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Show j Exit A. P. A., Enter A. M. M. j strange to say. the announcement or I 1'"' death of the A. P. A. has not been '" "' "v-ed -y the demise of Uncle Sam. ' ' I;. ,,id gentleman still survives an 1 f v-'-r,ms as hearty as ever, notwithstand- i:.r the loss of his "protector." Rut, I 1 " haps, the explanation is that the A. I V. A. has h'ft a successor. It is a case I ' Hie king is dead, long live the kins. I ' h.- new organization is to be known ? : - the A. M. M. the American Minute I "1 ej-, and Its founder, a Mr. Batcheler, j t'-::s us that it has already 2.000,000 ' dinners. There were not quite s- "nary Minute Men at Lexington 127 fars ago, but the country had not 'hen such an abundance of ardent patriots as are supplied to us in our eay by the Orange lodges of Canada f..d Ulster. ' course, the A. M. M. has "princi-T''s." "princi-T''s." and the first of them is "restric-1 "restric-1 on of immigration." that is to say. "rapist?." Anglo-Saxons, we may be F'm-o. ivii be excluded from the "re-t-'rletlon." particularly those of the true b:u kind who have been accustomed o honor the memory of "the great and god King William," by rioting and ! convent wrecking in Belfast. It is pos sible, however, that all the A. M. M.'s it ay not be Orange recent arrivals. Soii,f. 0f the recruits doubtless will be "f the "good old Pilgrim stock." descendants des-cendants of the interesting people who haneed Quakers and burned witches, a'l for the glory of God and in the in- t "rests of religious liberty. Another of the A. M. M. "principles" is "no sectarian appropriation." We presume, however, that there will be A. M. M. objection to the appropriation appropria-tion for paying the chaplain for con-cress, con-cress, seeing that he is not of the "popish" persuasion: or for the payment pay-ment of th salaries of legions of rev-Tend rev-Tend Protestant ministers scattered : through the world as American consuls, wh i spend much of their time rather of Uncle Sam's time in promoting iTote.-tcint 'missionary enterprises. Mr. Ratchiiler and his 2.000.000 will ialso devote thousands to "maintaining the constitution and government of th.; United Slates." That will be quite a I new line for gentlemen of their nationality nation-ality and race. The Orange association was founded in the reign, and by ardent ar-dent admirers and loyal supporters, of Kirg George III, who. as we all know, I bad a very tender affection for the con-j con-j stitutlon of the United States. If the I A. M. M. would make it one of its "principles" to exclude United States j history from our schools, it might In j time when the Anglo-Saxon record on' (this side of the Atlantic from 1776 to I lS61-fiiS was forgotten be able in more j seeming accord with the fitness of 1 ' things to pose as champions and pro-1 ' lectors of our constitution and govern- 1 j ment. |