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Juet the thing to gladden the heart of any boy
during this fine skating season. We
sell them at all prices.
We also have an
assortment of
Toys
which you would do well to call and 6ee in
making your purchases.
Lobeck Merchandise
must be conducted by the courts of the
state, unless the accused be a member
of the Supreme Council and the act
charged against said supreme member
be committed as such and not as a
member of a subordinate or state
council.
The presidents and executive boards
of states have the right to deal with
all councils within said states to or
ganize and suspend either councils or
members, and to bring to as speedy a
trial as the circumstances warrant,
without any interference from the su
preme office.
If, however, for any reason, the state
officials refuse to afford relief to the
accused or accusor within a reasonable
time, or either party is dissatisfied
with the findings of the state court,
then and only then will an applicant
to the supreme body lie. Hrovided,
however, that whenever the existence
or usefulnes of the order Is jeopardized
by the Incompetence or malad ministra
tion of the state officers, the supreme
may Interfere when the facts warrant
the Interference for the good of the
order.
But let me reiterate what I have
often stated, that no accusations
founded upon mere hearsay, gossip or
newspaper reports can be regarded in
the supreme office as charges, nor can
the supreme officers be expected to act
upon them.
I would add. in conclusion, that no
member of the order who has a good
cause need fear for the result, provided
he follows the constitution and code to
the letter, while I regret to state,
many a good cause has been lost be
cause the constitutional methods of re
dress were ignored or overlooked.
The pronounced war openly declared
and bitterly waged against the Ameri
can Protective Association by the
greater portion of the public press,
when the order was In Its infancy, has
practically surrendered to the pressure
op public sentiment, which is largely
with ub when not biased by party af
fections or strong personal interests,
yet other means more deadly, because
more subtle and disguised under the
mask of friendship, seek to accomplish
what the press failed in; either by dis
rupting the order from within or di
verting it from its original purpose
and making it a tool of some political
clique or party. This smooth profes
sional politician, usually a parasite of
one or the other of the old political
parties, who comes among us commis
sioned to destroy us, and who, like
Judas of old, cannot receive the silver
pieces of political preferment at the
hands of his masters until he has be
trayed his fellows. More real injury
is done to the order by a score of such
f ellows in one month than th priests of
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Rome could accomplish in a lifetime,
for they destroy where they cannot
pervert to the uses of their masters.
I am pleased to learn from many
sources that these Benedict Arnolds of
A. P. A. -ism are being unmasked In
In large numbers and their member
ship in our beloved order Is being ren
dered intolerable to them. Wherever
the loyal members of the organization
perform their duties and regularly at
tend their councils this is invariably
the case. Treachory has no show
where patriotism and honesty are on
guard. I am far from being an advo
cate of drastic remedies, but when one
of these spies or traitors is discovered
no lawful method to rid the order of
his presence Is too strong to be applied.
In many places Judas has come
among us, and being unmasked before
he accomplished his sinister purpose
or else disgusted at continuous failure,
has retired precipitately in order to
avoid expulsion. He will thereafter
be found, for a few months at least, at
the head of a new organization that is
weakly imitative of the A. P. A. Our
only regret should be then when such
persons rid the order of their own per
nicious presence, they frequently take
with them members of our organiza
tion who are less discerning than they
are patriotic and honest, yet It has
been my experience that the worthy
ones usually return to the parent fold,
while the unworthy, in an insignificant
minority, plot themselves out of or
ganized existence In a very short time,
Illustrating the old proerb that
"birds of a feather flock together."
Let me urge the members of the order
to be watchful of such fellows without
engendering the spirit of distrust be
tween friend and friend. By eternal
vigilance only can we preserve our
order pure.
Councils cannot be too caeeful as to
whom they admit to membership nor
too discrelt as to whom they commit
the lnentity of members. State doun
ells, In particular, should refuse to fur
nish to all persons not absolutely and
legally entitled to receive the same,
names and addresses, of subordinate
councils or the location and night of
meeting of said councils and the
officers thereof. An Imprudent neg
lect to observe such precautions has
caused much trouble in some localities
that might well have been avoided.
An Incident, to me of the most grave
Importance, but which does not appear
to have engaged the attention of the
order ae completely as Its significance
merits, is the new Fenian movement,
which originated with the Irish Na
tional Congress at Chicago, September
26, 1895. The movement is especially
significant to the patriotic orders
owing to the fact that even the most
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and new departments are being added every week. We are now
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We have sold a large number of our different kinds
of Heating Stoves, which have in every instance given
the best of satisfaction.
