Evening Star Newspaper, August 28, 1894, Page 11

SS THE EVENING STAR, TUESDAY, AUGUST 28, 1894-SIXTEEN PAGES. ONE NATION AND ONE TONGUE: --Suyreme Chancellor Blackwell. Makes an Interesting Report. ONLY ONE LANGUAGE FOR LODGES Strong. Sentences on the German Question-—Pythians Declared. to Be in Rebsllion---The Admission of Liquor Sellers-—- Other Questions of Interest—Reprts of Supreme Oficers, Report of Supreme Chanecilor W. W. Biackwell. | ‘The report of the supreme chancellor, W W. Blackwell, submitted to the Suorem: Ledge, Kaights of Pythias of the Werl., teday, is a document that will attract wide attention, both irside and outside the orter, | especially for the vigorous munner im-which | he deats with questions risimg from wnat he | terms an organized rebeliicn of ceriala per- | scns who have persisted in publishing and | vsing a German transintion of tie ritual uf the order despite the refvsal of the Supreme Lodge w permit such tratsiations. The supreme chancellor makes a strong plea (or Amertcanizing the order. He gives the tl- jowiag 2s tae statistics of membe-shtq of the order according qacnemnas reporis ty! ty 1, ISM> Grand eet, Seb; subvrdinate | ages, 622m; total number of senders, 465,741, a net imerease of 72,025- members | during the past two years. ‘The iinancial | condition of the orier is, he states, most | satisfactory, notwithstanding tae failure uf the former supreme master of exchequer. | “Netwithstaading the enthusiasm and Romenal record of our past,” says the port, “anl the impcrtance of our previous sessions, I am profoundiy impressed with | the belief that the session now at hand is in prospect the most important ever hell in our history and premises more for the fu- ture thaw all our previous sessions com- bined. In shert, an idea and a plan will be Preee ved which, 1( fu.ly de.ctopei ani na: Mmontousiy adopted, will in the near future raise our order to the imperial leadership emorg fraternities by stampms indelibly upon its governmental policy that sebitme principle, heretofore unconceived and «in- taught by other societies, of toyuity « gor- ernment, coupled with the pledge to uphold, Practice and requtre the uve of the language of the country in which our lodges are, and to sustain this national and patriotic tier by declaring ‘that hereafter we will use every means in cur power to assist any gov- ernment under which we ive to uphotd and enforee, and to nationalize and emphasize, | its chesen and accepted tongue. You wil aiso be calied to the consiteration of a new constitution for our fature government, which evelv.e @ syStem very far in udvauace ef anything heretofore contemplated by 2 fraternal society. The thought. time, labor and ge.ius of five of oar mos: bora, bro id- ininded, Intellectual and widely expe-ienced | members have keen given im an unstinted measure to the perfection of this new sys- tem of government, and I have every con- | idence in the prediction that they have} filled the full measure of your expectations. | Fature of the Order. | “It will be cor.ceded, I trust, by those who | @re f.miliar with our history, that it is no | . idle boast, even in the face of the fact that tnere are a few discontented indivitluals and lodges here and there croaking their dis- | cord, to say that the order universal is in a | most prosperous condition, and that the times are propitious for a much greater in- crease during the next two years than ever before in our history. We stand at the threshold of a great future; the seets of a general system have been sown; the yenerai membership have a mcre perfect under- standing of what is necessary to Pythian progress than ever before; harmony in the work through fraternal 3 progres- sive plans and advanced ideas have been set forth, and you have assembled as the chosen representatives in sovereign session for the purpose of thoughtfully weighing end adopting methods by which many of these plans and ideas may become en- | grafte@ upen the body politic and crysta!- lized as a part and parcel of its policy. I have perfect faith in your final judgment, znd here venture the fond prediction that Jie cutcome of this session will insure a following of a millicn of America’s best and most active citizens ere this great brother- hood is ten years older. God speed the hour end grant the prediction, shall be my Stumble prayer. ‘The Pythian Sisters. “No small amount of friction,” the report says, “has been engendered during the past two years, growing out of the action of the Kansas City session, dissolving all connec- tion heretofore nor inally recognized as existing between the Pythian Sisters and the Supreme Lodge, and thereby bringing this institution under the ban of proscrip- tion through the adoption of a new ritual. A part of my duty has been to rule that no Knight of Pythias could legally join the order of Pythian Sisters, or any other in- stitution using any part of our name and not under control of the Supreme Lodge. This decision has engendered much feeling, and some of our so-called Pythian papers, and even members of high standing, have Publicly insisted that the decision be ignor- have even learned that no less a body than the Grand Lodge cf Indiana, at its session held at Indianapolis in June, | 1894, refused to recognize and