Fiery Cross, Volume 4, Number 10, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 January 1925 — Page 8

THE FIERY CROSS Friday, January 2, 1925 an mm m UVJ messes; tsesess tssssss iSSSSSS 58SS8SS ILLINOIS ROMANISM BOLDLY LIFTS ITS HEAD

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CHURCHGOERS ARE BACKING NILES MAYOR

MIMSTKK 1IKADS COMMITTEE FOR (OM'ERECi: WITH THE GOVERNOR

AMERICA NIS MS ' The Noblest Motive Is the Public Good ' Virgil

Indignation ItHe Sheriff Thomas

Begins Making Arrests Prisoners Are Released on Bond . (By u Staff Correspondent) NILKS, O., Dec. 29. Petitions, protesting against the recommendation by the crand Jury that Mayor

II. V. KlHtlcr be removed from office, i are being circulated by the citizens j of Xiles. Indignation which was ' rile when the report of the grand Jury iirat became public has not abated. A committee, composed of j a local minister and other citizens, I

1h to call on Governor Donahey to protest utalnst any action contemplated against Mayor Kistlcr. Tin ri-iomiiiuiul.iti.jn that Mayor Kinder bo ri-ivmvi d was mode by the rriiinj I Jury which Investigated the NllcsTio'H on November l, when tho KniKhts of i ho Flaming Circle, a ltoIn.ui ( iitholli- orsai.lz.i:!., i, planned tii Ktup. arcurdiug to tho repurt of the Cram! Jury, tt parade scheduled by the Knlj.;lits of tha Ku Klux Klan. Arrewla Ile.'iig MaCe (Mm hundred and four indictments w-r iiiurncd and Shcrlft J. E. Thoin.is beami making arrests last Tuesday. Sheriff Thomas, who was eomiii.-tii! d by the grand Jury for his part in thu affair, p Treated deputies appointed by Mayor Kistlcr on tho day of the uprising of the Knights of tho Flaming Circle. Tho county officer Is known to be friendly with ninny members of the Knights of the Klnmlng Circle. Mayor Kistler did everything In his power, areording to the citizens here, to stop the riot precipitated by the Roman organization and asked Governor Donahey for troops. The grand Jury's recommendation that he be ounted from office brought about much Indignation from Niles residents. This recommendation and the commendation of Sheriff Thomas, coupled with the fact that Prosecuting Attorney Hurgcss had declared thrt be 'ntenle-i "in run. the Klan out of Trumbull County," has "put a bud taste In the mouth of Niles," as one prominent business man remarked today.

hnrrh Worker Tlusj Church workers are ta-kln the lead In the fifcht to uphold Mayor Klstler and are busy seeking signatures for the petitions now being circulated. This Is nt n hard task, as all are eager to sign. Ail those persons arrested, to date have been released on ball.

(By John Eight-Point) THE spiritual inheritance which an American child has a right to expect from his parents should include not only intellectual training and intellectual desires, but also racial, national and family traditions, customs and beliefs. These customs form a "setting," as one might say, for his morality they are the background on which the moral rules stand out vividly and, at the same time, they invest his ethics with a certain graeiousness and beauty which can not be imparted by books or learne d from the rude contacts of life. These social faiths, understandings and usages render the moral life of the family attractive and they constitute a kind of Klannish safeguard and strength during the child's, years of absorption and development.

ROME REVEALS

ITS ATTITUDE TO MATRIMONY

OFFICIAL OF CALIFORNIA PAR

ISH MAKES A STATEMENT

ORDER PAID TRIBUTE BY MAN NOT MEMBER

Protestant Organization Is Defended Attacks Stand of Jersey Editor

TirNTKHnov COUNTY. N. J., Pec. 29. A splendid defense of the Klan iip.earid m the Hunterdon County Democrat under a recent date. It whs written by Clayton H. Stain3, of Frcnchtown, N. J., who states he Is not a Klansman. He wrltos to the

editor of the Democrat as fol'owg: "I wailed witli anxiety your outburt at th" Kl;n pnrade, for after eelng your recent editorial denouncing that order, I knew your 4in-Amer-Ican tongue could not hold still. While I am not a Klansman, I am heartily In sympathy with any movement for tho betterment of the old United States of America. I am affiliated with two organizations, the P. O. S. of A. and the I. O. O. F whose principles are almost Identical with the princip es of the Klan as I understand them. You have as yet to prove any un-American act which has been committed by Klansmen."

