The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1894-08-10
SECRECY AND POLITICS.
THE TWO COMBINED IN A NEW
ORGANIZATION.
1t IL Called the Unitsd Sons OF Amer
tcs and Has y Concise
Platform OF Prin-
clples.

now secret political order has just
been organized with its headquarters in
Los Angeles. The objects OF the order
are to assist in the dissemination Of csr-
tain principles of government which are
laid down in the organic law, and to
consolidate the voters of the nation in
the support Of those principles. The
organization is novel in many respects
and unlike any other secret order. The
name of the order is United Sons OF
America, the initials being U. s. A.
The organization in which all who
join the order hold membership is called
the local conference Then there are
the county, city, district, state and ma
tional conferences, all of which are del
egate bodies, called to meet from time
to time to do the political work OF the
organization.
There are also provided county district,
state and national executive committees.
The national executive committee ie
composed OF the state conferences, and it
meets once year and does the nation al
Legislative work of the order. The state
executive committee is composed of the
presidents OF the county conferences,
and does the state legislative work OF the
order.
The state council is composed OF the
leading state officers, and does the ex-
ecutive and judicial work OF the state,
while the national cabinet, composed of
the leading national officers, does tho
national executive and judicial work.
The members are obligated to support
the laws of the state and nation and
sustain the authorities, to oppose the
election Of men to Office who are nomi-
mated by fraud or corrupt political
bosses, to secure to every legal voter q
secret ballot, to be honestly counted,
and to elect to office those who are hon
est and capable and who are pledged to
carry out the following fundamental
principles:
First-The enactment and enforcement
of laws for the equal protection of labor
and capital and providing for the arbl.
tration of all Disputes arising between
employers and employees pertaining to
their relations as men.
Second-The adoption OF q financial
system that shall embrace unit of
value, having as nearly as practicable
fixed and invariable value that shall
supply the people with sound circulate
ing medium, consisting of gold and
silver coin and United States treasury
notes, all Of which shall be unlimited
legal tender for all debts, public and
private, in sufficient volume to answer
the demands of business, and sufficiently
elastic TO meet the. fluctuations of trade !;
that shall provide for the free and I'm
limited coinage of gold and silver at a
fixed ratio that shall forbid the making
OF private contracts discriminating
against any part of the circulating
medium; that shall abolish national
banks of issue and establish government
postal saving banks to receive the sur
plus earnings Of the people and assure
the safe keeping of the same.
Third-The protection of American
labor by preventing the introduction of
cheap labor from foreign countries, and
the protection and elevation of American
citizenship by lengthening the term of
residence preliminary to naturalization,
and requiring the applicant for citizen.
ship to pass an examination that will
test his qualifications for becoming an
intelligent and patriotic American citi-
zen.
Fourth-The absolute control by the
governments of all railroad and telegraph
lines.
All legal voters are eligible to men,
bership; also young men over IS years
of age, if citizens.
Local conference No. will be organ
lied in this city on Wednesday evening,
the 10Th inst, and the prospects are
good for very largo charter list.
The national officers until the assem-
bling of the frat national conference
have been chosen az follows:
National president, L. M. Holt, for.
merly of the Riverside Press, who is the
founder of the order.
Past national president, ex-Gov. Lilo.
mel A. Sheldon, of Pasadena, formerly
governor of Mexico and q member OF
congress from Louisiana.
National vice.president, Lee Fair
child, vice-prssident of the Repu blican
state league of the state of Washington.
National organizer. Col. John R.
Berry, editor of the Los Angeles Even
ing Telegraph, and also late collector OF
the port of San Diego.
National secretary, D. J. Carr, late
national secretary of the International
Order of Railway conductors.
National treasurer, A. N. Hamilton,
paymaster OF the Los Angeles Consol-
idated Electric Railway company.