Fiery Cross, Volume 3, Number 52, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 October 1924 — Page 6

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Alien Hordes Slip Into Country Across the Mexican Border Line United States Immigration Patrol Inspectors Kept Busy by Smuggling of Foreigners Texas Jail Filled With Spaniards, Italians, Germans and Russians Waiting for Decision on Cases From Washington Smugglers Extract Exorbitant Sums From Passengers.

(Special to The Fiery Cross) SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Oct. 20. Uncle Sam's immigration patrol inspectors along the Texas border have been exceedingly busy in the last few months. The number of aliens who are trying to slip through the cowlon of officers patroling the American side of the Rio Grande frontier has materially increased since the new immigration law went into effect.

Groat numbers of prisoners from the denies of lieteroKeueous aliens who continue to successfully get licrosK tie I'llitpil Stt :i t ew-t nvieu n i tiwuii'itM v mil" iiiive neeri aitprenenueu by the immigration officers and the Flicriffs department of Webb county in what is known as the Laredo district. The Webb county Jail is filled with j foreigners who have been caught on the American side of the river without the proper identification papers. Few Mexicans Jailed While it is the natural conclusion of many not familiar with the facts that the majority of these violators 01 Un I'nited States immigration laws are Mexicans, on account of the close proximity of Mexico, this proves to be the reverse, as an actual poll of the prisoners in the "Hotel de t'ondren" (Webb cotinty jail) shows that the percentage of Mexicans is very low. A recent census of the Webb county Jail as pertams to these iiuinlnTHnts attested for illegal entry into the I'nited States discloses the fact that 'pain leads all other countries in the number of her citizt nd w ho are desirous of entering our country in numbers exceeding her n-iota, while Jtaly. with a generous con t ri hut ion. comes a close second, Germany. Iluss a and Knglnnd have their representatives who have fallen into lliu toils ef the law. Smuggling a Iliiliie The smuKUiing of aliens across the R.o Grand, river has grown to quite a. business among the criminal element alotifc the border. Small boats are used to rarry the fares across the river in the dad of night, and a strict watch must tie kept along the whole river front to apprehend the law breakers. The navigators of smugding craft do not oeeupy tlie boat with their fares, but wade and swim alongside,! ready at the slightest alarm to dive to places of safety, leaving their pas-j tenners to their own devices. Smuggling is a strictly "pay-ns-J ou-enter" proposition, and the alien! toes not budge upon bis voyage toward the promised land until he has paid the boatman. In case the immigration officials come upon the scene, the smuggler deserts his charges and laves his own bide. Charge High Karen Kxorbitant sums are extracted from these passengers by the boatmen. The smuggler usually takes everything the alien hs and when he in' caught by the border patrol, he beconies a charge who must be eared for until the orders come from Washington for deportation. The rapture, detention and final deportation of the European aliens is an expensive and tedious procedure. These aliens after their apprehension are brought hefore the inspector fh charge of immigration, who submits a full report and evidence in each case to the secretary of commerce, who later orders the alien or aliens released or deported. Meanwhile, he. .. is held in jail several months and enjoys three square meals a day at the expense of the government, and lie gets fairly well fattened and rounded into physical condition before the final decision In his case is forthcoming from Washington. Iluntln- an AnareWlut Many ludicrous situations, bordering on the truly pathetic, bob up serenely every now and then to relieve the monotony of the nightly vigils of Uncle Sam's guardians of the border. During last winter one of the immigration inspectors at Laredo had a tip that a "dangerous, bomb-throwing anarchist from Russia" was attempting to flip through the lines and titer this country and that 'he was prepared to fight to the death anyone who may blork his path." Naturally, all of the Inspectors were on the lookout for this "dangerous character" and were going to take no chances If they encountered him.

