The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1882-12-30

this universalty. They represent nearly every
land under the sun. We have here Masons from
the vineyards Of sunny France, and her great
neighbor across the Rhine. Germany Old England,
whose Prince Of Wales, like our own kALAKAUA.
counts II an honor to be a Mason and the Grand
Master OF the Grand Lodge, has her representatives
Ireland, who puts her shamrock just below the
emblems Of Masonry, sits with us in the person Of
an honored brother. Coming 10 the great Republic,
there Is scarcely q State or Territory unrepresented.
Beginning at the very easternmost point Of Cape
Cod, where no one can walk for getting sand in
his Observation-Disclosures all the States,
and bringing good and true Masons from them all (;
hating in Nevada, where men never die except
with their boots on. Qaughter) President Arthur
finds a Mason whom he sends to us to represent
America at this Court even Arizona, where the
greatest living curiosity TO her inhabitants is the
camel, because he goes SO long between drinks
taughter3 10 the hr-clad mountains Of the North
Pacific, where, as Bryant tells Us,
Rolls the Oregon. and hears no sound,
Save his own dashins,"+%
Masonry spans the Continent. The Colonies meet
US on the level :" and Japan, where they do
everything backwards, and where / suppose they
confer the Masters degree first, and the Entered
Apprentices observation-disclosures us Professor
Scott and China, where everything is written up
and down, and where they write their ritual ON
their tea-boxes ~(perhaps y and crawfish through it
as best they can Qaughter) sends US our ready
writer I" Brother Brown of the ADVERTISER. And
here, from all these widely-sundered Lodges we
are met around this hospitable board in HAWAII
NEI. And it is perhaps well that we meet here and
not in Texas, for, it is said that they meet every
stranger in the Lone-star State with three ques-
tons Where did you come from % What
was your name there?'' why did You have 10
leave there p prolonged laughter. Now know
that l speak the sentiments Of every visiting
Brother when l say that we should consider such
questions as those personal, and as we have a Dep
uty-Marshal for not only inoppor-
tune, but very embarrassing (Renewed laughter
This second thought: Masonry exists world
wide because she stands for certain great ideas and
principles. She emphasizes Fraternity, and a uni
versal Brotherhood. She knows no State lines,
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condition Prince and mechanic meet as equals,
and are alike eligible to her highest honors
she bids her highest or humblest go where
he will, worldwide. not as a stranger, but
in every land he will find not only friends but
brothers. (Applause.l Masonry stands for morality.
She teaches charity, unity, honesty, integrity, tenn
perance. The man who is a Mason at heart as we'll
as in name, is a rounded, symmetrical, manly man,
standing upright before God and men, able to look
purity in the face without b%lushing, and never
drags his manhood through the slums. Like the
young man in the scripture, only 81 one thing - he
lacks to make him a perfect man." and that is
Christianity. know that many Masons are Masons
only in name, and not in life. As l look into some
Masonic ~ lives I am reminded of the witty say
ing about a fast New Yorker. 1t is said that n
young man in that city sports q seal ring on which
the ten commandments are engraved, in characters
so small that they can only be read with a micro
scope, and his friends say that he has lost his
microscope. (Laughter.D Masonic principles are
very finely engraved on some Mason's souls-and
they, too, have lost their microscopes. But all
such un-Masonic lives are not the result of, but
the want Of Masonry. Masonry has a right to ex-
list because she is a helper of men. She watches by
the bedside of her sick she stands by the grave
sside, and as she buries her dead, throwing within
the dark portals of the grave the evergreen, she
breaches immortality she turns from the grave
and takes the widow and the orphan by the hand,
and bids them be of good cheer, that they shall
never want a protector, that though the dead man
was the last of his race, his wife will find the world
full of brothers. AS long as humanity remains
what it is, and as long as Masonry is true to her
principles, she meets a felt want, she has a right to
be, and will never perish from the face of the earth.
Continued applause.)
