The Van Buren press., 1897-04-03

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cultural Hall J. c. MOORE, F; 7.
C. r. CoRDELL. Recorder.
D. W. SNopGBAss, Treas.
The Patriots of America will hold an
open meeting next Wednesday night,
The subject for discussion will be
Are We Not in a Worse Condition
Than the Negroes Were Prior to the
Civil War.
Everybody is cordially invited to
attend and will be interested and in
strueted while there and Will not regret
an hour spent listening to the dis
cussions.
The Patriots of America will hold an
open meeting again Wednesday night
and everybody is invited. There will
be an interesting program.
Every man who feels an interest IN
the welfare of his country and wants to
see everybody prosperous, true to him
self, his family, should hasten to send
in his application for membership in
the order of Patriots of America. This
movement is founded on principles
greater, grander and stronger than any
single political issue that could attract
the attention of the people of the United
States.
Political questions are treated as
questions of civilization in this order,
and hope to move forward to the settle
ment of all questions that bar the
passage of mankind to higher and
better civilization.
1t is intended to convert the people OF
the United States into schools of
education for the study of all questions
of government and the subject of
civilization.
1t is an attempt to work out the
future destiny of mankind by and
through the wisdom of man unselfshly
applied to those questions. There Is
not one in every one thousand of the
people of the United States, over q
years of age, who know what the
elementary principles of Republican
government are. Such ia the situation
as the order of the Patriots of America
begins its work of education and organ
ization of the people for the study of
laws and principles as affecting their
happiness and welfare.
| 1t is impossible for our enemies to learn our
plan of organization and adopt the same
method. fit were TO attempt an organization
on the same principles 1t would be dismal
| failure. They are organized on the only
feasible plan-selfish greed. Theirs is system
or plan that organizes itself. Our opponents
are bound together by kindred spirit, but 1t IL
| spirit of selfishness at the expense of the
| common good. Our plan of organization IL
based upon the principles Of brotherhood, @
spirit feeling that is stranger in the ranks
of those who oppose us. The tie that holds us
together is the spirit of humanity and desire
| to promote the common good.
| Our meth cd of educating our members take
on broader view of the possibilities of life and
self-inerest than is comprehended in thai
narrower view which prompt the selfish. II
the common good we see our selfinterest the
best promoted and take pleasure in viewing the
happiness and prosperity Of others.
| We can proceed with our plan of brotherhood
organization without there being any danger o.
our opponents organizing on the same plan We
have adopted and without any fear of its being
| duplicated by the enemies and oppressors o.
mankind No unselfsh person will antagonizt
the order OF the Patriots of America. Its objec
| is the promotion of the common good, it,
method is based upon the elementary principle,
| of a true Republican government its leading
officers are self-sacrifcing in their devotion Il
the principles of the order, and are subjected
| and voluntarily open to the fullest examin
| alton. and the teachings of the order tend t.
| the education and enlightenment of the people
upon the problem of civilization.
We are trying to work out the destiny of man
kind by regulating, like clockwork, the socia
organism of civilization. We believe that civil
ization is a science. and upon the proper stud,
OF that science and the subject once mastered
and set to unselfish laws the human race will
take its attention off the vain and selfish thing
of the earth. and marvellous things will be dis
cussed concerning the universe and the life
health and happiness of mankind.
During the war there was letter written b,
the European money powers in which the!
stated that the control of labor was NOR
efectual In controlling the volume of currenc!
than 1t was TO own the individual. that in tn
first place he would not incur any of the respon
sibilites that would naturally arise in the latte
case by controlling the currency. aud while re
ceiying the prorits arising from his labors jus
the same as If he owned him, and not only SC
but the net profits to employers where labor /
controlled by controlling the money of tn
country are far greater than where the in
dividual is owned by employer because h
would then be responsible for feod, clothin
and doctor bills not only for the employee bn
for his family also. and many times there woul'
be only one or two to work and several in tn
family to be clothed, fed and doctored by tn
employer. We can now see the truth of thi
statement verified. Who ever heard of a slav
starving? Who ever heard OF a slave com
hitting suicide2 On the other hand we hav
only to turn to the great metropolis OF thi
country. New York. and there we find seventy
five thousand people without food or othe
necessaries of life. fifty thousand withon
shelter and ten thousand men out Of employ
ment Then 20 TO Chicago and we find
similar state Of affairs existing, where in spit
of all that charitable institutions could do
many have starved to death the past winter
Then come to ST. Louis and there we find tn,
destitute and suffering by the thousands. VIII,
have TO be clothed. fed and fuel furnished L
keep them from dying of hunger. Then take
general look over the country and we see three
million men going from house TO house begging
for something on which TO sustain lite: then