Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1901-08-17

never ScnO< 10 inc tfl>F-taS ~
information of the coming attack 4
shsu we who have enlisted In the
cause of God and humanity expose ,
our planx 20 the enemy? No. we will
i'm secret plot the ruin OF all the en-
terprises of Satan and his cohorts.
When they expect US by day. we VIII
fall upon them by night While they
mr., strengthening their left wing
we will fall on their right. by
plan OF battle formed in secret con
clave we will come suddenly upon
Them crying: The sword OF the
Lord and OF Gideon" Secrecy OF
plot and execution is wrong only
when the object and ends arc nefari-
GUS Every family is n secret society
every business firm and every bank
ing and insurance institution. Those /
men who have no capacity to keep
secret are unfit for positions OF trust |
anywhere. There are thousands OF
men whose vital need is culturing n
| capacity TO keep n secret. Men talk
too much, and women, too There
IL n time 20 keep silence as well as
| time 20 speak
| Although not belonging TO any OF
the great secret societies about when
| there has been SO much violent discus
sion. have only words of praise for
those associations which have for
their object the maintenance Of right
against wrong or the reclamation OF
incbriatcs or. like the score OF mutual
benefit societies called by different
names. that provide temporary reiief
for widows and orphans and for men
| incapacitated by sickness or accident
from earning livelihood. Had IT not
] - ,f1rstf ton
in this country monopoly would long
ago have. under its ponderous wheels.
ground the laboring classes into an
: intolerable servitude. The men who
want the whole earth 20 themselves
would have rot IL before this had IL
not been for the banding together Of
great secret organizations. and while
= we deplore many things that have
/. been done by them. their existence Is
P" necessity and their legitimate sphere
- distinctly pointed out by the Provi
!" deuce Of God. Such organizations ar
trvinc 20 dismiss from their asso
~ citation all members who are IA taNo
OF anarchy and social chaos. The.
70 will gradually cease anyt hing like tyr
'o amy over their memb RS and Wi
= forbid violent interference with an
u mans work. whether ne belongs I
r. their union or Is outside OF IL an
n viii declare their disgust with an
," such rule as that passed In Engiah
ne by the Manchester Bricklayers' asst
'lS citation. which says any man touu
SIS RUNNING or working beyond a rcguis
oo. sDccd shall Zoe fined two shilings si
IN pcncc for the first ofTcnsc, five sh
cs' Hnos for the second. ten shilhngs u
IS, the third. and II still pcrsisting shi
Iul be dealt with as the committee thin
lu- proper
be- There ere secret societies in orr e
OF lcves that have letters OF the Gre
alphabet for their nomenclature. n
yed their members arc at the very fro
'ds. IN scholarship and irrcproachahie
Of morals. while there are others Z
iai- scene Of carousal and they gamu
and and they drink. and they gradn'
ad- knowing hundred times more ao'
tie sin than they do OF geometry a
IN Sophocles. In other words. secret
You cictics. like individuals. are good
cat bad. are the means Of moral health
nge Of temporal and eternal damnation.
emf good people recognize the vice OF 81
her dering an Individual, hut many do
YOU see the sin OF slandering an organ
the ton. There are old secret societies
and. this and other countries. some OF IL
God | centuries old. which have been W
the IN denounced as immoral and dam
ions. ing in their influence, Yet 1 have
I OF drcds OF personal friends who bel
the 20 them-friends who are conSecrf
M | 10 God, pillars In the church, fait
orts- IN all relations of life. example;
You virtue and picty. They ore the
,ther of friends whom / would have for
executors at the time OF decease,
they are the men whom ! would
no carry me OFT 10 the last sleep "
liz / am dead. You cannot make mt
N. lieye that they would belong to ba
-. situations. Theyare tho men who W
49, stamp on anything Ubiquitous, q
,s-u. would certainly rather take their
N timOny in regard to such soci
- than the testimony of those who,
~ ing been sworn ia as members, by
- assault upon them confess thems
- q, perjurers.
One Of these secret societies
- for the relief of the sick In Isl
this country, Si.4So.27A. Som'
these societies have poured a
heaven of sunshine and benedi
into the home of suffering. 81
Of them are founded on hdeh
= good citizenship and the Bib
have never taken one OF thei
1-rees. They might give me the
A thousand times and | woul'
: -. recognize il. / am ignorant OF
pass-words, and / must judge .
Iy from the outside. But Chris