The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-04-08 00:00:00

GOOD TIMPLARY.
To ao Miter.

Sir,—ln your lame of 93th Nora opperire a letter from
&D. en the above subject I thank him very much for
hie avowal of th• principles of univorsal brotherhood, but
I cannt agree with him &I to the cause of "the Split in the
Order. Sticking to his colours lion, thing, but sticking
to a leader vivo has attercpmd to sully these colours by
Introducing class proj odic. into • world- wide organisation.
is quite another Munk I do not intend to open • c
trovenry on thia subject, but, with your permission. I will
gilre a brief hietory of the motors, not forth. benefit of
the followers of Molina. Rickman, or the Doctor with
the eery bog sense, but for the information of those who.
though not followers of are of thee. gentlemen, feel an
interest in tho conflict between humanity and jostles and
the spirit of shimmy and caste.

During the last century a slavaggle has been going
on In America between the white ran and his
coloured brother, the forret twirling bin superiority,
the Intter striving for recogrilon as the white man's equal.
hymn expected that this stregglo,wlies it err to tbeGood
Templars tarn, would be specially severe for two reason&
Funtly, that the &adamant.' princdplas of the Good
Templar organirtion is bazar brotherhood, —an equal
Invitation and equal priviss for all. Beoondly, bruise
of he lnassalag mernbup in the British Isles, where
the national f is all ea the aide of the oppressed
MO&

The Order originated Into. Northern Free State, is
UAL and remained true to pinciple until it extended its
membership to the then slime-bolding South. with per.
mission, if found neosmary, to exclude the negro. These
Southern Lodses, however, dwindled out of existence
during the Civil War. In Ilef the Supreme Lodge of the
Order emit • missionary Booth with 'infraction, to enrol
black sad white alike, and coloured subordinate lodges
were lamed in North Gendina and elsewhere. About
this time Nasitusky re-started bar defunct Greed Lodge,
rMsining tbe old excluding rule lathouirb slavery bed
be.. gad threatened to secede if this excluding
rule we. l.toth,,d with. Ibis Supreme Lodge, anxious
to retain Kentucky, effected a compromise by enacting
that a staid we. tllPriwas in Iscol legislation and had the
opUon of admitting or excluding coloured persons.
Is Ida British Representetlees drat appeared at the
session of the supreme body. and then for four jest, tits
coati's, sword to and fro, eistuelly, over the alnt.nsno.
or rupture of this e.wsrdly omprontles. At this make
the Southerners d.aand.d a law forbiding all coloured
mimosa North as well a South. from entering
tin order, and defeated in Ust, for powete to break up
the co/oured lodges already exisliog in the South, and
this lass was actually obtained by aid of the votes of the
North, which, having a majodty, always held the balance
between Britain and the Bouts ; but the British threaten-
ing separate= on that. part. cbtalned • proviso that such
expablon could only be effected iseserging to the eesetite-
tion—i , for illegal omsduct—which r 4,4.0 was, of
dowse suillaleet to protect tie coloured

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Atte; thSHIOCSS4. Ulllllolllllllflllllll celled • 0013•4111.
Mon. aad erriaesd to weeds and fern • caw " white"
ceder, wbereapea the dad ti the fiapeetne Itynentive
kneed an Add decide% sem earlatatt that Power to
Met eat gamed leder. kneed watt Ude weapon
Clelead Welases. ea ezakvesulder, et Kentucky, went
Ow* ead hareal Mite Greed Lode," which
the ilikratimal WON Iran the ogler, and ted
rye admires'.

