The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-06-01
LAW enforcement
need Of NATION
THIS RATHER THAN THE INDIES
CRlMlNATE ENACTMENT BY
LEGISLATURES.
Subject of the Address of James J.
Hill at the Opening of the Alaska
Yukon-Pacific Exposition
Today.

state ana city today, would be the
substitution for term of years of law
enforcement for law-making," de-
clared James J. Hill, in an address
at the opening exercises OF the Alaska
Yukon-Pacific Exposition today.
There are four great words that |
should be written upon the four corner
stones of every public building in this |
land, with the sacredness of a re-
ligious rite" said Mr. Hill These |
watchwords of the republic are Equal |
ity, Simplicity, Economy and Justice |
They are interviewer with every fiber
of the national fabric To forget or
deny them will lead to every misfor-
tune and every possibility of destrLc
ton that rises now threateningly in
the path of our countrys greatness.
Equality before the law is an EN-.
bodied promise of the United States
1t is the first principle sought to be
maintainedlcmfw shr emf shr cmfwc
insofar as we have been faithful to
it, we have not only grown great and
prosperous but have commanded the
respect Of others because we respect
ed ourselves. Insofar as we have de.
MED it, insofar as there is anywhere
special privilege or an unequal re-
strictiOn, any decree of legal gov
ernmental ffavoritism whatever, we
have changed the government of the
fathers and turned backward toward
the old, evil traditions whose trail of
blood and oppression runs through ali
| history.
In opening his address, Mr.. Hill
said: The idea of federation OF
the world comes nearest realization
in the great eXpositions that assem-
Bile actual evidence of mans prog
ress in self-development and toward
his development of the earth. The
people who furnish exhibits standing
side by side could not always live
in peace in close personal contact.
Men in our day move towards their
material advances principally through
the struggle for wealth. The COM
forts and luXuries that have been won
from the earth are symbols of greater
things behind. An exhibit of the
work of industry, science and art is,
therefore, a human document of high
and convincing value.
Most Of the expositions of the past
had a historic motive 1t is a sign
of development when We move away
from dependence on some past fact
and celebrate instead the general
sweep of such forces as make for fu
ture progress. The nation today
faces forward, not backward Such
is expressed in its very name; begin
ming with the farthest, newest and
least developed district of our nation
al domain, covering a coast that reach
es from well within the Arctic Cir
Gle, to near the tropics and embrac
ing all the mystery and might thai
have been suggested by the word
Pacific for nearly four hundred
years. 1t appears in the design o
this beautiful exposition city and it.
Indignation with your State Universit!
and its future. Something more in
spring than a date, something of TIM
onward and upward impulse that 1
older than nations, institutions, in
dustries, older than man himself
something active, personal, achieviu
/ inheres in the thought and labo
/ crowned today by this happy even
You have learned more of your ow
powers by carrying to successful con
pletion an enterprise so ambition.
The outer world, by which Alask
and the Pacific coast are still larg
III ly unknown and unappreciated. wi
/ carry away from here information a
| we'll as delight. 1t is, perhaps, sma
| episode in the march Of human event
and the unfolding of a nations hi
tory; but in some ways, also, it ma
mark an epoch
Mr.. Hill referred to Alaska's r
markable progress, recalling that tai
ty years ago intercourse with it vi
limited practically to the needs of Il
sealing industry. The exposition e
hibits, he said, give a mere hint
Il the contribution, still unrevealed
i our fancy, which she is
IN make to the national life and acti
| 4 ity in the half century to come.
liz The speaker reviewed the develt
ment on the Pacific coast and said F.: