The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1896-08-06
An A. ,. A. LOVE FEAST
State President HuddlesOn
Speaks
THE GREAT Curse OF EMIGRATION
Undesirable Emigrants a Menace
to Wage Farmers
THE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM
Leading Lights Of the Roman Catholic
Church Quoted From
To Illustrate the Adverse Stand Of Their
Church to the Schools
All Children to Be Compelled to 90 to the Pub
Tic Schools No Teachers Certificates
to Be Issued to Other Than Pnb-
THE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM
Leading Lights Of the Roman Catholic
Church Quoted From
To Illustrate the Adverse Stand Of Their
Church to the Schools
All Children to Be Compelled to DO to the Pub
Tic Schools - No Teachers Certificates
to Be Issued to Other Than Pnb-
lie School Pupils

The Music hall was very we'll filled last
evening with an enthusiastic aurience
gathered together to listen to an adj
dress by B. f. Huddleson, state presi-
dent Of the American Protective asso-
citation.
Accompanying the speaker of the
evening on the platform were c. w.
Knox, j. l.. Starr, w. Rommel, W.. =
Spencer Schofield, J. Sock, j. r. Darby,
and Rev. George Dye of East Los Ange-
les, the latter officiating as chairman.
Preliminary to the piece de resistance
of the evening the chairman made few
remarks laudatory of the A. p. A. and
the underlying principles of that
organization. He pronounced these
principles great and good" and
their champions as having In
them somewhat of the spirit of Luther
when he bid defiance to Rome. and
boldly asserted himself before the Diet
of Worms. He called upon all present
to make the A. P. A. a body of purity
in politics and all the institutions of the
country, with an apostrophe to the flag,
of which there were no less than five on
the stage Rev. G. Dye brought his in
troductory speech to a close.
A collection was next in order, the
chairman remarking that while politics
were not to be touched upon during
the evening, he confessed to a Curl
osity to know how the audience was
made I'D on the silver question, and the
collection, he thought, might reveal the
secret.
When the collection had been taken
up the chairman in very rev words
presented the speaker of the evening.
Mr.. Huddelson began by announcing
the satisfaction he felt at facing such
q good looking, beetle-browed congre-
CATION of bigots. This tickled the audi
ence and the speaker found himself on
q sympathetic footing at once. Fro
ceeding, he claimed that the benedic-
ton of God rests upon the A. Z. A. and
upon the principles of the order which
are the foundation principles OF the
nation. 1T is not an organization,
said the speaker, "for the persecution
of persons; it has nothing to do with
individual Catholics, but it has to do
with the religio-political organization OF
the Catholic church. Whether man
be Protestant, Jew. Greek or Roman
Catholic the A. P. A. guarantees relig-
ious liberty to all. Notwithstanding this
a week ago in Sacramento the A. z. A.
had been officially declared to be I'M
American. Inasmuch as it was expect
ed that the hall would be too small the
committee having the matter in hand
asked permission of the city trustees OF
Sacramento to use the public square.
A vote was taken and it was decided
that they might use the square, but one
trustee changed his vote and had the
matter reconsidered and then the five
trustees, either Roman Catholics or
with Catholic affiliations, swayed the
board and they were refused permission
on the ground that they were advocat-
ing principles that were un-American."
Proceeding to discuss some of the
planks in the A. p. a. platform, Mr..
Huddleson commended for some things
to which thousands outside the order
willingly assent, and for others which
just as many, not claiming allegiance
to the Roman Catholic church, are in
clined to deny.
Speaking of the urgent need for the
restriction of immigration, the speaker
said. in substance:
There ought to be a positive restric-
tion upon a large proportion of those
coming to our shores If the gate at
Castle Garden was locked for twenty
five years there would be very few de-
sirable immigrants kept away In 1869
we had nine per cent of the low and de-
graded peoples from Russia, Austria,
Hungary, Poland and Italy, but these
undesirable elements have so increased
that in 1854 there was AZ per cent of the
total immigration made up of the same
undesirable class.
"In 1895 of the total immigration 70
per cent located in the four states of
New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts
and Illinois, the states having the largest
congressional representation, and this
location of peoplo from Roman Catholic
countries is being carried on with sys-
tenn. 1t argues that the political machine
grinding out naturalization papers are
giving such control to the undesirable
class as to make it impossible to legis-
late.
Then immigration affects the home
lie more than any other question, and
the wage-earners contribute the home
lie or the nation" and the speaker pro-
ceeded to read from the reports of sec
retaries of labor unions and other organ
iZations to show that the industrial con-
ultlon OF the country is kept in state of
constant disturbance by the influx of
degraded class of foreigners
me speaker said the only reply he
hau peen able to get to the above facts
was: ben Huddleson is a liar "a tin
norm gambler; he's sold out to John D.
OF the state of California"
1t was while treating of tho nub1io
school system. however, that Mr.. Hud-
delson was most emphatic. ."The A
r. A. believes in the public schools
said he, and Father Yorke would tell
you ne sehds ms children to the public
schools. but he don't. The best test nf
mans belief is seen when he sends his
children to the school he loves hest
The Roman Catholic church, as an
organization. does not believe in tbe
public school system, for it has conte,a
ed for division of the funds. In 1899 a
bill was drafted in New York that was
to have been introduced in the legisla-
ture. petition circulated in ali the
the passage of the bill The New Yorlr
Times, Tribune and World treated the
matter editorially and as a result Car
dinal Gibbons and the Maryland clergy
sent to the New York World a letter
withdrawing from the position taken
but in no way withdrawing their claim
to a share of the school fund We be-
lieve that the school system Is so good
that we don't propose that it shall be