ratify a de- cision of its retiring grand chancellor which was based upon this decision. The Pythian Sisters themselves have taken this matter up, and my correspondence has been multi- plied many times endeavoring to pacify their ruffled feelings, with but very slisht. if any, success. I therefore desire to pre- sent the subject as an abstract proposition for your consideration, and ask that you give ft attention In its broadest possible scope, that your final conclusions may be zecepted by our entire membership as the edict for their future guidance. While I feel assured you can do no less than sus. tain the decision as a matter of law, that ts not the question here. The question here ts practically this: What shall be the position taken by our order for the future in regard | to members of the erder becoming members of or holding membership in the Pythian Sisters, or any other society our lady friends may organize, using a derivative of our name or claiming to be an assistant or auxiliary bedy to the order of Knights of Pythias? In view of the many propositions | | | | | | | prospectively coming befcre this body, among which I e heard of one th will ask recogniticn for the Pythian S$ ters, another to recognize the sisterhood, and still another to ignore ail | istirg claimants and create a branch | entirely free from present complications, in which the wives, daughters, sisters, etc., of Knights of Pythias can enter and be fully recognized, my opinion is that we can | best guard our interests by permitting the edict of Kansas City to stand; but, m view of the fact that the Supreme Lodge, at Its Cincinnati session in 1888, granted the present organization of Pythian Sisters the right to use the name of our order, and nominally to take in our members if they wished, I am of tie opinion we are in honor bound to lift the ban so far as our present obligations proscribe the Pythian Sisters, and permit our membership to join desire so to do. This can be done by special edict, making an exception so far as the operation of the law may affect them and let it stand as to all other organiza- tions. I had quite a conversation with the Pythian chief, Mrs. Robinson, last year in Colorado, and she assured me her institu- tion would be entirely satisfied if the Su- preme Lodge would relieve them of the ban and permit our membership to totn if | | quired to furnish a bond throvgh a gua! been furnished showing the Pythian Sisters to have strenuously endeavored to effect a comsolidation of the existing branci: without resuwit, the s.sterhood havin; a.sted and declined all advances made in that direction. It ts to be hoped that the |, subject matter may receive a full and fina! lnvestization and coneluston at this s23- sion, that it may no: longer rise as Ban- quo’s shest to haunt us An account i given of the successful of- fort to seeure a perpetual charter for the Supreme Lodge from Ccngress, >esulting in the pasmge of the act approved June ~) jast. incorporating, without limitation cf ime, the “Supreme Lodge, Knights of P)- thias.” This wis made necessary by the dis- | atom) tramarting eantents ta eur mem. very that the charter held under the lees] | yey. in daring my term of office: bot eho laws of the District of Columbia had ex- | i) :amne my time to evins my successor wes | P2red in 1890. form l mass te inteliicantiy impart. the ‘Fhe Lute Treasurer's Accounts. Considerable space is given in the -eport to detailing the circumstances attending the failure, In May, 1883, ef S. J. Wiley, of Wil- mington, Del., the late supreme master of exchequer, due to the wrecking of a ban‘: and involving the etter in csns.der2 tie financial loss. The supreme chanceltor re- counts difficulties: met by him and xis as- sociates in endeavoring to effect a settte- men’, because Willey had transferrod cuties he hold to his bondsmen. A fical ement was obtained, in which Willey nowleéged an injebiedness to-the ores of su » including $10,402.07 of cesn and notes belongin; to the fines’ memorul fund. After Willcy’s rosi:mation was ac- cepted, a- settlement was affected out «f court by the transfer to the ordez of thirty- one acres of land adjolains Wilmington, vatud at $51,t0v, subject a mortgage of 38.- ouv, and stock in a dental manufactu-ms company, valued at $32,700. The rey preme master of exchequer has been tee company, ond in additioa, he has quired the banks in which the funds of erJer are deposited to furnish indemn:ty bonds. Daughters ef the Founder. “For the past four years it has been the | plec sure of this body to contribute the x of $30 per month to each of th wo daus) ters of our beloved founder, which amounts have been remitted with systematic reg- ularity each month during the past two years. While not being able personally to visit these two young ladies, I have myself posted in regard to their condition, and have te assurance that they ur quietly and comfortably living In of Alexandria, Va., aad ere duly tive of the generosity. of the 2. As the rignt to continue hiy payments is Hmited to tni. sion, I most cheerfully recommend th: sum of $0 per month be continue! as allowance to cach, and that the s: keeper of records and seals be instr to continue remitting said amounts, heretori. as wore, during the ensuing two years, under the