Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1909-06-03
Big Parade and Formal Opening
Ceremonies at Seattle
Tuesday.
ADDRESS BY ]. ]. HILL
Makes q Plea for Equality. simplicity,
Economy, Justice and Conscrva-
tion-should Have Fewer New
Laws and Better Enforce
ment Of Old Ones.

Yukon-Pacif1c exposition. the exercises
at the worlds fair grounds were carried
out with military precision. The EXPOSE
ton gates opened at 1870 At $50 troops
from the United States army and navy.
the Japanese cruisers Also and Soya and
the State militia paraded through the
grounds. and the column WAS reviewed
from stand at the head Of the court OF
honor by the exposition officials. visiting
governors and Admrals 1jlch and Uriel
Seeres The ceremonial exercises were
held In vast natural amphitheatre slop-
IT. "a Lake Washington.
The program included music. Invocation
BY Catholic Bishop Onward J. O'Day
brief addresses by Director-General I. A..
Nsdeau and President j. F. Chilberg. a
long address by James J. Hill chairman
OF the Great Northern board. and bene-
dtction by the Episcopal Bishop Freder-
lex W. Heater. The fair ms thrown
oren to-day was finished and carpenters
ard painters were nowhere to he seen
The few delayed exhibits will be installed
at night.
ADDRESS OF J. ]. HILL
Tho greatest service TO the nation.
to every state and city to-day. would
be the substitution for a term ot
years of law enforcement for law =
making" declared James ]. Hill.
There are four great words that
should be written upon the four cor
ner stones Of every public building
in this land, with tho sacredness of a
religious rite" said Mr. Hlll. 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 mis-
fortune and every possibility Of des-
truction that rises now threateningly
ness.
Equality before the law is an en- =
bodied promise of the United States.
1t Is the first principle sought to be
established by the federal constitu-
ton. In so far as we have been
faithful to It. we have not only
grown great and prosperous but have
commanded the respect Of others be-
cause we respected ourselves In so
far as we have denied It. in so far as
there Is anywhere special privilege
or an unequal restriction. any decree
OF legal governmental favoritism
whatever. we have changed the gov
eminent OF tho fathers and turned
packard toward the old. evil tradi-
tons whose trail OF blood and oppres-
sion runs through all history.
HEROISM is REQUIRED
1T needs heroism. 1t involves the shak-
ing off of ostentatious follies that have
already warped our earlier ideals, It may
even require a considera Bile reimbursement
OF our whole Industrial system and a
reform In our very conception Of the re-
lation between government and its
citizens before the severe standard of
absolute equality before the law can he
restored. 1t demands a new standard Of
economy in both our public and private
expenditure.
1T demands the repeal Of many laws
and the suppression of many Of the bills
presented to State and federal legisla-
lures. So many are there framed to
give to one an undue advantage or take
away from another fair field and an
equal Judgment 1t demands the aboli-
ton of that most hateful and corrcdng
clement in a republic that is called class
consciousness To steer the ship OF
State among these shifting and conflict
ing currents now full speed ahead and
now full speed astern, in task OF ex-
trsordinary difficulty. Yet. unless We
can follow the course of equal Justice
laid down on the chart, shipwreck lies
somewhere ahead.
SIMPLICITY THE NORMAL. RULE.
Frequent use of the phrase. our com
nj tod
preston that simplicity has been banished
necessarily from the modern world by a
kind OF natural evolution. Whereas It
remains now. as always, the normal
rule of a wholesome national life. Do
We gain by passing from the period when
BENJAMIN Franklin, In plain dress. com
manded the homage Of the most frivolous
and most decorative ital in Europe
to the period when a man cannot accept
without humiliation a foreign ambas-
sadorship unless he has a large income
The life Of those who do the work OF
the world. whether in the high places or
the low, is usually a simple thing
I'VE have complicated our educational
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 life
until natural human intercourse is over
laid with thick stratum Of vulgar
prodisaiity. luxury. display and in.
| sincerity.
I'VE have complicated our lawmakinp
until, despite the high standards. the
unimpaired traditions and the continual
| labors Of the courts. the administration
Of Justice is difficult and sometimes
uncertain
I'VE have eomplicated our financial sys-
| tenn until II encourages the widest
speculation at one moment and at an.
| other sinks into business collapse
I'VE have complicated our indust ria
| organization at both ends of the scale
| until the great middle class, which
| represents labor uncombined. fine
energy ara modest Accommodations OF
capital, hnds many Of It's rights invaded
| or destroyed.
"And We con,piicate all these compiled
| lions by necessarily passing more laws
about them. Simplicity in governing
methods. IN character and In conduct
must be a fixed quality Of the State that
| survives those changes OF tho centuries
In which all others have vanished.
ECONOMY DEMANDED.
"Inseparably connected with equality
and simplicity Is economy. Natonali,
| considered, II has become almost for.
uottAu tArna."