Albuquerque citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1907-1909, 1909-06-01

/ plications by necessarily passing more
| laws about them. Simplicity in gov
erning methods, in. character and in
conduct must be a fixed quality of
the state that survives those changes
| of the centuries in which all others
have vanished.
''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
its administrative features as we'll as
in its treatment of natural resources,
and said that the discarded standard
of economy in its affairs must be re-
stored.
Cut Down Expenses.
"The curtailment of federal ex-
penses by one-fourth would assist not
only efficiency in the departments but
reforms now postponed by the task
of raising and the rage of spending
great sums that should be left in the
pockets of the people.
Last and noblest conception of all
born from the associated life OF man
| kind in justice. The nation must be
true to that abstract and impartial
justice which is the Nfoundation of no.
bility, the patent of heroes and the
6nal test of any statea Upon occasion
the law making power has been in
| voked not to punish guilt, but to give
one man an unfair advantage at the
cost of another; to confiscate wholly
or in part property honestly earned
and fairly used; to distinguish be-
tween activities by discriminating
laws. The tendency is by no means
! universal, but its presence is palpable
l'and too dangerous to be ignored. If
hatred, greed or envy instead of
| justice ever becomes a formative
power in public affairs, then, no
matter who may be the victim, the
act is treason. For no state ever
enjoyed tranquility or escaped de-
struction If 1t ceased to maintain one
| equal and inhexible standard of JUS
| tice. The greatest service to the ma
| tion, to every st1te and city today,
would be the substitution for a term
of years of law enforcement for law
breaking. Get the laws fairly tried,
weed out those improper or imprac-
ticable, curtail the contempt of law
that now fiourishes under the Amer
lean system OF reinforcement and
make the people understand that gov
ernment means exact and unsparing
justice instead of a complex game
This is the only safeguard II respect
for and confidence in the governing
system itself are not to be gradually
| undermined.
"In mo spirit of hypercriticiSm or
| pfssiyIkstic gloom are these spgges-
ftilns Snede, Nc aeo mrst eeAnitivt'
to any imperfections in what we love
best and prize most highly. We must
guide our course past the shoals
where we can hear the breakers roar
ing as well as by the infinitely larger
, eXpanse of the safe and sunlit sea
Just because we believe in and trust
the strength of our defenses. we
should examine them for any defect
that might grow into disaster. And
those who most exult in the present
and most cOnfide in the future of this
country are most bound to labor that
her greatness, if it may be, shall be-
| come without flaw"
In opening his address. Mr.. Hill
| said The idea of a federation of
the world comes nearest realization in
the great eXpositions that assemble
actual evidences of mans progress in
government and toward his de-
velopment 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 ad-
yances principally through the strug-
gle for wealth. The comforts and
luNuries that have been won from
the earth are symbols of greater
things behind. An exhibit of the
works Of industry, science and art is.
therefore, 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 flu
ture progress. The nation today faces
forward, not backward. Such is the
genius of the Alaska Yukon Pacific
| exposition. 1t is expressed in it's very
name; beginning with the farthest,
newest and least developed district of
our national domain, covering a coast
'ihA AiIAhfN rum Wei Nlinln lnt
Arctic circle to near the tropics. and
embracing all the mystery and might
| that have been suggested by the word
Pacific for nearly 400 years. II ap-
pears in the design of this beautiful
exposition city and its integratlon with
your state university and its future.
Something more inspiring than
date something Of the onward and
upward impulse that is older than ma
tiOns, institutions, industries. older
than man himself; something active,
personal, achieving, is here In the
| thought and labor crowned today by
this happy event. You have learned
more of your own powers by carrying
TO successful completion and enter
Prise so ambitious. The outer world
by which Alaska and the Pdcifc coast
are still largely unknown and un-
appreciated, will carry away from
here information as well as delight.
1t Is, perhaps, a small episode in tho
ma.ch Of human events and the un-
folding of nations history: but in
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