Fiery Cross, Volume 3, Number 30, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 May 1924 — Page 2

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THE FIERY CROSS Friday, May 23; 1924

Under the Dome (Burtaji Publication and Education)

WASHINGTON. May 20. The Italian ambassador has let the cat out of the bag about how the Italian people are appreciative of the efforts

made by certain congressmen In behalf of Kalian emigrants during consideration of the Immigration bill. The correspondence over this delicate situation has stirred diplomatic circles and some one may be called on the carpet for violation of diplomatic practice. The New York Tribune in speaking of the matter says: "Diplomatic circles have found In a recent bit of correspondence between Representative Emanuel Celler, Democrat, of New York, and the

Italian ambassador, Don Gelasio Caetani, a subject for the keenest gossip. "Although the matter has not yet come to the attention of the state department, the various foreign emissaries are Indulging in sharp speculation on whether there has been a violation of diplomatic usage with a possibility of another international "incident.' "On the face of it. the Italian ambassador's letter to Representative Celler, who fought and voted against the immigration bill, would seem to

bo harmless. It is a brief note, thanking Mr. Celler for the stand he made In the house in behalf of Italian emigrants during consideration of the immigration bill, which is tftlll in conflict at the capitol. "All the precedents of diplomatic practice, however, are strict in their relation to exchanges between foreign envoys and officials of this government." Thus it is seen how foreign Influence was used in fighting the immigration question In the House of Representatives. The same thing was done likewise in the . Senate. Isn't it about time that all Americans were waking up and helping make America safe for Americans? Is it any wonder the Klan is fighting for America? And why not?

doubtedly the beginning of the collapse of the Peddy case against Mayfield, as it Is so apparent that none of the subcommittee agrees with that position, judging from the many questions each member asked, of Nickels.

The U. S. five cruisers

Placing the Cruiser Trenton in Commission

S. Trenton, first of the to be built under the

armament conference agreement, was placed In commission nt Philadelphia. Here the officers and crew are seen ut salute as the colors are hoisted.

CASK IS COLLAPSING Grabbing at everything like a drowning man grabs at a straw, Mr.

TIIK IMMIGRATION STRUGGLE The immigration struggle between

President Coolidge and Secretary

Hughes on one side and Congress on ! the other is still on and Is pretty warm at times. Just now Congress seems to be on top. Responding last week to White House insistence, the conferees on ihe immigration bill reconsidered their previous action on Japanese exclusion and reported back to their respective houses a provision to make Japanese exclusion effective March 1, 1925. This was what the president asked for and he talked the conferees into making that sort of a report. This compromise was made with an understanding that, meantime, a formal abrogation of the gentleman's agreement will be negotiated and a treaty entered into, to be approved by the Senate. Such a report was made by the

conferees to their respective houses and both-houses "went up in the air" over the matter. The Senate held that the immigration question

was not a subject for treaty and that If we let Japan put this over, other nations would have the right to make similar requests with the result that we would be permitting the other nations of the earth to tell us what we could do and what we could not do about letting their people into the United States. The Senate and the House both rejected the report and sent the conferees back for further consideration. In other words, Congress gave notice to President Coolidge that it would not abide by his request. Now the conferees have made an

other report on the immigration bill. This report fixes July 1, this year, as the effective date for Japanese exclusion. It Is not known whether the Senate will agree to this or not, as it is in line with what President

Coolidge first asked, sixty days' time

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KLAN BOOKS FAIL TO HELPPEDDY CASE Show No Money Contributed in Interest of MayfieM Campaign for Senate

DAUGHTERS OF 1812 IN TUMULTUOUS MEET

Stormy Session Asks Congress to Investigate "Propaganda of Traitors"

VETO OVERRIDDEN IN HOUSE BY 313-78 VOTE

Anxious to Rebuke President's Stand on Soldiers' Bonus Measure

Teddy's attorneys in the Mayhold in which to make Japanese exclusion case have taken the unusual stand effective. The Senate voted origl-

before the subcommittee of thenally to make the Jap exclusion ef-

( Bureau Publication and Education)

WASHINGTON", May 20 Called to protest against the holding hero oE the convention of the Women's International League for Peace and freedom, a meeting in the Hamilton hotel recently of representatives of the Daughters of 1S12 and allied organizations., developed Into what was nearly a "free-for-all" battle when representatives of the league took the floor to defend its principles. i After several prepared speeches had been delivered, the session was thrown open toolscussion, and it was then that the tumult started.

