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Klansman, it is far better to fail while trying to do something than to ucceeq," while trying Io do notliing. A few of our self-appointed adversaries have found that it isn't safe tn lie shout thp dead, because ghosts
- V , i ,,t ! "
are apt to arise; otneis ;e i.u , leopard can chang0 hIg spots or the
mat it is y)eriious to we auuui mc living hpcaiisp the livine can nail
tend ell Xnvi Item nnil AililreuM nil Inquiries lo RTS and 5S0 Century BuildInjc. Telephone, I.fucnln 7407. KLAVS FKOGKAM FOR 1923-21 1. 7'UiMaiit, old-fashioned Christianity and operative-patriotism. 2. HiP-li lo the Constitution. 3. Fm'creement, of the Eighteenth Amendment so long as it is on the statute books. 4. Enforcement of present immigration laws and enactment of more stringent laws ou immigration.
both lies and liar; finally, it may be seated truthfully, that a large proportion of people have discovered thr.t it is safest and best not to lie at all that course keeps them out of trouble altogether, and is a good platform for true Americans as well as mongrels to stand upon.
of scoundrels (an allusion to the Klan) seems" to have shifted from the flag to the word of God." But it is obvious that there is no real need for further comment. The editorial hack can not change the channels of his overworked, fixed
ideas any more easily than the
Semite the curve of his nose.
Plums, Prunes and Klansmen Nature is supposed to be immutable, yet Luther Burbank changed and improved nature's greatest creations. Luther Iiurhank accomplished with plants even " more extraordinary change:; and development in plant "characteristics" than have been achived by man in "T-enturies. He could not make a carrot into a calla, hut he could and did take the dwarf natural t:alla plant and develop it into a splendid lily bearing flowers measuring a foot across the petals. IK also multiplied and improved the characteristic colors of the natural call:', into great blossoms of a score of shades, from pure white to jet black. The noted plant wizard developed, too, the small, hard, dry, sour prune and transformed it into a juicy fruit that was bigger and more delicious
by far than the common prune. Luther Burbank also trained selected walnut trees to give up their fixed bad habit and produce -nuts, the meat of which were not enveloped in bitter coverings that produced a bitter fruit. Of ;ill lining creatures and living things MAX is the most adaptable, is capable of the greatest development and responsive to the highest degree to the INKLrhWKS OK RIGHT. No characteristic of .merican manhood has been so latentmnd neglected in hi:, ideals of citizenship, his religion and his patriotism. The true purpose of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan is to inculcate and engender higher idealshigher citizenship and broader, more operative patriotism. Men take as a matter of course the social and industrial conditions of the generation into which they are born. If lawfulness is extant, crooked
politics and corrupt public ollicials the order of the -day, a disintegration ! teaching of the little red school
Free schools and open Bible are Frond Liberty's bright coat of arms; Knibleni of Fence on this dull star. When all the rue ami waste of war Shall cease with war's alarms. It is a Klan maxim not to tell, everything one know3 at the first sitting better save a few facts for an emergency. How It Will Be Done What can we do about democracy
and excellence? It has turned us dizzy to read the report of an address made by Dr. Meiklejohn upon this subiect. Speaking in the me
tropolis of effete bean-eaters, the
eminent scholar said in his most profound manner that we must make that which is "high and noble common to all men." He did not tell his audience exactly how that. remarkable feat might bo accomplished. But the Klan has a key that will unlock most abstruse problems. It will solve the problem that Dr. Meiklejohn sets up. To make common things of beauty and nobility to
draw the low to the high so that the high will become customary or common it is necessary to build and to maintain schools that teach pure Americanism. By coupling this teaching (which is, after all, the
Canadian officials believe that rum smuggling is largely done by Americans. One prominent Canadian says that if he had the control of the policing of the province he would seize six or seven American automobiles every day. To this bold inference certain Americans have returned
saucy replies. But the main point
seems to be missed. It matters not whether American or Canadian does the rum-running. The crime should
be stopped. The Klan is largely concerned in putting an end to the violation of American law, so far as it can be of practical assistance to, established authority farther the Klan has no desire to go. We shall serve with the heart that is in ua; Make good for a fashion of me,n; Redeem for the love that shall win
us; Destroy and refashion again. We shall toil for the Master who shows us; We shall joy in our country's acclaim ; We shall stand for the leader who knows us, Making bright the illustrious name.
