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Show MB 4 HI IMII'IIM IIMIII'flOY. i, 15 II DAY after day, the oaw,rra report U lha birth or eaUblMiniaut of new to- If IB :latleafroni eery uarter ofourvatt i N republic. Three aoctetlea aro of every jfH Imaginable type. Home nre ercret, !1B aoma aenil aecret, while mo.ll all are jl oM In the main lolltlral. Home li II B tenilbly for aoclal, and aome for rellg ill J lou, purioaea. A great many are of a fill d national or race character, l'vojle IIJ J from tho dlflcrant couutrlea of the III S world, who have como to make their j IN m homea here, and lo become clllreue, 1 -Jill S arealaolucllued to aeKregalo luto tho "fill B dl.llnctieoplia frciu which they lint III 1 orlgluatod. Sllljj fl An I, pcrhIai the aaddeit feature of IIP jj all about thla aoclety bualncan, l, the Dp 3 Uudencyofnatleeborn Ami-rlcauato I Jit 1 organlio according to Hlalo geography, 'nil ' 1,'orw'',t l'"'ly good, or for whatob. alU T Mean audi a aoilcty a the "Hona le A of New Votk" or the "Bona of gull J Nevada," be eaUbllihed; Uoealtflll " 1 I any want: Ha It aay nilnlou? Nona. II I Italmplyiaja, "we the auna of Iowa Ml j arolvlUr thannnyothir lutheoouix If 3 l'7i thirefore we have organised to Hi i maintain our auperlorlty Intact and I iiclualve." Tkl, li Ju.t what yry ll B ioclttyof aHtate, or of a race, or of a H a political or rellKlouaclAnicteraaya. 91 1 Tho Chicago .Vejii of March 10, l91, I , M ronitnentlug on the muUIllclty of 1 llifwiocleilr., initi,t It la not at nil IE "1 encouraging algn of the time. fl S Within the pmt day or two there have Ixwn urgaulial aevrral aoclellra of a I fl ticret and lltral character, through. 11 ut the country. Due of the. eutllleil "rhe Naluralltol fl '1 i'na of America," and another 3 j '"The KnUhU of lletlpncll," fl J An'lyalaofthMewlllmlllHiutrato ,: H i i 'ho tmture of then hole. The natu lj ' flliodaoniarothoewhohavo len U II I idwltled to cltUiiithlplu thla country, V i fl'y " or foreign birth, but are r I j up.gool Am.iliam. "Tho I'atrlollo i lona of Aiuerlra" are aupponed ti f I ' native born, aud tbfr object they ' ' u,m to preaarva'Uia lt.publlc. m ' I Laafck. Their melhed of dologthl, la by JL-crlmloatlng JL-crlmloatlng In religion and In nation allty. Their object I, to eicludo certain cer-tain religion, belief,, and peraon, of foreign birth from tha prlvllegoabf American oltlian,hlp. Hit the woral feature of thl, eoclely la, that lie mem liera are nit entirely of American birth. Infaclthelradereand organlirra are of foreign birth. It la not at all JMImilt In l.rnllrt what the outcome of auch organltatlona will be. Society an I evau Industry woull aoon ba arrayed In two hoatlle faction,, and the home, the church, the workshop, anJ even the leaiure ground would become amnea of atrlfe. The KnlghU of Itxlprorlty la a ao. cletywhlch owea Ita birth lo K,n. It aj rung up ahortly aner the lt elf c-llou. c-llou. Ijitrly II, growth hae been phenomenally rapid. Ita olject U to opio,e the Farmer,' Alliance, though Ha principle are radically the aAtne. Hut It dwell, particularly on commercial commer-cial reciprocity with frlanlly foreign natlona, aul between the ditTerent Klatea at home. Juit fancy the ah aurdltyof organising a aecret iollt!ca! aoclety for auch object, and In thla lie iubllo too, where tm thought, free epich, and a free pron are auppoaod to eilit. The Chicago Aeir, hold, unequivocally unequivo-cally that (he exUtence of theaeaoclo-llea theaeaoclo-llea bodea evil for the Initltullon, of thl, Ilepubllo. It aaya- "rip-aklllg generally, It may truthfully be aatd that )lltlol aocletlea of the aecret kind are a menace to the free luatltu-Hon, luatltu-Hon, of the country. It I, amaalug that In thla day of enlightenment thoae who profeM to be t'olltlcal reform-era, reform-era, audi aa the ngrlcullurUt, ahould iatleru after the medieval aocletlea of political plotter) In IIHr method". I'reedomot dlicuaalon la the glory of reubllcanl,m." Can any aane man, for a moment think, that thla Ilepubllo and Jla In. II. tutlonacanbe reserved and pertu-ateil pertu-ateil by having Ita people divide up Into racee, natlona and Hiatal? Can auy aane mau predict the pretervatlon of aoclety by orgaulxlug aecre, ordera, the inemliere of which must have certain prescribed qualldcatlon,; No. If thla Hepubllo la to be pre-aerred, pre-aerred, It mu,t be by an organltatlon which admit! to brotherhood, people of very race and clline, and which ab-aolutely ab-aolutely aud categorically aeta foot on race an I on aectlonal aecret aocUtlea. In a community where Celllo aud tjexou, Teuton and Hclav, Beiultlo and Cauoaalau are at war, what harmony can eilat, what arcoui llhmenta for good can boeOected? None. Within thL, broad domain we are all Aiuerl catie, Uien why atrlve to irpetuate the feuda and faction, whh.li have cuiivuliedl uropeforcenturlea If wo launot meet face to face a, Americana, fornoodoeaaaakelet ua not meet like tho aavage clan, of prehUtorlo Kurope, ur like the falltn aborlglaal tribes of thla continent. |