People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1894 — The A. P. A. [ARTICLE]

The A. P. A.

<;.» .i,. i ..«»i uuxi. It haw been rumored that an A. P. A. has been organized in Rensselaer, and the Sentinel has Immediately caught up the report and published it with the horrid fore boding* for the or ganizution which only the hna gitiative mind of the Sentinel h capable of expressing. Yen, Brother McEwen, we have an American Protective axsoci ation in Ifciibhidaer, a thriving too, and its memLer;> arc in rreami.g-at every meeting. We believe in the old doctrine, "America lor Americans We e<>mitei,am<- no politic-) what ever, Hut arc one and all for the protect ion <d our American In bld dion . and d- I-' mliooh, T .<• A. I * A op< . it> «o n.b to all pai I !<• . aiilo- and now ivom pt» ,» d <<■!).<• 1 ' '' ra.l pa i't i' •.1• W c'i ■, ai on no one, bid, mere Jy protect il-.i If. We Incan that tin ntai . ,! ripen rdiall lit ouroi.c and only llag. and the patriot i in and your love ol < ouidi'j i hould in .pir<- you ■. dli a good opinion and ret-,port for all such organization:) as oin .. Liberty to worship God in every one , w.iy r> 11 co to all, but; wln n there r a tainpcrin/' with Aincrica.ii Im>titutions, and idluiT. are made io loidermim tin- loundal ioir-i I lia.l support the noble < dilicc ol our Republic, Hie people ri .in" 111 I Loir indlp nation, ini,'.'lit, and majesty, should ;.;i y! 11 ands oil . o ill,- 'I ;s oi 't ill'. A Ml.tll'lA.' t'lto'i t,< 'ri vr, ah.ooi jation, i ;.l. 'I In f\ m< i,i''an I ‘color,live Association i,s orpaiiizi-d for till purpose of purifying politics, R n non ; I'clarian and non partizim organization composed only ol 11 He A moi ic:.ii ciliz.cim, withold i < paid io ii.a t lona 11 t.y, :'d Wliib we unite Io protect our country and its free instltu 1i0n.., we attach no man's rejig ion no long as Im does not attempt to mu,lm it, an element in polit.H al power, 3d. < )ur aim i > Io pre (•rvo and maintain the government id 11 nited ISlales, and Hie pi ind| |e:> of tin |b'l’laral ion ol I ndepend eiice as net forlh by the fotitii.l c.i n against the c.iicroacliniciith ol all foreign inlluenccn, Illi. We regard till relight po litical organizat ioiib as the <*m* mien of civil ami religious liber lies,

91,h 11 ta, iii our opinion, uh ;nli'. and unwise to appoint <>r elect 1.0 <’ivil or mil’llary ollices in iliin country mon who owenu prcine allegiance to any l’oroi;-n king, potent,ate or occlohiiiHliriil power, or who urn sworn Io obey hlicll power. • Sth Wo urn in favor of main tainiiig one general, uimeciariim slim ar. loot system, and will op p >;,i- to aupplml, it oy any ,-,mlarian mst it nt ion Wo a,re op posed tot ho mm of public I'mids I o' any fmdari'ilj purpose. <l b. We are in favor of changing our Immigration lawn in Much a maimer I Im,l I hey will protect, our citizen laborers from the inlliieiicoH of pauper and criminal labor, which. tJit'Ough the hmlriiiiicntalily of European propa;'andi >1 NocielioN, are rapid ly Niipplanling our free and edu cated American citizens in every line of indiist ry; but, we do not oppose lioii.iel and educated hit miviaiils, who come for the par pose of becoming Aim-ricau citi z‘tis, ami who will tors wear al le piitiice io ail foreign potentates and powers, Mt li, We are in fax rof put ting into otll *e honest an I true patriots, who are qunldied, and who owe allegiance only to the Hurs and Stripes.

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