Fiery Cross, Volume 3, Number 5, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 November 1923 — Page 4

5 - . .v THE FIERY -CROSSPAGE FOUR Friday, November 30, 1923

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KLAN'S PROGRAM FOR 1923-24 1. Militant, old-fashioned Christianity and operative patriotism. . Buck to the Constitution. S. Kni'orcfiiH'iit of the Eighteenth Amendment so long as it is a pnrt of the Constitution.

4. Knl'orceiiient of present immigration laws and enactment of more

stringent laws on immigration.

The Ambassador 's Warning Perhaps no warning of a like nature was ever issued at a more opportune titiH" than that given out by the American ambassador to Italy, Richard Washburn Child, in regard to alien propaganda. Mr. Child declares that Americans should be on the watch for such propaganda and should be careful to identify the real source from which it is inspired. "Probr.bly no country In the wcrld would be as tolerant as we are of advice coming from abroad as to the line of conduct our president and secretary of state should follow." Mr. Chilil also touched on "propaganda of those foreigners who tour America and tell us what we-ewght to do." He did not mention any names, but without doubt he had in mind such men as Zangwill, who has just

recently visited America and cast aspersions upon Americans that, as Mr. Child declares, other countries would not permit of a foreigner saying within their borders. "I strongly suspect," said Mr. Child, "that if our prominent men went to certain countries in Europe and went around telling "what that country should do they would be presented with a list of steamship sailings." Mr. Child's words are no doubt true; European countries would not stand for the insults and taunts made by "touring Americans" that are daily hurled from the lips and pens of so-called speakers from over the seas. It would be hard to imagine stronger tirades and insults than indulged in by Zangwill during his stay in America. And yet naught was said to him; in fact, h"is ravings were listened to carefully .by the alien

Interests in this country and tolerated by Americans. Calling Americans "half-baked" and declaring the country "full of cranks" and the press, railroads and parks a disgrace, he fumed, and through addresses before thousands of aliens, holding up to them the false theory that Europe knew more about good government than the I'nited States would ever know. The much-talked-of "melting pot" is having a hard time as it is without agitators hurtling about over her fair domains "pointing out her faults" to those who came here to escape oppression. Mr. Zangwill, however, is but one of the scores of offenders who go about the I'nited States on "lecturing tours" spreading alien propaganda. This being a free country, wherein free speech should forever hold sway, the estopping of these foreign propagandists is impossible, but, in the words of Ambassador Child, "Americans should identify the source of statements made by foreigners." In view of the fact that Protestant Americans very seldom escape the venom of these speakers, in one form or another, the "source of the statement!;" of these foreigners, could they be ascertained, would probably come

as a surprise to many who make light of the efforts of true-blooded, nativeborn, white Americans to forestall the attempt now being made to tear down our institutions. Americans should, ever keep in mind the warning of Mr. Child and analyze all such attacks upon the worth of our nation b- Europeans who come here and insult Americans and play to the sympathy of our alien population.

The Slumbering Giant To Emerson has been attributed the saying that the American nation looks like "the last effort of Divine providence in behalf of the human

race." But this thought is only true if America can be held to the course that will keep her free, cool and imperial in her four-square relations to the entire world. A little more laxness in respect to religion, education and foreign politics a little less regard for puritanical ideals that are sneered at in some corners and we shall be utterly submerged by all the vile influences and tendencies of scorbutic Europe. Submerged in the laziness, dishonesty, immorality and

sinister traditions of aliens who drag

at our skirts and mock at our thresh

old, we may well shudder at the abyss that opens before America's fnotan niwss which the Klan is

seekine to helD this country to avoid

The present drift in "the direction

of trouble is being helped on every

hour bv slavering sentimentalists-

some of them sitting in high edi

torial places who are foisting upon

the popular mind ideas that were never born in the breast of a patriot.

This class of people mistakes "hrparlth in morals" for a kind of

artificial brotherhood a hapless thing that can only weaken the moral fihre of the nation. Such ad-

venturinz into Europe brings a con

tact that is detrimental not only in

oolitics but in American home nie,

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If accepted and generally pracuceu we shall be bound so closely to Eurone in thought and custom that all

of our old landmarks of decency and intellectual sobriety may finally be

hopelessly modified or entirely swept

awav.

Europe has scant pride she is not afraid of being called a beggar at Columbia's gate. Contact is what she most dsires contact, in many

senses, of the filthy gypsy wlio de

mands silver to "cross her palm

and which can only result in what

mitrht he called the "moral neiin

mienrv" of a nation.

