Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1921-10-06
DARIUS BROWN SPOKE TO
AUDIENCE AT OPERA
HOUSE


A crying need for more fraternal-
ism and greater tolerance in all phas-
es of American life, plea for the sal
walton and conservation of the child
hood of the nation and the story of
the efforts of the Loyal Order of
Moose to accomplish these aims, was
the substance of the address of Darius
A. Brown, former mayor of Kansas
City, Supreme Dictator, l.. 0. 0. NJ,
at the opera house last Friday even
ing.
II. G. Berger, introducing the speak
er, said, "Three things in our life, the
home, education and citizenship are
our greatest Joy and privilege. These
have meant more to me since hearing
Mr.. Brown in the talks he has given
us to day" Mr. Brown spoke to a
good sized audience.
Ignorance and Poverty
Stating his subject, the speaker
said:
During my years of public life,
have been impressed with the fact
that ignorance and poverty are two
great menacing evils of American So
cial life and that If all Of the children
of American society could be made
free from the dangers of these two
insidious evils, most of the criminali-
ty would disappear.
81 come to you today to say that
believe / have found solution for
these difficulties. / believe / know of
a system which we might call an in
surance system by which any honest
working man may within his means
know for a certainty that no matter
what may happen to him or his wife,
his children will never know the pain
of poverty nor the ignominy of ignor-
ance. This system of social iDsur-
ance has been worked out by the 10y
al Order of Moose.
Law Abiding
II am proud to be member of this
great Order because the fundamental
qualifications for membership are that
a man must be law abiding citizen
of the community in which he lives,
must be loyal to the government of his
country and to her great institutions,
and must reverence the flag which
symbolizes all Of those things.
II count it privilege to have men,
bership in this Order because there
are three subjects of controversy, the
discussions of which are prohibited
and barred, not only in the sessions of
our local bodies, but upon the floor of
our Supreme convention, and those
three subjects are sectarian religion,
partisan politics, and the controver-
sizes between labor and capital.
II am glad to be Loyal Moose, be-
cause we need more fraternalism in
every phase and activity of life. We
need more fraternalism in our social
relations, especially in our attitude
towards the man or the woman who
has made false step. We need to
give more attention to the existence
and correction of our own faults and
less to the discovery, and punishment
Of those of our neighbors.
Need Fraternalism
'We need more fraternalism in our
industrial relations. In the history OF
this great republic we have made won
derful progress in art, science, relig-
ion, government, medicine, but there
are some problems which must be
solved before we can look upon our
civilization as truly great.
American civilization will never
reach the highest point, and we can
not stand erect, proud of our Ameri-
can citizenship, until every man who
honestly desires to do so can find EN-
ployment at compensation adequate
to properly support himself and those
dependent upon him.
American civilization will be fail
ure so long as the women and girls
of our land who must labor for livli-
hood are compelled to do so at wages
wholly insufficient to keep body and
soul together
American civilization will be dis
grace so long as any mother who
ought to be giving her time to the
proper rearing of her children is COM
PEELED to bend over the washtub to get
for them the bare necessities OF life.
American civilization will be
stencil in the nostrils so long as any
boy OF girl who ought to be spending
his or her time upon the playground
and in the school room acquiring the
physical strength and mental equip
ment TO fight the battle of life Is COM
PEELED to work long hours in any
body's shop. factory or store.
Great Factor.
''These are some of the problems
that must be solved and believe that
fraternalism is TO be the great factor
in that solution. cannot help but
think that when the man of labor and
the man of capital meet within the
walls of lodge room, with eyes look
ing into eyes, heart beating against
heart, mind understanding mind, soul
responding to soul, each desiring to
do the square thing by the other, then
all OF these troublesome differences
can be honestly, fairly and eQuitably
adjusted.
We are fast coming to realize that
the crying reed of the time is an edu-
Gated. intelligent, loyal and patriotic
citizenship; that the boy is the key
stone in the arch of Americas des-
tiny; that Americas boyhood and girl
hood are the hope and guarantee of its
future; that the boys and girls of to-
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