The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-09-07

and representative citizens OF your city,
who viii discharge their duty fearlessly !;
but shall not make a man. s church re-
lations test. think your association is
undemocratic and American, and |
am opposed to it. haven't drop OF
Know Nothing blood in my veins. -
This is very significant. 1t is evidence
that the purpose of this order Is so far
political that it aims to prevent Catholics
from obtaining public office. 1t may be
argued that the Kansas City incident
only proves that the society sought to
prevent Catholics from getting an undue
share OF the offices. Perhaps that is cor
rect. But when that incident is viewed
in the light of others it has much greater
significance.
AT the municipal election IL Columbus,
Ohio, April 3p1S93, the A. P. A. waged q
bitter fight against Catholics and gained
pledges from both Republicans and Demo-
Gratis to ''vote against every Catholic or
Catholic sympathizer. - Thus the move
ment was not political in a party sense,
but religious or rather anti-religious in
its character for political effect, and was
in the nature and spirit of Known Moth
ingdism, which made a brief but IN
sayory record in American history.
The difference between that order and
the A. P. A, is that the former was COM
posed OF Americans, while the latter is
chiefly composed of persons of foreign
birth, among whom are many Orange
men. Any one who has been in Canada
or the north of Ireland knows the ami
mus that exists in the breasts of Orange
men against the Pope and all Catholics.
A Baptist minister in Cincinnati, who
breaches to crowded church and de-
nounces Roman Catholicism, is quoted as
Boosting that there are 60, 600 A. P. A. IS
in Chicago, 10, 600 IN Cincinnati, and at
least half as many in Columbus. All
Catholics who ran for Office in Columbus
last November weoe defeated by from a.
600 TO 5000 votes.
The oath of membership taken by the
A. P. A. Is in the east has been published
as follows:
81 do most solemnly promise and swear
that Will not allow any one, a member
OF the Roman Catholic church, to become
a member of this order L knowing aim to
be such; that will use my influence to
/
everywhere in the world; that l will not
employ Roman Catholic in any capacity
if | can procure the services of Protes-
| tant; that will not aid in building or in
maintaining, by my resources, any Ro-
man Catholic church or institution of
their sect or creed whatsoever, but will
DO ali In my power to retard and break
down the power of the pope; that | will
| not enter into any controversy with q
Roman Catholic upon the subject of this
order, nor will enter into any agreement
with Roman Catholic to strike or create
a disturbance, whereby the Roman Cath
| olic employees may determine and sub
stitute the Protestants; that in all griev-
ances | will seek only Protestants and
counsel with them, to the exclusion of all
Roman Catholics, and will not make
known to them anything of any nature
matured at such conferences; that ] will
not countenance the nomination in any
caucus or convention Of Roman Cath
Ole tor any office in the gift of the Amer
lean people, and that | viii not vote for
nor counsel others TO vote for any Roman
Catholic, but will vote only for Profess
tants; that will endeavor at all times to
place the political positions of this gov
eminent in the hands OF Protestants. To
all of which l do most solemnly promise
and swear. so help me God; amen. f"
association, and it is very pronounced
and unreliable Missouri anti Catholic pa
per. 1t has published bogus Catholic
oaths and papal documents, designed to
deceive the American public and fan the
flame of bigotry and fanaticism in this
country. We have had articles sent to us
clipped from its columns with request to
publish, but they were SO evidently base
fabrications that we have taken no other
notice of them than to throw them aside.
Last June large number of Orange
men assembled in Minneapolis in national
convention. An address was delivered
by prominent person whose official
title as given by himself is NV. J. TRAY
NOR, Treasurer National Council of Pa
triotic Orders, Master State Grand Orange
Lodge of Michigan, Past Supreme Grand
Master Loyal Orange Institution of the
United States, Vice President of the Tri-
ennial Council of the Loyal Orange Insti-
tuition of the World, Supreme President
OF the American (Protestant) Protective
Association of the World, prominent
Free Mason and publisher of the Patriotic
american, Detroit, Mich-''
In the course of his address he said, as
reported in the papers:
"Orangemen and the members of the
A. p. A. alike, and they are practically
identical are opposed to Roman Catholics
| holding public office for the reason that
the power they owe their primary allie
glance claims not only to be exempt from
the provisions of the state law, but also
claims the right to direct, control and
change the state law as the Pope may
direct. -
AS further specimen of his oratory on
that occasion we copy the annexed SEN
fences:
''Sixty- five to sixty-six per cent. OF the
public officials of the United States are
Catholics, two thirds of all the officers of
our army and navy are Papists, and there
are between 700, COD and 1 1000, 0oO Roman
Catholics members of Romish secret soci-
cites. armed to the teeth and drilled in
military tactics. What are they for? If
/ had my will, the priests should hang
and not their dupes.
Referring to the Worlds Fair at Chi
cago, he shouted;
cit is not an American fair; it is
Rome's fair. propagated at the expense
of Americans to advertise and make pop
ular her nefar1ous system in this country.
under the mask of pleasant, convenient
religion, designed to please emasculated
society and place the institutions of the
United States in papist hands.''
This pyrotechnic agitator recently Wis
tied the order in this city, and was an
nounced as the President of the society in
this country. That Identifies it, whether
called the western Starr or the 'sAm-
orlnes," or any other special title, with
the A. P. A. society and the order of Or
angemen, and their tenets and purposes
being known, all doubt as to the political