Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1920-02-20
IDAHO JOINS HANDS WITH
THE UNITED AMERICANS
Organization That is Simply Pro- american and
Stands for the Preservation of the Consti-
tuition of the United States.

An organization nation wide in the
scope of its operations and thor
ouehly and exclusively patriotic in
its policies has been formed in this
country, to which leading men in all
walks of life, of all political affilia-
tions and all shades of religious be-
lief have lent their warmest en-
dorsement.
1t is the United Americans and one
OF its fundamental missions is I'd
correlate the efforts of all patriotic
bodies, operating within their par
ticular sectarian, fraternal, military
or other line and, in general, to thor
oughly attune the public mindS to
loyalty, to bring about a permanent
dedication of the people to devotion
to the flag, to uphold the constitu-
tion of the United States, and to pre-
serve representative form of govern
ment and the individual liberty and
personal rights vouchsafed by it.
The program of the United Amer
leans contemplates campaign OF
education, with the truth as its cor
nerstone. In this manner fallacy
can best be met, in the opinion OF
those who gave their time to laying
the foundations Of the organization
In carrying out this policy informa-
tion will be furnished to combat any
and all elements whose operations
aim at the undermining and ultimate
destruction of this government.
The United Americans is not an
anti" organization. 1t is a "for" or
ganization. It would be folly to en-
ter into controversy with radical
elements which would stamp the or
ganization as anti-bolshevik, where
as its mission is pro-American, a dis
tinction the founders of the associa-
tion emphasized.
Instead of controversy there is 10
be presentation of simple and fun
damental facts concerning our form
of government and the principles of
right and justice underlying it.
The plan of organization conten-
plates an open door to all classes Of
American citizens for entrance into
a self-sustaining body unselfishly de-
voted to the highest purposes of rep
resentative government, an organ
ization that extends a helpful hand
to all other bodies actuated by mo-
tives of loyalty, whether labor, farm
ing business of any other, thereby
cementing, in effect, into .one broth
erhood all country loving factions,
many of which find their usefulness
restricted and that, therefore are
not functioning along lines of the
widest possible practical results.
The first announcement nationally
of this movement was made recently
by Cardinal Gibbons in an Asso-
ciated Press dispatch. Since that
time the work of organization has
proceeded including many of the
states.
Idaho Is one of them. A state
organization has been formed and
county and smaller units are in pro-
cess of formation.
The necessity for some such ma
tional organization has been plain
ly indicated by recent revelations.
The open threat OF the l. w. w. and
in sympathy with it to destroy the
American government through, first,
the paralysis of industry and the in
evitable revolution that would fol-
low, and to substitute here a soviet,
or Russian, internationale, govern
ment, with all property rights wiped