Fiery Cross, Volume 3, Number 12, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 January 1924 — Page 8
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PRO-ALIENS SHOW CONCERN OVER TREND OF NEWS WRITERS
The World's Work Points Out Vast Number of ForeignBorn Lawyers in U. S.
Immigration Fight Becomes Hotter as Publications IMek Up Cudgel
(Special to Fiery Cross) WASHINGTON, D. C, Jan. 15. Consternation has seized those who are fighting to keep American gates open to the flood of immigrants and with the leading publications of the country taking up the fight on unrestricted Immigration and which was started by the Ku Klux Klan, there is much hurrying and scurrying among the pro-alien Interests. In the World's Work for January, in an article entitled the "Immigration Peril," it is pointed out that It taxes only a sixty months' residence in this country for "an Anatolian shepherd or a Russian mujik to be entitled to sit in Judgment as a 'peer' in an American court" Magazines and newspapers are each day bringing forth new and vital reasons why the gates of the United States should be closed against the great influx of foreigners who do not only bring themselves to America but bring their theories along with them. The pro-alien Interests are now realizing more than
ever that the battle started by the Ku Klux Klan, to keep America clear of European ideals and practices, is
one that con not be stopped. Thousands of Allen Lawyers
Tn citing the fact that out of more
than eleven thousand lawyers in
New York City, more than 50 per
cent are of foreign birth, or foreign parentage, the writer in the World's
Work says: "Not so long ago, Elihu Root,
speaking before the American Bar Association, dwelt on the many and complex questions of vital interest
before the country, such as the et
fects of taxation, the social structure, Justice to the poor, and injustice to the rich. He hoped that these and divers other important questions would be solved by the 'application
to the new conditions of the old prin
ciples of Justice out of which grew
our Institutions.' But to do this, he
observed, we must have men who 'understand those principles, their history, their reason1, their spirit, their capneity for extension, and their right application.' In other words, we must have a Bench and Bar of the highest intellectual and
moral integrity, deeply, versed
stepped one might say in the learn
lng and the spirit of our laws and of our Jurisprudence. Yet, as he pointed out, a very large part of our
new accessions to our legal profession, particularly in the . large cities, are of young men who have come from the countries of eastern Europe from countries where there was a highly developed Jurisprudence, and having necessarily, by inheritance, all those predilections and fundamental ideas which differentiate the Continental systems of Jurisprudence from the Anglo-Amer
ican system. These young men come here and they are coming to our bar by the tens of thousands with continental ideas born in them. No cramming for an examination will get them out. They are not to be learned or dislearned out of a book. Thoae ideas can be modified or adapted to our ideas only by con
tact with life contact wltlr Amer-i lean life taking in.la the fcroceases of life, some-conception of what the American thought and feeling and underlying basis of honesty and justice are. "Proud of Polish Judge" "Contrast this with the editorial statement, in a Polish paper published in New Jersey, translated as follows: 'We pride ourselves on having a Polish judge here, and a Polish clerk there,' followed by an appeal
for the Polish voters to 'stand to
gether' if they want more offices
Contrast the warning spoken before
the highest national assembly of American lawyers with the situation in some of our largest cities and
states where many of the magistrates in our lower courts and not a few of the judges in our higher tribunals are either foreign born or of foreign extraction. Contrast it with the fact that in the richest and busiest metropolis of the United States of some eleven thousand lawyers,
more than 50 per cent are of foreign birth or of foreign parentage.
'No less a careful and judicial
body than the Committee on Legal
Education of the Association of the Bar of the city of New York, under the chairmanship of the dean of the Columbia Law School, has gone on
record with this finding which I have emphasized in part: 'Many of these men come to the bar with little knowledge of American institutions and with little or no appreciation
of those ideals and traditions which
have in the past dominated the spirit of our Anglo-American legal sys
tem The result Is that the
bar is earning an almost insupport
able burden of a large member shin
unfitted by education or experience
to bear its responsibilities aud without the inclination which comes
naturally from familiarity with our Institutions, to maintain Its traditions. "
Jury Box Important "But what shall we say of that other burden of alienage upon our legal system the burden of mental and moral alienage upon the system of trlnl by jury I Let us bear in mind that the ultimate enforcement of the law rests upon the jury box; that under the constitution of every state in the Union, no member of the state can be deprived of any of the rights or privileges secured to citizens 'unless by the law of the land, or the judgment of his peers.' It is a serious problem enough when the 'law
of the land' is becoming subject
more and more to 'interpretations' by
lawyers and judges culturally alien
to our juridic life and traditions;
but a subtler danger is developing through the cultural alienage of vast masses of foreign born or foreign minded 'peers' who today sit in
judgment in the Jury boxes of Amer
ican courts. It takes only sixty months' residence in this country (and that residence may be in the
non-American environment of
foreign "colony" in our midst)' and
the most simple of tests in the ve
neer of 'Americanization' to make an
Anatolian shepherd or a Russian mujik entitled to sit in Judgment as
a 'peer' in an American court. It is enough to state it to show not merely
the absurdity but the grave danger of such a free and easy system. And those well-intentioned, but thoughtless, Americans who are so anxious to 'naturalize' the newcomers as quickly and in as great numbers as possible, ought to bear in mind that such crude and surface 'citizenship' has its repercussions not only on our political institutions but on that great legal system which, through the centuries, the Anglo-Saxons have carefully built up as bulwarks of self-government of and by the people."