and defeneration of Protestant citizenship and a latent patriotism are in vogue. Man did look upon these things as the rules of the day and generation into which he is born. lie did noS ask how long the conditions hsnc cxisi.elTT whether they are rhhi. how lonir tln-y ought to stay, lie simniy accepted tht-m as existine. '( mi with the hia'iMiicn of today. Man -men do not t.'ke for granted any conditions that seen: to them fo lie wronir. no iitnftvr of how lonir standing or of how great authority, ami Is io hearty accord with the Knights of the Ku hhix Klan in the thought that present coiidiiimts imM lie chanced.
house) with our old-fashioned Prot esfant religion and religious observ
ance of the Sabbath day, we shall succeed in bringing tire common peoplethat is, ourselves and all others up to a high sense of fundamental truth and beauty. The task which the scholarly doctor sets for "America might well "stagger a civilization that forgets the scriptural foundations so long the bulwark of our government. But the Klansman has
the "open sesame" for this and simi-
Khinsmon have faith in the social future of the white race and are the ! lar "closed" questions. He knows forward looking, fearless men of this generation. "THE BURBANKS OF ! that as a people we must get back
HUMANITY," who are and intend to be these American citizens who shall live their lives that their children's children may say "Our fathers paved tho wav."
to the political and religious ideals
of the founders of our governmental
Think how groat the faith of far-seeing men that slavery could be abolished, that necessarily preceded its abolishment, and consider the need today for men who really are confident that war can be done away with, that industrial and social injustice may be no more, that political corruption can be stopped, that the brotherhood of man rs a possibility and that the world can 1h- Christianized. The rather quiet beginnings of good within the Klan will in the end be
universal, and Klansmen, by taking both reputation and life in hand, wjll. with oerteet urbanity, dare the gibbet, the mob, that by the "absolute truth of hi; speech anil rectitude of his behavior may lead the way." As Bui bank succeeded in altering, radically, elements of natural plants by covering the skin of bitter tannin over the meat of the inside of a walnut shell, it is the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan who are capable OF and WILL bring about the most elemental changes and emphasize to a greater point of understanding the true ideals of American citizenship, Protestantism and real patriotism. Tar and Feathers v. ATssassins Lowell Mellett, former Honsier and resident of Anderson, Indiana, after spending a vacation in Indiana last summer, returned to the east and wrote an article for the Atlantic Monthly in which he "revealed the dense ignorance" of "the folks he used to know." Mr. Mellett's article was a direct in. ul: to Hoosierdorn ; it reeked with aspersious cast upon the intelligence of liirlianians. Mr. Mellett related "stories told him by Hoosiers" that were never heard by persons living right among these Hoosiers whom he brands as exceedingly ignorant.
