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ELAN'S PROGRAM FOB 1924 Militant, old-fashioned Christianity and operative patriotism. Bark to the Constitution, Enforcement of the Eighteenth Amendment so long as It Is a part of the Constitution. Enforcement of present Immigration laws and enactment of more stringent laws on immigration.

The Blind Men

The stor;' of the blind men who were taken to "see" an elephant, is brought vividly to mind as one views the blindness of those who, either

through being misinformed or ill-informed, or because they do not want

to see, attack the Ku Klux Klan,

"W hen the blind men were led to the elephant, one took hold of his tail and said: "It Is a rope." Another taking hold of the elephant's tusk, declared it to be a spear. Yet another, feeling an ear, believed it to be

a fan, while still another laying his hand on one of the animal's legs, thought it to be a tree. Another said a house, etc.

This story Is most applicable to the Klan today. The blind are crying out, "the Klan is un-American," while another is declaring it to be formed to persecute the Jew. There is a blind man crying it would stamp out

the Negro, and here is one denouncing it as formed for no other reason than to deny Catholics a right to worship as they so desire. Other blind

men and women are finding other "dire faults."

They are all wrong, just as the blind men who were taken to the elephant. Those blind men differed as to that which they felt, Just as the

blind of today differ as to Just what the Klan movement is. And all of the

blind were, and are, wrong.

The elephant was no more what the blind men believed it to be than

is the Klan that which the blind of today think it is. As an illustration

of just how ridiculous some of the propaganda issued by the enemies of

America (and therefore enemies of the Klan), the writer will tell of an

Incident of very recent date in which he engaged in conversation on a

train with a foreign-born newspaper man who is now employed in Denver

During a conversation which started over a newspaper headline re

garding Immigration, the Denver man said he had been born in the

Catholic faith in Austria, but had left that church on becoming of age for reasons which are best not told here. On coming to America and

finding the great difference between a Protestant and a Catholic country.

lie became a devout Protestant and later a Mayn. This maa is unalterably opposed to Catholicism but a' " " 1 " ' Vholics. From

these friends he has learned

TTU raaaons f-

ffito

tbajarritw

ne ceut In taxes beAanse

as being, that the Kian was opposed to pay

It was planning to place the negro back into slavery. This man is ono o:

the blind persons. Regardless of how ridiculous his two reasons are for opposing the Klan, he sees the organization from that particular angle just as the man who felt the elephant's tusk declared the animal to be a spear. Thus we havo the blind of today as the blind of yesterday. The Ku Klux Klan is an American organization bent on saving America from the encroachment of foreigners, politicians bowing to the will of foreign interests, and from a foreign political system that has held in virtual slavery scores and scores of foreign countries. The blind have as yet failed to see the Klan for what it is an organiza

tion of millions of Protestant, American, God-fearing people who would

save American ideals and institutions from the insidioui influences of sinister minds and their final destruction by subtle enemies of progress

and education.

Riot, Resolutions and Rum

At this moment, according to authentic reports, the Klan in "Waukesha,

Wis., is growing at a most rapid rate following a riot there about two

weeks ago when 200 Italians, imported from Milwaukee, led a mob of approximately 3,000 persons which attacked a Klan meeting and attempted

to demolish the building in which the meeting was being held.

The Italians, many of whom were under the influence of liquor it is

reported, carried guns and stilettoes and brandished them as the attack

on the hotel, where the meeting was just about to be opened, was started. These foreigners aided by pro-alien minded persons, smashed windows, cut electric and telephone wires, demolished furniture, broke dishes and created general havoc. Those persons at the meeting were rescued by local Klansmen and their sympathizers and a body of Klansmen from Milwaukee. It Is to be noted they were not rescued by the police. The latter made no arrests. A few days before the date on which the meeting was scheduled, the Knights of Columbus, among other activities, passed a resolution con

demning the Klan as "un-American." Peculiar as it may seem to those uninitiated with the ways of Rome-controlled organizations these same Knights have not seen fit (so far as has been learned) to pass resolutions

condemning the actions of those drunken Italians, or those responsible for their appearance in Waukesha, as un-American. Is it possible that the Knights of Columbus consider the mob which broke up a lawful meeting of a legalized organization, and did great damage to a hotel, as quite American? Or do those same Knights fear to offend the Italians who will, no doubt, cast their votes for Al Smith, Roman Catholic if be is nominated for president?