The coloured people however witated for recognition,
and the E.W.G. Lodge meeting the following year In
England, Owed oes Ps journal of pressedinw a most
emphatic declimition of their rights. This so Warmed the
swim laden that they were wain on the Whit ef
when the newly-Mooed aid aglow guerinbmd
that no mice would be When on the ressisitienaM
the It.W.G. Lodge or its ezes.b. could not
=1 Oust
4Wilance of the 10061 negro, exelegleg action of
greed Winn
At various them the coloured people were, ualreown to
We British.. seeking airstream to the order in vain. Pro-
fessor (Mosley. • Canadian gentleman of colour, and •
(Mod Templer, was quite amble, on moving South, to
obtain or
Wedgies,
Coloured got redrew from the executive of the
B. V.O. Lease. lodges formed in Florida and
elsewhere were afterwards refined recognition, and
*delimit to accept sa Werke Order " The True
Itelormenr—which bad been founded by the prejodloed
whites in the South for the seems, who called it the
"Kitehen Order." At the MACS of 1/171, the Bntish
sad their allies moms: ally resisted an attempt to foist
this " intake. Order,' oath. patronage of the 1.0 G.T.,
yet Oolong Hirskreari, who was then chief officer, made
immediate arveegemont. for Its promulgation. But the
expelled coloured lodges la North Carolina, ea, Wooed
to disband sad join It. At ties manioc OM), or. Wells
Brown, of Boston (formerly in Yawned as • fugitive
slave) gave swim thet he would move • motion
the fellett sow that • duplicate coloured grand
Lodge f WWI Opal roproseatation with the
white Grand pe. when diversity of race prevented
united working. But ant sal, wee this motion defeated
at the seenos of 1/175; hen • melba was minted authorising
the McMillan, miniplkeetie of sap °toed Lodges, and
the cossequent =rem of Amerman voting power ms
against Britain, wham *end Lodges it had previously
bees decided be the eiewbersilp at Mese mould not be
divided. Seeing in this the lent defeat of their bows for
the coloured race,. this British made so serials • protest
that the effect of the minim was suspended for one rear
This 1875 esesioe esetirmad Mrs British representatives
Is three poines—lbetb, that nothing could be expected
for the were how Pie South and its allies; secondly,
that the British did poe.ue. • power in his behalf Is the
theme of separate.; wed thirdly, that to remain
hubion. brumedis • some implicated. Isthe
w:m
Lasetioso colour prejudice,
seimes& British boaram. At say tote this
was sad is the view taken by the imuseese majority of
the rese•bwohip in the United Liagdom The °nail
Lodge of Ragland ea
,the report of Da delegates
°gr. Males sad otheriLisiseuelyw resolved to empower
its ixamitive mike unke to the
ormilthilit of *dr neithined The otherb=seal
ekils:. the United Eingdme moaned. and milted la
resallesee to all the Grand Lodges to the world,
expl
dodec
the Deletion sad making known their
, In am of refusal by It• W.O.L. to Miatttg°
frees these who violated or were attached to MI
of lb. of the Order. This manifesto WM
by the Drina Graug r end sailer it the
;dash Benneentstives framed
_promatigi en anima.
teat at the east imegion_of the L ALL which we. then
Ile 111711) meeting Assenffsr We fear If Sesthere
The ultimates wee kwt, the votes elle with
the British being (sweet he esethet. awed 11411wwwhiwg
tr=ty of the Order. Um 0114.911111114 re=
their ILWALL ese the WA SW
thee the eishriere_ elk their 100111 !BO Irmo*
=issasieder maw spa ois Uhinal

O. the Arid sets of the rworgsmiged woe
to minion the excluded raos. It has now ere Baste Grand
Lo ism in the South, bonded tumorous subordinate Work
owns osed almost entirely but not exabialvaly of coloured
pcnions. Many thousands hare joined the Order who
were hitherto excluded, and everywhere, obis brought
to them. the coloured people show • remarkable
t oust It. benefits, their extreme poverty as a peorti
the distance of British Good Templar' from (hie rant
hil,sion.A,ld being the only obstacles Is the wet at ite
more rapid spread.
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Tie purified Order is now settled In some 70 countries
11114 Inoelk embracing upwards 01300.000 adult members,
sod 100,000 la the juvenile branch. and whmunsr. no in di*
cottons, divinity of rim sales tree witness of its
principles by admitting nil, ntgardless of rasa It is most
gratifying to 01 who I hour to elevate man (bow, white
Of tA• imam 11 Geg •sreed awarl, to know that we are
&slums ground nints In Atomic.; but is it not idiogoicS
oir it ckmanite friends that to 13 out ol thal6 ex..lare
st cas the negro*. are still excluded by tint hum:dean
section ot the Order. with the gallant (1) colonel at alai'
head?

I belong to • regimes, (non awn which Po=lana wka
the l'artlanders (and they are no mean lodge.) call a good
band : but to sweetest opera music fails to exalts within:
me the: haling aroused by that nzne-hrelourod eicala—
• •

" Rule Britannia, Britannia rules the wave.;
Britons never, never shall be slams"
Tbc British have done much to blot out slavery from the
(me of the earth, sod britlsit soldiers are ever ready to
fight for the oppressed. It is. tbereforsk • waiter to be
depkred that our Good Templar friends of the 3Sod Light
I ofantry (with the exception of about • half doses) rums
themselves on the side of men who, ender lb. flimsy
exec's, of "Deal (tread Lodges deny the benefits of the
Odor to thoomads. As well might birdies' egad •
soldier to " Oovastry • became of the colour at his mat, as
we to withold the blessiam of Wropersnos from • man
because of the colons of his tam Apologising fore. mask
lutrusion,
I remain, yours truly.
P. D. D.
Gibraltar.
Do:chestier. 31st March, 1879.