The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-20
ON CURRENT ISSUES
OAvIp b. HILL SPOKE TO PToN-
EERS' ASSOCIATION.
MOB LAW AND CURRENCY
FICTITIOUS AND REAL PRoSPERI.
TY, DISCUSSED.

Calls Observation-Disclosures
There Are Grave Doubts That
Country Is Enjoying Real Pros
perity-Future Is MOrtgaged to
Float Schemes--COmmerc iaI Cen
Iief--Says Additional Financial
LEGISLATION Is PrOpOsed-Has Been
Dubbed "Rubber Currency"
Olcott Beach, N. Y, Aug. 19.-From
10000 to $4,000 people attended the an
nual picnic of the Niagara County Pi-
oneers Association to-day. The MORN
ing was taken UP with a business
meeting of the association, followed by
q reception to former Senator David
B. Hill.
An immense crowd gathered at the
open air theater where the exercises
of the day were held.
Attorney General Cuneen was the
first speaker. He extoiled the industry,
intelligence and character of the pi-
oneers of Western New York. Mr.. Gu
neen then paid tribute to Senator
Hill, who was the next speaker.
Senator Hill said in part:
Mr.. Hill, in opening, discussed Mob
Law Versus Due Process of Law" He
said
Mob violence is not rendered less
Objectionable even, if it be true, as
frequently asserted, that unless it
shall interpose its strong arm, the
guilty may escape punishment through
a lax administration of the criminal
law or Indifference to it's enforcement
on the part Of the people themselves.
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ton on the community itself where
the crime has been committed and the
remedy lies, not in the people them
selves overriding the law, but in the
people upholding and enforcing the
law and in an appeal to their patriot
ism, their good sense. their innate love
of justice and respect for order-qual-
tiles which are seldom II ever invoked
in vain.
1--WE cannot permit this government
to become a mobocracy which acts up
on impulse, feels no restraint and rec
ognfzes no appeal from its hasty pre-
judgment.
Remedy Worse Than Disease.
Grimes which can only be punish
ed by such irresponsible tribunals as
mobs might as we'll not be punished at
all, because in the end the remedy will
be found to be worse than the disease.
who loves his country and its free in
situations, is plain. He should assist
in the creation of a healthy public
sentiment which should demand that
no person charged with crime shall be
punished therefor, except under pro-
cess of law and by lawful officials and
after a trial before a court and jury,
as provided by the wise and beneficent
provisions of our federal constitution,
and these vital provisions, so essential
to the public welfare, must be respect
ed in every part of our domain, and
wherever. our American flag shall per-
franenSIy fioat; and every man,
whether white or black, native or
foreign born, rich or poor, educated
or unlettered must be protected in his
life and liberty"
Taking up another subject, Mr.. Hill
said:
Experimentation"
THE tendency of the times is to-
wards indulgence in that peculiar spe-
cies of sensational performance which
may be characterized in general terms
as 'spectacularism,' if l may be per-
mitted to coin that word.
Spectacularists usually affect supe-
riority over other people; in the mat
ter of patriotism they desire to be re-
garded as the only true patriots; they
assume to possess all the virtues. while
other people in their estimation possess
all the vices. They abhor silence and
obscurity They assert the commonest
kind of self-evident propositions, which
have become moss-covered from age,
with an emphasis as though they were
oracles, and as though their platitudes
were wholly original
Have Press Agents.
They have their press agent, who,
unsolicited, supply the newspapers
gratuitously with the details of what
they do each morning, noon and night.
as though the world was holding its
breath for fear that something would
escape it pertaining to themselves.
IF they happen to hold public
Office they are delighted to see their
smallest public acts paraded, magni-
fed and applauded. They are sure
that there was never before such pub
lie officials as themselves-so earnest
so honest so self-sacrificing. They
NEEDLE with evrything whether with
in or without their official jurisdiction,
and usually muddle everything which
they have anything to do with.
"Spectacularism as here interpreted
is a sort of disease-it expands the
head and contracts the conscience; and
may appropriately be called ego-ma-
MIA, which is another name for ego
ism.
Hope of the Country.
The hope of the country lies in the
great mass of cool, deliberate and con-
sentative citizens, who pursue their
avocations and perform their duties
unostentatiously and entertain sincere
convictions of their life's work. They
neither delight in war, in contention
nor in unnecessary strife; they carry
no chip upon their shoulders, always
looking for trouble. Their ways are
ways of pleasantnes and their paths
are pease, and they believe that
Righteousness, more than the triumphs
of war, exalteth a nation"
Fictitious Prosperity.
Mr. Hill discussed Fictitious versus
Real Prosperity as follows: There
Is chorus of assertion, constantly re-
tterated, that the country at the pres
ent time Is enjoying a period of much
prosperity, yet there are grave reasons
for doubling the entire correctness OF
the statement.
1T Is conceded that many public
works are in progress of construction
and many important enterprises are In
process of development, but the fact
must be borne in mind that most oil
these schemes are being fioated upon
borrowed capital-that the future Is
being largely mortgaged-and that
profits to hereafter accrue and divi-
bends to be hereafter declared are al
ready. being anticipated, and there Is
no adherence to the good old fashioned
and safe doctrine of having as YOU