Fiery Cross, Volume 3, Number 36, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 July 1924 — Page 5
Friday, July 4, 92i
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CARD OF THANKS We wish to extend our thanks to ur kind friends and neighbors, Doctor A. S. Brown, the nurse, Mrs. "Wise, members of the Club and II. T., the Ku Klux Klan, and the underIftker, O. K. McConaha, of Fittsboro, for their help and kindness during the illness and death of our dear frelovcd husband and father, and also or the beautiful flowers. WIFE AND SON.
A nines, zine writer "wonders" if Crrin;iny will ever pay up. The whole world is doing the same thing. It might l.c fitting to class this as tf;e Eighth Wonder of the world.
The corner stone of the Washington monumrnt in Washington was In'd with Masonic ceremonies on July 1, 1848.
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ARROGANCE OF SMITH'S GANG IS RESENTED
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The absolutely unfair tactics of the New York newspapers toward all candidates except Smith, has turned from that candidate many votes he might have otherwise secured. The attempt by the Gotham press to swing sentiment toward Smith has been looked upon as most unfair by delegates. The continued and varied attack on other candidates has given Smith no aid. It is conceded that the Smith forces were bent on controlling the convention from the very start and the arrogance of the Brennan - Smith - Walsh crowd which dragged religion into the conveptlon has stirred up much bitterness in the hearts of staunch Democrats who
have the welfare of the nartv at
where delegates actually wept as they saw their party being ripped to pieces by tho arrogance of the SmithUrennan followers who seemed bent on ruling or ruining. Backing the Brennan-Smith forces have been the newspapers whose wanton attacks on all candidates other than Smith has brought resentment into Jhe hearts of delegates from other sections of the country who were assured of "wonderful treatment" before their arrival in New York. The whole affair smacks of the arrogance manifest so often in Roman Catholic moves to dominate.
I Smith, a devout lioir.an Catholic, land his chief backers, including i Brennan. of Illinois, who tossed tho j religious issue iiito the convention, ; are Roman Catholics. Brennan
went to New York with the avowed intention of injecting "the Klan issue" into the convention. Just why he should have done that any more than having injected a Masonic or Knislit of Columbus issue in(o the convention, can not be fathomed by earnest thinking persons. Arropance at Its Jleight ?' Roman Catholic arrogance is at its height at the convention and the Smith ' 'delegations" who were permitted to create the teri'iSc din and make a bedlam out of the convention on Thursday, has brought disrepute on New Y'ork. The daily press here is aiding and abetting (lie brow-beating tactics used by the Smith forces.
i it uiu run-ring mio presiuenuai
conventions of Roman Catholic candidates means such farces as have
j j been enacted here," declared one del
egate from Michigan, "I trust I may never be a delegate again when a Catholic is trying for the nomination." It is conceded by the "oldest followers" of national conventions that no convention ever came near to this one in creating noise, confusion and party wounds.
January 18, 1777 When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which-have connected them with another, and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and 6f nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
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We hold these truth to be selfevident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers front the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government
becomes destructive of these ends, It is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying Its foundations on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form as to them shall seem most likely to effect their
safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly, all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are 8itfferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But, when a long train of abuses and
usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, "evinces a design to re
duce them under absolute despotism,
it is their right, it is their duty, to
throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies, and such is now the necessity which con
strains them to alter their former systems of government. The his
tory of the present king of Great Britain is a history of repeated in
juries and usurpations, all having, in
direct object, the establishment of
an absolute tyranny over thes
states. To prove this, let facts be
submitted to a candid world:
He has refused his assent to laws
tne most wuoiesome and necessary
for the public good. Troper Laws Forbidden
He has forbidden his governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in
their operations till his assent should be obtained and when so
iuspended, he has utterly neglected
to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation in the legislature a right inestimable to them, and formidable
to tyrants only.
He has called legislative bodies at
places unusual, uncomfortable and distant from the repository of their
public records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance
with his measures.
He has dissolved representative
nouses, repeatedly, lor opposing,
with manly firmness, his invasions
cm the rights of the people.
He has refused, for a long time after such dissolutions, to cause
others to be elected; whereby the
legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the peo
pie at large for their exercise; the
state remaining, in the meantime
exposed to ail trie dangers of invasion from without, convulsions
within.
