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Freemasons' Magazine should undertake the political managementif we may be allowed tp /; us 0- ' \ the ^ and the editor of the Masonic Mirror confine himself to the news department , in-which it was admitted the Mirror had excelled the Magazine .
This arrangement came in force at the commencement of January , 1856 , and continued in operation for sixteen or se ^ when , from frequent differences of opinion arising between the editors , and the iiiiwillingness of the gentleman who had the management of the political department to incur further pecuniary
liabilities for a publication which , though gradually increasing in influence and in circulation , was yet incurring considerable moiithly loss—that brother retired from the Magavmef in May , 1857 , and the sole management of the publication became vested in those who now hold it .
During the period to which we have alluded , of the joint management , one Brother , notoriously connected with the Freemasons ' Mciga ^ me leaving the politics to others- —took an active pa ^ rt in ' ther discussions of Grand Lodge , and led , we fear ^ many of the Brethren to identify the proceedings of that Brother with the opinions of the Mag & zme ; thus giving it in some measure the appearance of its being a , party organ—a position which of all others it should carefully
abstain from filling , and which it is our earnest desire never to occupy . On assuming , therefore , the responsible management of the Magazine , that Brother recognizing the increased obligation which he had incurred not to do anything which might savour of partisanship , determined to withdraw from taking an active part in the discussions of Grand Lodge , feeling the proper position of himself and of those who are associated with him , to be rather that of historians of the proceedings , and advisers of the Craft on such prominent questions as
may come before them , than of partisans—though they will never give up their right freely but courteously to criticize these proceedings , whenever they feel that they are called upon by the interests of the Craft to do so .
We have been thus particular in calling attention to our past history , because we are approaching an important period of our existence , on which our future , as an organ of the Craft , must to
a great extent depend ; and if we now claim for ourselves a more extended support than we have hitherto received ^ it is to our pages for the past eighteen months that we refer as a proof that we deserve it .
At the conclusion of 1857 , we found that with increasing support came more extended demands on our pages ; our MctAjazine , nominally of four sheets , was more often extended to six , and even then the pruning knife had to be applied to many communications to a degree which was not altogether desirable , and very often proved anything but satisfactory to our friends . We therefore resolved to issiio our Mtigazme in ^ weekly numbers and monthly part ^ an ar-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
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Freemasons' Magazine should undertake the political managementif we may be allowed tp /; us 0- ' \ the ^ and the editor of the Masonic Mirror confine himself to the news department , in-which it was admitted the Mirror had excelled the Magazine .
This arrangement came in force at the commencement of January , 1856 , and continued in operation for sixteen or se ^ when , from frequent differences of opinion arising between the editors , and the iiiiwillingness of the gentleman who had the management of the political department to incur further pecuniary
liabilities for a publication which , though gradually increasing in influence and in circulation , was yet incurring considerable moiithly loss—that brother retired from the Magavmef in May , 1857 , and the sole management of the publication became vested in those who now hold it .
During the period to which we have alluded , of the joint management , one Brother , notoriously connected with the Freemasons ' Mciga ^ me leaving the politics to others- —took an active pa ^ rt in ' ther discussions of Grand Lodge , and led , we fear ^ many of the Brethren to identify the proceedings of that Brother with the opinions of the Mag & zme ; thus giving it in some measure the appearance of its being a , party organ—a position which of all others it should carefully
abstain from filling , and which it is our earnest desire never to occupy . On assuming , therefore , the responsible management of the Magazine , that Brother recognizing the increased obligation which he had incurred not to do anything which might savour of partisanship , determined to withdraw from taking an active part in the discussions of Grand Lodge , feeling the proper position of himself and of those who are associated with him , to be rather that of historians of the proceedings , and advisers of the Craft on such prominent questions as
may come before them , than of partisans—though they will never give up their right freely but courteously to criticize these proceedings , whenever they feel that they are called upon by the interests of the Craft to do so .
We have been thus particular in calling attention to our past history , because we are approaching an important period of our existence , on which our future , as an organ of the Craft , must to
a great extent depend ; and if we now claim for ourselves a more extended support than we have hitherto received ^ it is to our pages for the past eighteen months that we refer as a proof that we deserve it .
At the conclusion of 1857 , we found that with increasing support came more extended demands on our pages ; our MctAjazine , nominally of four sheets , was more often extended to six , and even then the pruning knife had to be applied to many communications to a degree which was not altogether desirable , and very often proved anything but satisfactory to our friends . We therefore resolved to issiio our Mtigazme in ^ weekly numbers and monthly part ^ an ar-