If we do not realize tnis ainaiKn

mating and weakening influence that

Is at work we shall see ueiuau ionintr another slesninK giant. If we

do not firmly and patriotically avoid

the drift and flee what amounts, m a way, to unethical or even immoral contact, we shall have to change Emerson's word into a despairing admission that even "Divine providence can not save that which is 'hell-bent and forecondemnedV "

where the Roman Influence is strong

there is a chance of a business boy

cott. And, for tia most part, agree

mg to serve the country and to stand by her loyally at any cost Is a thing

that some 'young men do not want to do. Also, now that it has been dis

covered that the ".hoodeti monsters"

are neither very closely hooded nor

wnoiiy wicked monsters, there isn't

rnucn spice to attract the youth so

away he goes searching for another

paymaster. But, back of all this comparison is the steady .picture of those who have found the star of Bethlehem to be the light of the world, and

tne true knowledge of those who have learned that the fiery cross is one interpretation of .that light a

glowing symbol of ideal and patriotic

truth.

The French franc has depreciated

nearly 75 per cent so much for

frankness.

The people who are too sophisticated to enjoy a circus can get their fun out of the next presidential election without' Injury to their dignity.

When you bob a doe's tall, vou rob

him of his smile it's the same way

wnen you bob the tail of a Klan en

emy..

A myriad of -those "best intentions."

Is less than one Klansman-like deed.

The soul that is full of pretensions

is but a poor garbage-bred weed. The man who has to bite his tongue tehold It makes a poor Klansman.

- Nobody seems to have thought of starting a correspondence school for the purpose of teaching patriotism. There is nothing like making things easy for the modern American. Canned music, canned education, canned loyalty to country. The monthly payment idea ouht to appeal to the hybrid patriot,

Zangwill, the British Jew, savs

that wc have no sense of hanior in

America. Boy, page Lew Shank's gubernatorial aspirations. Even the world at large is beginning to see that the oak wasn't put into Oklahoma by Walton.

Romans, 12th Chapter : I beseech you. therefore, brethren by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God which is your reasonable service!

This verse of the 12th chapter of

Romans is like a diamond, it makes ao difference which way you turn

tnis gem, it flashes out the dazzling

ngnt or trutn. Present your bodies, a living sacrifice. If you are going to perform the

reasonable service God demands you ! are going to use your bodies. With the body is complete, acceptable, reasonable service. Our Lord was Wounded, bruised, chastised, striped in his body for us, bore our sins in His own body upon the tree; why should we withhold our bodies from His reasonable service? The cross of Jesus stands for a crucified body, and that is enough reason why you

ana i snouia oner our bodies. When? The first of Januarv of each year? No election month" and every other month. WJ.en? Next time? No pres-ent, you see there are two words in one and means act now. What would you think if a soldier who received a command to "Present arms,"

snouia say, "When " Or "I will whenever my ballot will decide the victory." What am I to present? A candi

date a friend who wants an office;

an aspirant lor political favors? ' No "A sacrifice." To be burned? No to burn. To die? No to live. There are thousands of men who are willing to die for their country, who have not tho courage to live for it, through one election day. There are no terrors in a cannon's mouth, but there are shivering terrors in the mouth of political friends who sneer.

May I make an offering my prayer? No-He wants the prav-er. He wants the sacrifice on the altar, not only on Sunday and weekly prayer night, but week days and election days. What we need today is "body" Christianity and that is not produced by a church whose word is not as good on election day as any other.

Smith the Vitalizer

Possibly no more apt illustration of the old adage, "The wish is fatUer of the thought," was ever seen than in a column length "news" story which ran in the New York Times of November 20, and under a French

Lick. Indiana, date line. After declaring that neither "Tammany leader Charles F. Murphy, nor Thomas Taggart. Democratic leader of Indiana, was willing to discuss the subject," the Times then went ahead to "explain" why the Democratic party might insert an "anti-Klan" plank in the Democratic platform. Ii. other words, because the Klan will not enter into politics, the Times would be. much pleased to see it dragged in. Throughout the entire story, the Times made effort to create the impression that the Klan was '.'pent." This latter feature oT the "news" story was, of course, but a part of that systematized effort on the part of the alien opposition to create the "dwindling" theory, and which system has been bared in The Fiery Cross in numerous stories from New York and elsewhere in which it has been shown that the perpetrators of these stories contradict

