The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-12-28
TUESDAY MORNING, DEC. %.
Those Awful Aryans,
A European Emperor the Grand Com
mander.

The following amusing letter under date of
Portland, December d. appeared in the Phila-
delphia Press last Saturday:
Since the late disclosure in the columns of
the PRESS, copied into the leading journals of
the country, suspicion has taken hold of GER
tain rumors that for few years past have cir
culated in Portland, the native city of Mr..
Forsyth, ard these, our special correspondent
assures us, he has traced to the post office de-
partment OF that city. This suspicion was
due to the immense foreign correspondence of
Mr.. Forsyth upon which the arms Of European
nobility, and even of royalty were conspicuous,
while the Imperial Arms of Russia seemed to
prevail.
A few years ago Mr.. Forsyth published
pamphlet that attracted much attention, that
was called The Great Commune. In this was
mentioned the Sacred Order of the Empire,
and at the same time he had printed for Euro
pean circulation circular at B. Thurston's on
Exchange street, Portland, where our special
correspondent got his information. This cir
cular with copies of The Great Commune was
noticed as it passed through the post office on
account of being addressed to the heads of
European governments. AS a copy of the cir
cular reads at Mr.. Thurston's, it was soicita-
ton OF these governments to consider the
project OF forming an anti-Communistic Order
to be called Sacred Order of the Empire.
Since the first secret assemblage of the Ary-
an Order at Baltimore, it is understood that
one OF the three Emperors has signifed his
willingness to receive the degree of Honorary
Grand Commander of the Aryan Order Of
America.
The renewal OF the "Sacred Alliance, of the
three Emperors, which took place but short
time ago, and the new Order of the Russian
Empire recently formed, were sequences of
this Aryan doctrine of power.
New England itself, however. is one of the
most fruitful sources of aristocratic doctrine.
1t is not long ago that the Hartford Conyen.
tion attempted, with some prospect of success,
to secede and annex their respective States to
Canada, so as to be under ga congenial and high
toned Government" Then, again. as aristoc-
racy is not so much attached to wealth in New
England as to descent from either the "Pil-
grim Fathers" or some other great class of an
cestors, and as this family pride is continually
explained by genealogical registers, of which
almost every county has one-the New Eng
land Historical Genealogical Register of Bos-
ton being chlef-this family pride seeks it's
outlet in desire for family power.
The discussion this year that brought out the
doctrine of Transcendental Aristocracy, as the
New York Herald observed at the time. was
upon the character of Harmethurm. 1t was
theu and there decided that the character of
man is what he inherits as qualities from an
cestry, and that the high-born, well-groomed
man should have position his birth and quail
tiles entitled him to the same as man himself
gives to the blooded and well-groomed horse
superior to those not as he. Upon the strength
of this argument the philosophers decided that
an order should be formed upon the qualities
OF birth and blood, and that order was the
Aryan Order OF America, organized at Balti-
more, October, 1880, soon after the disbandng
OF the Concord School of Philosophy.