Fiery Cross, Volume 3, Number 32, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 June 1924 — Page 8

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THE EIHY CROSS Friday, Jane 6 1924 .

Imperial Wizard Explains Klan's Attitude Toward Jew

Popular Belief Is Declared Erroneous by Dr. H. W. Evans Movement Claims No Rights Which Are Denied to Others Loyal to America

Numerous reouests have come to the Imperial officers of the

Knights of the Ku Klux Klan for a definition of the attitude of that organization toward the Jewish race in America.. There seems to be a prevalent impression in some sections that the Klan is hostile to the Jew. This impression was not generated and has' not been fostered by the organization. In order that misunderstandings may not obtain, and that misrepresentations shall not continue, I shall undertake to discuss candidly and without prejudice the composition and the aims of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, and how the organization, in the maintenance of its principles and purposes, has been fostered by alien, foreign and un-American elements into an attitude of defense, which has been distorted into an attitude of bigotry and intolerance towards certain elements of race, creed and color on

the American continent.

The order ol tho Knights of the Ku Klux Klan has been compelled to contend, on its own soil, for the right to live, and for the right to occupy its inheritance from the day of its birth to the present hour. Composed of native-born, white, Protestant, Christian Americans, the order has been challenged to show cause why it should be permitted to organize and exist for patriotic, fraternal and benevolent purposes. Kvery class of American citizens, without regard to racial or religious distinctions, lu-.s been permitted to

assemble for peaceable purposes.

large cities. They are generally distributed over the vast area of our common country. This violated a fundamental law of our social life. "The city is a cancer on the body politic," and "an illustration of the failure of American democracy." The point, however, is just this: The Jew came to America in considerable numbers only after the great American republic was established, then for the purpose of taking asylum

under the towers of democratic government. He did nothing to wrest human rights from despotic power, or to found the institutions of human

and to organize into societies with liberty. The Cavalier, the Puritan, worthy motives, and for laudable the Quaker and the English Catholic.

objeits. All such societies have been

safeguarded by the principles em

bodied in the constitution of the V nit ed States, but when the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan claiming nativity under the flag, speaking the English language; with one hand on the Dible and the other on tho constitution, under the cross and the flag consecrated themselves to the v. tiite man's civilization, to his country and to his creed, the Jew, the Roman Catholic and the negro

all Anglo-Saxon, and all white, and

all of Christian faith, had conquered a continent, and had overthrown tvrannv. and had established the

American democracy before the Jewish nomad found a guide book or the means of transportation to America. Since then three millions and more have come quite enough for today, and for fifty years beyond. Until these millions are distributed, Poland, Roumania and Russia must

combined and made war upon the ! find other ports of entry for their iirKuniyxilnn i Semitic subjects. The native-born

Picks Strange Bedfellows It is nassinc strange that

the

Jew in America should be mobilized

white, Protestant Christian American has all the foreign population of Europe and of Asia that he can

digest or assimilate, or even enter-

with the hostile forces against the i tain. For nearly two centuries our

Kniehta of the Ku Klux Klan. He

should find in the genius of this! orgt'niration a guarantee of hia own security. There are no rights or privileges asserted by the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan for themselves as native-born, white, Protectant Christians that are not vouchsafed by that assertion to the Jew in his racial, social and religious -life. Idealistic Americanism is the purpose to which members of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan are dedicated. Any man - whether native or alien by birth:

Gentile or Jew by faith; white or black by race who so commits himself in allegiance to his country that nothing is reserved, and in devotion to his flag that nothing remains uncommitted Is, and ought to be not the enemy, but is the friend of the Klansman, and the Klansnian is his friend. From these patriots, such as compose the Knights of the Ku Klux

doors have been wide open. We have invited the world to come in; but our restricted immigration law is a proclamation to the world that we are not receiving for at least a decade or two. Jew Is Non-Producer He has given the American people no impulsion to simpler and nobler life. "The Jew has not increased the sum of American wealth.

In the handicrafts, he has not been a builder of houses, or bridges, and

of highways,' Dut"'amaK6t" orwearing apparel from wool and cotton and silk and he produced and refined none of the raw materials. As a distributor, he has been a peddler a small dealer a profit-gatherer between the man who produced and the man who consumed. (In finance,

he has been the money-lender, the pawnbroker, who, from the emergencies and tragedies of the poor,

Klan. the Jew has been tendered j aeriveu nis gains.) the hospitality in America that has The Jew has maintained his social not been accorded him elsewhere ( order without invasion by the white upon the face of the earth. He American Christian. He has marshould keep in mind the freedom j Tied among his own, and only in and protection which have been rare exceptional instances has the vouchsafed his race by the white, (Jew intermarried with the. Gentile. Gentile Christians who founded the, and then the Orthodox Jew has sufrr public and fashioned its frame- fered tho terrible penalty of banishwork in the equality of human ! ment from the Jewish circle, creed

rights aml society. Kven where Jewisn Just now the Jew is setting Up!children have been taught in the extraordinary claims to having dis-1 American schools with Christian covered America, and of having j children, the descendants of Abraboen among the early settlers, of I ham have denied their children the

