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Masonry In South America.

MASONRY IN SOUTH AMERICA .

An Address delivered by Bro . S . 0 . Thatcher , at the Semi-Annual Reunion of the members of Lawrence Lodge , No . 6 , held on Monday evening , the 12 th July 1886 .

I AM here to-night more particularly to pay my respects , together with the brethren of the Lodges represented , to the head of the Order in our State . I am sure we may congratulate ourselves on the presence of so distinguished a Mason , and with the rest of you I may express my gratiflcation at the interesting remarks which the Most Worshipful Grand Master has just addressed to us , and I trust that their significance may not be lost npou any nf ns .

The Most Worshipful Master has asked me to say some , thing to you touching the relations of our Order to civil and religious progress in the different countries of South America .

The splendour which marked the rule of tho Spaniard through Central and South America was founded upon the rnins of civilizations nearly if not quite as advanced as that which succeeded them . The cultivation of fruits , the development of the mines , the growth of cities and towns ,

and the orderly procedure and progress in the ordinary life of the Indian toiler , have been dwelt npon with profound interest by the fascinating pen of Prescott . The vast wealth which lured the invader from Castile and Leon to the Altos of Mexico , Guatemala , and Peru , can hardly be estimated even by this progressive age . The silver mine at

rotosi in old Peru , now Bolivia , yielded over one thousand million of dollars during the centuries of Spanish rule , and the mine is yet unexhausted .

As one looks at the great cathedrals , temples , public bu'ldings , and palaces which the Spaniard erected in all the countries he seized upon , he is astonished at the vast wealth the invader found there ; for , within a few years , and in some cases , even months after the subjection of the

Indian natives , we find Pizarro , Cortez , Valdivia and other chieftains , erecting structures dedicated to religious and public uses of a magnificence and decoration such as to rivet

the eyes ot the beholder even to-day . Pizarro laid the foundation of a great cathedral at Lima , walking from his palace to the corner stone on bricks of silver . And the great silver mines of Cerro de Pasco , which lie on the

eastern slopes of the Andes , something over a hundred miles from Lima , with the rude appliances of the Indians for mining , apparently nothing more than a crow-bar , a ladder of notched pole 3 runniner down to the ore . and a

raw-hide bag to carry the precious mineral to the surface , had yielded when freedom from the Spanish yoke was achieved hundreds of millions of dollars , and even to-day these mines furnish to the mint at Lima nearly 1 , 200 , 000 dols . annually .

A new and strange civilization followed the rule of the Spaniard in Latin America . The love of religion and of gold , avarice and superstition , were the inspiring motives which brought the hordes of adventurers from Seville , Cfidiz

and other large centres in the old country to the rich regions of Peru and Guatemala . Cruelty , avarice and the wanton destruction of the peaceful industries of the land , characterized the settlement of the invader . He planted

his towns , amid the groans and cries and destruction of the peaceful Indians , and in a few years the great accumulations of wealth , the wonderful palaces built by the Incas , their magnificent temples whose domes glittered with burnished gold , were well nigh destroyed .

But a strange type of character grew up amid these surroundings . The Spaniards and the better cksse * among the Indians , and finally Indians themselves , amalgamated ,

and the Guacho , the Peon , the cow-boy in those great regions , was tbe result . The new race of labourers was less patient , lees economical and more ferocious than the