(Bureau Publication and Education) WASHINGTON, May 20. The books of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan as brought to Washington and exhibited to the- lawyers and subcommitteeby J. E. Macquinn, assistant cashier, and Dr. H. C. Montgomery, member of the national finance committee, do not show any money having been paid to Senator Mayfield of Texas in his campaign for the Senate in 1922.,

The Peddy attorneys seem determined to show that the Klan liad a hand in the Mayfield election, whether the Klan had or not, and they are leaving no stone unturned to dig up something on the Klan. It is mighty hard digging and nothing has been found in the Klan books that will

help Peddy and his attorneys. Thus another theory is about to

explode and it would seem that Maex qninn and Montgomery are haying a fine trip to Washington from Atlanta at the expense ol Uncle Sam. Th Imperial Palace is sure lonely without these two fine gentlemen nowadays, but it won't be long until they return with . the books and Peddy's attorneys will be obliged to cook up another excuse or else take the licking that is coming to them.

O'BRIEN COUNTY KLAN HAS PREMIER BAND

SHELDON, la.. May IT. Tho O'Brien county Klan unit claims the most complete band in the state. Its first appearance was made recently before an audience of 3,500 people, including Klansmen and spectators. A large class of candidates was initiated into a citizenship in the Invisible Empire. This band is very complete as a musical organization, being composed of one hundred pieces and under capable leadership. Its. appearance adds much to the beauty of the Klan meetings, particularly those held out of doors.

ADDRESS ALL MAIL TO FIERY CROSS NOT TO INDIVIDUALS.

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i nose who had called the meeting

Senate Committee on Privileges and fectiv immediately on passage of shouted questions at the league rep-

Klections, that the Ku Klux Klan la the bill. resentatives, while the represontaan illegal unlawful, criminal organ- j President Coolidge played first for ' tives shouted answers and hissed the lzation and that membership in such sixty days' respite, obtained that, i "patriotic leaders." When the time an organization disqualifies every (then backed by Secretary Hughes he; came to adopt resolutions, the little one from holding public office, next sought to get it put off until: group of league leaders voiced loud

Hence Senator Maytiel.1 should be Jiarch 1, 132;, and there is where ousted from his seat in the United j Congwss bucked. The light is still States Senate. Luther Nickels, the j on and it is believed that the PresiPeddy attorney making that asser-.dent will not dare veto the bill. If flrtti n1?ni?u tVnif ha lllmplf hnR been hp flnecj th nr.nnlo unw ,'ttn Vi!

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Klansman. Such a stand

at Dr. Powell Said of the Bible in Schools

Voices From the Field

24, 1924.

Editor Fiery Cross, j Indianapolis, Indiana. Dear Sir: My attention has been called to an j article in The Fiery Cros3. issue of j April 11, under the caption, "De-! Clares Against Bible in School." The communication apparently conies from Franklin and purports to be a truthful representation of an address made by Dr. P. L. Powell of Franklin College at a recent meeting of the Franklin Rotary Club. Your correspondent does not undertake at any point to quote the language of Dr. Powell, by which I Infer be did not hear the address himself. No doubt he has made some inferences from what he did hear Indirectly, which had he been present he would have known were utterly erroneous. I was present at the meeting referred to and heard the entire address and I say without hesPation there was absolutely nothing in what was said or implied , which in the remotest degree bears out the inferences of your corre

spondent. Dr. Powell did express himself as opposed to a perfunctory reading of . the Bible, such as usually results when the reading is under compulsion. On the other hand, he called attention to the fact that the situation as respects the use of the Bible in our schools is improving. He ; spoke of the prominent place given f to It In the courses of study of over '300 Institutions of higher learning, lie expressed it as his opinion that the large introduction of the Bible

Into the curricula of our colleges and universities would inevitably result in a generation of teachers who could and doubtless would take delight in reading it as a part of the Reboot exercises, and who could so read it as to make It a source of delight and profit to their pupiU. There was nothing in the entire address that anyone could possibly have taken any exception to. I am sure had your correspondent gotten bis information at tirst hand he would have refrained wholly from making any of the statements which he did make in that connection. Dr. Fowell is known here to hold views exactly the reverse of those attributed to him in your paper. I trust, therefore, you will be willing to give thin statement as wide circulation as was given the one to which reference baa been made. Sincerely yours, C. F,. GOODELL.

