The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1894-05-10
A. P. A. DEMANDS.
Opposition to Ecclesiastical Powers
Not Controlled by Americans.
Adherents to the Roman Catholic Church
Strictly Prohibited by This Association
No Effort to Control the Polit-
ical Affiliations of Its Members.

DEs MONIES, Ia, May THE su-
preme council of the American Pro.
tectiye association completed its labors
here Saturday night, after four days
session
A statement that Supreme President
Traynor had recommended twenty-one
years residence for naturalization was
in error. His recommendation was
ten years, and the supreme council
finally decided that seven years should
elapse between an aliens declaration
of intention and naturalization. The
council passed resolution asking this
correction to be made by the press. The
declaration of principles is as follows:
/. Loyalty to true Americanism,
which knows neither birthplace, race,
creed nor party, is the first requisite
for mem bership in the American Pro-
tective Association.
g The American Protective associa-
tion is not political party, and does
not control the political affiilation of its
members, but it teaches them to be in
tensely active in the discharge of their
political duties in or out of party lines,
because it believes that all problems
confronting our people will be best
solved by a conscientious discharge of
the duties of citizenship by every indi.
| vidual.
g. While tolerent of all creeds, it
holds that subsection to and support of
any ecclesiastical power, not created
| and controlled by American citizens,
| and which claims equal If not greater
sovereignty than the government of
the United States, is irreconcilable
with American citizenship 1t is, there
| fore, opposed to offices in national, state
or municipal government by any SUBJ
| ject or supporter of such ecclesiastical
| power.
| United States of America, and no por-
| tion of it more than its guaranty of reli-
| gious liberty, but we hold this religious
| liberty to be guaranteed to the individ-
ual, and not to mean that under its pro-
lection any un-American ecclesiastical
power can claim absolute control over
the education of children growing up
under the Stars and Stripes
| s. We consider the non-sectarian free
public school the bulwark of American
institutions; the best place for the edu-
cation of American children. To keep
them such we protest against the en-
ployment Of subjects of any ecclesiasti-
cal power as officers or teachers of our
public schools.
| 6 We condemn the support out of
the public treasury by direct appropria-
ton or by contract of any sectarian
school, reformatory or other institu-
tion not owned and controlled by pub
lie authority.
Z. Believing the exemption from tax
alton is equal to grant of public
funds, we demand that no real or per-
sonal property be exempt from taxa
tion the title to which is not vested in
the national or state governments or in
any of their subdivisions
8. We protest against the enlistment
in the U. S. army and navy, or the
militia of any state, of any person not
an actual citizen of the United States.
9. We demand for the protection of
our citizen laborers the prohibition of
the importation of pauper labor and
the restrictions of all immigration to
persons who can not show their ability
and honest intention to become self
supporting American citizens.
10. We demand the change of nat
uralization laws by repeal of the act
authorizing the naturalization of mi
nors without a previous declaration of
intention and providing that no aliens
shall be naturalized or permitted to
vote in any state in the union who can
not speak the language of the land,
and who can not prove seven years
continuous residence in the country
from the date of his declaration of in
tention.
IL. We protest against the gross neg
ligence and laxity with which the ju-
dietary of our land administer the pres
ent naturalization laws and against
the expense of communities or candi-
dates as the most prolific source of the
present prostitution of American cit
izenship to the basest use
12 We demand that all hospitals, asy-
lums, reformatories and other institu-
tions in which people are under re-
straint be at all times subject to public
inspection, whether they are main
tanned by the public or by private cor
porations or individual.
13 We demand that all national or
state legislation affecting financial,
commercial or industrial interests be
general in character, and in no in
stance in favor of any one section of
the country or of any one class of peo-
pie.
The council tabled every motion at.
tempting to commit the order to any
distinct line of policy on the money,
labor, suffrage, temperance or other
party questions, and also adopted a
resolution declaring that no committee
or other authority in the order could
bind the members to any political ac'
tion beyond their negative obligation.
The council approved of the draft of a
bill for the suppression of immigration,
which will be sent to congress, and
also adopting resolutions for legisla'
tion subjecting converts and similar
institutions to public inspection.
King Humbcrt Has Cancer.
NEW YORK, May THE Rome CORE
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