one another to such an extent that the stories are proved on the face of them to be without foundation and absolutely unreliable. In the "news" story under discussion there is found a subtle paragraph. This paragraph stands out more-boldly due to the fact that nowhere in the story does the name of Al Smith, governor of New York, appear. The paragraph reads: "Murphy, Taggart and Brennen are believed to be personally favorable to a platform pronouncement against the Klan and the nomination of a candidate who, through his personality, would vitalize that protest." While there is very probably no thought of including an "anti-Klan" plank in the Democratic platform, any more than an anti-Knights of Pythias or an anti-Knights of Columbus plank, the New York Times managed to get into the article a suggestion of Al Smith for president

without so much as mentioning his name. It is without doubt that Smith would "vitalize" the issue as possibly no man could be chosen who ia more at variance with the principles of the Ku Klux Klan, the members of which have taken oath to uphold the constitution. On the other hand, Smith, by signing the anti-prohibition bill -passed by the New York Assembly, which was In direct conflict with the constitution, defied the constitution, which the Klan is bound under oath to uphold. There is not the least doubt that Smith would "vitalize" the issue. He now has the presidential bee buzzing in his bonnet and has repeatedly been "mentioned" as a candidate. Whether or not he would make a good president is not to be stated here but as a "vitalizer" he should be beyond reproach.

This Is No Place for "Somebody" In an opinion handed down by Associate Justice Butler, the supreme court upheld the laws of California and Washington which prohibit Japanese and other aliens from owning land in those states. Justice Butler ricmipfi that the" law of the state of

Washington; which constituted the principle, was in conflict with the fourteenth amendment of the consti

tution or with the treaty with japan, i He held that states had the authority to prevent ownership of land by

-aliens who had not declares weir

intentions to become gooa cuuenb of the United States or were prevented from assuming citizenship. Justices Reynolds and Brandeis (of course) dissented. And all of this means that the western states that are overrun by Jthe scum ofcivilization may after a time have a slightly better chance to close the door to fertile acres that ought to belong forever to Americans and Americans only. It also means that popular opinion in these states may have some effect

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but that some minds can not be changed by any power in the world. It is up to California and Washington tn ?r on with their commendable

fight America ought to be for Americans first, and for somebody else

afterward.

It is not what you get. It is what you give ; It is not what you say. Tt tiio wav vnn live

Give to the world the help it needs;

The Klansman lives by noDie ueeus.

TEACHING THE ETHICS OF JOURNALISM

He Accomplished a Purpose Dr. James Sully, emeritus professor of philosophy. University College, London, whose books were read feverishly by some of us when we were chaps in college . thirty years ago, is dead at the ripe old age of 81. Once Dr. Sully was a journalist as

well as a philosopher, and he has also been accused of having written

a short story that sold, -ages, ago, to an American magazine. Though an

Englishman he understood something

about the plan and purpose of the famous little red schoolhouse, and sympathized with educational move

ments that brought the Magna Charta of each nation into its proper place and relation writh the common people. The greater portion of his

life was spent in giving- to people

knowledge that was uplifting and

beneficial.

We Xeed More Lincolns When certain Chinese soldiers, following racial weaknesses and tradi

tional policies, recently made an attack on the American flag. Captain G. S, Lincoln, commander of the

American Asiatic fleets immediately

demanded and received full satisfac

tion from the Chinese military au

thorities. Is it not a pity that CaptLincoln's services can not be enlisted to secure satisfaction from a certain element of so-called Amer

ican citizens who attack the American flag constantly by word and act? With what miserable hypocrisy are we hemmed in!

Lax Interest in Furs Causes Loss to U. S.

Washington, d. c, Nov. 24 The United States government is losing substantial sums of money because women have changed their fashions in furs and are showing less interest in sealskins, Secretary Hoover said recently. The government haa in stock some

10,000 pelts which may have to be held for a considerable period. The government, Mr. Hoover explained, haa practically a monopoly on seal fur production by reason of Its ownership of the Alaskan islands, where the seals have their rookeries. This year's take of 12,000 skins was

put on the market some time ago, with skins offered for sale at $30 apiece. About 2,000 Bkins were sold, and then the demand decreased. It also looks like a hard winter for the foxes on the Alaskan islands. Hitherto they have been fed on the meat from the carcasses of seals. There Isn't anything to be done about It, Mr. Hoover said, except to put the foxes on half rations, stop

killing seals and wait until the sealskins come back into-fashion.

LARGE CLASS NATURALIZED OTTAWA, 111., Nov. 26. A speaker from East St. Louis addressed Klansmen here at .a ceremonial when a

large class was naturalized last

week.