Milwaukee, Wis., April

Editor The Fierjr Cross : Dear Sir: I am much interested in what you are doing in Milwaukee. But, being a woman and not a member of the Klan, I do not know just how to go about it to get the results I would like to get. I note by the papers that Klansmen in West Virginia expressed their protest against tho marriage of a

ivhite man and a negro woman by burning a fiery cross in front of each of their homes. Now, I think there is a condition in Milwaukee that is a greater menace by far to Americanism than the few marriages between negroes and whites. And that is the marriage of Catholics and Protestants. Milwaukee has a very strong Catholic population and they are using all means, fair and foul, to increase it. They encourage marriage with Protestants and by secret methods coerce the Protestant either into turning Catholic or else signing the necessary agreement to bring the children of the union up in the Cath

olic laiui. i nis is oeing aone in many instances and is undermining

the Protestant churches and giving the Catholics added power. There is also a very pernicious Catholic influence at work in the Y. M. C. A. here. One specific instance of the Catholic influence is In the case of a young man who makes his home at the Y. M. C. A. He is a splendid young man of high ideals and a devoted Protestant, and until recently has been an active worker in his church and has been looked on as one of the future leaders of his

particular cnurcn. Hue arter a recent disappointment in love with a

girl in his own church he was diverted for the sake of amusement by one of his friends to a Catholic girl, who at once fell desperately in lore with him. and has succeeded in keeping him away from his church on Sunday nights and has caused him to attended Sunday shows and dances, which he never did before. She has also won from him a promise to marry her and to agree that their

children be brought up as Catholics. This has been a sad blow to his

friends and family.

MRS. W. M. W.

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yeas. Resolutions Adopted Nevertheless, the meeting succeeded in adopting resolutions "urging Congress to investigate the propaganda of certain, pacifists -and traitors","" and" ascertain the source of the revenue that finances such societies." The principal subject of conflict between the warring groups of

women seemed to be what effect the patriotic services and instincts of their ancestors had on their own patriotism. Speakers for both sides claimed forebears who had fought in wars of the United States from he revolution down. Both asserted that this ancestry entitled them to

! the title of "100 per cent. Americans," and said that the only difference between them was that one

group wanted to prevent war at all costs while tho other wanted to encourage war to prevent aggression.

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(Bureau Publication and Education) W ASHINGTO N, May 17. The House grabbed the soldiers' bonus

bill as it came back from the White House with President Coolidge's veto and Immediately repassed the bill over the veto by a vote- of 313 to 78, which vas a little better than four to one. All factions were lined up for the. bill and all conceded it would be speedily passed and it was. The House originally passed the bonus bill by a vote of 335 to 54, so not very many votes were lost in repassing it over the veto. The Senate Monday followed the action of the House by overriding the veto by a vote of 59 to 28. Little debate was made on the motion to override. The House exhibited its temper when the president's

veto came and there were shouts of "vote" as soon as the veto message was read. Angered bv the trine nf

the message, bonus advocates wanted to rebuke the" president by re-enacting the measure within an hour after it was vetoed, but better judgment

prevailed and the repassage- of the bill went over until Saturday. The four-to-one majority by which it passed the House will have an effect on the Senate, where the out

come is still in doubt. Telegrams and letters are pouring in on senators by the thousands with pleas to sustain the veto. The result in the Senate will, of . course, be much closer than was the big victory in the House; in fact, some people think it may not be able to get over the veto of the president in the Senate.

If the Senate repasses the bill over the veto of the president, it will then become a law without the president's signature.

