The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1894-04-03
The American Mechanics.

Edftor OF HE NEWS:
DEAR SIR I'm the leading editorial of the
Mount Holly Dispatch of the issue of March 49,
its editor, Elton j Buckley, places before the
public an unjust attack against the members
of Washington Council. No. 5, Junior Order
United American Mechanics, and other pa
t11otic organizations of this town. Being
member OF the first named organization. i feel
1t my duty to resent this just, uncalled-for
and insulting attack, which misrepresents the
objects of this order.
In the first place the editor takes for his sub
ject communication fIom a member of the
Jr. o. U. A. NJ. He then endeavors to show in
sensational manner that the objects of the
Jr. Mechanics is to wage war against the Cath
Ollie denomination, and that Its principles are
non American Then from his lack of knowl
edge OF the objects and workings of this order,
he drops that and attempts to fire broadside
into the ranks of the American Patriotic AS
sociation.
The position taken by the Dispatch is that
cit is utterly non-American, in that American
ism is supposed to embody the idea that all
men are free and equal, no matter whether
they happen 10 be Catholics or Protestants."
As a past Councillor of the Jr. o. U. A. Nj. and
being acquainted with the workings of the
Order, would state 10 the public that this
Order does not oppose any Catholic or tor
e1gner who is good citizen and abides by
the laws of this country; but when foreigners
endeavor to tear the American flag down and
trample it under their feet and to cast the
Holy Bible from within the walls OF the public
school room; to place nuns within our public
schools, as teachers, arrayed in their official
garb; when the state and national govern
ment Is being corrupted by the influence or
| foreign nations, we as American born citizens,
feel it our duty to draw the line, no matter
whether they be Catholics or members of any
other religious denominations.
The Dispatch is evidently laboring under
the delusion that The objects of the Jr. o. u.
A. M, OF which the editor has but a limited
knowledge, is to wage war against every for
eigner. Our first recommendation to the edi-
tor would be to spend awhile in studying the
objects of this order, and he would plainly see
that we have no objection to any person or
denomination that will abide by the laws of
this country and live ccording to American
principles.
The members of the Jr. o. u. Am. are aware
of the fact that every effort Is being made by
foreigners in this country to trample this
Order and every member thereof under their
feet as was plainly shown by the remarks of
William j. Thompson, Duke of Gloucester"
in the Legislature recently in his attacks
upon this Order when it endeavored to have
the American flag placed over every school
house in New Jersey, the bill for which OBJ
ject. we are proud to state, was introduced by
member of and through the efforts of the Jr.
o. U. A. NJ, which order the Dispatch feebly
endeavors to make the public believe is non
American in its principles.
We would be pleased to forward Mr. Buck
ley copy of our bylaws and constltut ion
that he may study the objects OF the Jr. o. U.
A. NJ, and we think that in his next attempt
to write patriotic editorial denouncing this
organization, his mind would be somewhat
clearer and thereby enabled to place the
matter in more intelligent light before the
public than he did in the know-nothing at
tempt in his last issue.
Respectfully yours,
A JUNIOR MECHANIC.