The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-12-11
nd privileges enjoyed by him when

and privileges enjoyed by him when
living in a primitive state. What
are the rights which are surrendered
that we may enjoy civilized society?
One authority says it is the right to
be a brute, but this statement does
not contain all that we are called up
on to surrender. We are of neccess-
lty compelled to make such surrender
and sacrifice of personal rights and
liberties as will enable other men to
live in the same society on equal
terms with ourselves.
I'VE give up the right to real our
children without education.
I'VE give up the right to abandon
our families.
1--WE give up the right to inter
mingle with our fellows when suffer-
ing from contagious or infectious dis
eases.
I'VE give up the right to so con-
duct ourselves as to shock the moral
sense of the community or set bad
example to the youth.
eve give up the right to debauch
ourselves in riotous living, and, fin
ally, we give up the right to approp-
riate to ourselves unearned and UNI
due portions of the comforts of life.
This surrender of personal rights
has not been gratuitous. 1t has been
compensated a thousand fold. Socie-
ty today protects your property; it
protects your family; it protects you.
1t educates you children; it brings
to your table good things from the
four quarters of the earth. Who to-
day would exchange the comforts and
blessings of civilization for the privi-
leges exercised by man in his earlier
state?
What peace and pleasure it brings
to us to be able to be of service to
our fellows, to contribute something
to the comfort and welfare of those
with whom we associate.
I'm considering this question of
right living, it would be a mistake
at this day and age to omit reference
to the physical are of our persons.
The physical ills. which we suffer
are. due to II of three. causes: per
sonal and parental violation of the
laws OF. nature, contamination, and
accident. Right living. proper care
of III bodies, due respect for the
laws of health, will enable us to live.
out our allotted time and fulfill our
mission in this life.
Contamination may be avoided in
most instances by cleanliness land
proper. attention to our surroundings
and associations. This matter of
right living SO as to conserve our ply
steal powers, is something more than.
duty to ourselves. 1t is a duty we
owe posterity. Eminent physicians
tell us that consumption, inebriacy
and many forms of insanity are due:
to ancestral Infection of certain mall
ignant diseases. Undoubtedly, many
of the lesser ills which we suffer are
due to ancestral taints.
sick, while another is always suffer-
ing? In the n case, the person is
blessed with pure blood and is living
in harmony with the laws of nature.
In the other case, there has been eth
Ell a personal or ancestral violation
of natures laws.
eve are today enjoying the highest
civilization. We are possessed of the
greatest knowledge and are being
guided by the most perfect religion
known to man. If you cannot live
right today, when and under what
conditions do you expect to do so.
Gentlemen who enjoy membership
in our fraternal order today, are
striving to live up to the tenets of
the order. They practice charity;
they feel and live in that spirit of
brotherly love which prevades our
order. In the varying relations of
an intimate acquaintance and close
association, our faults become known
to each other, yet there is but little
appears that might be termed SER
ious. Perhaps the most serious cri-
ticism that can be pronounced
against us, is the sad fact that many
of us are given to the useless habit
of using profane language. This
language is not used in a vicious
manner, but rather in an uncon-
scious, reckless, good-natured way.
Nevertheless, it is a fault and a SER
ious one We should be gentlemen.
There is no reason why our respect
for our order and for one another
should not be as potent in compelling
the use of clean language as it is to
compel the observance of other
ethical requirements in our social