A Protecting Wall (By a Staff Correspondent) KANSAS CITY, Mo., Oct. 20 Speaking before the second Imperial Klonvokation of the Klan in Convention Hall here recently, a governor of a southern state had the following to say about Immiftration and education: "Let nie say with frankness and earnestness this organization has no llht to make on the foreigner as a foreigner, but I would build a steel wall, a wall as high as Ilamon. against the adm'sslon of a single one of those southern Kuropeans who never thought or spoke a language of democracy in their lives. "I would go further. 1 would place not only all, every one of them who come here In the future, hut every one of these of recent vears about whom there Is any doubt as to their loyalty, 1 would place them on probation. I would let them for a term of one year or three years, or Ave years, go to school in the school of democracy, and In the meantime 1 would lot them report monthly or quarterly to some postmaster or some other federal officer of this land, and let fhem place on them the yardstick of real Americanism, and if at the end of that reasonable time they did not speak our language anfl did ro t qualify ai: real Americans I would, if necssary, send them IxiCl; across the ocean." There in no land like my land beneath the shining: sun. There Is no flag like my flag in all the world. One land, one tongue, one people, and one flag, loyal, true. And no red shall wave over my fair land, Without the white and blue. There is grandeur In my land's mountains, There Is contentment In her vales; There Is wealth In her broad prairies, And there's freedom In her gales. In mv land all men are equal. And her flag proclaims It, too. And no. red shall wave over that fa'r land. Without the white and blue. 'I hi n- is majesty In Old dory; There Is hope in each s'rlpe and star; It heralds freedom and liberty To nations near and far. Ami, unsullied, triumphant, glorified,. It floats anew, and, by the Kternal God, No red shall wave o'er my fair land Without the white and blue.

Following' tills advance information, and while the nerves of the immigration inspectors were at highest tens;. :i. one of the patrol, to-

tlicr with a fellow officer, while on their nightly watch, obmrved the approach of a tall figure wearing a l)iK ! fur cap. a set of flowing whiskers and ! moving with an iincannv stride The ! stranger had just emerged from a mV - nB L V,nE , rtVir d k the direction of San Antonio. Only a Salesman Having stepped aside as the figure approached, the patrol inspector nowvery cautiously followed the figure, fearing lest lie might "hand him a bomb" if he was the Russian bombthrower, unless he was "covered" before he had a chance. At the psychological moment, the patrol inspector rammed a revolver into the ribs of the figure and ordered him to throw up his hands. The order was quickly obeyed and a sedate and calm-looking old man looked into, the inspector's eyes. Holding his hands above his head the stranger remarked: "Dot's all right, mein f rendt-rdoii't bo afraid of me; don't shake so." The "TJahgerous" one proved to be none other than a Jewish peddler, who had succeeded in getting safely across the river and was trying to si,, through the lines. Ignorance Betrays Them These unhappy travelers in this strange land tumble Into all kinds of difficulties from which they can not extricate themselves and invariably betray themselves Into the very toils of the law. Their abject Ignorance In many Instances may be held responsible for the many plights into which they place themselves, for not knowing the laws, and not comprehending those laws that are explained to them, they do some act that incriminates or betrays them at the psychological moment when a little ordinary intelligence would prove their very savior under the circumstances. Kven with the close watch that is kept by the immigration officials and the county officers along the border, thousands of aliens get by the line every year and enter this country. Usually the class of people who come into this country In this manner are very undesirable and should be the very ones who are kept out. Coming into the United States In the way they do, they see at first hand the breaking of the laws they are supposed to obey. The majority of them turn to a life of crime after this first start. The more intelligent ones turn about at a later time and help their fellow countrymen to enter the country, and thus Increase the undesirable population. IS THE KLAN DEAD? The report of H. K. Ramsey. Imperial Kllgrapp, or secretary, of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. read and adopted at the Imperial Klonvokation at Kansas City, shows interesting percentages on the growth of Klan membership since the 1922 meeting of the Klan's legislative body. In the last twenty-two montha there has been an increase of 104 ler cent In the number of chartered Klana la the United States, hla report allowed. In that same period, membership in chartered Klans has Increased 409 per cent. It l the duty of the Kltgrapp's department to look after the K-Duo, or second degree, of Klankraft. At the opening of the afternoon session Wednesday. Dr. Hiram W. Evans, Imperial Wizard, went into some detail In a talk on the financial condition of the national organization, lie elaborated on the statement made In his morning address, that the finances of the Klan were today in better condition than ever. Wlll AM) MONEY Follette is a spell-binder, i campaign-fund finder. 1j not ; but

PATRIOTIC JOURNAL POINTS OUT MENACE OF PAPIST SCHOOLS Official Organ of Sons of America Warns Protestants Against Parochialism

