Christian Cynosure . ing atithoritiesare to prevail. A. B. C, Some men are like an alarm clock;they are the noisiest things about thehouse, and are most in their element other people. POLITICAL MASONRY IN FRANCE. After an exceedingly stormy debate inthe French Chamber of Deputies the gov-ernment escaped defeat by four votesonly. The Minister of War, GeneralAndre, has been compelled to resign. Theprincipal charges against him were fa-voring officers whose politics coincidedwith the governments, stopping the pro-motion of those suspected of clerical orconservative tendencies, org
Christian Cynosure . ing atithoritiesare to prevail. A. B. C, Some men are like an alarm clock;they are the noisiest things about thehouse, and are most in their element other people. POLITICAL MASONRY IN FRANCE. After an exceedingly stormy debate inthe French Chamber of Deputies the gov-ernment escaped defeat by four votesonly. The Minister of War, GeneralAndre, has been compelled to resign. Theprincipal charges against him were fa-voring officers whose politics coincidedwith the governments, stopping the pro-motion of those suspected of clerical orconservative tendencies, organizing system of spying upon the pri-vate lives of officers, and encouraging of-ficers to act as informers. Masonrys Hand. These charges were made the subject of an interpellatiou by Lieutenant Colo-nel Rousset, who read correspondence al-leged to have passed between a confiden-tial subordinate of the minister and theheads of Masonic lodges, on the subjectof the promotion or disgrace of EDMOND RONAYNE,Past Master, Keystone Lodge, No. 639, Chi-cago. MASONIC OATHS. BY EDMOND RONAYNE. The members of four societies that weknow of—the Mafia or Black Hand, theHighbinders, the Orange and the Ma-sonic Order—^are sworn under death pen-alties. The Mafia aijd Highbinders, be-ing criminal associations in dharacter andpurpose, might endeavor to excuse thefact of swearing their members underpenalties of death in case any of themturned traitor. The Orange institutionat its organization, about one hundredyears ago, in the north of Ireland, mightalso be excused for the oath and deathpenalty of the Royal Arch Purple degree,its members being handed togetiier iordefense and self-protection ag-ainst the at-tacks of their Roman Catholic neighborsin Ulster; but whaJt excuse can a Free-mason offer for the illegal and fearfuloaths and death penalties under which December, 3904. CHRISTIAN GYNOSURE. 23,- every candidate must be sworn when be-ing initiated into its diff
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