These important facts, well understood by sociologists, furnish one reason for the Klan's insistence upon the proper education of the child an education that has not only to do with formal intellectual teaching, but which reaches hack into the

common past of race,' nation, and family, and enriches imported knowledge by a rare spiritual gift, which means infinitely great things to the noble youth of an exalted line. Tho moral heritage of each generation, declares the Klan, is the true basis of American progress. The son must be equipped with the best morals and manners of his parents, or he retrogrades, starting life on a lower plane than his parents. If it were not for this spiritual heredity in America, each generation would have to start at a lower station than the preceding generation, and soon the decay of the family, race and country would become apparent. In a few generations there would be no moral progress, because moral progress depends on moral heredity as it works through the family. And from this dread danger the Klan is patiently and insistently striving to turn the American parent, urging him to better efforts in educating the young and nobler struggles toward tho spiritualization and nationalization of growing America. Platonic lore in lite days of Plato was a better thlngr nnd more successful than It Is in modern America, A California banker tried It and Is dead now. Other Americans have tried It nnd are reduced In purse and morals. Good old fashioned American love and morals are still best for the people. Sickly sentiment In love leads to Inst and marital infidelity. Europe has wished upon us nothing: more fiendish than looseness in morals. Sovietlsm in England Great Britain has notified Russia that she will not recommend to parliament the treaties which the MacDouald government negotiated. At the same moment the foreign secretary has declared the Zinovieff letters genuine. These soviet-made letters urged communists to start a revolution in England, and are only one instance of the wide propaganda carried on by Russian bolshevism. There will not be much sentiment for tho "poor downtrodden Soviets" in conservative, nationalistic England. There should not be any sentiment at all for them in America. THE ROMAN CATHOLIC DOES NOT "HATE AMERICA," BUT HE "LOVES ROME MORE." A ClearerJFIsion Interest of the public in general and of the Boll peace organization, in particular, is turned towards reconvening congress and the foreign relations committee. Hfre the trail abruptly ends, ita future outcome problematic. A ranking committeeman of one political party disavows any intention of taking the initiative in that matter, and the new chairman of the foreign relations committee declares there will be no action on the League of Nations this session. Content with this proposed postponement of the evil day, the American people wait: and while they wait the Bok peace organization will conduct a campaign of education on the League of Nations. Meanwhile the League is doing some education on its own account. In the light of these revelations as time passes, the whole world's vision will becomo clearer. A world emerging from the abysmal blackness of a terrible

LIBERALITY, CHOKES

In a Line or Two

No Civil Marriage Since 1908

Talld, Franciscan Says Purity of Home Involved

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catastrophe was in no condition to see clearly or to judge dispassionately. Then, drunk with woe from spilled human blood and sick with the memory of its recent orgy, that -which appeared as a glorious heralder of a new day when war should not be, now Is seen to bear earmarks of a chimerical nuisance. As the light of vision permeates the body politic many of the League's former advocates are changing, front. America, with sanity restored, can be relied on to clothe herself with sober, Intelligent reflection. Many Klansmen will work and pray for a policy of nationalization rather than one of International meddling.

WHATEVER STIFLES KLAN GROWTH.

The Protestant religion, pure and undefiled, has Its name written across the front door of every Klansman's home. THE MORE FAITH MEN HAVE IN KLANKRAFT THE FARTHER AWAY THEY . WILL STAY FROM

Not the natural gifts but honest diligence makes for distinction in Klan life. Formidable The economic panic-monger is as formidable as a machine gun battalion. He sees everything in this broad, good land of ours a spectre of dire shortage and hideous want. The shortage may be corn or coal or gasoline or sugar. Whatever mood Axes upon his mind squeezes the squawk out of him. And this pessimism is bad for the mass consciousness, though It may mean nothing more dangerous in the long run than a bunch of ghosts in a graveyard or Al Smith's plans to Catholicize America. The steady and conservative end of the nation keep? the engines forging ahead in spite of the trouble-howlers and the pessimists. Already those who shrieked calamity to all sorts of business this winter are changing the key of their symphony. There is nothing ahead of the nation from the standpoint of economics that we need fear. All wo have to do as a nation just now is to keep Klannlshly free, clean, and true, build a few hundred more airships, and keep our powder dry. The debt that the country owes to the Klan for Its service and its sacrifice can only be paid by good citizenship on the part of all. Americanism Is the straight and narrow way that leads to the cancellation of that debt. NATION, STATE, CITIZEN A GLORIOUS TRINITY OF AMERICAN WORDS, EACH DEAR TO THE OTHER, AND THE FATE OF ALL INDISSOLUBLY UNITED, IN THE KLANNISH HEART, AS ONE. filwrk fo KJan should be done In a Christian spirit, if yon hope to make your power in your community as wholesome and helpful as your cause is righteous and Just E3IS,N0 WAY T0 KEEP JUNIOR KLANSMEN GOOD THAT WORKS AS WELL AS "SHOWING THEM BY EXAMPLE." BttUW

Boston public work scorns to be honeycombed with Roman Catholicism. Tt was different in the days of the Boston tea party.