Predict Disunion of T'nited States by Efforts of Catholic Educators Decries Different Texts ( Special to The Fiery Cross) PHTI ADELl'HIA. Oct. 20. Americanization of education for all the children in the United States is demanded by The Camp News. a I monthly Journal devoted to the inJ terests of the Patriotic Sons of ; America, which strikes an effective I blow at the Roman Catholic narocniaiucs In its current Issue. Exlrac,s from its editorial on Romanist schools follow: I "The aDnrehension with whieh the parochial school system is regarded by many millions of Americans of the older stock does not arise from religious prejudice. The attachment to the principle of public education resents the founding of a policy in conflict with that principle. The law of self-preservation was expressed! very clearly by U. S. c.r.mt when he uttered these memorable words: " 'If a sect sets up its laws as bind ing above the laws of the state, this claim must be resisted and suppressed at whatever cost.' Church to Dlniue "As an exhibition in legislative obstruction, the fertility of resource with which the Catholic church- has defeated all efforts to establish a federal department of education is unexampled in our history. The church has a few allies on constitutional grounds such as 'Hard-Boiled' Butler of Columbia. But the organized Catholic societies and the hierarchy have for the past six yean smothered this beneficent federal legislation. The parochial school system, itself sheltered by law, demands that the laws neglect the educational system of the nation. "The church not only encroaches upon the prerogatives of the government, but challenges the rights of the state. 'We will not stand politicians meddling in our .schools" declared Cardinal Daugherty. in reference to the Sterling-Reed Bill. 'What right has the government to make educational standards,' asks Father Ryan, secretary of the Catholic Welfare Conference The Catholic press op poses. a federal educational policy hecause It Ms a subsidy of non-Catholiic education.' Subsidised Education. "The paramount precedence of public education as a national policy is preserved in a panegyric which Is both history and patriotism, and an answer to the adversaries of federal education, because It Is a tradition which Is still a doctrine. One of the earliest laws enacted by the Puritans was that every township, as soon as it had Increased to fifty houses. should appoint one persoTTto teach all of the children to read and write, and that every township of a hundred houses should set up a grammar school. Nor is this doctrine confined to New England. A number of acts have ben passed by congress at different times, appropriating sums of money to the extension of the educational system of the country all of which tend to show that the government 'subsidized' education as complacently as It subsidizes the federal judiciary. "The parochial school is itself unknown to the constitution. Had the framers of the constitution foreshadowed the Invasion of public education by a private corporation, they would doubtless have Incorporated Madison's suggestion that - federal control be explicitly imposed in separate articles. "The parochial school entered our system as a compromise huddled up to make a false peace. Our machinery was equipped to make Americans. The parochial school was foisted upon the perplexed public for the purpose of keeping a sect Catholic. Parochialism Outlined "Religious education has novv become a fulcrum for the seizure of moral and political hegemony in the nation. The United States is now the only country which delegates to the hierarchy the functions of education. Great Britain, which admitted the church topartnershlp in the national schools of Ireland, long since abandoned the attempt to maintain secular authority. Other Catholic countries, however, have torn to pieces the system of ecclesiastical education. noteworthy France, Portugal and Mexico, sHiere Carranza Is reported to have said 'It sharpened the fangs of ignorance.' "The parochial school is Itself a flaunting symbol of religious Intolerance. It rejects emphatically and finally all connection with a native Institution. It perpetuates a foreign culture and derogates American culture as inferior. It Is a challenge to popular sovereignty, resisting American tradition, and nourishing inimical allegiance by reviving the outworn doctrine of the church above the state. Difference fn Texts "There is a vast difference in the text matter contained In the books for the parochial schools and those used in the public schools, which is easily noticeable when the text books of the two systems aro compared. The parochial school child is taught that Commodore Barry is the 'Father of the American Navy.' The child In the public school is taught otherwise. The parochial text hook states that the massacre of St. Bartholomew was the extirpation of one political party by another. The public school histories state that this event was a massacre of Protestants by Catholics. The parochial text book states that the Ulster massacre of 1641 never happened, but was a Protestant concoction. The public school histories describe the Ulster massacre of Protestants by Catholics. How Is it pos sible to ever reconcile in harmony two such cultures In the same com munityT As every government of great peoples now recognizes and practices Lhe duty of educating children In government schools, what-becomes of the Catholic argument that the parents have a right to educate their children In their own way? There Is civil and religious discrimination when one religious sect enJoys a special privilege. It Is not rel'Klous liberty when one sect dictates legislation and obstructs lawmakers

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Aurora's American Float

A feature of the recent Farmers' Fair parade at Aurora, Ind.. was a Ku Klux Klan float, which is pictured above. The .mayor of Aurora had forbidden the Klan to parade, but he said nothing about Protestant American floats. This picture was made in front of the First Baptist church.

