Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-12-04

what this order does: that is what it
stands for. A work 50 exalted that it
reaches to the very gates of heaven.
II do not believe there is anything
that surpasses the absolutely unselfish
and disinterested motives and senti-
ments that animate this order. The
constant reminder Of duty to be per-
formed: the safeguard it places around
the citizen; the constant striving for
high ideals and above all else the
simple clinging child like faith in the
Omnipotent One are lessons that radiate
from this order as doth the blessed
sunlight from the great orb of life
and vitality.
Great Nation
Il would feel my duty but half done
did ! not take this opportunity Of
dwelling for a moment upon the
magnificent past of this great nation
of ours, the great prize won by the
trainers of u constitution. First they
established the greatest political ad-
vantages eve known to man and as
a result of the firm foundation upon
! which they builded we have become
the greatest manufacturing. the
greatest agricultural and the greatest
| commercial nation upon the face of the
| earth today. No more do the boundaries
of a few years ago describe the ex-
panse of this wonderful country of
ours. Paraphrasing Webster, Its
morning drum beat encircles the earth
| with an unbroken strain of martial
music"
Quoting one of our former vice
| presidents, our nation Overwhelmingly
| believes in the existence of a Supreme
Being, a great eternal force for good,
| and that this Supreme Being intends
| that we who are born into this life
shall find during the years of our exist
ence happiness.
Because we believe that man can
be truly happy by following his in
s%tincts. impulses, and reason, and that
| the sharp contrast between poverty
and wealth is not a divinely
| contrast, but due to human agencies
| and should be changed in the interest
| of the great mass of US, and that to-
| day is exceptionally favorable for
| bringing about these changes, for men
| and women in this republic have been
| stirred to make unwonted sacrifices
with no selfish purpose in mind. Dur
ing the past few years we have lived
less for ourselves and more for others
than we have ever lived before or per
haps ever will again.
Republic.
"Who is there can dispute our ma
ton viii not long remain the republic
our fathers thought they had founded
| if contending classes are to continually
clamor for their rights and be utterly
oblivious of their duties. Is it not an
assured fact that in the interests of
the common good and in the preserva-
ton Of an individualistic republic the
individual citizen must lessen and mod
ify what he terms his right when by
so doing he contributes to the happi-
ness and well being of his fellow men.
Let us trust that for us of the
Benevolent and Protective Order of
Elks. hat the golden summer of u
affections viii never change into the
cold and barren winter of Indifference
and despair. That our celebrations
will always be a love feast in which
we link together the silver tassel Of
friendship with the golden cup of
good cheer. With fraternai love our
motto, and brotherly love our emblem.
Then shall these memorial occa-
sions more and more quicken and in
tensify the love we bear our fellow
ken, So that each of us, as we await
the that bids us in our turn
to pass on through the valley Of the
shadows to that bourne from whence
no traveller returns can feel assured
that we have done those things which
in the sight Of God and man were
right