Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1914-08-29
Banner Council Bulletin Whines
at Members For Fear to
March.
Will Never Need to Mourn For
Any Member Killed i'm
War.
EDUCATIONAL BOARD DICTATORS

Since the expose in the columns
of the Kentucky Irish American that
the proposed parade and celebration
for Fraternal day, September IL,
was nothing but move pure and
simple to give the Junior Order of
United American Mechanics a little
touch of respectability, so to speak,
many of the local camps and tribes
of the Woodmen of the World and
Red Men, who became allied with
the move on first invitation, be-
lieving that it was for all societies
regardless of religious creed, have
reconsidered their determination to
enter, the two largest societies of
Red Men and Woodmen of the World
this past week refusing to be used
as an auxiliary in boosting the
Junior Order. The promoters, see
ing the probable failure of their pet
project and realizing that many OF
their own members won't march in
public alone, have begun to exhort
them to fall into line, the official
bulletin of Banner Council this week
containing the same old hodge podge
and empty harangues about the
Junior Order being the defenders of
our American institutions Git is to
laugh, urging them to hurry up and
purchase a uniform and be prepared
to march behind the little red school
house float.
In another article in the bulletin
for members the Democratic party is
referred to as the pet party of the
Knights of Columbus, Ancient Order
of Hibernians and the Young Mems
Institute, and wants to know why
the Y. M. l. did not rally to the
support of Lawrence j. Mackey in
his race for Congress, and thereby
gives the lie to their old boasted as
sertions that the Catholics as a rule
vote for Catholics in elections.
Furthermore, the writer loftily
states that the Junior Order has not
decided just yet whether they will
indorse the present Board of Educa-
tion for reelection, and in the event
of certain contingencies intimates
that they will select and indorse
three members of their own for the
board. This is pretty good, coming
from that source-they to select and
dictate officials for the whole peo-
pie while in spite of their cajolery-
and smooth laid plans for Fraternal
day they are having a hard time
getting a corporaPs guard that are
willing to even be seen in line with
them in public. AS further indica-
tion of the A. p. A. spirit behind this
un-American society, the bulletin
contains poem of the Menace type,
which contains a lot of doggerel
about "Romish vipers" and driving
the Jesuit minions across the seas"
ETC., being the sort of literature
which appeals to ignorant and
prejudiced minds.
Only recently the Junior Order,
assisted by the Guardians of Liberty
and other A. p. A. societies, were
busy telegraphing different Congress-
men and Senators to vote for the
proposed immigration bill, their sole
purpose being an attack on the
Catholic church, whose tremendous
growth frightens them, and when
queried by several representatives
concerning the real object of the
bill they lamely explained that they
were in fear of an overcrowding of
population, when the 10000, 900
people in this country could be
dumped into the State of Texas and
would not be as densely populated as
Germany, which is ever prosperous
and the people satisfied.
For so-called fraternal days and
patriotic celebrations the Junior
Order furnishes some of the best
little flag wavers in the business, but
there is one observance they will
never be needed to take part in, and
that is a memorial day celebration
or day of mourning for any OF their
members killed in war, the recent
little squabble In Mexico showing
that the usual number of Irish, Ger
man and American Catholics were in
the front ranks ready to shed their
blood and lives for their country,
and which was done. as the reports
show.