Bro. GoxDny said the Press" Inboured under a good many disadvantages Shanghai; and not the least was having to answer for itself at such an advanced period of the evening, after the eloquent speeches which had fallen from the distinguished brethren who sat around him. He must confess, it had always been a puzzle fo him what connexion there was atween the Press and Freemasonry, that the former should always be toasted at Masonic banquets. At a first thought, they seemed to be diametrically antagonistie bodies. The Press worked for full pubplicity, whereas Masons demanded complete secrecy. But perhaps a solution of the difficulty might be found in the remarks of Bro. Eames. The sympathetic link might
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