Tries to Spit on Flag in Funeral Procession

Sixty Klanswomen had charge of the funeral of Mrs. Hattle Miller, of Briglitwood, at the Calvary Baptist Church, Friday afternoon, May 9. . As the funeral procession was moving west in Massachusetts avenue, two women in an auto coming from the east, drove very close to the car carrying the American flag,

which was floating along the side

owing" to its huge size. One of the women leaned out, made a hissing sound and endeavored to spit on the flag. The car carrying the flag was about the seventh In the procession of twelve machines that preceded the hearse.

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CANDIDATE, FAVORED BY KLANSMEN, VICTOR

RICH HILL, Mo., May 17 Receiv

ing the support of Klansmen and

Pther patriots In the recent elections, three representative citizens were elected to membership on the

board of education by majorities of

live to one. As a part of their pro

gram of law enforcement local Klnsmen have advertised cash rewards for the apprehension and conviction of parties committing certain crime In the town.

Editor of The Fiery Cross. Dear Sir: The recent election in Parke county was an ey-e-opener for

the opposition of the Ku Klux Klan,

A3 candidates indorsed by Klansmen were practically all nominated, and the opponents here agree witltjklayor Shank, candidate for governor on the Republican ticket, that "they have got some organization." If the Klan

idea is governed in other places as -it is here, w-oue will have any right to complain. If Abe Martin were a Klansman he would likely say: "The American Association of Exalted Bootleggers here comes out openly against the Ku Klux Klan." The churches here that are for the Klan have shown a marked degree

of improvement and are likely to come out victorious as they both stand for the same principle, "One God, one Country and one Flag." A CITIZEN. Rockville, Ind.. May 12.

Men's Yoices

The few men present took active part in the discussion, although at times their voices were scarcely audible over the applause and hisses of the opposing women. "Just a government clerk" stood up beside a solicitor of the Labor Department to declare that the league was trying to pull down the American flag and substitute the flag of bolshevisirt.

The meeting adopted other resolu

tions which "condemn all un-American organizations seeking to make America defenseless, and to make slackers of our men and women, and encouraging disloyalty in American youth, encouraging both foreign insult and aggression," and "calling on all loyal Americans to renew allegiance to the United States of America and utterly repudiate any organization of men, women and youth which urges any oath, pledge or purpose in conflict with the duty of every American citizen to support and defend the United States against all

foreign and domestic enemies. Japanese Exclusion Representative Free, of California, declared that notes he had prepared

in advance of the meeting had been stolen from, his pocket "by those who opposed his well-known ideas of militant Americanism." The representative took occasion to advocate Japanese exclusion and to condemn religious organizations work

ing against that exclusion, declaring that "those people, believing they are doing something for the betterment of this country, are getting in the way of the thing that is going to mean more for the peace of the Pacific than anything we have ever done."

Saturday.

May 24th

ALL-DAY and BIG

KLAN CELEBRATION EVENING PARADE

COME EARLY AND HELP MAKE IT A BIG DAY

Headquarters and Assembly at the STATE FAIRGROUNDS

Prominent National and State Speakers Special Music

Special Massed Band Concert at Fairgrounds During the Hours of 4 and 5 o'clock in Front of Amphitheatre

ALIENS INJECT KLAN; LOSE SCHOOL FIGHT

VALLEY FALLS, Kas., May 17. After Injecting the Klan issue into the local school board election, recently held, the opposition received a decisive defeat. Two candidates suDDorted bv Klansmen, were elected

by majorities of two to one. The advertisements published and cards distributed by the opposition reacted, in favor of representative Americans, 98 per cent of the patronB having cast ballots. Among the tactics of the opposition was the circulating of a storythat Roman Catholic teachers would not be hired by certain

candidates if elected. There la one I Roman teacher on the staff. v

Second Annual Edition of the Klan Revue MAY 29th and 30th AT THE STATE FAIRGROUNDS A gorgeous Spectacle and Pageant, produced on a colossal scale, with a cast of two thousand people; music and unique effects, terminating with a stupendous display of the most gorgeous Fireworks ever witnessed in Indianapolis. If you contemplate attending the 500-mile auto race don't fail to attend this splendid offering. Excellent parking facilities free, : : -

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