(Special to The Fiery Cross) SACRAMENTO, Cal., Dec. 29.

Not the least of the crimes that Roman Catholicism calls a special virtue is the attitude of the Roman church toward the Protestant marriage ceremony or, indeed, toward any marriage ceremony pronounced by ministers outside the Roman Catholic church or by civil authorities. Roman Catholics in'the United States are not permitted to be married outside of their church even by

ieganycauthonzed officials, and if they are, the marriage is held to be illegal by the Romish church. The children resulting from such a union are held to ba illegitimate. According to popish ideas the whole Christian world outside of the church of

Rome is now living in open adultery.

.these facts are brouerht out rtiai-K-

in a bulletin just Issued by J. Hard-

ins Eisner, s. J., of the St. Francis

parish here. A quotation from this

bulletin follows: "Some vears ago, that Is, before Easter of 1908, Catholics could be validly married In the United States, with the exception of a very few places, by a magistrate, a city clerk, or by a Protestant minister. It was sinful to have a civil officer perform the ceremony; to have a Protestant minister perform It was not only Binful, but the Catholic married by him was excommunicated. Nevertheless the church recognized such marriages to be valid. "Such marriages are no longer valid. It may bo stated that as a general rule since April 19, 1908, no marriage in which one or both of the parties are Latin Catholics, or have been baptized in the Latin church, Is valid unless a priest asks and receive from both bride and groom the marriage promises. "Nor will any chance priest suffice. For valid matrimony this priest must be either the pastor of the parish where the marriage Is performed, or the bishop of the diocese in which it Is performed, or a priest delegated to perform the marriage either by the pastor of- the parish where it takes place or the bishop of the dio

cese In which the parish la situated. In addition there must ba present two witnesses. "The church holds that every contract of marriage, made by Christians, la at the same time a saorament; that In the case of Christian marriage the contract and the sacra

ment are one and the same thing; so that If there Is no Bacrament, there la no valid contract; and conversely, if there is no valid contract, there Is no sacrament, it should be carefully noted, however, that this doctrlno applies only to Christian marriage and not to marriage between non-Chrlstlar.s." It is not necessary to point out to Protestants that this monstrous Insult Is aimed at tha pure fatherhood and motherhood of this country,

The Protestant girl who marries a Roman Catholic man to reform him Is a noble example of wasted effort. The reason some men - can't see Americanism Is because their "sentimentality" will not let them. . One of the first privileges of every American is the right to live at peace with his neighbors and the world.

Fear may influence an antl-Klans-man, but it can not change his character. You will not be a good American when you die unless you get more

than halfway there while you live. The cross a Klan enemy picks out for himself is always heavy. All the Klan asks Is the privilege of doing Its best for America. The road to the Klan Is paved with sacred promises. Klannlshness may not take us to heaven, but antl-Klannlshness has x chance to keep us out.

FORCES TOWN TO TAKE NEW PAPIST NAME

AREA BECOMES MTJNDELEES, HONORING WEARER OF RED HAT

Cardinal, Enthroned at Chicago, Is Godfather of Unwilling Little Tillage

There Isn't much Americanism about the man who Is alway3 talking about what great things he would do if he had an Englishman's opportunity.

