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A Masonic Thought for Each Day of the Year, May 9th

Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment. In the last analysis, the welfare of the worker depends upon his own initiative. Whatever is done under the guise of philanthropy for social morality which in any way lessens initiative is the greatest crime that can be committed against the toilers. Let bleeding-hearts, social busy-bodies and professional public morals experts in their fads reflect upon the perils they lavishly invite under this pretense of social welfare.

SAMUEL GOMPERS

(On this day in 1904 Brother Samuel Gompers received the third degree in Dawson Lodge No. 16, Washington, D.C.)

A Masonic Thought for Each Day of the Year compiled by Alphonse Cerza
Appearing here with the kind permission of the Missouri Lodge of Research.
Copied with mistakes by Lee, from Mount Olivet Lodge, Cambridge MA, USA.
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