same conditions which now era these payments. I would also ree. mead, in view of the proximity of andria to Washington, that a cummiltee be delesated to visit the Misses Rathbone’ in thei: home during this session, and ference ascertain their wishes, wants and ne ~ds, if any, and report back to this boy, with such rescmmendations as in the juds- ment of the committee the welfare or the wisqes of our wards may domand. The German Question. “Under this head." says the supreme chancellor, * it becores my duty to record @ list of facets, a series of acts and an ex- perience in the atten.pt to handie an ele- ment In our membership whose chief deligh: seems to have rested tn the desire to stir up as much discor, cor-fusion and disioyalty as possible. With the pubiication of the fact that the Supreme Lodge had, at its Kansas City session, retused to permit the transiation of the new ritual into any for- eign lar guage, commenced a system of oy- posi‘ion, particularly on the part of our German membership, which at first tock form in the shape of protests, later in ex- pressior-s of disloyalty and seeessiun, aml finally culminated in such a dishonorabi disregard of assumed obligation as to ta! shape in an organized rebellion, having its main object the riding down of all law rule or regulation set for government, and exhiviting the spirit of Cetermination to ‘rule or ruin.” As an organization, we are | now brought face to face with the fact thet a mincrity element in our membership are | in open rebellion, refusing to obey the luw and defying the power of constitute! au- thority to enforce the same, ‘and it becomes our duty a3 a sovereign body to decide - whether or not the law shall be enforce, or whether we shall surrender to lawiess- ness, sedition and anarchy. In other words, we ere asked to treat with an clement whose hands are reeking with treason witic they sail under the flag of loyalty, and shout injured innocence, vested rights and 4 thousand other elaims, not one of which can they justly plead. The facts are these: mmediately following the close of the Kansas City session the German lodges coramenced pouring into my ofiice a series | of prctests aytinst the action of the Su. preme Lodge im deciding not to issue the | new ritual in other than the English lan- guage, in which, among many er claims and the free use of strong lang: of ‘secession, ete., they set up the claim of having a ‘vested right’ in the use of the German language, which they denied the right of the Supreme Ledge or any other bedy to take from them. 1 found that the Supreme Lodge had rever chartered any lodge as a “German ledge,’ on the contrary, the German lodges had simpiy siood on same level with had beea recognized simply as lodges of Knights of Pythias, each holding a eharter | identical and using the same words—no | more, no less—and that the special priv- ilege claimed was a myth, and that the al- | jegel vested right of a so-called German lorige to its ritual was identically the same as Uat of an English lodge to its ritual. | ‘The faects in the carly history are simply | the. he powers that were, eager to secure membership—quantity rather than quality seeming to be the idea—issued, without re- quest from or premise to anybody, two rit- tals, coextensive and coequal, one in G man and the other in Eng privilege of using either, during the will of the Supreme Ludge or good behavior of the subordinate lodge, under the reserved rights above quoted. ‘The Supreme Lodge | applicants | never knew whether German tcok an English ritual, or English appli- cants preferred a German ritual, nor did | they care. The two rituais were there, and each applicant lodge could take its choice or change at pleasure; and as a matter of fact many of the so-called German lodges were at one time using both rituals. Supreme Lodge kept no record of, nor made any distincticn between them, simply registering each as a subordinate lodge of Knights of Pythias, and granting to ali the same simple, piain charter, that makes then of our order without a single special privilege. Among the many claim: set up to influence and intimidate, was one which was “That the German membership in our order numl ered 75,000 to 100,000," and that if ‘y seceded in a body, as was p-obabie, the prediction was ventured that it would 23, bas | threats | the Enghsh lodges, and | sh; they cared | Little who took either, simply presenting the | strated (and I had to go to the grand lodge Journals to obtain the information, the Su- Preme Lodge not showing in its records that there ever existed any German lodges). that the membership in German lodges, ail told, does not exceed 13,000 men at this time; and, further, while fully enjoying the high privilege of a German ritual for the | Past twentw years, yet this particular con- | tingent had during that time lost member- ship. How aid they aceount for this fact? | There must be some reason, and it only took a careful investigation to deraonstrat. | that the young sens of these very German | brothers were deserting them ‘and joining | the English speaking lodges, and that the | lodges ef their fathers, having a very lim- | xed material upon which to féel. were | siowly. but surely, dying, lke an rid tree, Cecay and.want of vitality. being the cause. Why