Arizona republican., 1907-10-23

[ the care of a messenger. He received grateful acknowledgment from the lodge for the historic event.
 Perusing the records of the early years of Aztlan lodge we find many bits of interesting "reminiscences.
 August 2e, 1865. Brother Joseph Lennon made application for member ship by utilization. Action was sus-, pended to enable him to procure a demit from his lodge in Louisiana, believing that hostilities had ceased between the north and the south. he would be able to learn if his lodge was in existence" Brother Lennon was finally enrolled as a member. 1 January 26. 1867, a resolution was passed whereby the body of Brother William P. Jones. a Master Mason. who was killed by the Indians and buried near Woolsey ranch. was taken up and brought to Prescott and buried with Masonic hOnors.'
 The ranch referred to is the aban- doned Bowers ranch on the Agua Fria. adjoining the town of Humboldt. While in the occupancy of Colonel King s. Woolsey it was the scene of many sharp conflicts with the Apache Indians.
 June 29, 1867, the lodge was draped in mourning for Brothers G. P. Bridges and NJ. A. Adams, very worthy mem- bers ''who were stricken and ruth lessly butchered by the ruthless Apache savages.
 June go, 1867, the lodge was also draped in mourning for Brother Will liam Murray. who was stricken to death by the merciless hand of vio- lence."
 Just word in general for the uni- vefsal brotherhood of Masonry.
 The story of Masonry is the his tory of the world. Upon the tylers register We find inscribed the names monarchies. presidents of republics commanders of armies, governors of states. judges of the highest courts, ministers of the gospel. college pro- fessors. officers of municipalities and the working craftsmen. through whose influence and precepts the tenets of Free Masonry are become factors in the development. upbuilding and gov ernment of the world, even to the soothing of the savage breast. Early in 1864 at the close of the | -NdNdJo war, III the subjugation of that nation, when passing through section of the Nav | ajo country I saw as a trophy of war brought from the seat of the savage government. an Indian blanket of the most skilled Navajo texture and han diwork. The center piece of the Indi- ornamentation WIS the Masonic em- blem. the square and compass, in bold and brilliant colors.
 In our sanctuary the high and the low, the rich and the poor. the dis ! tinguished statesmn and diplomat and the loyal citizen. the epauleted rank and the sentinel soldier, plumed knighthood and the toiling operative craftsman all meet upon the same lev el. kneel at the one altar and march under the same banner, the banner of the square and compass.
 SPEECH OF LEROY ANDERSON. Most Worshipful Grand Master and Brethren. Ladies and Gentlemen: If the Masons of the United States and Canada were placed in a line of march they would make a solid column of over one thousand miles, and in Arizona alone we have nineteen char tered lodges. Yet, there are many per- sons who have very general and in- definite idea of the antiquity. extent and magnitude of our institution. It ! is equally true that many of our most intelligent friends and neighbors have overlooked its history and the extent of its influence, and. naturally, have come to regard it in much the same | light that they do the ordinary lodges of the day.
 Masonry. like ever other science, to be understood and to be rightly esti- mated, must be known in all its re- lations and conditions. The intelligent man and Mason values it in the exact proportion that he has investigated its history and studied it's philosophy.
 An English monarch,An the fifteenth century. asked our brethren of that day-"Where did Masonry begin?" He was answered: Tt began in the east" His next inquiry was. Who did bring it westerly" And he received for an sw'er that Tt was brought westerly by the Phoenicians. This answer is supported by the traditions of the most learned men in this country and Eu- rope.
 Free Masonry was originally a fra ternity of practical builders and arch itects. This is known by all who are, to any extent, acquainted with it's his- tory or its traditions.
 The "Phoenicians," whose capital cities were Tyre" and ''Sidon," were the early patrons of that semi-religious mystic fraternity or society of build CTS. known to history as the Dion Nsian Architects
 That the fraternity was employed by the Tyrians and Sidonians in the erec- ton of costly temples to unknown diet ies and in the building of rich and gor- geous palaces, is universally admitted. That they were the cunning work men" sent by Hiram. king of Tyre, to aid King Solomon in the erection of the temple on Mount Moriah. is scarce ly less certain. Their presence in that city at the time of the building of the temple is the evidence of history, and Hiram, the widows son. to whom Sol omon entrusted the supcrintendence of the w'orkmen, was an inhabitant of Tyre, and as d skilled architect and a curious and cunning workman, was doubtless one of their number.
 Hence. We can scarcely claim too much for our order as the beginning of practical builders, when we know that