Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-08-20
Hope of the Country Lies In
the Great Mass of Conser-
yative Citizens
HIT AT sPEcTAcULARlsM
This Tendency Of the Times Is Desie-
mated by Mr.. Hill as Peculiar Spe-
cies of Sensational Performance
Fictitious Versus Real Prosperity
Financial Legislation.

olcott Beach. n. Y, Aug. 2o-From
twenty to thirty thousand people at
| tended the annual picnic of the Mag
ara County Pioneers Association here
yesterday. The morning was taken up
with u business meeting of the assoc
citation. followed by a reception 10
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 paid
a tribute to Senator HILL who was
the next speaker.
Hills Address.
Mr.. HILL in opening, discussed Mob
/ Law Versus Due Process of Law" He
| said that the remedy for mob violence
lies. not in the people themselves over
riding the law. but in the people up
| holding and enforcing the law, and in
an appeal to their patriotism, their
1 good sense. their innate love of justice
and respect for order-qualities which
were seldom, If ever. invoked in vain.
We cannot permit this government to
| become a mobocracy which acts upon
| impulse, feels no restraint and recog-
nizes no appeal from its hasty pre-
judgment.
He then continued: Grimes which
can only be punished by such irrecon-
ciliable tribunals as mobs might as Well
not be punished at all, because in the
end the remedy will be found TO be
worse than the disease. The duty of
every American citizen who loves his
country and 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 therefor
except by the process of law, and law
| full officials, and that every man.
whether white or black, native or for
egn born, rich or poor educated or
unlettered. must be protected in his
life and liberty
| Taking up another subject Mr.. Hill
said THE tendency of the times is
toward indulgence in that peculiar spe-
cies OF sensational performance. which
may be characterized in general terms
as 'spectacularism, If | may be per-
mitted to coin the word.
"Spectacularists affect superiority
over other people; in the matter of pa
triotism the desire to be regarded as
the only true patriots: they assume TO
possess all the virtues while other peo-
pie in their estimation possess all the
vices They abhor silence and abscur-
ity. They assert that the comment kind
of self-evident facts. which have be-
come moss covered from age, with an
emphasis as though they were oracles
and as though their platitudes We're
wholly original.
They have their press agents who
unsolicited supply the newspapers
gratuously with the details with what
ever they do each morning. noon and
night. as though the world was holding
| It's breath for fear that something
would escape 1T pertaining to them
selves If they he ppen to hold a public
office, they are delighted to see their
smallest public acts paraded. magniiied
and applaudcd. They are sure that
there We're never before such public Of
iicials as themselyes-so earnest, so
honest. so self sacrificing. They med
die with everything, whether within or
without their official jurisdiction, and
usually muddle everything with which
they have anything to do.
Plea for Conservatism.
THE hope of the country lies in the
great mass of cool, deliberate and
conservative citizens who puruse their
business and perform their duties un-
ostentatiously 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 pleasantness, and their path.
are peace, and they believe that right
eousness more than the triumphs Of
war eNalteth n nation
Mr.. Hill continued: That govern
ment is best which governs least. The
| liking Of the prices of products, the
number of hours which a man may la
Dor in private employment-in the
| field, on the farm. in the store or in
| the shop-the compensation which he
shall receive therefor, and the persons
with whom he may work, are largely
matters to be regulated by private con-
tract rather than by law
Fictitious Prosperity.
Mr. Hill commented on "Fictitious
versus Real Prosperity" by saying:
1T is considered that many public
works are in progress of construction
and many important enterprises are in
process OF development, but most of
these schemes are being toated upon
borrowed capitalize future is being
largely mortsaged-an profits to here
after accrue and dividends to be here
after declared, are already being antic-
ipated. The country has been sur
feited with the issue of various stocks
and bonds which have been palmc1
off upon confiding public under the
promise OF profits-never earned and
not likely to be earned, until Il financial
reaction has set In which has disturbed
public confidence, inaugurated a falling
market, and, temporarily at least, even
If not for sometime to come, prevented
safe financial investments; and the enI
is not yet.
When the prices Of the necessaries
of life are unreasonably enhanced so
that it practically costs a man all that
he earns to live comfortably, there is
no opportunity afforded for the accum-
ulation of a fair competence. Normal
conditions are better for the people as
whole rather than those fourshing
times which are soon followed by per-
iods of business reyerses.
Financial Legislation.
Commercial centers seem to be look