Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-31
CORNERSTONE OF
NEW POSTOFFICE
LAID BY MASONS
Lodges from All Parts of State
Represented at Exercises
in Orange.

Masons from all parts of the State
were present this afternoon at the
/ laying of the cornerstone for the
new Orange postoffice. The exer-
cises were under the auspices of
Union Lodge No. II and Cerinthian
! Lodge No. 81, F. and A. NJ, of Or
ange. The members of the grand
lodge marched from the Masonic
temple, escorted by delegations from
all organizations of the ninth Ma
sonic district
Grand Master Charles p. Russ laid
the cornerstone. The proclamation
was read at the opening of the ex-
ercises by Grand Marshal William
A. Tewes and prayer was offered
by the grand chaplain, Rev. Lewis
II. Lighthipe. Several other officers
of the grand lodge took part in the
ceremonies and the souvenir trowel
was presentd by Past Grand Master
Alton II. Sherman, who is a men,
Der of Uniod Lodge and chairman of
the committee of arrangements.
Democratic Institutions and the
Common Man" was the topic of Rev.
Howard j. Chidley, pastor of
Trinity Congregational Church,
East Orange. He told of demo-
cracy's tremendous strides in re-
cent years and "a truer and higher
appraisal of the common man."
The advance of the populace in
England since 1850, when wives and
little children of the laboring men
dragged through low passages,
ineh-deep in water, loaded trucks in
the coal mines, on all tours like
horses" and chains fastened to their
bodies; with one-fifth of Liverpool's
population living in cellars and the
aristocracy insolently stating five
million working people rejoieed in
potatoes as their only food" was
tremendous one. I'm America the
speaker averred, "our experiment in
democracy is having its reaction
upon the monarchies of Europe, and
we are already beginning to hear
prophecies of the day when royalty
will no longer be able to declare war
and drive men to slaughter like cat
tie for the sake of some imperial
whim.
Whether men like it or not the
tide of democracy is resistlessly ris-
ing" said the clergyman. 1T is a
far cry even here in America back
to the days when Alexander Hamil-
tol SldibPtQ ilio iOOl anu 0tlOulCt,
The public, the public. sir, is a great
BEAST"
AS one of the needs of the populace
in wonderful development the speaker
instanced the postal system, with its
cheap postage encircling the world.
And touching on the cost of living
the speaker told how folk in the long
ago paid pretty high prices for com
modities.
Rev. Mr.. Chidley told of many ad.
vances in providing utilities, such as
good water, lighting, paving, etc.,
which he said the democracy of today
paid for "but enjoy" These COM
monplace things, he pointed OUT are
giving the average man luxuries even
kings could not enjoy two hundred
years ago.
Passing from material benefits the
clergyman told of precious heritages
the maintenance of equality for OPP
portunity He told of the hopes of
the immigrant to our shores for free
dom from tyranny, and deplored the
trend in business politics and judicial
procedure that has threatened to
strangle liberty and equality of OPP
portunity and to thrust America back
to q condition of class rule and privi-
lege from which our forefathers broke
away in the old world when they
sought this land of freedom"