The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1890-09-12
people delight to welcome to their
EVENING SESSION.

Lodge through to completion, aspecialses
sion was held Tuesday night, which LASTED
until after one O'Clock Wednesday morn
ing. The only business transacted wa
the election of Grand Lodge officers fol
the ensuing year, and over these there
was strong though friendly contest
The election resulted:
Grand CHANCELLOR. P. Hunt, Man
kato.
Grand Vice Chancellor-F. E. Wheat
on, Minneapolis.
Grand Prelate-J. c. Hennig, Still
water.
Grand K. R. S.-Grier M. Orr, st
Paul.
Grand Master Exchequer-A. G. God
frey, Minneapolis.
Grand Master at Arms-W A. Cunning
ham, Winona.
Grand Inner Guard-Lewis Hall, Min
neapolis.
Grand Outer Guard-Jno. J. Preston
Morehead.
Grand Trustee-Chas. s. Bradt, st
Paul.
The exhibition and competitive drill
took place on Broad street, between
Hickory and jackson. at 1900 O'Clock
Wednesday. Through unforeseen circum
stances only one division drilled, and i
was allowed to do so early in the day il
order that the members might return
home to Minneapolis on the afternoon
train. The prizes were awarded a
banquet hall in the evening.
THE ADDRESSES.
Judge Severance's address of vel
come to the Grand Lodge YESTERDAY
forenoon was as follows:
Grand Lodge of the Knights of Pyth
las for the State of Minnesota.
Unexpectedly and in the absence o
the Chief Executive Officer of this CITY
and by request, it devolves upon me t
represent him and welcome you in be
half of the City of Mankato.
It is true that the performance of sucl
duty sometimes involves nothln,
more than graceful display of publ,
etiquet but there are occasions and thi
is one where the tender of a city's hos
pitality involves the endorsement of /,
prin ciple that must underlie every pro
gressive civilization.
Knlghthood In whatever age or form
it has existed has ever been the syno
nym OF chivalry and the arbiter between
the weak and the strong, but more thar
that, it has been the nursery of those
higher humanities that mark tie divid
ing line between ancient and modern
civilization. The perpetuatiou of sucf
a name. though its original order may
have furled it's banners and sheathed it
sword, awakens those aspirations tina
comprehend the true purpose oflife. 1
was in the shade of the Acropoli
where Diana's Temple opened the port
ais of its matchless beauty, that one o
the Thirty Tyrants of Athens made thu
story of Damon and Pythias, that hal
ever stood as the highest revelation o
human fraternity ever given to morta
man. You have chosen to name you
order after one of those supernal exam
Piles of that brotherly devotion that hal
shot it's rays across ages of gloom t.
warm the heart of all coming genera
tons. A faint imitation even of tina
example will distinguish any body O
the worlds citizens. Physical strength
and financial power are among the glor
pulse or symmetry to national life unless
the eternal harmony of the moral forces
runs commensurate with them, direct
ing their aim and disclosing the immut
able truth that there is something bet
ter and more enduring in life than eth
er wealth or power. Notwithstanding
all our mountains of gold and bound
less political activity based on the as
err r1tI nf 1iCnnfnrncto6
should have no hope IN the life of THU
Republic, did I not see springing UP al
around me and all over the land institu
tiops not devoted to personal greed anC
selfish ambition, but to the forging O
those cables of human fraternity, tina
will not be broken by the pillows of pass
ionand rage. Who has not discovered tina
the simple announcement of immorta
lips, ITO men good will" has awakened
the only civilization worthy of our race
The crystalization of that sentiment il
the heart of all the people will alone
give the tone of health to social or pollt
ical life. Any order then, that does no
aggregate individual influence to exai
anyone to place or power, but only seeks
to give dignity and loyalty to friendship
and to scatter its fruits on every side
may be justly ranked among those insti
tutions that modify and soften the fren
zy of nation IN its wild rush to the
zenith of its power. A single dog wav
ed by kindly hand down from the
summit OF st. Bernard bearing message!
of hope to the weary and benighted, il
a better example of the duties of human
life than the founder of any scholastic
theology that can only mystify the sou
and paralyze the intellect.
Friendship, Charity and Benevolenc,
are the unfading diamonds blazing il
the escutcheon of your order, as they
are the everlasting headlights that CLEAN
along the track of all true and substan
tial progress. These elements must al
appear in the organic life of a nation
or it will be nation without con
science and without a soul. 1t is moth
ing to create a nation of heroes, but i
is everything to create nation of broth
ers. Heroes always leave a wall behinC
them, brothers the ringing Joy of peace
| would rather commit the destinies o
my country to the hands of those who's,
friendship for each other makes lif,
worth living, than TO band of heroe
with no fraternal bond.
There never was time in the histor1
of our country, when the waves tina
undermine republics ran higher thar
they do to-day. Every day Labor sum
mons Capital to the Aventine Mount
and the repetition of an ingenious fable
has lost its power to calm the pervadInI
discomfort.
Physical force isimpotent in the fact
0f thaan wQrinO nIQmanta