The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-06-01


service to the nation, to every state
and city today, would be the substi-
tuition for term of years of law en-
forcement for law making" declared
James J. Hill, in an address at the
kon-Pacific exposition today.
There are four great words that
should be written upon the four cor
nee stones of every public building
in this land, with the sacredness of a
religious 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 de-
struction that rises now threatening
ly in the path of our country's great
ness.
Equality before the law is an
embodied promise of the United
States. 1t is the first principle sought
to be established by the federal con-
stitution. Insofar as we have been
faithful to it, we have not only grown
great and prosperous, but have COM
manded the respect of others because
we respected ourselves. Insofar as
we have denied it, insofar as there is
anywhere a special privilege or an
unequal restriction, any decree Of
ever, we have changed the govern
ment of the fathers and turned back
ward toward the old evil traditions
whose trail Of blood and oppression
runs through all history.
1T needs heroism, it involves the
shaking off of ostentatious follies
that have already warped our earlier
ideals, it may even require a consid-
cradle readjustment of our whole in
dustrial system and a reform in our
very conception of the relation be-
tween a government and it's citizens
before the severe standard of abso-
lutte equality before the law can be
restored. 1t demands new standard
of economy in both our public and
private expenditure.
1T demands the repeal of many
lowe and tho SunnraSSiOn of many of
the bills presented to state and fed
eral legislatures. So many are there
framed to give to one an undue ad-
vantage or take away from another
fair field and an equal judgment. 1t
demands the abolition of that most
hateful and corroding element in
republic that is called class con-
sciousness. To steer the ship of state
anent these shifting and conflicting
currents, now full speed ahead and
now full speed astern, is task of
extraordinary difficulty. Yet, unless
we can follow the course of equal
Justice laid down on the chart, ship
wreck lies somewhere ahead.
Frequent use of the phrase, our
complex civilization, Greats the i'm
preston that simplicity has been
: banished necessarily from the modern
world by a kind of natural evolu-
ton. Whereas it remains now, as
always. the normal rule of a whole
some national life. Do We gain by
passing from the period when Ben
jamin Franklin, in plain dress, COM
mandei the homage of the most fri
volous and most decorative capital
in Europe to the period when a man
can not accept witout humiliation a
foreign ambassadorship unless he has
a large income? The life of those
who do the work of the world whe
ther in the high places or the low,
is usually a simple thing.
I'VE have complicated our educa
tional system and made it superficial.
The just complaint everywhere is
that there is no thoroughness, no
wholesome mental discipline for the
young.
I'VE have complicated our social