Party Politics

Party Politics. [No. 23]

Mere Party Politics can find no place
In a Freemasons’ Lodge: they would breed Strife,
Instead of Peace and Love; for they are rife
With mischief and with misery for our race.
Each Freemason is free to advocate, 5
As Citizens, whenever duty calls,
Measures, his mind approves; but in the halls
Of Masonry, all loyal to the State,
We meet on neutral ground and seek to bind
Good Men of every Party in one Band 10
Of loving Brothers, who well understand
How to “agree to differ.” All mankind
Never can think alike on every theme;
But every Mason’s mind with Love to Man must beam.

by George Markham Tweddell 1st published 1887