Fiery Cross, Volume 3, Number 15, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 February 1924 — Page 2

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PAGE TWO THE FIERY CROSS Friday, February 8, 1921 t '..

KLANSMEN IN LARGE NUMBERS WELCOMED AT THREE CHURCHES

Belmar, Cedar Grove and Tuc-

kerton Ministers Approve Work of Organization

Sermons Are on Americanism isitrs Take hart by Invitation

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BELMAR. N. J., Feb. 2. The shore district was the scene of considerable Ku Klux Klan activity Sunday nisht when delegations attended three churches, each delegation being accompanied by a speaker of the organization. The churches attended were the Twelfth Avenue Baptist, Belmar; the Cedar Grove Methodist Kpiscopal and the Methodist Episcopal at Tuckerton,

At each church the Kiansmen were cordially received and ushered to seats reserved for them, while speakers were later invited to the pulpits to address the congregations. The largest delegation attended the Baptist church at Belmar, where 100 Kiansmen tilled the center of the church. Fifty Women of the Ku Klux Klan entered first, followed by fifty members of the Royal Riders of the Red Robe and a like number of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. The Rev. Samuel II. Miller invited the leaders to take seats with him and the invitation was accepted by three persons representing the Knights and Women of the Ku Klnx Klan and the Royal Riders. A special song service was held and this was followed by the collection wlrich brought forth a large offering. The Itev. Air. Miller preached on "Anger." fie said that .Tesus Christ at times gave way to anger, not when He was

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being attacked but when others were being made to suffer, lie prayed that we might no longer remain passive, but that the manhood and womanhood -of America might rise up in just anger against those who are seeking to harm and destroy this nation and the faith of our forefathers. , Kleagle Sneaks The Rev. Mr. Miller was followed by the district kleagle of the men's organization, who requested that the

anger might be used wisely and well and that at all times loyal Americans would understand that anger against individuals must not be permitted, but that anger against the system that allowed individuals to be lawless could well be aroused and an effort made to insist that a change

be made in such a system. The dis

trict kleagle spoke of the principles

of the Klan as compared with the Constitution of the I'nited States and. in remarking about free press, he said that according fto the constitution that was to be allowed even in Asburv Park. This was in refer

ence to Commissioner Winckler, of Asbury Park, who last week refused to grant a permit for the sale of The Fiery Cross in that eity because he was opposed to the Ku Klux Klan. The speaker received applause

throughout the thirty minutes of his address and then gave way to the leader of the Women of the Klan. Woman One of Speakers This speaker, who is almost as well-known in this district as the district kleagle of the men's organization, talked for about thirty minutes on the old-style religion and made a plea for the mothers to see that their children were regular in their attendance at Sunday school. "We mothers are responsible for our daughters and we must not shirk our duty," she said. "If your daughter asks you to go out with her, 'go with her and be a veal mother and sister to her. Throw open your home to her boy friends; don't force the girls to meet their boy friends on the outside."

She cited the reports of the vice commissions in different parts of the nation and placed the blame largely on the mothers themselves. She gave

a vivid description ot tne need ior the organization and impressed her audience with the' principles of the organization. The church was packed to overj flowing and about 200 persons were j unable to get within the auditorium.

Klan Working With ( hnrcli . About fifty Klausmen attended, the Cedar Grove church, where an assistant kleagle spoke for about an hour on the work of the Klan in connection with the Protestant churches. He was welcomed and was introduced by the Rev. I. J. C. Hill, the pastor, who, after his sermon, turned the service over to the Kiansmen. This was the first appearance of the Klan in the vicinity of Cedar Grove and caused a great deal of favorable Comment. : ' The third place Visited by the Kiansmen was at the extreme end of Ocean county where another assistant kleagle in charge of a party of fifty men attended the Tuckerton At. E. church, and gave a Christian talk. Much enthusiasm also was manifested at this meeting.

Kiansmen Face Actual Persecution m v Declares Stanley Frost in Outlook Official Klan Program Is to Eliminate 'Crooked Politicians, Vice, Crime, Sabbath Breaking, Poor Schools, and AU the Rest."