dit the sons of these ol Germ hrothers prefer joining American. Indges Simply becarse they wers:American. cit! zena. native born: having nothing in com- | mon with ether the pri-te or the nrajudicas of their fathers, they graativ nreforre? af. | fliatine with a Indge In whieh they cont] raasoelats with the vaune. procrassive citi- | zens with witom they were raise! or knew | 88 sehechnates ant companions el ewhere. | “Another stim eat wp nse the ‘utter tf. | Shillty cf tha Garmen Iotgne ta ner the Engieh lonenage." My investication has demenstrat~4 (am) the corrstoration comes jStrén=ost from the Germans themsaly-s) that i? is net a anection of iabhife-, hart-hesded and @aterminad ‘dent want | to.” To eon nredues evidence for hours, I. | | Clepatehte and reestved from Germans, that four-fifths of our German membership rn- Gerstan] the English iancusge better thon thay dy the Garman. ‘This mey he 9 atert Ving stotemesit. but it can be clearl= ‘and treronghiy demonstrated by the avivanne of the ehneated Gerrans 21 ve, hendrats of whom have rnrerery~tly informe! ms thet the averace German fy 1} is canntry alvin | events a dialect rather than grammaticst Germen, and while they can im teretant each other. In a way, they erannet teva « stenueatically constructed Gormen arti rlearly Imnort its contents to others e thom. This was most graphic Hhestrated before the Grand Lotee of Master yer oss hor renessenin hare nrecent will doubtless tostitv. Atte= 1 had presonted-a faw remarks om this i~- Portent question. among which wre the wrement thet a Lares majority ef our Gare man membership unferatond Enelis: better then man. a goodoll German brother by nam? Sobomen So-trleburz, arose In hie pine rad naked te make a stetement er. reberating: + Said hy wee a charter montber of the ont Gearmon lodge evor or- genlze? in New Mexico. and heesm> ite first chancellor eormonder. Havine coms te (ile country > sr man, en? hayn~ reccive? a svlant eteeatiar In Germs Thad ne fronts in taking one Germen rit. | } eontegts of te ritual, ant + frether tnves- the agton'shtrrs feet ts other member in suit tvtoo that cwbt de se. It at oner arresl by | the entire monibersh'» to aermanter oer Cermen 1t0ale and obtain the Englis® rtt- | vais, anl vou know G Santa Fe. ty inv@ere> the atements of the aureus Lehancellor cad aree thie ledge to inetroet fr the ure of the English ritual only.” An phundance of evileuc? ef « similar ee bter te that abeve queted bas been present- el, bet E Geam the aheve si ‘ont, haviag no Cesire ty hurden this report with unve- essary examples. “A lreitdel caus? for dite ' ' Whe abewal” w. ced an the cultivat.on of the ase e vaken up the susj-ci, ant SYSieMALC SOTes Us represe.tations J pes tured vat of the wits © German is and ue: AYE voiia thes. Suca an iutuence mzing aad f ane Of this cass, ty of Indianapoi.s, nable to Geter ti have fecung a °. wig most ciiborate Like, the as. abuse, viility and sy H had a hand in the aciva at tapsas City, | and at on? time proposed t at ence secede | and set up on at [of them own. Aiter Hl f} 1 Was tt secessi sison Of Iasi, bat ate amd use tae . nis, 1 am now assw feet, nod to new, tnougy p nm in the bomoastit d: ination | they unaninousty adopzed to me, a copy of wiiwa L batim i ou may mation at demand venea ordered sent submit ver- ne ull, taat to what steps unde: iulby these revolutiontsts w nation and disloya, pesing its * Fact that nom en & nou The communication in question we ed “National Coavention of Germsn Ly Knights of Pythias, of the Unied sti Ti protested against the actior of ti I shail this re- | | part in a more than pasein: itual in ther owa lingua, anded that the pr.vite, jeyed be restored to t ud do- eS previcusly m. If the requ Was not granted in ninety days from date (June 13, 80), the resolutious incarporated in the communication de. Uthat y woukl take the privil ef translating such portion of ‘the ritualistic work would enadle them to exjoy their former privileges. avery single participint in that Indk: apoli ing,” says the supreme chancel- lor. “was reexing with weason, and guiity of a maiteious and fully conceive! false- hood, when they adopted sald series of res- olutions, and no one was better acquainted with these facts than Past Supr. sentative Henry Weilenvors atueky, when he help2d frame said resolutions. It was finally decided, it appears, to hold the printed transiation until after the meet- ing of the Supreme Lodge. of the Supreme continues the report of the supra’ ior, “this is the condition of 3 open, de | fiant element of mulcontents, who, } Violated every principle of honor by taken the law in their own hands trangilated the ritual, ave the hardi- hood to come re you, reeking with | trea on from head to foot, and under the guise of loyalty ask you to grant them something they already have. WIN the | | spirit of American doctrine, ‘never io treat } son,” prevatl, or will Bo con- | that other equally ‘mportant prin- | ‘that a majority must rule, forfelt. your ereisnty by per- ng a handful of ‘rule or ruin’ members thereby mit —less than 13,000, all told—to dictate the policy that must control the larse majority | of 450,000 active American citizens in their | | | | future management of this great order? | ; they do not deserve such con- | sideration; they