The Way the Romans Rule Here is n sample of Roman Catholic polillcnl rule in n community In Indiann, where the Roman corporation bus n toehold which it believes Is ironclad, 'the mayor of boogmitre, a Roman Catholic, nided. nrged nnd reinforced by n number of Roman Catholic priests, ordered the Democratic candidates In Martin county to report sit the mayor's office. They came, as wood little agents of the Roman corporation do. The speaker, a Roman Catholic, without beating about the bush, announced tlint those assembled proposed to demand a pledge from the candidates. If that pledge wax made, then those assembled promised to' deliver the Roman Catholic vote of thnt county to the candidatex. If the candidates refused to sign the pledge, then those assembled promised to defeat them at the polls. One free American was among the candidates called. He wns Russell Marshall, candidate for surveyor. He refused to sign and withdrew from the ticket. Here Is the pledge nnd the candidates who signed it i We. the undersigned, candidates on the Democratic ticket for the respective offices designated beneath our names, having been repeatedly asked by the electorate of Martin county to define our attitude in regard to the Ku Klux Klan. and as lo tt belnj? members of said Klan. respectively wish to siy in response to this Inquiry, end for the information of nil electors: That we believe in and elect to live umtfr nnd ahiile by the constitutions and the laws of both our nation and state, and since these fundamental laws guarantee religious liberty, with the ripht to worship our God aeccrdinic to the dictates of each separate individual's conscience, and since the national constitution gives to every one, regardless .of birthplace, color or previous condition of servitude, vvhc complies with the lav.s enncted under said constitution, equal citizenship with every other citizen. I could not subscribe to and become a member of sahl Klan organization. I now declare that I am not, and at no time have I ever been a member of said organization. I now and hereby challenge my opponent to declare by publication, whether or not he is now. or ever has been a member of si: id organization known as the Ku Klux- Klan,. and whether or not he believes Pi saiil organization, and endorses the same, as an institution for good in this nation. We make ibis declaration and challenge our opponents to do likewise, in order that l he electorate of this county may know the attitude ami belief of all in-i':. tea to be voted for at said election. Respectfully submitted. CIAY IT. FRANKLIN. Democratic Candidate for c'ountv Auditor WILLIAM PrSTIN, Democratic Candidate for C'ountv Treasurer MILDRED HRISCOE MITCHELL. Democratic Candidate, for County Recorder OROVER C. HAWKINS, Democratic Candidate for County Sheriff - " SAMUEL S. SUEIIPICK. Democratic Candidate for County Commissioner. WILI.ARD GliORGK, Democratic Candidate for County Commissioner.

'LIBERTY" RIDES AT HEAD OF PROCESSION HATTIESBURfi. Miss., Oct. 20 Miss Elizabeth Hawking as "Liberty" led the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan of Hattiesburg, assis ed by representatives from Poplarvllle, Sumrall, Collins. New Augusta, and Wiggins, in a parade through the streets of the city recently. TO INITIATE CLASS BOONE VILLE, Ark. The K-Uno degree team of Little Rock Klan No. 1 Is slated to put on the work of the first degree for a large class of applicants in this city October 25. in its own Interest, and onposes the Interest of the public. Parochialism Exposed "In times of foreign war w have hitherto effected a conjunction of all sects and races to insure the common safety. With hostile traditions within, sooner or later, In peril, we shall be forced to make a bargain. Sooner or later, a race or a sect will demand domination as the price of co-operation. "Parochialism is a refusal to be intelligently naturalized. Reverence is the most vital quality of all education. This reverence is the exalted Idealism which supports public education. Itself, it i s the essence of all religion 'a height to which mankind is fated to attain, and from which, having once attained It, our race can never retrograde.' Having once drank from this "fountain. Americans, to the remotest generation, can not yield the springs of knowledge to the keeping of any who would contaminate the pool. Ft. C. ITIntorlana "A disunited school will end In a disunited States. No power within the borders of the nation is more vigorously working towards hyphenism than the parochial school. The Knights of Columbus, with- a mem bership largely educated in parochial schools, is compiling a . 'Catholic History of the I'nited States,' because 'ProteBtant historians have suppressed the factB.' "Presumably all science and scholarship are 'Protestant.' for there has been published also a 'Catholic Encyclopedia.' Those who have compared the Catholic with the secular encyclopedia will doubt the contribution of a "Catholic History' to the sum of historical truth, however, great Its accentuation to discord. Doubtless It will explain that the Irish brigade won all our wars, firing the first and last shots. It will mention the pledge of loyalty by the church to President Wilson by Card'nal Gibbons! Will it explain the loyalty of no- other church was doubted? Hibernian Threat "President Ragary, speaking to an A, O. H. convention in 1914, declared that 'unless anti-Catholic bigotry subsided we will turn this country Into a hell." The same enormous crowds that hailed DeValera hissed President Wilson. "The Catholic press complains that 'there ought to be twenty senators and ninety congressmen to rightfully represent the Catholics of the country.' Thus we see that the parochial shool fosters the conviction that Catholics have rights beyond the rights of common citizens. Fiftyfifty Americanism rule by racial blocB the Balkanization of the Continent menace the immediate future. Events are rushing to a crisis. The important question of the hour is, 'What disposition will Americans make of it?' H

