The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-05-18

Special correspondence of The HEIDI.
PARIS, APRIL, 24TH.
1t was with something akin 10 a
painful surprise that the Encyclical
onslaught against Free Masonry has
been received by those who have been
the most fervent admirers of the tact,
luoidity and moderation of Leo XIII.
in the difficult position made for his
theocratic ideas of government in this
realistic age, where thought, writing
speech and reunions are 30 free. To
attribute to those Satanic workmen'
the Free Masons, the authorship of
the equaliziDg or leveling tendencies
of the times, is, on the part of His
Holiness, to ignore what are really
the acting forces, and where originate
the currents OF that influence whic b
impeIs modern society and peoples.
There was time when Free Mason.
~ played political role. That was
the epoch when freedom of action
and of speech did not exist, and then
the 'lodges" became refuge for the
advocates of such liberties. Today
nothing is concealed, torIpublicity; az
for the sapsur nothing is sacred. All
is concocted in the open day. Social
istio, revolutionary, snsrchic, and
dynamite advocates, have no greater
unrelentiug opponents, than the Free
Masons. Only last week these stormy
petrels OF our civilization, were de-
nounced by the Masonic lodge of the
Saone-et,Loire, in scsthing and vigor-
GUS terms: so much so that Leo XIII.
himself might have signed that an
athena. And the revolutionists who
have an hereditary. 6hylock hate.
against the masons, are also the most
Incorporating foes OF every church
and every creed.
His Holines in signaling out Free
Masonry as the disturbing agent of
the eyolutions of society, unconsci-
ously imparts to it an Importance to
wbcih it can lay no claim. Its history,
sinceits birth. realIyiabout lone hund.
srd and fifty years ago. proves its cosmo.
poIitan, non-political and non. sectars
ian character. The late Pope Piu-
TX. was, when simply "youDg Mas
tut" brother of the mystic tie, mon
archs, princes. dlgnitaries of the
church even, did not disdain t. tie on
their Masonic aprons. The royal
families of England, Prussia, and
the Netherlands, have ever contribute
ed members to the craft. Louis XVI,
Louis XVIII. Charles TX. the Nap
oleons I. and Ill, Louis Philippe l.,
Leopold l. OF Belgium, and Abd-el-
Kader, were Free and Accepted Ma
sens. And the unexlcusive character
of Masonry may be iu 'ged flom the
following samples of membership
Prince Charles Edward Stewart, who
founded lodge st..Arras. Washington,
Berger, franklin, the Lafayettes,
Laplace, Voltsire, Gambetta, Jules
Ferry. the Able .Sieyes, Paul Jones,
Hoohe, Nelson, Meyerbeer, Tom
Paine, Humboldt. Mirabeau, Or. Gull.
lotine, who did not invent but recon-
mended the adoption of that instru-
ment, Cambria, Jules Favre, Marsha
Csnrobert. Danton. Mas-Ssina, Ber-
nsdotte, Marshal SAKE, Go. Such
personsges represent opinions as
diverse as their social standing.
Fauverty said, Free Maosnary was
q universal religion: it would be more
ascurate to describe it, cosmopoli-
tan club, where night good fellows
meet for conrivial ends, supplement-
ed Joy charitable works; songs thst
woald delight Goethe or Burus, stories
and occasionally the discussion of
social questions, replace cards and
billiards. Free Masonry, whether
philosophical or philanthropic, open
or secret, has penetrated into sill
countries of the globe, with the spirit
of progress.and liberty Of the.eighteen-
tn century. It has for sim, the moral
and material ameliorstion OF man;
tor principles. the laws OF human
progress; for ideas, federation, fraterD-
ity, snd liberty, without distinction
OF religious faiths. political creeds,
hationalities or social distinctions. 1t
is the friend Of the rich and poor,
only exacting. that they be viltu-
GUS.
The Grand Orient, which is the
grand lodge of France, has had a
chequered career. It's foundation was
laid in 1925. Dy Lord Derwentwater;
but the 6rss lodge in France, and
which was at the same time the fret
on the continent. was organized at
Dunkirk. in 1921, by the same noble
man. Indeed Free Masonry is an
essentially English institution, and
was propsgated throughout .he world
by the British nobility. The Grand
Orient excluded no candidate on &C.
count of his creed. SO that Helvetiu,
the msterialist, and Lalsnde the
atheist, could accept the formulas.
Initiating Plato, the divinity was CALI
ed the "Grsnd Architect" leaving to
each to interpret Interpretation. fol.
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