FIGHT BEING WAGED

AGAMTSMUGGLERS Texas Authorities Renew Efforts to Stamp Out Most Vicious Practices

ORDER GIVES AID TO NEEDY NEGRO FAMILY

PAPOCHTAL CHILDREN HEAD SCHOOL PARAD1

New Jersey Protestants Donate Furniture and Food Provisions

Protestant Boys and Girls Are Placed Behind Roman Institution Pupils

SHAWANO, Wis., Dec. it. Rom In mtoiniitlnK to make good Ita claim that this -land belongs to her. In every way and at every opportunity It attempts to load. Recently the school children of this lit! city paraded, led by the pn-

rocfilal school and ita hooded teachers. The public school children brought up the rear thla In a Prot'stanf community. Children of th Baoret Heart parochial school were In front. Children from tha publlo schools, America's boast, tha basis of real American citizenship, marched behind tha pupils of Rom. Tha hierarchy acted as If It wera conferring a, great favor on American boys and girls, produots of thooe "sink hole of Iniquity" as publlo schools have been proclaimed by Ita priests, by marching With them, Aa on expressed It. they ware showing th greatest tolerance and setting an example It might b wall for Ameri? ctnm to follow. Much Indignation amonif ftatanta has been aroused by thla parade and further investigation is to ba made to sea Just why thla Uag eevrrtd.

FREEHOLD, N. J., Deo. 29. "The visit of you Klansmen is a Godsend

to us. We have not slept in a bed for three nights," was tho comment of the wife of Richard Tyler, colored, as a delegation of Klansmen In uniform unloaded a truckload of furniture and provisions at the door of their temporary homo. Mr. and Mrs. Tyler and their tan children lived in Woodsvllle, a, colored settlement near the city, A few weeks ago a Are swept away their home and all their furniture, clothing and provisions. They were left

h mil ess w til nothing but the clothes which covered their backs at the time of the firs. They were making their tomporary home with a friend, Klanwinen learned of the disaster, They lost no time In getting beds, bedding, furniture, olothlng and provision for them. Thane wers loaded Into a truck, Klansmen In uniform bai led end unloaded it, The conslgnment Included a large amount of gr"cerle, Tha Klansmen eaused quite a. stir In tho colored settlement, but when the colored people saw that the Klan

was befriending noma of tbelr people, they broke Into cheering,

FrVE COUNTIES STAGE A BIG JOINT SESSION WAUPACA, Wis., Dec 29. Five large Wisconsin counties were represented at a closed meeting of the Klan here. Klansmen and Women of the Klan gathered to hear an Important message from a high Klan official of the state. During tha afternoon the members listened to an address by a Klan official. Later in the day they were delighted with the words of a prominent ex-ofBcer of the American Expeditionary Forces. CHURCH GROWS AFTER

ATTACK ON PREACHER

New Durham Baptist Congregation Stands Behind Minister

ROMAN OFFICER ADDS

"INSULT TO INJURY"

Sends Catholic Priest to Tell Niles (0.) Cyclops of Martial Law

EL PASO, Tex., Dec. 29. Federal officials will attempt to hold the man

who buys or contracts for smuggled i liquor as guilty as tho smuggler, It Is I announced. ' This new angle of prohibition enforcement has developed in El Paso since the murder recently of Immigration Inspector Frank H. Clark by liquor smugglers. "We're going to find out who Is behind these smuggling deals that leave tragedy In their wake." said George J. Harris, chief Inspector In charge of the El Paso Immigration service office. "When we locate these men at the other end of smuggled liquor we'll file conspiracy chargea against them. "With the utmost vigor we are going after those directly responsible for the smuggling of liquor and who have Indirectly brought about a series of terrible gun battles and murder. This is a serious business, when men are murdered while enforcing prohibition laws," he declared.

Federal prohibition agents stated

that they would continue their practice of running down overy suspected

possessor, transporter or seller of liquor. They will continue making every effort to get liquor law viola

tors, they say.

Another Incident In the fight being

carried on against rum runners from

the Mexican side of the Rio Grande, came recently when several shots

were exchanged on the river front.

(By a Staff Correspondent) MUNDELEIN, 111., Dec. 29. This little village of 700 inhabitants beart the questionable distinction of being the first on American soil to capitalate to the Vatican in tie new and aggressive campaign to "Make America Catholic." Last week it changed its name from Area to Mundeleln, In honor of the new "Prince of the Church," who is enthroned in his palace at Chicago.' Tho surrender was not brought about by force of arms, but was engineered by the financial strategists of the hierarchy who-have invested

some 10.000.000 in a seminary, "St. Mary's of the Lake," near the village. Americans on Guard A movement was launched In Chicago a few months ago to name th new outer lake driveway In honor of the cardinal, but despite their power In tho "Windy City," the papal subjects could not put this over on the American citizens. The obvious eagerness of tha hierarchy to use this form of propaganda has inspired considerable speculation here as to what will happen If th Romanlst3 could gain political control of the United States. If Area.

