Fiery Cross, Volume 3, Number 36, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 July 1924 — Page 6
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THE FIERY CROSS Friday, July 4, 1924
NEW YORK PAPERS IN FRENZY PRINT MANY RIDICULOUS STORIES
Herald ,and Tribune Tell Threat on Life of Imperial Wizard
of
Brcnnan-AValsh-Hapue Combine Stirs Bitterness In New York Convention
(Special to The Fiery Cross) NEW YORK, June 28. The New York Herald and Tribune of June 24
printed an article which purported to bo a threat on the life of Dr.
Hiram W. Evans, Imperial Wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan,
and warned him to keep in hiding, Baying that his followers believed he would be slain if he appeared publicly In New York. The paper went on to charge that Dr. Evans was in hiding while here and could not be found. This Is a sample of the fairness of the New York papers while the Democratic ' national convention was going on. The truth Is that Dr. Evans has been seen around the New York hotels, he has attended the New York theatres in company with friends and he has come and gone as he pleases while here. And yet the papers here print this kind of stuff about him. Has it come to the point where a Protestant in high standing dare not go about the city
of New York without having his life
threatened?
This New York paper went on to way: "The trump card of Doctor Evans and his advisers is a warning
to Democratic politicians that Klans
men of the South would rather vote
for a Republican than for a Demo
cratic candidate If the Democratic
platform should contain an insult
Ing reference to the Klan. The
Klansmen were basing their hope of
a victory In the convention on the
strength of William Gibbs McAdoo No Threat by Dr. Evans
This paper also said that Dr. Evans had made such a threat if the Democratic party should decide to flout its sons who are members of the Klan. Dr. Evans has made no such threats or statements. If anything of this kind has been said at all it might have come from Klan delegates themselves who did not
favor an anti-Klan plank.
The fact is that Dr. Evans has been an extremely busy man while
In New ork and he has kept away
from all newspaper men. The latter
have been pursuing him but up to
date have not yet caught up with him. Hence, they are writing stories about the Imperial Wizard out of their own heads and from
their own Imaginations.
It is true that the feeling here has
been intensely: bitter, but look at the source from which the feeling
comes. Boss Brennan, Boss Hague,
Boss Walsh, of Massachusetts, all
Catholics or Catholic sympathizers.
And look at the non-Protestant ele
ment In New York. Just stop and think of the South and the West electing Wilson to the presidency
and now see the Democratic convention slapping the South and the
West In the face. If the Klan Demo
crats of the South are driven into
supporting the Republican ticket it
won't be the work of Dr. Evans but
the responsibility must be placed
where It belongs. Dr. Evans is not
writing the Democratic platform. On the other hand, he has done all he
could to keep the Democrats from
making just this sort of a mistake.
July the Fourth
Flag-waving and twisting the
lion's tail, the popular sport of Independence Day let us honor the
custom in the breach this year. Bom
bastic fustian and flamboyant bragga
docio belong to the age of childishness. Now that, as a nation, we have grown up, let us give up the amusement of morons and act and
talk like mature men.
Bunker Hill was not fought with
high-sounding words. The sublime
courage of Valley Forge did not spring from magniloquence and boasting. Yorktown was a triumph
of consecration, high Idealism, perseverance and all-conquering heroism. The day should be a profound memorial to the noble spirits whose sacrifices made our nation possible, a proclamation of those Immortal ideals of civic virtue for which they fought and died and a reaffirmation of those principles that alone shall make our nation great. Complex problems press upon us. Apathy and Indifference afflict our citizenry. Corruption in high places has shocked us. Foes within our borders boldly assail our institutions.
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PROTESTS FAIL TO HALT KLAN PARADE ' f-. -7 Greencastle Stages Long Procession Boy Scouts and Juniors Take Part
Right of Assemblage
GREENCASTLE, Ind., July 1.
Despite much pressure brought to bear against the Klan parade given here last week, the event went through to a most successful termi
nation. Delegations from Danville,
J Amo, Coatesville, Brazil, Terre Haute,
Crawfordsville, Bloomington, Rockville, Harmony and other points took
part in the parade. The Boy Scout
Drum Corps of Russellville was also
present. The Junior Klan was rep
resented by a float in the parade.
The procession was viewed by
many colored people who joined in the cheers of others. There has been a determined effort here by
Catholic influences to impress upon the colored population that the Klan is their bitter enemy. This untruth has failed to sink into the negroes here.
The parade was led by fifty
mounted Klansmen in full regalia.
and was witnessed by thousands of enthusiastic persons. Twenty-five hundred marchers were in the pro
cession.
Top Monticello, Home Designed and Built by Thomas Jefferson,. Writer of the Declaration of Independence. Left Thomas Jefferson. Right Desk on Which He Is Said to Have Written the Famous Declaration.
