Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-06-02
HILL MAKES

| HILL MAKES
Continued from page III
impression that simplicity has been
| banished necessarily from the modern
world of q kind OF natural evolutlon.
Whereas, it remains now, as always,
the normal rule Of Il wholesome ma
| tional life. Do we gain by passing
from the period when eBn5amin 2
Frankliny, in plain dress, commanded
the homeage of the most frivolous
| and most decorative capital In Eur
ope to the period wher man can
not accept without humiliation Tor
eign ambassad orship unless he has q
large income? The life OF those VINO
do the work Of tn world whether IN
the high places or the low Is usually
simple thing. .y-
1--WE have complicated our educa-
tional system and made It superomc'
ial. The just complaint everywhere
Is that there is no thoroughness, no
wholesome mental discipline tor the
young. .,-. ,,o,
I'VE nave COmpHCdISN Jul 0O~A0'
life until natural human intercourse
is overlaid and thick stratum Of
vulgar prodigalfty, luxury, display ana
insincerity. .su..... .>...:. :.
1--WE have, complicated our law-mak-
ing until, despite the high standards,
the unimpaired traditions and the
continual labOrs OF the courts, the
administration of justice Is dimcult,
and sometimes unrertain., ~.
1--WE have complicated our imam
cial system until 1t encourages the
widest speculation at one moment
and at another sinks into business
collapse. ,...s, , q n,
eve have complicated our indus
trial organization at both ends OF the
scale until the great middle class,
which represents labor suncombined,
a fine energy and modest accumuia-
ticn of capital, finds many OF its
rights invaded or DESTROYED. -, - >,
"And we complicate all these COM
plications by necessarily passing more
laws. about them, Simplicity Ia gov
erning methods, In character and ~
conduct, must be fixed quality Of the
state that survives those changes or
the centuries in which All others have
vanished: s@ && &% Sis 5& F!sa kA 8& vi.
"Inseparably connected with equal
ity and simplicity Is. economy. Ma
tionally considered It has become al
most a forgotten term"
Mr.. Hill declared this to be the
most wasteful country on earth In 1T
administrative features a. well az In
it's treatment Of natural resonrces.
and said that the discarded standard
ofecono1ny in itsanairs must mus y be
! aThs' curtailment of FEDERAL sxpen.
SCI by one fourth would aSAist not
Eoniy ehiciency in tile departments,
Ebut reforms now postponed by the
task Of raising and the rage nf spelnd.
ing great sums that should be LETT
In the pockets of the people.
,ss"Last and noblest convention :of all
born from the associated life of man
kind ia Justice. The nation must be
true to the distract and impartial -t1s-
tice which is the fountain Of nobility,
the patent Of heroes and the final
test of any state. Upon occasion the
the law-makine power has been = In
wicked not to punish guilt, but to- give
one man an unfair advantage at the
cost of anotheIsT Sconfiscate wholly
or in mart prnertx honestly .earned
and fairly n4 DISTINGUISH he:
tween activities !, discriminating
laws. The tendency is by MOI means
universal. but its presence iss palpa-
HE and tQosdange to be IGNORED:
II yhaterd creed or envy. ;instead of
Justice. exergbscnmes formative
mower in npblta lNirs then, ~ mat
ter who may be the victim. the act
ts treason. FOR no state ever entoyed
TRANQUILITY Or ESCAPED destruction II
it ceased to- maintain one equal and
! in-exible| standard Of tdstice.E The
greatest service to the nation. to ev-
cry state and city today. would By the
substitution for term OF years of
law Enforcement for hW-maktng. Get
the laws fairly tried, weed out those
improper az impra cticable, 5cprtan the
contempt Of, the Law that now hour-
ishes under the American system Of
non-enforc ement mo make the rpeo-
pie understand That government
means exact and unspar1ng Justice,