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The various Cabins instituted strong, active and earnest in their work, and whenever and wherever the standard of the order is raised the most prominently known business and professional men of the state respond to the call. That the order should now number several hundred of Oregon's representative business and professional men, many of whom high in the councils of the state, men descended from that noble stock that in building for the future for their sons and daughters "builded better than they knew," is somewhat remarkable, considering the short time within which it has.

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been done and the great amount of detail and routine work preliminary necessary to the establishment of the order upon a general working basis.

This is a far better showing to this date a little over eight months-than was made by the Native Sons of the Golden West of California, when at the close of the second year of their organization that order only numbered 122 members. The Native Sons of the Golden West now have a membership of over 10,000, possess a home of their own, a magnificent stone and brick building in the heart of San Francisco, with a complete library of choice literature, a museum of California relics and antiquities, special rooms for the use of Pioneers' Native Daughters, and with ample exchequers in subordinate bodies ranging from $1,000 to $12,000 each. The California organization looks after its members in sickness or adversity, and is the coadjutor and conservator of California's prosperity. It aims to build up California and to advance the interests of her people regardless of caste or conditic This is as it should be so long as he order is strictly non-political and nonsectarian. Such is the Native Sons of Oregon. It has no politics and no religious creed. It has its standard of morals, of course, by which each applicant for admission to its ranks is weighed and measured. If he falls short of this standard his application is rejected.

That the Native Sons of Oregon can and will become a power for the advancement and elevation of the mental, intellectual, moral and physical forces of its members and a potent factor in the promotion of our state's welfare goes without saying, and needs no further guarantee than the proclamation of its platform:

First-To preserve the history and traditions of the state and its early settle

ment.

Second-To perpetuate the names and memories of its pioneers.

Third-To uphold and encourage our home industries and institutions.

Fourth-To help, aid and assist each other as members of the organization reasonably and consistently.

These are the purposes of the Native Sons of Oregon, pure and simple, without collateral motives and with no "axes to grind."

In pursuance of these objects every native-born adult in Oregon, male and female, and every pioneer as well, should strive with uncompromising vigor to build up the order and make it one to be proud of in generations to come.

A suitable home will be erected, an extensive and well-equipped library will be created and a comprehensive museum established of Oregon relics and objects of historic value, of materials relating to Oregon's products and resources, a standing exposition as it were, carefully cared for and kept up by Oregon's Native Sons.

It is conservatively estimated that the native-born sons of this state number fully 20,000. With one-half this number or one-fourth even represented in the order, what a power it could be made f the promotion of our state's prosperity. With strong Cabins in each town of Oregon, working in harmony with each

other in the direction of a community of interests, forming a strong coalition with a common purpose in view, the people of our state could be brought into closer touch with each other and made to feel more than ever before that "in union there is strength." All jealousies and sectional prejudices would be cleared away; there would be no middle, but a common ground, where we could amalgamate our aims, our ideas, our opinions, our hopes and desires upon lines of mutual benefit, and advance the weal of our native soil as it never was done before by all other influences combined.

The official organ of the order, “Native Son," the first publication of its kind to appear in Oregon, will give an irresistible impulse to the growth of the order. Its objects are noteworthy and laudable, as its enterprise unaided and alone is truly commendable. Its single purpose will be to assist the order of the Native Sons of Oregon to advance the interests of the state and her citizens regardless of political caste or religious beliefs, and therefore it should be supported by not only members of the order, but by every man and woman who has the interests of the state, and therefore of home and family, at heart.

On the 13th day of June the first annual grand assembly and reunion of Native Sons will take place in Portland. It is fervently hoped that upon that to be memorable occasion a full representation may be had of Native Sons from every part of the state; that each Cabin will be largely represented by the presence of its members, and that in addition to the magnificent brass band that will be provided on that occasion by Abernethy's Cabin No. 1, each Cabin throughout the state will be accompanied by its local band. There is ample time to organize local Cabins and prepare to join