The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1889-07-03
Know NoiIingisnl Revived.


Know Noihingisnl Revived.
Our readers will perhaps be sur
prised when they learn that the Re-
publicans arc reviving Know Moth
ing secret societies throughout the
country, but such is the fact.
In the last campaign a society
whose proceedings were secret was
organized by the Republicans under
the name of Knights of Protection,
seductive title and one that misled
the people, and every one joining
the society took All obligation to
support the Republican party
Since the success of"Protection" an
unfortunate condition prevails
among the protected people; wages
have been universally reduced, and
starvation has taken the place of
bread and meat on the dining tables
of thousands of those who were, to
have SO much benefit from the rich
making protective tariff. The Sc
ductive promises have taken wings
and fed, never, perhaps, to return.
The Knights of Protection have
served their purpose for the cam
paign, and as disappointment fol-
lowed their every false promise, low
wages succeeded the pledge of high
wages, idleness was the result of
assured work, and starvation stalks
abroad instead of plenty, there is
every reason why the Knights shall
have hurried and deep intcrment.
But another and more desperate or
quickly succeeds it, and
this last is the rankest sortof Know
Nothingism. The following private
has been sent out from the
State journal Office, and explains:
PREAMBLE
We, the undersigned, Americans
by birth, having viewed the disad-
vantages under which American la
Dor from the effects of foreign com
not only by tho different
articles of manufacture being inn
ported into the several States of the
Union, thereby depriving the me-
of American birth from re-
alizing that material benefit from
their labors which they should
But the present system of the inn
pers by the nations of the Old
World, has been, and is carried to
such an extent that if some remedy
is not very soon applied, the Ameri-
cans by birth will very soon become
paupers themselves, and from past
and present appearances
of the future, instead of the evil
abating, there is u certainty of their
therefore, we feel our
selves bound by the duties we owe
our country and our countrymen, to
provide for the protection of Ameri-
cans by forming ourselves into an
to advance such objects,
and carry out such principles as
shall best promote the interests and
shall secure the happiness of our
selves and our countrymen; in addi-
ton to which is added the praise
worthy duty of aiding our brothers
in distress. Therefore, for the pdr-
pose of advancing such objects and
principles, we hereby pledge our
SaluaS as Ynarioanc to ,1cn ax,aexy
fair and honorable means consistent
with our sacred duties, and in ac-
cordance with the paternal voice of
the Father of our Country: abe
ware of Foreign Influence" and
agree to be governed by the Consti-
tuition of the Order"
The applicant to join fills out
printed blank in which he says he
has read the principles of the order
and approves the same" The as
sumed title of the society is "Junior
Order, United American Mechan-
les" It will be seen by reading.the
preamble above that only those who
are Americans by BIRTH are eligi-
Bile to membership, and that the
purpose is to keep out of this coun-
try all foreigners, and foreign made
goods.
But there is underlying the whole
scheme a shameless, barefaced po-
litical purpose, of which we shall
speak in the future.-Parkersburg