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THE FIERY CROSS Friday, May 9, 1921

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ELAN'S PROGRAM FOR 1924 Militant, old-fashioned Christianity and operative patriotism. Back to the Constitution.

Enforcement of the Eighteenth Amendment so long as It is a part

oi the Constitution.

Enforcement of present Immigration laws and enactment of more

stringent laws on Immigration.

Sparks from the Fiery Cross

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

-VIRGIL

"Turn About Is Fair Play

It is indeed hard to reconcile the words ot President Coolidge with his apparent attitude toward the immigration bill which was passed by such an overwhelming vote in both the House and the Senate.

"Our first duty," says Mr. Coolidge, "is to ourselves. American stand-

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In view of the fact that the foregoing words were uttered by our presi

dent, his stand on tho immigration bill is peculiar. With his signature to the immigration bill a piece of legislation will have been enacted which will blow the breath of life into his words and make them more than mere phrasing. In passing the immigration bill our Congress most aptly portrayed the fact that "our first duty is to ourselves." Congress merely reflected the sentiment of the American people in Its action and the people, are now looking to President Coolidge to sign the immigration bill. The millions of voters who put those men into office, and whoso senti-

jnent those men mirrored by their votes, arc now looking to President Coolidge to make the Immigration bill Into a law. From all reports from

Washington, President Coolidge does not favor the Immigration bill as passed and there is but one solution- that either the president bend to the will of the people or exert his own power, given unto hini by the people, to thwart their wishes. It is an old, and possibly homely expression, but "turn about Is fair play." The American people are today looking to President Coolidge to

Bign the immigration bill, and they are the same people to whom President Coolidge is looking to give again Into his hands the power which he

virtually vetoing the will ot the people) and thereby throw back into

Congress a bill that was voted for by more than 80 per cent of the members.

An immigration law such as. the bill provides will do more than any-

g imaginable to maintain the American standard of which Mr. Cool-

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Voices empty words. Should President Coolidge veto the immigration bill and thereby permit the pro-alien forces to reopen their attack on the bill,

Americans must be forced to wonder Just what Mr. Coolidge meant when he said: "Our first duty is to ourselves; American standards must be maintained; American institutions must be preserved."

No man can be a true follower

of modern Klan Ideals and lose by

doing It.

The pope has installed a radio receiving set, it is said, so that he may listen in on the political speeches in most large titles of Europe. If by any chance he should be moved to whang Into the cur

rents that circulate through Klandom

he might receive a legitimate and useful earful. It Is difficult to conceive of a

Klansman who does nothing1 for the

rood of others, but if such a man

exists it is certain that he is doing

a great deal of evil for himself.

No matter what our environment may be, our Klan life can not be a failure it we do our conscientious

best day by day. The door of the Klan is always open to the man who can qualify, but it is not the purpose of the organization to drive any one through it.

When the peacock has his plumage

spread, Oh, Klansman, we repeat, The bird is likely to forget His black and muddy feet. So. also, with the foppish dolt, Who spends for dress- his roll; He frequently is quite surprised At the color of his soul.

It is each Klansman's duty, as an individual, to clean out of office men who are susceptiblo of corruption fund bribery. Municipal officers, judges, and senators are still reached by the wicked gold of corporations who care little for the welfare of the people if they may by their evil arts add to their own wealth and selfish pleasures.

The Child-Killers

Something to Think About The foreign plan to flood this

country with criminals has been discussed so often that every Klansman can now recall the details In

his dreams. Secretary of Labor Davis recently made the matter even clearer in an address. Evidently the

secretary tis not blind to the fact that foreign governments are using

the united States as a dumping ground for their old men and other human rubbish. Do you know.

Klansman, that the Catholic press admits that only 30 per cent of the Catholic immigrants become naturalized? Paste that in your scrap book!

Battle Song

You are called to the colors of right,

balute the old nag and come on,

Back roll the clouds of the night,

Hy out the streamers of dawn,

Hear the loud bugles of life

Shrill out their clarion call:

"This is a war to the knife;

But our God He has power over all!" Gracious the message to arm. Righteous the cause we defend, Noble the hillside alarm. Holy the warrior's end, Fearful the field that we win Shrill out the clarion call: "Dreadful the battle we're in; But our God He has power over all!"

Birds ot a feather chained together.

