Fiery Cross, Volume 3, Number 12, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 January 1924 — Page 3
Friday, January 18, 1924
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Some Pertinent Comment
"The coming to a close of the great exposition of roads and road building apparatus and methods in Chicago, in which, good roads everywhere were stressed as the outstanding need of the country for the greatest benefits of education, social intercourse, economics and civilization, turns attention to the many new developments in modern life, all emphasized by shows, conventions, expositions. The automobile show, a yearly event In all the larger cities, how few are 'the years since it was a novelty! The pure food show, in which food manufacturers vie with one another in putting emphasis on the purity of their products, the healthful conditions in which they are made, their sanitary packages, is in sharp contrast to the way in which the early food product factories fought the pure food law! Only in recent years has education entered the exposition lield, but now a great school exhibit is yearly held in most cities, and ed
ucation associations and societies stage so many conventions, exhibitions and public demonstrations of their progress it is hard to keep count of them. But as yet we have no national education exposition, although the great conventions of the N. E. A. and Education Week do much to focus the public mind on educational problems. Yet the time seems ripe for an education exposition, which shall be to the education world what the automobile show in New York is to that industry, what the road exposition was to the highway builders, what the motor boat and the aeronautical shows, and the just beginning "wireless show" are to those industries. For all of them roads .automobiles, food, wireless, boats, depend on education; without education there are no buyers or users; without education there can be no United States!
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AMERICAN'S HERITAGE MENACED, SAYS EVANS
(Continued from Page 1) save us ; we survive or perish according to the strength or the infirmity of our people in the mass. It Is the mass of which the Klan Js thinking. It is the standard of this mass which we purpose to defend and lift up. Enlightened statecraft is all right, great and honest leadership is a precious and beautiful thing, but the potter's skill is useless without the proper clay. Our people must be of the right composition, the stuff of which they are made must be sound, or they can not vindicate the American political and social experiment." "How is this soundness to be insured?" "First of all, in my judgment, with exceptions applying only to separated families, we temporarily should stop immigration absolutely. Then we should collect the information indispensable to a wise immigration policy. Such information would con
tain full knowledge of the causes and the effects of the foreign influx, the facts relative to our needs for rural and urban labor, and scientific counsel concerning how these needs can be met without injury to the all-
important principle of ultimate amal
gamation into our political and social structure. We can tolerate no immigration policy that militates against our private and public standards of life. Ellis Island horrors should go forever. Every immigrant we are to have in the future should make the voyage to America knowing whether he will be admitted or not and will be welcomed and looked after when he is here if admitted.
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Immigration Alarm Sonnded "How grave is the immigration peril one scarcely need point out any longer. Ku Klux Klansmen have been underlining it for some years, and now many leading American journals and publicists are sounding a deep and loud alarm. Action can not be too quick. Something has
been done, but not enough ; the quota law is but a step in the right direction. Illiteracy, disease, insanity
and mental deficiency are still pouring In upon us. Immigrants are streaming into cities to" make modern Sodoms and Gomorrahs. Up to 1880, 95 per cent of our immigration was of the Nordic types kindred, desirable, easily assimilable people. By 1910 it was a Mississippi of inferior foreign elements, mostly utterly and eternally hopeless from the American point of view. What Nordic greatness has wrought in this country, if the Ku Klux Klan has anything to say and it is going to have something to say neither shall be torn down by political madness nor shall be dragged down by disease and imbecility." "Ku Kluxism generally is regarded as religiously and racially intolerant." "Ignorance 'of its nature, prejudice
and calumny explain this view. Our entire fundamental concern is with
the question of what permanent policy best will promote civilization ours and that of others, for civilization is one and indivisible. This wide conception of our order I can not too sharply accent. Klanism is altruistic or it is nothing. Every benefit we seek we seek not to mo
nopolize, but to diffuse throughout our own citizenship and to place, so
far as may be, at the service of man kind. Why Catholics Are Ineligible
"Catholics, Roman and Greek,
make themselves ineligible to membership in the Klan by their predilec
tion for churchly chiefship in human
affairs. We separate church and state unconditionally and inexorably. We do so for the sake of both the
church and the state, remembering
history's lesson of the evils that at
tend each in any attempt to merge
them. We wholly distrust and for
ever will oppose the parochial school
as an institution in American life
It seems to us a dangerous civic
and social disintegrant. inspired with the very essence of intolerance and un-Americanism. Catholics can not be Klansmen while to them the
presidency at Washington is subordi
nate to the priesthood at Rome. We
make no war upon their religion
Freedom of thought, liberty of con
science, the right to worship how one will the Klan not only concedes
them all, but will fight for them all
as it will fight for every guaranty in the American constitution, its po
litical Bible. Catholics can not be
Klansmen not because of their par
ticular form of worship, but because
their theory of education and of gov eminent seems to the Klan incom
patible with the organic scheme of Americanism." "How about our Jewish population?" "Of the good qualities of the Jewish character I am as well aware as is any man. Wandering ever since his ejection from Judea, nearly everywhere persecuted, the Jew, I am happy to say, has had a better home in America than in almost any other land in which he has lived. One-fifth of his race is here. By deliberate election he is unassimirable. He rejects intermarriage. His religious and social rites and customs are inflexibly segregative. Law abiding, healthy, moral, mentally alert, energetic, loyal and reverent in his home life, the Jew is yet by primal instinct a Jew, indelibly marked by persecution, with no deep national attachment, a stranger to the emotion of patriotism as the AngloSaxon feels it. Klansmen have no quarrel with him, no hatred of him, no thought of persecuting him. As Protestants are unavailable for membership in an all-Jewish Societies, so Jews are unavailable for mem
bership in an all-Protestant society like the Klan. Moreover, their jeal
ously guarded separatism unfits them
for co-operation in a movement dedicated to the thorough unification of
the dominant strains in American life." Attitude of Sympathy
"Your attitude to the colored
races?"
