Fiery Cross, Volume 2, Number 42, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 August 1923 — Page 10
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THE FIERY CRO STS
URBANA PLANS PICNIC AND KLAN PARADE
August 25 Set as Date on Which Next Class of Candidates Will Be Initiated
TJRBANA, 111., Aug. 14. Arrangements are being made to handle a very large sized crowd here on the 25th of the month, when the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan will have their big barbecue, picnic and naturalization ceremonies at Crystal Lake park. Letters are pouring In to local headquarters from all surrounding
Klandom to the effect that delegations will attend from their respective cities and" towns in large num
bers.
National speakers of prominence
are on the program to give addresses
on patriotism, Americanism ana tne Klan, and several good bands have
been booked to furnish muslo during the entire afternoon and evening. A parade will be held in the evening in which a large number of Klansmen in full regalia will take part, and after the march, which will be accompanied by bands, floats, torches, etc., a class of candidates numbering about 300 will be initiated
into the mysteries of the Invisible
Empire.
Fiery crosses will be burned at the initiation ceremonies, and It will be
far into the night before the American celebration is concluded.
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Politicians Losing Power to Deceive A Summing Up of the Political Situation
With Indiana being swept
from border line to border line with the militancy of the
Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, and with the people on every hand looking askance and wondering why, probably no better
answer could be obtained or given than the following article by Gilbert O. Nations, editor of "The Protestant." A national survey of the Klan in the United States, and its achievements, as well as an entirely familiar vision of its program, inspired this article by Mr. Nations. Wtth Indiana fully organized in every county in the state, and with
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sweeping the northland, this article
comes with unerring certainty and great timeliness. Mr. Nations says: "The political outlook is chaotic. Unrest grows constantly more ominous. The controlled press and poli
ticians are losing their power to de
ceive. The people are disgusted to exas
peration with hollow shams. They
have lost interest in parties without character, courage or program
Politics must be born again. The
people require justice instead of ex
pediency. They scorn administra
tions controlled by predatory inter
ests. National and international prob
lems become daily more crucial and imminent. Their solution can not he
delayed. They challenge the highest
type of patriotism and statecraft. The Half Dozen Manipulators
The half dozen manipulators that
decided overnight to nominate Mr
Harding at Chicago cared nothin
for the people except to get their votes. They sought only to control the next administration and'dispense
its patronage.
That incentive secured Cardinal
Gibbons to offer the convention in vocation. His prayer was . not ex
pected to reach beyond the Roman
Catholic voters.
Wall Street and the Roman hier
archy were in control. The result
was a mediocre ticket and a mean
ingless platform. Popular revulsion
against the Tumultys and Ryans and
Walshes and Bensons and Drum
monds of the Wilson administration
elected the Republican ticket.
That ticket had no inherent
strength or merit. It was rooted in
privilege and reaction and thread
bare traditions. It was not designed
to meet the vast problems arising out
of the World War and our new in
dustrial and economic conditions Tammany Hall Again
The Democratic ticket nominated
at San Francisco was no better. It
was the creature of Tammany Hall
It was contrived by delegation
chosen by the money trust and the Roman hierarchy in the great cities.
Similar delegations are now being secretly chosen by the same process in both political parties. The voice of the people is totally excluded from the covert and selfish manipulation. The delegation from each great city
will be composed of pliant nondescripts accompanied by like characters from rural portions of the state and headed by -cunning acd resourceful politicians seasoned in trickery and intrigue. But it becomes increasingly diffi
cult to beguile all the people. They are tired of the crushing taxation saddled on them by wanton public extravagance. They are tired of being plundered by railroads for the benefit of predatory combinations holding bonds and watered stock. -They are tired of extortion by gi
gantic financial combinations in ut
ter disregard of both ethics and law
They are tired of buying necessaries at prices so out of proportion to
those realized by the producers.
