A Lodge of Police called “Dog Soldiers”.
It makes war on alcohol and tobacco (aiming to restrict the abusive use of alcohol, and totally abolish the cigarette).
It takes an open stand against drug habits (including the disgusting practices of tobacco and gum chewing).
It does not teach money-getting, believing it unwise to cultivate avarice, our racial sin, even if we give it the euphonious name of “thrift”. It is not good to test all things by this: “Will it bring in dollars?”
It is opposed to military terms and methods, especially the military code, which teaches that men may stifle their conscience and commit any or every crime merely because it is announced by their government to be in the interests of their country.
It denounces the false patriotism which lauds evildoing because it was done by “our own country”. We should be truer to our country if we were frankly taught to see its faults. Many wicked wars and countless monstrous crimes have been done from the aggrandized selfishness called patriotism, of the type that justifies any wickedness if it be “for my country”.
Herod and Pilate were just as noble and patriotic as the American general who slaughtered 250 helpless mothers and babes at Wounded Knee, S. D., in 1890; or the British who forced the atrocious Opium War on China in 1843.
It maintains that true religion fits all days as well as Sunday.
That justice and retribution are our certain lot here on earth.
That all men are born children of the Great Spirit and may retain or regain their birthright if they have courage and strength for the fight.