"Our attitude to every race, as I have tried to show, is one of sym
pathy, not of antipathy. My heart is not only devoid of racial hate, but full of compassion for my fellowmen of every creed and color. It is just this love for humanity that excites me to action to aid in rescuing
America from a destructive inunda
tion. I would save America, if I
could, for her own sake; I am infi
nitely happier to work for her salvation for the glory of God and the
general human good. When we shut
out the Chinese and the Japanese from our shores, we seemed to them
harsh. We were not. They would have ruined us and by ruining us
ruined our power to be of assistance
to them in the passing years. I sus
pect all enlightened Chinese and
Japanese see this now."
"We, of the Klan, are supposed to
hate the negro. Nothing could be
further from the truth. The negro was brought to America. He came
as a slave. We are in honor and duty bound to promote his health and happiness. But he can not be assimilated. Intermarriage with
him on a wholesale scale is unthink
able. There are more than ten mil
lions of him, about a tenth of our
population. He can not attain the
Anglo-Saxon level. Rushing into the
cities, he is retrograding rather than
Demand for Creeds Is Great
I believe in Cod and in ike tends of theChristian religion, and that a godless nation can not long prosper. I believe thai a church that is nof grounded on the principlet of morality and justice it a mockery to God and to man. I believe that a church that does not have the cxtlare of the common people at heart it unworthy. believe in the eternal separation of Church and State. t hold no allegiance to any foreign government, emperor, king, pope or any other foreign political or religious poiver I hold my allegiance to tlie Stars and Stripes next to my allegiance to Cod alone. - I believe in just laws and liberty I believe in the upholding of the Constitution of these United States. I believe that our Free Public School is the corner-stone of good government and that those who are seeking to destroy it ore enemies of our Republic and are unworthy of citizenship. I believe in freedom of speech I believe in a free press uncontrolled by political parlies cr 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, but t do believe that laws should be enacted to prevent the causes of mob viotenct. I believe in closer relationship of capital and labor. I believe in the prevention of unwarranted strikes by foreign labor agitators. I believe in the limitation of foreign immigration. I am a native-born American citizen and I believe my rights in this country are superior to those of foreigners.
violate independence does not imply, except in weak and befuddled intellects, a renunciation of fellowship with peace-loving mankind."
Blocs Weaken America "I believe that with its numerous
'blocs' and 'groups' that now exist in America and that have their Palestine influence on our foreign policy,weaken the strength of America in
rendering the greatest service to mankind and humanity.
"The policy of the Knights of the
Ku Klux Klan will be to furnish its members, at the proper time, with dependable informatipn, untouched
by bias or political qualications on which they may support statesmen with American ideals in carrying out
a roreign policy that is in harmony with the ideals of America, known since its birth as the land of the free and as the greatest humantarian force since the world began."
Klan Makes Donation to Kentucky Orphans' Home
MARION, Ky Jan. 14. It became known here today that the KnighU of the Ku Klux Klan recently made a donation to the Kentucky Orphan's 4iome of Louisville, Ky. From all indications, the work of organization is progressing rapidly in this city and county and leaders of the movement are delighted with the response on the part of the general citizenship.
