 

 who knew him, to all who will know him better as time goes on, a 

 grand symphony indeed. But, in exact terms, who was this man, and 

 what did he do? Why do we come here to-night to pronounce our 

 eulogy? * * * 



An address could be devoted to each branch of his work and yet fall 

 far short of a comprehensive analysis. His public addresses alone 

 would constitute a valuable collection of material for the use of stu- 

 dents, for he took as much i)ains in preparing them as in producing 

 his more voluminous works. So the temptation to take up some par- 

 ticular line which appeals, perhaps, more strongly than any other to 

 individual taste must be resisted and in this presence chief attention 

 devoted to his work as an economist and as a statistician, regretfully 

 leaving all the rest for other men and for other occasions. 



It is difficult to separate in the case of General Walker the econo- 

 mist from the statistician. He was each in turn, and both always; yet 

 chronologically he was an economist before he was a statistician. On 

 the other hand, the foundation of his great reputation abroad was 

 rather as a statistician than as an economist, while in this country 

 I think he was better known as an economist. It was natural that 



