The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1914-05-08
MOOSE At VAR
III In SOUTHLAND
Los Angeles Lodge Rebels and
Passes Resolutions Demanding
Congressional Investigation.


tional officers of the Loyal Order Of
Moose. The Los Angeles lodge Of this
order, according to reports published by
the Moose Messenger, Official paper Of
that lodge in the southern California
city, has withdrawn from the national
organization, organized on independent
lodge, aud started campaign for mem.
bers. The old lodge had a membership
OF three thousand. The new order, IL
is claimed, already has more than two
thousand members. At the last meeting
of the. Los Angeles lodge held in April
resolutions were passed charging the
national officers with many ofenses and
asking among other things for con.
gressional investigation OF the affairs
Of the national organization. Following
Is copy Of the resolutions: 4.
owe, the members Of the ORGANIZE
tion formerly known as Los Angeles
lodge No. 3S6,-Loyal Order Of Moose,
and consisting Of more than 1900 mem
befs, in meeting assembled hereby enact
the following resolution and declaration
Of Independence;
"For reasons seeming to MS to be
good and sufficient, and set forth more
particularly hereafter, we have decided
to reject certain compromise offered
by individuals styling themselves Su.
preme Officers Of the Loyal Order Of
Moose Of the World, whereby certain
difficulties and disagreements hereto
fore and now existing between ourselves
and the so-called supreme officers were
to be adjusted on basis which would
leave us in good standing with the
supreme order.
1--WE will not compromise with
wrong. We reject the compromise for
the reason that upon long and careful
consideration we have reached the EN-.
.phatic opinion that as honorable men
we cannot permit ourselves to be allied
with the supreme lodge as now constitn-
ted.
1--WE hereby declare that it Is our
belief that the individuals now discharg-
ing the duties of supreme officers, aud
administering the Affairs Of the supreme
lodge, are unfit to hold the Offices which
they occupy, and that their manner Of
conducting the business Of the supreme
lodge i such rs viii inevitably disgrace
and disrupt the order.
Allegiance to Supreme Lodge Renowned
"We further declare that our diseon,
tent rests solely and entirely upon the
acts of the individuals now occupying
the Offices as supreme officers, and not
with the rank and file Of the Loyal
Order of Moose throughout the land.
"We hereby renounce all allegiance
TO the supreme lodge as at present com
posed, and declare that we do not recog-
nize their authority and will not hold
relations or negotiations Of any sort
with thcm.
Eat the same time, we hereby declare
our loyalty as an organization to all
Subordinate lodges of the Loyal Order
Of Moose throughout the land, and as
brothers TO all who have subscribed to
the obligations Of the order.
Charge That Order Is Exploited.
t'We charge that the Loyal Order Of
Moose is now being ruthlessly exploited
by a small coterie of less than dozen
men who are conducting its affairs with
an eye single to their own advantage;
that they are enriehing themselves at
lna expense OF the rank and file of the
order, and that they are not inspired
ny traternal motives, but are working
for their own selfish ends.
HWe charge that they have .entrench-
ed themselves in Office and power,
through the manipulation of the bylaws
of the order, and have built up politi-
cal machine within the order for the
purpose of pcrpetuating themselves in
Office and power. E& Y
eve charge that by questionable
mo r.
control of the approximately 100000 .
year revenue exacted by the supreme
lodge frourSthe subordinate lodges, until
today they are in a position where prac.
tically nobody but themselves knows
how they spend IT. 4, ,.st, n,
I'VE are not satisfied that this vast
amount is being spent for the gfeatest
good of the order, but on the contrary
believe that IL their impregnablc posi-
tion did not prevent fun investigation,
expenditures could be brought 20 light
which would Justify grave criticism.
Side Issues TO Extract Money.
. t'We charge that these individuals,
not satisfied to control the supreme
order (and exercise nndisputed author.
ity TO disburse as they see fit the inn
mepse yearly revenue yielded by as.
sessnents, dues, per capita tax, and
other revenues raised by various pre-.
texts from subordinate lodges have
organized large number of side issues
to coax more money, either from the
subordinate lodges or from the indi.
yiduals composing these lodges;
They have organized an insurance
company which has no official connec-
ton with the order, and from which
the order does not profit. On the con.
tyary, they control the company as in.
diyiduals, and business is solicited
from members Of the order ON fraternal
grounds.
"They have established mail or
der business for their private profit,
using the prestige Of the order TO OBJ,
tain business among members.
They have organized cloak aud suit
house for the benefit Of the wives
and daughters of members of the o-der..
''They have organized social
branch Of the order, to which only
Moose may belong, and TO which they
permit them TO pay stiil more dues.
They are publishing lodge journal
which every member Of the order Isl
Obliged 10 take whether he wants III
or not--and they extract SsOOOO III