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remark made by a schoolboy recently, and which was overheard by

teacher, gives much food for thought. The schoolboy said: "Wouldn't

t be great if George Washington could see the United States today?" On first thought, one would be tempted to answer in the affirmative.

I3ut after thinking it over, it takes on an entirely different aspect. Im-

flne Washington, with the memory of the suffering at Valley Forge,

.where the bleeding feet of his soldiers painted the snow a bright erimson, aeeing native-born Americans mobbed, shot down and brutally beaten

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the liberties and Ideals for which he and his soldiers fought; for which Marion and his men lived in marshes with only sweet potatoes for food,

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es, their babes torn from them and brutally murdered by painted vages.

Can one imagine Washington viewing a foreign country asking that the Vatican intercede that Polish might be taught in our public schools? And Polish children in America being taught to "grow up good Polish citizens" while native-born Americans of old stock are derided, maligned and" slandered by an American press which bows to foreign influences? However, should Washington look down upon America, he would see

the valleys stretching away from his Virginia until they merged into

gigantic mountains beyond which mighty cities have sprung along the Pacific coast. There he would see a teeming civilization hewn from a wilderness by hardy pioneers, who faced the poisoned dart of the red man, the ravages of disease and the hardships of a new country. There It is that the trail ot the covered wagon ended and the pioneers began building for themselves and their posterity. This posterity has come down the decades living by American standards, but today is facing the peril of a competition with subjects of another nation (men who can not become citizens of America) and whose standards are such that the American workingman can not compete with them in the

matter of wages. Little by little these foreigners have encroached on Americans; their government has demanded the right that they continue to do so and that America pass no law to stop the Increase of their numbers. A bill, not only to stop them, but to stop the foreign Influx from all points of the world, Is now before a man seated in the chair first occupied by George Washington. It is interesting to surmise Just what 'Washington would do if he still occupied that chair.

A half-truth told about the Ku Klux Klan always becomes a whole lie.

Some men are trying to march to ZIon carrrinir the devil and a load

of municipal bonds on their backs.

Klansman's song. Above all strife: "Hate is death. But love is life." Herald angels Sing afar: "Love is life; But hate is war. War is hate; Life should be love." Thus the chorale

From above. Forget Jealousy Don't try to break down the organization by your Jealousy or discontent. The Klan effort is a great and good movement. You could not stop it by pettiness, even if you would wish to do so. To criticize methods or impute thoughts ot evil to those who are doing their best to

serve their country and their race through the medium of a nationwide movement or impulse in the direction -of civic and educational righteousness, shows a lack both in

steadiness and In accurate information.

Walt Mason says: "I searched throughout the flat, and couldn't find my hat; I whooped around and pawed the ground, and kicked the Thomas cat." Some of the Klan's evil-wishers are like that. But, in the round-up, all they succeed in doing is getting fussed-up and putting the Thomas cat out of humor. Superficial malice will not affect substantial humans or wellpoiscd felidae. We Must

That "T.ark nf Fund"

Ceaselessly do the reports come from all parts of the country that

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column, It must again be said that it is inconceivable that such an

Important institution as the public schools, is invariably "lacking funds." Americans Americans as a whole must sooner or later awaken to the fact that the uniform lack of school funds throughout the country is not merely the result of chance. A systematized effort to break down the public school system has been going on for years. Every method has been used; a "lack of fund!now seems to be the favorite weapon. If the schools in your city or county lack funds, sift out the reason and remedy it. Watch

your vote when you go to the polls to elect men who control these chools. Once again, in the words of George Washington, "Let none but

.anarlrana be nnt on anard ."

The Klan will forever stand against any perversion of Tiuman rights guaranteed under the people's charter of government. If this platform be an untenable one, then the

purpose of the Klan is evil and its i

position is untenable, law and morality are equally untenable, and the great constitution that sublime and glowing lamp in the lighthouse of Faith is but a flickering, ghostly candle in the abyss of shadows. He who attacks the Klan attacks pure Americanism at Its sacred altar of freedom. The day of thuggery in public life has gone by. Either we are a unit for the purpose of exemplifying a passion of living democracy or we are a people burled

by avalanches of foreign impulse and thought and ot racial admixtures no longer worthy of our high, our

noble lineage; fit only, as a nation, for dismemberment and decay. To the preservation of our moral and traditional policy of government, we, the Klan, must and do dedicate every living drop of blood In our veins and every rhythmic beat of our faithful

heart. It Can Be Done

Never say that the flapper is without power for good or Im

portance as a social reconstructionUt. The eighteen-year-old girl who

recently caused a Catholic priest to forego his vows ot celibacy and to

subscribe to the marriage ceremony

as pronounced by a Protestant mln

ister has done one noble and virtuous

act which should be emblazoned on

her family shield. The "unfrocking"

of a Catholic priest by a very normal and human approach to the demands

of society argues sanity and moral uprightness upon the part ot two

people at least.

