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Show oo WASHINGTON. .May S. All over the country there are springing up reactionary organizations financed by big business and masquerading under the guise of patriotism, whoso solo purpose is to carry on a propaganda In favor of special privilege and the sacrcdncss of private property. The most recent of these is entitled "United Americans." This organization organiza-tion seeks to amend tho Declaration of Independence and other American documents by substituting what they call article two of their constitution from which the following is a quota-i quota-i tion: "The purpose of tho United Americans Ameri-cans shall be to preserve (the Constitution Con-stitution of the United States with the representative form of government and) the right of individual possession posses-sion which the Constitution provides." Note that it is "Individual posscs-I posscs-I sion," not "Individual liberty," that is stressed. It has been officially decided by the Committee of Forty-eight to hold a national convention immediately after af-ter the Republican and Democratic conventions have finished their work. The purpose of this convention is to place a now opposition party in the field. The call for this convention will be issued in a few days. Twenty-five states have already been organized by the Committee of Forty-Eight, and other states are being rapidly orgar nized. Howard R. Williams, national vice chairman of the Committee of Forty-Eight, Forty-Eight, has just arrived in California, where ho will start to organize that state. Tho National American Woman's Suffrage association has- apparently disbanded too soon. The women met in Chicago a couple of months ago and celebrated the victory of suffrage achieved. In the colonial hall of Congress Con-gress Hotel a great bell was rung and rung and rung; and th delegates cheered and waved their handkerchiefs, handker-chiefs, and Mrs. Catt made a speech; and everybody got flowers and gifts and mado farewell addresses and organized or-ganized leagues of nonpartisan voters, and everything like that. ' And now the 36th state has ratified, and the National Woman's Party, which stayed on tho Job, is working desperately on the forlorn hope that Louisiana and some other anti-woman suffrage states with the prospect that women will not have tho voto for this presidential election. |