He has endeavored to prevent the population of these states, for that
purpose, obstructing the laws for
the naturalization of foreigners; re
fusing to pass others to encourage-)
their migration hither, and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands. He has obstructed the administration of justice, Jy refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers. He has made Judges dependent on his will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount of payment of their salaries. He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance. He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies, without theconsent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the military independent of, and superior to, the civil power. He has combined, with others, to subject ns to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitutions, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation: For quartering large bodies of
armed troops among us; Tor protecting them, by mock trial, from punishment, for any murders which they should commit on the j inhabitants of these states; I For cutting off our .trade with all : parts of the world; For imposing taxes on us without I our consent;
For depriving us, in many case3, of the benefits of trial by Jury; For transporting ns beyond seas to be tried for pretended offenses; For abolishing the free system of Engliah laws in a neighboring province, establishing therein aa arbitrary government, and enlarging its boudaries, so as to render it at once an example and fit Instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these colonies; For taking away our charters, abolishing our most valuable laws, and alteriag, fundamentally, the forma of our government; For suspending our own legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever. He has abdicated government here.
by declaring ns oat of bis protection.
and waging war against us.
destroyed the lives of our people. He is, at this time, transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun, with. circumstances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation. He has constrained our fellowcitizens, taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.
He has excited domestic insurrec
tion among us, and has endeavored
to bring on the inhabitants of our
frontiers the merciless Indian sav
ages, whose known rule of warfare is an undistinguished destruction of
all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these oppressions
we have petitioned for redress, in
the most humble terms; our repeated
petitions have been answered only
by repeated injury. A prince whose
character is thus marked by every
act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have we been wanting in our
attention to our British brethren. We have warned them, from time
to time, of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable
jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances
of" our emigration and settlement
here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and
we have conjured them, by the ties of our common kindred, to disavow these usurpations; which would in
evitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They, too, have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war; in peace, friends. Appeal to Supreme Judge We, therefore, the representatives of tho United States of America, in general congress assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the World for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the name ' and by the authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly publish ajjd declare, that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, Free and Independent States; that they are- absolved &oat all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved;
and that, as Free and Independent
States, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alli
ances, establish commerce, and do all other acts and things which
Independent States may of right do And, for the support of this declara
tion, with a firm reliance on the protection cf Divine Providence, we
mutually pledge to each other our
lives, our fortunes and our sacred
honor. JOHN HANCOCK
superstitutioa to a belief in the
Fatherhood of God, the Brotherhood of Man and the Immortality of the i
Soul. Man imitates the bird on airy!
wing and fights his fellow among the clouds. Man tunnels mountains, trains, rivers, and fashions floating
palaces to fight his fellow among the
clouds. Man builds of wood, iron, steel, stone, meshed with wires that
enable him to talk across the con
tinents and seas. Man multiplies the petals of the rose, develops and beautifies the apple. Man controls disease, removes diseased organs. Man bores beneath the earth and seas for oil that drives his thundering machines across the. continents and seas. v A Jfoble Man "What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason. How infinite in faculty. In form and moving how expressive and admirable. In action how like an angel. In apprehension so like a God." AfTSe, shake off thy fear Look up and smile, nor shed a tear. Prepare to live so well on earth That thou shalt know the larger "Birth. Oh, live so closely to God's love That when God's angels from above Shall'hisper in thy listening ear. Each word thou shalt most plainly v hear.
BRENNAN IS SLAPPED
IN FACE BY VOTE
estants within the ranks of the Klan.
Attention was called to the nams :
of those who were most prominent ;
tneir fight to include a clank
which would heap condemnation on
the heads of millions of Protestants. Brennan led the fight and was; blacked by Clancy of Michigan. Michael Doyle belligerently declared
time and time again, that "there were
no grounds in Democracy" for the millions of Protestants composing the Klan. Walsh was another man
who was prominent in the fight.
The nationality of these men is
not hard to guess. The names which appear most prominently in ail fights on the Klan, show the owners to be of the same nationality.