It takes a wicked man to try to

prove that the Klan or any other

Fervor of teacher and taught, Evil shall fade as a cloud, Passion of Seeker and Sought, Banners of hate be Hate's shroud Victors are we through the years, Shrill out our clarion call: "Fill we the earth with our cheers, For our God He has power over all!"

i The Klansmen's Goal Selfishness reaches its highest

peak or aestructweness in the politician who is impelled by graft and money-hunger. The bought politician is one of the greatest menaces to our American free institutions. Hudson Maxim once put the point clearly: "We have heard much of the man behind the gun. There is a man behind the man behind the gun the politician who is

responsible for all the gun-fire." The Klansman, in his daily battle against corrupt political influences, knows that selfishness dominates many politicians who, for personal

gain, will balk at nothing "under heaven or over hell." These politicians are responsible for the gunfire in our national life. They use every species of cunning known since Fabian and ages before him. There is no slime of treason, no snm of betrayal, they will not wade

through to gain their ends. To destroy their power in the commonwealth is one task to which the Klan is at present lawfully dedicating every power under its control. A clean country is the goal toward which the Klansman must bend

every aspiring energy. A relentless war against political selfishness and all politicians' Individual selfishness must be waged.

While Nations Drift For six years a rare beetle, we are told, was in the custody of a single keeper, and with him Journeyed almost around the world. What abominable scientific foolishness; what an unspeakable waste of time!

Nations drifting to chaos; races disintegrating; worlds to conquer and

to repair yet one man devotes six; years of his working time to the nursing of a grub in the entomological department of a South Kensington Natural History museum. But, perhaps, this is no worse than the lazy American who exists happily in spite of the robbery and Jobbery

around him, and who makes no more vital effort to uphold actively his

constitution and his flag than does an English keeper of a beetle in a glass cage or a snowman in the realm of Beelzebub.

Child labor may be seen at its deadliest in East Harlem. The nation, as one person, should rise against its deep damnation. In the Italian section the condition is almost unbelievable. Testifying before the New York State Child Welfare Commission at a recent public hearing by that body, Margaret A. McGroarty, a visiting teacher, ac

cording to press reports, said: "The wages are deplorable. Crocheted

dresses which sell for $49.50 are finished for $1. Conditions in East

Harlem are simply appalling. Per

sonal articles of apparel are made in

homes where disease is prevalent.

The children come home from school, don't wash their hands, but go right to work during the noon intermission, and eat when they can. I have seen children embroider the clocks on silk stockings sold in our highgrade stores. They make artificial flowers, babies' caps and boots. For June roses they get 20 cents a gross. For the clocks on stockings they are

pajd at the rate of $3.50 to $4.50 for a dozen pairs. It is no wonder the children have to wear glasses."

That such squalor and misery can exist in free America seems Impossible, and yet observers know that it is only too true. To remedy such a condition the organizations devoted to child philanthropy are bending every effort. And yet there Is so pitiably much that can never be done, operating as these associations

are forced to operate. It is only when the strong arm of the law is evoked by a citizenry whose vitality and force indicate unchanged determination, that noxious civic evils can be reached and conditions ameliorated. A Klannish program strong enough to clean Harlem, might be

able also to pour a regenerating influence into Harlem's business slums and child-killing labor systems.

