The Portland daily press., 1895-10-04
A. P. A..
Address at City Hall Last Evening by Ma
jor Ryan of Ohio.

Last evening Major Ryan OF Ohio gave
an address on the reasons why all Anne
ricans should join the American Protec-
tive Association. There was good-sized
audience gathered to hear him, perhaps
600, including women. Mr.. Liberty b.
BENNETT presided and called on Rev. Mr.
Southworth to offer prayer.
At the conclusion OF the prayer MI.
bennett said that among those present
was an eminent orator from the west,
accustomed to address great meetings in
company with Senator Sherman, Gov.
Foraker and other leading men of the
state. The A. P A. of this city has Sc
cured his services because there is so
much ignorance and transformation
in regard to the order. He then intro
duced Major Ryan.
Major. Ryan is very heavily built man
of medium height, with long black hair
and moustache, and little lame from
wound received at the battle of Chicak-
manga He is all Irishman from Pro-
testant Ulster, and man apparently OF
between 80 and 60 years of age. He
spoke for about an hour and half and
evidently to the satisfaction of his hear
res judging from the applause His ansc-
dotes were witty and at times be rose to
genuine oratory. He began with
panegyrie of the late Hon. James g.
Blaine who Col. Ingerson described as
the great parliamentarian. He then said
he was present to exercise his pregroga-
tion of free speech and to inform all who
opposed that doctrine to understand that
they will be made to agree to the propo-
sition or get out of the country. Where
did the people come from who oppose
free speechs From the lands of squalor
and anarchy. He was not here to inter-
fere with any mans religious belief, but
he was here to say that Congress had got
to say TO the representatives OF any re-
ligion who shall make the attempt, to
Keep their hands of the American flag
and not to tarnish one star of it
He then gave statement of the beliefs
of the A. P. A. They included belief
in the perpetuity of free institutions.
Those who say the order is un-American,
falsify. The Ancient Order of Hiberni-
ans Is un-Amerioan, and most especially
SO the Clan na-Gael that commits murder.
in order to obtain it's ends. 1t declares
for restriction Of immigration. All our
fathers required Of those who came here
was, and all we require is, that imml-
grants shall support the flag and absolye
themselves from all allegiance to foreign
potentate, the potentate Is of church
as well as state. The Congress of 1920
saw what elements in the future might
come here that would fail to assimilate
with our institutions and they prepared
a plan SO that the government might
know what sort of people were coming
Then the speaker went through with
the list of nationalities that have COM
DO sed the stream of immigration and
showed that the protestant races that
come over were we'll educated and de-
sirable citizens. because with education
came Intelligent development. The Irish,
Italians, Poles were under the direction
of priests and were illiterate. His own
countrymen, the Irish, had about AZ per
cent who could not read or write when
you leave out Ulster. but when that
province was added the Al. per cent was
reduced to about 20 per cent. The Irish
talk of home rule, said he. Why, if Glad
stones bill had not been defeated by the
House of Lords, all honor to them, my
native county of Ulster, would have
been bathed in blood. The A. P. A.,
believes in the little red school house
because it is through it that everything
of value that can como to man or nation,
has been obtained. Where Romanism
has sway, ignorance and vice follows.
You cannot take these Catholics into
your secret orders, said the speaker, be-
cause they have to tell everything to. their
priests. They cannot read epd write and
yet they presume to dictate to US what
we shall, and shall not, do in regard to
education. We want skilled, intelligent
labor, but we do not want the hordes
of tramps that come from over the water
and settle in the congregated cities and
are used as tools to thwart the govern
ment under whose flag they live and by
whom they are protected The A. 2. A.
is opposed to immigration, and said he,
I wouldn't vote for man who wouldn't
vote against it. The A. P. A. Is also in
favor Of the taxationsof all church proper
ty.
Why, said he, should the poor man,
with q small home. work his fingers to
the bone to keep his little family togeth-
ar. and pays taxes on that home, while
ohildless puppet of the church sits in
magnificent mansion and lives on the fat
OF the land, and his great church proper
ty pays not cent. The A. P. A. believes
the school teacher In the primary. school
should get large pay. She moulds the
Q hid that make the man. Any blockhead,
says DR.. White, can run school system.
Father Phelan has said he wished all
the Protestant schools sunk to the depths
of the ocean. Well, in that case, it would
be we'll if all the priests and bishops were
sent to the depths of hell.
The speaker closed with brilliant
on: Mrs. Hayes, who kept wine
out of the White House, and on the no.
I;1;tv If manhood Of Prasidapf Garfield