Fiery Cross, Volume 3, Number 20, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 March 1924 — Page 3

THE FIERY CROSS PAGE THREE NEW IltJM ROW FLEET ARRIVES IN FOG VEIL PLAN TO HOLD CORN FOR HIGHER PRICES Immigration Was a Menace as Early as 1SS1,H $123,592,820 REFUND ON FEDERAL TAXES GOVERNOR REFUSES SCHOOL AH) CALL A Recommendation Made to President Hayes By William G. LeDuc, Commissioner of Agriculture in the Hayes Administration . A verbatim copy of an article appearing in America, Chicago, February 28, 1889 Liquor Worth $8,000,000 800 Men Meet at Kankakee Busch Heirs Win Decision for Ohio Executive Again Places for Relief Aboard for American Customers Istar Is Flagship Many Are Members of Union of America $256,521 Rebate Along With 10,000 Other Men of Wealth Responsibility Session on Assembly

Friday, March 14, 1924

NEW YORK, March 8. Slipping In from the high seas under cover

of a heavy fog, twenty-one vessels

headed by the British steam yacht Istar, Wednesday dropped anchor

along Rum row to dispose of 160,000 cases of liquor $8,000,000 worth. Thus the squadron presented to

coast guard cutters, which reported I Its discovery, approximately prehollday strength. The price also according to customs authorities will be approximately J50 a case, f. o. b., Rum row. The customs authorities admitted their efforts to board the Istar met with as little success as attended a similar strategy attempted a year ago, when the British yacht became the "Flagship Istar" and "Queen of the fleet." Six steamships, all former tramp freighters, were described as the backbone of the fleet. There were two converted yachts smaller than the Istar, nine three-masted schoon

ers and four nondescripts which the customs men termed "sea going

tubs, gas and sail."

Coast guard cutter men said they had discovered a new system of Jlaison established between the fleet and the shore since the treaty with Great Britain authorized search and

seizure within twelve miles or an

hour's sail from port. Between the

"mother ships" and the small two-

man motorboats, whose deep water zone of operations is limited, has

been established a secondary fleet of

Intermediate sized craft.

These "half-way ships," according to the authorities, are faster than

the steamers and more easily ma

neuvered.

American Firm Is to Build

Quakeproof Bank in Tokio

TOKIO, March 8. The construe

tlon firm of James Stewart & Company of New York has entered Into a preliminary contract with the Mitsui interests to construct for them

the largest bank building In the ori

ent, the first important permanent

building to be erected In Tokio since

the earthquake of last September

The estimated cost was not an nounced, but it Is expected to be ap

proximately 15,000,000 yen. The

building will be a concrete, stone and steel structure erected on the site of the old Mitsui bank, and it is expected to set the standards for the

best post quake construction. Pre

Uminary plans call for a building of

five stories or more.

KANKAKEE, 111., March 8. Approximately 800 farmers from central states assembled at the Kankakee armory Wednesday to discuss

the proposition of holding back their corn and thus forcing higher prices. The meeting was held under the auspices of the Farmers' National

Union of America, and .most of the

attending farmers were members of

this organization which was formed

ast year at Chebanse, 111., for the

avowed purpose of binding together

all farmers of the nation so that they might obtain the cost of production

of their crops plus a reasonable profit.

Among the speakers at Wednes

day's meeting were M. O. Anderson

of Iowa, the Rev. J. W. MaGuire,

professor of economics at St. Viator College, Bourbonnais, 111.; J.

Harvey Robillard, general counsel of

the union, and Joseph Hanson of La-

Grange, 111.

The speakers emphasized the fact

that all other classes are organized,

including laborers, business men, and manufacturers, but that the farmer, potentially the most powerful of classes, Is unorganized, and

must accept what Is offered htm for

his products, and give what is asked of him for what he must pay. They

also urged the farmers not to abuse their power to dictate prices when

they become organized.

J. Harvey Robillard of Kankakee

was named temporary chairman of the meeting, and James Mallaney of

Bourbonnais, 111., secretary.

Delegates were present from the

following states: Colorado, Missouri, Nebraska, Iowa, Indiana, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Illinois.

Astor Vacates His Seat

in the British House

LONDON, March 8. Major John Jacob Astor has vacated his seat in the House of Commons under circumstances almost unique in parliamentary history. A rule of Parliament is that a member is not per

mitted to vote before taking the oath. Major Astor was in Egypt when the new Parliament was elected 'and has had no opportunity to take the oath. On his first appearance in the House of Commons, Major Astor voted in division, forgetting that he had not taken the oath. Under the rules he automatically vacates his seat and must seek reelection. He probably will be returned unopposed.

