Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1922-01-28
DARIUS A. BROWN,
EXMAYOR KANSAS
CITY, SPEAKS HERE
DELIVERS ELOQUENT ADDRESS
AT GAYETY PoRTRAYlNG BENE
FITS THAT COME WITH LOYAL
ORDER OF MOOSE MEMBER.
SHIP.

E,x-Mayor Darius A. Brown Of Kan
sas city spoke before an audience OF
,&,tta vans at the Gayety thcater last
night, telling them OF Mooseheart anG
the accomplishments OF the Moose
lodge. Mr., Brown, who was brought
to Ottawa under the auspices CT the
Moose lodge, delivered an interesting
address on Men and Women OF To
morrow"
He was introduced by Mayor George
v - Weeks and said in part:
II am presuming to take the time
OF my fellow citizens here, as ! have
been doing in many cities, because |
honestly feel that have a message To
deliver TO you which is of incalculabl@
value to the people of this cOmmun.
ity
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 II all the children
OF American society could be made
free from the dangers Of these two in
siduous evils most of the criminalIiy
would disappear.
II have recognized the fact that one
of the great contributing reasons for
crime and its attendant misery wal
due To the fact that the wage.carnerS
OF the world are, as rule, unable to
lay aside a reserve OF money against
their deaths and many times they die
leaving their children helpless in the
social struggle, and that 1t IS from
these that are recruited the unhappy
persons in our social life
II come to YOU today In a perfectly
frank, straightforward manner to say
that / believe have found solu
ton for these difficulties. believe
| know OF a system which we might
call an insurance system. although il
is not like a life insurance or sick and
accident insurance, iy which any
honest WOrKingman may within h
means know for 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 ignorance.
This system of social insurance
has been worked out by the Loya'
Order of Moose, one of the great fra
ternities of the world. although | do
not know any particular reason why
IL could not-with just as much ia
cility-hav been attached to some
ether social institution Nevertheless
it is true that the Moose have deveh
oped il ami the credit is due the
Moose today, not only of having this
protection ia operation as shelter
over the heads OF millions of children
but as well this great organization can
point with pride to thousand or more
boys and girls who have, through this
plan. been lifted from the depths and
started on their way to the right, the
true and the beautiful.
Il am proud Of my membership in
the Loyal Order of Moose for great
many reasons. but there are few
which transcend all others in impor.
lance.
First, | am proud to be a member
of this great order because the funda
mental qualifications for membership
are that a man must be a law abiding
citizen Of the community in which he
lives, must be loyal to the government
of his country and to her great insti-
tutiOnS, and must reverence the flag
WHICH SSlIDDIIEtS all III tubSb t'illl6S.
There is no room in the Loyal Order
OF Moose for the law breaker, the |.
w. w. the bolshevist, the anarchist
or the disloyalist under any names or
description whatsoever. There Is
space for but one flag, and that is the
flag Of all flags, Old Glory-the Stars
and Stripes. We believe in progress
and the solution Of problems by law
full and orderly methods, but are I'M
alterably opposed to all those who
seek to change the existing order OF
things by revolution, violence and
bloodshed.
Again, ! count it privilege to
have membership in this order be-
cause there are three subjects of CON
troversy, 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 seCta-
rian religion, partisan politics and the
controversies between labor and capt