Provided wrong has been our only foe. Defeat, at first, can not disgnaic.e
our cause; We Klansmen triumph as at last we SO Victors supreme to work our righteous laws. The hideous hosts of vice oppose, the Klan The lie, the sneer, the venomed rage bestirred
Are pointed at the throat of every man Our refuge is our flag and God's own Word. That Red Tape
Most Klansmen ponder with deep concern the failure of chosen officials to check crime. Recognizing that we, as a nation, are subject to
fewer crime waves than European countries, because the bulk of our racial inheritance is better (thanks to our early founders, our interpretations of their ideas of law, and to organizations like the Klan. that aid the arm of constituted government), they are prone to wonder why crime can not be stamped out more easily or checked in its inception. Here is a hint which, if followed carefully, should enable us to see one of the
chief defects tn our present system
As workmen who build at an altar. Our artists shall labor apart;
They shall carve and no foeman shall halter The genius and power in our heart. And our gifts shall be broad as the laws and their keeping full
just
Aye, our life shall flow on like a river ; Inus shall our countrymen trust. Safe paths shall we build for your daughter -For your son safe city and town Though foes slay us we'll rise from the slaughter
Your patriots never lie down. For you all we shall conquer the evil That spreads like a cloud in the north; We shall battle each act of the devil Till our nation at last knows our
worth. Build Your Own House The Puritans, some modern folk
say, had little taste in architecture;
but we like to remember that the first vote cast after they landed on our "stern and rockbound" coast was to" the effect that each man must build his own house. What a lesson to Klansmen was W'.is act of our earliest fathers self-
reliance in the face of every danger in the new world self-reliance and
protection of the family in the darkness of unknown and hideous possibilities. Death inthe howling wind-; perhaps, but no matter death in the scream of night-birds and prowling animals, perhaps, but no matter death stalking in a thousand unknown forms in the forest, but, no matter "Build your own house." No matter how starvation menaced, the command was clear: "Stand up. Be a man. Protect yourself. Build
vour own house."
The poets and tha artists of the later schools appear to love to wander through the filth of life under the mistaken idea that unless they have actually experienced and reproduced the depths of physical and spiritual degradation they have failed actually to achieve. It is as if no
true picture can be given unless it is a picture of the worst side of life
dirt without a flower or bit of
green to relieve the dull and dreary record of decadence and disintegration. The Klan has always opposed this idea upon the part of people of genius. Klan principle holds forever against immorality and degeneracy. And the view has called a pose upon our part or a failure to march forward with the vision of the times. Now comes Robert Frost, one of the foremost of American poets, with a bit of advice which ought to be heeded by hopeful aspirants. Says Mr. Frost: "I can't see that a man
pmust fill his soul with sick and mis
erable experiences, self-imposed and elf-inflicted, and greatly enjoyed, before he can sit down and write a
lyric of strange and compelling'
beauty." The advice is timely and good sane autl wholesome. If ve might have less morbid and feverish vers libre and more of theold-time poetry
and prose, teaching always the higher aspirations toward beauty and
sympathy, we should do better. D
H. Lawrence and similar madmen, with their odd. hell-provoking ca
dences, may please the unbalanced the adolescent, and the perfervid
but their mental mouthings will be poor food for those who were nurtured in their cradles on the milk of liberty and Christian kindness. Being too "broad" is often a sin. Those who capey the burden of their country's welfare on their shoulders care little for phrases and pictures that merely astound by daring presenta
tions of human physical and mental rottenness arrd deformity.
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?the Law A NOVEL FOR ALL KLANDOM By J. WALTER GREEP Author of "Songs of Sixlan Summers" "Th; feneir-oj Ytirs " Ex.
