Arizona republican., 1914-04-20

 cry test but one, that can be applied | to the true, and it requires not edu- cation, but learning, to discover that one missing test. which. when found and applied, reveals the false and 1 proves the true
 It is this false reasoning which has ! set the world awry. It is the cause :! of all turmoil. mistakes of nations, i their decline and destruction. It was first the mistake of Eve-then Adam. i Il has been the mistake and miSfOr- tune of every descendant, both in diVidually and collectively, since, and will be for ages yet to come
 Men in all ages, here and there, have and do perceive a faint glimps oi the real, great truth. Certain of these men have grown pessimistic and hopeless as to the benefit of their teaching these truths. but such men, while great by reason of their perception and intuition. by their very pessmism along these lines, : prove their lack of knowledge of the great human. yet divine problem and [ their ignorance of man as d unit, and humanity as whole.
 This great brotherhood of men, like the small fraction of us present l here today. observing this as a Me morial day throughout the length and breadth Of this great land, is what i might be termed the cumulative re- suit of this individual perception and 1 intuition.
 ] Individual thought always results 1 in collective thought, and it is coi- 1 lective thought based upon individ- ual thought, which progresses the world Lincoln's critics always told 1 him that when he made q speech. he ! talked above the heads of his audi ence, but he replied if that were 1 true, the audience must come up to him. This should be the practice of every true Moose who would observe the precepts of this great order.
 Abraham Lincoln, as one of the {; great teachers and preachers of his time, was followed, but by no means understood. It is requiring the stu 1 dents of today. and the students of the future to fully understand and appreciate his greatness. Few, even today, know that Lincoln was the first advocate of the initiative, ref erendum and recall. As a man he was simplicity itself. He knew men and loved humanity He had faith
 in humanity and his perception and
 intuition, combined with that of the few great teachers before and since his time, has resulted in such or
 saniZations as this great order of
 Moose which stands for that great
 human love expressed in the beauti- ful truth-"one for all and all for one"
 This sacred service is in memory of
 those good brothers Who as members i of this great order, lent their efforts
 and consecrated their lives to devel-
 oping the good in their own and their brothers lives. Jesus Christ the Great Teacher and Savior ol
 men, ;tdmonished us to let the dead ! bury the dead and attend the fields
 while the harvest was white. 'Tht
 good that men do lives after them and this is so with our departed
 brothers.
 The Loyal Order of Moose has beer in existence about twenty-siX years hut its phenomenal growth date: back to less than eight years past IL was the simplicity of truth, ex- pressed in the teachings of thu Moose order which at first retarded it's growth because not understood and it is this simplicity. now bein; understood, which is causing thi great order to grow by leaps ant ? bounds. and making it one of tn units of leaven in the loaf of hu manity's uplift.
 The responsibilities of this orde
 are heavy and the trend of human affairs of the present and future vii u make them yet heavier. Its slogan , i; Progress. Aid and Purity T. | progress, the Instructions in the patl e must be removed. This is a com | mercial age from which we are nov slowly passing. Commercialism t based upon selfishness. and tha
 monster is hard to kill and is nor
 than resourceful in blocking tn z. pathways of Progress. Aid an 1 | Purity
 , Our president today stands con . fused by reason of this silent. yC s terrible onslaught. Society is rest = less. wanting to know. but appar s ently unable to separate the chai h from the wheat or the false fror O the true and point the right tanger r to the great majority that wishes t go aright. The people groan unde a the burden of too much of what If termed law. but what in reality
 the offal of mental prostitution. Ou r national, state and municipal pay e rolls contain five names where the e should contain but one. Taxation in
 creases and national dssolutio
 draws apace The courts teem an
 newspapers run riot with waste ( X time and space on white slave case If when informed and honest men kno
 there are not ten white slaves. sc
 called. in the United States. Law
 like the Mann act are enacted und,