The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-22
SECRET ORDER FOR SILVER.
Patriots of America Working Hard
For Free COINAGE.

Denver News: ct is as certain that
free coinage of silver will be restored
as that the rebellion put an end to ne
gro slavery in America" was the re-
mark of H o. Nourse at the Brown
hotel last evening. Mr.. Nourse is chair
man of the national executive COM
mittee of the Patriots of America and
is a close friend of W. H. Harvey.
Such is the interest of Mr.. Nourse in
the question of free coinage that he
has devoted a large part of his time
to organizing lodges of the Patriots of
America He Will announce a meeting
to take place in the ordinary of the
Brown Palace hotel for the purpose of
organizing a branch of the order in
Denver.
THE Patriots of America" said he,
in speaking of the order, is in a mild
degree a secret order, but not to the
extent to which secrecy is required by
the Nasons, odd Fellows, Knights of
Pythias or other orders. It is essen
tally an educational order and its
principal feature at the present time
is the effort of the single gold stand
ard and the benefits which would in
evitably result from q restoration of
silver to its true place as a money
metal. The lodge room is the place
where the financial question is dis
cussed in all its aspects and all ques-
tons of interest connected with our
government are there presented and
elucidated. The meeting of the lodge
is thus made interesting in the highest
degree. We study the science of civil
lization and endeavor to secure prac-
teal responsibilities as citizens.
The Patriots of America" said Mr.
and women. It is one of the few secret
orders which grants women entrance
upon an equal footing with men. and
this is especially applicable in Colo
RADIO, where woman suffrage exists.
Subjects are chosen for discussion and
the lodge is the debating society in
which disputed questions OF govern
ment are settled. In Chicago we have
eight lodges, all large in membership
and active in the dissemination of the
high principles on which the order is
founded. There are 40, 900 or 1900 mem
bers in the United States and more
than 600 separate branches are in -four
ishing condition"
MIR. Nourse points to w W. Harvey
as the founder of the order and its
principal benefactor. Recently Mr.
Harvey made donation of a monthly
newspaper, $1,000 volumes of education
CT literature anu the entire 1XIuIeS OF
his Chicago Office tc the order for its
benefit. The only condition fixed TO
the donation is that if the donor or his
family are ever in want a certain
amount is to be paid by the society.
The order is only Is months old, but is
making surprising strides in member
ship and promises to be one of the
permanent secret societies of the coun-
try.
It did valiant work in the recent
campaign in Ohio and is a powerful
instrument in spreading silver senti-
ment and taking advanced positions on
leading governmental questions The
membership fee is voluntary and in
no instance are the dues more than 81
a month. The order also maintains q
university at home for the education
Of persons who are unable to attend
colleges and contemplates annual
meetings at which questions of govern
ment will lie discussed on broad ba-
sis for the education of voters AS soon
as one great question is disposed of. it
is proposed to take the initiative in an
other. At present the principal ques-
ton pushed by the order is the advo-
cacy Of the free coinage of silver.