Fiery Cross, Volume 3, Number 23, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 April 1924 — Page 4

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THE FIERY CROSS Friday, April 4, 24

EDITORIAL

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KI.AVS PROGRAM FOR 1924 1. Militant, old-i'aslilonrd Christianity and operative patriotism.1 2. Kink to the Constitution.

8. Kin'oiTeinent of the Eighteenth Amendment so long as It is a part of the Constitution.

Where Taxes Go

I.fir: enient of present immigration strinucitt laws on immigration.

laws and enactment of more

The Rose and the See "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet." Shakespeare. In o'hor words, the quality and nature of the rose would have remained tile same regardless of what it might have been named. This fa t, of course, applies to all other things from the solar system to pop suns, and from pig iron to $ik lingerie. Thus do Americans realize that when reports from Rome state that it is probable that America is to liave a "Cardinalatial See," the reports might have spoken no more plainly

had they stated that the I'nitcd States is to have a Roman Catholic pope. Tin? Associated Press, in giving forth this information to the public, fays: "Such a move, it is argued, would add a certain dignity to the American h.ant h of the church more in keeping with its real importance." According to the story out of Rome, the creating of an "American Sec," would lie "only the beginning of tangible recognition of America's loner." Thus is the "fanatic" who has claimed that the pope has dreams of wiM-lil-wi ln dominion, vindicated. Those who have dared to say that the Unman hierarchy is attempting to Catholicize the United States have been

called "bi.otj" and many other choice names. Baltimore, one learns by the dispatch, is "an important Catholic city.' Heretofore citizens of the United States as well as other countries had always beiieved Baltimore to be an American city. A number of years ago, a prominent Roman Catholic dignitary is alleged to have stated that the Utah was a Catholic battleship Americans who objected to his alleged Statement were called "fanatics" and accused of using propaganda to "injure the Catholic church." Now comes the word that Baltimore is a Catholic city. With the installing of a "Cardinatial See," which is "only the beginning of a tangible recognition of America," it can only be assumed that the United States will become a Catholic country if Baltimore is now a Catholic city.

With the terrific drive now being made by the Roman hierarchy to force upon the world the "fact" that the United States is a Catholic country, through tolumns upon columns of propaganda prepared and written ty paid propagandists of the Roman See, and carried in the newspapers of the

world, can any one doubt why the Roman church is fighting so hard to defeat the Johnson immigratijj any other bill that would tend to stop

dsCTi ii ii '"iWlff1'"1! 1 7 irfTthr scum of southwestern Europe, approx

imately ninety-five per cent of whom are Catholics? The Roman hierarchy wants man power. Brain3 are not necessary among the masses to uphold the Catholic church in Europe this Is demonstrated by the fact that the Roman church is still sucking the life blood of virtual serfs and slaves throughout Europe because the heads of the church do the thinking for the masses. It is true that some thinking Catholics ii. America and you will find these thinking Catholics do not adhere PO strTfTTy 'o the doctrines of the Roman church are against indiscriminate immigration. But the Catholics who would restrict immigration arc

60 in the minority that they are negligible. The Roman hierarchy is bent on making America Catholic. Any belief that one might hold that should the Catholic church ever come into power through numltcrs or in any other way, that this country would be different from other Catholic countries, should stop and give serious thought to the question, and answer the following questions for himself: Wh do we invariably find ignorance rampant in Catholic countries? Why do we find extreme poverty the rule rather than the exception? Why do ve fiud superstition ever uppermost in the peoplesmind? Why is it that there is not one Catholic country on the face of the earth in which the people have a voice in the government such as in America, now a Protes

tant country and the first republic? Why, without one exception, do we always find a very small degree of illiteracy in Protestant countries? Why do we always find the most liberal governments Protestant countries? Why there is no religious freedom in Spain where the country writhes under the hell of Roman domination and levies by the Roman church and government? After answering these questions in his own mind, that person who believes that this country would '-'be different" were the Roman hierarchy in