Germany has appointed an official teller of fairy stories, a news dispatch tells us. The appointment was probably to reward the official who explained the refusal on the part of Germany to lower her flag on the German embassy in Washington to half-mast when former President Wilson passed on.

The committee working on the "code telegrams" in the oil tangle have

found "apples," "cherries," "apricots," and "peaches." Their report, will no doubt, read, "Yes, We Have No Bananas."

It only the Literary Digest would quit taking polls, far too many Poles in the country as it is.

There art now

With the ever-increasing number of high officials being done in oil, ftrtlst Doheny should receive everlasting tarn.

The old adage, "All is not gold that glRtort," will probably be made to

read: -All that Is oiled does not ran smoothly."

Klansmen do not believe in pouring oil on the troubled consciences of our senators just to relieve them.

In passing we -might say that if Mr. Fall's middle name is Bacon, ne vender he brought it home. Klansmen, you know, never care to qualify for those Oilympic games. Keep ever in mind that the world has found out and acknowledges that which we insisted upon all along the Elan was not at faalt in Herrm. Inaction is a robber;

Live with him at your cost.

The Klannish way,

Is a deed today,

For a deedless day is lose

Some Deonle hitch their wagon to

a star, but the true Klansman Dinas

hia heart to the fiery cross.

The Klan is old-fashioned enough to believe that the people who pray right are apt to pay right. The Road Is Paved

There are five million people in

the United States over the age of

ten who can not read and write

Ten thousand of these illiterates are

said to live in Washington, D. C. The rest are scattered from ocean to ocean and border to border where

they will do the most harm. Five persons in every one hundred and ten people throughout the country

bluff their way through life and die as naked in mind as they were born into the world naked in body. To

the task of reducing, as far as pos

sible, this horrible waste to the commonwealth, the Klan has set itself,

with the result that thousands of patriotic people and many large organizations are directing anew their attention toward an evil that Will finally be overcome. Dr. A. E. Winship, editor of the Educator Journal, Boston, recently declared that in this country alone, the Bible is printed in four hundred languages and dialects, but that not one-half of the population of the world could read it. It is wellknown within the Klan that until our organization publicly directed

especial attention to this and cor

related facts, the educated people as a mass were making only spasmodic and impotent attempts to

combat the condition in a large way. Klan nronaeanda and Klan effort

have paved the road to a broadl

realization of the tfst toiea caused

by tne failure or nve muiion people to learn the simplest fundamentals that go with good citizenship. The

fact that large numbers w tnese li-

ULcittc ue uui American born do

not affect the question of economic

The first responsibility lor perfec

tion in this matter rests on the public schools. But the schools can

do nothing until they are backed by law and rigid law enforcement. All

patriotic organizations, all good American-born citizens, must drive

through the necessary laws, in the

first, place, then see that they are obeyed. The educators should be able to do the rest.

The True Platform If Daniel Webster were alive to

day he would be an ardent Klansman. During his whole life he

breathed the spirit of highest patriotism. Every sentence he expressed rang with sincerity and loyalty to the country. The sublimity of his counsels has been the wonder of men not schooled to think in terms of complete self-sacrifice.

Many of his polished sentences recall the classic lines of the Klansman's own beloved ritual. One passage in particular from Webster will arouse the fervor of every true American. Thus: "I mean to stand

upon the constitution. I need no other platform. I shall know but one country. The ends I aim at shall be my country's, my God's and

Truth's. I was born an American; I live an American; I shall die an American; and I intend to perform the duties incumbent upon me in

that character to the 'end of my career. I mean to do this, with

absolute disregard of personal con sequences. What are personal con

sequences? What is the Individual

man, with all the good or evil that

may betide him, in comparison witn

the good or evil which may befall

a great country In a crisis like tnis

and in the midst or great transac

tions which concern that country's

fate? Let the consequences be what they will, I am careless. No man

can suffer too much, and no man can fall too soon, if he suffer, or if

he fall, in defense of the liberties and constitution of his country."

