The Van Buren press., 1897-05-08
PATRIOTS OF AMERICA.

PATRIOTS OF AMERICA.
Edited in the interest of the above organization
by j. c. Moore.
VAN buren, LODGE No. 7. PATRIOTS OF AMERI-
CA, meet every Wednesday night at Horti-
cultural Hall ]. c. MOORE, F, p
c. r. CORDELL, Recorder.
u. W. SSoDGRAsst treas.
The salvation of the American people
from the thralldom of the money |
power and INSCRIPTIONS politicians rests
wholly with the Patriots of America and
the Daughters of the Republic lodges,
one of which is sought to be organized at
every schoolhouse in the United States
before 1900,
Like vast multitude of raw recruits
mastering into an army, gradually
organized, shape is coming to the army
of the Patriots of America, forming for
a peaceful solution of the problems of
government. Thus for the work done
it is but a premonition of the force and
power that will come with compact
organization.
Do not forget that on Wednesday |
night, May IL, 1897. the Patriots of
America hold another open meeting
and interesting subjects will be dis
cussed for the benefit of those who do
not belong to the order, and people
should take advantage of these opper-
tunities to become acquainted with its
principles.
The present financial system, based
on enhancing gold, has forced a
majority of the people in debt and the
machinery of the law made for the
collection of debts is confiscating the
property of the people. 1t is transfer
ing the property of the people into the
hands of the few as effectually as the
feudal laws of Europe transferred all the
lands into the hands of the few.
The load of debtor is hard enough
to bear without increasing his burdens.
When you make debt you are count
ing it in dollars; you are counting on
selling your property for dollars to pay
it with. You did not count on falling
prices, except by honest means, nor on
having that by which you measure your
property rise in an ever increasing scale
AS it has done since 1873.
Liberty is usually attained by bold
strokes and lost by degrees almost
imperceptibly. To overcome the
apathy of the people one must first
overcome his own Indifference. Man
is social animal hence the most pro-
nounced individualism should yield to
the will of the majority. But intelli-
gent individualism should prompt every
man to always be an active factor.
The latent patriotism of the people can
be aroused by intelligent organization.
The Patriots of America is the noblest
and grandest organization in the world,
because its object is to educate the
masses. 1t seeks their emancipation
from the bondage of the money power
and political serfdom. Its teachings
are of the highest order, good, grand,
truthful and sublime and echo the
sentiments and find responsive Judgment
in the hearts of suffering millions of
noble, true and loyal Americans, who
nail as godsend the ray of light and
the rainbow of hope it offers.
The Daughters of the Republic,
wherever an order has been organized,
seem to be taking greater interest in the
work of education and carrying forward
the principles enunciated in the con-
stitution of the Patriots of America
than the men. l think this was not
anticipated when the order of Patriots
of America was organized by its
founders nor until the order had become
a permanent institution, or at least
until they had demonstrated their
intention of making it so. The fact
that the ladies have begun is evidence
of the confidence established by the
order of Patriots of America and by the
zeal and practical intelligence thus far
displayed by them. 1t establishes.
further fact that the women of this
country are becoming aroused to action
in the defense of the toiling masses of
humanity, whose load is becoming
heavier and harder to bear under
policy dictated by greed and sel6shness
and when the women begin TO realize
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cause that brought it about, and the
influences that are still at work and
what is necessary to be done to secure
equal rights and equal privileges to all,
great stimulus may be expected to
the work in progress they will be
power as has been little thought of when
tens of thousands of them have been
enlisted AS active workers in an intelli
gent army of humanity battling for the
rights of down trodden people. There
are tens of thousands of women living
today who can recall the scenes of the
late civil war and the slave as he was
fleeing from place to place to escape his
enemies, and though many of them
were but children it aroused in their
breast that higher principle of humanity
that has ever since been dominant in
their sex. When the women of the
United States understand the effect of
laws ON civilization, and that We have
laws the creations of selfshness, that
are enslaving the people. both white
and black, that are threatening their
children, their friends and neighbors,
that are driving tens of thousands to
crime and pauperism, they will awake
to the situation and the order of the
Daughters of the Republic will become I
as strong, or stronger, than the
Patriots of America. They will raise 1
money TO be used in the distribution of 4
literature among the people that will be .