the same position to dictate here that it Is in Spain, Austria, Mexico and other countries, that same person might turn over in his mind an article appearing in the March number of Current Opinion. The article in question is captioned, "A Statesman in the Vatican Is I'ope Pius XI." After enumerating certain activities Indulged in by the pop, .in "advising" governments what to do, Current Opinion says: "He is playing a big game for a big end, which can be secured in only two ways, by force or persuasion. But the ecclesiastical pen, especially when held in a fine Italian hand, has a way of circumventing difficulties. And where there is a papal will, there's a papal way." One of those ways, bo far as America is concerned, is to flood this country with immigrants. Rome doesn't care that the insane, criminal, diseased and mental and moral unfits contaminate American stock and fill

public institutions. She doesn't care for American ideals nor for progress. The papal will is to Catholicize America, and the papal way is to kill all ' legislation that would restrict immigration in the United States. Rome is pulling other strings, of course, but, in the words of Theodore Roosevelt, Catholicism can only grow and thrive in the United States throughimmi-gration.

A general press dispatch from

Washington states that the civilian employes of the government total

544,671. That is a decrease- of 373,-

089 since the armistice, but 106,614 more than before the nation entered

the war. The roster of tax-sup-ported officials is 3,400,000, according to the survey of the National Industrial Conference. The total salary bill of all national and local gov

ernments is put at $3,820,000,000. Of every dozen wage earners more than 16 years of age one is on a public payroll and the taxpayers pay $91 each toward their support. The conference states that tax-paid wages equal 46 per cent of the wages paid in all factories of the country producing more than $5,000 a year. Oniittrmr the army and navy, there are now twice as many persons on the federal payroll as twenty years

ago. the Illinois committee on public information calculates that our tax bill equals the interest on a mortgage of $170,000,000,000 on all the property of the country, putting it

in a worse position than a property owner who has mortgaged his assets for anything less than two-thirds its value. In a recent Annalist, Mr.

Lefhngwell affirms that clerical workers have increased seventeen times since 1SS0. The population has only doubled and the persons in gainful industrial occupations have increased only a little more than thrice. Clerks exceed by hundreds of thousands the payroll of railroad workers, miners, and iron and steel workers. In each ten wage earners one is a clerk. But the increase of clerks is slowing down because the office work is less efficiently jnanaeed than production, sales or

finance. For lack of administration

clerks work hardly half a day. dawdling In a manner which fore'men would not endure. Mr. Leffingwell instances an average of four letters a day by stenographers, or twice ns many file clerks as necessary, filing matter not worth the work.

Sparks from the Fiery Cross

By JOHN EIGHT POINT u The noblest motive is the public good.'

-VIRGIL

Why Not Use Economy?

Some of the labor trouble a Klansman meets in his daily walks is caused by men who refuse to labor. There is often so much quarreling among the ninety and nine, that the good Klansman can hardly tind the lost sheep. The glories of our blood and race, Oh, Klansman, are substantial things; They're armor and abiding place, . And give us sovereignty o'er kings.

The Bribery Fund

They say that 100,000 cases of liquor are sneaked into the United States by rum smugglers operating

off the Atlantic and Gulf coasts

every month. The smugglers maintain a bribery fund and have an excellent shore organization. The skill of the liquor-sneakers and their audacity increase every day.

And apparently the demand tor booze grows no less. The call to help fight this lawlessness is not only to the patriotic sense, but to the deep moral sense of the American people. During the congressional battles the wise Klansman will keep in mind Chief Justice Marshall's opinion and serve accordingly: "That the people have an original right to establish for their future govern

ment such principles as, in their opinion, shall most conduce to their own happiness, is the basis on which the whole American fabric has been erected. This original and supreme will organizes the government, and assigns to different departments their respective powers. It may either stop here, or establish certain limits not to be transcended by those departments."

What Is Education ? By-Joe

There is a discussion as to whether or not the postal department is selfsustaining, those opposed to better wages for postal employes fearing that any increase may result in increased taxation, says the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Reference to the W7orld Almanac shows that in the sixty years for which figures of gross revenue and

gross expenses are given, there are oniy twelve years when gross revenue exceeded gross expenses. This leaves forty-eight years in which some deficit had to be made up from taxation. For each of the years 1920, 1921 and 1922 (figures for 1923 not being available yet) there was a deficit. However, the figures also show that.

for most of the years showing a deficit, this deficit was not so heavy that it could not have been avoided by better management, of the kind urged by the organized postal employes who are now asking for bet

ter pay. That is the point. If the department heads can and will put such economies and improvements in force that the annual deficit can be avoided, there will be no question of more taxation. The department will then be actually self-sustaining.