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Business Men and Patriots
The Marion, Ohio, Klansmen have bought the building formerly owned by the Knights of Columbus in Marion and have moved into the building. The purchase price is said to have been $125,000. A large auditorium, to be used as a meeting place and as headquarters of the organization, is on the second floor of the building. The first floor contains a public market, which was formally opened last week. This feature of the enterprise is to be conducted strictly on business principles.
DAILY INDEX OF AMERICAN CONGRESS (Continued from Page 4) proved a bill providing for allotment of captured German cannon to states on the basis of the number of troops furnished during the war. Mr. Jeffers, Democrat, of Alabama, a former service man, charged
Republican leaders witli blocking legislation for relief of disabled veterans by delaying organization of the House committee to handle such measures.
SEEKS NOMINATION
ON ANTI-KLAN VOTE
Wednesday, January 9 SENATE Met at noon; adjourned
at 5:03 p. m.
On the thirty-second ballot Sena
tor Smith, Democrat, of South Caro
lina, was elected chairman of the committee on Interstate Commerce,
receiving 39 votes to 29 for Senator Cummins, Republican and former
chairman, and 6 for Senator Couz-
ens, Republican, of Michigan.
Senator McLean, Republican, of
Connecticut, made an address deal
ing with exports and imports of the United States during the past year.
A discussion of proposed tax re.
duction was precipitated and the debate was enlivened by the reading of names of wealthy citizens and the
amounts by which they would be relieved of taxation through the adop
tion of the Mellon plan.
Senator Mayfield, of Texas, told
the Elections committee the contest filed against him was based on allegations that were made out of whole cloth.
Underwood of Alabama Openly
Against Klan in Fight for Presidency
HOUSE Met at noon; adjourned at 3:30 p. m. Virtually the entire day was devoted to eugologies on the life and service of the late Representative Kitchin, Democratic leader of the
House.
The Appropriations committee re
ported the Interior Department approbation bill after slashing it ?10,000,000 below the estimates.
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Thursday, January 10 SENATE; Met at noon; adjourned
at 1:30 . m.
Adopted a resolution to cover the
additional cost of the investigation
of the Veterans' Bureau, making the
total expenditures, $46,500.
By unanimous vote, reaffirmed the
appointment of Senator Cummins, of
Jowa, deposed as chairman Wednes
day, as a member of the committee
on Interstate Commerce.
Considered the calendar and
passed several bridge and pension
bills.
Senator LaFollette, Republican in
surgent, introduced amendments to the transportation act and the rail
road valuation act under which rail
road rates would be fixed on the
basis of the cost of service.
Foreign Relations committee de
cided by a vote of 11 to 2 in favor
of public hearings on the proposal
of Senator Borah urging recogni
tion of the soviet government of
Russia.
HOUSE Met at noon; adjourned
at 5:30 p. m.
Passed the- day in general debate
on the interior department appropriation bill.
Judiciary committee ordered a fa
vorable report on the Dyer antilynching bill, which was killed in the last Congress by a Democratic
filibuster.
Friday, January 11 SENATE Not in session. Resting
until next Monday.
SQUARE DEAL JEWELER Watch, Clock and Jewelry Repairing CLOCKS CALLED FOR AND "DELIVERED
HOUSE Met at noon; adjourned
at 5:05 p. m.
Under general debate on the In
terior Department appropriation
bill several speeches were made devoted to bootlegging and prohibition enforcement.
The Military Affairs committee fa
vorably-reported a bill granting the
President the right to fix prices of properties, commodities and service for government use in time of war
and forbidding cost plus war con
tracts.
Saturday, January 18 SENATE Not in session.
resting.
Still
HOUSE Committee work in the
House.
SCHOOL CHANGE EXPECTED OSTrtANDER. O.. Jan. 12. As a
result of -the last school board elec--
tion which returned three patriotic
Americans to the board ot edoca
tion! it is reported among the citi
zens of this village that the superintendent of schools, T. F. Maloney, is not expected to remain In charge
of the schools beyond the present
year,-
(Bureau Publication and Education)
WASHINGTON, D. C, Jan. 11
Senator Underwood, of Alabama,
doesn't like the Ku Klux Klan or
ganization or idea or its ideals and will try to be nominated and elected President of the United States by
making war on the Klan. His an
nouncement along these lines is one
of the sensations in Washington this
week.
