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VOL. I. OREGON NATIVE SON. MAY, 1899. John C. Leasure.. J. D. Lee... F. M. Robinson. Eugene D. White. H. C. Wortman. B. B. Beekman. John W. Minto. C. T. Belcher.. Claude Strahan Ralph W. Hoyt. E. H. Thornton. Arthur L. Frazer. R. R. Duniway. Ralph E. Moody. Sol. Blumauer.. A. P. Armstrong. Fred H. Saylor.. NATIVE SONS OF OREGON. This organization is now on a perma- nent footing in the state, and its creation should mark a new era for good in its future. Former attempts to organize were purely experimental and failed ut- terly. The officers of the Grand Cabin are at present as follows: Grand President .Grand 1st Vice-President Grand 2d Vice-President .Grand Secretary. .Grand Treasurer . Grand Orator .Grand Marshal . Grand Inside Sentinel .Grand Outside Sentinel . Grand Trustee Grand Trustee . Grand Trustee . Grand Trustee . Grand Trustee . Grand Trustee . Grand Trustee . Grand Librarian The various Cabins instituted are strong, active and earnest in their work, and whenever and wherever the standard of the order is raised the most prominently known business and pro- fessional men of the state respond to the call. That the order should now number several hundred of Ore- gon's representative business and pro- fessional men, many of whom are 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, consid- ering the short time within which it has 3 No. 1. been done and the great amount of detail and routine work preliminary neces- sary 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 organiza- tion that order only numbered 122 mem- bers. 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 com- plete library of choice literature, a mu- seum of California relics and antiquities, special rooms for the use of Pioneers' Native Daughters, and with ample ex- chequers in subordinate bodies ranging from $1,000 to $12,000 each. The Cali- fornia organization looks after its mem- bers in sickness or adversity, and is the coadjutor and conservator of California's prosperity. It aims to build up Califor- nia and to advance the interests of her people regardless of caste or condition. This is as it should be so long as the order is strictly non-political and non- sectarian. Such is the Native Sons of Oregon. It has no politics and no re- ligious creed. It has its standard of morals, of course, by which each appli- cant for admission to its ranks is weighed and measured. If he falls short of this standard his application is rejected.