They are tired of seeing papalized
state governments and legislatures driven by politicians and criminals
in Roman Catholic cities to repudiate the Constitution of the United States. They are tired of seeing enforce
ment of the eighteenth amendment
committed to inadequate and un
friendly hands as a pawn of cunning
ana elusive politicians. Tired of Enslaved Press
They are tired of a press abjectly enslaved to alien and predatory
power. They are tired of seeing good
citizens maligned by a shameless
press and shadowed by cringing public authorities for membership in or
ganizations composed exclusively-of
native-born Protestant citizens.
They are tired of seeing all citi
zens branded as radicals who con
demn shady political bargaining and
public injustice and wrong. They are tired of a hundred thrones in our cities enforcing the canon law of Rome on American citizens. They are tired of mouthing about education by propagandists of the Church of Rome that has educated Latin America till illiteracy there is virtually universal. They are tired of having public schools in the hands of Roman Catholic teachers and boards of education to whom the schools are outlawed by statutes of the Pontifical throne.
They are tired of having school legislation pigeonholed for years in Congress at the behest of the Roman
hierarchy as the enemy of public education. They are tired of tax
burdens greatly augmented that billions of wealth vested in a hundred
enthroned prelates of Rome may be
exempt. They are tired of Knights
or Columbus in control of tbe gov
ernment secret service. They are tired of Papal-Irish as
saults on European and American
history. They are tired of the big
otry and 'criminal overbearing of the event trained Roman Catholic mobs formed j completed.
to break up orderly Protestant meetings and terrorize law abiding communities., - Secret Political Bargaining They are tired of seeing venal hands of the Roman hierarchy thrust into public treasuries to the shoul
ders. They are desperately tired of
the vasLpolitical organization formed
witn headquarters In the national capital to place five or six millions
of Roman Catholic votes in the hands
of the enthroned hierarchy for use
in secret political bargaining.
Popular unrest is reflected in grow
ing courage and militancy of the religious and fraternal press. It is reflected in returns of recent elections.
It is reflected in progressive in
surgency threatening total disintegration of both old political parties.
it is renected in the widening popular demand for a progressive party responsive to the rights and aspirations of the people.
It is demonstrated by the increas
ing number of distinguished scholars
and patriots and statesmen who read
mis magazine and nraise its unan
swerable message. It appears from
the great number and tremendous
aggregate circulation of periodicals devoted exclusively to the patriotic
cause.
Many Hoosiers to Attend
Class of 2,000 Will Be Initiated as Part of Program
A Brutal Fury It is strikingly shown by the phe
nomenal growth of the Ku Klux Klan
and similar organizations. Brutal fury of the Roman hierarchy, cringing politicians and controlled press
has clothed such organizations with martyrdom in the popular mind and
nas tnus hastened their marvelous spread Into every part of the country.
Present membership of the Klan is
not known to the .public. But a recent press report gave the number as
tour hundred thousand in one state of the middle west Delegates to the
recent Catholic Press Association at Indianapolis were amazed at the visible strength and boldness of the or
ganization in that capital.
Two years ago when the Invisible
Empire was in swaddling clothes the
controlled daily press in one sudden impulse devoted many thousands of
front-page columns to furious denunciation syndicated from the throne city of the richest and most populous Roman see in the world. In consequence the organization
instantly sprang into powerful and triumphant activity from coast to coast- Shocking mendacity of the charges so widely exploited opened the heart of the nation. Ministers and lawyers and merchants and
bankers and statesmen rushed Into its membership. Many great northern cities have witnessed meetings attended by Incredible numbers at which thousands of new members were initiated in one day. Men that hesitated and stood aloof till th righteousness of the Klan was demonstrated by the methods of its enemies now regard it with enthusiasm. Politicians Tremble
It has flourished mightily in soil fertilized by the patriotic press.
Craven politicians tremble at Its phe
nomenal growth. It is the one tangi
ble and organized- force able to cope with the wealth and power of Rome in the ensuing political campaign.
Its one besetting handicap is lack
of experience and trained leadership.
it is confidently hoped that unselfish wisdom of its official leaders will be able to co-ordinate every district and
local unit of the new and powerful body and direct its peerless manhood
to the salvation of our country, the blessing of humanity and the glory of God.