It is not whence you came. But where you are going; It is not what you have, But are you still owing? The world needs men who are honest and clean The Klansman avoids things low and mean. It is not how you die, But what you die for;

The thing that's above Is the thing you must try for.

It is not you, but tne cause you serve A Klansman from duty dare not swerve. Millions just like you Are the heart of the Klan; The path you must walk Is the Dath of a man.

Your strength is the strength of, many in one; Your best reward is the good you have done.

The Charmed Circle There once was a rich young man

who came to Christ. He had so much money to spend that even the spendingof it sometimes was a misery.

But he liked the money, nevertheless, and when he found that he could not enter the charmed circle of Christ's followers until he had given

up his wealth and position, he decided that the price of Christ's service was too great. Money, he thought,

would, after all.- bring him more

pleasure than mooning around with a Nazarene carpenter. A very patent

modern analogy is to be found in the

way some people treatKlan member

ship. It is true that joining tne

Klan doesn't mean the loss of -any money, but in some sections It still

means a loss in social prestige if the people find it out, and In some places

A KLANSMAN'S CREED believe in God and in the tenets

of the Christian religion and that a godless nation can not long prosper.

I believe that a church that is not

grounded on the principles of morality and justice is a mockery to God

and to man.

I believe that a church thai does

not have the welfare of the common

people at heart is unworthy.

I believe in the eternal separation

of Church and Slate.

I hold no allegiance to any foreign

government, emperor, king, pope or any other foreign, political or relig

ious power. I hold my allegiance to the Stars and Stripes next to my allegiance to God alone. I believe in iust laws and liberty.

I believe in the upholding of the

Constitution of these United States. believe that our Free Public

School is the corner stone of good

government and that those who are seeking to destrov it are enemies of

our Republic and are unworthy of

citizenship. I believe in freedom of speech. I believe in a free press uncontrolled by political parties or by religious sects. I believe in law and order.

I believe in the protection of our

pure womanhood.

I do not believe in mob violence,

hut I do believe that laws should be enacted to prevent the causes of mob

violence.

I believe in a closer relationship of

capital and labor. -. believe' in the prevention

warranted strikes by foreign labor agitators. I believe in the limitation of for

etgn immigration.

I am a native-born American citizen and I believe my rights in this country are superior to those of for

eigners.

One who recalls the famous cartoon by McCutcheon, entitled "The Mysterious Stranger," in which the state of Missouri was represented as a raw recruit taking his place in the Republican ranks of states," when the

voters overturned a traditional Democratic majority, may; if of the older school, liken the Cautious assumption by journalism of a place in the ranks of the ; professions to the apologetic attitude of the distinguished cari

caturists hero. But it more and more convincingly appears that no apology is necessary, or even ex

pected. Just as those of other acknowledged professions have cleared away the confusions and impedimenta . which obscured the true course of advancement and have for

mulated standards dictated by reason and experience, so among newspaper Tmen has it bean realized that there can be set up, in what they

have-eome to recognize as their profession, a standard of -ethics and practices to which adherence may be

demanded.

In an address to the delegates to the annual convention of Sigma Delta

Chi, a national professional journal

istic fraternity, recently, President Lotus D. Coffman of the University of Minnesota," declared that it was expected of the press that it should

tell the truth and that it should be constructive. Now, such a standard

is purely ethical. Perhaps.it may besaid that special training in a school

of journalism is not necessary to teach the student to tell the truth. It might be proved quite conclusively that newspaper editors, or some of them at least, have always told the truth. But it "might be made as conclusively to appear that not all editors have told the truth at all times. Thus, it may be important that those who . are ambitious to undertake

newspaper work be taught their responsibilities to the public and their duty to themselves.

Now this teaching can not be effec

tive except as courses of study adapted to the needs of the students are provided. The methods employed

in the training of preachers, or doctors, or even lawyers, cou-ld not rea

sonably be adopted. While all these tell the truth, they do not always tell it in the same way a newspaper man is expected to tell it. In the older

professions it has long been recognized - that excellence could be attained only through -properly di

rected education. Possibly the tardiness of Journalism in taking its position in the professional ranks is ex

plainable by the " inherent tendency

in years past of those connected with

its pursuits to adhere voluntarily to an undefined ethical basis. Perhaps it has been made apparent that the

present-day tendency is away from self-imposed standards. Thus, there

is afforded the teacher, or dean, or

casual lecturer, the opportunity to point out tee inevitable penalties of conscious digression from the

straight line. The allurements, to

the novice, may prove enticing. It is

wise, therefore, that recognized ethical standards be established, and that these .should be founded, on the basis of professionalism. There is

more than an Implied obligation that

the graduates oi an etnicai scnooi shall not depart from the teachings

imparted.

