Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-01
Alaska -Yukon-Pacifi
Fair Starts With Noise
and Color.
JAMES J. HILL HEARD
Lifts Voice Against Alleged
Waste and PretenSeS of
the Present Day.

Seattle, Wash. June president
Taft, in the White house, at noon
(Pacific time) today pressed a tcle-
graph key of Alaska gold and sent the
spark across the continent that put N
motion the wheels of the Alaska-Y l.
kon-Pacific exposition, loosed the wa
tiers of its fountains. unfurled It's
banners, started it's bands playing, re-
leased showers of daylight fireworks,
called upon the saluting guns of the
American and Japanese fleets, set all
the steamers in the harbor, and all
locomotives in the railroad yards to
blowing and shrieking, and brought
forth universal rejoicing from all Scat
tie, which has toiled foS years to bring
about this day
with Military Precision.
The exercises at the fair grounds
preceding the presidents signal were
carried out with military precisioa.
The exposition gates opened at $50.
At 9:30 troops from the United States
army and navy, the japanese cruisers
Aso and Soya, and the state militia
paraded through the grounds under
command of Colonel T. G.. Woodbury.,
u: S. A, and the column was reviewed
from a stand at the head of the court
of honor by the exposition officials,
visiting governors and the two Japan
ese admirals
Program In Vast Amphithcatcr.
The ceremonial exercises were held
in the vast natural amphitheater sloD-
ing to- Lake washington. SFnc pfesram
consisted of music, an Invocation by
Catholic Bishop Onward j. Oday, brief
addresses by Director General |. A.
Nadeau and President J. F. Chilberg,
long address by James ]. Hill and a
benediction by Episcopal Bishop Fred
erick w keator.
Enforce, Not Make LAWS.
Mr.. Hill said in part:
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.
There are four great words that
should be written upon the four cor
ner stones of every public building
in this land, with the sacrcdness of
religious rite. These watchwcrdS
of the republic are equality, simpIici-
ty. economy and juatice. They are
interviewer with every fiber of the
national fabric. To forget or deny
them will lead to every misfortune
and every possibility of destruction
that rises now threateningly in the
path of our country's 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 been
faithful 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 special privilege or an
unequal restriction, any decree of le-
gal governmental fayoritism what
ever, we have changed the govern
ment of the fathers and turned back
ward toward the old, evil traditions
whose trail of blood and oppression
runs through all history.
HerOism Required.
''It needs heroism, it involves the
shaking off of ostentatious follies that
have already warped our earlier
ideals, it may even require a consid.
cradle readjustment Of our, whole in
dustrial system and reform in oul
very conception of the relation be-
tween a government and it's citizens