Squabbles Among Scotch Riters.

almost as much as he did Clinton , and who had a nice little boom that he wanted to get up for himself . His ( the opponent ' s ) name was Richard Riker , ' Dicky Riker ' everybody called him , and a good fellow he was too , and a smart one also .

" Well ! Riker , who was then Attorney General of New York State , determined to get up his own Masonic Lodge or Order , so he started a species of Mason factory . He got

hold of a Hebrew schoolmaster in New York , viz ., Abraham Jacobs , who was up in Masonry , and induced him to start a ' Sublime Grand Lodge , composed of any number of old Tammany Hall politicians , who knew as

much about Masonry as they did about astronomy , but who were for Tammany , Dicky Riker , and thomselves every time . " Riker thought that by this ' Sublime Grand Lodgo ' he

had euchered Mulligan and his ' Triple Alliance , ' * but he did not , for Mulligan played one trump card that completely wound Riker up . He came out with a manifesto

to Masons , in which he showed what happened just by his dumb luck to be really true—that Jacobs , the Hebrew Mason , whom Riker had got to start his Lodge , did not stand as high in the Order as Cerneau , the French Mason

who had started the concern which Mulligan had captured . He also showed that Cerneau had a right to start a Lodge , while Jacobs , according to Masonic usage , had not . In short , Mulligan showed that from a Masonic standpoint of

view Riker ' s concern was bogus , while his own was genuine . And , as of course , the political depended for its success on the Masonic—when the latter was dropped out

the former fell through . So Dick Riker ' s Sublime Grand Lodge and Tammany Hall got a black eye , while Mulligan and Clinton held ou to the ' Triple Alliance , ' which served to hold them up . "

I have already said that each Scotch Rite faction claimed pure and unadulterated legitimacy , while it condemned its opponents as bogus , illegitimate , & c . Now , I know not whether Jacobs was a Thirty-thirder when he started his

concern in New York , but on the other hand Cerneau ' s legitimacy was also denied . Thus I find in document 17 in Folger ' s History of the Scotch Rite , dated September

1813 , that Emanuel De La Motta , a Charleston High Degree luminary , after a preamble in the usual Scotch Rite style , goes on to

say" Be it known and remembered , therefore , that by and in virtue of my high power , rights and prerogatives as a lawful Grand Inspector General of the Thirty-third Degree in the United States of America . I do hereby publish and

declare to the whole world , as well as in my own name , and * * * * at the special request of my Supreme Council in Charleston , South Carolina , the aforesaid Joseph

Cerneau * * * as an impostor of the first magnitude , & c . In short , De La Motta was positive that Cerneau was not a thirty-third at all . Bro . Albert Pike is ready to swear up and down to the truth of Da La Motta ' s opinion ,

and even Bro . Daniel Sickles & c , who was originally thirtythirded in a Cerneau concern in New York , frankly admitted to the above opinion . But on the other hand the Cerneauites also swear up and down that De La Motta was an impostor , and that Pike is illegitimate and bogus . Indeed , they even assert that Pike himself does not know

when he was sublimed into a Thirty-thirder . Such being the case we may well ask" Who is to decide when the learned disagree ?" BOSTON , U . S ., 7 th Sept . 1888 .

Woman In Freemasonry.

WOMAN IN FREEMASONRY .

WOMAN is excluded from the benefits of Freemasonry . She is not recognieed in all its arrangements . Can that be good which excludes from its enclosure the wife of our bosom , the mother of our reverence — tbe sister and daughter of our affection ? And this is gravely urged as if it was true , while nothing can be further from tbe fact . What , woman deprived of tbe benefits of

Freemasonry r When was this oruel edict given forth ? What council of our Fraternity has been assembled to remove a Landmark that has stood for ages , in the sight of every Mason ' s eye , and beyond the power of the highest Mason to remove . If this charge is sustained

—if proof be brought home to the Craft that woman is deprived of its advantages , I renounce my allegiance to the Craft , strip myself of the decorations which I have earned with almost seven lustres of service , and own myself no longer a Mason . Or , perhaps in the dark ages from which the Craft is just now ( A . D . 1847 ) emerging , tbe

Woman In Freemasonry.