The Democratic Senator from Ala
bama has the idea that he can be
swept into the White House on
similar issue that carried James Buchanan into the presidential chair
in 1856. He doesnt take into con
sideration the difference in ideals or time and thinks that what went in
this country sixty-eight years ago will go big in 1924. Senator UnderWood has adopted hostility to the Ku Klux Klan as his campaign slogan and thinks he can win by making that position paramount to every
thing else this year. He seems to think the country will rally to his support as enthusiastically as he
takes accasion to slap in the face four millions of voters to whom he is opposed. That's a fine starter, we don't think; nevertheless he is en
titled to his opinion and if he chooses,
to make that his main issue the
country will anxiously wait to see
how far he gets before the flag falla.
It is said that Senator Underwood
not only proposes, to fight the Klan
in his own campaign for the Democratic nomination but . that he will demand the insertion of an anUKlan plank in the national platform
of his party when it meets next sum
mer. He will take :the position that Buchanan had inserted such a plank
in his party platform in 1856 against the Know-Nothingr party and made it an issue and won on it. He thinks
he can do the same this year and points to the past performance as a triumphant precedence. In many ways Buchanan charged the ,Know-Nothing party with the same attacks on ,; American liberties and constitutionalism as Senator Underwood now charges against the Ku Klux Klan. The Alabama senator proposes to turn loose his guns in this proposed fight in speeches he will make at Cleveland on January 22, and at Akron, Ohio, the following
day. He calls this his invasion of the North and he proposes to strike
ra Ohio because it ranks second in
Klan strongholds in the country
nowadays. Seeks an Advantage
It is also pointed out that Senator
Underwood by making this bold at
tack will be putting one over on
McAdoo, Ralston, Cox, to say nothing of trying to embarrass President
Coolidge, Hiram Johnson, Jim Watson and others prominently men
tioned in the political columns because they have so far not commit
ted themselves on the matter. The Underwood managers seem to feel
that by hitting straight from the shoulder on the Klan that they will have hit on a winning Democratic
strategy. It remains to be seen whether their Judgment is good or badly warped. They seem to think that it will sew up things for their candidate especially in New York, New Jers'ey and the most populous New England States. They also have in mind striking at President Coolidge in his own baliwick, viz: Massachusetts, whichvis said to hold 70,-
000 French Catholics, to say nothing!
of hundreds of thousands of IrishAmericans. What the Catholics and Jews of New ToTk will do about the Klan or anti-Klan candidates bo the
Underwood fellows point out, needs
no mention.
The admitted purpose of Senator
Underwood in tims shooting so early
In this matter is to embarrass President Coolidge and also pat -in the
hole all the other presidential as
pirants In both political parties. Of course, the Klan'fellows won't have a word to say about this thing. They don't need to do much talking; they will take it out in hard swatting
when the time comes! The Alabama
Senator will think he baa- struck a
Texas cyelonein the North as wen as tn the- Souths-
. . .'. wJBX 8 TO MAJOMTT KERMIT, wl Jan. 12. The Citizens ticket in the town elections recently was swept Into office by a
The result was astontsn-
(Continued from Page 4) their constituents, even waiting nervously for news from back home, but helpless because he has no means of securing honest information. He siezes upon his home newspaper but it happens to be an op
position newspaper, so their is no relief there. The telegraph brings him great volumes of messages, inspired possibly by the majority, possibly by the minority group. He has no way of determining the greatest good of the greatest number. He therefore used his own judgment, and votes as he pleases. How a democracy like America can exist and how public business can be ex
pected- to be transacted in the interest of the publfe -with- sueh an impossible distance or medium be
tween officials and the voters themselves passes understanding.
It is true that the Informational
and instructional facilities for rep
resentative American government today are scarcely different from
those prescribed in Ruftsia, or any
proscribed autocracy,
Again in defense of the honest
public official, the question arises as to whether or not the average citizen can be sufficiently interested in
public business
We all know that the most suc
cessful business man is interested
in his own private business, proba
bly in a degree commensurate witn
the success or failure oi mat par
ticular . private business, and is
wholly and utterly indifferent ana absolutely uninformed on public
affairs.
Civic lethargy, such as this, results in part from lack of knowledge, but above all things in lack of interest and attention. If the Klan
does nothing more than attract attention and consideration to public business and stir up peoples' minds, it will have performed a most definite, and sure way of Interesting the people in a subject sufficiently . to learn something about it. And if it arouses the voters apathy to a large enough extent, the voter will unconsciously accept the enunciation of principles involved. No public official will work wholeheartedly for a public that is apathetic and unappreciative, and neith
er loyalty nor rear is a strong
motive.
