The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-10-18

Etber and farther apart zone part he said. Knows noting but society, and the other knows nothing of so- ciety" He said the bond of free broth erhood is needed.
 Mir Bryan caused a laugh when he said. .'I have been in politics more or l less during the last 25 years. A man may be in politics, I am glad to say, without holding office. He said he was in politics long enough to know that men sometimes lack hberality and sometimes lack charity. He said men should learn to respect each others purpose by toIerating their differences of opinion.
 1 Difference of opinion.' he asserted, ..is not necessarily difference. of bur pose. He declared he had been in politics long enough to know that the members of all parties have the same
 purpose.
 To illustrate this, MT. Bryan said: fs.In the cafnpaign of .96, feeling ran higher and deeper than it ever did be- fore or since. Yet two years afterward when the national government was in trouble and the man who defeated me | sent out a call for volunteers, I was one of those who volunteered to- serve under him The major in my army corps was man who had voted against me The officer next in rank below me was man who had voted for me- Brotherhood, he said, accomplished by man in the process of first purify 1 ing himself, then helping others and progressing unitediy. will bring men l to a realization of the fact that they don't have to kill each other because of differences of opinion. T have be- Heved for many years,ss he decIareds that civilization has reached the stage where men Ican afford to reason to-. gether and not begin to fight before we know what we are fighting about. Under that plan, befofe there can be Ewar there must be an investiga tion of the differences before an international tribunal,
 aIgnoranee and lack Of knowledge, p MT. Bryan said. is responsible for the IdisgracefuI war in Esurope.s It brings ! to mind tea me those words of Christ: tFsather, fort give them. for they know not what they do.s
 1 If one-tenth of the money spent by
 men in fighting each other were spent.
 for getting together, we'd have more
 preparedness than we could get by ships and bullets.
 Peace is not built on force. It is
 not allowed by force It exists when
 people love each other and when they
 regard each other as brotherst'
 MT Bryan said that on this point
 the ideal relation is the relation of
 man and wife. He said there can be nothing ho1ier or more calculated for STs7ss 11S1ppy 111<1ET1S8S-H1nOSS
 who speak Of the happy days of court ship are speaking, he said, of days
 that don't compare with those of
 union.
 Attorney Charles H. Shapiro was
 chairm an of the meeting He fntro-.
 duced Charles L. Dennis, district com
 Inander of local No. 2s9, Ioyar Order
 of Moose Mfr. Dennis spoke briefly
 Attorney Shapiro announced that
 the Moose in Bridgeport have an or ganfzadon of 2,500 members and that 5000 is the goal He. said the local here is the largest in the state
 Rev John MacLarens Richardson Of the First Presbyterian church said the 1nvocation preceding the address. of
 MT. Bryan.
 A musical program of merit was presented The house was comfortably fllled long before the principal speaker arrived and the audience was enter stra.
 In dI11troducfng MT Bryan. Attorney Shapiro declared that the order can welcome no one greater into it's ranks.