have placed themselves beyond the pale of the-law; they have lost | the risht to claim sympathy, and it now | behooves us as a soveretsn body, dealing with red-handed revolution, to 2 in cur; might and enforce the edict enunciate! at | Kansas City In such a positive and con- | vincing way that it will for cll time stand as an object lesson, warning <2] discordant spirits against attempting vo set astie the | will of a majority by willfully violating | pesitive law. The destara’ ‘at Karras | City bas aused the devzispment theory heretofore dormant, but .in intuittv: consciousness of which, I crust, prompted } of al extensively, viz: | every member to the test when he there | when we, as | voted tn favor of one language. While the | aside policy, expediency or any other ques- | members. | procedure may have lacked deliheraticn and | the result perhaps have b2en unwittingly | reached. under the lisht of experteace. J they desired. Since that time assurance has! destrsy the order. My Investigation demron- | regard the act of pronouncing for one lan- | of the order fa this cou: ) doin | iB j tongee v | Sublime Ureory, then they are not the gemt | having become a m: jlate as they might desire upon the saloon 11 guage as the grandest step in the history of fraternii radical, pernaps, but carry- ing with it all the elements of progressive- ness, higher nationality, one’s country, ideals, ‘loyalty to the sovernm, which we live.” coupled with the enforced use of its languase as evidence of such a faith. With such a broadening plan before us, it enables us for the first time to bring to the front that hitherto unappliecd plank in our Ceclaration of principles, alty to the government under which we live,” and exemplify the truth of eur pretensions by ‘enforcing the use of the linzuage ef said government as an evidence of our sin- cerity.” I take the broad gronad that the English language is a lansuaze of necos- stty in the Untied States and Cana Ja, reasonable know a the same isa a good enous’ cliizen to become a member uatit be toes | } ' unterstand our languace. “The time has come when ‘America should be Ame icant’, an! hawever art it may | r temporerity, the successful aceom- ent thereof wil! be worth all it may cost, and 2 crown of immortality awalts eur orler for having taken the first steo in that ormation so much neelel, and for the of whieh the better and more int-ili- | citizens, without regard to polities or al ready to inlorse us as our: becomes a Udal wave sweeps this | country frem sea to sea. 1 have ursel up- cn our German Srpthers the necessity of losing the'r tlentity as Core! :nars by adopt- the English languace, beeoming in fact Ameri-an citizens, 93 they all profess they” are, ant of eliminat!»s from their names | ant societ'es the profix of Gorman-Ameri- { | | gent . and thus relieving themselves of uhe nviabdle distinction of be'rg foreigners at Beiny American citizens by adoption, they enjoy every privile:e of cn> mailve | Jorn, ant consequently are Amertoan clil- ems, pur. ant simple: why shoall thev ter te to be still classe as Ameri retizn pretileetions, unless they ha Ing beneath the cloak of adontion a secret fer the ‘fatherland,’ w tims to the detrimont ef as of this grevt country? Why sh fully reescaize | citizen of this com @ to be simssel as a fore'gner of any Stil. when the dedgnaticn brings to certain element of doubitul respectadilt: comoaret with thet of simple ‘Anresd citizens ip? Wh «re the ‘foreigners’ this couucry as generally aecsptel by every- betv? A. certain disreputebie ssum irom Rurone, that have been duaiped in wnon us lur'iv; the past twenty yeara heud=t by a y ey Lnarhlam, mili. sociattan, hoodtim- | enbershiy ia aay lodae of thie order. | Let us rise to duty, representatives, and ixm, den Tbeativm aml a thonsan! other “Lams” that ar» beins aseretly cultivated to ha Ofsadvaniate of owr conntry’s interests, T bav=.been acenset of elassing our German orthers the »bove, out Insteul nave sat! to them: I want'to help you lft your- selves entirely out of such an unenvialle having e1ch imlorse the jars. eliminate any evilence of fereiznism from your lates, and @eclare fer a stand- om of meassrsment that will require a reason ible unier:tantin: of the chosen ant re-ogn' el barruage of the eountre in whlch | you Itve, hefare confer ag the right of fall eitizenship upon any man. “Heving pletget ovr b weit to the sov- ernment un-ler which we live.’ deen it ovr im? hope it may prove our pleasure, ine that plelge to curry with it the its chosea ant nz, as Toy tat no em becom secventel in- e. In ¢e erence i» our ple 'ze « let os a-rart oron onr Ame.ican fraternity ne str stvtement that we will uphol!, sustain an} a-lyvance our country’s Janga © by hereuter tesaing oar iia nly in the for us in the Unite? minton of Canta, corp: that Fronce, Germiny ent ne right of the'r nationa’ renever it becomes our pleasure 70 troduce off order therein. Ii oar German Lrothers are not willins to subscribe to this ell profess, an} if not, the sooner best Grand Chancellors. s title,” continues the report. Ateseau, ew wh huvag aiues, af oiuct ake preseace, A tke UCCuM atsauur- ees a das aaty, ana in of nut Peet cent taaly coy provmgs chemselves to- porte niga Nowers het t steps bE wt Ui cApUisION