The reader who addressed us yesterday on the supposed connes Freemasonry with revolution is hot the first to try to uphold this thesis and will not be the last.
Some four years ago the "Morning Post" published a series of articles: oot a sensational nature designed prove that the Bolshevist upheaval in Russia was the work of Freemasons secretly egged on by Jews. The writer had amassed a great quantity of information, which may or may not have been correct: there are, Of course, plenty of books about Freemasonry, which profess to ive the so-called secrets, and its history. But the inferences he drew were of a very wild nature. Discussion of the subject ix natur. sally hampered by the fact that the one side may not speak and the other side does not know. But there are one or two circumstances which are familiar enough to those who take the trouble to inquire. Gear Uncle, his cousin and First of all, seeing that King
two of his sons are Masons, it is Prepusterous to suppose that Eng: lish Freemasonry is a revolutionary institution; and in point of fact any connexion with, or even mention of Polities is forbidden by it. Scottish, Trish and American Masonry takes the same stand,
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