The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-06-01
EXHIBIT
OPENED BY TAFT
]. ]. HILL SCOLOS
Big Railroad Chief Finds Fault
With L~aw-making Methods
and Other Things.
SCORES INSINCERITY AND
VULGAR PRODIGALITY"
Says United States Is Last on
the List in Point of
Economy.

WASHINGTON, June Responding
progressive. people of the great North
west, spoken by President Taft after
he had touched the key which set in
motion the machinery of the Alaska
Yukon-Pacifc Exposition. Senator
Piles, Of Washington, standing in the
east room of the White House today
voiced the thanks OF the people of the
Pacific coast for thus inaugurating the
fair, which, he said, "opens in perfect
readiness at the time appointed and
which has thus. at the outset. scored a
success not achieved by any other ex-
position.
THE exposition" he continued, rep
resents an expenditure of $40, 000, 900.
The grounds are ideally situated be-
tween two beautiful lakes, in full view
of some of the Hottest and most pic
turesque mountains in the world. Here
nature and art blend in perfect unison.
Ennobling n inspiring as other ex-
positions have been. this one will point
to our countrymen a grander des-
tiny for the whole republic, a higher
hope for ALL"
SEATTLE. Wash, June 1.-THE
greatest service to the nation, to every
State and city today. would be the sub
stitution for a term of years of law
enforcement for law making" declared
I a ~ T Hill IN an adIraas of tim
opening exercises of the Alaska
Yukon-Pacifc Exposition today. He
said in part:
we have complicated our educa-
fional system and made it superficial.
We have complicated our social life
until natural human intercourse is
overlaid with a thick stratum of vulgar
prodigality, luxury, display and insin-
certify.
Administration of Justice Diflcult.
I'VE have complicated our lawmak-
ing until, despite the high standards,
the unimpaired traditions and the con-
tinual labors of the courts, the admin
istration of justice is difficult and
sometimes uncertain.
w nave tOiflPIitotCa Oti
system until it encourages the widest
speculation at one moment and at an
other sinks into business collapse.
we have complicated our industrial
organization at both ends of the scale
until the great middle class, which rep
resents labor uncombined. a fine energy
and modest accumulations of capital,
finds many of Its rights invaded or
destroyed.
And we complicate all these compli-
by necessarily passing more
laws about them. Simplicity in govern
ing methods, in character and in con-
duct must be a fixed quality of the
state that survives those changes of the
centuries in which all others have an
America Most WastefuI Country.
Mr.. Hill declared this to be the most
wasteful country on earth in its ad-
ministrative features, as we'll as in it's
treatment of natural resources, and
said that the discarded standard of
economy In its affairs must be re-
stored"
In opening his address MIR. Hill said:
This exposition may be regarded as
the laying of the last rail, the driving
of the last spike, in unity of mind and
purpose between the Pacific coast and
the country east of the mountains.
Never again can the Pacific coast with
draw into itself; never again can it
know any slackening of the tide of life
that sweeps through all the nations
veins when it crosses the great divide"