Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-05-29
THE IROQUOIS.
They Celebrate Their First
Anniversary.
AN ENTEE lNMENE AND BALL.
The Braves Id Their Gaests Enjoy
Themselves for a Brief
Season.

oSooOAs
The Iroquois Club gave an an enter
tainment and ball last evening at its hall
on Main street. A large number OF the
members of the organization were pres
ent with their ladies. The programme
of exercises began at about half-past 8
O'Clock. Captain A. F. Mackay an
nounced that the entertainment was IN
honor of the first anniversary OF the
organization of the club. He said that
it was no longer necessary to explain the
nature of the Iroquois Club. Ii was a
political organization devoted TO the
promulgation of the doctrine OF the gooo
old Democratic party.
Colonel J. ]. Ayres was then lntro-
duced, and after congratulatlng the ciuo
on the good work which it mad done
during the last campaign, none the less
praisworthy because the national cause
did not meet with success, he spoke as
follows:
Iroquois
"What's in a name?" sighs forth the
gentle Juliet. Is there q reason why
great organizations inside the Demo,
cratic party have adopted Indian names
There was doubtless valid one for the
adoption at very early period OF the
Republic of the name OF Tammany by
that great political society of New York:
Tradition says that Taminund, changed
into Tammany, was great Delaware
chief, prophet and seer; and James Fen
nimore Cooper invests him with more
than mortal glamour. He was consulted
as an oracle of truth, and presclence, and
Justice when his tribe was confronted
with disaster or surrounded by difficul.
ties. More than once has Tammany led
the Democratic hosts of the Empire
State out of the Slough of Despond into
the Mount Beautiful of victory. That
society boasts long line of illustrious
Democrats as its Sachems, and is at this
day the most powerful political organiza'
ton in the United States.
1t is easy to see how, from the success
of Tammany, other Democratic societies
should have heen led to favor aboriginal
names.
OF all the great Indian names, none
could have been selected of more appro.
pirate significance than that oi
'sIroquois. as the general title of the
Five Nations, composed of the powerful
tribes that occupied both sides of the
lakes, Western New York, Pennsylvania.
and reached out into the Northwest, il
was the only Indiar confederacy that
was held together foe tEo centuries by
the valor of its arms, si23 Intelligence OF
its chiefs and the wisdom CT it's councils.
Down to the beginning OF the eighteenth
century, it was composed of the great
tribes known as the Mohawks, the SEN
ecas, the Onondagas, the Cayugas and
the Oneidas. 1t subsequently absorbed
the remnant of the Tuscaroras, a North
Carolina tribe, which, speaking the 1ro-
quois language, was supposed to be a
family offshoot, and was, therefore, in
corporated with the confederacy, after
which the Iroquois was known as tie
Six Nations. In colonial times the Iro-
quois were invariably the allies of our
ancestors against the French and their
Indian allies, in those cruel and decim.
ating wars which were remorselessly
waged in this country from the first set
tlement down to the overthrow of French
domination in Canada, just previous to
the American Revolution.
The Iroquois we're perfectly demo-
cratic in their organization. The con-
federacy was governed by grand Gen.
tral council, in which representative
sections from each tribe voiced the will
of their constituents. The great affairs
of the confederacy were committed to
this council, which made treaties, de-
clared war, formed alliances, selected
leaders, sent out hostile enterprises, and
exercised all the higher functions OF
confederate government.
1t will therefore be seen that there is
appropriateness in the designation of a
Democratic organization with the title
of Iroquois.
II there ever was q time whom the
country needed the wise counsels and
the patriotic services of the great party
that has so often steered the chip of state
through adverse storms and dangerous
seas, it is the present. By the corrupt
ing use of corporate wealth, the pluto
Gratis have ensconced themselves in
power, and the kind of logic we have
now to meet is that the late election is
justification of the encroachments OF
banded wealth upon the rights and
necessities of the people. High and dis
eliminating tariffs, creating monopolies
with power to tax the people at will, are
refining the tyranny OF the plutocrats
into new and sweeping combinations
known as Trusts, which are rapidly di-
yiding the country into two elasses-the
nrotected few who are absorbing the sub
stance of the unprotected many.
II this country is ever to be brought
back to the true principls1 tour system,
it will be by the restc-&ttto . National
power of that party ~ 1as always
held as it's fundan.l . .octrine that
every citizen ana e7s-. 33tion OF the
country is entitled 10 uqu..i:y OF rights
and privileges, and that justice and
sound policy forbid the Federal govern
ment or power course which results in
building up privileged classes through
special favors and immuuities.
The privileged class of this country is
an aristocracy of wealth, which has been
enpendered by the determinations of the
tariff; by the legalized plunder OF the
public domain; b. the creation OF trans
portation and other monopolies; and by
the corruptiens and abuses that have
grown up in the Federal Departments.
The salvation of the country lies in a
return to the great growing principles of
tbe Democratic party. The landmarks
laid down by Jefferson and kept
conspicuously in sight by his Democratic
successors have been nearly obliterated
by the rule of party which has pei
mitted and encouraged corporate and
encroachments upon our
svstem. The aristocracy OF wealth by
the convenience and policy OF this party,
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