The oasis., 1896-12-05
.P.o <. OF A


 had the surprising lsl gall to tell Rev erend Father billy that there is no such organization as the A. P. A., and that THE OASIS is branding as A. P. the Patriotic Order of Sons of Amer ica. Co which the A. F. A. president asserted he belonged. He further as- serted to the priest that TIE OASIS had made this false accusation against the r. O. s. of A. because the editor hates the order. The foregoing is a fair sample of the way the A. r. X. crowd try to hide their tracks. They always readily deny the existence of such an order and glibly- tell of some other reputable organization in which they assert they are membeTs. The fact is that the Patriotic Order of Sons uf America has had no existence in N0gales for many months. There was once such an organization, but iL lap>ed long ago. And today the A. r. A. has stolen it's name for disguise.
 The way in which the A. r. A. crowd cvade the charge of falsehOOd, when they assert that they know nothing of such an order. lies in the fact that itS real nams i> one ot their oath bound secrets, while the name given ont to the public can he any thing. and can be changed as often a> may be necessary to preserve secrecy. Consequently when a member k re- pruached with membership in the \. r. X. he can declare Ae knows Of DO organization with >uch name. in fact. in the initiation hc k toll [ hal should he be accused Of membership in the A. P. A. he can deny by affidavit ur under uath that he is member of any such order Anyone doubling this statement is invited to come to TIE OASIS office and read q copy of the San Francisco Star of October 20th, 1891, which contains an expose of the order, in which occurs the following
 "Instructloa Gisan to Members Unnn InitiailoE. Iiythe President.
 You haze 5een led tO hsiieve that you were i1fping tle order of the America1 Pl1lec1ive Association. commonly kuoWa as the A. P. A. were yoa not: Answer ''l will now liSahnse your mind and inform you that you have joined an order known fo it's members as 'AmnrianS. the nanie t,I an ancient order. that had for it's purpose similar objects. and >hoIild yOn at any time he accused nf being member nf the 4. r. A. tou eah deny by affidavit or under oath that you so belong.
 Several ex-membcrs of sthe Nogales council will support the foregoing by affidavit. When any man giibly asserts in the face of all tue evidence to the contrary, tbat there is no ,ucIiorgani- zation as the A. r. X. in Nogales, the reader can safely put him down as a member, and just ask him if he ever heard of such an order as the "Amo- iians."
 But tbeir theft Of thc |. Q. <. of X. cloak to hide under has been attendant with some amusing circumstances. Not long ago a well known citizen. who was once secretary of the Nogalcs Council of "Amoriansi' took occasion to deny the existence of such at order as the A. r. A. And he told tue pretty little story about the F. 0. s. of A., aud his own membership therein. And right in that he convicted himself of falsehood, for the gentleman with whom he was talking had been amem- Der of the 20. s. of A., and knew that all foreign born persons were ex- cluded by the constitution of that order, and he knew the romanticist with whom he was talking is a native of Canada