Under the Dome (Bureau Publication and Education)

WASHINGTON, D. C, May 5. If jou want to know just how the people ot the Pacific coast feel about the immigration bill and the Japanese exclusion clause read the following editorial from the Seattle Star: "At last, it seems, the white man is to have a chance in his native land. Both the United States. House of Representatives and the Senate have In no uncertain terms called Japan's bluff. The immigration bill, with the Japanese exclusion clause,

has gained the approbation of both houses of congress, in spite of Jap threats and traitorous pro-Jap action on the part of some Americans who pose as statesmen. "For years the Seattle Star, al

most single-handed, has been fight-! ing for Just that thing. Barring of Oriental immigration marks victory. "There Is no doubt concerning te danger of unrestricted Japanese immigration. There is no question of

the Mitsui chicanery, as evidenced in the Standard aircraft cases. These things being as they are. Just why did a lot of newspapers betray the white race: Failure to take up and fight the white man's battle for ownership of his native land was Just that. "We have a most excellent example of It right here in Seattle."

estant, has the public schools and the illiteracy in the United States is only 8 per cent minus. That makes the United States white. The other black map shows the countries of Mexico, Central America and South America, all Roman Catholic, they have the parochial schools and the illiteracy In those countries is 65 per cent plus. This comparison may be odious but it is not so to Protestant America. Facts and figures speak louder than words.

Indiana and McCray

(New York Times) Circumstances prevent the observance this year of the honored Hoosier custom of making the governor a delegate-at-large to the Republican National Convention. Governor McCray, convicted In a Federal court for fraudulent use ot the mails, has been sentenced to ten years in the Federal prison at Atlanta. The

district Judge who presided at his trial said that he had "never seen so many felonies committed by one In

dividual." He seems to have a fertile

genius ' for crime. He has been copiously indicted. He has made business both for the state courts and the Federal. His course is run. At last he has j-esigned. The Republican state committee, worrying about the effect on the party, tried in vain to get him to do so last fall. There was a spirited row, enlivened by the effort of one of the governor's discreet friends to show President Coolidge interfering. Mr. McCray's exploits would seem to be an intolerable burden for the Republican party of Indiana, even be

fore so overladen with trouble. Far be it from us to recite that moving tragedy of divided hearts: Beveridge, New, Watson, Wood. If Jim Watson had been "placated"; if Mr. New is in the cabinet; if Representative Wood isn't asking every day In public for Mr. New's scalp; if, for the moment, little 13 heard about the unending squabbl8 for patronage, the sincere desire of Indiana; If Mr.

BURN SCHOOL BUILDINGS Has It come to the point where enemies of the American people, American government, American institutions dare carry their feelings

as far as incendiarism? There have been thirteen public school buildings burned in the state of Colorado in the last few months, under very suspicious circumstances. It is charged that these fires were incendiary. It would be hard to conceive of a greater crime than deliberately burning a school building criminally taking away from our school children the opportunities of an education. It is such a dastardly crime

that there seems to be no adequate punishment by law for it. A crea-

P0PE AND POLAND An Associated Press dispatch from Warsaw in the Chicago Tribune stated that the Diet of Roman Catholic Poland had caused its diplomatic envoy to the Vatican to ask the pope to oppose the "systematic Americanization of Poles" in this country. In that dispatch it requests the Holy See to use its influence with the Catholic hierarchy In the United States to permit the continued use of the Polish language in Polish

Catholic churches and parochial schools and to STOP the "systematic Americanization of the Poles." All of which causes a Klansman to ask: "What has the pope to say about it anyway? Why Americanize them? Why let them in at all?" They can never be assimilated.

DIFFICULT TO PRONOUNCE Picked at random from one day'a list of appointments to commissions in the officers' reserve corps at the war department, appears the following names: Harold Simmelkjaer, Johann Cissna, Adrien Ferdinand Le Tarte, Thor Wangberg, Robert Coelts, Abraham Lazarus Kushner, Simplicimo Vargas, Carl Kapka, William O'Leary, Solomon Goldstein, Carl Lohr and Heber Sotzin. These fellows think they are Americans; perhaps they are by adoption; but the point is that they

are commissioned to enter the great

furti wouldcommU such an act A L L ?7 and

as this, is as bestial and inhuman as

will fight the next war if it comes.

This list of names smacks f almost every nationality in the world. Is it any wonder the Klan and others are fighting for restricted immigration laws?

an assassin.

The Denver Post has offered a re-

wtt'd of $1,000 in cash for the arrest and conviction of any one who :

wantonly burns or has burned a achnnl hnilriins in the state of Colo

rado. It appears as though' the fiend! CHALLENGES KLAN LEADER

who has been burning these school 1 Edward E. Carroll, past chancellor

buildings goeo from one town to an- of the Barrett Council. Knights of other and watches his opportunities Columbus, whose membership emto burn school buildings, and then ; braces northern Hudson county, New

leaves immediately.

