Evening journal., 1897-12-27
JUNIOR AMERICAN MECHANICS
THEIR WATCHWORD is PATRIOT
ISM, AND THEY ARE NUAIER-
Gus IN WILMINGTON.

THEIR WATCHWORD is PATRIOT
ISM, AND THEY ARE NUMER-
GUS IN WILMINGTON
There Is in Wilmington, and nearly
every other city in the Union, a secret
society that has as a motive one of the
grandest principles a person living in
these United States could wish for, and
that is patriotism. The very word it.
self has ring in it that reminds one
of what the sound must have been that
went out from the old bell in the State
House on Chestnut street, in Philadel-
phia.
How that must have made the blood
in the veins of our ancestors tingle at
the thought of the responsibility they
were taking upon themselves, they a
weak little colony, to defy the mother
country, the strongest nation in the
world and declare themselves free and
Independent.
Little did they know that the old
watchman, when he rang those sweet
notes to the clear July breezes. was
laying the foundation for the most
glorious nation the sun has ever shone
upon
Is there another nation in the world
where the whole people are as patri-
otic as they are in this country? MOI
Because they do not have the incentive.
Here every man, woman and child Is
exactly what they make themselves.
If they remain low, uneducated and
poor, it is their own faults, for they
have the greatest system of public
schools in the world. Anyone can at
tend, anyone can learn if he will, and
II he does learn and apply himself he
cannot help but raise himself and
neighbors as well above the same class
IN other countries.
One will ask. why do not other coun-
tries do this? Because they are not free
and Independent They really have no
Wills OF their own; they obey the or
ders OF their queen, king or monarch, as
the case may be.
If they were educated they would
soon rebel from the tyranny of their
sovereigns and make a stand as our
Congress did at II O'Clock p. m. on the
third day of July, 177G. They
said before. they are not educated and
cannot learn until it is too late that
they are being down-trodden, oppress-
ed and taxed that their ruler may live
in luxury.
dren of the rich and poor are educated
alike in the same schools, out of The
same books. under the same instruc-
tore Could Anything be more free
more liberal than this?
Now to go back to the original theme
this secret society. IT'S very
keystone Is patriotism, and
in conjunction with this believes that
a flag, the American flag, shall float t
the breeze from every public school
house in the land, and that the Holy
Bible shall be read to instil the frs
and best principles taught in our land
Could a society have any loftiel
views than these? Yet there is on,
more stone in this arch have not men
toned, and that is the restriction O
immigration. This is a thing tha
should have more attention paid it b,
every citizen In our land. If we got thl
best foreign element we would do wei
TO populate our land in that way, bu
we are getting so much of the scum
anatchists and every indescribable per
son not wanted abroad. They sen,
them to this country instead OF d
prison, as they get out of the expens
OF keeping them.
This should, and will, be stopped. an,
IL is this society, with its 200 900 mem
bers, that is bringing 1t about.
The name of this society is the Junio
Order OF United American Mechanics
and 1t meets in this city every night II
the week at Eden Hall.