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ARKANSAS NOMINEES GET QUECTIONNAIRE Roman Catholics Try to Smoke Out Opinions on Protestant Organization (By a Staff Correspondent) BOONEVILLE. Ark.. October 20. There was an organized effort on the part of a number of the Roman Catholic citizens of Logan county to smoke out nominees friendly to the Klan in the state election last week. The Roman Catholics are strong in this community, but they reckoned without their host when they , made an attack on the Protestant candidates for office. Each of the nominees received a communication purporting to have come from a group of Roman Catholic citizens demanding that they should sign a verified statement that he was not and had not been since March 1, 1924, nor would become a member ot the organization known as the Ku Klux Klan. ELECT SHERIFF JLIJGE HARRISON. Ark., Oct. 20. The Klan did not attempt to overturn things politically in Boone county at the general state election last week. It did, however, let the alien world know that it possesses a power that must be reckoned with. Bob Shaddox, the present sheriff, who Is a RepubMcan, was reputed to have the endorsement of Klansrnen for the office of county Judge. He defeated the Democratic nominee. M. O. Penix. who was a candidate for re-elec'ion. ENTER FLOAT AT FAIR WYNNE, Ark., Oct. 21. One of the features of the parade at the fifth annual cross county fair was a beautiful float-entered by the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. A replica of the little red school house appeared on the float with a guard of Klansrnen and Klanswomcn in full regalia. LET THE FIERY CROSS BE BURNING Sons by Henry A. Grady, Grand Dragon, Realm of North - Carolina Dedicated to the Knights of the Kn Klnx Klan (TUNE: Let the Lower Lights Be Burning) On the hill tops, on the mountain, Brightly gleams our mystic sign, Calling Klansrnen to the fountain Filled with drops of love divine. Let the Fiery Cross be burning, Spread Its beams o'er land and sea; Satan's wiles forever spurning. Bringing Christ to you and me. Serried ranks in stainless armor. Kneel before that flaming tree. Pledging life and wealth and honor, All for Christ and chivalry. Side by side, always Non Silba. Songs of praise and promise sing, Hand in hand, always Ped Anthar, All for Christ, the Klansman's King. Clasp the Cross, Oh, Klansman peerless, Pledge to God thy strength anew. Stand ye forth erect and fearless. Strike for home and kindred true. Rally 'round the sacred altar. Purged of sin and baseless far, Ne'er shall Kniffht in nrn'or falter. Nor shall cravetf enter here.

FLORIDA MINISTER PRAISES RLANSMEN AS AMERICAN BODY West Palm Beach Preacher Says Organization Justifies Its Existence