(Continued From Last Issue) "Be on guard, be careful what you

say, warned Beatty. "These fel

lows are Karraker men and are looking out for something always." "I know. You remember the oyster stew the Odd Fellows served," this loud enough to be heard by the strangers. "Well, I was working in the kitchen with my coat off and left it there. Let's see, sheriff, aren't you secretary of the Odd Fellows?" , "Yes." "Well, perhaps you could tell me where to get the key. I am in a hurry."

"Here it is. But hurry back be

fore the ofnoe closes. The regular

monthly meeting of the lodge is held

tonight.

Rigdon took the key and made a

speedy exit. The strangers watched

him intently and smiled knowingly at each other. One of them turned to

Beatty.

"By the way, sheriff, I heard you

were a Ku Klux," he said abruptly;

"but I hate to believe it." "Who told you I was a Ku Klux?

"Oh, several; but I couldn't bring

myself to think, it true." "Why? There's no disgrace in be

ing one hundred per cent American

is there?'

"No, not just in that. But there is disgrace enough in the association

of the county law enforcement officer with such dern fellows as the

one who just left. We know Rigdon

There isn't a more loathsome pup in

the county unless it is your honored

superintendent of schools. He is

member of the Klan. He openly

boasts of it. Besides, he's no Odd

Fellow. That stunt you worked

while ago failed to impress us. We

are all Odd Fellows. You were to

gether in Klan meetings and he want

ed the key to get some robes to do

some dirty work. Now, come across, Beatty, isn't that true?" "It positively is not. I don't know what Rigdon wanted with, the

key to the Odd Fellows building. I

suppose he told the truth. But as

JUDGE SEXTEHCES MOTORIST TO

LEARN HOW TO DRIVE MINNEAPOLIS, Minn,, Nov. 24.

A sentence to attend school to learn

how to drive an automobile was im

posed on Reuben Tamquist of St

Paul, when- - he was arraigned

recently in traffic court. Ha was

ordered to attend Dunwoody Instl tute here.

ocre in every way, low-browed, foul-

mouthed, of doubtful antecedents. In

his speeches- Rutherford had a re

pealed to the idealism of the men; Bowen appealed to their prejudices and religious fanaticism. He was

from somewhere east, and had come

well recommended. However, the

qualifications which seemed to have

Helped him m his former location

were disadvantageous here. His propensity to swear proved his

greatest drawback. On the third '

meeting night some one had crossed

his path and he had let loose such

a flood of profanity that every minister in the hall rose and left, followed by many of the leading mem

bers or tne organization. There was imminent danger of disruption with

in the Klan ranks at Prairie City.

The afternoon passed away and

Rigdon had not returned with the key. Sheriff Beatty became nervous

ly anxious. He called the boy's boarding house and employer, but was unable to locate him. A second

inquiry of the landlady brought to

him the distressing fact that Rigdon

naa paid up nis board early in the

afternoon, packed his suitcase and left. He had not explained his reason for leaving or stated where he was

going. It was dark at seven. The street lights were glowing and the side- ' walk were crowded. Four men, all strangers, paced back and forth restlessly in front of Peterson's poolroom. No one took any particular notice of them at that time. In his office the sheriff was calling his deputies over the telephone, to guard against eventualities. His men were soon to be found, keeping guard on the street corners. Then there was heard loud swearing and talking four blocks from the poolroom corner. The sheriffs deputies rushed in that direction. The police did also. It was evidently a trick play, for just then three automobiles stopped in front of Peterson's. The side curtains were drawn, but suddenly they were thrown back and about twenty men, dressed in Klan Tn HoCJ ctAnnn nt T7U a A.