JJ-HASSELD CHOICE MEATS

It is particularly gratifying to me to know that a journal is established which will antagonize the grievous error of public opinion in regard to immigration. In no other civilized country could there be so gross a disregard of the duties of legislators, in the protection, not only of the welfare of our country as to its political condition, but of the rights of our children to the heritage to which they are by birth entitled. With a thoughtless and reckless disregard of any and all considerations except the one selfish desire for popularity with the foreign voter, our legisla

tors, for the past thirty years, at

least, have pandered to the foreign

vote by gift, not only of the rights of citizenship and office, but of millions of acres of free lands; thus rapidly

populating with foreigners a country that should have been saved for the

natural expansion and increase of a population distinctively homogene

ous and American. In 1878, convers

ing with a gentleman in the lobby of the Grand Pacific Hotel, Chicago, some remarks that I made about the

propriety of limiting and discouraging the immigration to our country being overheard and repeated to an

editor, were made the occasion of the most savage and malicious abuse,

and now, in Chicago, a paper is pub

lished that maintains as one of its

main issues this subject of the lim

itation of immigration. The world

does moye, but, unfortunately, in this matter it has taken a decade of time

and a fearful sacrifice of material

moral and political benefits to com pel notice of the threatening evil. Recommendation to Hayes The following is part of a docu

ment I prepared and submitted for

the approval of the president in 1881

"More than 500,000 immigrants landed at the port of New York alone

during the summer of 1880; many of

these will be from, the first a burden and tax on our resources paupers

in their own land, they will remain paupers here; others are farmers

and laborers, seeking work and

bread, land and home in our coun

try a class of immigrants whom

heretofore we have gladly welcomed

and made room for; sharing "with

them every advantage which by ear

lier emigration our fathers obtained

for us, and whose immigration we might continue to approve, if in moderate numbers; yet when we reflect

that these immigrants are mostly middle-aged people, whose labor and production will enter at once into competition with the labor and production of our own people, and who.

under our liberal laws, can at once take up as homesteads any ofThe public lands that would otherwise remain for the natural increase and

expansion

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disturbances, due to overcrowded In

dustry, it seems to me to be a matter that should engage the most earnest

and careful consideration of our wisest statesmen and philanthropists.

"Our productions of all kinds, but

specially our agricultural produc

tions, are already so great and in

creasing so rapidly, that the question of a paying market for our sur

plus is one that will properly cause great anxiety to all thinking persons at all familiar with the facts.

Eight to Erect Barrier "Having emigrated to, possessed

ourselves of, and redeemed from sav

agery this continent, we have a right

to erect a barrier against the further

inroad of masses of people whose

coming will not benefit them aa

much as it will injure us, and it is

a duty we owe to our children to pre serve for them some of the ad van

tages which our earlier coming has secured, for ourselves. The newer

states and great landed corporations

can obtain sufficient numbers of set

tlers from the eastern states to make

a healthy development of their properties, and there can be no doubt that the rapid increase of wealth of

a few persons representing and con

trolling the great corporations is

fnot for the general good of the peo

pie; whether it is for the good of the

corporation is also questionable;

certainly it is a constant threat to the existence of that equality of individual rights which is supposed to

be the distinctive feature of our po litical system.

The natural and healthy growth

and increase of our people will oc

cupy all the arable, desirable lands

of the United States by the close of

the century, and the evils incident to

a crowded population will be man!

fest within the natural lifetime of

the middle-aged of the present day

"Certainly it is not for the inter

est of the FARMERS of our country

to encourage any further immigra

tion which will compete with them

in the production and sale of farm

products, which are now so abun

dant aa to already overstock the

markets of the world, except in years of unusually bad crops elsewhere. Whatever threatens the prosperity of the agriculture of America, threatens the prosperity of every class and

condition of life in the whole country. Interstate Migration "This question has social aspects which more properly may be dis

cussed elsewhere, but I feel it a.

duty to can your attention, ana tne attention of our millions of farmers, to whom this report jjw1'1 ""y come, briefly but poinj Jat I believe has becoi" of

pies from Eujfc ss

and unoccupied lands, such as South America, Africa and Australia.

"What is really needed, and should

be encouraged in all ways and upon every occasion, is interstate migration the removal of individuals and

families, and the transfer of property and social customs between the

north and the south, the east and the

west, and the more thorough commingling of the people of different

sections of the United States, lead

ing on either hand to a better understanding and more tolerant feelings. More than aught else would

these movements serve to dissipate the lingering asperities of our fratricidal war, to obliterate sectionalism, to give homogenity to our people,

and to contribute greatly to the stability of the government and the happiness and prosperity of all."

.Sowing the Seed It was thought that public opinion

was not ripe for such doctrine, and it was not approved, but assuredly,

there is now a public sentiment of sufficient strength to make a strong endorsement of the above sentiments,

and to give cordial support to a

journal such as America offers, for

the approval of American people,

have not neglected any proper op

portunity, either public or private, for the past ten years to teach and

preach the doctrines above set forth,

and I have the satisfaction of know

ing that many foreign-born citizens are among the most pronounced

against admitting any more immigrants. They say that they were crowded out from their native land because of overpopulation, and they wish to preserve their children from the same fate. Politicians who seek for the votes of intelligent foreigners need have no hesitation in putting the case fairly before them, for they will more readily see to what troubles, Infinitu, this unrestricted immigration will lead than will the average prairie-born American.

"WASHINGTON, March 8. Mrs.

