The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-17
The THIRD Anniversary
Council No. I of the A. P. A.
Has a Celebration of
Organization.
Addresses Were Made to a Large
Audience, and There Were Other
Exercises.

The third anniversary of the organiza-
ton of Council No. of the American Pro-
tectIve Association was celebrated last
Tuesday evening at Metropolitan Hall,
when a mass-meetlng was held. The at
tendance was large.
All over the auditorium the National
handsomely and appropriately decorated.
President Washburn of Council No. pre-
sided.
Father Yorke says that the A. P A.
are all dead" remarked Mr.'Washburn,
''but this gathering does not look much
like it. I wish that Father Yorke were
here tonight to see this ssemblage of
American citizens. In three years this
organization, beginning with small nu-
cleus, has grown to a mem bership of 5000
mem ers in California and of these 10000
are in this City. We will prove that we
are very much alive before the election Is
over"
The address of the evening was made by
State President b. f. Hudelson. He
called attention to the fact that Council
No. l as the first organization of the
order to be formed west of the Rocky
Mountains. Every State and Territory
west of the Rocky Mountains has been or
ganized thoroughly with local councils
during the past three years. The A. p. A.
he said, was political body represen ting
every thing that is pure and right. 1t
stands for liberty and will some day re-
ceive the credit of having saved the
Nation.
After some discussion of recent ad-
dresses by Archbishop Riordan and
Father Yorke, President Hudelson spoke
of the attitude of the Catholic church
toward parochial schools, as indicated by
press dispatches from st. Louis. Then he
said:
''Our public schools are the pride of our
Nation, the buiwark of our republic, and
the American Protective Association does
not propose to keep silent on this question.
Our Catholic friends pretend to believe in
the public schools and expect us TO believe
that they do because they pay their taxes.
But the truth is they have to pay their
taxes to save their property from being
sold by the Sheriff. The fact that they
believe their own school system is para
mount to ours is sufficient evidence for us
to believe that they would supplant theirs
for ours if they could do so. So we are not
surprised to find their clergy legislating
against our schools.
1.-The American Protective Association
stands for all that is grand, pure, true,
elevating, enlightening and helpful in
American politics. We do not claim to be
infallibe-the best of US will make mis-
takes-but our organization aims to keep
its ranks free from all contagion l lust
want to add this: That you will never
settle this great labor problem and the
other questions that are agitating the Ma
ton until law is passed stopping this
indiscriminate immigration that is dealing
deathliKe blows to the Nation. The
American Protective Association first
sounded the danger alarm 10 the Nation
on this question:
Addresses we also made by Major Ryan
of Ohio. Captain A. f. Spear, II. V. C.
Swain and Mrs. NJ. A. Richardson, State
president of the Women's American Pro-
tective Association. Miss Sybil Campbell,
Miss Boyd, Professor ]. g. Darnen of Oak
land and Miss Warner took part in mis-
cellaneous programme of exercises.