(Copyright, 1924, by The Outlook Company and reprinted by special arrangement through courtesy of The Outlook.) r Some measure of the value of the Ku Klux idea to members of the Klan can be found in the price they pay

to join. The amount is not large ?10 for initiation and ?5 for regalia-

yet as the price of getting behind an

use can

motives -fnay easily be questions, and it sometimes shows a-narrow, meddling, officious, nnjusfrand even cruel spirit. Often, too, the pleasure of reforming others appeals more strongly than tre good to be done. All these things appear strongly in some members of the Klan; indeed, it eften seems that the Klan is demonstrating

iust how bad reform may .ne It is no wonder the opposition is violent.

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d vements le ?wever distede KKn idea

and among the people who make np the bulk of the Klan strength even $15 is not treated with disrespect. Anyone who has ever tried to enlist people, at a price, in any general

is at bottom nothing more nor less

than a new and violent outbreak of

our good old American habit of rearranging the world. There Ms such

expert testimony that we do this oft-

ener and worse than any other peo-

MILLT0WN SURPRISED BY A BURNING CROSS

Citizens Now Know Klan Unit Is Active Here Fire Departments Are Called Oat . ..

the desire to eorrect evils often personal ones which are out of reacli

of the law, through, mass action of various kinds. Most of us bear these ills, especially those of other people, with such grins, shrugs or curses as our natures call for, but great num

bers see in the Klan machinery for

l eiui in aiuiig just tnese nuts. "I wish I was as simple-minded as some folks," one circuit judge confided. "Then I'd join the Klan. One of the things that makes a Judge's life hard is the wrongs for which there is no legal remedy; the unfair but not criminal methods of slick crooks; the betrayals of women where more harm than good' is done

if the law' is called in; the oppres

sions of money-lenders; the laziness

of men who let their children starve all so common we' take them for

granted, and nice folks think they're

melodramatic, but all devilish, just

the saixy. 1 can't do anything about

them.

1 can't stand, either, lor action

MILLTOWN, N. J., Feb. 2. A blaz

ing cross, standings, approximately

twenty feet in the air and in the heart of this locality, illuminated

the borough at 10 o'clock: Thursday

fire companies.

The cross, apparently placed by

members of the Ku Klnx Klan, was erected in an opeff field owned by Oscar Lindstrom, 100 feet from the sidewalk.

movement will testify that it is no " earth moan notiiovcmmt to induce four p,e n eartn-

million men to pay anything at all. Reform Idea Is Seen

To this first cost must be added When all allowances are made for the fact that most members Rave other motives love of excitement,

joined the Klan in the face of strong self-interest and brutality this republic disapproval and often of ac- form idea is still to be seen even in

tual persecution. Add, too, the atti- the worst of the Klan actions, the tude of members toward the Klan, night-riding and maltreating of neighthe serious view thev take of its" doc- bors. This narticnlar nhase is worth

trine, their often almost fanatical de- some study, since if it can be under- against them that isn't based on trial votion, and it begins to be plain that stood it will be easier to understand nd evidence. But the Klan doesn't

the Klan means something rather tm- also some of the less vicious but still worry aoont tnat. iney are utugn

porta lit to them. It may not be what dangerous practices of Kiansmen. the Klan stands for officially, it may There is no need to list the evils be something warped or even vicious, of night-riding, but it is always worth but the Klan seems to them to offer while t0 find why comparatively desomething they want badly, some- cent peopie take t0 doing utterly thing they are willing to pay for both wrong things. I put this question to in cash and in service. the governor of a state which has WlwTi thpre afp four million neo- heen neonHnrlv minted with this evil

nl holrl iti this wav hv an idea there a man vhn has done mnr.h to ston freely enough.

can be no doubt that the idea has violence and has been esneciallv ac- "I joined just to see that they got

Imperial Wizard Evans de- tive against Klan mobs. The condi- a

hors and know what's happened and

i they let it go at that. They want ac

tion, and they ... think thaf's. what

they're there for and go at it bald

headed. Usually they're right, so far as substantial justice is concerned.

I don't blame them much."

Many Kiansmen avow this motive

one friend told -me,

lions-, is to set to one side the ex

crescences on the movement. They are both noisy and numerous and it is very easy to mistake them for the

real embodiment of the Klan.