Lily Busch and other heirs of Adolphus Busch, of St. Louis, received a refund of $256,521.17 in 1922 on federal taxes "erroneously or illegally collected," since 1917. This was disclosedjn a study of the report of the Treasury Depart

ment to the House Ways and Means Committee, which showed that the department had paid out $123,592,820

in the years 1922 and 1923 to 10,152 persons, each of whom received more than $ 1,000.

Bill Would Compel Liquor Holders to Report Amounts

WASHINGTON, March 8. Laws compelling those possessing intoxicating liquors to report the quantity and character to the international revenue commissioner and levying taxes on such private stocks are sought in bills introduced in the House Wednesday by Representative Kvale, of Minnesota, successor to Volstead. "This resolution, if enacted, will

drive the colored gentleman out of

the woodpile in which he has reJ

posed so snugiy ior tne past iour years," said Kvale. "The United

States as a nation knows nothing about actual prohibition, for it has never tried it. What we now have

is the curse of the country."

COLUMBUS, O., March 8. Governor A. V. Donah ey has again refused to reconvene the state legislature for the enaction of emergency financial school relief legislation, and again shifted the responsibility for a call Sn the legislature itself, which is in recess. In reply to Attorney-General C. C, Crabbe's request that he call the legislature to provide relief for 150

school districts, which have insuf

ficient money to run the entire term, the governor said the legislature

was to blame in the main for the

financial straits of the schools, and

that it could remedy the situation If

it so desired. He sent a copy of bis reply to the attorney-general as well as Crabbe's request for the extra session to the joint committee of the legislature.

The governor also criticized school

districts which had failed or refused . to make sufficient tax levies to run

the schools, and asked if it would be right to ask citizens of the state to supply money with which to run their schools. He charged that the legislature had not appropriated sufficient money to give state aid to all deserving districts and that the legislature also was to blame for restricting districts eligible to state aid to those having less than $4,000 property valuation for each child of school age.

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To the Editor of The Fiery Cross: 1 Dear Sir: I am looking over for the first time the February 22 copy of your publication with interest and approval. May I say this, that from the first inception of the order I have given it my attention, consideration and tentative approval. That is to say, I did not adjudge it or its

doings in the light of prejudice, impulsiveness or preconceived opinion. And I feel that my attitude has, in the further light of Klan developments, been substantiated for the most part, and reasonably con

firmed. Eternal vigilance, however,

is the price of the order's name and life, as it is of the individual or the state or church or of a well-poised commercial status. So I pray you

may be vigilant, be ye forward and

honor your rear guard and thereby truth shall be conserved, patriotism promoted, religion kept pure from foreign wiles and snares, shoddy be eliminated from Asiatic fabrics and wearing apparel and a better nationalism accrue to these Semitic peoples now so financially

powerful and apparently morally

responsible. The African will, please God, de

velop along the lines of his Ameri

can habitat for at least, or say,

most, he is Christian, has lived with

and helped us, as bearers of wood and drawers of water, and has not, broadly speaking, interfered with our schools, our Protestant inception of government founded on that civic liberty which, let it never be forgotten, was one of the choicest fruits of the Lutheran reformation. The reformation restored the rights of states long held in bondage by an intolerant priestcraft. No! two old religions the Hebrew and the Roman have attempted and are attempting by one means and another

to lay violent hands on our school system, our Lord's day, in brief, on

our well-defined ' Anglo-Saxon-Celtic organization and our equally well-

defined (if variegated) name of

Protestantism, as passed on to us by our Lutheran and British for

bears. May I be permitted, just here, to suggest to your editorial

staff the use of the term Roman or Roman Catholic (to define the religion of Rome) and not to refer to that autocracy as Catholic, an entirely different term, a term held in reverence and historic connection by the Church of England and by the Episcopal Church in America. The Church of England at the reformation, threw the pope overboard as useless ballast. She did not give up holy Catholicism, which

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Like the little planet Mercury re

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sun revolving around the giant sun or star Sirius every 50 years, says a contributor to the New York Herald.

When the planet Mercury arrives at its greatest distance east of our sun it begins moving toward the earth and forces the earth outward from the sun, causing colder spells of weather, as it did this January.

In like mannev, when the companion

of Sirius arrives at its position east of Sirius it begins moving toward our sun, earth and solar system and

forces them outward from the giant

sun Sirius, thereby causing colder spells of weather on the earth and

planets and sun spots on the- sun,

It lowers the temperature of the en

tire solar system.

It resulted in the terrible winters

of 1408, 1420, 1422, 1430, 1603, 1709, 1776 and others as it came around Sirius and moved indirectly toward

the solar system. It also caused the.

cold winters between 1872 and 1892

From 1924 to 1944 will occur occasionally the coldest winters of its

50-year weather cycle. Therefore,

from 1924 to 1944 the winters will be much like the winters from 1872

to 1892, with the exception of some variations caused by the planets not

being in the same positions now that

they were then.

Years ago when the solar system

moved across the companion's orbit

plane near the longitude of the node it caused glacial periods on the

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