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GUY ROY SANDS IS
BURIED AT PITTSBORO
Guy Roy Sands, aged thirty-one
died at his home on June 14. He
was a member of the Baptist church. He also held membership in the Ku Klux Klan and the United Protestant Club. Mr. Sands leaves a widow and
one son. He is survived also, by
his mother, three brothers and three sisters. Mr. Sands enjoyed the
friendship of a large circle of friends and held the confidence of all those who knew him. Mr. Sands was
buried at Pittsboro, members of the Ku Klux Klan holding last rites at the grave.
(The New Age) The right of public assemblage is inseparable from the right of free speech, which we recognize as fundamental to American liberty. The right to parade, under proper . conditions, in accordance with the law and uniform police regulations, is inseparable from the right of public assemblage. During recent months there have been many attacks upon marching citizens, who, in pursuance of their rights as citizens and with the consent of the police authorities, were engaged, in public parade; in certain cases riot, violence, and even murder have followed these attacks. ' In discussing a recent outrage of
this character, a well-known Eastern daily takes the doubtful ground that the paraders were to blame for the riot. "Morally," it declares, the
paraders "must share the guilt for
the disorders." The organization parading, it continues, "may not have cast the first stone or fired the
first shot, but it made the first move and must have known that its act encouraged disorder and bloodshed."
This is dangerous teaching and subversive of the fundamentals of American liberty. Logically it Is incitement to disorder and riot. If fnls doctrine be admitted, then at any time a procession of citizens, acting in accordance with their constitutional rights, may be set -upon by a mob of fanatical hoodlums, the marchers may be manhandled, beaten, and even killed, apd yet they "must share the blame for the outbreaks." Just to state the position discloses its fallacy.
Independence is the God-given right of each and every individual. It is the heritage of truth, light and intelligence; the spark that sets fire to the torch of liberty. Down through the annals of history we find despots, tyrants and ecclesiastical bodies that have held this truth from the simple mind of the faithful, but the co-worker of Truth" called Intelligence has in each case shed its light, and the people have found that they were being held in ignorance for the personal gain of the offenders, which in each case are always the small minority. It is then that independence is asserted.
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Every war ever recorded in his
tory can be traced to the activities
of certain individuals and systems who would grasp "with greedy paws the earnings of the toiler. These
parasites, who have more of worldly goods than they could, possibly use
in a lifetime, continue to gouge the very life blood from all who can be
held in suppression.
When a nation has established her independence she must forever
guard against the Insidious workings of ecclesiastical powers of foreign birth, and in order to be more fully
prepared to fight the enemy of lib
erty one must-seek knowledge of her
past performances.
The history of any nation will do
as an example, so let us pick out
one at random, say France. They
had a bloody revolution ovr there at one time. Let us find out what
it was all about.
At the time immediately preced
ing the bloodiest period of the world's history, there were In France
23,000 monks. 60,000 curates, 37,000
nuns, 2,500 monasteries. 1,500 con vents and 60.000 churches.
One-fifth of all the land belonged
to the king, one-fifth to the noblemen, and one-fifth to the church
This land was by far the richest land
in France and the Abbey St. Ger
main ties 1'res aione naa jjuu.uuj
acres. A Struggle for Existence
This three-fifths of the whole
country was, of course, non-taxable
It was a happy state of affairs for the royalty and the clergy. But there were twenty-six millions of
PEOPLE struggling for a mere ex
istence on the barren two-fifths that
remained.
The doctrines of paternalism in
the state were completely trium phant. The theory, reduced to i
formula, ran thus: It is the duty
of the state to teach man what
things to do. It is the duty of the church to teach man what things to believe. A3 for man. it is his duty
to be governed. That is and was the object of his creation. He must receive with unquestioned simplicity and obedience whatever is doled out
to him by the priest, to whom his management, his interests, his destiny in this world are entrusted. All these maxims were adopted by the house of Bourbon, and the French people were asked to forever accept the condition of intellectual and bodily bondage. It is easy to see through the whole scheme. The royalty gives a rich part of the country to the church, which,- in turn, holds the subjects in ignorance and superstition in order that they will do the will of both state and clergy.
And thus the merry farce went on
until the worm turned. Guillotines blood, headless bodies, rivers pol
luted with flesh and bones brought
terror to the hearts of those who
had held the multitudes in slavery
for so long.
Being brought up under Catholic
instruction, the revolutionists nat
urally knew nothing of the higher
intelligence and had to resort to
brute strength and superior numbers against what they had thought was religion. Systems Identical Yes, history repeats. Russia, taught with the same teachings, held in ignorance by the same system. Is now doing what the French did then. What difference does It make whether the church head was in St.Petersburg or Rome the teachings and the system are Identical. No individual or collection of individuals can exist tinder this system that works under the ruise of
1 religion, and sooner or later nation
after nation rebels and asserts its
independence, which it should have
had from the beginning.