evil found its way into the Lodge of this seotion of the country and the Freemasons in the jurisdiction of the Grand Master of the State of Virginia deny to woman the bonefits of Freemasonry . If so , I have authority to declare that your Lodges are out of order and have placed themselves beyond all fellowship with the rest of the

Craft . Woman , indeed , without the benefits of Masonry ! The mother , the wife , the sister , the daughter and orphan child of either sex whose delicacy and innocence make him like woman , why these are they for whose advantage the Lodges stand ! The Brother of the Craft may not command the benefits without ample proof not only of

his Masonry , but of his fair standing with the Brethren—but woman comes and claims , and soarcely need she present the proof of her relationship with a Mason ! For her , the fund is poured out—for her , the advice is ready—in her presence inquiry almost ceases . The passions themselves are hushed , and Masonry becomes the guide , the

friend of woman , her refuge in distress , the guardian of her purity and the champion of her fame . But woman is not admitted to the rites of the Craft . The rites of Masonry are appropriated to the charactor and uses of the Fraternity , They come to us through centuries that have seen changes in all else

but have wrought none in these . Let the woman who would com « plain at being exoludod from the rites of Freemasonry first inquire whethor she comprehends those rites , and let her be assured that the husband , the father , tho brother and the friend could find no pleasure in excluding woman from any associations to which her charms could

give attraction , or in which the delicacy of her sex would find appropriate exercise . Let woman be assured that man , whether Mason or uninitiated , prizes too highly the pleasures of her intercourse to debar himself from the enjoyment whenever the gratification can be possessed without a sacrifice of what is most lovely in her sex .

The exolusion of woman from what by its character or by divine appointment seems inconsistent with the peculiar delioaoy of her condition , and the elevated position to which she was evidently designed is not new , nor peculiar to Freemasonry . The Hebrew ohurcb scarcelv allowed woman to be present at much of the public

worship of the Temple , and now when the sacrifice has ceased and the Holy of Holies is closed , woman is admitted to no share in the services of the Synagogue , and is only allowed to be present in some confined nook where she seems to occnpy a place between man and his now unpermitted sacrifice , rather than the position between man

and tho objects of his prayers . St . Paul himself with celibetio asceticism says , '' I suffer not a woman to teach "—Freemasonry , bowing to all that is of authority in the Christian rule , places woman where she may teach by her beautiful example and shine in the

lustre of her feminine virtues . It imposes upon hor neither the labour nor the secrets of the Craft , but it makes each Craftsman the willing labourer for her comfort , and the dispenser of the mysteries in her behalf .

In the foundation of the Craft in the dark centuries , in the vory twilight of civilisation , when woman was the sport of man ' s passions and the slave of his convenience , then Freemasonry recognised not only her claims upon man ' s highest earthly consideration , but it incorporated her name and her condition in its ritual , and connected the

most solemn duties of its members with her comfort , her elevation , her honour , her purity . And never , from that distant time to this day , have Masons assembled to dispense their mysteries that woman ' s highest and holiest qualifications have not been regarded as the true

characteristics of her sex , and her tenderest , purest relations with man , made the grounds of her irresistible claims upon the affections , sympathy , aid and self-sacrifice of the Craft . Enshrined in the Mason ' s highest affections he treasures the image of her virtues as the object for

private devotion . The things that he estimates as the ordinary property of life , he exposes to ordinary gaze , but he hides from inspection the particular treasure of his soul , as Rachel , the wife of Jacob , saw the flocks and herds that constituted the wealth of herself and

her husband exposed to the gaze and cupidity of the grasping Laban , while the sacred treasures of her maiden life , the household gods of her idolatry , she had hidden away as the precious things of her heart . —Keystone .

We hear that a new Lodge is about to be established in the suburb of Fairfield . The brethren who have interested themselves in this matter consist of Bros . Thomas Clarke , T . Verdon , Bradley , Parkinson , Barrett , Hunter , Smythe , Neale , Tarbuck , Hassell , Hudson , Humphreys , Thomas

Saxon , A . Wright , & c . These names augur well for the ultimate success of the scheme , coupled with the fact that it has the cordial approval of the Provincial Grand Secretary , Bro . Goodacre , and judging from the promises

already in the hands of the promoters it will add greatly to the strength of the Masonic Fraternity in the Province of West Lancashire . Suitable premises have already been secured for the holding of the meetings of the proposed Lodge .

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