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Appointment Of Grand Officers.
APPOINTMENT OF GRAND OFFICERS .
There is no more indefeasible right than that of the public journalist to criticise , and , if needs be / condemn the acts of public men . In pur capacity , as Masonic j ^ always have , and we alvva ; y £ will maintain that riglit . The press , the great medium of comhiunication between man and man , is , if rightly used , of incalculable advantage to the community at large . We have felt it our duty heretofore to criticise the acts of our Grand Master and of his executive j ] we may have occasion to do so again , and we shall boldly
maintain that right , which we believe no honest Mason will deny to us . Whatever may have been the previous history of this journal when it was tinder other management , no one can say that during the period it has been conducted by us , its reports have not been fair and truthful , its conclusions free from invective or party spirit .
The right of criticism being granted , it remains that it should be kept within the fair and legitimate limits which , truth and good taste demand . "We-are led into these remarks by the proceedings which took place at the last Grand Lodge . The Grand M . aster ( a report of whose speech will be found in another page ) read fco the Grand Lodge the following sentences from the last number ofthe Masonic Observer , a paper of recent origin , and issued under tlie auspices of certain
members of Grand Lodge : — " We had occasion this time last year to draw attention to the unblushing effrontery witli which the principal appointments in Grand Lodge were prostituted to political purposes ; we are sorry to be compelled to recur to this very scandalous subject . Now , no charge could be much more offensive to a gentleman and a Mason than this : it is tantamount to a charge of violation , of his
obligation ; and as we must agree in the opinion expressed "by the Grand Master that , if true , he is utterly unfit to remain in his office another hour , so must we also admit that , if untrue , he has a right , both as a man and a Mason , to claim the protection of his Brethren . No one who knows anything of his lordship ) would be imposed , upon by such a statement—we dp not believe that the writer himself credited it—it only affords evidence of the length to which party spirit will go in distorting sober judgment . 1 % was not uunatural , then , that YOlu Y « . % P
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Appointment Of Grand Officers.
APPOINTMENT OF GRAND OFFICERS .
There is no more indefeasible right than that of the public journalist to criticise , and , if needs be / condemn the acts of public men . In pur capacity , as Masonic j ^ always have , and we alvva ; y £ will maintain that riglit . The press , the great medium of comhiunication between man and man , is , if rightly used , of incalculable advantage to the community at large . We have felt it our duty heretofore to criticise the acts of our Grand Master and of his executive j ] we may have occasion to do so again , and we shall boldly
maintain that right , which we believe no honest Mason will deny to us . Whatever may have been the previous history of this journal when it was tinder other management , no one can say that during the period it has been conducted by us , its reports have not been fair and truthful , its conclusions free from invective or party spirit .
The right of criticism being granted , it remains that it should be kept within the fair and legitimate limits which , truth and good taste demand . "We-are led into these remarks by the proceedings which took place at the last Grand Lodge . The Grand M . aster ( a report of whose speech will be found in another page ) read fco the Grand Lodge the following sentences from the last number ofthe Masonic Observer , a paper of recent origin , and issued under tlie auspices of certain
members of Grand Lodge : — " We had occasion this time last year to draw attention to the unblushing effrontery witli which the principal appointments in Grand Lodge were prostituted to political purposes ; we are sorry to be compelled to recur to this very scandalous subject . Now , no charge could be much more offensive to a gentleman and a Mason than this : it is tantamount to a charge of violation , of his
obligation ; and as we must agree in the opinion expressed "by the Grand Master that , if true , he is utterly unfit to remain in his office another hour , so must we also admit that , if untrue , he has a right , both as a man and a Mason , to claim the protection of his Brethren . No one who knows anything of his lordship ) would be imposed , upon by such a statement—we dp not believe that the writer himself credited it—it only affords evidence of the length to which party spirit will go in distorting sober judgment . 1 % was not uunatural , then , that YOlu Y « . % P