St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-17
EXPOSING A FRAUD.

A Circular from the Thirty Third Degree
Grand Commander Denounces the Netc
Thirty Third as Spurious.
The readers Of the GLOBE will remember that
about month ago thirty third degree council
of Masons was erected here, supplemented with
a banquet at Lyndale. The following circular
has an especial significance in connection there
with:
House of the Temple Of the Supreme Council of
the Thirty-T Third Degree OF the A. & A..
Scottish Rite, for the Southern Jurisdiction,
A. s. A., 43S Third Street N. W., at the Or.
of Washington, District of Columbia, the 1st
day of July, 1884, c.. E..
Master Masons who are inclined to permit
themselves, anywhere in the United States. to
be cajoled into receiving what are pretended to
be the degrees of the ancient and accepted Scot
fish rite, from either OF the two iegitimate and
spurious bodies holding themselves out to the
world as supreme councils Of the thirty third
degree, and calling themselves sCerneau coun
CHS, in New York. Of one of Which William ii.
Peckham sports the title of Sow. grand com
mander, and of the other, Edward A. Atwood, of
Connecticut, are warned that if they should be
entrapped, and should afterwards apply for Zee
ognition to any legitimate body of the rite in the
world, they would be unceremoniously repulsed
as imposters; that there are twenty-five regular
supreme councils in the world, not one of which
recognizes either OF those two spurious groups,
whose degrees and titles and diplomas are alike
worthless; aud that all the other regular
preme councils in the world recognize and cor
respond with, as the only regular supreme coun-
ellis in the United States, those in the southern
jurisdiction of the United States at Charleston,
and for the northern jurisdiction of the United
States at Boston.
This supreme council has published works, that
are within the reach of all honest inuurers after
TRUTH thoroughly exposing the shameless false
hoods upon which cerneauism lives, and demon
strating its utter illegitimacy and spuriousness.
These may be had off our inspectors and depu-
ties, without charge, by any worthy Master
Mason
But they are not given, nor is this notice intend
ed for, those who have not taken service under
either flag of imposture. II they like the posi-
ton they are in, they are welcome to play, to
their hearts content. at their bogus Scottish Mas
onry, call themselves by titles that they will by
and by be ashamed of,wear jewels that are badges
of imposture and fraud and rejoice in the pos
session OF diplomas as worthless as forged pa
tents of italian nobility or bogus medical diplo-
mas bought in Philadelphia.
If they go abroad they will be wise to leave all
that at home, lest they should thereby be found
ont. For to exhibit such diplomas in some
other countries, would create doubts of their res
probability and place them in position, in the
timation Of masons, that they would find it I'M
pleasant to occupy Masons are not very toler-
ant of such shams in other countries; and they
will find their names known everywhere.
ALBERT PIKE, 80 . Grand Commander.
WIN. NJ. IRELAND, SO Q, Secy. General
To ROBERT s. INNEs Inspector General, Mime
apolis, MINI.