From Howe's What God Hath Wrough, pages 267-268. (Short answer: Masonic cover up of a murder made them very unpopular).pic.twitter.com/8ppYw4k8YL
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There was also the 20th century flowering of fraternal organizations, that Portis so wonderfully captured in MASTERS OF ATLANTIS. The Freemasons suddenly weren’t the only game in town. Elks to Oddfellows, they shrank Masonic numbers.
Any fraternal organization with a bar and a foresighted supply chief prospered during Prohibition, because they could let club members drink without violating most states' laws.
whole thread reminds me of one of my history professors declaring the age of enlightenment a myth perpetuated by Free Masons
Does the rise of catholics in American power structures and their inability to be masons until recently play into this at all?
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