Fiery Cross, Volume 3, Number 9, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 December 1923 — Page 2

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THE FIERY CROSS Fridsy, December 28, 1923

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In an article by Stanley Frost, ap-! pearing In the current number of The Outlook, the Ku Klux Klan Is pictured as the "most vigorous, active and effective organization in American life," and "growing at a tremendous speed." That the Klan has become a great national movement is the opinion expressed by the writer. The article Is captioned "The Giant in the White Hood" and is herewith

reprinted aa It appears in The Outlook. The Ku Klux Klan has become the

most vigorous, active and effective organization in American life, outside business. Its influence, though intangible and often secret, affects every public question and every activity which depends in any degree on public opinion; its power la in

calculable, since it Is different from

that of any other known force. It controls in a way in which no political party has ever controlled, hun

dreds of cities, towns and counties,

a few states; it has elected its picked men mayors, sheriffs and judges, leg

islators and governors, representa

tives and senators in Congress. It Is

reaching for the presidency. Growing With Tremendous Speed Moreover, It is growing with tre mendons speed. Its members are al

ready beyond two millions and may be beyond four; certainly they will increase by hundreds of thousands in the next few weeks. All efforts which have been made to check or

destroy it have failed; indeed, they

seem only to have speeded its growth

If it is not yet able to impose its will

on the nation, it is surely on a road which will soon take it to-the place of supreme power. The cloud which

two years ago was no bigger than a man's hand has covered a great part of the heavens and is still spreading.

This is the hrst of the reasons

why there should be a new and care

ful consideration of the Klan. It is

a reason which appeals to every man

or woman to whom it makes a cent's

worth of difference whether or not

their opinions and judgments on jmb

lie affairs are accurate and well

founded. All such people must from now on know the real facts as to the strength, the methods, the habits and

the intentions of this white-hoodetT

giant, as well as the dangers his ex: istence creates. All thought regard ing the body politic is subject 'to dis

count in exact proportion to the

lacks and inaccuracies of this In

formation. But there are other reasons for

reappraisal of the Klan which will appeal equally to all fair-minded men and-women; reasons which seem to indicate that earlier judgments found

against it were at least partly wrong,

or have become wrong.

Good Solid Citizenship Joining One is the quality of the people who are in the Klan oi are joining it. They are not always, though sometimes, the best in the community, but they are usually the good, solid, -middle-class citizens, the "backbone of the nation." It is absurd to continue to believe that these people, so many and of such standing, are all criminally-minded; that they are any more likely to commit outrages than any other equal sized body such as th'e ' Presbyterian church, or that they can or will become a menace to the country through any other cause than ignorance.

Confirming this quality of the present Klan membership is thefact that even charges of Klan outrages have

practically stopped. There aro still reports in the papers concerning such alleged outrages which happened months ago, but I have found record of only three and these not proven to have any connection with the Klan since early spring. So it is clear that the opinion most of us formed two years ago, that the Klan was an attempt to gather the wild and lawless elements into a power, that it was composed of gangs

of night-riding hoodlums, probably criminal and certainly crazy, along

with a scattering of feeble-minded

people whom they had hoodwinked-

it is clear that this judgment Is no

longer correct, no matter how well

founded it seemed.

persecution, ridicule, Ignorant criticism or any other of the methods so far used. And whether the desire be to change, use, fight or destroy It, the time is plainly here when nothing but facts will serve as ammunition.

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A Great National Movement

It is clear, too, that the Klan can

no longer be dismissed as an unimportant though distressing outbreak

of a few morons; Instead it has be

come a Great National Movement,

with all the power and entitled to all

tne dignity and respect yes, "re

spect" even if joined with fear and

nervous ridicule which belong to

such movements. Whether for good

or. bad, whether insane or inspired.

it must be studied, judged and dealt

with onthat basis.

