Mystic masonry, or, The symbols of freemasonry and the greater ...

276 Mystic Masonry.
in the fourteen years since this little
book was written.
In Canada today the citizens are trying to undo the
work of Popery and Jesuitism in the Public Schools,
shake off the blight of Priestcraft and regain their Liberties.
Read the Canadian papers and see, for they are
not all censored.
Of what value is a knowledge of history if we are
never to profit by its bitter lessons and admonitions?
Of what value is a knowledge of the basic principles that
underlie all individual and social life, if we are not ready
to utilize them, live by them, and, if need be, fight for
them and die for them, as did the Fathers of this Republic?
I can only speak and act as one man, already entered
on his "fourth score" of years, and a Mason for nearly
fifty years. In many countries today, I would pay the
forfeit of life, for these utterances; and in this country
six deliberate attempts within the year have been made
to assassinate one of my Masonic Comrades engaged in
the same cause.
So far as publicity and our open "Declaration" are
concerned in this country, we have not yet made a
beginning. But so far as the enemy of all our Free
Institutions is concerned, scarcely a department of our
Government, or one of our Safeguards of Freedom exists
that is not by them already undermined. Free School-,
Free Press, Free Religion—all undermined by Jesuitry,
and paying tribute to Rome!
During the past fourteen years I have advanced from