OF susp ese LAPee Me wludais (rom Luruer wersay I the supreme Lwdye, as v PACU puuishwent fur conduct Baveconiag Mivers t.ereot, and to sow our con stewed GF Greir proccedi:nss. sheuvoss and Buchmann were active paass i the revolutionary proceed- Beit at Indianapolis, june 12 and 13, ae vt the ‘executive ice manage] the pub- tion of cur ritual in German; Loehr, be- a memicr of the ‘advisury boant,” must . OF ut least consented to the steps taken, and is therefore equally guilty I trusc it may be the determination of this body ance this subject with such nrm- rlessacss Unat no menrber cf we Supreme Lodge will ever again dare to y its edicts.” Stute of the Order. While the two years just closing do not shew quite as great an increase numeri- iy as that of the previous term, yet when we take into ccnsideration the fact that a great tinancial dopression pervaded the con- Unent duriag almost the entire time, re- sultiag, in stagnation of every branch of business. and a wide-spread sirinsency of money, we surety can be thankful for the remarkable increase made, and deduce theretrom the con tion that even though we imay he short cf a given mark, et the order is In a most prosperous con- When we look around us an] tind 2nd most respectable citizens that the personnel of our ship is vastly improved; that pro- gressive ideas pervade their minis; that manent anchorage is being supplied in erection of splen+lid castle hal ever, that Pythian colleges, sanitarlums a homes for widows ani orpiins are being projected in any jurisdictions; that the entire order is alive to the needs ant tical necessities of the hour; we cei ure entitled to congratulate oursel important factor in tornity. Saloon Keepers ond Rar Tenders. ‘Some years ago this body granted per+ mission to the grand lodgys to locally iegis- gjement question and the eligibility of own- ers and tenders thereof to membership in our order. Under this permission several grand lodges have since declared Joon keepers and bar tenders ineligible to mem- bership upon the ground of their business spgagement having a strong tend the cult! immordlity, law and ot ble habits in co chings cf our order. Sur- prising as It may seam to some, it is never- theless demonstrable that the grand ledges which have taken hold of this question and legislated to exclude this dowbtful material have not only succeeded i curing the a diterent language all | | ceatibty aZe-:ts our claim for the support { | | should encour, ) bri | steps be tak best material, but they and as the most active and progressive among the grand jnristictions. If it was the wish of the Supreme Lodge to experiment when permiss:on was granted grind .lodges to ily test this cuestion, Iam glad to re- po: it most satisfactory. In fact, xo strangi 23 1 con el step is one in the interest morality, respectabiilty, Lett j bers. and a higher knighthood, uaa I am con-! 18S!—1,6:3 subordinate lodges, 110,908 Strained to conclude that the time has come | imembers. 4 great ‘raternity, skould put | 1$32—-1,6G0 sthordinate lodges, tion of doubt that may stand tn the way! 13S3—1,08$ subordinate lodges, and declare ourselves the teadars of reform | members. by manfully tactng this Important question 1884—2,277 sudordir.ate lodges, and declaring that no salocm keeper, bar- | me:nbers. i] bers. | 2880—1,518 subordinate lodges, 96,263 mem- | there frets befece us, why shoull we hesi- THE FOUNDER Justus Henry Rathbone, erder of Knights of Pythias, wi OF THE ORDER. the founder and past supreme chancellor of the born at Deerficid, N. Y., October 2), 18%, and died at lima, Ohio, December 9, 1889. He studfed at several of the leading institutions of learn- its in his atate and left colfege in 1557, and northwest. At the breakhyg out of the w: afterward taught school for awhile in the ar, he, with others, formed a company of volunteers to join the first Michigan regimeat, then forming a? Detroit. On account of some taformallt; bers sibaaqui howevers the company was not accepiea by the governor, but its mem- y enlisted in other portions of the state. While in charge of the Eagie Herbor School he became so impressed with the story of Damon and Pythias, and the noble, self-sacrifice of Pythias, that he determined to do ail in his power to induce men to f-liow an example so pure, generous »nd holy. The result of his study of this char- acter was tho ritual of the order, which {3 today one of the most widespread in the world enc all-per: vading in its influence. tender or professional gambi!er shall here- afier be considere] as etizible to apply for meet this greit question face to face. Nearly all of our dtsorcers, Sunday dese- cratian al insndovdination has come from this element. which scems to delignt in the cultivation of lawlessness and hoodium hab- its, They Lave been of no benefit what- ever to our orier in the psst, but rather, itxe bar.actes upon the craft, have gr2atly hinlerod our progress in tre direction of a Righer res ,e-tubility. Thousands of our most remuiable citizens have held aloof Zour portais because of the . this element among our mem- howeve- small. One bartender presen bership, trad bees object ieason to will point for evi- deact in condemnation of the whole, and the on2 thousand saloon men tn our mem- bership of half a milion