Castilbin extraction. iitinn these ! right of intermarriage

bors, and every one said to his brother, 'Be of good courage.' " There is no finer statement of fraternalism or patriotism in human history. It is a declaration by the Jew himself of an ideal plan of cooperation in a great service that the Klan is undertaking to exemplify in American life. " Those words might very well be carved upon the portals of the Imperial Palace. They might be used as a motto, and hung upon the walls of every Klavern. The arduous task

of saving the white man's civilization, of maintaining democratic institutions, of repairing the broken

ideals of American life, why should not every Klansman help his neighbor, and say to his brother, "Be of good courage?" Only this is true: The Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, believing that the white man's civilization is cemented with the Tnorale of Protestant Christianity, the organization holds tenaciously to the tenets of Christ. The order goes to the great scholar and leader in the early

church, the Apostle Paul, the Evangel to the Gentile, to find-its creed and its code of conduct. In

his epistle to the Romans, he carries the ideal of Klannishness to its highest levels, and in the twelfth chapter of that -great exposition which he makes of the teachings of Christ, he sets up a standard of character and of conduct by which every true Klansman must measure his life. Klansman Is Transformed ' The chapter opens with a dedication of life to a service of sacrifice,

and from that consecration the Klansman is so "transformed" with a new mind" that egotism dies, and esteem and considcrateness of others become dominant. He speaks of the unity of the

human body, and the diversity of

members, and of gifts but all uni

fled in service to others. There is

love without pretense, an abhor

rence of evil, a clinging to good

all or which may be summed up in the statement that Klansmen are to be kindly in affection, one toward another, and means that the fine virtue of courtesy shall mark all the eondncto! this order in its associations with men. It is a heart force, bubbling and welling up from a fountain of love and flowing out in

the good old-fashioned ministry of kindness. From such service, the Klansman becomes diligent and fervent, hopeful and patient and prayer

ful. He goes out into a ministry to the poor; he opens his doors and receives the stranger and the wayfarer in hospitality. He blesses the men who stand upon the circumference of life, hating and cursing him, and returns good for evil. He "walks

-with kings, nor, loses the common

touch," neither does he seek the men of high estate nor make effort to consort with them, but reaches down to the humble, the obscure and the forgotten and proclaims that Klansmen "the world o'er shall brothers be and a' that."

MERCHANT OF SOUTH

CAROLINA ON STAND IN MAYFIELD CASE

the country wherever any trouble seems to be brewing In his misguided efforts to gather data, as he calls it, and the committee pumped it out of him after many efforts that he expects to benefit personally by the data he is alleged to be collecting. It is said that this Witness is the fellow who has been trying to sell out to William Randolph

Hearst, the Chicago Tribune and other big publications, but up to date

has not succeeded In unloading what

he knows or doesn't know. Gets 'On Witness Stand He told, the committee of making a trip to Houston, Texas, in November, 1923, where he attended a meeting of fifteen men gathered to try to -help E. Y. Clarke, former Klan official, escape a penitentiary sentence for pleading guilty to a white slave case. He has just returned

from Indiana where he claimed he did not meet D. C. Stephenson, another former Klan official, but admitted to the committee that he knew Stephenson and now he comes

to Washington, hunts up the Peddy

attorney and manages to get on the witness stand. He says he has been

collecting data to be used against the Klan for over a year, that no one is payinghis expenses, and that he has spent something over $2,000

of his own money trying to get some

thing on the organization of which

he claims to be a part. That is

why he seeks to sell his data in or

der to reimburse himself for his outlay. Coming out of Houston last November on the train in company with E. Y. Clarke, the latter's secretary, Mr. Fuller, and Clarke's attorney, he claims he entered into a written contract with these men to scout around over the country and help get something on the Evans' administration which he, Littlejohn, claims is partially wrong.

The witness became very much

cbnfused when he was cornered in cross-examination and changed his testimony several times to suit himself. It required about fifteen minutes for the Mayfield attorneys and four members of the committee, all firing questions at him in rapid succession, to account for his presence in Washington at this particular time, how he came to meet the