Klansman, da not advertise your religion cm your stationery, but mix it with you e very-day business so that the whole world will see that you didn't learn your honesty in six weeks at a business college. Among the most useful members in our organization are those who are doing business for the Klan in

life's ordinary and unnoticed daily

tasks,

The Klansman who goes to lodge with a peevish disposition and a long face often finds that the devil is walking by his side. .

.When we think, down the long lane of historic time, of De Molay and hundreds of other noble and righteous men who were persecuted, broken on the wheel, and ultimately

destroyed by religious (?) persecu

tion, we are glad tnat tne Kian ex

ists now and is able to take car of

Itself and Its ova.

There seems to be no reward for the American who puts oft becoming a Klansman because he happens to

live in a neighborhood where a boycott might hurt his business.

To an Ignorant Objector Thou fool! Thou degradest Liberty And livest In sensual bondage. Rise, thou, To the clarion call Of the ghosts of old. See them ride down The black lanes Of memory; See them battle again For the nation They once crowned With quenchless gems. Blood-tinctured, Cross-purchased. Thou fool! Forget the flesh-pots Of the Lemurians. Art thou not Aryan? The Color of the Skin

Monstrous Tax Refunds

The Japan Weekly Chronicle puts

the California issue clearly in a

brief paragraph. It says: "Appar

ently the long fight regarding anti

alien legislation in California is

over, and the Californian legisla

ture has established its right to de

bar practically whom it likes from

the cultivation of the land. The Japanese press naturally deplores this outcome, but there seems to be

no paper which points out that not

only are the anti-alien laws still

stricter in Japan, but that they

spread into whatever new territories

Japan acquires, such as Korea, Formosa, and the mandated islands,

If Japan judges it necessary to

maintain these restrictions, she can hardly blame other countries for making similar restrictions.'.' Probably Japanese imperialism has had more to do with the California attitude than the color of the skin or the slant of the almond eye. Japan has been peculiarly grasping in the matter of territorial acquisition. Her broken pledges in International affairs have also added fuel to the fire of the anti-Japanese agitators. The Political Science Quar

terly speaks rather plainly: "It made little difference to the popular

mind that the berry-hucksters who ploughed California's fields had little to do with Japanese imperialism. For all that they knew, the Japanese government might be using them to

sh by covert means what

openly doing in Korea,

J. Siberia. The re-

lore , for a large

California is due to the1

of Tokyo."

Wendell Phillips referred to popular liberty as a "manna"; but the wholehearted Klansman regards it as both meat and drink. Liberty leads to defensive government. Those who are free in patriotism are strong to defend themselves against the aggression of the selfish man

who would, like a vampire, drink the

blood of the whole nation.

Too frequently the fundamental laws of the commonwealth are neglected by wild legislators who are driven by noisy groups to whom they owe their political prestige. The need of the hour is not the emasculation of our courts, but more accurate interpretation of our laws. Less damnation of vested authority and a more active defense of the constitution and its depending statutes would act as soothingly upon the nerve fibers of the nation as a tablet of veronal on a man dying of insomnia.

United States Senator McCormick of Illinois tells the Old Time Ad

vertising Men's Association in Chicago that the taxpayers of the coun

try would be saved $50,000,000 more

than under the Mellon plan if city,

county ana state taxes were re

duced 10 per cent throughout the

country. "Although they had no part in the cost of the war," he- says,

states have Increased their tax

levies from 100 to 180. per cent in

the last ten years."

That is all true, says the Chicago

Tribune, but there are a few points in connection wit& this subject of

state, county and city taxation not

covered in the statement. Al

though states had no direct part in

the cost of the war, their payrolls and the costs of their supplies have increased in direct proportion to

private and federal expenses. Increased taxes are necessary for that

reason. That, of course, does not

account for all the increase.

Additional taxes are levied be

cause states and smaller taxing dis

tricts are undertaking tasks which

they undertook to a much lesser de

gree, if at all, before the war. States

are building roads and improving other means of transportation. That

costs money, and is worth the cost

It will pay dividends to the tax

payers and, eventually, if not im

mediately, will make tax paying

easier, even though heavier.