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There is not a better Stove made than these.
for heating dwellings, stores
and public buildings. See
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ardent agitator tor Irish independence,
as well as the most Ignorant of that
following, have at last conceded the
inpractlcablllty of their scheme. It
needs no clairvoyant gift to detect the
true bent of the conspiracy hatched at
Chloago. The purpose of Ihe move
ment is to Instruct in the manual of
arms an elementary military tactics
every papist who is capable of carry
ing a rifle. Even now, large companies
are forming in every dity of impor
tance and armories are being stocked
with military equipments.
Even were the purpose of the move
ment what it claims to be, the presence
in our midst of these military bodies,
added to the million or more members
of papal secret, religious and benefit
societies, the greater proportion of
which are armed and drilled, consti
tutes a standing menace to our nation,
which, although perhaps in time of
peace is Innocuous, in a notional crisis
would be sufficiently strong to take ad
vantage of critical conditions, and
clashing interests to demand conces
sions from the nation that would ut
terly destroy our non-sectarian repub
lic, or establish In power an adminis
tration subservient to papal interests.
A war between capital and labor, a
conflict with a foreign nation or a fight
founded on sectional or racial interests
would provide an opportunity of which
these battalions of a papal despot, un
der priestly domination, would not be
ow to take advantage, and with such
an opportunity In view these battalions
are, unmistakably being organized.
In the early paragraphs of this com
munication I have advocated the sup
pression by act of congress of all mili
tary organizations whatsoever, yet if
this cannot be accomplished at an early
date, I strongly recommend the mem
bers of patrlotio orders to organize
military companies independently,
under a separate ritual, pledged to the
preservation, by force of arms If neces
sary, of the Constitution of the United
States and the republic as it now ex
ists. While I, with all other men of
reason and Intelligence, am apposed to
anything In the nature of an A. P. A.
militia, as being contrary to the spirit
of the constitution, I am strongly of
the opinion that if congres s refuses to
suppress the rapidly increasing and in
cendiary army corps of the papacy,
now organized in all its military splen
dor and insolence upon American soil,
if our national government, by Its cul
pable inactivity, gives governmental
consent to such an outrage, it Is highly
necessary that the patriots of the na
tion should take such self-protective
measures as are not inconsistent with
their duty as law abiding citizens.
I draw the attention of the order to
this matter in response to many appli
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Glassware, Water Sets,
Tableware, Vases.
Rogers Plated Knives and Forks,
Rogers' Tea Spoons,
Rogers' Table Spoons.
Plated Knives, Forks and Spoon9
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one Sack you will use no other.
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cations received by me from various
members and councils for permission to
organize military companies, and while
It is beyond my powers to sanction the
organization of such bodies within the
councils of our order, the supreme jur
isdiction extends no farther and cannot
forbid, nor would It be liable to oppose
any such movement prudently con
ducted. The fact should be borne In
mind by those who, frequently with the
best intentions In the world, would
graft upon our organization side Issues,
that the American Protective Associa
tion is purely political and dependent
entirely upon the ballot-box for the ac
complishment of its purposes.
When I look back over the last few
years generally, and the past six
months in particular, and mark the
progress of our order; when I see the
results of the labors of Its vast army of
workers, politically and socially; as I
watch the intellectual and patriotic
awakening of the people from their
sleep of a quarter of a century and the
rapid strides that the nation as a whole
is making towards the perfection of its
political machinery and the perfection
of its politics, I feel that although the
purposes of the American Protective
Association are not yet nearly accom
plished, the organization has written a
page in the history of the republic that
time will never efface.
While I am convinced that nothing
of its kind so perfect In its mechanism
or so far-reaching In Its effect has ever
been devised within the history of the
country, I am of the opinion that much
of the funds of the order are used In
channels which yield absolutely no re
turn. One of the greatest drains upon
the treasury of the order is the annual
convention of the Cupreme Council,
which constitutes a burden to the state
and subordinate jurisdictions that
might well be dispensed with, at least
one year out of two or two years out of
three. I mean by this that I believe
biennial or triennial sessions of the
Supreme Council would answer all the
purposes of the organization at a half
or a third of the expense now involved
in annual sessions. At the same time,
I believe your supreme officers would
be enabled to do much more effective
work in a two or three years' term
than they are enabled to do at present
under a system which barely enables
the officers of a new administration to
acquaint themselves with the routine
and dotalk&f their offices before they
are compelled to prepare to yield their
positions to possible successors. The
money tf us saved could be converted
to much better and more useful ends
and the valuable time of the members
of the supreme body saved.
