The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-23

And so. my brothers ana tflends. Emanuel and Alabama lodges welcome you eartfly, not alone for the affection we bear for you. not alone for the grat- ittide you deserve. not alone Tor me loyalty you command but for the good YOU have done, the nobility you have created. the honor. you have won for Israel. and the incomparable ideals you have established for the ages to come.
 and yours. Thrice welcome to our hearts and homes. What we have shall be yours and all your willing ser
 Charles Rosen of New orleans, who responded on behalf of the Grand Lodge, ranked w,th Captain Stern Tn the creation of enthusiasm among netiy, eioquently and with beautiful
 In Introducing the distinguished New Orleans member. the Pfes1dent fefer- gates @ who possessed the true Macca- ocean spirit and was ready at ail times to don his armor and fight for the cause of the B'Nai B'Rith.
 Rcsponae by Mir. Rosen.
 Mir. Rosen spoke as follows
 "It Is now eleven years since I hrss attended convention Of our oeioved order. and was introduced tC the peo- Brother m Charles F. Moritz. as beard less son of the covenant. The en- thusiasm that I then experienced in the work of our order has deepened witn the years, and after more than de- cade of devoted service to our com mon cause. hallowcd py the example and by the memory of the. precious leaders whom we have loved ana whom we have lost 1t is with feelings or more than ordinary emotion that re- turn to you. still beardless son or the covenant. to receive with my breth- ren a new welcome at your hands. ana have aCCnrded the hfRh priv liege of responding Tn behalf of our convention to the noble and eloquent words we have heard today.
 The B'Nai BRith of this district come to you as an invading army. to take possession of your great city and State. as warriors who never rest and are never at peace, whose Toes are m, tolerance, poverty and persecution. and whose banners have inscribed upon them the watchwords of our mission. Benevolence. Brotherly Love and liar
 .'We come to enlist the sympathy of every true man and woman in the great work of liberty and humanity in which we are engaged; and our flag land and over civilized Europe and Asia. Is now unfurled even in the do- minions of the Czar himself. demanding in behalf of united UT rssw Peoptss or ser Aer ing which he and his people could cause, but did not seek to prevent.
 First in Devotion to Country.
 But, though we come as sons of the covenant, as BNai B'Rith, devoted to our cause. and true to our mission, we come above all as American cltl- gems. devoted to our. common country. We seek the aid of every American heart to help us in our work, and we ask that every American voice shall mingle with ours, that we be heard wherever d shackled human soul suf- fers in agony and distress, and wher- ever wrong and injustice are wrought. We want every American to stand with us before the thrones of the mighty. demanding liberty of conscience and freedom of thought and action for ev- cry man and woman; for the cove nant which we proclaim was made by God for all, when at the very dawn of creation he set the seal of his im- age upon the brow of one man for all men en-, alike: ,o.. .o n,o.. eor ue,t The true Ben B'rith hates darkness; he halls the sunlight of reason with delight: he shuns the alleys and by piety and religion. deeds are commit ted which He above will never bless with the smile of His approval. The Order of B'Nai B Rith desires to kindle a torch that will warm and light every soul Agroping in darkness. and hopes for the rise of that central sun which will one day shed It's rays upon a unit
 Work of B'Nai B'Rith.
 These principles we make part Of our lives and translate into our needs. You will bear witness to the response of our people when the cry of despair rose from amid the horrors of the Gal weston flood. You see the homes es- tabiished and the hospitals maintained throughout the length and breadth of our land: how for fifty years the cry of the orphan has been stilled. and the tear of the suffering dried; and how the victim of persecution has been death. You will recall how through the intervention of our lamented Hay, Roumanla stood rebuked among the nations, and how even Russia herself was compelled to hear, oven though she would not receive, the petition of our Order from the hands of that true American and humanitarian, Theodore Roosevelt. And with sense of solemn pride, even amid our loss and grief, we recall, to the honor of the Jews and to the honor of America. how the greatest of us all. himself a Ben B'rith, Leo N. Levi. strode the tempest of the Kishi- nef slaughter, calmed the storm, and aroused the conscience of a civilized world to protest against the greatest pride We see our new President, Adolph Kraus. taking np the burden dropped by our dead leader. effect out of the awful massacres of Odessa and other Russian horrors. the joint appeal of united people of America In behalf of starving women and children and broken and deSpalrlnR men.
 And even as we speak and meet for our deliberations, the call goes forth from our President to every lodge in each hamlet in our land, and contri- buttons and loving aid and sympathy are being sent the stricken sufferers of that unfortunate city, the Queen of the Pacific Slope. With such an order in our midst we need no other Jewish Congress in our land.
 Tribute to Organization.
 With such an organization as ours at hand, of fifty years existence. of strengthening from New England 10 California. and t..e Great Lakes to the Gulf, comprising twenty thousand of the leading men of this country united with thousands of the most represen- tative men of the Old World, led by leaders of wisdom grown gray in it's service, and acting as one common or ganism all over the world in quick re- sponse to the impulse of q common cen tre-with such an organization as thls. tested by the years and approved by its work, we need no new congress of Jews in America. That congress IS already here in the Order of B'nai Birth. It shall do the work that needs be done. meet all emergencies that will arise and continue upon its mission of serving humanity with equal justice to all
 'Imbued with such ideals we come to you, and gladly accept the welcome you extend to us today.
 No longer pathfinders are we, but climbers up the mountain where the ideal dwells: and we shall not rest in