Cities are building stadiums, play

grounds, etc., improving streets

cutting new thoroughfares, and otherwise extending their activities

and their earning power with, their

taxes. That, too, is as it should be

It is as unlikely that cities will

prosper without expansion and ex

penditure as that individuals or cor

porations will do so. Taxes wisely

spent, or public funds wisely in

vested in improvements, are not a liability but an asset to a commun

ity. It is waste and mismanagement of public funds which must be checked. That differentiation ought to" be made in any criticism of high taxes.

The amazing report of income tax refunds by the treasury department turns the searchlight of inquiry on a department of the executive which

hitherto has been free from suspi

cion, says the St. Louis Post-Dis

patch. Income tax reports are sub

ject to error, and legitimate claims

for refund are to be expected. Claims allowed In 1918, a war year,

when incomes were swollen, totaled

$887,127. But the figures submitted

by Secretary Mellon in asking for a

deficiency appropriation from Con-! gress, are of a very different category. The amount refunded for the

fiscal year ending June 30, 1923, was $123,992,820!

A glance at the list of receivers

of refunds leaves a great deal to be

explained by Mr. Mellon's depart

ment. Single instances of refunds

range up to $9,368,548, which was

the amount returned to Payne Whit

ney, whose brother, Harry Payne Whitney, aided Harry Sinclair in the

notation of oil stock after the latter

had bagged the Teapot Dome lease

The roster of taxpayers who have

received back large Bums of money looks like a "Blue Book" of the

wealthiest American families and

the biggest corporations. The most

challenging aspect of the revelations

to date is the connection of some of

those who have "practiced law" be

fore the department of the treasury. Glaring, if not scandalous. Improprieties already have been disclosed. When the tax returns of Doheny,

Sinclair and Fall have been exam

ined more are expected. The theory of error or inadequate comprehension of the law in this long list of cases has a great deal for which to answer. Persons with large fortunes do not hire schoolboys for lawyers. They do not write their tax checks in a spirit of reckless good will. They hire the . best experts that money will buy to con-' test the government for every penny that may be legally withheld. It is

possible that 10,150 wealthy firms and individuals have employed such incompetent experts that more than one hundred millions of refundable

taxes have run through their fingers

into the treasury? Where would .

these firms and individuals be if they

were as loose and blundering in their private transactions?

After all that has been turned to the light in Washington in the past few weeks the people are in no mood to stand on ceremony in asking questions. They will want to know immediately if the monster tax refunds are the reason, or one of the main reasons, why revenues have fallen off so heavily -in the higher surtax brackets. They will want to know who has been "practicing law" before the treasury department. They will want to know whether it

has become the eustom of some of the very wealthy to pay their honest taxes through the routine channels and hire ex-official or other improper influences to coax them hack through political channels. .

Thrift in Books

Mr. Wilson and the Bible

The Postal Clerks' Wages

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"I'd like to bring the attention of the public to the condition under which postal employes are asking for an increase in salary," says a postal clerk in a letter to the Chicago Tribune. "Our maximum compensation for

a forty-eight-hour week is thirtyfive dollars, minus two and five-

tenths per cent, or eighteen hundred

a year minus two and five-tenths per cent. Our maximum under the Paige biH, known as HR 5552, would be

The Bible says "Be ye saved!" The thrift books at the public library give the added admonition "Be ye saving!" It is a great game, but you can't find it out simply by looking on, or even by reading about it.

You have to play it. No one knows

the joy of having one's money earn

more money for him until he has put some of his own money to work for him. The whole world needs to be

lifted out of its state of bankruptcy, and here again books are our teachers. . We take more kindly to the advice of books because it is more imper

sonal. One never likes to have his

best friend tell him how to spend

his money or where to eut down expenses, for the simple reason that we are prodigal and economical in

spots. Your extravagance may be his economy, but it may often be said also- that your economy is his extravagance. If he gets after you for profligate indulgence in amusements, you are all the time aware that his barber and shoe shining bills

would buy yours and your wife's

twenty-four hundred a year.