Declares Order Is Founded on B:!ikand I'. S. Fiatr Its Symbol Is Burning Cross (Special to The Fiery Cross) . WKST PALM HEACH. Kla., tut. 13 The i'.-.liu Ite-Hch Post cuiries the following account of the reTRious scrvic s pa rt ic ; ;'t ted in by Albert Sydney .lohiison Klan N'o r.n i,f ihi city: "In the eerie truiw of a cross on t!ie altar, eighty-two Klansrnen in full regalia entered the Congregationnl church last night ami look ac tive part in t.ic worship with an assembly that overflowed th auditorium. Tin y stood with left arms extended during the invocation an.! benediction, passed the collection baskets about and INtened attentively to a sermon by the Urv. Arthur ; Lyons, who, taking the cross for his theme, read praise for the Klan as an organization of Protestantism and America iv sm from a report of New .lersey clergymen. At the end. with the congrega! ion sinking the hymn 'When 1 Survey the Wondrous Cross.' the white robed Klansrnen Mod slowly from the edifice-. ot I'lnoutib Se:its "Previously invited to the ceremony, the Klansinen marched in a body through the downtown district, attracting much attention from the churchgoers and pleasure-seekers of the early evening. The greater part of the left center section of the church which had been reserved for them proved too small and nnny too'; seats among the-churchgoers in the front pews. "After the robed visitors Had been seated and preliminary services ended, ail lights were switched off. leaving only the fair.t green and red lights of the cross and invisible footlights to cast an impressive effect. "The laudatory mention ; the Klan, with which the Rev. Lyons prefaced his sermon, was quoted from a report which was rendered from an investigation of New Jersey clergymen last year. Turning toward the Klansrnen he said: "'In Justice to this public demonj stration of your order I wish to preI sent a few facts selected from an unbiased investigation: First, the K'an is an organization of native white. Protestant, Gentile American citizens. It justifies its existence as necessary to give voice and protection to the principles for which it stands. Purpose 1 Twofold " 'It piiruciic i tvtofo'rt. II Ik Christian, brlitK founded on the twelfth chanter of Roninnsi Christ Is Its Standard of t'hrcteri the Bible In Its Text Book! Its motto la "Xot for Self, but for Others j It attacks no mnn'a rrllalon but In pre-eminently Protectant in its Hviupalhlrs and support. 4 'It Is American. It civic symbol Is the American flnar. It believes most heartily in the Constitution of the I'nited .States and all Its amendments and believes in the enforcement of the laws. It believe, moreover. In a ChrNtlnn state, but for both church nnd state it believes that It Is better to have church and state seuarate. For the purpose or realizing; and supporting this Christian stnte. It believes that the 1,000,000 Protestant voters should be oreanixed. Its symbol Is the cross and the burning cross slauinVs the oCferinz of the members of the Klan In the defense ot the principles for which they stand.' "Ctiliiing the cross symbol, the pastor then held up the cross as a revelation of the sinful heart of man and of the Divinity's love for the world. "Singing by a quartet and vocal and violin solos added to the effective program. The instance is the second known In which the Klan has bodily attended church here. Early In the summer a similar service wis held at the Baptist church." CANADIAN NEWSPAPER INDORSES PRINCIPLES TORONTO. Canada, Oct. 20. The famous newspaper advocate of Orange and Protestant principles, the Sentinel, publishes a glowing tribute on the Ku Klux Klan. Tt appears under the caption "The Klan Has a Christian Program." It says: "One strong point in favor of the Ku Klux Klan organization in the United States is that it Is not an atheistic movement. The first plank in its platform 13 a positive declaration in favor of "the tenets of the Christian reiiglon.' " ROAMI.V IOMAS Put a Roman in the schools and they'll go roamin'.

Rome or America (By a Staff Correspondent) KANSAS CITY, Mo., Oct. 20. It hag been only a few days since the governor of a southern state, speaking in this city, said: "I suggest that we look to that stream of poison that is being injected into our national life through the admission of that lower type of foreigners that have been admitted into our land in the years that have gone by. "This is no n3rrcw or restricted suggestion that I am making to you. In the first place, 1 want to say lhat this does not mean, as our enemies would have it, that lhe Klan is making a fight upon the Roman Catholic church or the Roman Catholic creed or the Roman Catholic religion. As a good Baptist and, as 1 trust, a good American, I would shed every drop of blood In my body In fighting any man who would place even a feather's weight In the way of a Roman Catholic girl who on the Sabbath morning walked out of a Roman Catholic home to go to a Roman Catholic church to worship in tho Roman Catholic Sunday school, following the Roman Catholic creed which she learned as the right creed from a Roman Catholic mother. 'But tt Is a far different thing, an Infinitely different thlncr, wkea a Roman Catholic secretary of a sympathetic President an manipulate the chicanery of polities tbat he will place In the center of every national war camp n Roman Catholic ehnrrh ami drive outside of the border of that ramp, on the back atreeta, in the bach: yard, on Ike nlley-waya, every Preabyterian, every Methodist, every Baptist mil every other Protectant church. It la n far different thing when a Sana; of Roman Catholic prleatn take charge of the national convention of a great political party, and give orders to that party that it must nominate a Roman CathU . for President! that it shall not nominate a Jratetant for the Presidency of the United State. "It Is a far different thing, fellow Klansrnen, .for the Roman Catholic church, organised within Its own lrmlta. Its orn borders; a society oathbound, secret, that votes like one man at the behest of a foreign leader, and then say that we will drtve out of America any number of Protestants who see fit to establish for. themselves a secret and oathbound organization that may, if they will, voteallke."