iCopyrinht 1922. by . WALTl- R G ic.Lf)
(Continued From Last Issue) They cheered him lustily and left the hall. Forthoffer and Cameron
shook hands and their faces were wreathed in smiles. It was certain that Taylor would not carry Reichland. They had succeeded in saving it from democracy. "Now, Cameron, you must play on the Q. T., always," cautioned Forthoffer; "the end of th primary race is drawing close. We have to visit the Mexicans and the niggers yet and I feel sure we will then have the thing cinched. There may be a run-off and a second primary. Taylor is going to run like a jack-rabbit. But, if I win in the- first primary, I can easily carry the second, as I will
htiave Karraker's disgruntled follow
ers added to my ticket. Be sure to spring that trick1 -you were talking of just before the election." "But, listen, , Forthoffer," said Cameron, "I'm still on Gene's trail. I think a devil of a lot of the girl. She is nuts over Taylor, but I believe I can win her. I'd really marry her if I had the chance." "Which you'll never get. Don't make a fool of yourself. Surely you are not going to get sentimental and sell out. Remember that postoffice. Remember the cause and the revo
lution that you hope some day to see. If you want the girl, go and get her. Cameron, were you ever in the 'Quarters' in Chicago?" "I should say I have been. There are some beauties there. I helped take sonie of them there. But I can't think of taking Gene there:, I don't know what this is that's the matter with me, but I suspect it is
of real Americanism I what they call love. I have-been a
STUDENTS UPHOLD KLAN; WIN DEBATE
Champions
won a debate in the Central High School of Washington this week when the question-. "Should the Ku Klux Klan, with its mask and gown, be abolished?" Three sutdents took the negative side, while three others took the affirmative. The negative side, which upheld the Klan, won by a 2 to 1 vote, three members of the faculty acting as judges. The real Americans cvlaimed the Klan was American and that rw one had authority to abolish the organi
zation, as it was a legal organization. The affirmative side claimed the Klan was offering itself as a shield for un
lawfulness, and that its principles were contrary to those of the United States. The students who defended the Klan, and to whom the Ku Klux Klan and all true Americans owe a vote of thanks, were Ruth Newbimi Catherine Molntire and Margaret Loeffier.
AH Simpletons, Says Editor
(From the Indiana Catholic) Before the great throng of Hoosier curiosity seekers, who filled the Cadle Tabernacle Monday night, the wily, able and artful Welshman David Lloyd George, arch-British propagandist, pulled off the most brazen and characteristically British piece of bluff ever foisted on the ears of a multitude of simpletons anywhere under any circumstances.
Of course, Mr. Mellett. had an object it- view he wished to cast discredit
on the Klan and in so doine attempted to place the seal of crass ignorance 'of preventing crime: TOO' OFTEN
upon the state from which he came. Mr. Mellett's risf
in the journalistic:11151-'1 ut riumis a:u irtu.in
world hr-s been rapid, and in view o, the aiticle in the Atlantic Mon. .hly. in pLTtP03E3. As 8ome one rccently
insufi'erable ignorance, is it itkwcribed the thing: "Their activities
are not geared together as they should be." This i3 o iite true and poor qualities of reu tape may be blamed along with the personal element. Obviously it is the duty of the Klan to aid, where possible, the
officials and their employes going as far as a patriotic citizen's organization can go- to work harmoniously. All MUST be subject to the will of the many manifesting as ONE.
which he brarded his own state as a seat o
possible that Mr. Mellett has chosen this way to reach a goal set for himi,i i I in the literary world? Paid propagandists are receiving high remuneration from the opposition which is using every nionns possible to .block the growth of the Klan. Mr. Mellett would have the world, if we nre t ) judge by his article in ci tion, believe that Hoosiers are illiterate and pa .-t all redemption. He has Cast a stigma or attempted to upon tite stale of hi-s birth in return for money. He has risen rapidly why? The New Yorli Times, an avowedly anti-Klan publication, seized quickly upon Mr. Mellett's article and pointed to "the dense ignorance in a single domain." The .Vi w York paper, af'-er quoting Mr. Mellett, declares that each and every KU.nsman is "a potential lyncher." P.y this very same token and process of reasoning, the Roman Catholic
church is a band of assassins. ' one says they are or makes that claim , longer be successfully used to point but bv tie: line of thought employed bv Mr. Mellett and the New York 1 a noble moral or adorn a whimsical
Times, they are, because Lincoln was assassinated by a Catholic; "William f""u uttOD:' "iJU";
Henry Harrison w
lor died by the 'poison cup" in ""1850; James A. Garfield died by a Catholic editorial pabulum, might profitably
bullet in 1351; Yviliiam McKinley died at the hands of a Catholic assassin in Iti'H, i.nd a Catholic fanatic attempted the life of Theodore Roosevelt. Mayor f'nynor of Now York met his death at the hands of a Catholic. Does the w York Tiin s contend that each and every member of the Catholic church I;; a p'.ter.t'xl aaaasain? The Aihmtie Monthly is a high-priced magazine, published in the effete cast, and Mr. Mellett no doubt feels that it is a far cry Xrorn there to the
An Interesting Excursion
Now that Governor Walton can no
ilican that nationally nrnminpnt and
a "poison cup" victim on April 4, 1841; Zachary Tay- sch , , disseminator of insincere
counsel with James Weldon John
son, secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peole, in the hope tEat John
son can suggest some giant erf the Walton kidney upon whom to hang the paper's customary anti-Klan comments.
