Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-02

equality before the law can be restored.
II demands a new standard Of economy In
both our public and private expenditure.
Demand Repeal of Laws.
1T demands the repeal Of many laws and
the suppression OF many Of the bills pre-
scented to state and federal legislatures.
So many are there framed to give to one
an undue advantage or take away from
another fair field and an equal judgment.
II demands the abolition of that most
hateful and corroding element in a repub-
lie that is called class Consciousness. To
steer the ship of state among these shift
ing and conflicting currents, now full
speed ahead and now full speed astern. is
q task of extraordinary difficulty. Yet,
unless we can follow the course OF equal
justice laid down on the chart, shipwreck
lies ahead.
Frequent use OF the phrase, our COM
pick civilization creates a vague impress
sion that simplicity has been banished
necessarily from the modern world by a
kind of natural evolution, whereas 1t re-
mains now, as alSays, the normal rule of
a wholesome national life. Do we gain
by passing from the period when Benja-
min Franklin, in plain dress, commanded
the homage OF the most frivolous and most
decorative capital in Europe to the period
when a man cannot accept without humilia-
ton a foreign Enthusiastically 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.
Life Too Complex.
I'VE have complicated our educational
system and made 1t superficial. The just
complaint everywhere is that there is no
thoroughness, no wholesome mental dis
cipline for the young.
I'VE have complicated our social life I'M
til natural human intercourse is overlaid
with a thick stratum of vulgar prodigality,
luxury, display and insincerity.
I'VE have complicated our lawmaking
until, despite the high standards, the un-
impaired traditions and the continual
labors of the courts. the administration Of
justice is difficult and sometimes uncer-
tain.
I'VE have complicated our financial
system until it encourages the widest
speculation at one moment and at another
sinks into business collapse.
I'VE have complicated our industrial or
ganization at both ends of the scale until
the great middle class, which represents
labor uncombined, a fine energy and
modest accumulations of capital, find many
Of its rights invaded or destroyed.
And we complicate all these complica-
tons by necessarily passing more laws
about them. Simplicity in governing
m sthods, in character and in conduct must
be a fixed quality of the state that sur
wives those changes, of the centuries in
which all others Nave vanished.
Economy. Prime Factor.
"Inseparably connected with equality and
simplicity is economy. Nationally con-
sidered, 1t has become almost a forgotten
term"
Mr.. Hill declared this to be the most
wasteful country on earth in it's ad-
ministrative features as we'll as In its
treatment OF natural resources, and said
that the discarded standard OF economy in
it's affairs must be restored
"1n no spirit Of hypercris ioisa OF pessi-
mistic gloom are these suggestions made
he said. w are most sensitive to eny
imperfections in what we love best and
prize most highly. We must guide our
course past the shoals. where we can hear
the breakers roaring, as wen as by the
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 con-
fide in the future OF this country, are
most bound to labor that it's greatness, II
it may be, shall become without a flaw"
Federation of World.
In opening his address. Mr.. Hill said
"rhe idea of a federation of the world
comes nearest realization in the great eK-
positions that assemble actual evidences OF
mans progress In acknowledgment and to-
ward his development 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 toward their material advances prin-
clpally through the struggle for wealth.
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