New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1912-06-29

Il. w. Allen, julius hoch,
R. F. Hogsett, Leon Lemalre'
Aladdin Broussard, Thos. L. Morse,
Fred w Bauman, Robt Brown, D.
B. Lawton, H. F. Lewis, ). W.
Callahan, Dudley Avery and VIII
lam Kramer. The Order beng
founded by Justus H. Rathborne'
of Deerfeld, N. Y, on February
10Th, 1864, Mr.. Rathborne dying
in 1889. After the Lodge was
opened in due form by Chancel-
lor Commander Hall, he intro
troduced Deputy Grand Chancel-
lor Leopold King to those pres
ent many of whom were from our
sister City of Jeanerette who hal
been together with the local men,
bers specially invited to be pres
ent. Mr.. King made a few re-
marks complimentary to the
present officers for their untlring
efforts on behalf Of the Order and
the manner in which they have
built up the Lodge to its present
prosperous condition, the Home
being paid for with a nice bal
ance in the bank of about $l4OO
and a large growing and enthus-
iastic membership. At the con-
clusion of his remarks an inter-
esting and instructive address was
then made by Hon. Porteus II.
Burke ON "Fraternalism,' which
elected much applause, the
gentleman apparently being at
his best on this event. He was
then followed according to a set
program of Master of Ceremonies
D. A. Dimitry by Chas. W. Outh-
waite who presented in behalf OF
the Lodge the beautiful jewel to
Mr.. Hall. Mr.. Jules Dreyfus, one
of the devoted members who had
been assigned the task of giving
a brief history of the Lodge then
addressed the members. His lines
in part were as follows:
"The birth of Pythianism
sprang from the exigencies of the
Civil war; a fratricidital strife
where might became King and
right a Slave; where passions and
prejudices dashed to fever heat
became standards of conduct OF
men and the foundation of legs
lation legalizing iniquities, spolia-
ton and political tyranny.
In such an atmosphere of turn
oil and agitation neither govern
ment nor man can render the SER
vice progressive civilization de-
mands nor exercise the functions
recognized nation is expected 10
have respected in llfe's social
economy. Necessity, the mother
Of invention, being the old re-
vered maxim of mind and intel
ligence, furnished the agency
which is destined to become the
mother of the Religion of Peace
the Parent of the Cult Of the Fra
termination of the human race.
With time still reeking OF
carnage; a, rampant selfishness
like a brood Of vampires swoopine
down over PROSTATE forms OF
country and carcass, exulting in
the exploitation Of the country
resources, weakly protected by
the remnants of forces surviving
the uncompleted work of wreck
and ruin injected by the sword
the time was opportune, nay al
most demanding, a Pythian insti-
tuition, preserving the sacred fire
Of human brotherhood and fan
ming the simmering, dying embers
Of love of man for man into a
flame of light and reason and pow.
cr that would eventually rescue,
regenerate and revitalize the
moral and the spiritual fibre OF
mans nature. In fact most fra
ternal institutions sprang from
the loins Of the holocaust Of the
civil war.
It was the Mephisto of cunnine
and deception of that turbulent
period that steeled mans heart
to the effort of preserving the hui
name, the divine, the lofty, the
noble of the human character and
the nations manhood. Every
man, woman and child, sick and
nauseated by the indiscriminate
splitting of blood and Incidental
agonies, pains and sufferings,
wanted to love man, peace, harm
ony and the blessing Of civiliza-
ton. The crucible, in which the
ration conscience was being
ehastened at a terrible cost ceased
It's work and fastened the Gay OF
prayer, before the altar dedicat-
ed to the brotherhood of man and
the fatherhood of God. Only in
crisis, when the heart and mind
undergo heroic treatment, can
climaxes affecting fundamentals
Of the growth Of the human race
be reached. All great questions
questions of religion, of morals,
of nations, Of science, have been
and must be settled permanently
through conquest of social vice
and disease.
The tortuons ways Of error and
injustice can only be Strengthened
and cleared over the corpse Of
prejudice and the stilled hand Of
oppression. Pythianism as cult
40 human 1oyo on opoOura Domou