Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1896-05-29

sp--of caSdluSG UQe Town OF ClaflOCCeSVllle IOf
falling into an unguarded excavation.
The Duchess of Marlborough, formerly
Miss Vanderbilt, was presented at the
Queens drawing room last week.
Col. John S. Mosby is ill of appendicitis
in San Francisco.
Mckinley and the American
Protective Association.
The fact that the GA. P. A." new secret
organization taking pretty wide hand in
politics in this country for the last year or
two. has had ameeting Of its Executive Board
in Washington to decide on whether its men,
bers can vote for Mckinley, has attracted
much attention. In addition to the Board
meeting an agent of the Association visited
Maj. Mckinley at his home, and on his re-
turn reported that his visit was satisfactory.
Thereupon the Executive Board adopted this
declaration
"Your board finds after investigation that
there is no reason why any one of the follow
ing named candidates for the Republican
nomination for President Of the United States
in the campaign of 1896 may not be supported
by the members of the order: Hon. VIM. B.
Allison, Iowa; Hon. Thos. B. Reed, Maine;
Mathew S. Quay. Pennsylvania; Hon. Shelby
NJ. Cullom. Illinois; Gov. Bradley, Ken
lucky; Hon. Benz. Harrison. Indiana; Hon.
Levi P Morton, New York; Hon. VIM. Me-
Kinley, Ohio -
+, this action our readers may like
THE AMERICAN ',r,77fysseEcrTTE ASSOCIATIONS
PbATPoEf. -
which Is as follows
l. Loyalty to true Americanisul, T.i,ieh
knows neither birthplace, race, creed, OF pai-
ty, is the first requisite for membership III
the American Protective Association.
2. Ihe American Protective Association is
not political party and does not control the
political atniiatioi. Of It's members, but il
teaches them to be intensely active in the dis
charge of their political duties. in or out of
party lines, because it believes that all the
problems confronting our people will best be
solved by a conscientious discharge of the
duties of citizenship by every individual.
2. While tolerant of all creeds, it holds
astical power, not created and controlled by
American citizens, and which claims equal. if
not greater sovereignty than the Government
of the United States Of America, is irreconcil-
able with American citizenship. 1t is, there
fore opposed to the holding of Offices in nation
al. State, or municipal government by any
subject or supporter of such ecclesiastical
power.
4. We uphold the Constitution of the
United States of America, and no portion of it
more than its guaranty of religious liberty,
but we hold this religious liberty to be guar
anteed to the individual land not to mean that
under its protection any un-American coolest
astical power can claim absolute control over
the education of children growing up under
the Stars and Stripes.
5. We consider the non-sectarian free public
school the bulwa1k of American Institutions,
the best place for the education Of American
children. To keep them as such, we protest
against the employment of subjects of any I'M
American ecclesiastical power as officers or
teachers of our public schools.
6. We condemn the support out of the pub
lie treasury by direct appropriation, or by
contract, OF any sectarian school, reformato-
nv, or other institution not owned and con-
trolled by the public authority.
Z. Believing that exemption from taxation
is equivalent to grant of public funds, we
demand that no real or personal property be
exempt from taxation, the title to which is
not vested in the national or State govern
ments, OF in any of their subdivisions.
g. We protest against the enlistment in the
United States army, navy, or the militia of
any State, of any person not an actual citi'
zen Of the United States.
g. We demand for the protection of our
citizen laborers the prohibition of the impor-
tation of pauper labor, and the restriction of
all immigration to persons who can show
their ability and honest intention to become
self-supporting American citizens.
10. We demand the change of the national
naturalization laws by repeal of the act
authorizing the naturalization of minors
without previous declaration of intention,
and by providing that no alien shall be nat
uralized or permitted to vote in any State in
the Union, who cannot speak the language of
the land, and who cannot prove seven years
continuous residence in this country from the
date Of his declaration of intention.
IL. We protest against the gross negligence
and laxity with which the judiciary of our
land administer the present naturalization
laws and against the practice of naturaliZing
aliens at the expense of committees or candi
dates as the most prolific source OF tha pres
snt prostitution of American citizenship TO
bssest uses.
u, We demand shat all hospitals, asy-
lupls, refoImatOries, or other institutions il
which people are under restraint be at all
times subject to pnbiic Inspection, whether
they are maintained by the puDlic or by pri-
vate corporations u individuals.
- Wedemaud that all national Or STATE
legislation affecting financial, commercial OF
Industrial Interests be general in character
ana in no instance in favor Of any one section
of the country, or OF any one class of people
CARDINAL GIBBONS ON RELIGIOUS
FREEDOM.
The appearance of the following letter
from Cardinal Gibbons in reply TO letter
sent MIN by clergyman Of Washington. is
significant at this time.
CARpINAL's RESIDENCE. -
Baltimore. May II, 1856.
My Dear Sir:-It IS The duty Of ,iie headers
OF political parties to express themselves
without any equigocation, on the principles
OF reIgi ous freedom which underlie our Con-
stitution.
Catholics are devoted to both the great polit-
ical parties Of the country and each iudiyid-
urI is left entirely to his own conscience. We
are proud to say that il the long history of tht
government Of the United States the great
Catholic Church has never used CT perverted
its acknowledged power by seeking to make
politics subserye its own advancement
Moreover it is our proud boast shat we hags
never interfered with the civil AMI political