But the economies must be wise economies, not such as will discourage the employes and deter men and women of ability and ambition from entering the service.

Down to Brass Tacks

The Saturday Evening Post, after not a little effort, has said something with a spine in it. Listen: "It is the dirty rich who are responsible for the legislative woes that afflict

the clean rich and the" decent American business men. To them we owe the multiplication of commissions, bureaus, srioopings, red tape, Interference with legitimate activities, corrupt officials and dirty politics. They have no party but their pocket, no politics but privilege. Unless they are destroyed they will destroy the

nation."

It is the truest thing in the world that this government is in far greater danger from the greedy hands and minds of affluent crooks that it ever has been or ever will be from the uninfluential and weak voices of those who indulge in seditious utterances and go to jail for it.--Dallas Dispatch.

The Spiritual Fewer We believe this statement to be true to the uttermost: The Klan recognizes, in its spiritual life, Jesus, the Savior of the world. A patriotic endeavor based upon this recognition, as Dr. Evans and other modern Klan leaders are pointing out, frees for important national

helpfulness a spiritual power that is almost inconceivable. Such a power can be used for the conquest .of every evil tendency among our citizenry, every weakness in national life, every fault in community existence, and every hatred between our uneasy racial divisions.

The Yalnes Become Clear Scandal involved Fall and Denby. Right or wrong tifa pTirrtflflle behind it all shows the raison d'etre of the public-spirited citizen typified by the

active Klansman. Men, however good and noble in their aspirations, when inducted into places of high responsibility, labor under such pressure and so many temptations that they are often overcome. When the dynamic power of money acts at its worst, many an otherwise loyal statesman searches sedulously for reasons which will still conscience and at the same time enable him to accept the gratuity. The Klan nor

malizing national life and holding patriotic ideals, is an influence to

ward loyal living that can not be denied. "Added to this the eye that is forever fixed upon each high official's every act and the purpose to keep the government clean and good, and the value of Klannishness in the commonwealth becomes clear as dawn upon a mountain top. The greatest civic truth is not

that which fits best the structure

of our American life; it is that teaching which energizes a Klansman most powerfully to serve the nation as an organic purpose, remembering always the spiritual ideal typified by the hidden meaning of the fiery emblem of our order. Open the Gate Open the gate, set wide the door.

Place a chair for a guest or a score; Joy is abroad in the world, folks say. For the Klan is out and riding this way Open the gate!

morally, spiritually, and Klannishly under the goal-wire first. Ballots are better than demagogic bunk. High speed gets one into holes; but it takes low speed and lots of power

to get one out. In other words, if you heed the homely philosophy of John -Eight Point, you will use strength and well-considered purpose to put a righteous crimp in a Tom-tinkered voting system. One can even drive the fuss-making monkey to the top of Mr. Bryan's theological greased pole, if one uses the right sort of paper wads. There is a lot of power In the right kind of strength and steadiness. Get in Step

"It should be the policy of united America,' said George Washington,

"to administer to the wants of other

nations without being engaged in

their quarrels." Never was the true

American attitude more clearly stated. It is the Klan attitude in so far as the Klan considers the relations of this country with other countries. The Klan is, really, an American organization, interested

largely in domestic problems, sworn to the support of Americanism in its highest and noblest form. The George Washington policy appeals to seme Klansmen, and many of them add to it that noble suggestion of Abraham Lincoln: "Let no one falter who thinks he is right? Brothers, catch step salute the colors!

The only really "advanced thoughts," Klansman, are those that give us power to work faithfully according to the direction ot our leaders who are trying to

build a national bulwark of safety for all alike. "Know thyself," says the optimist. "Fnmiij'arKy breeds contempt." says the pessimist. 4 All right Have it both wavs. ii you like," says the Kn Khix Klansman, "but find oat a little about the othpr fellow and help Mm, then you will attain true wisdom,"

