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we need a higher selfishness. We
need to have the individual conscience

need to have the individual conscience
so trained that one will himself be
hurt by injuring another. This is
what it is to be a true gentleman.
We need an individual loyalty and
self-respect, that from motives of
selfshness, if you will, will refrain
from that which is heartless and dis
honorable, because that which is
heartless and dishonorable will give
the doer pain and annoyance. What
we really need in this new era of
democracy are not more laws or more
political machinery, OF more primary
elections, but a social conscience. It's
lack alone makes the factory inspec-
tor, the policeman and the (prohibi-
tlve) statute necessary. We need as
lawyers to reform ourselves more
than we need to reform the law. We
need to quit conniving at error and
then seeking to take advantage of it
upon appeal. We need in our own
minds and in our processes of think
ing to resolve reforms and politics
into terms of human life.
We need to throw aside our class
snobbishness and to realize and be-
lieve in the divinity that is in all men.
We need a broader love, a broader
faith, a broader hope. We need the
gospel of a new knight %errantry. The
old knight Grant had merely a class
conscience and he was or less a
snob. "He put his lance in rest to
battle for the captive princess"
The new knight errant must battle
for the daughter Of the tenement and
of the slums and that daughter when
freed and when ennobled must not
forget her W duties and her own
obligations. We need heroism in
times of peace as we'll as in times
of war. Ours is to wreathe with
smiles the face of haggard childhood,
to bring happiness where happiness
has never been. We need to realize
the simple truth that life's richest
joys come not from success alone,
but from the love within it and the
doing what is worth the while. We
need to call men to fight for honesty
and righteousness in business and in
civic life, for men will sacrifice life,
all, in times of war, and swayed by
force of gold turn recreants in the
times of peace. We need to teach
the joy of fighting on the losing side,
not for honor or plaudits or reward.
There is something that is better than
a geographical love of the rocks and
rills. There is something that is
holier than the love of even the
flag, for the flag is merely a symbol
and an emblem, and that something
is a love of and a willingness not
only to die but to live for those who
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flag.
Our flag is glorious as it streams
in the hurricane or in the breeze but
that which it glorifies is greater.
Great are the symbols of being but
that which is symboled is greater,
vast the create and beheld, but vaster
the inward creator. Back of it's stars
are the stars of American opportuni-
ty and hope, back of it's blood red
stripes is the warm hearts blood of
American Democracy which has re-
solved that hope shall be open to all
classes, to all nationalities, to all re-
ligions and to all kinds.
All that we ask of our brothers is
that they shall be really loyal to that
flag. All we ask of those who are
departed is that we may write of
them that they loved their fellow
men. If they did so, we write their
faults upon the sand, but we write
their virtues upon the tablets of love
and memory.
We do this, not because charity is
one of the watchwords of our
order, but because justice is also.
If to fall and err ended all, which of
us would see salvation. Who of us
is without sin and can throw the first
stone. Who of us knows the inner
most secrets of the heart. Who of
us knows the bitterness of any other
mans temptation. Virtue without
temptation is not virtue. It is
merely an hypothesis, a guess. Many
a man is unscorched, merely because
he has not been upon the firing line.
Some men are tempted more than
others, and many a sin Scared mar
is a hero none the less, and though
Scared without is white-clean
white-inside. Often those who have
sinned the most, have loved the best.
And this after all is what counts.
It is not after all what one does to
himself but what he does to others.
This is why we write the faults of
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virtues upon the tables of love and
memory.
This is the test that we apply to
our departed brothers. Not did they
fail, or did they win, but whether in
the real things of life, in loyalty and
kindness, and brotherhood and right,
they kept unsullied and unsoiled the
snow-white warriors plume of man
hood and of truth.
Following the address occurred the
closing ceremonies by the lodge Of
ficers, the singing of "Auld Lang
Syne" and the benediction. .
CHARTERS ISSUED
Bismarck, N. D., Dec. 3.-Thomas
Hall, secretary of state, reports the
following new corporations, organized
in the state, for which charters have
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