While the Klan must not be de
structive In its criticism the deepest root of interest in affairs is that of
self-preservation,
Any criticism of the Klan as an invisible government in its attempt to
carry out the principles laid down here are equally answered by the
fact that so far no popular govern
ment has ever made any attempt to base its rule upon these motives and this system of interest-arousing, and while great and incalculable
sums have been expended for "pork barrel" and otherv"selfish ends" not a single thing has ever been done to arouse motives and interests of the citizens themselves in an honest and
intelligent way. Klan Is Active The Klan by its efforts and pro
ceduro is doing more to insure the permanency of representative and
democratic institutions than any
other agency and it is unbecoming
and ill-considered to criticise them
in attempting to establish a Klan
autocracy. The very principles laid
down would destroy an autocracy
were the KlanXo attempt to estab
lish one,
At this point it is well to empha
size the psychology of the problem
of taxation, which is going to be an all-absorbing one during the next year. The present tax situation has been brought about primarily by the slight amount of citizen interest in public affairs. The average citizen does not awake to the neglect of the grafting contractor or embezzling official or manhandling of public funds, nationally, state or local. In a city of 50,000 the misuse and waste of a million dollars might only mean twenty dollars to the average tax payer, which is perhaps the average price of a couple of tons of coal to which he gives very little consideration other than a street car or a corner drug store remark.
Yet let the neighbors chickens cross John Doe's backyard and the psychological disturbances of most profound proportions ensuesand immediately happens. And further, it is well to point out that the average mean actually gives
more tnougnt ana time to me
purchase of five cents worth of fish
ing tackle than ne wouia give to,a mass meeting of fellow citizens concerning the purchase of a munici
pal structure costing lour or nve millions of dollars.
So, the fault of taxation with all
Its vexing problems that now are coming up is not entirely with the
system itself and not wnony witn
the public officials, but is due to lack
of public Interest. At the ratio re
cently computed by an eminent au
thority, of 29 to 1. These points should be borne in mind in dealing
with the consideration of our pres
ent tax problems and it should be pointed out that the money ex
pended needlessly In public improve
ments last year on tne outer nana would have raised the nav of every
school teacher In every state In the
onion several hundred dollars per
year. The Klan while rendering the serv
ice of Intelligent information ta the miblle on conditions as they exist
should arouse to the Point of almost
antagonism the public mind U their
own shortcomings.
Must See Personal Gala
The nubile mind therefore empha
sizes the possibilities of education.
In wrong directiens or m right di
rections, offensive and defensive, personal -and iitlc. On the other
hand the public- will not -be inter
ested in things involving their own welfare unless they see signs of
personal gain.
The-Klan should not study the
the voter's own . deficiencies hat rather insure. &is constructive possibilities and make him a useful benefactor of all mankind, in the perpetuation of American self-government, the only free republic in the universe since time begin. The tendency of the public instinctively has been to protest rath
er than to correct evils, and in the
past an independent voter has been referred to derisevely as a "mug
wump." It has been nothing short of scandalous for a citizen to attempt to venture and follow princi
ples other than the time honored
tradition. A party fealty must be considered as the promise of some.-
thing to come. It is a part of the unwarranted survival of tribalism.
The tendency of citizens ta mi
grate, however, from one party- to another needs only to be emphasized
as pointing on tthe opportuneness of the Klan's program.
In the early life of Christ we are
Stold the Judean fishermen became
"fishers of men" and made their nets therefore of words and example, and
therefore the Klan will be found to be the modern heroes of combat found in the political and civic arena of enterprise and service and are now engaged in championing reforms. Now, as in more heroic times, "in days of old when knights were bold" courage will yet prevail, though measures and ideas instead of men, will invoke to combat and combative spirit and there is no fight that is not a challenge to fortitude, loyalty and unselfishness.
empllficatfon will. be. Zoundsader the Fiery Cross. - t The kind cf civitizaUofi that is to follow in America will be determined by the prevailing kinds of ideas as exemplified by the-JClan. The American people can no more resist the bombardment, literally speaking, of the facts from history, from social conduct, from every
angle of government, as exemplified by the Klan than they can resist the influence of the weather upon the skin. The Klan will proceed on the theory that it is doubtful that preaching against war would have effect at all but sure that the answer to war . is to emphasize upon constructive - measures of civilization. The Klan does not believe that the appearance of a drunken man on the street has a good moral effect as an object lesson for sobriety, but believes in the fundamental correction of the cause itself, and thereby is the full challenge of Klan principles. Klansmen of America should be
come business men as well as pa-trlots.
Will Use Spotlight
Where the political or industrial manipulator sows discontent by dragging into the focus of attention obstructive and hazy things the Klan
will bring into the white spotlight the truth and above all things, ex-
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