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The Freemasons' Quarterly Magazine And Review.
be done to prevent a repetition of similar , occurrences , that Freemasonry may gain the credit of verifying the proverb of the poet , — " Didieisse fideliter axles , Emollit mores , nee sinit esse i ' oros . "
Masonic Impostors.
MASONIC IMPOSTORS .
WE find that our American Brethren have recently been compelled to intimate , throughout the various States , that the time has arrived when it is positively necessary to take some steps to give an immediate check to the travelling vagrancy of many persons , who , either having unfortunately been admitted into the Craftor pretending to have been soare
, , making a trade of its benevolence by passing from town to town , levying contributions both upon Lodges and individual members of the Order . To so great an extent has pseudo-Masonic mendicity extended in this part of the world , that its very offensiveness is likely to prove its speedy remedy ; and doubtlessere longa systemwhich has been regularl
, , , y arranged , and is acted out in concert , will be thoroughly exposed , and broken up . The " Boston Freemasons' Monthly Magazine" for May thus alludes to the subject , under the head of " Travelling Mendicants : "•—¦
" Scarcely a month passes that we are not called on to expose the deceptions and impositions of a class of idle vagrants who are travelling about the country , hogging then- way from one town to another , by urging their necessities and claims on the Lodges or individual Brethren . Our readers in the cities and large towns can have no adequate conception of the extent to which this evil has grown within the last five years ; for the parties are usually careful to confine their operations to the smaller interior towns and villages , where they run less hazard of detection and exposure . They are , almost without exception , foreigners of the lowest class ; and , though prepared to exhibit any quantity of
diplomas , certificates , and indorsements , their Masonic pretensions are usually as doubtful as is the propriety of their claims to relief from any quarter . Tho Committee on foreign correspondence in tho Grand Lodge of North Carolina have folt this to be a serious evil in that state , where it probably exists to a much less extent than in many of the northern and western states . They refer to it as follows : — " ' There are many persons travelling in the country as Mendicant Masons , who have generally met with some severe tons or severe ajliktion , —stout , able men , capable of doing an abundance of hard work . Wc have no sympathy for such mountebanks , and no charity for them further than present food and rest .
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The Freemasons' Quarterly Magazine And Review.
be done to prevent a repetition of similar , occurrences , that Freemasonry may gain the credit of verifying the proverb of the poet , — " Didieisse fideliter axles , Emollit mores , nee sinit esse i ' oros . "
Masonic Impostors.
MASONIC IMPOSTORS .
WE find that our American Brethren have recently been compelled to intimate , throughout the various States , that the time has arrived when it is positively necessary to take some steps to give an immediate check to the travelling vagrancy of many persons , who , either having unfortunately been admitted into the Craftor pretending to have been soare
, , making a trade of its benevolence by passing from town to town , levying contributions both upon Lodges and individual members of the Order . To so great an extent has pseudo-Masonic mendicity extended in this part of the world , that its very offensiveness is likely to prove its speedy remedy ; and doubtlessere longa systemwhich has been regularl
, , , y arranged , and is acted out in concert , will be thoroughly exposed , and broken up . The " Boston Freemasons' Monthly Magazine" for May thus alludes to the subject , under the head of " Travelling Mendicants : "•—¦
" Scarcely a month passes that we are not called on to expose the deceptions and impositions of a class of idle vagrants who are travelling about the country , hogging then- way from one town to another , by urging their necessities and claims on the Lodges or individual Brethren . Our readers in the cities and large towns can have no adequate conception of the extent to which this evil has grown within the last five years ; for the parties are usually careful to confine their operations to the smaller interior towns and villages , where they run less hazard of detection and exposure . They are , almost without exception , foreigners of the lowest class ; and , though prepared to exhibit any quantity of
diplomas , certificates , and indorsements , their Masonic pretensions are usually as doubtful as is the propriety of their claims to relief from any quarter . Tho Committee on foreign correspondence in tho Grand Lodge of North Carolina have folt this to be a serious evil in that state , where it probably exists to a much less extent than in many of the northern and western states . They refer to it as follows : — " ' There are many persons travelling in the country as Mendicant Masons , who have generally met with some severe tons or severe ajliktion , —stout , able men , capable of doing an abundance of hard work . Wc have no sympathy for such mountebanks , and no charity for them further than present food and rest .