$1,000 FINE FOR LUNSFORD LOGAN, O., Jan. 12. When J. W. Lunsford was picked up by dry enforcement agents along the road near Oola Valley, they searched him, found liquor in his possession and he was fined $300. Lunsford said he would have to go home to obtain the money. To save him an extra trip, the officers went along. The trip was well worth while from their standpoint, because a search of the house revealed a considerable quantity of liquor and another fine oi $700 was assessed. Lunsford paid $1,000 in total fines.
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almost too heavy for the strongest
shoulders, and their weight is in
creasing. However much we may re
gret to state the truth when the
truth is otherwise than pleasant, it
is better that it be stated and faced,
am sure he interests or all are
served, thereby."
"Are all who fight for sound pnn
ciples, cleanliness and courage in
public life virtually Klansmen?"
Americanism Is Objection
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member swears he 'never will recommend for membership any person whose mind is unsound, whose repu
tation is bad, whose character Is doubtful, or whose loyalty to the United States of America is in any way questionable.' Selfishness in
every form is interdicted. Social loyalty is elevated above personal
friendship, blood relationship, family
interest and every other relatively
narrow tie. Klansmanship Is stringently enjoined, but only 'in all
things honorable.' To the government of the United States and to the
governments of the states of the
advancing, and his rate of mortality Union we 'sacredly swear unqualified
is shockingly high. It is not in his auegiance, pieuging our property,
interests any more than in the inter- "UI ,UL' u"4 uu"ui ""u "u; ":cooct t whb t,r,n,,iaH thnt v. Free education, free speech, free
shmtiri oeir tn nasiimo the hurripna press, separation, of church and state
of modern trovernment. These are white supremacy, just laws, the pur
suit of happiness all these each
Klansman swears i to seal with his
blood, 'Be Thou 'my witness, Al
mighty God.' "
Then the Klan Is oathbound to
refrain from and to oppose mob violence?"
Yes. Every Klansman who com
mits a lawless act, or who withholds his influence against such an act, at the same time commits perjury. Uniformed and malicious critics have accused us of being a whipping or-
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"Not exactly Klansmen, but march- ganization. Many crimes and cruel
mg toward the Klansmen s goal, ties abhorrent to our every feeeling, Americanism ought to be under- conviction and nurnose. have been
standable by this time to all who charged against our order calumniread and think. Americanism is the ously. If we were a whipping organKlan's supreme objective. Whoever ization, with our hundreds of thou-
knows what it is, and whoever fights for it not matter what his origin
or other non-psychic characteristics
is among the forces upon which
the Klan depend for the success of
the precepts."
"will you explain the dress and
the strange-sounding names of the
Klan?"
"What government, what church,
what secret order, what fraternity of
sands of ardent members spread
throughout the country, and with in
solent breakers of every law human and divine abounding, we should be
whipping thousands of culprits every
night. They deserve it. But that is not the Klan way. Our way is to put the right men into office and to build up a public sentiment that will not only encourage but compel them to do their duty in conformity with
any kind is without its characteriz- their oaths. Far from instigating
ing forms? Surely pomp and cir
cumstance, ceremonial, ritual, for-
mtllary were not unknown in the
world prior to the organization of
native-born white American Protes
tants bent upon saving American traditions from the mongrelized and
mob violence, the Klan is reducing it. Lynchings are much fewer than
were before the Klan became powerful. Statistics this year will prove this and will show the areas of great Klan strength as freest from anarchic outbreaks of every kind. Klan
criminatized foreign deluge? Our DOwer means power of law enforce
mask, about which so many persons ment. I invite you to point out a appear to vex their wits barrenly, single bootlegger, hi-jacker, black-
has two substantial functions ; it ee gambler, denkeeper, roue, crook,
protects scores of thousands of our Bolshevist, anarchist, demagogue.
members from intimidation, sabotage political hypocrite or scoundrel who
ana worse, ana it screens our ieaa- likes the Klan. Alt this mottiea
ers from the temptation to forget horde is against us and will be
the general interest in the pursuit against us forever. Is it not about of particular whims or ambitions, time our decent critics began to love
us for some of the enemies we have made?"