The Orator next proposed "All Masons Existing
on the Globe" and called upon
BROTHER RoLLIN NJ. DAGGETT
to respond. which he did in the following eloquent
speech:
WoRsHIPFUL MASTERS, WARDENs AND BRETHREN:
This is indeed a goOdly assemblage Of Masons,
and l extend a %fraternal geeting TO you all. To
me this is a very interesting occasion, and so, /
doubt not, is it to you all for it is an event speaking
most eloquently, not only in the Masonic spirit here
prevailing, but in its surroundings and the varied
character and nationality of the brethren present,
of the benefcence and universally of Freemasonry;
and that universality referred to by Brother Cruzan
cannot be better expressed, perhaps, than by say
ing that it is easier to point out where it exists in
the civilized world Of to-day than where it is not to
be found, for on every continent and on almost
every habitable island are seen it's temples, wherein
are taught its religion of love, charity, obedience
to law, and those sublime virtues tending to raise
men nearer to the angels-nearer to that august
Grand Master whose seat is in the east of the
eternities, and whose love and mercy it is our duty
to emulate so far as humanity may. The occasion
also is interesting because, under the gilded
rafters of royalty and surrounded by the para
phernalia OF supreme national power, alike the
entered apprentice who has taken his first regular
step in Masonry and the advanced craftsman who
has received his final instruction in the order
alike the artizan, the mechanic, the humble toiler
who earns his bread in the sweat of his face, and
the brother in whose sceptered hand abide abund-
ance and authority-all meet here on a common
1a-a1 o1 onf nor hu fhn nlfrynh II ~ - hA.a - n
square and SO, in language Masonic, may we ever
meet, act and part. OF the antiquity OF Masonry,
nothing need be said here where so many of the
brethren are learned in the lore OF the craft but.
whether it had its origin in Assyrian or Chaldean
mystery, or, As Masons more readily believe, among
the priesthood in Israel, it assuredly embraces a
code of morals and of worship as pure and as grand
as God ever gave to mankind and he is the best
citizen of all lands as well as the best Mason who
most closely observes its precepts. The monu-
ments Of FreemasOnry are all over the world-the
grandest being the charity and social order which
its teachings have SO largely assisted in shaping,
and the lesser, but none the less interesting, being
the Masonic relics and symbolism met with in
almost every land even among the unlettered
savages, who knew not their meaning, but univer-
sally regard them with awe. A brother Mason
informed me that he had seen, near his birth
place in North Carolina, on q PERCEPTIONS cliff hun
dreds of feet above the earth and far below its but
ting summit, a large Masonic symbol cut or paint
ed upon the face of the rocks. 1t consisted of the
all-seeing eye, square and compass, and how il
came there no man knows; and aboriginal tradi-
ton failed to solve the mystery. 1t was seen by
the white settlers there, and the Indians said tina
many years in the past, their fathers saw it when
they came. This would seem to add weight to the
assumption Of Major Noah and others that por.
tions OF the lost tribes of Israel were among the
people who were successfully landed in the New
World from Asia, and in turn were overwhelmed.
1t may be interesting to the brethren to learn
that a crude Masonry exists among many Of the
Indian tribes Of the great west Of the United
States. It is confined to the chiefs and sub-chiefs
Of the tribes where it exists. and the Master Of q
Lodge in Grass Valley, California, informed me
some years ago, that wEile crossing the western
plains he had visited a lodge and witnessed the
work Of these Red Masons. When Masonry was
first introduced among them, the Indians do not
seem to know, but such Of its obliga.
tons as are understood by them are observed
with rigid fidelity. There is one Masonic sign
and the ladies present will not be benefited by the
information-which would be apt to find recogni
ton among one or more of any considerable body
OF Indians from British Columbia to Mexico, and
through its Opportune exhibition the lives Of white
Masons have frequently been spared. One well
authenticated case is that Of Hon. Albert Hires
late Master of Virginia Lodge No. 3, Of Nevada,
Some years ago a train Of which he was a member
was attacked by Indians in New Mexico. He was
recognized when wounded and in the act of beinn