The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-08-30


tion is most satisfactory. The order
universally Is in a most prosperous
condition and the times are most
propitious tor much greater increase
during the next two years than ever
before in our history. No small
amount of friction has been engen-
dered during the past two
years, growing out OF the &C.
ton of the Kansas City session
dissolving all connection heretofore
nominally recognized as existing be-
tween the Pythlan sisters and the
supreme lodge and thereby bringing
this institution under the ban of prose
cution through its adoption of new
ritual. 1 am of the opinion that we
are in honor bound to lift the ban.
This can be done by special edict,
making en- exception so far as the
operation of the law may affect them
and letting it stand as to all its or
CARNATIONS.
Under the head of The German Ques.
| ton the supreme chancellor says: You
are confronted with an open defiant
element of malcontents who, having
violated ever principle of honor by
having taken the law in their own
hands and translating the ritual, now
have the hardihood to come before
you, reeking with treason from
head to foot, and under the guise of
loyalty ask you to grant them some~
thing they already have. Will the
spirit of American doctrine, never to
treat with treason prevail or will you
go contrary to that other equally i'm.
portant principle that a majority
must rule and thereby forfeit your
sovereignty by permitting handful of
rule or ruin men MEMBERSHIPS than
$4,000 all told-to dictate the policy
( that must control the large majority
of 100000 American citizens in their
future management of this great order?
The time has come when America
should be Americsnized, and however
hard it may appear temporarily, the
successful accomplishment thereof will
be worth all it may cost. l have
urged upon our German brothers the
necessity of losing their identity as for
eigners by adopting the English
language, becoming in fact American,
citizens as they all profess they are
and discriminating from their names
and societies that prefix of German
American, and themselves of the sun
enviable distinction of being foreign~
ers at all.
being American citizens by adop-
ton they enjoy every privilege of ma
tive born and consequently are Amer
lean citizens pure and simple. Why
should they then desire to be still
classed as Americans with foreign
predictions, unless they have lurking
beneath the cloak of ado ption secret
love for the Fatherland which they
are cuitivating to the detriment of the
best interests of this great
country? Why should any fully
recognized citizen of this coun-
try desire to be classed as
foreigner of any kind when the
designation brings to him a certain
element of doubtful responsibility
compared with that of simple Ameris
can citizenship? Who are the foreign
ers of the country as generally
accepted by everybody A certain
disreputable scum from Europe that
have been dumped in upon us during
the past 20 years, headed by anarchists,
mafiaism, socialism, hoodlumisIn,
deadbeatism, and a thousand other
isms that are being secretly cultivated
to the disadvantage of our country's
interests. | have been accused OF
CHASING our German brothers with the
above, but instead have said to them;
1 want to help you lift yourselves en-
tirely out of such unenviable classitis
cation by having each endorte the
English language, practice what you
endorse, eliminate any evidence OF
foreignism from your lodges and
declare for a standard of measurement
that will require q reasonable UNDER
standing of the chosen and recognized
language of the country in which you
| live before comforting the right of full
citizenship upon any man.
"Having pledged our loyalty to the
government under which we live, l
deem it our duty and hope it may
prove our pleasure, to define that
pledge, to carry with il the prompt
practice and use its chosen and selected
tongue, believing as ] do, that no
foreigner, however intelligent, can be-
come an American citizen in its full
accepted intent until he understands
the English language. In Difference to
our pledge of loyalty let us engraft
upon our American fraternity the
strong statement that we will uphold,
sustain ard advance our country's
language by hereafter using our
rituals only in the English Ian
guage for use in the United States and
Dominion of Canada, coupled with
the provso that France, Germany and
other lands using different language
shall be protected in the right of their
national tongue whenever it becomes
our pleasure to introduce our order
therein. If our German brethren will
not subscribe to this sublime theory
then they are not the good citizens
they profess, and if not the sooner we
know it the better.
Some time ago the body granted
permission TO the grand lodges to To-
callv lepislate as they might desire