A recent letter from this negro to
no:,t of ignorance ot which he freed himsell when he traveled io tne ea3U" """""""I'l'"'0 ""'
vtpin a rinru w npn it rnmpB Tn
as a lie .vrpniior coi respondent.
One ould hardly expect the learned
Atlantic Monthly to think parallel to the greatmass of "just ordinary lito dcrsi," and, according to Mr. Mellett, erstwhile Hoosier, the personification of gross ignorance. The greatest mystery of the entire affair Is that Mr. Mellett, who declares that he "is as much opposed to the Klan as he ever was," admitted to the world that he is a Hoosier.
Yon Are the (enter You are the center of your own
circumference. Beyond your own
limit vou can not pass. Within your
circle you -are potential; beyond it you must perish. Live nobly, then, in order that your sphere of possibilities may, according to God's laws of growth, be greatly extended. Then shall you bring to your fellows the touch of an all-comprehending unity and a divine, unsullied love for humanity. If you can not help your
fellow man attain a higher hold upon morality and spiritual promise, you are failing as a Klansman. So live that the enemy can not truthfully accuse you of wrongdoing. Defrauding the Klan It is never necessary to resort to
violence. As Klansmen we are keep
ers and servants of the law. The government is in the hands of those who vote. You can only change the lo w by your vote. No militant Protestant American would ever wish to
do otherwise. They lie, and seek to destroy who associate Klan principle with treasonable act or the fomenting of civil revolution. Mob law is the very reverse of Klan ideals read those ideals as set forth in the Klansman's Creed. People who masquerade as Klansmen wrong the order and" defraud the Klan of Its civil rights under the constitution. When
the constitution is violated or de
stroyed all law by which we as a nation live is disintegrated and we are each one without common pro
tection mere slaves of "unrestrained majorities" who have no instrument by which they can force a united and serviceable state of being. Abide by the law, Klansman abide by it and love it. Eschew mobs as you would the devil.
SUES FOR $50,000 BUCYRUS, Ohio, Nov. 3. John Rettig, Gallon, lias filed suit against the Erie Raiiroad Company asking for $50,000 damages, alleging that September 30, 1921, while employed by the company as a machinist helper he stepped on a bolt on the floor of the shop, injuring his hip and- back and affecting his nervous system.
white slave dealer in the past, I'll
confess, but I don't think I'd consent to kidnap Gene unless there was no other way of winning her."
"Why, Cameron! You sentimental
fool!"
Cameron wea k e n e d. "You're
wrong, Forthoffer. I'm not a snivel
ling sentimentalist. Really, I could not think of being tied to Gene or any other woman all my life. It" the chance ever comes I may take her
on a little trip, ending in the 'Quar
ters.' " "Then play rn'y game and I'll help you. She's pretty as a strawberry and would take there. Here is the address of the man in our 'extension department' if you want it. Of course I guess you're next." Cameron took the name and address. Thus deliberately 'they planned tp kidnap Gene and sell her in the white slave market. She
would be one of the one hundred thousand girls who disappear every year from the homes of America.
Cameron planed how he would gloat
over her in liis lustful arrogance then pass her on, a broken flower when, he was done with her.
They began to lay insidious
plans of procedure. Cameron got
in touch with the leader of the white slavers, promising a new "beauty" at an early date. Loathsome places of prostitution, with maw ever open to swallow virtue, awaited the arrival of the pretty girl from the South. And, unmindful of it all, Gene went about the city unprotected. Such a possibility had never entered her mind.