KEEP AMERICA WHITE "Keep the U. S.White-," is a slogan with The Protestant for March, which certainly proves conclusively that essential combinations are as follows: "Protestantism and Progress," which Is offset by "Romanism and Reaction." The Protestant proves its point with two maps ; one shows the United States as a white map, it is Prot-

Jersey, has announced that he had

challenged Joseph L. Harvey, Exalted Cyclops of the Hamilton Klan of the Ku Klux Klan, which -also holds forth In north Hudson, to a debate on "Americanism." In a letter which he mailed to Mr. Harvey, Carroll offered to meet th Klan leader on twenty-four hours notice to debate with him In public the positions of their respective organizations on the subject topic. Think of a K. C. wanting to talk on "Americanism."

What Education Means

On the Sterling-Reed education bill, pending before Congress, which provides for the creation of a department of education, the report is

"progress." The Senate committee

Beveridge still thrills the villagers on education, of which Senator

with his edifying remarks about "The Borah ,s cha5rman, has completed its

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Where Do You Get Your Facts?

Protestant

wicked.

secret fraternity Is

A KLANSMAN'S CREED I believe in God and in the teneti

f the Christian religion and that a

godleu nation can not long prosper.

I believe that a enurcn mat xs not grounded on the principles of moral

ly and justice is a mockery to uoa

and to man.

1 believe that a church that 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 toretgn

government, emperor, king, pope or any other foreign, political or relig

ious poiuer.

I hold my allegiance to the Stars

and Stripes next to my allegiance to

God alone.

I believe in just laws and liberty.

I believe in the utholdina of the

Constitution of these Untied Slates.

I believe that our Free Public

School is the corner stone of good

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

our Republic and art unworthy of

citizenship. I believe in freedom of speech. I believe in a free press uncontrolled by political parties or by religious sects. i believe in law and order.

I believe in the protection tf our

ture womanhood.

I do not believe in mob violence, but I do believe that laws should be enacted to prevent the causes of mob violence.

I believe in a closer relationship of

capital and tabor.

- I believe in the Prevention of un

warranted strikes by foreign labor

agitators.

I believe in the limitation of foreign immigration.

I am a native-born American eiti'

ten and I believe mi riahts in this

tountry are superior to those of for-

etgnert.

cidental reference to Teapot Dome

and things In general; yet a Republican household whose members have been so lately chasing each other with hatchets will find it hard to live in peace. And now this man McCray, this "bull farmer from upstate," as Lew Shank used to call him, Is to be punished for his little indiscretions. If he couldn't be good,

why didn't he have sense enough not to be found out until after election? There have been Republican peace conferences and unity meetings without number. The warring blocs were

to agree on a candidate for governor.

At last reports there were only six of these candidates. Ed Jackson, secretary of state, seems to be the

leader. He is said to be the favorite of the Ku Klux Klan. Every Hoosier

joins all the secret societies he can.

The Indiana Klan, modified to suit

the latitude, appeals at once to the

romantic and the political sense of a state almost as rich in literature as In politics. Into the designs of this mysterious distributer or claimant of political power the humble outsider

may not presume to enter, it aoes

seem, however, that McCray, plus tne other Indiana Republican sources of

weakness, makes it less than doubtful that the state should no longer be regarded as "doubtful."

Where do you get your FACTS about the Ku Klux Klan? This question was hurled at a fellow the other day when he was deeply engaged in discrediting the Ku Klux Klan. And his reply the same as it will be in almost all cases of those who do not belong the daily newepapers. This is lamentably true ot Klansmen. too. It is about time that Klansmen depended on their own newspapers for the truth, and then to distribute them among the people who do not belong and who have no other means of learning the truth. Just ask yourself, where did you get your information about the Klan, and how reliable was it? Do you dejiend on the Associated Press for the truth about the Klan doings?

We also believe that a majority of The Associated Press is a newsthe people desire a department of j gathering corporation, owned and education, separate and distinct from ' controlled by the large daily newsany other function of the govern-! papers of the country. If you had a ment, and will not be satisfied until man working for you, wouldn't you

hearings and. It is hoped, will be ready to report in a few weeks. The most important problem for the government is the education of the twenty-five million children of today. The continued success ot our form of government will depend