The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-12-01
The Masonic Goat.

The Springfield Republican thus humor-
ously mentions the anti-secret convention
held at Chicago last week:
1t if mysteriously ordained that there
shall never lack people to fill up unneces-
sary societies. Undoubtedly if there should
be announced, tomorrow, a society (, L the
incubation of vegetarianism among the
Esquimaux, or for the prevention of nictco-
ric showers, persons would promptly come
forward, sign the constitution and bylaws,
elect president and secretary, impose
quarterly tax OF twenty-five cents on each
member, indulge in hours of unpremeditat-
ed fiery eloqusnce. and provide for the I'M
mediate issue of tracts for the enlighten-
ment of the world on the vital point at is
sue. One of these incredible organizations
has just got through with convention at
Chicago. 1t is the anti-secret society asso-
citation, and its burden was the essential
ing the ghost of the lamented Morgan to
read their utterances. They lifted the veil
from the lodge-room, and showed worse
sight than met the eyes of Tam O'Shanter
as he viewed the warlock revel at Kirk
Alloway.
"Jubila, Jubilo, Jubilum," the sacred
words which Solomon uttered as he bullded
the temple-it being matter of notoriety
that Solomon spoke Latin, though he
reigned centuries before Rome was-are
the shrieks of the brethren as they prepare
for the initiation. Clergymen are led into
the lodge-room with ropes about their
necks, one shoe off and the other on, and
in a very indecorous costume. Human
skulls are used in the libations of sacrament
tai wine. The candidates are threatened
with throat cutting, and should Mason, in
inebriate or idotic moments, betray Sc
cret of the order to his wife, the threat is
carried out, beside which his tongue is torn
out, his heart cut away, he is disembowel-
ed, burned to ashes, and his ashes scattered
to the four winds of heaven. The injuri-
GUS and contumelious treatment was SOL
EMMY alleged to have been the known fate
of traitors in actual instances.
1t is not one of the least curious features
of this amusing convention, that the men,
bers fairly outdid the most earnest Masons
in their awestruck accounts of the hOary
antiquity of the Order 1t was Buddhist,
it was Confucian, it was as old as the pyra-
mids, it was legacy OF the worship of Isis;
and as for Solomon and his friend, Hiram
of Tyre, no brother of the mystic tie ever
felt more deeply their close connection
with the order than these, its deadly foes.
The existence of this heathenish institution,
they concluded, is an insult to Christianity,
menace to free government, and, in
short, "a volcano charged with furious and
fatal fires.
The eminent christians and highly re-
spectacle citizens who have been deluded
into this pcrnicious society will no doubt
make haste to fOrswear ii, when they learn
of these horrible characteristics when
they know that "the impunity Of grea,
criminals, the reign of terror in the South,
and the UNPUBLISHED murders of the last ten
years are due to its influence. We regret,
however, to carry grief TO the new and no
bic order OF Changers, by the information
that they are giving pes,ilence aid ard com,
fort to such wicked society as the Masons,
and are therefore TO be viewed us highly
Objectionable by all true christian philan
thropists. Bur there is no help for it. The
Changers likewise are doomed.