St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-01-25
AN APPEAL TO Tue PEOPLE.
PRINCIPLES ADOPTED BY THE I'LL
HOIS A. p. A. CONVENTION
THE BLOOMINGTON MEETING.
An Expression of Opposition to
Priests Taking Part in Elec-
tions and Voting Their Lafty
as q Unit-A Demand That
Converts and MOnasteries Be
Opened to Official Inspection.

BLOOMINGTON, Ill.,. Jan. "a. = The
number of delegates to the state con-
vention of the American Protective as
ISOLATION has been largely augmented.
The declaration of principles has been
adopted by the convention ana made
public.
l. Nationality is not bar TO men,
bershlp in the order. No man was asked
where he was born.
2. We interfere with no mans par
tisan politics.
g.. We attack no mems religion so
long as he does not attempt to make his
religion an element of political power.
4. We united to protect our country
and its free institutions against the
secret, intolerant and aggressive efforts
that are being persistently set forth by
a certain religio-political organization
to control the government Of the United
States and destroy our blood-bought
civil and religious liberty.
5. We are in favor OF preserving con-
stitutional liberty and maintaining the
government of the United States.
6. We regard all religlo-political or
CARNATIONS as the enemies of civil and
religious liberty.
Z. 1t is, in our opinion, unwiSe and
unsafe to appoint or elect to civil. polit
fcal or military Office in this country
men who owe supreme allegiance to any
foreign king, potentate or ecclesiastical
power. We are III favor of maintaining
the principle of one general unsectarlan
free school organization. and will OPP
pose all attempts to Supplant it by any
Sectarian institution.
s. We are opposed to all attempts,
local or national, to use public funds
for any sectarian purpose.
9. We are i'll favor of laws taxing
church property.
10. The opening of private and
parochial schools, converts and mon
asteries to public official inspection, and
placed on the same plan of morality and
Jaw as Protestant institutions are.
IL. We are in favor of changing our
immigration laws in such manner that
they will protect our citizen laborers
from the evil influences of cheap pauper
and criminal labor which, through the
instrumentality of European propagan-
dist societies, and in this country by the
aid of strikers and the subtle influence
OF priests, are rapidly supplanting our
free and educated American citizen in
every line OF industry
II. We believe there should be an
educational qualification to elective
franchise that will require every Ameri-
can citizen TO be Americanized.
Is. We are III favor of putting into
office honest aud true patriots who are
best qualified to fill the position regard
less of political parties
IA. We are willing to be governed by
these principles in our future political
action.
ID. Our mission is to awaken the
people Of America from lethargy, in
difference and over-cOntidence- Eternal
vigilance is the price of liberty, yet the
ProIeStantS of this republic have ceased
TO be yigllant and in conscious strength
are intently chasing the almighty dollar
or quietly doing while we are swiftly
drifting toward a more tremendous and
terrible crisis than this country has yet
known.
The following paragraph is append
ed to the avowal: Birthplace is not the
sole test OF American loyalty. We have
men born i'll several countries remote
from this that are as loyal as any native.
But they are not Romanists. American
loyalty consists in devotion to our con-
StltutIon, laws. institutions, flag, aud,
above all, our public schools; for with
out Intelligence this representative re-
public will 90 to pieces. We oppose
teaching of perverted history IN our
schools and the mutiIation of reference
books to cover the infamies of a So
called church, which is more political
than religious. We are opposed to
priests and prelates, as such, taking
part in elections and voting their laity
as unit in the interests of foreign
corporation, with intent to iDjure this
nation and its Institutions"