This salary requires us to be way to the movies many more times

capable of throwing one thousand

letters an hour, 95 per cent correct to obtain promotion to what is known as special clerk. "During the first two years we

for epara- ' do oh our

"The main objection to our bill for increase in compensation is that it will increase taxes, according to oJficial figures, one hundred and fifty million dollars a year. To cover this

we have recommended an increase

in parcels post rates, within reason. According to this example, sixtythree pounds can be shipped from Lansing, Mich., for sixty-five cents with ten cents special delivery. Total seventy-five cents. Mailed February 29, delivered March 1; between 150 to 300 miles. Express charges per hundred pounds, $1.80."

than you go. Who shall say what is extravagance and what is economy when a man is closeffsted and

when he is generous? Why should anyone regulate what we pat into the collection plate? Dofta. he. who passes the hat drop.anyfSmg' in? So it goes. We are constantly suspicious of one another'spocketbooks. Our own sense must be the judge, and books on thrift are well worth our serious consideration. Be ye saving! say the thrift books at the

public library.

The Christian Protestant people of Roman heirarehy doubtless chagrined America were pleased and the when concerning the reading of the Bible, Woodrow Wilson, as President of the United States, wrote to the soldiers:

The Bible is the word of life. I beg that yon read it and find this out for yourselves read, not little snatches here and there, but long passages that will really be the road to the heart of it. You will find it full of real men and women not only, but also of the things you have wondered about and beea troubled about all your life, as men have been always; and the more you read the more it will become plain to you what things are worth while and what are not, what things make men happy loyalty, right dealing, speaking the truth, readiness to give everything for what . they think their duty, and, most of all, the wish that they may have the real approval of the Christ, who gave everything for them; and the things that are guaranteed to make men unhappy selfishness, cowardice, greed,

and everything that is low and mean. When you have read the Bible you know that ft is the Word of God, because you wilL havefoun4t--the key to-yonr own Tieart, you own hanoiness. and

Demand to Know

Rare Modesty

your own duty.

JJonizing Griffis

A KLANSMAN'S CREED hefteve in Gad and in tht teneli

of ike Christian religion and thai a godless natiaa can net Ung frtsper.

I believe thai a church that is not

grounded an tht principles of morality and justice is a mocker to God

and to man.

I believe that m church thai does

not have Ike welfare oj the common people at heart is unworthy.

I believe tn the eternal separation

of Church and State.

I hold no allegiance to any foreign

government, emperor, ting, pope or any other foreign, political or religious poiver.

I hold m alleaiance to the Mars

and Stripes next to my allegiance to

God atone. I believe in iust laws and liberty.

I believe in the upholding of the

Lonstttutton of these United Mates. I believe that our Free Public

School is tht corner stone of good government and that those viho or seeking to destrot it are enemies of

our Republic and are unworthy of

ahitnihip. I believe in freedom of speech. I believe in a free press vncon

trailed by politic at parties or by re

ligious Jtt. believe in lavs and order.

I believe in the protection of out

pure womanhood.

I do not believe in mob violence.

but I do believe that lotus should be enacted to ffevent the causes of mob

votenee. I believe in a. closer relationship , capital and labor.

I believe in the trevtntian of

warranted strikes by foreign labor agilaiort. I believe in the limitation of foreitrn immigration.

1 em a native-bom American Ht

men and I believe my rights in tin eountry are superior to those of for-

rtfners.

The investigation at Washington has at least proven to us a great many representatives have been representing private interests and not the people, says the Frontier Klansman. When a man is elected to public office he should be required to make an affidavit that he will not represent any private interest in his capacity as public official. There is

entirely toe much buying and sell

ing among officeholders. There is entirely too much favoritism being shown those who contribute large

sums of money towards the election of certain candidates. That is the reason large sums are usually contributed. That is the reason some

banks and bankers and private firms

doing public work contribute so

largely to certain individuals. Let us know without chance of error

who our representatives represent. Let us demand they represent the people and cut out all this trading

and trafficking.

So great an honor has never been conferred on the historic pile, the White House, as will be conferred when there will be a "Catholic altar"

erected, and by the will, consent,

and aid of the American people. The Catholic church is today the balance wheel of this republic and the day is not far distant when she will become the entise machinery of. this government and perpetuate it. Catholic News.