Education is not a theory which is drawn np by Utopian idealists, but true education-is practical; it achieves something, something that is worth while. The problem of education has been

before the world ever since man first began to study the stars and the "why" of things back in ancient Egypt and Babylon. Greece saw the

need of education in the earliest part

of her known history. Homer tells us of the culture reached through means of education in prehistoric times. Centuries later, after Greece

fell, the Greek slaves were by far more educated than their brutal masters. Rome obtained her knowledge of the world through Greece. Greece as a nation fell, but Greece as an intellectual never fell. Greek education in her colonies was the cause of many a dispute over governmental and church questions centuries later. Greek education was directly responsible for the Council of Is'ieaea.in 325 A. D. and caused

the split between the Roman and

Greek churches in 1054 A. D. Thus it has been down through the ages, problems after problems have arisen,

each one came as a direct result of the amount of the education cf the

people. These questions have not stopped rising, they are presenting themselves more vividly than ever before. Something must be done.' We can not sit back and let these questions go unanswered. These unanswered questions do not go on and never come back but are like "Duty" in Edwin Markani's poem,, they come back bringing seven more with them. Antiquated Systems The old form of education can not be used today and be success

ful for two reasons: First, the old form of education did not give prac

tical training In the art of making a living. It did not believe that the average man needed a course in howto make a living outside of what he learned from experience. The "three R's" and Latin were practically the only subjects that were taught. They were subjects that only the people of leisure might enjoy. King Louis XV of France and his court cared nothing for the needs of his subjects, he lived in riotous living arid from the conditions that

and thirty-eight contending political ! arose there came one of the most as-

Too Many Parties

In Italy there are one hundred

parties. It is lucky that Klansmen do not have to vote for so many differ

ent candidates in this country. Italian political Ideas translated into American life can but produce a tendency toward disintegration that runs counter to American principle. Disruption, as above, is national unsteadiness and, in the final analysis, racial disgrace and dissolution.

Watch Mr. Walsh

toundlng upheavals in the history of

the world. Louis XV saw the need but made no attempt to remedy it; instead, he laughed and said, "After ua the deluge." The deluge came, it swept everything before it, and for many years France was in a constant turmoil. The same thing is true about education, when the unfavorable conditions in education arise and are not remedied, they grow until at last they break down their restraining

barriers and like a great tidal wave cover the land, and when the turmoil finally does recede it leaves nothing in its wake but ruin, such as in the case of Russia, from which a new order can only be built after much expense and labor. Useful Teaching Needed In the second place, the old education was never meant to be useful to everyone. It was to be useful only to those who could, or thought they could, understand it. This is not the true democratic spirit that should be shown by America. The

education of today must fit all needs. It must fit the child in the kindergarten as well as the doctor of philosophy. It must fit the man who has to work with his hands as well as the man who works with his head; it must fit the needs cf the thousands of immigrant children who pass through our portals if we are to make good Americans of them. The Cradle of Liberty As the world changes, education changes. The decisions we make about education today are the decisions that will determine the form of our education tomorrow. Old In

dependence Hall might be called the birthplace of American liberty for it was here that the Declaration of Independence was drawn up. but the cradle of American liberty is tha public school. We must know the "how's"' and 'why's" when we attempt to change but we must not shirk ourresponsibilities and "let George do it." In economic definitions man is engaged in active adap

tation. That is. he fits his environment to himself. A flower is engaged in passive adaptation, it blooms and if it can not adapt itRplf tn tho cnrrnnnlin rr

. - ...... uuiiuuumug Til V 1 I UUUJCUI,

it uies. om man makes the environment to fit him. So it is with education, we must not adapt ourselves to the form of education, but rather adapt the' form to us, to meet our needs.

The Gentlemen's Agreement

Jimmy Reed Tamed

Hammond, Ind., March 25. Editor The Fiery Cross: Dear Sir: I wish to call your attention to some current propaganda which does show great activity (but not at all appreciated by me). I lived

in Montana when Senator Walsh began his public work, and our settlers' associations had to appeal to him and our Washington officials to get land applications adjudicated.

Senator. Tom Walsh was just as hard and slow as any of the others to get results from. In fact, he calls me an agitator in one of his letters to the department. The enclosed clipping from our Hammond (Ind.) Lake County Times, show a persistent news service work to boost this Roman Catholic senator and I do not recall any special benefit he obtained for the Flathead settlers in

1911 to 1917, when many from that valley had to nail up the windows

and doors of tbdhr homes and leave the country as best they could.

