Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-08-20
Ex-GOV. D. B. HILL
sneaks to 10000 Picnickers at Ocott
Beach, NJ. Y.

olcott Beach, N. Y, Aug 19.-Former
Cav Dayid b.. Hill delivered the prin-
oi,,,, address at the annual picnic of
tho Niagara County Pioneers Associa-
ton nicnic. today, which was attended
by 10000 people.
Mr.. Hill in opening discussed Mob
raw Versus Due Process of Law" He
s,id. Mob violence is not rendered
less Objectionable even if it be true as
fraouentlv asserted, that unless it
shall interpose its strong arm, the
puiltv may escape punishment through
y lax administration of the criminal
law or Indifference to its enforcement
an the part of the people themselves.
,rba very excuse offered is a reflection
IN the community itself, where the
crime has been committed, and the rem
| ndv lies not in the people themselves
overriding the law, but in the people
unfolding and enforcing the law, and
| in an appeal to their patriotism, their
| GOOD sense, their innate love of justice
| and respect for order, qualities which
arc seldom, if ever, invoked in vain.
| W. cannot permit this government to
hacome a mobocracy, which acts upon
1
nizes no appeal from it's hasty pre-
| judgment"
Taking up another subject Mr.. Hill
| said: The tendency of the times is
| toward Indulgence in that peculiar
| species of sensational performance
| which NAV be characterized in gen.
cral terms as 'spectacularsm' if l may
| be permitted to coin that word.
Observation-Disclosures usually affect superior
Iity over other. people, in the matter OF
patriotism they desire to be regarded as
the ONLY true patriots; they assume to
possess all the virtues, while other people
| in their estimation possess all the wees
| "rhe hope of the country lies in the
| great mass of cool. deliberate and con
| Servative citizens who pursue their Voca-
tions and perform their duties unostenta'
tiously and entertain sincere convictions
| of their lifc's work. Their ways are ways
Of pleasantness and their paths are peace
and they believe that Righteousness more
than the triumphs of war eXalt ma
Mr., Hill discussed Fictitious Versus
Real Prosperity. SAYING: mere Is .oa
that the country at the present time l:
enjoying Il period of much prosperity
Yet there are grave reasons Tor uouptlils
the entire correctness of the statement
larc in process of construction and man!
important enterprises are in process o
Ideyclopment but the fact must be borne
in mind that most of these schemes are
being Heated upon borrowed capital
that the future is being largely mort
lgagcd-tnd that profits to hereafter ac
lcruc and dividends to he hereafter declar
ed are already being anticipated ans
there is no adherence to the good old
fashioned and safe doctrine of paying a:
you go
| when the prices of the necesSaricS o
life are unrcasonaby enhanced so tina
it practically costs a man all that III
learns to live comfortably, there is no OPP
portunty afforded for the accumulation
of Il fair competence. Normal conditions
larc better for the people as IA whole. rain
er than those tiourshing times which ar
soon followed by periods of business lie
verses
| Commercial centCrs seem to be loO<in.
to Congress for some sort of financial re
lief, the exact nature of which is no
stated twice alike.
THE question is presented whether thi
proposed measure is in the interest of tn
people or otherwise. We are Informed tina
it's details are not vet wholly perfected
but it is announced that its principa
feature is in substance and effect an au
| thorization of the loGning by the govern
mont to national banks of the surplus il
the treasury of the United States upol
approved securities.
| The financial situation must indeed b.
desperate when such eXpcdientS as loan
ing the peoples money to corporations i
Suggested rather than relieving the peOp
| from the taxation which has producc'
the accumulation of the surplus an,
| which accumulation has largely cause
the present congestion in the money mar
| ket