The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1904-08-10

vital spirit that inspired John Howard
PAYNE to write Home Sweet Home
The same idea and vital spirit that mov-
ed his countrymen after mis- death in
foreign lands to raise funds and send
delegation OF his countrymen across the
waters to Northern Africa and remove
his sacred remains from their isolated
burial place near the Mediterranean Sea
to his native land, so that his country
men could visit his tomb and render tri-
butte to the author of that glorious song.
The basis of our Republics greatness
is the American home and its mainte-
nance and sacred preservation after the
/ father. husband. or brother has paid the
debt of nature is the sphere of useful
ness that the Modern Woodmen of
America has pledged its sacred honor
and the honor of the 100000 men who
constitute its membership.
If YOU succeed then you will nave in
the membership of this order almost
y 'ilC-Hdl d. lutll as answered the
call of Abraham Lincoln for troops to
put down the Rebellion and preserve the
union. They will not, however. be ar
rayed in line of battle, but will be found
in the workshops upon the farms and
in the factories cultivating the arts of
peace, contending in peaceful warfare,
ii you please, for the uplifting of tneii
homes and the maintenance of its in
tegrity, sanctity and purity.
Let me suggest another reason WHY
this order and other kindred organiza-
tons have made such tremendous pro-
gress during the brief period of their
existence. You cannot have a great fra
ternal organization like the Modern
Woodmen of America carrying on its
functions, increasing its membership.
paying its obligations unless YOU have
a great country behind it. We would
not nave great country We're it not
for our splendid citizenship working I'M
der form of government that was the
1 product of well seasoned craftsmanship
that gave birth to the federal constitu-
ton characterized by Mr.. Gladstone as
1.-THE most wonderful work ever struck
off at one time by the brain and pur-
/ pose of man." There a"e many coun-
tries, my friends, upon the face of the
earth, where upwards OF 10000 camps of
the Modern Woodmen of America could
not meet behind closed doors and con-
duct their counsels in secret. but every
where under our country's flag the arm
Of the government, state or national.
1 has no concern about our deliberations.
has no fears of conspiracies or sinister
designs being formed against the well
fare OF our government, or any of its
agencies. But on the contrary the
strong substantial friends of good gov
eminent in city, county, state and ma =
tion can always be numbered among
those who wear the badge of this order
and who are interested in its success
and further extension. In addition to
the substantial benefits derived from
membership in this order in the event
OF the death of a member. it affords sub
stantial comfort to the living. 1t is in
fact and in truth a fraternity dedicated
in precept and in practice to the prin-
ciple of fraternalism. BY the way. this
term fraternity. has been frequently
used as a cloak and shield to hide igno-
bic and inhuman practices and is a
term that has upon many occasions been
prostituted and dragged in the dust and