It is clear, finally, that since it has

become such a movement quick ac

tion must be taken if it is to be

stopped, diverted or controlled. Its

power 1b very real; already there are strong influences fretting into ac

tion to use that power. It its lead

ership or program 'are wTQng the time when either can be changed will soon pass. When It has added the

momentum of another million mem

bera or so, it will be as hard to di

vert from its course as a come

As to stopping it, destroying it,

that seems unlikely for an indefinite time. The very fact of its power and

growth today is proof enough that it

can not be harmed by prosecution

Oateage .Charges Unproved It is, for example, pure folly any longer to attack it as "lawless." It is true that lawlessness may be ar

gued from Its methods; true, too, that lawless acts have been com

mitted under cover of its hoods; true,

finally, that a trusted official recently killed a man in Atlanta. But when

the great number of Klansmen is

considered, with the fact that in

many states there has never been an

outrage that could even remotely be

charged to them and this in states

where their strength is undoubted

and when it is further considered that of all the outrages charged

against the ; Klan not a. dozen- have

been . proved, fairness must admit

that the , charge falls aa to actual

conduct.

Since that is true, the charge of

lawless intent gets nowhere. In al

most all communities the Klan now

has members who are Known; they

are not lawless either actually or in

Intention and such charges therefore seem absurd equally to them and to their non-Klan neighbors. They sim

ply are not believed, and he who

spreads them discredits himself.

The shoe, in fact, is now on the

other foot. It is the legal officials

who have become lawless and the

Klan which is suffering illegal- perse

cution. The case of Oklahoma is the

worst, but hundreds of minor olficials all over the country are stretch

ing their powers as Governor Walton

did his, in their efforts to suppress

the Klan.

Action Against Elan Unjust . To give a single instance: A cer

tain county judge ordered the arrest

on sight of any Klan organizer who

appeared, and when he caught one, shipped him out of the county. There

was no trial, no charge could be proved against him, and the punish

ment is not one provided by any law,

The judge justified his action on the

theory that the Klan is in itself

menace to public peace and security.

But since the law contemplates that

action is required to constitute

crimeKnd since so far as isknowH

no court has yet-Jield that the Klan

is even a menace, muciuleis a crim

inal, it would seem that the legal fic

tion was stretched remarkably thin

At any rate other Klan organizers

found the judge's action splendid

propaganda for them, and the Klan

now has more than 2,000 members in his county. It has been thus in many places. I get the impression that

the Klan rather enjoys such attacks.

Perhaps that county will do as well as any other to illustrate the kind of people who are now joining the Klan. In that county it today includes, if not the "best people," at least the next best. There are bankers, lawyers, doctors, probably a majority of the preachers, a handful of teachers, scores of small business men and hundreds upon hundreds of farmers. Reaches Into High Places

But the Klan also reaches into

higher places. In New York City

three men may be mentioned as typt

cal of its upper, layer: a man very

near the top of one of America's big

gest manufacturing corporations, a

doctor who is recognized aa close to

the head of his profession and the

owner of a powerful magazine. All,

by the way, are active church men.

-I learned of one problem of Klan

membership which has its elements of humor. The conscientious president of a large and highly-respected

fresh-water college is greatly dis

turbed in his mind as to whether or

not he shall discharge the dozen or

score members of his faculty who have joined. . The Klan is watching him, rather hopefully, 6lnce such a raid would be splendid advertising and would also provide some very

able ".martyrs" for its propaganda bureau!

The total membership in the Klan

today is, of course, a secret of the order. Klan officials refuse to give

any figures. Others, whose informa

tion may or may not be good, say

the total, including both men and women, is now above 4,000,000. De

tailed estimates, not by Klansmen,

are that there are 500,000 each In ta

diana and Ohio, 415,000 in Texas,

more than 200,000 each in Oklahoma,

Oregon and New York state, and

from 60,000 to 100,000 each In Cali

fornia, Washington, Kansas, Missouri, Michigan, Illinois, Kentucky,

West Virginia, Mary lands- New Jer

sey, Louisiana, Mississippi, AiaDama, Georgia, Florida and Tennessee. This would give a total of 3,850,000, which

is not far from the Klan guess wnen allowance Is made for scattered membership.

