Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-09-10
OBJECTS OF TaH ORDER
Those Who Are Admitted TO Its Beaef 81
and What The Benefits Are.

Those Who Are Admitted TO Its Beaef 5,
and What The Benefits Are.
The objects of the Order, and the man
ner of acquiring and administering its
benefits, are thus stated by its official
organ, The Golden Vest Published at San
Francisco, in the interests of the Native
Sons:
The Society of the Native Sons of the
Golden West was organized for the mutual
benefit, mental improvement, and social
intercourse of its members; to perpetuate
in the minds of all native Californians the
memories of one of the most wonderful
epochs in the worlds history" the DAYS
of 40 TO unite them in one harmonious
body throughout the State by the ties of a
| friendship mutually beneficial to all, and
unalloyed by the bitterness of religious or
! political differences, the discussion Of which
is most stringently forbidden in its meet
| ings; to elevate and cultivate the mental
faculties; to rejoice with one another in
prosperity, and to extend the Good Sa-
maritan" hand in adversely. The members
must bear good reputation for sobriety
and industry; they must follow some re-
spectacle calling by which to make liy-
ing, and as vital principle of the Associa-
| tion, it encourages temperance among itS
members, and recommends total abstinence
! from all intoxicating drinks
Under the constitution its membership
| is confined to white males, who were born
within the State of California. Candidates
must be of sound health, Of good moral
character and industrious habits. having
some respectable means of support, anC
| believing in the existence of a Supreme
| Being, and must be proposed in the Parlo,
nearest their residence, except that Parlol
grant ermis ion to join another. Candi.
dates must be of the age of eighteen OF
| upward, but each subordinate Parlor NAV
fix the limit of age beyond eighteen. The
applio is referred to a committee o.
investigation, who inquire and report at the
next regular meeting of the Parlor as to the
fitness of The candidate for membership. i
the report is unfayorable, he is rejected; il
favorable, and accompanied with the certif
cate of an examining physician as to good
health of the candidate, ballot is taken
| when three black balls are suffi, lent tc
| reject. The ceremonies attending the in.
itiati0n Of a new member, and the general
ritual Of the order are necessarily
secret The initiation fees range from
S. to $40. Monthly dues are, with
but few exceptions, 81 per month
In addition to the abstract benefit.
arising from the moral and social in
huences operating on q body of young men
meeting together fraternally and har
moniously for common object, there are
certain concrete advantages to be derived
from membership in the order Every
member in good standing in case of sick
ness or bodily injury, not arising from al
immoral or unlawful action, is entitled tc
receive from the funds of the Parlol
wherein he is u member such weekly bene-
fits as may be fixed by the Parlor bylaws
In majority of the Parlors the benefits
are as high as $40 week. In case of the
death of q member, such & sum is allowed
from the funds of the Parlor as the by
laws may allow, or require, TO defray the
expense of the funeral.
The organization has lis Parlors at tn,
present time, and membership of abou
| 250