As soon as any organization begins

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Clares that it is the most potent idea tions he describes are still to he naming a notorious cheat.

in America, and there is some truth found in many places, both in the 1 "I hear the Klan kind of fixes ap

in this. But he means the Klan idea south and elsewhere. things that aint right," another said

as he sees it, and it must be remem- "You understand that I don't de- "Well, So-and-so has fixed it ud with

hpred. that the real drivine force is fend mob action in anv case of re- the store so I can t get good mate'

not his idea, but the thought in the form," the governor began. "Yet there nsils, and my work's so bad I can't minds of the Kiansmen themselves, is something to be said for it some-1 make a living. I'm going to join

often something very different. times. There have been cases where and see if it can't be stopped." And

Perhaps-the first thing to do in at- I had to admit some sympathy. But join he did

tempting to get at the spirit which I'm afraid this can hardly be under- "m? sister's husband is off raisins

animates and unites these four mil-1 stood by you people who live in com- ijen jn inQijma, and don't send hr

mumties so well protected that ponce pnnuzh to live on." remarked a third

corruption means at worst oooneg- "They've passed word to the Klan

gmg ana poKer games, ana a. crime

wave' means that there is about one

chance in 50,000 that you will suffer

from soemtlring worse than sneak-

to eain power certain kinds of men thievery.

join it for personal profit. There will "Try to imagine, if you can, what

be promoters and organizers, second- it would mean to live where it is

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rate politicians, business men look- practically impossible to entorce any hag fceen more powerfui than any ing for trade, sharks seeking prey, law, where intimidation and abuse 6,. one thing in drawing men into criminals hoDing for protection and are customary, theft common, arson

chronic iailures who will try any- not unusual, and murder occasional ft -neighborly" desire, supported

lume. iuc moie i n ci mi mC i- w ul,um-u..c. T. by the simpler morality, and it is ganization, the more numerous and places. Sparse settlement, family jjar 0 make "plain-minded" folks

active win oe uiese parasites, uypu- ieuus, vuweuui uuuiiu-u ci.ii.uv ... tj. grosa violation of funda

crites ana grarters. i ne .ian nas maite n. aiuwsi. iuiyumuie iu gei mjjji principles which-make it vi

us inn snare oi uiem, aim iney.are ww- raiwrauwH ut iucm v"?"" -dons: ' I'even notic that people. who

ouen prominent, since aign piaces syuiss. auu juu taoijeu.'u u.r j. . nA ,HKannnv nn -,ri.

are tne Dest ior tne grmoing oi pn- tne Dauot, ior tne towgns cuairot me , find it h d (. ,.. uu mCh

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vaie axes. nut mier ail ui.j are j eimuuus, narasites. and d not represent the "If any man takes the lead in try

idea and snirit that nave the Klan ing to clean up he will suffer. If

Its ereat trrowth. They are impor- he is not killed, his Darns wjh oe

taut In manv wa vs. for they have in- burned, his crops ruined, his stock

out there."

These are only a few. The Grand

Dragon of one state told me he got

twenty requests a week for action in

just such cases ; another put his calls

at fifty. I believe that on the whole

the desire for this kind of reform

cess of the campaign against vio

lence. Two Great MtiTs

These two are the great unavowed

motives in the Klan. Other motives

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Th fire alarm, was sent in by soma excited person, and .the -fire companies answered; Me entl aoj . Kijid ft an attempt .to put put the biasing cross -twit we're informed y the owner of the prbpetty that they were trespassing and had no right to do anything without his consent. They were ordered to" let the cross Continue tobunu or any others which the Klan might wish .to bum on his property. The fire department', remained until the cross had burned down. While it had never been presumed

by many of the residents that there was a local organization of the order in the town, it is now generally conceded that there is a strong unit here.

