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Show TnE UTE MASONIC BALL. Salt Lake City, Dec 2S, 1S72. Editors Herald: Having noticed a 'puff' in tbia morn-inK's morn-inK's issue of ibe Tribune, I can-Dot let it pass unheeded, in speaking of tbo Masonic ball which catue off at the Walker House last evoninp, The occasion occa-sion was the celebration of SL Jobo's day a day common to all Masons a day in which no worthy Masons are excluded, whether affiliating or non-affiliatiDp; non-affiliatiDp; and my mind was forcibly ctri. nlr with the ridiculous ideas the irriter seemed to entertain and expressed. ex-pressed. He certainly is not a Mason, ar if so, does not understand the principles prin-ciples and intent of Masonry. The idea of "a select party," the "elite," high-toned, etc., among tho craft who teaoh equality; whose tenets are friendship, friend-ship, morality, and brotherly love; who acknowledge do superiority, but that of true merit, and no aristocracy but that of the mind; and who teach tbat it is the internal and not the external qualifications that Masonry regards; getting up a "select parly" to the exclusion ex-clusion of many worthy Masons, because be-cause of pecuniary embarrassments, or because circumstances have plactd them od the low epokes of fortune's wheel, is simply absurd and unworthy of Masons ! 1 am not prepared to say what the vMa-ona of Utah are oapable of doing. I tbitik many of the brethren of sister lodges will hoar no out in saying there ore many things ihey Deflect to do. The writer has observed that they aro not as cordial as, and in manv ways differ from the Masons of "auld lany pytie," whoso obligations seemed to bo engraven en-graven on the tab' eta of enduring uicu-ory, and did not vanish with their exit from the lodgo room. 1 consider tho article in the "Tribune," although woll intended, an insult to tho order. The writer ol this has been a iJiason oi -loug standing, and a realous worker and exponent of its principles; and feeling oonsoious that tho initiated ( might bo wrongly impressed, feels it . his duty to set them at right. I there- fore crave your indulgence, Messrs. I Editors, and ask a place in your ; columns. I A Past Master. |