cast a upen the whole class, which most per- and coni‘dence of the Christian world. With it high, declaring therein ‘+ man whose engagements in life are doubtiul and disreputable in the estima- tioa of the moral wortd can be considered ‘of membership in our great to our order, and that reme Lodge tirmly plant itself upon this moral and progressive platform, that all the world may know just where we stand. App%int a commission for the in- at conskleration of this momentous question, and have then formulate plans for the visorous enforcement of its con- chusions. ‘The supreme chancellor recommends that suitall? proviel.n be made for erecting a menument over the rave of the founder of the erder, Justus H. Rathbone, in Forest Unica, N. Y. He approves nize a Pythian the encampment o the Unt- “With a uew improve! system of gov- niform Ran of citizen sol- that every ef- ythian progress upreme Lodge to se the advancomert, more perfect tion and coatinued development mijitery feature of ovr orler; and, end, I berneax for the dati ms of Cenera! Carnahan cir-fal consi leration, owing es I do that the subjcct is one very near and dear to Ms hear’, and his sincerest wish Is to i iis crsanizatioa to perfection.” He ottice of major general ive, instead ef appointive, and be two years instcad of four, at Washi form Raak, ritual and an erament,why shou! not the become the gran lest body diery in the world? T fe. fort consirtent with PF be taage by the as at present. Many topics are discusse? and recom- mendations made concerning the work of the crier. It is recommended that the | tern of officers ef subordinate lodges be one year inste2d of six months, and taat (he use of castie halls for burlesque “side ranks" be prohibitel. It is suggested that a rule be adopted permitting such divis- jong as may desire to exchange the sword tor the gun, and thus bring the body more in harmony with current military ideas. “I am strongly of cpinion,” says the supreme chancellor, “that a general change from Sword to gua would bring a great revival and influx of new members into the mill- tary branch of ovr order. I suggest that en to obtain the views of all the divish upon this subject, with the determination, if the majority so wish, to imuke the change. I am told that a Booed Springtteld rime, such as we could tse, can be purchased in lots about as cheap as we now have to pay for swords. I suszest a commission for the purpose of investigation. Should the idea prevail, I suppose it will be necessary to obtain con- seat in each state to bear arms as a body.” Keport of the Supreme Keeper of Records and Sent. The report of the supreme kecper of records and seal, R. lL. C. White, say: he number of subordinate lodges De- cember 31, 180%, was 6,008, and the number of members 443,615—a net gain during the calendar yeay of 436 lodges and 2,261 mem- bers, and a net gwin during the years 1802 and 18K of 1,004 lodges and 85,601 mem- bers. While this gain is not so large, either in subordinate ledges or members, as: that of the years 1800 and 1801, it is, considering mong a subordinate membership of two | 1SS5—2,452 suboriinate lodges, 168,494 members. : 1SSG-2.605 subordinate lodges, 188,707 meinbers. ISS—3.015 subordinate lodges, 208,019 members. ISSS-3,281 subordinate lodges, 230,325 members. 1859-3,783 subordinate lodges, 925,817 members. 1s suberdinate lodges, 308,290 1891—1,001 subordinate lodges, 257,924 a.embers, 182-5,572 subordinate lodges, 413,944 1843—6,008 subordinate lodges, 443,015 members. ‘Total rece , beer receipts during Ariens Balance, April L 1894. ‘The U The report of Maj. Gen. James R. Carna- han, commanding the Uniform Rank, says: The work of orzanizing new divisions has been difficult because of the financial de- pression, and for the feason that our Knights of Pythias, for the most part, be- | mz men of moderate means, have felt con- strained to husband their resources. Not- lave had a reasenabiy healthy growth, and 1 believe that if 1 could have had the time to spare from the many duties requiring my attention at headquarters, and could have gone out to organize new divisions, I could have organized almost, if not quite, as many as during any of the past six years. ° During the two years ending with March 31, 102, there beve been received and ap- | proved appiications for 180 new @ivisions of | this rank. We had on March 31, 1894, the close of W7 divisions of the the last fiseal year, 4, Uniform Rank, representing a membership beings a net gain during the two 1. of 45,055, years last past of 5,150. “In the matcer of the preparation for the | Washington encampment,” says Gen. Car- nahan, “I feel that special acknowledgment should be made of the courtesy that has been shown by the Secretary of War of the United States, by the major general of the United States army and by the adjutant seneral and officers of the United Surtes army. I have had occasion to make iany requests of these gentlemen and officers, and each of these requests has been met with a cheerful response, and has been Sranted. I believe that the Supreme Lodge will fully apprectate the kindness and cour- tesy of these gentlemen. Their cond: has been a compliment and an honor shown to the order of Knights of Pythias. _—— THE CHOSEN MEN OF THEORDER - (Continued from Tenth