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indignation over actual cases where

they believe the victims are guilty

Action along these lines is not on

the official Klan program, and is be

inff rfiur fin r cad hv t Vi . i 1 tt's l nva .n f

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nuence, mil one can ui measure u? mueu ur biuicu, ua wumcu jtout either the vigor or the sue

real IViair By Ilieill. suueu. oo mere lias aiivajs uecu a

...., tendency in tnis state ana some

ngie spirit others to form vigilance committees

There are such ditterences between to handle such situations. You can

the Klan as it appears in Georgia can ft cowardice if you want to, but

and Texas, in Ohio and New yorK, when a body of unknown-men apply

that there is room foroubt whether nressure to the tough element, they

it actually is moved by a single spirit. can get results and still be safe from

yet i believe tnat it is, tnat tnere is i reprisals. Scores of places have

a unifying idea, a certain least com- it,een cleaned up in just that way.

moil denominator of thought, which And when neonle af-e sufferine like

may be found and defined. There is, that vou can't exnect them to worry

or course, tne - native, wnue, rrotes- about the danger that the same metn

tant1 supremacy" of the Klan creed, oaa Wju be unjustly used some other

but that appears to be a formula or time

action and a theory of social organ- "That was the condition which

ization rather than an end Or pur- gave the Klan its first start in this

pose in itself, and it is not Dy any Btate. The best people didn't join.

means always involved m iuan ac- 0I course, and a lot of the unedu

tivities. The true spirit seems to be cated. noor white trash did. Lately

something deeper, and at bottom far the Klan has changed its method healthier, although it sometimes ana some of the better class are shows in dangerous and even abom- jojning. But they'll lose out if they

iname iorms. can't keen on cleaning ud.

This fundamental and unifying This tesUmonv would be enough,

idea is nothing more abnormal than even If standing alone. But the cona passion for reform, as Dr. Evans dition seems to have been general

has said. Yet it is abnormal, top, in all the states where much night

for with -the Klan this very common riding occurred. In my articles on

trait has an intensity, a directness Oklahoma I told how it was the de

and a concept of personal duty to do 8ire to suppress "hi-jacking" and something, such as are seldom found, bootlegging and dope-Reddling that

Ana it produces very unusual mam- gave the Klan its start there. Even

iestations. 1 nis is partly Decause ,n tne Mer- Rouge horrors whatever

the Klan reaches some classes sel- the facts there may be the Klan

dom stirred by such sentiments and action was taken to stop alleged

therefore unfamiliar with the ac- criminal traffic. The motive is al cepted procedure; people of simple, ways reform: the nurnose almost al

airect ana intense emotions wno act f ways a decent one.

accordingly; partly, too, it is due to f The governor, however, did not get

the violent prejudices and instincts t at the whole reason for the appeal

the Klan doctrine arouses. But which nieht-ridins makes to this par

wnetner tne lmmeaiate aim De tne ticular element. It has certain at

regulation of a neighbor's conduct, 1 tractions besides Teform for simple

or the ousting of parochial schools 1 ana direct minds. When Dr. Evans

or of corrupt officials, reform of started his campaign which has prac

some sort has been the moving spirit tically stopped violence as a Klan of the Klan wherever I have seen it. method, a friend in the south wrote

i ins is qui a uiauitet apyi urai i mfi ahOnt it

far from it. There can be little de- t hall h Riirnriaed if the south

bate that the reform, spirit on the j erB faction agrees with Evans in the whole is useful, but only when kept matter of violence " he said. "Those

within limits. The line is not well methods are the great attraction, the defined; excellent persons are on basis of confidence, a manner of ex-

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the enjoyment of undraped beauty, but there is always a saving popular resistance which prevents most reforms from going too far. The Klan aims to go very far indeed; even officially It attacks questions and employs methods to which we are not hardened; In Its program ft applies race and religious standards we are in the hahit Of ignoring, and its individual members liave aims ahd use methods considerably farther from normal than the leaders wish. Moreover, reform at tts best has some unlovely aspects. It always implies a "holier than thou" attitude.

It always makes trouble and disturbs t. . A . .A. . . . . . . . V .

toe event tenor oi me. it is otten so beneficial to the reformers that" their

A Still Better Element

That "personal satisfaction" :in

executing justice, be it noted! was undoubtedly one of the lures of the white masks until a few months ago.

And my friend' estimate was cor

rect, too, for the Evans campaign

was followed by a falling off of Klaa

strength ia the night-riding states.

There are signs now that a new and

better element is "Joining, but there

is no doubt that the method used, as welt as the reforms to be made,

helped giro the Klan its bold.

There is another motive, almost as

indefensible as the nrge to mob vio

lencebqt easier to sympathize with

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