The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-02
NO paddock ON HIS LIPS,
Yesterdays Meeting of the
Good Citizenship Com
mittee.
ADDRESS BY REV. RAY PALMER.
What He Said About the Principles
OF the American Protective
Association.

The Good Citizenship Committee held
meeting in Metropolitan Temple yester-
day afternoon.
After an organ voluntary by Henry
Schuette Chairman Outflow made lew
remarks by way of introduction, and the
audience, rising, sang America.
The Rev. c. A. Rabing OF the Evangeilc
Church offered q prayer asking tor divine
blessing upon the work OF the American
Protective Association.
Charles Dubois rendered vocal solo In
French.
M IT. Brewer was introduced and SAID
that a few DAYS ago q gentleman met MN
and said he would like to join the a. Z. a.;
that is. he wanted to have his name en-
rolled in patriotic American assoclatlon'
but that it prescribed its feilow-men, par
ticulariy on religious lines, and for that ne
could not enter the ranks OF the assocla-
ton. The speaker said that he explained
that the A. p. A. is simply organized 1or
the purpose of protecting America Tor
Americans; that it does not prescribe on
religious lines; far from it, and II he
thought for one moment that it did he
would withdraw from it before the next
ElSlIlR VI L4lS SuIi. L AC oScOoAN%N~S-' -
desires to uphold the basic idea that every
man. woman and child in the land shall
worship God according to the dictates OF
his or her conscience.
The A. P. A., he said, is ready and will
ing to protect each person In worshlplng
at home. at church or on the highway, as
he may desire-that it has no desire TO
protect one religion any more than an
otner, but that the A. 2. a. does not coun.
tenance allegiance to any power OUTSIDE OF
| the United States. The American nag Is
| the only one that should float over our
public schools and over our public build
| ings. He hoped that God would speed the
day when that flag shall float 800 days IN
| the wear over every public building In the
land. He said that the wave OF the Amerl-
/ can Protective Association Will sweep over
| the whole United States to give to all love
| of country, freedom of speech and new
| true Americanism, and hoped that palsied
| be the tongue or the arm that would IN
terfere with the public schools, palsied be
| the arm that would trail the American
| flag in the dust and palsied be the tongue
| that would restrain the freedom OF speech.
| Chairman Outflow said he was pleased
| to announce that an investigation showed
that the foreign flag that had been placed
| on the top of the new building of the
Native Sons of the Golden West last Sun
day had been placed there by person not
in any way responsible to the society. 1t
was not necessary TO say that the order Is
| thoroughly patriotic.
| Mrs. NJ. E. Gallahoon rendered vocal
| solo in very acceptable manner.
Rev. DR.. Ray Palmer of Stockton was In
| troduced and addressed the audience for
| over an hour. During the course OF his
| discourse he spoke favorably OF the enter
| prise of THE CALL and its crusade against
| such evils as lotteries and opium dens In
! the Line of morality; be commended its
! liberal policy in printing all the news for
all the people, giving the public clean
! journal and a irst-class newspaper.
The address was on the heroes of the
that they are heroes who have sworn by
the everlasting law of right to be true to
the American flag and country. He said:
Another kind of patriots are those who sac
rifce self for country, and there are millions CT
them in this country. Great heroes must have
looked upon block of stone and gazing upon
the rude material exclaimed that he saw an
angel there So the true American hero when
he looks over the country exclaims that he
sees the angel OF liberty rising higher and
higher toward the zenith. AS an example of
true neroism and patriotism l wish TO tell you
of wife who, during the Revolutionary War,
was by the side of her dying husband who had
been wounded in the defense of his country,
and calling her children, all sons TO her side
said, az have given my husband for my coun-
try and am ready to give my sons to defend
it." A man who is not controlled by ideals can
never be hero.
The speaker said that there is not one
thing in the principles of the American
Protective Association that can bring the
blush of shame to the cheek of an angel.
DR.. Palmer made an attack on the politi-
clans, who, he said, tried to carry water on
both shouIders-those who protested to
indorse the principles of the A. P. a. and
at the same time when called upon to aid
\ q ocfo 6o0iaraI hot 4Hox
had to be generous and liberal. Such,
he said, protested to be Americans at heart,
but in fact they were only Americans at
the gizzard, for, he thought, they had no
heart. Continuing, the speaker said:
do not believe in the exemption of church
property, but am in favor OF every priest and
minister paying taxes like every one else. The
Jesuits are sending missionaries TO the United
states to preach to non-Catholics, they claim
ing that their principles are not understood.
l Tor one do not wish 10 know any more about
them than already know. 1 tell you that
class ministers in the line of heroes, and as
Roger Williams. Henry Ward Reeeher John n
Fulton, ParkhurSt and J. O. A. Henry. The
time is coming when all the great societies,
the Odd Fellows, the Masons, the Knights of
Pythias, the Good Tempiars and Others will be
enrolled 10 man under the banner of the A.
r A, and the tine is also fast approaching
when the statesmen OF the United States viii
al be members of the A. P. a. The time has
come Tor parents to be careful in naming their
DaDies. and they should name the boys W ash
ington, Lincoln, Garfield and names OF that
character. The time is coming soon when all
the schools. the teachers and the directors viii
form an irresistible army against any eneroach-
ment upon the principles OF the American Pro
tective Association.
On behalf of the association. deny that it is
fighting on religious grounds. believe that
among the Catholics there are good people,
and that there are many good and noble
mothers. i have the greatest respect for every
sister of charity. and for sill The good the
Catholics have DONE God bless them, but as
religionists 1 want them TO keep out of the po-
litcal field.
The true hero is man of principle and not
one of policy Those who are adjusted by
policy are towards Such there are in the
pulpit One church, Protestant one at that.
keeps out of It's pulpit any one who speaks in
favor of the A. p. A. l would not preach 10 .
congregation that would put 8 paddock on nv
lips. There are other ways of getting living
than by preaching.
Il is the aim OF the members of the A A.
to emulate other patriot Is and place their names
beside those OF Washington and other heroes OF
the days OF the Revolution and OF the Civil
wars. believe in working not for to-day only
put Tor future generations, so that in the dis
tant future IL cannot be charged that the a p
A. had been eowarGly and refused 10 stand bv
the right. Eyery member shoufd - ra,gav- =