The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-01
FOUR BIG WORDS.
Continued from Page one.)

guish between activities by dis
eliminating laws. The tendency is
| by no means universal, but it's pres
ence is palpable and too dangerous
/ to be ignored If hatred greed or
envy instead of justice ever becomes
formative power in public affairs,
| then, no matter who may be the vic
| tim, the act is treason. For no state
| were enjoyed tranquility or escaped
destruction if it ceased to maintain
one equal and infiexible standard of
! justice. The greatest service to the
nation, to every state and city today,
would be the substitution for a term
OF years of law enforcement for law
making. Get the laws fairly tried,
weed out these improper or imprac-
ticable. curtail the contempt Of law
that now f1ourishes under the Amer
lean system of non-enforcement, and
make the people understand that
government means exact and I'M
sparing justice, instead of a COM
pick game This is the only safe
in the governing system itself are not
to be gradually undermined.
I'm no spirit of hypercriticism or
pessimist1c gloom are these suggestions
made. We are most sensitive 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 roaring 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 1t may
he, shall become without flaw"
Federation of the World.
In opening his address. Mr.. Hill said:
1.-The idea of q federation of the world
comes nearest realization in the great
expositions that assemble actual evil
dences of mans progress in self-de-
velopment and toward his development
of the earth. The people who furnish
exhibits standing side by side could
not always live in peace in close per-
sonal contact. Men in our day move
towards their material advances prln-
cipally through the struggle for wealth.
The comforts and luxuries that nave
been won from the earth are symbols
of greater things behind. An exhibit of
the works of industry, science and art
is, therefore, a human document of
high and convincing value.
Most of the expositlons of the past
had a historic motive. 1t is a sign of
development when we move away from
dependence on some past fact, and eel
citrate instead the general sweep of
such forces as make for future pro-
gress. The nation today faces forward,
not backward. Such is the genius of
the Alaska Yukon-Pacific exposition. 1t
is expressed in its very name: begin
ming with the farthest. newest and
least developed district OF our national
domain, covering a coast that reaches
from well within the Arctic circle to
rear the tropics, and embracing all the
mystery and might that have been
suggested by the word Pacific for
nearly 400 years. 1t appears in the
Of hoonfif,1I oynnCifinn nitV
and it's indignation with your state
university and its future. Something
more inspiring than date. something
of the onward and upward impulse that
is older than nations, institutions, in
dustries, older than man himself; some
thing active, personal. achieving, in
heres in the thought and labor crown
ed today by this happy event. You
have learned more of your own powers
by carrying to successful completion
and enterprise so ambitious. The outer
world, by which Alaska and the Pa
cific coast are still largely unknown
and unappreciated. will carry away
from here information as well as de-
light. 1t is, perhaps, small episode
in the march of human events and the
unfolding of a nations history; but in
some ways, also, it may mark an
epoch.
Change of Attitude.
This occasion marks also a change
in the conscious attitude of the Pa
cific coast toward the rest of the coun-
try. 1t would be unjust to say that
this section ever failed to realize the
national integrity. The Pacific states
have not been appealed to in vain on
the chief issues of the time. But there
was once a certain aloofness, a certain
supremacy of separate and
Independent interest. There long
persisted here a kind of indifference
about what might be happening be-
yond the mountain barrier to the east
People born here felt little desire to
cross it. Newcomers soon found the
old point of view lost in a new local
interest. The coming of the trans
continental railroad first shattered this
isolation. The acquisition and develop
enterprise, the development of your
country and the upbuilding of your
cities by the men and capital of the
outer world strengthened old bonds
and created new ones. 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. 1t is the witness of
that constantly broadening tie which is
both the price we pay for civilization
and the boon that it confers upon us.
Never again can the Pacific coast with
draw into itself; never again can it
know any slackening of the tide of
lie IndL sweeps through all the ma
TONS veins when it crosses the great
divide
Mr.. Hill referred to Alaskas remark
able progress, recalling that thirty
years ago intercourse with it was linn
tied practically to the needs of the
sealing industry. The exposition ex-
hibits, he said. give a mere hint of the
contribution, still unrevealed to our
fancy, which she is to make to the ma
tional life and activity in the half CEN
fury to come.
The speaker reviewed the develop
ment on the Pacific coast, and said:
When capital can be enticed back into
railway investments by assurances of
properly protection and a reasonable re-
turn, the progress of construction will |
do more for the Pacific northwest than |
for any other part of the country
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