And all the while the hypocritical Cameron counseled with the Judge, held daily conferences in his office
and obtained all the information possible which 'lie secretly transmitted to Forthoffer.
stirring up racial and religious
hatred the Republican and certain of its correspondents win the Massachusetts loving cup. The final sen
tence of Johnson'3 interesting excursion into white man's print contains the characteristic- undercurrent of 3arcasm, which is no doubt pleasing to the Republican: "The last refuge
Frank Kellb& to .
Succeed G4eo. Harvey
WASHINGTON, Nov. 3. Formal
announcement that President Cool-
idge has appointed Frank B. Kelldg
former senator from Minnesota, to succeed George Harvey as American
ambassador to London -was made by the state department. The announcement said Mr. Kellogg's selection had been found acceptable to the British
government.
A KLANSMAN'S CREED I believe in God a?id in the tenets
of the Cliristian religion and that a
godless nation can not long prosper.
' believe that a church that is not
grounded on the principles of moral-
ty and justice is a mockers to Cod
and to man.
I believe that a church that does
not have the welfare of the common people at heart is unworthy.
I believe tn the eternal separation
of Church and State.
I hold no allegiance to any foreign
government, emperor, ktng, pope or
any other foreitjn, political or religious power.
I hold my allegiance to the Stars
and Stripes next to my allegiance to
God alone. I believe in just laws and liberty. I believe in the upholding of the Constitution of these United Stales. I believe that our Free Public School is the corner stone of good government and that those who are seeking to destroy it are enemies of
our Republic and are unworthy of
citizenship. I believe in freedom of speech.
I believe in a free press uncon
trolled by political parties or by religious sects. I believe. in lav and order.
I believe in the protection of our
pur eyuioman hood.
I do not believe in nob violence, but I do believe that laws should be . enacted to prevent the causes of mob
violence. -
believe in a closer relationship of
capital and labor. I believe in the prevention of un
warranted strikes by foreign labor
agitators.
I believe in the limitation of for
eign immigration.
I am a native-born American citizen and I believe my rights in this
country are superior to those of for
eigners.
CHAPTER XVIII ' The Conquest of Ethiopia The cahipaign continued with unabated interest and intense feeling
in many quarters. Every successive
attempt of the Karraker crowd to break Taylor's offensive failed. The better element of the people were up in arms and, irrespective of their
Klan connection, were supporting
him everywhere. He stood for a
platform of principles that were
above reproach. Karraker had long since ceased to assail Taylor's prin
ciples and spent most of his time ridiculing the school teacher and in
coddling his own assured supporters.
Taylor invariably replied ih'a gen
tlemanly manner, never engaging in
abuse and always winning the audi
ence to which he spoke.
Forthoffer decided to carry the
war into new quarters. He and
Cameron arranged a meeting in
Freeland, the large settlement of negroes south of Prairie City. This
was a rich community.1 Tiiere were over four thousand negroes living in a radius of ten miles, all of whom
owned land .and beautiful homes. They drove expensive automobiles,
kept their farms well fenced and
W-ell stocked with high-bred cattle
and hogs, and in every way repre sented a high class rural communi
ty. The village of Freeland was a
hamlet of some seven hundred souls
There was a splendid grade and high school, all the pupils of which
were negroes and the teachers grad
uates of negro educational institutes
The high school teachers had col
4ege degrees. There were two
churches, well built and well at
tended. The pastors were educated men, both of whom bore proudly the
title of "Doctah." There was a col
ored physician, colored merchants
and a small bank operated by col
ored people. In fact, the town of
Freeland was a living demonstration
of the 'practicability of successful
segregation. The colored peopt-of the vicinity were well thought of by their white neighbors. Though there was no social intercourse, there was
nothing they could not obtain for the asking in the way of moral or
financial assistance. There was little lawlessness in Freeland. The negroes were mostly voters, the majority being Democrats. Forthoffer proposed to carry Freeland on his anti-Jkn Crow platform. He realized that these colored people were becoming race conscious. They disliked being separated in the railroad coaches (he imagined) and would gladly support any marr who proposed the repeal of that law which is the bane 0 certain Northern agitators but which gives little worry to the Southern negro. x A fair-sized crowd met to hear him at the Baptist church. Among them was the pastor of the church, the principal of the high school and representative farmers. After ranting for nearly an hour over the mistreatment the colored people bad received at the hands of the whites, with little appreciable effect on his audience despite the fact that negroes are usually quite demonstrative he sat down. He was evidently not the man they wanted to hear. Then Cameron came to his rescue, "I think you people failed to catch the important part of my friend's
speech," he said, "and there are some other points I want to bring you.
