Iron County register., 1896-01-09
A STRONG CIRCULAR

| By the Supreme President of tho Amer.
lean Protective observation-disclosures
men Pledged to Reform-Bills to BIO In
eroduced at the Present SessiOn-Cleve-
/ Id Denounced-Allison and Reed Crit.
icised-Otfser Republicans Commended.
DETROIT, Mich, Jan. 4.-W. j. 81.
Traynor. supreme president of the
| American Protective association, is
about to issue an official circular re,
viewing the progress of the organiza.
tion and the political situation. He
states that a large number of the mem
bers of congress are also members Oh
the A. P. A., pledged to the following
| measures, most of which will be intro
duced into the house during the pre-.
sent session:
To secure just distribution of fed
eral offices; to establish national
university; to restrict immi grafton
| and regulate naturalization; Linton s
joint resolution amending the consti-
tuition prohibiting for all time, secta-
rian appropriations; to open to public
inspection all monastic and priva te OF
similar public institutions that are not
| under state control; prohibiting the
official recognition by the United States
or any officer thereof of any dignitary
of any ecclesiastical body or church,
or the official recognition of
such as the delegate or rep
resentative of any church or ecclesias-
tical power; prohibiting any body of
men other than members of the United
States army and navy and of the mill
tia of the various states from drilling
or parading with, or keeping in any
armory, or using, firearms or deadly
weapons of any kind, such act not to
extend to the uniform ranks of benefit
societies except to debar them from
drilling with, or keeping firearms
Mr.. Traynor also reviews presi-
Dental possibilities and attacks Presi-
dent Cleveland in these words:
sit is doing no injustice to Mr..
Cleveland to assert that if the United
States had been papal country and
the pope temporal sovereign. our
president could not have given more
recognition to the papacy as a tenn
poral power than he has during his
present term of Office
Allison and Reed come in for fair
share of condemnation for what Mr..
Traynor alleges as their pro-papal at
titude and their antagonism to the pa
triotic orders. He presents the names
of Hon. W. S. Linton, of Michigan;
Senator John 81. Gear, of Iowa; Gov.
W. o. Bradley, of Kentucky, and ex-
President Harrison, as worthy the sup
port of the 4. P. A. He affirms that
in the event of any indication of the
repu blican party ''truckling to Rome,"
that "a new party should and must re-
suit"
Mr.. Traynor does not bei1eve IN con-
fning the attacks Of the order to the
priesthood of the Roman church, but
denounces plutocracy and monop-
oily in strong terms. He declares the
movement for the arming and drilling
of Irishmen in this country a sinister
of the Roman Catholic
church to mobilize Catholic army in
the republic to supplement the moral
force of the church to secure ascend |
ancy when the nation shall be in |
volved in a crisis, such as a war |
or rebellion. He urges the i'm
mediate establishment of patriotic |
organ and printing house at |
doctrine, but denounces the war scare |
as the result OF conspiracy between
the president, priests and plutocra is,
the first to secure reelection; the sec
ond to gain ascendancy while the ma
ton is involved with a foreign coun- |
try, and the last to profit by bond is
sues at war rates of interest" upon
gold, interest-bearing basis. He op-
poses bond issue as infamous and de- |
claves that a war between the United |
States and England would be ''mu.
tual calamity ard international SIM"