American Protective Association
This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island. Safe in the Vatican, Pope Leo the Thirteenth was probably not aware in the spring of 1887 that a stack of lumber in front of the W. J. Young Lumber Company in Clinton, Iowa, was about to cause him some grief. That lumber was the first domino in a chain of bigotry that got out of hand. A popular Clinton mayor, Arnold Wallicker, had been defeated after refusing to let the lumber company continue to pile its lumber in the street. The companys Irish employees had...
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