Watch this man s political moves. Respectfully, BILL TIMOTHY.

A New York authority declares that chorus girfs may become baldheaded in a short time if they continue to bob their hair. One consolation is that chorus girls have been more or less familiar with baldheads for many years past.

A department of investigation should be installed at Washington if for

no other reason than to learn what "stall" Congress would put up to keep

from acting on Important legislation, such as tax reduction, the bonus and Immigration. 1 Herbert Quick says that Japanese do not make good immigrants because they "always remain patriotic Japanese." They should be more like the Irish. The latter never mention Ireland .after they come to America.

If It takes as long to make a pone as It does a cardinal, one easily understands why none hut aged men become popes. But still the longer the process the greater the publicity.

"Russians Hare Money In Pockets," flares ft headline. Fine, only we

didn't know tha Russians had any pockets.

ROME AD THE BOY SCOUTS

A resident of St. Bernice, Ind.,

has written to The Fiery Cross to

ask whether the Boy Scouts of

America is under control of Prot

estants or Roman Catholics.

the Boy Scout organization,

like almost every other American

institution, Is permeated by rep

resentatives of the church or Rome. The Roman Catholics have their own parochial schools and their own Knights of Columbus lodge, barred to Protestants, but they are busy with a finger in every other institution, lodge or organization where they may get a toehold. In every community where it is possible you will find Roman Catholics as Scout masters. The Roman Catholic organization has a special training

system to teach the work of Scout

masters.

The Boy Scout organization Is no worse and no better than any other organization in which the

Roman Catholics figure. The church ot Roma has a Well-de

veloped plan to gobble control of the Boy Scouts of America. It is the duty of every Protestant to

WATCH.

Open the gate ,of your heart, my friend, You have grace to spare and strength to lend To a cause that promises righteous

deed In the hour of your nation's urgent need Open the gate!

Open the gate of your life let in The Knights, that slaughter our civic sin.

The men who live the things they

orav

The patriots who serve in a legal

way Open the gate! Open the gate they are coming now The Knights no evil can scare or cow:

Your world they have made Ameri

can.

Mighty and good are the.Knights of

the Klan Open the gate!

The snnnn-fed. namnered aristo

crat is not trood timber for the Klan.

In peace, as a rule, he h a slug nmnnir bnsv workers; in war he Is

apt to be a tin-patriot taking a rest

cure at some forehjn spa, iar ironi

irouoie ana income taxes. Use the Brake

We do not expect to-leap at the

start. Klansmen know that it is tne

steady going that gets the right man

A KLANSMAN'S CREED believe in God and in the tenets

f the Christian religion and that a

godless nation can not long prosper. .... . , ,

believe mat a cnurcn inai it not grounded on the principles of moraliiy and justice is a mockery to God and to man.

I believe that a church thai does

not have the welfare of the common

people at heart is unworthy.

I believe in the eternal separation

of Church and State. I hold no allegiance to any foreign government, emperor, hing, pope or any other foreign, political or relig

ious power.

I hold my allegiance to the btars and Stripes next to my allegiance to

God alone.

I believe in tusl lavas and liberty.

I believe in the upholding of the

Constitution of these Untied States. I believe thai our Free Public

School is the corner stone of good

government and that those who are seekina to destroy it are enemies of

our Republic and are unworthy of

citizens mp. I believe in freedom of speech.

I believe in a free press uncon

trolled By political parties or oy r ligious sects. I believe in law and trier.

I believe in the protection of our

tnre womanhood.

I do not believe tn mob violence,

but I do believe that laws should be enacted to prevent the causes of mob mialence.

1 believe in closer relationship of

catttal and labor.

I believe in the Prevention of un

warranted strikes by foreign labor agitators. I believe in tie limitation of for

eign immigration.

i am a native-born American eiiimen and I believe no riahis in this

country are superior to thoie of for

eigners.