These figures, however, are un

doubtedly extravagant, for Klans

men are inclined to boast, and poli

ticians are scared and very liable to

the complaint of "seeing things at

night." But they will not be at an

extravagant if the increase in Klan

membership goes on long at the pres

ent' pace. 5,000 join at One Meet

It Is .fairly amazing. I -have spofcen of the county where the judge helped the Klan get 2,000 members. It took five men lour weeks to do it, an

average of a hundred a week each, This is probably a conservative aver

age, for at one single meeting ot

which a report reached me not from

a Klansman an organizer got above

five thousand recruits. That, man

held five meetings that week. And

there are again the figures are approximate some eight hundred Klan

organizers at work. That would give

a total naturalization of 80,000 a week! Even if both -figures be discounted pretty heavily, It leaves a weekly increase of around 50,000, and this agrees with ah estimate I re-ceived-irom one of the leading Klan

opponents.: I believe it is approximately correct, but on the side of

conservatism.

These people are all joining with a definite idea, for a definite purpose,

and willing to work under strict dis

cipline to achieve that purpose. The result is a tremendously effective

force. It is also tremendously ac

tive. Recent elections showed that

the Klan controls seven states: Ore

gon, Texas, Arkansas, Indiana, Ohio

and California. It is so powerful in a dozen others that no politician can

by any possibility be driven into any remark (for publication) hostile to it. It is to ba noted that even in

states which have passed anti-Klan

laws, they are not being enforced,

as with the celebrated Miller law in

New York. Moreover, with few ex

ceptions, the daily press has stopped

making gratuitous attacks. Every

where there Is the shadow of a power

that those who depend on public good will do not offend without compelling

reasons.

Seven states great power in

others and the Klan figures -.that

before the next election it can carry

on campaigns such as have given it Ohio and Indiana so solidly in at least twenty-two more states!

;Is Hard to Exaggerate . So much for the power and impor

tance of the Klan In our national life of today and tomorrow. It can hardly be exaggerated, but to be es

timated correctly it must he taken in

connection with the fact that the his

tory of the country has been filled

with movements which were, in a

general way, rery similar. Time

after time there has broken out organized effort to restrict the power of alien-born and particularly of Roman Catholic citizens. Each has raged with bitterness, each has

tgalfred-gome fieair"acayj..and each has

vanished suddenly,

NIAGARA FALLS, N. T.f Dec. 22. An electric generator weighing more than 600 tons, and-said to be the largest In the world, was placed in commercial operation at the new Lower George plant of the Niagara Falls Power Company, before a delegation of hydroelectric experts and

government officials.

Forty cars were reoulred to ship

the machine from Schenectady, N. Y.,

wnere it was produced. A companion machine is -now under construc

tion.-

The generator put into operation

will be driven by a 70,000 horsepower Morris water wheel turbine.

said to be the largest ot Its kind

manufactured.

The new 70,000 horse-power unit.

as well as two similar ones to be in

stalled next year, will receive its

water supply from a new hydraulic pressure- tunnel, Z feet in diameter,

which stretches under the city of

Niagara Falls for 4,300 feet. Officials

estimated that 3,500 cubic feet of

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KLAN-ASKS A SUPREME COURT REVIEW OF CASE Application Is Opposed by ' Magazine, Defendant in - Suit Over Papers

KLAN TO BUILD $75,000

CLUB HOME ON A FARM

Land Bought Near New Phila delphia, Ohio Auditorium, Gyra and Other Features

NEW PHILADELPHIA, O., Dec,

22. Work on the construction of t Ku Klux Klan clubhouse, to cost ap

proximately 175,000, has begun on

the Philip Baker farm, two and one-

half miles west of here. The build

ing is to contain a large auditorium

and a modern gymnasium. Other features will be added later. The project will be carried out under the

name of the Tuscarawas County

Protestant Home Company, com

posed of Klansmen. The purchase price of the farm is said to have been

$23,000 and this sum has -been

pledged. Plans are under consider

ation to have an eighteen-hole golf

course, tennis courts, baseball and

football fields and two large swim

ming pools. The Tuscarawas County Klan membership now exceeds 5,000

and it is predicted that this number

will be doubled within six months.

WASHINGTON Dec, 22. Supreme court review of. another case involving the Ku Klux Klan its suit to prevent publication of papers alleged to have- been stolen from Klan national headquarters in Atlanta was

sought in an application filed with the court, and opposed by the International Magazine Company, pub

lishers.

The Klan's brief asserted that the

lower sourt, while sustaining its

property rights In the papers in question, had denied an injunction

against the publication, despite the fact that the publishers "merely stated without a scintilla of proof

that complainant Is engagedjn a con

spiracy against the United States.

