The herald., 1894-09-02
UNITED SONS OF AMERICA
PLANS OF THE NEW SECRET PO-
LITlCAL ORGANIZATION.
Composed of Members From the Old
Psrties-An Attack on Corruption
In the Caucus, In the Convsn-
tion aSd at the Polls.

tion aSd at the Polls.
Los Angeles hos been the birthplace
during the present month OF new Sc
cret organization. which appears to be
gaining strength rapidly, taking into its
Populists and ProhibitioniHts. Among
its leading officers are representatives OF
OF least three Of these parties.
Local conference No. of this city
meets every Wednesday evening in Nc.
Donald hall, 127 N. Main street, and
new members are coming in very
rapidly.
The national officers are about to com.
mence an active campaign in the way of
organizing work, extending the order
throughout the state and throughout
the United States, and as preliminary
to this work have just sent out an adj
dress to the voters OF California, from
which are extracted the following:
Their principles are concisely outlined
in the following four planks OF the plat
form:
First-The enactment and enforce
ment of laws for the equal protection of
labor and capital, and providing for the
arbitration OF all disputes arising be-
tween employers and employees, per-
tanning TO their relations as such.
Second-The adoption OF financial
system that shall embrace a unit of
value, having, ss nearly as practicable.
fixed and invariable value, that shall
supply the people with sound circu!at-
ing medium, consisting of gold and sill
YER 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 f1uctua-
tons OF trade; that shall provide for
the free and unlimited 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 savings banks to re-
ceive the surplus 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 Ameri-
can citizenship by lengthening the term
of residence preliminary to naturaliza-
ton and requiring the applicant for cit
izenship to pass an examination that
will test his qualifications for becoming
an intelligent and patriotic American
citizen.
Fourth-The absolute control by the
government OF all railroad and telegraph
lines.
The members are pledged to vote for
no candidate for Office who is not in
favor of these principles. He is also
pledged not to vote for any candidate
who secures his nomination by trickery
or fraud or through the influence OF
corrupt political bosses.
The promoters claim that majority
OF the voters of the United STATES would
today endorse these principles in the
main. if they could be put in such shape
~ to call forth an honest expression of
opinion.
The first local conference OF the
United Sons OF America was organized
in the city of Los Angeles on the 18th
day of August, and voters of all parties,
laboring men, business men and pro-
fessional men arc said to be joining in
large numbers.
Applications for the work OF an organ.
izing officer have been received from
San francisco, Sacramento. Bakersfield
and other places in this state and from
Colorado, New Jersey and other locali-
ties in the east.
Col. John r. Berry, the national Or
gsnizer, will soon take the field In the
interest of the organization. He has
appointed Thos. A. Carey OF Los
Angeles as state deputy organizer
for California to take charge
Of the organizing work in this state
and Hon. Lee Fairchild of Seattle as
state deputy for the state of Waehing-
ton. Mr.. FAirchild, who 10 one of the
ablsst platform speakers on this coast,
expects to take the field az organizer in
few weeks. Mr.. Carey will commence
work at once.
The order expects to have IL. 900 mem
bers in the state of California before the
close Of the year. The expense OF mem
bership 10 nominal.
The society wants an organizer in
every county in the state. Good work
ers will be appointed az rapidly as pos.
sible, but they must first become mem.
Ders and receive the necessary instruc.
tions.
1t is dssired to call state conference
70 elect 9tate ulilcbYS and create state
executive committee for the California
Jurisdiction ct as early date as posi-
BILE. Such move can be made as soon
az five local conferences shall have been
formed.
The address to the people is signed by
L. M. Holt, national president, Col.
John R. Berry, national organizer, and
d. J. Carr, national secretary.