Albuquerque citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1907-1909, 1909-06-01
HILL DEPLORES LACK
OF SIMPLICITY IN
THE NATION
Says What the Country Needs
Now Is Enforcement of
Laws Rather Than
New Ones.
We SHOULD CUT
DOWN OUR EXPENSES.
Railroad Mdgnate In Address at
Seattle Says WatChwOrds
Should be Simplicity.
Equality. Economy
and Justice.

Stdtlie, W dSn., June Inc
greatest service to the nation, to ev-
cry state and city today, would be
the substitution for term of years
of law enforcement for law making"
declared James ] Hill, in an address
at the opening exercises of the AL
asiSa- Y Yukon- Pacific exposition today.
There are four great words that
should be written upon the four cor
ncr stones of every public building in
this land, with the sacredness OF a
religious rite" said Mr.. Hin. "These
watchwords of the republic are
Equality, Simplicity, Economy and
Justice. They are interviewer with
every fiber of the national fabric. To
forget or deny them will lead to ev-
cry misfortune and every possibility
of destruction that rises now threat
enfngly 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
established by the federal constitu-
tion, In so far as we have boen faith
ful to it, we have not only grown
great and prosperous, but have COM
manded the respect of others because
we respected ourselves In so far as
we have denied it, in so far as there
is anywhere a specia, Rr'vll 81 ha az
unequal restriction, any decree of le-
gal governmental favoritism, we
have changed the government of the
fathers and turned backward toward
the old, evil traditions whose trail
of blood and oppression rurs through
all history.
at needs heroism. it involves the
shaking off of ostentatious folies that
have already warped our earliest
ideals it may even require a consid-
cradle readjustment of our whole
industrial system and a reform in
our very conception of the relation
between a government and its citi-
Zens before the severe standard of
absolute equality before the law can
be restored. 1t demands new stand
ard Of economy in both our public
and private expenditure.
'lt demands the repeal of many
laws and the suppression of many
of the bills presented to state and
federal legislatures So many are
there framed to give to one an un-
due advantage or take away from
anOthcr fair field and an equal judg-
ment 1t demands the abolition Of
that most hateful and corroding ele-
ment In republic that is called class
consciousness. To steer the ship Of
state among these shifting and con-
ilicting currents, now fun speed
ahead and now fun speed astern is
task of extraordinary difficulty. Yet.
unless we can follow the course II
equal justice laid down on the chart,
shipwreck lies somewhere ahead.
Frequent use of the phrase, our
complex civilization creates a vague
impression that simplicity has been
banished necessarily from the mod
ern world by kind of natural evolu-
lion. 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
iamin Franklin. in plain dress. COM
manded the homage of the most
frivolous and most decorative capital
iu Europe to the period when man
cannot accept without humiliation
foreign enthusiastically unless he has
"a large income? The life of those
W 10 40 lht WoTh OF ltt WOflu, Wnetn-
er in the high places or the low,
D. usually a simple thing.
simplicity Needed.
1--WE have complicated our ,duca-
lional system and made i superficial.
The Just complaint everywhere is
that there is no thoroughness, no
Wholesome mental discipline for the
Young.
we have complicated our social
lif" until natural human intercourse
is overlaid with thick stratum Of
vulgar prodigalty luxury. display and
insincerity.
I'VE have complicated our law
making until, despite the high stand
ards, the unimpaired traditions and
the continual labors Of the courts, the
administration Of justice is difficult,
aud sometimes uncertain.
I'VE have complicated our financial
system until il encourage. the Wild
est speculation at one moment and
at another sinks into business col
lapse
I'VE have complicated our indus
trial organization at both ends OF
the scale until the great middle class,
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