Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1904-07-22

dress, asking him for the return or
receipt for money. Again ana again
did we ask for receipt FOR money
sent at this time, but to no purpose:
he would only say: x received
yours, dated Dec. 6, '9S, with con-
tents" but we did finally get the post
Office receipt from the Omaha post.
master, showing that Pelham had re-
ceived the money. !
At the same time we surrendered
our warrant, we asked for dlspensa.
ton from Iowa, which was received
Dec. 7th. '9S. So there was no time
elapsed between the surrender anu
the granting of the dispensatlon.
Grand Master Brown advised /. >.
Parvin, grand secretary OF the Iowa
(white) Grand Lodge, of his actions
and asked his opinion OF the correct
ness of the same and Mr.. Parvln
said:
The rights of Grand Lodges in
states or territories where there Is
no Grand Lodge Is too well establish
ed to allow one Grand Lodge to eN-
clude all others. You have done right
in granting dispensation.'
Ricketts, says in his article: AGA
cha Lodge was ordered to within nine
ty DAYS after the passage of the reso-
luton" ETC. Pelham's notice to us
certainly was in error, as 1t ana not
mention when the order should take
effect. Acacia Lodge never dlsobeyea
orders. but have even ben under per-
secution at the hands of Masonic enc
mics, and she has done nothing othe:
than break down under the yoke or
Injustice at the hands OF an UNJUST
Grand Master and those who have
kept him in the Grand Oriental chair
sixteen consecutive years. precedent
believe never before recorded III the
annals Of Free Masonry.
Ricketts, directs the public to Sec,
10 of Missouri Bylaws wherein II
saws: THE forfeiture, arrest or sur
render of lodge involves the suspeh-
sion of all it's members etc. why dld
he not further quote Sec. OF the
same laws wherein says: In case or
the dissolutio of lodge, the grand
secretary or some brother shall at
once proceed to receive it's funds on
hands, collect its outstanding Dues
and dispose of it's jewels. furniture
and other property of every KIND, and
he shall place the proceeds Thereon IN
the treasury of the Grand Lodge ana
why did Pelham accept the warrant
and money and not take steps TO re-
cover our effects as per law? nor no.
tify us of our Masonic standing, for
he did not know that we had been
accepted into Iowa for several weeks
after?
We believe the trainers of this law
did not expect case OF this KIND TO
ever occur-that lodge working reg
ularly and in healthy financial con-
ditiOn as was Acacia would ever
surrender their warrant. Had this
dawned upon their minds we believe
such lodges would have been exempt;
but however, that may be, is it not
bondage Masonry where a lodge, after
paving all they owe to the Grand
Lodge, must still give them their law
ful possessions, purchased with their
individual money?
We do not think any Masonic rec
ords show a lodge surrendered While
in a healthy condition; and why is
lot Pelham satisfied to be relieved OF
a portion of trouble? This is what
he says in his annual address in
| 1898?
I'VE, the commission, went to Oma-
ha, etc.: etc. We found the two old
lodges very much opposed to the new
lodge, and the new lodge very much
incensed over the attitude of the old
| lodges. No. IA expressed their oppo-
sition in very conservative, cautious
manner: No. 10 manifested more
decided opposition. y Is it my
impression that te real trouble in
Omaha is beyond any remedy that
this body can suggest; ETC.
Pelham pretends not to know what
caused this opposition, but he does
1t was this: Because we, while mem
bers of the old lodges, were persis-
tent in our demands that the land
marks and true principles of Free Ma
sorry, and the constitutional require
ments, be more closely observed. We
! demanded that the following crimes
and offenses, of which many Of their
members were guilty, be checked:
MisapprOpriation of lodge funds,
gambling and conducting gambling
denS, drunkenness and running
whiskey shops are among the counts.
Every statement herein made is a
fact and on file in the office of the
secretary of Rescue Lodge No. 25 are
documentary evidence to back it up;
and because |. l.. Brown and the
members of Iowa Grand Lodge are
Masons good and true enough to come
to the rescue OF worthy brother Ma
sons, they have committed a heinous
crime in the sight of Missouri and
her colleagues, and she must either
undo what she has done and deliver
Rescue Lodge up to Mis- souri, for
them to appease their wrath upon or
lose what little fraternal friendship
they once had for Iowa.
H. D. Hillon,
District Deputy Grand Master