New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-20
NOEXCUSE FOR LYNCHING
Ex-senator also Tails about Pros
perity-He Sees Trouble ahead.

the remedy lies not in the people themselves over
riding the law but IN the people upnoidlng ana en-
ism, their good sense, their innate love Of justice
n ever. invoked tn vain We cannot permit this
government TO become mobocraey, which acts
upon impulse, feels no restraint and recognizes no
appeal from its hasty prejudgment
Crimes which only be punished by such ire
punished At all. because in the end the remedy
viii be found worse Than the disease ,o,o.
his country ana her free INSTITUTIONS is plain He
should assist in the creation OF healthy public
sentiment. which should demand that no person
charged with crime shall be punished theref9 for
Gals. and after a trial before court ana jury
as provided by the wise and benehcent FEDERAL
Constitution, ana these vital provisions so essen
every part OF our domain ana wherever our amer
can flag shall permanently float, and every man.
rich or poor educated or unettered must be pro-
tecred in his life and liberty.
sPECTACULARIsAI" OF OFFICEHOLDERS.
Taking up another subject. Mr.. Hill said:
The tendency Of the times is toward indulgence
N that peculiar species OF sslSduoh,1l
'spectacularisn, if may be permitted to coin that
s'spectacularists' usually affect superiority over
other people; n the matter Of patriotism they de-
assume 10 possess all the virtues. while other peo-
Pc, n neII Poses go, on tiIS p -
aohor sAence and ooscuriJy- Ihey as-Il me GolI
ruOnest kind Of self-evident propositions, which
15hasis as though they were oracles and as though
their platitudes were wholly original
II they happen hold public office they are de-
5n9gnife6 and aDpIauded They are sure that there
were never before such public oficials as them
Eelves-so earnest. so honest, so self-sacrihcing.
They NEEDLE with everything whether within or
without their official jurisdiction and usually mud
ole everything with which they have anything
'spectacularism' as here interpreted. is sort
OF oseasei II EXPANDS Llg pSo du eoi LIZA 90
mania which is another name for egoism-
Of cool, deliberate and conservative citizens. who
pursue their avocations and perform their duties
auTa
OF their Hfe's work. They neither delight in war,
en- no c6B upon 0T their ahoudeT5 always looking
for trouble. Their ways are ways of pieasantness
lieve that righteousness more than the trumphs of
war exalteth nation
RAP AT LABOR LEGISLATION.
Mr.. Hill criticised the last legislature for the
number of laws passed by it, and said the unfortu-
nate tendency of the times Sd to be toward
the exercise of paternal functio of government
Mr. Hill continued:
We should not forget the old doctrine. taught US
by our fathers that that goyernInent Is best which
the number Of hours which a man may labor in
- ~ ej7or The oTnnensa tior which
he SHAH receive therefor and the persons with
whom he may work are largely matters to be
regulated by private contract rather than by law
Mr. Hill disguised Fictitious vs. Real Prosperity
follows
There is a chorus of assertion constantly reiter-
ated, that the country at the present time is en-
are grave reasons for doubling the entire correct
ness Of the statement II is conceded that many
public works in progress OF construction and
veIopment but the fact must be borne in mind that
most of these schemes are being tioated upon
borrowed capital-that the future IS being largely
and dividends be hereafter declared are already
being anticipated. and there is adherence TO the
gooo CID fashioned and safe doctrine OF paying
as you go The country has been surfeited with
The issue Of various stocks and bonds, which have
been palIned OF upon a conhdlng public under
the promise Of profits, never earned and not likely
a falling market, and temporarily at least even
if not for some time TO come. prevented safe fnan
cial investments; and the end is not yet.
When the prices OF the necessaries of life are
unTeasonably enhanced, that it practically costs
a man al that ne earns 10 live comfortably. there
IS no opportunity afforded for the accumulation of
2 far competence Normal conditions are better
fishing times which are soon followed by periods Of
business reverses: As an undue exhilaration is
aflairs of business, commercial stagnation is gen
orally preceded by excessive expansion.
THE FINANCIAL SITUATION.
Commercial centres seem TO be looking. to Con-
6af5re Of winch IS not stated twice alike Won
win recall the fact that it was only a few years
the Sherman Silver law on the ground that silver
va 700 cheap or 100 pleLty 10 WaFLanI us con-
silver purchases were accordingly stopped and
properly so; and soon thereafter there arose a
claTnor upon Congress for the creation Of a single
gold standard because better money was said TO
DC desired, and the single god STANDARD measure
millennium was freely pTeolCIeCs and now. when a
:alling market IS aepTeclaIng values ana Wreckl4g
fortunes, we are told that we must Immediately
have additional financial legislation providing for
what the next Speaker Of the House Of Repre-
EeltatiVes has recently described or dubbed
rubber currency. The question is presented
Of the people or otherwiSe2 We are informed that
its details not yet wholly perfected but il is
announced that its principal feature is in sub
stance and effect an authorization OF the lOaning
by the government to national banks Of the
plus in the Treasury Of the United States upon
approved" securities.
The financial situation must indeed be desperate
when such eEpedientS loanng the peoples
money 10 corpora tons suggested, rather than
relieving the people from the taxation which has
produced the accumulation Of the surplus and
which accumulation has largely caused the present
congestion IN the money market.
In closing, Mr. Hm said the desrability Of good
roads was conceded by every body but he argued
that they should be built and maintained by
localities AT their own expense and in their own
way. instead Of by the State. He held that recent
legislation which requires the State TO assume
the payment Of 90 per cent of the annual cost Of
tho repairs OF the various highways in a town
which has adopted the money system of taxation
IN place OF the labor system for working and re-
pairing highways unjust OF this plan Mr.
Hin said
It is absolutely unjust the forty-fve cities and
20 Incorporated villages Of the State which repair
their own highways, well TO those towns
which prefer to adhere 10 the labor system but
which compelled 20 assist those localities which
have adopted the money system. The expenditure
Is substantially a subsidy the electors OF the
various localities accepting il. which IS reflection
upon their own self-reSpect and independence
State subsidies are Objectionable ma tiOnai
subsidies. and neither are founded upon right