Wild Horses a Pest

The lionizing of -C. Hoover Griffis, who achieved a good deal of notoriety as the result of bis attempt to kidnap Grever Cleveland Bergdoll, scarcely indicates a fine sense of the fitness of things, the Minneapolis Tribune thinks. As a result of his escapade one man is lying in a cemetery and another Is seriously wounded, while Bergdoll remains unmolested in Germany. The American government was given serious embarrassment by the affair. The American public is still in ignorance as to the party, or parties, who

financed the expedition. The Griffia exploit was a harebrained, adolescent achievement, which brought no glory either to Griffis or to America. Under the circumstances the taste exhibited in welcoming him back to America as a hero is more than questionable.

PORTLAND, Ore., March 8. Wild horses in the vicinity of Bend, Ore.,

have increased so rapidly that they are becoming a nuisance. Extremely low prices for horses resulted in the ranchers turning them out into the mountains to shift for themselves.

On Cruise to South Seas on 60,000.000 Treasure Hunt

NEW YORK, March 8. Archer M. Huntington, wealthy patron of arts

and letters, and his wife, the former I Anne Vaughn Hyatt, sculptor, have gone to the Barbados, and to those West Indian Islands also has gone their yacht, the Rocinante, equipped for a two years' cruise, according to the Evening Post, which says the

riunungtons nave gone to seek a $69,000,000 buried treasure in the South Seas. Several persons who sought the treasure unsuccessfully in the schooner Genesse two years ago, were quoted as declaring that Huntington had gone to Cocoa Island, where Capt. W. L. Morgan was believed to have buried his treasure in 1820.

The treasure, often sought by ad

venturers in the last century, con

sists of gold and gem encrusted

ornaments, riches of the Ineas, looted from Peruvian churches by the buccaneer captain. Huntington is the founder of the Hispanic Museum

of New York and la said to be an ardent collector of Spanish antiqui

ties.

The Rocinante is said to have

bees refltted at a coat of $180O0

for her long voyage.

Desert Tourist Finds a New Wildcat Species LONDON, March 8. Capt Angus Buchanan, who completed a 3,500mile journey across the Sahara des

ert, told of his journey in London. "As far as the dangers of the jour

ney are concerned, he saia, "you in London run as much risk- every

day in crossing Piccadilly circus."

Captain Buchanan said the zoo

logical collection he had brought back was unique. One of the most

remarkable specimens is a burrow

ing wild cat.

The expedition was made up of

Captain Buchanan, a white cinema

tographer, and twenty natives. Only

the two white men and two natives

completed the Journey, which occu

pied sixteen months.

Department of Education

Was Indorsed by Harding At Greeley, Colo., while on the

fateful journey that ended with his

death. President Harding unequivocally endorsed the proposal to create

a federal department of education with a secretary in the president's cabinet.

"We are going to have, some of

these days, a real department of edu

cation and public welfare," he de

clared. "I hope that realization will come before the next Congress closes Us long term," he said. "I do not want you to misunderstand me; I do not favor the federal government taking upon itself that responsibility for education which belongs to every community in the United States because whenever a community loses interest in and concern for its educational activities, there is not anything to hope for in this republic of ours." Congress should heed these words.

Senate Proposes Inquiry in Railroads' Propaganda Funds WASHINGTON, March 8. An

other investigation has bees pro

posed in the Senate, this time fathered by the insurgent interstate commerce committee, which would inquire- into charges that railroads have expended huge sums of money for propaganda. The recommendation constitutes the first act affect

ing railroads which has beea undertaken by the coalition of Democrats and insurgents sine Senator Smith, a Democrat, was elected

chairman of the committee.

The present cereal crops French North Africa amount 4,ftttm ton.

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N. Y. C. Rushing Work on

Its $42,695,350 Program

NEW YORK, March 8. The hige

improveBteBt plan ef the New York.

Central lines, totaling 43,H,350 and

solely for permanent way and structures is being rushed with a view to

completing a majority of the work during the coming year. Of the

total to be expended, $2,204,100 is allotted to New York City and environs. More than 22,e,W la for Improvement en lines east ot Buffalo. The largest single Item tn the list Is fox the so-called. "Caatieton cutoff," which . improvement includes construction of a high level bridge , across the Hudson river twelve miles seutk of Albany. The expenditure on the "cat-off Is set down at lS.ltt bt this la about iSjaOQJMm below tha anal cost.

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