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tongued adventurers , who speak of paupers , and mean themselves ? As for the latter , " happy go lucky , " we will have nothing to do with them . But then , again , the thing proposed . The Workhouse people say , " Wc will have a Workhouse . " And why?—1 . Because it will be a job for ourselves ; 2 . The Grand Master sanctions it ; 3 . The subscribers have given their money upon the faith of it ; 4 . The Annuities granted prove its utility ; 5 . We will have a Workhouse , because wc will have a Workhouse ; and 6 . O lovers of truth ! because an Annuity scheme would peril the other charities .
To which we answer—1 . Your first reason is enough to disgust us ; 2 . The Grand Master never did sanction it ; 3 . Many subscribers never did , and never would have put down a farthing for a brick-and-mortar-workhouse job had they known it ; 4 . The utilitity of the Annuities only proves the correctness of His Royal Highness ' s views ; 5 . We do not believe that you will have a Workhouse , for the Craft
will never support it ; and 6 . A judicious Annuity scheme , so far from periling , will rather relieve and promote the other charities . So that there is no sense , but selfishness , in all those cunningly-devised resolutions , which give the lie direct to our Worshipful Grand Master , and seem to have been drawn up with a sly view of insulting him out ofthe Craft . And , really , when we compare these direct insults with the affected adulation and reverence sometimes paid to His Royal Hihnessand the mockery
g , of being " desirous of deferring to the wishes of His Royal Highness , and to the opinion of the Grand Lodge , " we scarcely know which to admire most , the insolence of the insult , the degradation of their fulsomeness , the impudence of their affected reverence , or the apathy of the Brethren who arc thus led by the nose . His Royal Highness has , with prophetic view , fully described the adverse position , as " useless expenditure "— " a waste oi" money" —and his own proposition of granting Annuities will he the amplest , best , and most
satisfactory method of relieving worthy , aged , decayed Masons , because—It will have instant operation , and not he a hope deferred . It will be most extensive in its application . It will be most easy in practice . It will be least expensive in practice . It will curtail jobbing . It will not make a prisoner of the Annuitant . It will not degrade the Annuitant . It will be well and nobly supported .
So then , we say , Hurrah for the Annuities , and no Workhouse ! In conclusion , Brethren , we have a strong suspicion that this Workhouse Question is to be made use of for political purposes . We know the peculiarity of our Masonic organization ; we know how important an instrument that organization would he for a political adventurer , seeking admission to the highest power in the Government ; and surely the deposition or resignation of His Royal Highness would ( apparently undesignedly ) make way for that adventurer . The question then is , will you be such mean and despicable animals as to pander to any man ' s personal ambition ? Perish the thought !
There remains but one course for right-minded and honourable Masons ; viz ., to move and carry the following resolutions : — " That having misunderstood the gracious intentions of His Royal
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tongued adventurers , who speak of paupers , and mean themselves ? As for the latter , " happy go lucky , " we will have nothing to do with them . But then , again , the thing proposed . The Workhouse people say , " Wc will have a Workhouse . " And why?—1 . Because it will be a job for ourselves ; 2 . The Grand Master sanctions it ; 3 . The subscribers have given their money upon the faith of it ; 4 . The Annuities granted prove its utility ; 5 . We will have a Workhouse , because wc will have a Workhouse ; and 6 . O lovers of truth ! because an Annuity scheme would peril the other charities .
To which we answer—1 . Your first reason is enough to disgust us ; 2 . The Grand Master never did sanction it ; 3 . Many subscribers never did , and never would have put down a farthing for a brick-and-mortar-workhouse job had they known it ; 4 . The utilitity of the Annuities only proves the correctness of His Royal Highness ' s views ; 5 . We do not believe that you will have a Workhouse , for the Craft
will never support it ; and 6 . A judicious Annuity scheme , so far from periling , will rather relieve and promote the other charities . So that there is no sense , but selfishness , in all those cunningly-devised resolutions , which give the lie direct to our Worshipful Grand Master , and seem to have been drawn up with a sly view of insulting him out ofthe Craft . And , really , when we compare these direct insults with the affected adulation and reverence sometimes paid to His Royal Hihnessand the mockery
g , of being " desirous of deferring to the wishes of His Royal Highness , and to the opinion of the Grand Lodge , " we scarcely know which to admire most , the insolence of the insult , the degradation of their fulsomeness , the impudence of their affected reverence , or the apathy of the Brethren who arc thus led by the nose . His Royal Highness has , with prophetic view , fully described the adverse position , as " useless expenditure "— " a waste oi" money" —and his own proposition of granting Annuities will he the amplest , best , and most
satisfactory method of relieving worthy , aged , decayed Masons , because—It will have instant operation , and not he a hope deferred . It will be most extensive in its application . It will be most easy in practice . It will be least expensive in practice . It will curtail jobbing . It will not make a prisoner of the Annuitant . It will not degrade the Annuitant . It will be well and nobly supported .
So then , we say , Hurrah for the Annuities , and no Workhouse ! In conclusion , Brethren , we have a strong suspicion that this Workhouse Question is to be made use of for political purposes . We know the peculiarity of our Masonic organization ; we know how important an instrument that organization would he for a political adventurer , seeking admission to the highest power in the Government ; and surely the deposition or resignation of His Royal Highness would ( apparently undesignedly ) make way for that adventurer . The question then is , will you be such mean and despicable animals as to pander to any man ' s personal ambition ? Perish the thought !
There remains but one course for right-minded and honourable Masons ; viz ., to move and carry the following resolutions : — " That having misunderstood the gracious intentions of His Royal