It is with the greatest satisfaction
thf,t I have observed that not only the
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tics, but also the rooognltlon that or
ganized agitation for equal suffrage is
receiving at the hands of the press and
public alike. The fret that the claim
is being regarded seriously is certain
indication of its ultimate success, and I
trust the order at large will turn its
attention to the cultivation of a fiold
from which so rich a harvest of pa
triotism and reform may be reaped.
Although great results have been
and can yet be achieved, not only by
individuals as organizers, but by the
noble and disinterested patriotic press,
I am pained to oqserve that the latter
has neither been patronized as it
should have been nor supported as its
untiring efforts In the cause give it a
right to expect.
Thus, for lack of the proper sinews
of war its usefulness has been Impaired
and it has failed to accsmpllsh much
that it might have been enabled to ac
complish had It half received the rec
ognition it had a right to expect. As
I am no longer the proprietor of a
newspaper of this class, having dis
posed of the Patriotic .American because
my official duties have occupied my
entire time for many months past, I
feel that I may speak as strongly as I
like upon this subject without the fear
of my motives being misconstrued, and
I assert, as the result of many years'
personal and costly experience In the
newspaper and patrlotio fields, that
there Is no factor that tends so much
toward building up and maintaining
our councils os our A. P. A. press.
They may justly be termed the apos
tles of our principles.
Yet, as I have said, the usefulness of
our patriotic newspapers has been
weakened and their influence circum
scribed by ihe unfavorable conditions
surrounding them. If they are to sur
vive and become permanent they must
be In a position to compete on terms of
equality with the ordinary weekly
press, and must be prepared to supply
the public, not only with matter that
is at least 90 per cent, editorial, but
with the most costly of all, the essen
tials of a well-conducted weekly news
exclusive, authentic and unimpeach
able news from the most reliable
sources.
The reading public are quicker to
draw their own conclusions from a well
digested news item than they were a
decade or two ago, when the editorial
pen drew their conclusions for them.
My knowledge of the necessities of
our patriotio press, in order to put it
upon an endurable and substantial foot
ing, prompted me both at the Des
Moines and Milwaukee sessions of the
Supreme Council, to urge upon that
body the establishment of a national
organ and prlntlng'house of the order,
offering
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talned by stockholders composed of
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aged and directed by the A. P. A., ex
ecutive board until such time as a
fusion of the patriotio orders or a
mutual basis of co-operation should be
agreed upon, when the enterprise
should past Into the hands of a board
of directors composed of representa
tives of the amalgated bodies or from
properly selected members of each
order.
A newspaper so established would be
head centre for all news of Interest to
our order,' and Instead as would ap
pear at first glance of entering Into
competition with the regular weekly
patrlotio presR, would be of immense
benefit to it, and by furnishing at a
nominal cost all the current patrlotio
news, either in the form of plates or
printad "insldes," would enable our
over-worked and under-paid editors and
publishers to place into competition
with the regular press a newspaper In
comparably superior because reliable
and independent in its tone, at a much
less cost.
At present nearly all the news that
reaches the orders has gone through
the band of one or the other of the reg
ular news agencies, of whom I regret to
be compelled to acknowledge, the Jes
uits have become the predominating
power in the editorial departments.
The above Is one of many substantial
reasons why such an organ should be
established.
Yet another reason Is that a tithe of
the revenue derived from such an en
terprise would more than operate the
order independent of per capita, and
yet leave a handsome dividend for the
Investors.
But the chief and most potent reason
of all Is that such an institution Is ab
solutely necessary in a crisis line the
present, when the papacy and other
enemies of the nation are bending every
effort (efforts in which I regret to ad
mit they are only too skillful and gen
erally successful) to prostitute the pub
lic press and the bosses of the parties to
their unpatriotic and nefarious ends.
We need such an organ to keep tab on
our legislators; an organ that will as
certain the truth and speak it, unedited
either by priest or monopolist; an or
gan whose voice our people will credit
and whose unqualified independence
and veracity the people at large will
eventually appreciate.
The matter was placed In the hands
of the supreme executive board by the
supreme council at Des Moines, and by
that body entrusted to me; re-endorsed
by the supreme body at Mllwaukee.and
I urged upon the councils to take im
mediate action for the purchase of
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