"in? J?i,a"!el! st7ttonei themselves as sentries Tt

Judge Karraker is from being repre- J?" " "0HW '

sentative of the legal profession. wenrKlansmen, dressed in The offlThe.Klan, which growing by the cial Tegsdla of the 0 thousands every day, will naturally the well-knnwn ,!" .!

get in some men who are.not up to and one of th Kleasle's the standard. That's inevitable But nelmet. Th oSer robed menen-the-only thing to do is to weed them tered the house and there followed

. """C00 "l tne sounds of combat with an oction. The desire for numbers is casional pistol shot In a few proving too strong an incentive with minutes Joe Peterson was dragged some:" out unconscious, and loaded into a c "Yes, and bear this in mind : The car. They drove away before anyone moment you lower your so-called had time to realize what had hapstandards, your organization will go pened. to pieces. When you allow the Tho , u wrom? element to cet in the saddle Was a11 agog w,th excitewrong element to get in tne sauaie ment The sheriff d d jt ciples of the Ku Klux -Klan. But I Lr'tohJ0' could never bring myself to meet m disappeared as myUeriously 11 lodge with such men as Rigdon, and they had come. The verdict w several others you have here." universal. Members of the Ku Klux They rose to go. "Well, sheriff, Klan, after aU their vaunted piety we don't dispute your word and and high-flung idealism, After all hope your assurance is correct, but their professions of law enforcement if tomorrow's paper does not report and denials of lawlessness, had come a tar-and-feather party, then our de-, into the city, in plain view of tin

ductions are wrong," said one. citizens, and kidnapped perhaps "Wait and see. We are willing to murdered a man because he had let time be the judge," answered ?al?d to PPose them. Feeling ran Beatty. - f'gn aad there 'as a demand that When they were gone the sheriff the gmlty be Pushed, sat for some time in deep medita- When Taylor spoke there the foltion. Some strange misgivings lowing night he was greeted with haunted his mind and he could not Jeers and hissed from the platform cast them off. What if Rigdon were Prairie City had been one 61 his up to something? What if it was a strongholds heretofore, but now, unKarraker ruse, the stage all set, and less something could be done, it' was he had played the fool's part? He lost to him. Karraker had gained had never liked Rigdon. The fellow many hundreds of votes by the acmade himself too familiar. But tivities of the night before. He himthere were many others like him in self could not understand it. He tho Prnirio C.itv Klan Rirrinn was Was handed a letter to raad in nrh;

a good worker in his way. He had. the K'an onered a reward of a thoubrought in more candidates than any snd dollars for the apprehension of other man in the Prairie City Klan. tne SJlty parties. But this, too. Under the Klan law in that section was. hooted. The audience was the only requirement for admission asa.1Ilst him. He left the building was the recommendation of one ,n dlsgust and humiliation. Klansman. Over a hundred men This letter was broadcasted over had Rigdon's name signed to their the state, and appeared in many card of application. They were all papers. Few believed it genuine of his social strata. There were The truth of the kidnapping, had men among them whose occupation it been known, would have had an was doubtful; some who had sus- opposite effect to the on p montiAw iA

picion on their trail ; some accused but the truth of such affairs is sel-

ot being bootleggers; some oi excep- aom Known, xne papers seized upon tionally low moral stjjidards. They this as fresh evidence against the were all enthusiastic Klansmen. Klan and for days bold headline

No doubt, under the present system, told of the terrible atrocity and the they would continue to swell the search that was being made for ranks with their kind. The new or- Peterson, never mentioning the fact

ganizer, dizzy with the prospect of that the Klan was financing the great numbers and fat commissions, search. Karraker, though he re-

brooked no interference from tne grettea tne disappearance of Peter-

members who dared - protest. He son, ana especially of the -letter he

was after the monev. This was not possessed, nevertheless gloried in

a white collar crowd, he argued. Too this new triumph. Forthoffer tttun-

many preachers and such like in it uereu it irom tne housetops 'and the now. Give us some honest-to-good- cheers of the bootleggers grew more ness he-men. And Rigdon kept bring- vociferous at each meeting. Tb

ing in his he-men at the rate of ten WBra"srH m xne country demanded

a night. 1018 K,a lawlessness should

And then, somehow, Beatty could-) ' v -

not bring himself to like the new eorge reauxea that though th organiser. The former kleagle. Dr. eect might be temporary, there waa

Rutherford, was a man of sterling cl " unnga to clear character, a prince among men. He UP Jf'0' th? ection. Peterson was high-minded, broad-visioned, might be found; the identities of th cautious and diplomatic. He had attackers might be learned. Murder placed the Klan on a firm footing: V1..0 Th .trutn would eventu-

selected the membership with care; advised against rash action; prohibited lawlessness. He was the Idol of the local organization. But when the organization swept the North like a whirlwind, he had been sent Into Indiana to assist In the work there. In his stead came Ike Bowen, the present kleagle. He was medi

ally 'be known, but whether It would be known In time to save him from defeat and the Klan from destruction, remained to be seen. (To Be Continued) The next Installment of "The Bounds of the Law" will appear la this space next week.