"This presents an issue grave and

far-reaching in effect," said the Klan brief. "It is admitted that complainant is lawfully organized," the brief continued. "IT Is nowhere alleged that complainant is or has been charged with' any crime by the gov

ernment or by any individual through authorities constituted for that purpose."

, Denial Is Made Opposing the Klan's move for a re

view, the publishers denied that the

papers have been proved, to be the Klan's propferty. Some, -it was as

serted, were "Obtained from the de

partment of -justice, -and some, from private-files of Klan officers.- .

The publishers' brief also -asserted

that the review should 4e denied "be

cause the complainant is engaged in

a sinister, unlawful and un-American

propaganda and' activities, and because, being engaged in the business

of stimulating public opinion, and In

endeavoring to shape the conduct of government, its business is of such a character that it is impressed with

public interest, which entitles the

public to expose and scrutinize its activities, and hence such a corporation has no right of privacy which a

court of equity should protect"

As the supreme court now is in re

cess, the application ior review can not be passed on until next month.

It wasnsurprising to fincr"how little

the heads of the Klan movement knew of this historic background. To

them the situation is a natural outgrowth of present conditions, almost

unique, unlike any problems the na

tion has faced before. Yet, in fact, it may almost be said that such a

movement is a normal accompani

ment of any such state of mental and

moral unrest as America is now un

dergoing. From these previous agitations, in spite of certain differences between them and the Klan idea which will be noted in detail in later articles, much may be learned as to the probable strength, probable results and the equally probable

prompt disappearance of Ku- Klux-

ism. Americans Better Fitted

These movements have been dubbed "nativistic" by certain historians and political writers. The word has

rather a horrendous sound and is undoubtedly Intended to express contempt. Yet the' fundamental idea in which they all agree Is at least de

batable. It is merely this: That native-born citizens, trained in the national schools, sons and heirs of

the men who built up the nation, are

on the whole better interpreters of national thought and purposes, and

"hence more fitted to rule the coun

try, than are people of alien blood.

tradition and training, whom those natives have admitted to a share in their advantages.

This idea hardly seems criminal. It may fairly be called illiberal, with whatever stigma that adjective implies, in view of the recent demonstration that liberalism may wander far from common sense patriotism. The first, then, of the "nativistic" movements, came in the very first

years of the republic. The Federal

ists wished a firm central government; the newly arrived preferred a weak one. So the Federalists made

the alien vote an issue and in 1795 raised the term of naturalization to fourteen years. The Republicans,

under Jefferson, restored the term to

five years in 1802 and grew powerful

on the alien vote as other political

parties have done many times, since The issue was kept alive till it vanished in the war of 1812. Aliens Band Together

It revived in New York City In

1835 when the alien voters definitely

banded together to control the city,

parading with banners which read:

Americans must not rule us!" The

response of the Americans was in

stant. They rallied under the lead

ership of men of whom Samuel F. B. Morse, inventor of the telegraph, was

one of the best known. He wrote

the famous "Brutus" letters, charging that there was an alien, Catholic

conspiracy to seize control of Amer

ica. He attacked. the "compact and clannish body of immigrants, avid of office and openly'allying themselves

sb foreigners against the nation.

The movement resulted in' practically driving foreigners from office in the

city, spread to Boston and Phlladei

nhia, where there were riots, and

then slumbered. .

- The next outbreak ' was In 1843

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Crown Offered American

ROME, Dec. 22. A member of the Albanian Mission in Rome told an

American correspondent that a cer

tain American millionaire has just

been offered the throne of Albania in succession to Prince William of

WjedJaJfrg; hope that he can put the

basis

country on a-8ttfta-raai

The ' correspondent understah

Harry F. Sinclair, the American oil

man, is theman to vhom the offer

was made

SENATOR ASHURST

RAPS KLAN IN SPEECH

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Dec. 24, Senator Henry Ashurst, of Arizona, in an armistice day address to Mem

bers of Hennepin (Minneapolis)

declared that the KuKjliX Klan will pass into obscurityvbeCause it is a "tenigojafspasni" not founded-on American prrPiples. Senator Ashurst is a Catholic and a member of the Knights of Columbus.

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