Arizona republican., 1911-04-14
PAYS TRIBUTE
 ID EXECUTIVE The President of the
 United StdIes"
 HIS ADMINISTRATION WISE Scottish Rite Mason Re spends to Toast, and Says Nations Chief Executive Is Entitled to Support of Right Thinking Citizens.
HIS ADMINISTRATION WISE

The Phoenix members of the Tucson COnsistory of the Thirty second de- gree Scottish Rite Masons held ban quet last night at the Masonic hall. A mystic banquet known among MasOns as the Distinguishing Light Banquet was given. and many rites and cere- monies peculiar to the Scottish Rite Masonry were performed The "EX- tinguishing the Light Banquet is a be- fore Easter event performed by the members of the order all over the world who have taken the necessary
 degrees in Scottish Rite Masonry, and, although the ceremony is not Continu-
 ous. it is not ended til the morning of Easter Sunday.
 number of tOasts were given dur
 ing the evening. and to the toast The
 President of the United States George T. Young, the secretary of the terri
 tory, responded at length. Mir YOung's address follows:
 "The President Of the United States" Compared with the total, few men live sufficiently close to nature to learn l the art of observation. One of the greatest-if not the greatest-obstac'e
 to human progress is, nien. as a rule. make their deductions from the wave of the branches instead of analyzing and comparing the defects and perfections
 of the roots of the tree-the only and
 real basis from which failure or sue cess can be predicted.
 ! FOrethought, foresight and prophecy
 are but correct analyses and judgment They are gifts earned by hard work and fearful sacrifices. and gained only ! by the few The wisdom of divinity is
 plainly apparent in such an arrange
 ment, and especially so when applied to
 the one great problem given man for solution. That is-the question of | human progress.
 A God, not the orthodox god. but a 1 bigger. grander. more perfect. and sublime beyond the power of human conception, endowed and gifted man with a quiet, silent-at first difficult to detect-ability and power to work out the solution of the mightiest and most tremendous questions pertaining to his best welfare; yet, when " begin to even suspect the grandeur and limit less scope of powers. our wonder in 1 creases as We begin, in our weak way.
 to detect the checks and balances this same Divinity has imposed upon us, to | test our DrOwess. Life is infinite. and it's perfecting,
 one of the infinities. This perfecting is | a question not to be solved in a mo- ment a day. a month, or a century. It , is one of aeons and eternity. The power to perceive alright, teach and lead, is given but to the few, and in this. the wisdom oe the Infinite must
 be admitted. Humanity must be, and can only be progressed slowly. The
 most acute and best trained mind can catch only faint glimpses of the real problem, even in this, the twentieth | century The purity of the mental stream of the best trained perception is kept murky ond more or less stag | nant by the continual contact with some mental sever surrounding it. and
 this also is wise provision, or else conceit and egOtism would supplant l that necessary fear. with the result. the
 wise would become lost on the tangent
 of destruction.
 If all orthodoxy is true, life is a lie" Evil becomes a fact, and good a sub jeCt for dreams. Eeither good is a growth from evil, or there is no evil, and all is good. The logician is eagerly sought who. | if accepting the orthodox definition, is
 able to point out one distinctively ori- ginal good. This is an impossible mental feat, if based upon the present social basis, and universal definition
 and teachings of what life and human DrOgreSS really are The logic and teachings as are uni versally propounded and put forth, are
 not only pitiful, but nauseous.
 There is nothing evil in the world
 What IS termed evil is nothing but
 mans ignorance of the question pre- sented. What might be ,ermed the
 "awfulness' of the situation is caused
 absolutely by reason of mans ignorant l treatment of the case. Men, by reason
 of their selfishness, create these con ditions. then just as ignorantly call l them evil. No man can pro gress conditions which increase mental improvement if
 he is selfish or considers self. Self preservation is an inherent law of na-
 ture. yet nature has wisely contracted
 those necessaries, to allow man to give
 much of his time to his brother Any 1 individual, if wise, needs but little that
 he alone can furnish. Life, of which he
 needs much is wisely taken out of his
 hands and placed beyond his power of
 control. T-s lH
 All veal of human progress is the
 flow. and all woe the ebb of the tides
 of the centuries. The Lighthouses are
 the different forms of government de- !
 vised and instituted by man, and the |
 Keepers are the rulers or representa- 1
 tives instituted or allowed by man, as I divided and subdivided and known as |
 nations or municipalities
 The shoals and rocks are the condi- |