Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-12-20
SONS OF REVOLUTION
ORGANIZE IN STATE
ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE WILL
BE IN FARGO WITHIN
SHORT TIME.
Objects and Membership Attest That
1t Is Live Society-RoII Of Men,
bership Is DISTINGUISHED One.

| ~ IS Live 0SC'CIy-nO' VI "cI'-
| bership Is Distinguished One.
The National Society Sons of tho
American Revolution will, in the
course Of few weeks, send to Fargo
; its organization committee for the
North and West, for the purpose of
orgasizing the North Dakota Society
| Sons of the American Revolution.
This society is composed Of descend
/ ants of soldiers of the American Rev.
olution. wherever they may be found;
! 1t commentaries historic battle fields
and in broader sense, as stated in
its constitution, Its purposes and OBJ
jects are declared to be patriotic, his
torical and educational. to unite and
promote friendship among Revolution
, airy descendants to inspire them and
the community at large with more
profound reverence for the principles
OF the government founded by the
American Revolution to acquire and
preserve the records Of the individual
services of the patriots of the war, as
well as documents, relics, and land
marks; to mark the scenes of the
Revolution by appropriate memorials;
to celebrate the anniversaries of the
prominent events of the war and of
the Revolutionary period to foster
true patriotism to maintain and ex-
tend the institutions of American
freedom, and to carry out the pur-
poses expressed in the preamble of
the constitution of our country and
the injunctions of Washington in his
farewell address to the American peo-
pie"
In addition to the above, 1t is en-
phasizing the Importance of educa-
tional work among the emigrants be-
fore they reach our shores. 1T is
printing in about twenty different Ian
guages little leaflets or folders. which
give information respecting American
institutions. These folders are placed
i'll the hands Of emigrants so that
they may know something of the land
OF the free and the home of the brave
by the time they reach American
shores.
The roll of membership of the Sons
of the American Revolution is a. dis
tinguished one and numbers now
nearly twelve thousand members. On
the roll are such names as Presidents
Roosevelt and Mckinley, Vice Presi-
dent Morton, Elhu Root, Admiral
Dewey, Horace Porter, Captain Grid.
ley OF the '"Olympia" at Manila, Sen.
ators Frye. Lodge, Depew, Daniels, Da.
Wis and Warren. Justice Brewer of tho
United States supreme court. Gcner.
ais Nelson A. Miles. Fred Grant, Ed.
win S. Greedy, Wade Hampton, Gov.
ernors Charles f. Hughes of New York,
Edwin Warfield Of Maryland, Guild of
massachusetts, Pardee Of California.
Senator Warren of Wyoming. and
many others.
It's objects and its membership at !
test that it is live society. It's char.
ter was granted by the congress of the
United States and approved by Presi-
dent Roosevelt, June 9th. 1906. 1t is
organized in forty-four different states
and in many Of these states local;
chapters have been organized to the
number, at this time, of over seventy. /,
Ihere are scattered all over the !
great west thousands of the descend
ants of Revolutionary heroes who !
have not yet identified themselves
with any patriotic society. TO such !
this appeal is made to get in touch at
the earliest possible moment with !
such an organization; to do it not !!
only for the personal blessing to come
from it, but for the sake of their chill
dren, and especially for the dear !
country they love so we'll.
Members are required to be of the
age Of twenty-one or over: Of good !
moral character; of lineal descent
from an ancestor who was at all
times unfailing in his loyalty to. and
rendered active service in the cause
OF American Independence. either as
officer, soldier, seaman. militiaman or |
man in the armed forces of
the Continental Congress. or any of
the several colonies or states. or as
a signer Of the Declaration of indie. |
pendence or as a member of CON- 1
mittee of safety or correspondence as
member of any continental. pro- /
vincial or colonial congress of legis-
ature as a recognized patriot who
performed an actual service by overt
acts of resistance to the authority of
Great Britain"
1t is the desire of the National So
'iety to organize the North Dakota
society of Sons of the American Rev.
'lution as near the middle of January
IS possible and any residents of the
tate. of revolutionary stock are re-
uested to communicate with Frank
1erriam Keezer, Gil Kittredge Build
1g, Denver. Colorado. secretary of the
organization Committee. Communi-
atoms may also be addressed to Hon. :
}. F. Spalding, at either Bismarck, N
}. or Fargo, N. D. !