Middletown transcript., 1895-09-21
GREAT couNcIL OF RED MEN.

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ESeptember 10th. The report Of Il
ehief OF records contained the follow
ing facts:
The receipts for The year we're frol
all sources $3.50, 81. ga; paid for relic
$500. 902. so; paid widows and orphans
$500. rs; for burial Of tie deat
s8I, ,242.34; investments, sl22, ,55s. Il
/ in tribal belts leash on hand), $2S6
970.27. Total wealth Of all tribe.
81. .525, ,013. .16. The membership n
port was as follows
Members adopted, q, $40; reinstated
1866 admitted by card, 1402; suspen
ded, q, ,76O; expelled, 199; withdraw
by card, 1401; died 1888; total mem
bership July /. 1895, 1873, ,4s5; increas
during the year 5170; total number 0
tribes. 1892, an increase during th
year Of ninety-six tribes.
Fonr of the Red Men of Delawar
have - Veteran Badge::n Josepl
Pyle, Edwin Hurst, Alexander Chairs
and Elias n. Sargent, all Of Whining
ton. -
The Great Council Of Delaware pait
to the G.. G. OF w. s. $256, 80 PEI
capita tax, and $50 for supplies. Th,
tribal receipts for, Delaware for Thu
year were SIS. .5S5.47, of which 81. .096. 1;
was paid for relief Of members ani
8, 1872. so for burial of the dead. The
tribes have in the tribal belts and in.
vested $23, ,972.65. There have beer
adopted during the year 236 and the
present membership is 1868 with &c
tribes.
= Great Incohonee Patton in his slong
talka referred to tifs-dspressed con:
dition Of business throughout the
country and its influence upon the
order. He said I:
I" When last we met an almost un-
paralleled industrial and business de-
preston had covered the land and its
effect had been visible upon our mem-
in the FIRST report of net loss
which had been given to us within
many great suns. The conditions
which caused this loss have hardly
changed, and the industrial prosperity,
from which, when it does come, we
shall reap the richest results, is not
yet in sight. The Great Ineohonee in
his travels has found whole Tribes
which had been dependent upon one
local industry, entirely wiped out of
existence because the factory or the
mine had been closed, and the mem-
3ers had been scattered to the four
winds to search for the means of living.
Under such circumstances men feel it
1ecessary to forgo the luxury of fra
ernal companionship in order to save.
be breath Of life Of those dependent
N them. That which thus depletes
he present membership acts also as a.
,ar to additions. Our Order, therefore, /
las been doubly handicapped by the
lnancial ills of the Zines. To stem
he tide Of loss a systematic effort had
o be made to get all our forces in
working order, and correspondence MAS
pened with all seetioHsof the country
! new descriptive circular was issued.
nribes and Great Councils we're
listed. Organizers were put in the
eld. All this took much time and
but the result is that a large
ortion Of the Order is now actively
t work, and with continuation of
resent progress all will be active be-
ore the end of another grea sun New
res have been kindled where former
res had become extinct, and in many
laces where none had ever burned.
IN interest in the Improved Order of
led Men has been created which
ever before SO widely existed, not
My among our members but in the
aleface world. We are to-day recog-
lied, as never before, to be the dis
inctiyely American fraternity. In
act, it may be safely asserted that the |
My present obstacle to our progress is
le financial question. This does not |
nply that we can lie on our oars and
ae fayoring winds will drive us
ito port. We must cultivate the
1nrage which has made and saved us |
aus far; we must keep the Order on its
lghest plane by living up to its beau
ful principles. and by our public ard
rivate recognition of the fact that it
second to none in its exemplification
the virtues which have made the
ANY fraternal societies in our land
,tent factor in the ma rch of civiliza-
on and in the progress Of humanity.
Because of our patriotic beginnings
i'd teachings, and in the fast that We
o the only fraternity which in any
ay preserves the virtues and tradi-
ons Of the ancient American people,
9 present peculiar claims to Ameri-
ms, which naturally give us their
spect and good will, and which will
tract them to our wigWams If we
'operly direct our energies to that
.sirable end. We must at all times
member that the Order depends upon
J individuals. A Red Man cannot
as such without harm to the Order,
me things which be may otherwise
without attracting public notice
ID ceasure. We are each Of as . part E J,
The beautiful whole which it is our
lty to humanity to maintain without
proach. II any Of Us fall to do our
are in maintaining its integrity and
gnity the general level Is lowered