Templars Considered Esperanto

No booze at this party

Not the Knights Templar of the medieval period, but (according to Wikipedia), a temperance organization modeled on Freemasonry. The Washington Times reported on its convention on June 4, 1908. We can assume this was no drunken bash. Their meeting place is listed as the Pythian Temple, which was the meeting place for yet another fraternal organization, The Knights of Pythias, itself founded in Washington D.C.

The main thrust of the meeting was to move forward on a proposal that the movement be neutral on the religion of its members. The organization's web site makes no reference of any sort about religion. Most chapters seem to be in Europse, though there seem to be no chapters in France or Italy. The religious neutrality part seems to have gone through.

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