Peddy lawyer in the Raleigh hotel in this city, which he first claimed was accidental and then admitted

differently under a hot cross-fire of

questions. He also finally admitted that he was trying to help Clarke,

Stephenson, and others, fasten something on Dr. Evans in order to get Dr. Evans out of his high office and also' admitted that he had played

traitor to Evans who he said had employed him at one time to make "a survey of Virginia which he said was all shot to pieces, so far as the Klan is concerned. A Sorry Spectacle Mr. Littlejohn made a sorry spectacle of himself on the stand, giving the impression to every jne present that he was perjuring himself time

ana time again, ana Betraying tnc head of the organization that once employed him. The committee al

most lost patience with him two or three times and forced him to tell the exact truth about his own dealings with Clarke as well as with the Peddy attorneys, which he was unwilling at first to disclose. Mr. Littlejohn, who was recalled to the stand today, did not have a

copy of his contract with E. Y. Clarke et al., but agreed to furnish it to the committee. On cross-examination he insisted that he still is in good standing in the Klan, but admitted that he had been tempo

rarily suspended and Is awaiting trial In the Kloncilium. He persists in denying that he was ever banished from the Klan but Klan officials who ought to know, say that he Is just as good as banished because he is not recognized at pres

ent as being in good standing as he is under charges and has not

been tried. He would have a hard time working his way into any regular Klan meeting on account of the trouble he Is in.

ALL READY FOR HOME

COMING AND FESTIVAL Terre Haute Prepared to Entertain Big Crowds Parade to Open Frolic

TERRE HAUTE, Ind., June 2. The big Iiomecoming to be staged by the local Klan, will begin here

on next Monday night, June 9. The

preliminary event will take place

Saturday night preceding the opening

of thA festival fin Mnndav whon s

parade will be held. Klansmen from all points have been invited to take

part in the procession. The homecoming is the second to be held by the Vigo County Klan and has been made an, annual event. Amusements of many kinds have been provided and a "regular midway" has been provided. The Protestant parade to be held on Satur

day Is expected to be a big event.

All of Vigo county is alive to th

Klan, which is booming along in a

most wonderful way. A minstrel show held here last week by the Women of the Klan went over with a bang despite the rainy weather

encountered. Last Tuesday night a big class of candidates was initiated into the organization.

CANDIDATES TAKE OATH IN DRENCHING RAIN SANDUSKY, Ohio, June 2. While

4 the rain, driven by a fitful wind.

drenched them to the skin, one hundred candidates were initiated into the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan on last Monday night, near the corporation limits of this city. Fiery crosses, so large that the rain failed to drench out their flames, blazed as the robed Klansmen stood with arms folded in a circle about the candidates.

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shores. If this claim should be conceded as fact, the Jew should remember that his expedition across an uncharted ocean was not in the spirit of exploration or adventure, hut that he was fleeing from the inquisition of the Roman hierarchy. Granting that the Jew, under the proud banner of Aragon and Castile, came among the first to America, bis contribution, to the world's great democracy ended with the discovery of the new continent, lie explored none of its forests; lie

navigated none of its streams; lie cultivated none of its soil; he developed none of its mines; he grew none of Its products; he penetrated none of its unknown spaces; lie cleared none of its jungles and he colonized hi:f race nowhere. Gentiles Prepare Way It was only after the white, Gentile Christian had won the American continent by conflict and sacrifice that the Jew began to view America as his mecca, or more prop

erly speaking, as his latterday land "flowing with milk and honey." The Declaration 'of Independence by Jefferson; the Bill of Rights by Madison find Jay, had been long organized into "agreements of the people, by the people, and for the people," before the Jew began to flow to this country in great tides of Immigration. lie fled to America from the inquisition of Spain, from

of intermarriage with the

Gentile. The Jew has been careful of his own. He has protected the sanctity of his home with a fidelity that all men respect and admire. He has known for generations what pur Western civilization has been slow to "learn and that is: The amalgamation of two dissimilar races produces the inferior qualities of both. No man can become a real American citizen, according to the standards of the Knights of the Ku Klux "Klan, until he regards the chastity of woman as a sacred trust, and

sanctity of the home as an inviolable obligation.

In his business relations, the Jew has co-operated almost entirely with his race, and it is unusual when a partnership is formed between the Jew and the Gentile. The Jew is largely restricted to his race in business affairs. He associates himself in joint flr combined enterprises with his kith and kin. and he keeps his enterprises not only within racial bounds, but also closed by ties of blood. In other word-, a business that is established by the Jew, as a rule, is kept by the Jew and trans

mitted to his progeny. (lings fo Own Race This is especially true as recently

iuuiculcu vjf an ai iit,ic 111 uuc ui nit: current periodicals discussing the Jew-s relation to American finance.

i The writer of the article says the

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(Bureau Publication and Education) WASHINGTON', May 31. F. N. Littlejohn, farmer and merchant, of Pacolet, South Carolina, who representshimself as a life member of the Klan, and a former Klan officer at Charlotte, North Carolina, ran into something he was not looking for when he came to Washington and was induced to go on the witness stand by Scott Woodward, attorney for Mr. Peddy in the con

tested senatorial election case of Senator Mayfield, of Texas. Mr. Littlejohn was not subpoenaed by either side but seemed to hunt up the Peddy attorneys in order to

testify against the organization in which he claims' to be a life member and a former officer, turning on Dr. Evans and his administration. It developed from his testimony that he has been running around over

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