We have been told repeatedly that Japan dislikes the proposed immigration law. Japan even had the officiousness to make a protest through her ambassador, Masano Hanihara, against the inclusion in the law of any feature that would bar Japanese from entering this country. The request, though formal and respectful; was firm and the Japanese attitude was clearly suggested. This protest is one of many made by nations who do not wish the migration of their people to the United

States to be shut off. It is based,

we learn, upon a 'gentlemen's agreement" which was negotiated long ago to avoid a law which might of

fend the sensibilities of the Japanese. The terms of this agreement were to the effect that Japan would exert pressure upon her subjects to keep them at home where they were certainly more welcome than they were here. The "gentlemen's agreement" did not, however, turn out very well. Perhaps the gentlemen forgot themselves at least one side of the agreement was forgotten. Reports emanating from the western sea-board declared that the Japanese were not

living up to their promises. It was J easy to conjecture that they might not do so.

The proposed immigration measure' reduces the number of immigrants that may come to us from southern and eatern Europe. The section which is anathema to the

Japs provides that no one ineligible to citizenship shall be permitted to

enter this" country. A recent supreme court decision sets forth that the Japanese are ineligible to citi

zenship. Japan protests. Some might think, however, that she would have done better tOykeep the

gentlemen s agreement, thus malting clear in a small way her sincerity in matters pertaining to her conduct toward the United States.

Senator J. A. Reed, of Missouri, has announced that he will not ask his Democratic state convention to support him for the Democratic presidential nomination and neither will he ask the convention to confer any favors on him. Fine! The trimming he received at the hands of his own voters takes him out of the presidential race this year. "I expect to abide by the decision of the people of Missouri rendered at the primaries." he said, "and heartily to support our ticket." Senator Reed said when he asked the Missouri Democrats to indorse him as a presidential candidate he

Had hoped no considerable antagonism or bitterness would be aroused, but these expectations were not realized." He urged platform planks reaffirming the declaration of the doctrine of civil and religious liberty and denouncing "all efforts, whether by groups or individuals, to proscribe any part of the people on account of race or religion." He thinks he is shooting at the Knights of the Ku Kiux Klan with this remark.

The Reman Catholic Way

Ancient City Revealed

PARIS, March 29. French archae

ologists working in Syria have found

at Saliyeh in the Euphrates region, a Greek city founded just after the death of Alexander the Great, 2,246 years ago, and abandoned in 273 A. D., when the desert sands covered it. Among objects dug from the ruins are a number of parchments, one of which, written in- 189 B. C. is said to be the oldest Greek manuscript extant.

The scientists also uncovered a

series of mural paintings ot excep

tional importance as a source for

study of Byzantine art.

Klansmen in Maine are red hot at Joseph Smith, secretary to James M. Curley, Roman Catholic mayor of Boston, who went to Portland and made a speech before the Portland Kiwanis Club in which he took occasion to denounce and insult the members of the Ku Klux Klan. The Klan and its state leaders were attacked by the Boston secretary and members of the Kiwanis

Club sat breathless and stunned at the boldness of the speaker. The club has apologized for the speech to the membership of the Klan, which Is very strong in Maine and has repudiated it insofar as the club can. The club officials say they had no inkling that Smith was to speak on that subject and they are sorry that the invitation to speak was given htm.

King of Spain Promises to Give All to the Pope

Time Ripe for a Third

Jarty, Rail Man Asserts

NASHVILLE, Tenn., March 29. "The time is ripe for a third party," . said George Dallas Dixon, vice-president of the Pennsylvania railroad system, here Wednesday. "Both Republicans and Democrats haye been playing politics too long, and the people -ere getting tired. It is Jiigh time these two parties

stopped making ' football of tne business of the country and, as I see it, there Is a fine 'opportunity for the success of a third party with a constructive program."

The American papers reported the kissing of the pope's foot by the king of Spain and his ex-Protestant queen on the occasion ot their visit to the Vatican, a communication in the Sunday School Times says. I have not, however, noticed any publication of the speech which the Spanish monarch addressed to the head of his church on this occasion. I discovered it summarized in an Italian exchange. II Testimonio, which says: "You will find in this address the solemn consecration of Spain to the

sacred heart of Jesus, praise of the martyr fires kindled by Philip II and his agents to extinguish heresy, a prophecy ot the speedy triumph of papal ecclesiasticism in all nations with the consequent blotting out of4 every heresy, the offering of hospitality in Spain to the pope in case ho feels ill at east in Italy, the solemn pledge of the secular arm in Spain to combat heresy, and the promise to begin a crusade against the enemies ot the church when t pope thinks it necessary."