Friday, October 24, 1924

Wisconsin Radicalism LaFollette W. G. Sibley in The Chicago Journal of Commerce Wisconsin's population is 2,632,06". Of this number 4G0,12v are foreign born 151.250 from Germany, 50,558 rom Poland and 21,447 from Russia, being the largest groups. Of the native whites, those of foreign pn rentage. aurnbT 735,(151; those foreign born and born of foreign parentage total 1,T6,179 nearly ona-half of the state's population. Oi all these groups the fierman lias been most influential. It began in 1818, when freedom-seeking younjr Germans came to America in great numbers and demonstrated admirable citizenship later in many states and in both peace and war. The descendants of the '48ers in Wisconsin probably number enough to throw tile majority of the population into direct foreign descent from tlie fourth generation, with Germnn influences far more powerful than all others of foreign origin. These facts explain some things which surprise people who speak of Wisconsin as "a radical state" because of I,a Follette's hold upon it. That LaFollette is radical dangerously so needs no argument. His proposal to put tlie inalienable rights of the people, those rights which neither Congress nor the courts, nor any executive of nation, state or city, may deny the people, at. the mercy' of Congress aione, puts him in the list of dangerous enemies of our form of government, which he now seeks to revolutionize. But Wisconsin, w'th all the raging against the established order of tilings which has come out of the mouth of LaFollette and his Socialist allies, remains, so far as its own fundamental government is concerned, far more conservative than many other states both west and east. It still clings to its state constitution of 1848, while new constitutions or amendments carrying socialistic promises for the initiative, referendum and other radical changes from representative government, have been adopted by so stable a state as Ohio for instance. There has been no such drastic regulation of public utilities in Wisconsin as prevails in Xew York. The Wisconsin legislature bis never debated a public ownership bill, and its industr'al code strikingly resembles that of conservative Massachusetts. How has it happened during a quarter of a century, under the political leadership of LaFollette, spouting for the nationalizing of railroads, for the destruction of the infliienr-A of capital, and lately for nutting the IV.ited State's Supreme Court and the ent're judiciary under subjection to Congress and Its passions, that none of the radical, socialistic charges he has advocated for the United States have been adopted by Wisconsin, the state he has controlled? When h wns governor he could have :-orced their adoption but he did not. Why? Because the backbone of bis support has been Gerrr-an. either by birth or descent. That kept him liberal as regards beer and wine, and made him fearful of radical measures in Wisconsin. He has wanted other states to test his theories first. But give him national power that would make him politically Independent of Wisconsin's German vote and he would repudiate lhat conservative Influence. His whole career Justifies this conclusion. It may well be that LaFollette's undoing shall come from his direct attack on the constitution, which if successful would give Congress authority to modify or destroy our present principles of government, which may now be done only by amend'nr the constitution by action of state legislatures. The German vote, In Wisconsin as eTsewhere, is not radical. The German influence has kept LaFollette from applying his radical theories to Wisconsin. Germans are industrious-and have an abiding trust in the Institutions of American liberty. Wisconsin has been polling only about tO per cent of her vote for years. A full vote might bring a stunning rebuke to her radical senator. KLANSMEN'S SINGING DRAWS CHURCH PEOPLE PUCKERS. Ky.. Oct. 20. The Woodford and Franklin county Klana held their first ceremonial In this vicinity recently and burned a large cross while a large class took the obligations. A church nearby was holding an ice cream social and when the KlanBmen started to sing "America' the people came from the church and listened to an address on the principles, alms and ideals of the Klan. jThey expressed themselves as being in sympathy with these principles.