une or them is this: You have a
system here in America that gives the lie to the declaration of inde
pendence. That . document nlaSmlv
declares that all men are created
free and equal, and yet you are forced into a car to yourselves if you want to ride on the train. You are forced into hotels of your own in the cities. You are not permitted the sacred (this was the first' time he niid ever used that word) privilege of choosing your own life partner. Suppose a young colored man is in love with a white girl? He can have no hope of ever winning her because the barriers of race are there and the laws of segregation are closely drawn. Now, gentlemen, this is not fair nor right. Mr. Forthoffer intends to do away with the obnoxious Jim Crow law, which is a slur on
the colored race, and little by little
give you the liberties you deserve. Some day I wish I could live to see
that day the Red Flag is going to float over the dome at Washington. Then, and only then, will liberty and equality and justice reign y Look at
Russia. There Czarisnv flourished for a thousand years. There the poor peasants were ground down .nd oppressed and made to feel their inferiority as you are t(5day. Then, they arose in their awful might and the ' government went down in blood. Some day the workers of America are going to rise against this hellish capitalistic government, and you, my colored friends, are going to be in the vanguard. There are going to be liber
ties granted you of which -you do
not dream now. Then the poorest
colored boy can have the prettiest
white girl if he wants her. Then there will be an equal distribution of property. The government will expropriate the private property of the capitalists and distribute it among the people who need it. I appeal to you to assert yourselves now. Be in the front ranks of liberty. Support your friend,. Forthoffer, for Congress, and this will be the first step in your climb to freedom
and equality!" There was no applause when he
finished. Without waiting for further comment, Professor Bogard of
the high school went to the platform. He ignored the speakers and addressed the people.. He spoke distinctly and in faultless English, with
the soft intonations of the African,
and the audience responded instan
taneously. T am sorry you have
been the victims of this sort of
propaganda," he was saying, "and
in ordeh to cleah your minds of any animosities these gentlemen may have kindled, I would say that the attitude the white man has assumed
toward us is both natural and just.
vy e came heah a savage people. The
vhite man brought us and he is re-
ponsible for all we are today. We
often think of the dahk days of
slavery as a soht of nightmare
through which the colored people
passed. As a matteh of fact, it was
splendid training school. The
white man vas two thousand yeahs
achieving the civilization that he
boasts today. He has given itXo us
in less than three hundred. There is no privilege the white man enjoys thatwe cannot, except the in
termarrying or ine races, i have
studied science and I would tell you
people that the races will not mix
successfully. The speakah tried to
appeal to your prejudices. He need
not hold before you any rosy pic
tures. He spoke of the wonders of communism and referred you to
Russia. I would ask the gentleman to, take, a look at Russia himself. Over a million people rrlurdered in
less than two yeahs by an ignorant
and fanatical proletariat. Gentlemen, his arguments won't beah the
white light of examination. You people own home3 and property. There are neBrgroes (he said nee-
groes, not nig-roes as does the Southern white), who are working for you, who had an equal chance
with you to accumulate something. Would you b4 willing to have the government take your property from you and give it to them?" (To Be!pntinifed) The next installment " of "Th Bounds of the Law" will appear is this sDacs next week.
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