Excellent Demogagy"
"Returning to the Catholics, Jews
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Self-esteem is eliminated. There is
no lure of personal vanity nor of demagogy. Out of the Klansmen's mouths issue only those things
iv. i.- I and colored people, it has been re
II ue, uusctuou auu trait iui.. uun , . . n n , .. v. many of the populaV statesmen of marj a" tjitL ? r S the day would like to pour forth Af!IlC?, hey ar Sd
their message from behind masks? cuuu" l" " ' Tt i lahor with on!v one reward. "Pure sophistry. Excellent dema
though, as true values go, the best gogy, but pure sophistry. Any one nari! th Boiace of dutv done." of us may able usefully to die for
"What is the answer to the argu- America without being able usefully ment that the nation can not exist to live for America. We had in halt Klan and half anti-Klan?" France, there are in every army, "it is never troine to be half Klan many strong, intrepid and noble men
anrl half nnti-Klan. Tt will he either Who Could Dot be trusted at the
predominantly Klan or the victim of helm of a nation. Soldiering is not those heterogeneous un-American statesmanship. In democratic counelements which neither understood tries the civilian, not the soldier, is
nr are ahift to exenute the eharae- sunreme. Ana- it is ine Klan S 00
toriatio nniitioni anil arwia.1 insnira- Meet to create and sustain a civilian
tion of the founders of this country, authority incomparably equipped by
Km Klnrlsm. hv Whatever namB it heredity, Dy experience, Dy ine sum
may be called, is the sine qua non of its qualities, to see America
of the fruition of the American pnn- tnrougn 10 tu vu..bioou uui
ciDle of organized society." so brightly ia the clairvoyance of
, "Are the theory ana tne oatn or our lainers.
the Klan the same in all parts of "Do you think Klansmen and anti-
America?" Klansmen, on the principle- of ot
Precisely. It is a national organ-1 ernments and oppositions In parlia-
ization."
Oath Is Explained
you mind explaining
the
"Do oath?'
"Certainly not. It is as categoric and solemn as the English language can make it. It enjoins obedience to the order's constitution, laws, regulations, usages and requirements, and-prescribes the strictest secrecy regarding its internal affairs. Each
mentary countries, will tend to keep each other up to the mark?" "I do. Any man, any organization, is better, for criticism. The. Klan welcomes it. Itet those who can designate our shortcomings. 01 all men in the world Klansmen are most concerned about the ahortcomlnes of the Klan. At the same time
I can assure those opposed to us that we shall trot be found-niggardly in
critical reciprocity." "Your Christianity has been impugned because of your exclusivism." Klansmen stand on the Holy Bible. Upon the Holy Bible rests the American constitution and American civilization. Klansmen are wholeheartedly Christian, implacably opposed to atheistic intellectualism and to all the amatory and erotic tendencies of modern degeneracy. We are Christian, but we have no monopoly of Christianity. God is love. Would that all men knew Him! In the whole structure of its thought and policy Klan quality is Christian quality Its opposition, wherever, it opposes, is for the purpose not of injuring, but of helping. Education (I am in favor of a cabinet department of education, second to none in
its public importance) health (here
we neea another cabinet department, bent upon the greatest health crusade the world has known) home building general intelligence, general .health, the home, the key stone of the American arch these are Klan objectives, and certainly they are Christian. As education should be free, so health ministry should be free. Hospitals, nurses and doctors should be available to all, rich and poor, in the interests of the commonwealth. For the eternal good of the country the first three ranking places in the federal government should be budget, education and health." "What do you mean when you say the Klan, as such, will take no part in politics?" Klan rot a Political Party "I mean that the Klan is not a political party. Klansmen may be
long and do belong to all parties and to no party. Every Klansman knows his principles and he votes for the candidate or the party in whose
hands he regards his principles as safe or comparatively safe. To be sure, Klansmen, like other men, will use their influence to have parties
ana candidates further their objects ; and, equally to be sure, if a can
didate appears in the political arena blatantly proclaiming his hostility to our order and his purpose to destroy it if he can, Klansmen are likely to
vote against him.
"What is your idea of American
foreign policy?"
"It should be, in my judgment, a
policy of the greatest energy, sympathy and courage a Christian policy, sagacious and self-respecting, but not too self-regarding, and certainly
not sordid. What the world needs above all else is the measureless
boon of peace, ffo national govern
ment in the world is worth its salt unless it not only piously favors, but patiently fights for peace. Aloofness as a barrier against war we have tried. It broke down. It probably will break down again. We could try a barrier of a different type. Our whole moral : weight should be constantly not desultorily, but constantly in the scales for peace. We are told domestic problems are our most important problems. So they are. But what is of supreme importance to us domestically. Our manhood and woman
hood and wealth, are they not? And what becomes of these, what happens to these, if we have war? Our
recent war, not to mention its horrible consequences to others and through them to ourselves, cost us primarily nearly 150,000,000,000 and will cost us four times that amount
before it is liquidated. Thinking women and men throughout Christen
dom know that another great war
would ruin civilization beyond re
pair. Militant spirituality is required In our leaders and in Our
citizens. We are a people of un-
physical courage. But
courage will not bring Peace will come only
a resolute exercise of
and moral force, through
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