Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1911-06-12
NEW SOCIETY
IS FORMED
Delegates From All Parts Of
New Mexico Attending
| Convention
F. ". FARMERS ADDRESS
Says Politics Needs More of
Womanhood Today Than
In the Past.

The Associated Fraternal Societies
OF New Mexico was formed this MORN
ing at the court house where dele.
gates from all over New Mexico were
present representing the Modern
Noodmen, the Woodmen of the World.
the Brotherhood of American Yeo-
men, the Fraternal Union of America,
the Spanish-American Alliance and the
Highlanders.
The new association has been or
ganized for the purpose of protecting
the millions OF dollars invested in fra
ternal insurance in this territory.
F. W. Farmer. the organizer of the
American feomen in New Mexico was
elected president OF the association
and delivered an eloquent speech. He
said in part:
Mr.. Farmers Address.
Mr.. President, Ladies and Gentlemen
of this Convention:
Il assure you that thank this body
for the honor they have bestowed up
on me by electing me president of this
association. and l understand full well
the responsibility that rests on my
shoulders, the coming year.
Il shall perform the duties required
of my office without fear or favor, and
shall do what | think best for all con-
cerned according to the dictates of my
own conscience. and when through,
hope it will be said of me Well done
good and faithful servant, go way
back and sit down.
Now, to the main issue and objec...
Why should such an association be
formed? | will tell you.
Il think inroads are being made on
our fraternal system by those who are
not seeking altogether for the better
| ment of human interests, but rather
! inspired by a desire to break down
/ this system, and to use that which be-
longs to the common people for their
own selfish purpose. We have legis-
lation proposed in so many states that
must of necessity have found its birth
place in the minds of those who are
unfriendly to our interests, and un-
| friendly to the protection we furnish to
the American homes and the under
principles which have made these fra
ternities what they are today in Amer
lean life, that we need to guard against
| these inroads and We can only do 1t
in one way; it is by standing together,
/ divided we fall. and united we can
stand in triumph.
! Il had rather have today the united
action of the American fraternities
using the word in the broad sense,
led by the fearless conscientious and
intelligent womanhood, reforced by
the honest. true, and highminded man.
hood, than to have any power that may
/ be welded outside of the Christian
church for the progress and advance
ment OF the American people.
Power Welded.
| That we have our place is not open
| to dispute. no man can today shut his
eyes to the power which We WELD in
American politics, and we WELD it
righteously. This habit of saying that
politics are so impure that we must
keep our hands from the cess pool,
is reflection on the best interest OF
American manhood. If there is a
cess pool in your garden, or in mine,
or even in my neighbor's which is
breeding typhoid germs, l owe it my
neighbor, and to myself to leave moth
| ing undone to see that, that cess pool
is converted into flower bed, or put
TO some other use, and not left there
to breed disease. Politics need in my
| judgment more of womanhood than
they have in the past, am not alto
gether woman suffragist. but be-
lieve that We need the influence of
woman on men. to make them under
stand, that we can only hold our place
as fraternities by seeing that only fra.
ternal men. imbued by fraternal con-
ceptions understanding fraternal prin-
ciples, are elected to our respective
legislative bodies in different states
and territories of the Union, not only
that but | think they should find a
place on the bench, and do not think
that any man ought to be endorsed
for governor of any state or territory
within all our splendid United States
who is not fraternalist at heart;
and why! Because no man who is an
tagonistic to the fraternal system or
does not understand, or appreciate it.
can serve people which stands for
home. as the only security for our
territory and American life, and if,
man is antagonistic to the fraternal
system. he is antagonistic to homes,
and man who is antagonistic to
home is not worthy Of place in the
executive chamber, or on the bench,
or in the halls of the legislature. l
will close with this thought.
I'VE cannot build by breaking down
somebody else's home, we cannot con-
struct by using the material that we
take from somebody else's building.
We need to construct out of the mate.
rial which we get fresh and new, and
help the building that stands possibly,
in somebody else's estimation. ON
rather insecure foundation, SO 1t can
be better fortified, we need the trees
of the west just as much as the ones
of the east to make this fraternal leg.
islation for the good of all concerned" !"
4 At the conclusion of his speech he