The oasis., 1896-10-03
GOOD, SOUND DOCTRINE.

Bee, which he believes should receive wide publication, and THE OASIS heartily endorses.
 At the meeting of the National Con- ventiOn of the American Protective Association at St. Louis, the follow ing resolution was adopted.
 RESOLVED. That tho board advises the members of this order to vote for the nomi- nation tO office on the party tickets or inc parties they affiliate with and 70 vote TOT election Of candidates only who are In thor ough GccOrd with and will, if elected. sup port the following principles.
 Restriction Of immigration 70 debar all un- desirable persons; extension of time for nat uraiizntiOn and educational qualifications for suffrage: the maintenance of one general EOn-sectaran, free public school system; no public funds or public property for sectarian purposes; taxation of all property not owned and controlled by the public; the opening to public official inspection pIal private schools cOnvents. rlonaStcries. hospitals and all in- stitltiOLs of an educational and reformatorY cha racfer; no support given for any pubic position to any person who recognizes primal allegiance in civil affairs to any foreign pr ecclesiastical power; public lands for actual settlement by American citizens only.
 That is magnificent doctrine throughout. No good, true, loyal American citizen should object to it. It is sound in every line. The Bee adopts it as it's own platform. It is not necessary that it should say it en- dorses it, for it is the same that this paper has preached for To, these many years. But to satisfy our A. P. A. friends, The Bee does right here and now proclaim it's acceptance of that resolution as being one that should be pasted in the hat of every good Amer lcan citizen.
 Let the A. P. A. stick to that doc urine, and all will be well. Let it come out in the sunlight and fight on that, and that alone, and The Bee will help it. Let it demonstrate that 1t is really an American institution, and not the tool of political demagOgues and pulpit charlatans. Let it obey the instructions of it's national govern ing body, and refuse topermit preach CTS to use it as means to boost their own religion, while blackguarding the religion of others, Let it admit to its councils none but citizens of this country, and let 1t kick out those ali ens who are now members. Let it be in reality what it claims to be, an American Protective Association, and every good American citizen will wish it success.
 But no American citizen worthy of the name could join it while it is what it is-an organization of bigots, band ed together to ostraciZe loyal and and worthy American citizens, simply because of their religious belief.
 Between the St. Louis pronuncia- mentO and the acts of the members of this association, there is wide gulf that must be bridged before the Amer can people will have faith in it.
 The Bee might have gone still fur ther in its criticism of the A. P. A . An organization whose members deny it's existence, working secretly and stabbing others in the back Whether they be friendly to the principles of the order or no, so they will not play into the hands of the manipulatorsJ is out of place in a free country. The very essence of free institutions Is that all public matters and all candi- dates for offices and their principles shall be discussed openly. In govern ment by A. P. A., which some gentle men are endeayoring to establish in Pima and Cochise counties, every thing is to be first fixed in secret con claye and then sprung upon the pub lie by an organized minority capturing party organization from an unwitting majority, who have to submit or suffer the odium and stigma of bolting That kind of work nay succeed a short time, but such success never lasts very long.
 DThe Bee could have gone yet farther and asserted that snch organizations always fail into the hands of men who care not for their principles, but use the order for their own ends while violating the very principles they pre-