Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-05-23

cratic party and l sometimes think she is right about it.
 ''The purpose of the state organiza- ton of Elks as explained by the state officers to their wives on departure is in theory an individual fraternal growth, but in fact short vacation.
 We are witnessing today in the fraternal organizations our country a fraternalism, and in the beginning of this great convention l am glad to see the city of Pine Bluff emphasize this cardinal virtue. You have eX- tended to us a welcome so bounteous and boundless that it melts the icy cles in the veins of age and makes the tropic blood of youth run roses.
 And what is the spirit of frater- nalism? 1t is but another synonym for loyalty. for peace and for patriot ism No nation could long exist today without the spirit of fraternalism among it's peoples. It is the colossal ] capstone of every empire, the foster father of every republic. It is the spirit of international fraternalism which makes possible the commercial growth and the very existence of the nations of earth today. That virtue 1 which teaches presidents and potent- ates and kings that peace hath her victories no less renowned than war
 .Fraternalism is manifested in va rious forms. We see it's sterling manifestations exemplified ill govern ments, in states, in municipalities, in political parties, in religious creeds, in school houses and in the home.
 When first the human heart was stirred with pity for mans inhuman- ity to man fraternalism. The first tear that ever quivered in compass sion for human woe and want was the first cradle of fraternalism. The most entrancing scene in all the ages of Good is the magic review of the history of mighty republic. through whose golden pages of growth the spirit of fraternalism has walked like Goddess of Love and put to flight the foes of dissention and link ed the hearts of the people in bonds of eternal brotherhood
 The history of the Order of Elks forms one of the most interesting and
 brilliant chapters of the growth of fraternalism in America. In the year 1868 mere handful of theatrical peo- pie through pure benevolent purposes linked themselves into an eternal
 brotherhood under the banner of our honored order. A titanic struggle of civil dissention had ended. The de- solation and ruin of that giant strife. bathed in the blood of wasted chivalry reflected the greatest fraternal con- flict ever witnessed in the tide of time. Scarcely had the sunshine of peace scattered the clouds of war when there sprang from the ashes Of battle the flower of Elkdom. It was born in the fertile soil of true frater- nalism, it was fed by the sunbeams of devotion to country and flag and it's
 fragrance will sprinkle patriots all down the pathway of the marching centuries. Into the meadows of a 4 surviving brotherhod it lifted it's head obscure and unattended, but like a tropical plant by the monarch stream il grew into brilliant, luXuriant life. The marvellous growth of the Order of Elks to it's present Olymplan
 heights of greatness forms an epoch in the fraternal history fo our coun- try more wonderful than the legend of the Golden Fleece or the fabled
 genei of Aladdins wonderful lamp. It it matter of common knowledge that in every city of the United States with a population of over 1000 people the local order of Elks has establish ed magnificent home. It is invari- ably home af artistic construction. decorated and arranged by proficient hands and around whose fraternal fireside the homeless Elk can always find friend. ,~
 "The high pinnacle of progress reached by the lodges of our state to-, day is ill great measure attribut- able to the loyalty of the ladies of our order Their silent and effective par iticipation in the accomplishment of