To that end the counsel1 of honest
and patriotic men with no personal ambitions but with large experience and superior wisdom in great politi
cal movements should be sought and welcomed.
Deeply entrenched in both existing
political parties, the hierarchy of Rome seeks to round up in advance
any new political movement that popular sentiment may call into being. Firm bonds of fellowship have already been established with all
men now deemed possible leaders of such a movement. Complete Dominance Election to the presidency of any one of the half dozen politicians now in the public mind as progressive leaders would mean complete papal dominance in the White House and on Capitol Hill. It would make additions to papal strength in the federal judiciary that could not be removed in twenty years. It must not be.
Membership of patriotic organiza
tions must be so augmented before
me primaries and nominating con
ventions that politicians will not dare ignore their wishes and betray the country. The most powerful sordid
inducements will be in reach of pa
triotic leaders themselves. May Di
vine Providence sustain their in
tegrity and direct their minds and hearts. "
Human destiny hangs on our elections next year. The Revolutionary War brought forth its Washington. The Civil War gave us Lincoln. May the present crisis be favored with leadership of equal genius, integrity and worth."
EAST ST. LOUIS-, 111., Aug. 14.
A gigantic celebration, all-day picnic and barbecue will be held here on
Labor day by the Knights of the Ku
Klux Klan at historic Monks Mound, and from all reports at present the
attendance will break all records.
Speakers of national reputation will explain the principles of the
Klan, and others will deliver stirring
addresses on patriotism and Americanism. These addresses will be de
llvered to the public in general in order that all might learn of the greatest organization the country
nas ever known.
Among the many features of the
day s program will be a series of
athletic events, and there will be
plenty of music through the day. To Initiate Big Class
In the evening a mammoth class
of 2,000 candidates will be natur
alized in the initiation ceremonies of the Invisible Empire beneath the
flaring lights of huge fiery crosses
The Women's Organization will also
be well represented and will admin
ister the oath of Americanism to
large number of candidates for their
order.
tpnowing the initiation ceremo
nies will be a sensational display of
Klan fireworks.
It is understood that a large number of Klansmen from Indiana will
attend the meeting.
NOTICE TO AGENTS! All Fiery Cross news
hagents will automatically be
come agents of the Junior Klansmen Weekly, which
will serve in the same capac-
uy ior ine junior nian as does The Fiery Cross for the senior organization, upon the first issue of the new weekly. The date of initial number of the Junior Klansman will appear later.
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Have you seen this? A beautiful tribute to the "Knights of the Ku Klux Klan," portraying in fireworks these great principles: "The Little Red Schoolhouse," "The American Flag," "The Klansmen Kneeling at the Cross," a beautiful tableau with life-size horses, the "K. K. K.," the "Nation's Emblem," and a number of other beautiful set pieces, together with a massive aerial display. The "Revue" has been produced for the following state meetings: Ohio at Buckeye Lake, Indiana at Kokomo, New York at Niagara Falls, and now booked for a number of other Klonklaves. i Write for information. M. & S. Chemical Co.
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WAPAKONETA, Ohio, August 13. Twenty-five candidates, all mem
bers of the same church in thi3 city,
were initiated into the Ku Klux Klan on last Monday night.
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Champaign County, Illinois
Ku Klux Klan Day
Zenith Klan No. 56, Realm of Illinois
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Ice Cream Festival for Benefit of Church Aug. 25 On August 25 an ice cream festival will be held at Maywood for the benefit of the M. E. Church at which there will be speakers and fiery cross demonstrations. The social is worthy
of patronage and will benefit the church. Maywood Is reached on the Martinsville traction line and by
auto by -driving straight out Ken
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charge of the program has an
nounced that all preparations for
have practically been
Naturalization Ceremony at Night Bring Your Candidates
ay, mi.
Day and Night Crystal Lake Park ZJrbana i SPEAKING BY REV. McMAHON, Mattoon REV. J. W. RICHARDS, Marshall and other authorized speakers
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