Had the "fighting Irishman from
Illinois," as Brennan has been called by newspapers, had his way, millions Of Staunch old Democrats
would have been read out of their
own party. However, the Brennan
crowd did not win. Thev were badlv
whipped and the plank which they
iougni so nard to have inserted into the Democratic platform, bounded up ami struck them in the face. The principles of the Ku Klux Klan abound in the plank. The particular paragraph, referring to the arousing of religious dissension, flew up di
rectly and slapped Brennan and his followers, who injected religion into the convention, directly in the face.
DRASTICSTEPSUHMIN
FIGHT ON ALIEN FLOOD
(Continued from Page I) that must be met fairly and squarely in the opinion of many officials. The
Canadian figures on the number of un
desirables smuggled into the United States are in no way complete. And added to the forty thousand estimated as having been smuggled into America from the north, are to be added those which are creeping over the Mexican border, through Florida, the Pacific Coast, and points along the Atlantic seaboard. Detailed Reports Show Menace Secretary Davis has declared that the "bootlegging" of immigrants into America has reached terrible proportions. With the going into effect of the eew immigration law, the number is now being increased. Detailed reports and statistics show that aliens are filling insane asylums and jails cf this country at a most terrificrate. The result is, in addition to the menace to the morals of America, taxpayers are being burdened with increased taxes to build and maintain an ever-increasing number ot
public institutions. It is believed that drastic steps will be taken by the next congress to halt the invasion by the undesirables of -Europe.
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is taken by many to be a direct slap
at tne ttrennan-Smith forces. The Plank as Adopted The plank reads in full, as follows :
the Democratic party reaffirms its adherence and devotion to those ! cardinal principles contained in the
constitution and the precepts upon which our government is founded.
that the congress shall make no laws
respecting the establishment of re
ligion, or prohibiting the free exer
cise thereof, or abridging the free-
uuin ol epeecn or ot the press, or
the right of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition the gov
ernment lor a redress of grievances:
that the church and the state shall
ue and remain separate, and that
no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to anv of
fice of public trust under the United
btates. inese principles we pledge!
ourseives ever to defend and main-
uam. ve insist ac an times upon obedience to the orderly processes
oi tne law ana deplore and condemn
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uj euui l to arouse religious or
racial dissension."
tne determined efforts of tho
Brennan-bmith forces to bring a re
ligious issue into the convention
surprised many, in spite of the fact that it was known that Brennan was I most bitter. In the opinion of thou-! sands, the welfare of the party was I
auBoiuteiy torgotten throueh a bit
terness toward the millions of Prot-
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. Coasts Are Ravage 3 He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, touraed oar towns, and
Superstition is an inheritance descended to us from time immemorial
and still continues in spite of educa
4ion. One of the most common forms
is the belief in the devil. This in
primitive men ruled their lives. Fear is a common form of super
stition fear of the devils, fear of the
gods. Man found himself in a world
he could not comprehend, a world far beyond his comprehension. The heavens revealing their wonders, and
all the infinite variety of life not
only excited his curiosity but led
him to be superstitious.
Superstition lighted the fires of the
Inquisition, burned witches at the stake, and even caused human sacrifices to appease the anger of the jealous gods. I know of nothing mov marvelous than, the story of mankind as portrayed by science. Out of the distant past he emerges with the mark of
the brute upon him, a blind prey to the forces of nature. Under favorable circumstances, as on the plains of Egypt and Mesopotamia, he develops a workable hypothesis, only to sink again into grosser superstition. Bigotry, war, intolerance mark his course through all the ages. It is to the glory of Judaiasm and Christianity to have proclaimed the truth. Let us hope mankind will banish superstition, come out into the broad light of God's divine truth, have "religion for this world as well as the next. Then, and only then, can we hope to banish superstition. Evolution teaches that the present is child of the past and parent of the future. Will this be the master key to unlock the mystery of nature? Here is our Immediate task. Mankind finds itself in a world
whirling throagh space at approxi
mately 1,000 miles a minute, con
trolled by a sua 9309,000 miles away; a world that is issolving the
atom and measuring the diameter ot
Betelguese; a world -that is digging up the Pharaohs of Egypt and exploring the footprints of the 4inosaur; a world that is seeing an the time a change unrolled before it as one gigantic moving picture. In such a world we, must listen to that ancient Injunction. "Be ye also enlarged." ftiaa fcas climbed from
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