At no other epoch in the history
of mankind was the human race
emerging so rapidly from its old con
dition as the period In which pur
forefathers were colonizing in America. It was the age in which tradition suffered and ancient tyrannies
were Btartled from the throne. The lusterless gown that draped the su
perstition and ignorance of the mid
dle ages was ripped asunder by the
sword of knowledge. The emancipation of mankind from the thralldom of the sickening past was fast ap
proaching.
In America at that time artificial
reverence was done away with. Man
would not bow to nor bear the dom
ination of another no better, no wiser
than himself. He was beginning to
realize what our Saviour meant when
He said: "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." It was a new man and a new society
one more free and the other more
generous than the world had yet per mitted to exist.
Monarchy, its vice-besmirched
brain bungling as ever, made an at
tempt to foist its nobility and clergy
upon the founders of the new world
But it reckoned without reason, for
revolution put the bugle to its lips and blew a blast that echoed to the four corners of the earth. When-the
smoke blew away then came the Fourth of July and the signing of THE DECLARATION OF INDE
PENDENCE OF THE STATES OF AMERICA.
This bugle blast has been sounded IF YOU HAVE SOMETHING
by the Kfflghts of the Ku Klux Klan
and independence now comes forth as the white horse of the Apocalypse,
bearing a rider, "shrouded with a
garment white as wool," which shall
overcome the beast of ignorance and
oppression.
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Juries Falter Where Death Penalty Exists
The Spirit of Freedom The spirit of freedom, shot, shell, far-reaching spears, bare fists, the enduring of untold torture, and long suffering were part of the things that gained our liberty; but behind it all was education. We KNEW as much
or more than they did.
Thus was monarchy done away
with forever in the new world; systems of education established as they should have been centuries be
fore; the right given to every individual to worship God as he would, and today we celebrate the famous
Fourth of3uly as the RICHEST AND
MOST POWERFUL NATION IJJ THE
WORLD.
But what about this system that
caused the French revolution, this system that caused Spain . to drop
from the world's greatest power to a mere hollow shell, this system that caused Ireland to turn traitor in the world war, this system that placed images of saints along the road to that living hell of yesterday called Siberia, where one might flog- to death a woman, kiss a wooden toe and be immediately forgiven?
The answer Is easy. They -are throwing their forces into America.
Their clergy must live in splendor
The countries they have ruined are no good to them now. America is
rich. It is the land of promise. But America is EDUCATED. It is hard
for them to work where people are educated, so the line of attack does
not come by the building of prisons
to put people in that do not oeaeve the way they do. They are too far
outnumbered to try their wholesale torture stunts, so there is only one way left from Rome comes the wild cry, "BREAK DOWN AMERICA'S
SYSTEM OF EDUCATION." c-- Tie Bugle Blast
But Rome, like monarchy, did not reckon with the spirit of American Independence; the puppets of the papal octonuiH-tooIs of the dark age
witchery tTe nowgnawing at our nubile schools, but another mighty
blast flym hj bugle has been heard.
The principal argument against
the abolition of the death penalty
for high crimes is that Its retention
discourages crime. Believers in cap
ital punishment can not understand how what they consider a "milder" punishment can decrease capital
crimes.
It is explained by statisticians that
the facts show that capital crimes are less, per thousand population, in
states where there is no death penalty than where the death penalty is provided. The reason seems to be
the revulsion of feeling in juries,
which makes them lenient when they should be strict. In states where
there is no death penalty, the ver
dict of "guilty" comes without the.
feeling on the part of juries that they are accessories to a death, no
matter how legal. Where a penalty
is sure, it seems to act as a greater
deterrent, than where it is extreme,
but not certain.
Two Theories
uNlTEDH It is pointed out that the two
theories of penalty, punishment, on the one hand, and prevention, on the
other, are not reconcilable in fact al
though they have been, in theory, for innumerable years. Whatever Ihe' correct hypothesis may be, the facts show there are more convictions
where there is no capital punishment, and therefore more murderers prevented from again wreaking their private vengeances on society, than in states where capital punishment
exists, and where more murderers fail of conviction.- Certainty of pun- I
ishment, not the punishment itself.
is considered by modern students of
criminology to be the real deterrent.
Hence, it is that those who argue
against the death penalty upon re
ligious and humane grounds con
sider that they also have the better
of the argument when the good of society and the good of the criminal
are considered.
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(Special to The Fiery Cross)
CULVER, Ind., July 1. What is
said to be the largest crowd which
has assembled in Culver for many
years, witnessed the Ku Klux Klan
parade and demonstration held here
last week, when the city was jammed
to witness the procession staged by
the Klansmen. A meeting was held
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