Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-11-09

man connected with the Loyal Order
OF Moose see these magnificent
grounds: these fino educational in
terests: this environment surrounding
these children, that before God can
not. cannot. cannot fail to make the
plausc.)
that the doctrine Of environment is a.
true doctrine. Why. l know IL is.
was cross. disaEreeable old bachelor.
ana then foolish woman married me.
u-auEhter) And she has been my
environment for twcnty-three years,
ana eat out of her hand and smile
while l am doing it. Laughtcr.)
Here IL the Answer.
May just touch upon this war for
one moment. not to discuss the right
or wrong OF II with you, because You
know We are right. tApplause0 Not
to call attention to the 5l,l22 brave
loyal and patriotic men of this Order
who arc willing to go to their death.
IL need be. in the cause OF humanity
ana the common rights of all (Ap-
plausc) But TO call attention 10 the
TACT that war which might have
oeen avoided was unavoidable Do
you get that? A war which might
have been avoided was unayoidabIe
IL could have been avoided IL in Eng
land or France or Germany seventy
Mooseheart (Applause.) Cain was
not Moose. He was a neutral, and
for six thousand years the world
around whenever a nation could Set
itself off said: AT, my brothers
Keeper? Now. you couldn't have es-
tao''shed Moosehcart and you couldn't
nave five hundred thousand Moose in
n ha
nnences coming from the doctrine OF
Mooseheart for neutral American
people. (Applause.) Oh, regret
the awful loss OF life which we must
undergo: but, my dear friends, it justi
hes itself pays for itself-for the
aEe-oid cry Of Cain shall be answered
by the American people SO that the
world will know that we mean it
that we are our brothers keeper. and
that wrong and crime and Injustice
to man the world around must stop.
(Applause.)
What does our Order stand for,
What does America stand for? What
is the underlying principle of this
government? say it is not the DecIa-
ration of Independence: it is not the
constitution of the United States.
both OF them the greatest documents
mat ever fell from human lip or pen.
l say that this Republic Of ours as
TINS Order of ours, IL it have right
10 he and right to continue to be.
must have for its cornerstone tho
golden rule of the Nazarenc, that
whatsoever you would that men should
do unto you. do we even so unto then M.
(Applausc.)
Now. will you tell me that these
conflicting theories upon tho part Of
one great government, that nations
live by might, that the strong should
survive and the weak 60 down, that
inc moral law Is In allegiance in tho
hour of warfare; will you tell mo that
a great. mighty people like this could
ever nave arbitrated a question like
that? No, my friends; 1t could not be
done. And so we arc in the fight, and
every principle of this Order. our Or
der and everything that Mooseheart
stands for today. for she has justified
her right to be. and you will justify
her right to continue to be. (Ap-
plause.)
May not ask OF you that you will
renew your faith, re-dedicato yourself
to the cause OF humanity; re-conse-
crate your lives in Mooseheart and
through Mooseheart to a newborn.
reborn. .resurrected world of brother
hood?
: Urge upon all men everywhere to
get into this movement and other
movements like them for tho eleva.
ton, uplift publication and happi-
ness OF humanity,