New Britain herald., 1926-10-18

we give all men a chance. The only way 10 get the best out Of men is 10 troatmen as equal.
 What dou you mean by superior ity and inferiority? You and I may be inferior to a man in one thing and he may pass us up in another thing, 4 story is told of a school teacher who was teaching school and there were some changes made in the building so he had chance to seperate the children in the room. He separated the nuts from those that had brains. And it turned out one Of those nuts was John D. Rockefeller.
 A modern intelligence test, Some of our best business men could not pass those intelligence tests at all. Democracy and Cooperation is the better way to execution because 1t gives every man a chance.
 Political equality. We believe that all adult citizens should have a chance in government. In Massa- chussetts they wont allow women on the jury. If a man is on trial he
 is more likely to get a square deal from woman than men. Put a pret- " woman up against a court or a nursing mother, they will decide In favor Of the woman instead of the man in most cases. II there were women on the jury, such would not be the case. I think 1t is a mistake not to allow half women and half men. All adult citizens are allowed 10 have a share in government. All have a franchise. All are eligible to office. So far as political equality is concerned we are approximating it.
 You have social equality, natural equality. We are all human beings born with the same five senses. We came naked into the world. We bring in nothing and take out noth- ing. We have similar mental capaci- ties. We are not animals, not things. We are living creatures yet have the same mental capacity, similar de- sires, similar passions. We are all born and all die. There Is no ques- ton that there is that which is in you when you come into the world which is different than that which other men bring when they come. Some men are born blind, some feeble minded. When 1t comes to bi- ological equality, we are not biolo- gically equal.
 "A man boasts about his fore fathers. In such a case if that man went back to the days before Chris topher Columbus. he would find out perhaps he had thirty two million grand parents and If he descended from some king, there isn't much of the king in him now.
 Economic equality. Every man
 ought to take a bath. Suppose he
 has not bath tub. You say that woman ought to do certain things. I once knew a woman who told me one day she had washed 50 dresses for eight little girls in the family. There are inequalities of environ men as far as locality is concerned. Of every thousand men who lead in science, 100 are born in Massa- lchussetts, and three in Georgia. For each million population in Massa- chussetts and Connecticut there are l 100 scientific men of high standing,
 while in states on the southern sea- board, there are only two. Does that
 mean that people born in Connecti- cut have more brains No. It is a
 matter of educational opportunity, Then there is spiritual equality. | Remember Jesus Christ's story of the rich man and Lazarus, He sent the rich man to hell. He always went to heaven before that. Remem Der the story of the Publican and the Pharisee. The Puritan thought it was entirely in the hands of God as to what became of them. But the chur- ches today, the Roman Catholic and all of them, have the same sacra-
 ments for rich and for poor, the
 same for the strong and weak, the
 famous and obscure and I suppose John, suggests the attitude of the
 church towards the whole situation when he says, Tor God so loved the world that whosoever, anybody. may , go to Him. And so when 1t comes
 to the attitude of this class. Does 1t
 some poor devil who flicked out be- make you mad when you read about cause he had no chance. If it makes
 you rage. then step right in. You are one of us. Does 1t make you sad when you read of a clean souled
 woman who fell because she had no chance. Does it make you mad. If
 int does we welcome you. Brother, you will battle with us We believe l in eouaIi'y and If we do not have