St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-18

QudftSTS Ill private DOdTuluS HOuS6 III
the west end of the city, and on Tues
day had printed at one of the local job
offices card which bore the following
inscription:
DIR. OTTO Won HILDREN.
BERLIN. GERMANY.
Supreme Knight of the Order of the
Golden Star.
P. o. Address.
General Delivery,
St Paul, MINI"
The cards were mailed Cd Tuesday
afternoon to a number of prominent
citizens, and with them small circular.
inviting scrutiny and study OF the
methods, principles and operations of
Older of the Golden Star. Inquiry on
my part as TO what the order was,
where it originated, and how it existed,
failed to reveal any one in ST. Paul hav-
ing knowledge of it, except the mys-
terious doctor himself. To MIN L went.
intent on becoming Golden Star my
self, if necessary it was to be one of
those celestial bodies. [ had
much difficulty in placing his
whereabouts, and much more difficulty
afterwards in persuading him to reveal
his secret. He was suave and cour-
teous, but silent. until l had partially
convinced him that my purposes were
sincere and conducted strictly on the
news basis. There was about the man,
in his graceful carriage, slightly foreign
accent and elegant dress. nothing sug-
gestive of the crank or fanatic. He
talked with fiuency, and an earnestness
and enthusiasm that left little doubt as
to his opinion of his own theory. He
lounged back in an easy chair, and blew
a cloud of smoke from his cigar into the
air as he began to talk. He said at first:
THE Order of the Golden Star orig
mated by myself, and first instituted in
several select social circles in Germany,
then carried into the English speaking
circles of Japan. where l spent two
years some time ago, and now brought
to America, has for its basis the princl-
pie that all men and women are equal,
and that the greatest degree of hap
pineSs is to be secured by their active
cooperation together on an equal
plane. While the order contains
some of the principles of your Amer
lean Oneida community. think that its
serious defects have been avoided, and
that the thousand members now of the
Golden Star order are living happy and
contented and more profitable lives than
under any other form of organized so
ciety. From long course OF phllOSoptl-
ical study in my younger years was
led to abandon the mercantile business
in which | was engaged and to give up
number of years to the study of socI-
OIogy on the continent, in both howell
and palace in Asia, especially in India
among the HindoOS, and finally in
your own country. From these studies
| reached certain conclusions upon
which l founded this order, and which
am now seeking to propagate. Let me
say at the outset that this is not |
mOney-making scheme for myself. L
bear my own expenses. and the only
money that comes into the order IN any
shape or form is used for the printing
and distributing of matter relating to
the order. No, there has not been much
said about us in the newspapers.
1t is kind of notoriety we are not par
ticularly DESTROYS OF.
1.-The first principle of the order is for
the adjustment of the present system
of marriage, which l and my brother
members believe to be one of the great
est curses resting upon society to-day.
BY that | do not mean that we intend to
inaugurate loose and vicious system
Ol love. DuL IdlutI " pIOpo-dIC dIu
perpetuate the doctrine of natural Sc
lection and the affinity of soul to soul.
We hold in our order after one has be-
come member of it, that he or she
cannot marry without that OF
der, and that their selection must
be some member within its circle. This
selection is to be based upon the phys
ical and mental fitness of each other
and a mutual agreement and under.
standing after probationary period of
six months. that they will be one to each
other as long as harmony continues. We
do not permit divorce where inharmOny
is discovered between couple. We in
quire closely into the causes of the
trouble, and if there is no reasonable
nor rational probability of the two
remaining together and there Is
every reason why they should sep
arate. then the bond we have united
them with is amicably dissolved. They
remain members of the order, each goes
his or her own way, and If there be
children they are cared for by system
we have which raises and educates
them, and starts them in the world with
a trade or profession, and infinitely
more honored than the children of d.
yorced couples of modern society are"
But. Doctor" timidly suggested,
lis not that Z0laism par excellence
morality without chemise on?'
NO" he replied with emphasis ''for
we do all that we can to promote bodily
and mental purity. All that we read,
all that we write. all that we attempt to
act aims from the beginning as being
about a natural, and not an immoral
state of society. With US a spade is
spade, and a leg leg: and filth is filth,
and so condemned. We confess in the
very first articles of faith of our order
that men and women are gifted with
natural desires, endowed with natural
organs and intended to lead natural
lives. Our work is to destroy the
false and artificial. In attacking
the marriage system of to-day our pro-
testis against the unequal mating of
men and women: their irrevocable
union or their divorcement without in
quiry or study of the fault. We SUBJ
stitute for it-no code of church or law,
but the binding force of social union
by which no step is taken without
thought, inquiry and careful prepara-
ton. | cannot say as much of this as
| might, for necessarily part of our
system is secret and revealed only to-
the initiated"
Your members then, when desiring
to mate, avoid church and law? Is not
that awkward at times?"
''They neither go near nor flee from
the church or the law, and yet are
united. They remain in good standing
in any class of society, and forfeit no
ties of respect. l cannot say more on
that
what has been your success?"
''We have thousand members now.
located in Germany, Japan and En-
gland, a few in New York city and
quite number in Chicago. Our method
Of propaganda is SLOW, but persistent.
We seek no rapid conversions. No one
of either sex is admitted under sixteen
he admitted The hadpe of the nrdar ir