Page.) diction of Utah for the year 1990, and in June, 1891, was elected to the position of supreme’ representative. T. F. La Hache, Tex. Five years ‘ago when the position of tive from Texas be- came vacant the choice of the Py- thians fell upon Theo- dore Felix La Hache, and they have never had cause to regret it, for Mr. La Hache is one of those mem- bers who aiways has the good of the order close at heart. At home, Sherman, Tex., he is =n expert ac- countant He was born in New Orleans in 1846. He was ini- Ulated May, 1874, in Mystic Lodge, No, 12 of Texas, and is still one of its valued members. Cc. F. 0. Timker, Vt. Charles F. O. Tin- ker was born in Ash- the widespread financial depression during the past eighteen months, both remarkable and gratifying, and ts believed to exceed that of 18%, the total amount in the treasuries of the Grand Lodges was $190,899.10, and the amount in those of the subordinate lodges was $1,88%,445.58. The total amount of the assets of subordinat. nate lodges during the year 18% was $1, while for the two years 1892 ana |. SAS It Was $2,370,574.13. ‘he following table shows the number of subordinate lodges and the total _member- saip of the order on the Sist of December of each year since its institution. It af- fords a_ bird’s-eye view of our progress during the thirty years of our existence: isu4— subordinate lodges, 7: 1N8tG—1 subordinate lodge, 13. 1Sit;—4 subordinate lodges, as 1SGS—104 subo-dinate lodges, bers, 1369—465 subordinate lodges, 51,289 mem- bers. 1870—64S subordinate lodges, 60,022 mem- rs. 18/1886 subordinate lodges, 79,515 mem- No trustworthy statistics available. 228 subcrdinate lodges, 95,002 mem- bers. 1s74—1,423 subordinate lodges,101,453 mem- apy 75—1.708 subordinate lodges, Y0,628 mem- »eSie1.490 subordinate lodges, 92,209 mem- »aSy7—1,4a0 subordinate lodges, 85,502 mem- oeeis-1.008 subordinate lodges, $1,505 mem- et +1,473 subordinate ledges, $9,563 mem- tal Society. in polit- ichl faith he i a Fepubl ican. He joined Apollo i. Knights of ythioens @ charter member, and was elected to the positions of prelate, chancellor, comman- der and sir knight captain of the Vermont Division, No. 1. The last office he resigned im order to accept the position of colonel and aid-de-camp on the personal staff of Gen. James R. Carnahan. When the Grand Lodge, K. P., was organized he was elect- ed first grand chancellor. He served two successive terms in that office, and was then chosen supreme represcntative to the Supreme Lodg> for four years, which sition he ncw occupies. le at present holds the position of president-of the Pythian Building Association of St. Johnsbury, Vt. N. A. Bailey, Ve. N. Ashton Batley, supreme _representa- tive from Vermont, was born in Unity, N. H., July 18, 1847, and went to Vermont with his parents when a child, where he has since resided. He was educated in the public schools and at Willis- ton Academy. He ts connected with sev- eral fraternal orders and has represented the Grand Lodge, Knights of Honor, of Vermont at three ses- under that jurisdiction at the time. At t instituiton of the Grand of Vv an Decewber 4, 188), he wrs el a vice chancellor, and at the sesrton iu was chosen grand chancellor. At the I session of the grand lode, held in Octob 1895, he was elected supreme representat.- to serve for the ensuing four years. Wm. M. Aven, Tex. In point of serv + in the 8 aprome Lot Wm. Monroe Aven Brenham is, younger of the: ¢ representatives fre the Lone Str ate Me is a well-kno maa in b's commu ity, te active inp. ani bes belit ition of cor Je in his tor He ts a Ge rztan + birth, but his ? thian hiscory be, when he j-iael Br ham Lodge, No. Texas in 1873. Me was elected erond che cellor ia 1SS1, and supreme represeniati two years lester. FP. B. Moskina, Wis. Frank Baitey ttos- kirs was bora ia Jamestown, N.Y. forty-thoee years ago, and has lived in Wont du Lac, Wis, torty- one years. H: has held many postions in the city, county and state, but has a ways been active!y engaged in business. AC prevent he ise om- Bected with several enterrises tn end du Lac, but tne Mar- Tron Postal = Bag Rack Company, of which corporation he has been several years the prosiient, r ceives the most of his time snd attentlo. He is a 324 degree Mason, and a memb- ef the B. P. O. of Elks, but bis Lavorite « der is the Knights of Pythias. His sv ordinate lodge ts Fidelity, No. 19, Wisco: =~ of which he has been seven 3 S - “id no : iii 3 ie. z f i ceilor in J58k, and at the formation of the West Virginia bri- gade, oss green ise, was a m elected its commanding officer. F supreme | oe w. ae! representative . 1891. } sented Virginia at Supreme Lodge session held in St. Rank committee at St. Louis session 5 1s, and reappointed chairman of th same conunittee at the New Orleans sessic. in 1834. It was at the New Oricans sessic of 1884 chat the present Uni jor general, “served in that position until elected s srand chancellor of Virginia in the Supreme Lodge 184, was representative = Virginia. In mission appointed at last session of the Lodge to revise the constitution laws of the order. x Mr. Fethers at one: ent place at the Janesvil). He is known took a prominy bar. and his party during campaign gladly avails itself of his serviee as a speaker. Frank H. Clark, Wye. .