Some of the drug's effects in the body include: 1  Reducing anxiety. 2  Causing sleepiness. 3  Relaxing muscles. 4  Stopping seizures. 5  Impairing short-term memory.
As a result, they began to take in non-masons as patrons. This led, in the 17th century, to large numbers of. speculativeor non-working-masons entering the masonic âlodges.â By the end of that century, Masonic lodges. were almost wholly speculative, made up of Masons who never touched chisel to stone. Freemasons kept the old traditions.
Early Beginnings of the Grange Movement. The Grange movement of the 1860âs and 1870âs organized American farmers to protest against railroad monopolies. The movement took its name from the National Grange or Patrons of Husbandry, a lodge founded by Oliver Hudson Kelley in 1867.