111., Is changed to Mundeleln simply because the Roman Catholics have a school near that little town, Americans are wondering If Washington, D. C, wouldn't also be - changed to Plusville or St. Patrlcksburg;. A Few. Possibilities In such an event New York might become "New Rome," and such cities as Boston, Philadelphia and Chicago would undoubtedly be changed to something more Irish or Italian. Th possibilities offered by the new publicity stunt are unlimited except, of course, by staunch Americans who will not surrender their cities end towns despite tha scheming of th hierarchy.

VANDALS STRIP CARS OF PARTSAND TIRES Enemies of Protestant Americans Make Attack While Services Are On

The man who has no evil in hlra, never has any evil on him that is, on his hip.

WISCONSIN UNIT BUYS NEW HOME FOR ORDER

DARIEN, Wis., Doc 29. A drive to

raise $7,000, with which to put theH

finishing touches on tha new Klavern of the Walworth County Klan. has just been completed. Women of the Klan and members of patriotic organizations contributed liberally. The new building, which will also house the offices of the field representative for the county, will cost $20,000 when it Is finished.

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RETIRING CYCLOPS IS GIVEN MASONIC RING

MrELBYVILLE, III., Dee. E A handsome Maaonio ring was presentad to tha retiring Esalted Cyclops of

tha Klan has, as a token of- tha esteem in whioh ha la- held by mem-? bar of th organisation that he headed, Tha presentation apseotv was highly iammsRdatory, The occasion was mad a aooial affair, , 11 1 1 j . AID CHARITY FVKti RICHMOND, Pal.X selieltoa fo tba Jasal community ofeast was viaitad by a wssBgr who brought an envelop containing 60. Th onflon wa fron tba Wemq pi th Kim, .

JERSEY CITY, N, J,, Deor gS, "Whoever has brought this resurreotlon has my respect and commendation," said a, vtattintf pastor at the New Durham Baptist ohureh on the occasion of a elam ehawder and tes-i timonlal in behalf of the members of the congregation and their friends. The New Durham Daptist church afld the Hev, Will am Christie were the alleged recent Klan storm center, according ta tha Jersey Observer.

The trustees were going to threw out the pastor ef the church following the visit of tha Klan on November 8, aocording to that sheet. Binee November p, at which tima the Jersey Observer, 4 pro-Roman Cathofro organ,'' claimed disintegra? tion of the ltttla flock, the Sunday school attendance and enrollment has increased pve 13 pp cent. There have been numerous new addition to

tha church roster and numbers of applicants tot membership. Eleven ef the fourteen trustees ware In full accord with the visit of the Klan,. One was mora or lass noncommittal, Two. showed their ilui satisfaction and resigned because of theic threat to resign If the pastor did not, These two trustees wera not members pf th burcb. There ls not and has act baen a' dissenting vole heard from tba congregation. Its response to th malicious campaign of the Jersey Observe and other antl-

Protestant sources tends to show that

bc Ja b greatest faarraonjr.

iLS,." E",' 29 Tb Roman catnollo Idea was clearly Illustrated here by a little Incident which took place at tha lima rhn m,,.,

Donahey was compelled to declare martial law to protect law-abidins American citlsens from Roman Catholio gunmen and gangsters , who assembled here to prevent a Klan parade, Colonel L, S. Connelv f m

a Roman Catholio, wits in eharge of the 145th Infantry, which was sent tq Niles by the governor's orders to protect American lives not to aid and abet the Roman Catholio gangsters who were here to prevent, the Klan parade with eawed-off shotguns, When the governor's proclamation of military law was reoeived Colonel Connely sent tha document

to tne Hxaited Cyclops of the Trumbull County , Klan by Joseph N, Trainer a Roman Catholio priest. Asked if he din't think it was rather an Impudent piece of business, particularly since It was Roman

Catholic opposition to an authorized

American demonstration that was responsible for the violence, Connely repliedi . "Dr. Hart sailed ma after I had called off tba parade and asked if I could send htm a copy of the proclamation. I eald I would and turning around to find someone to send it by, I saw no one but Chaplain Joseph N. Trainee. Not considering in my haste that Chaplain Trainer is a priest at Youngstowh, I asked him to deliver tha massage to tha Klan meeting." Colonel Connely's explanation Is nothing short of ridiculous since; according to witnesses, there were hundreds of soldiers among them not a few Protestants. r

LOUISE, W. Va.. Deo, 29. Protes

tants of this community are aroused bb the result of a vicious attack on personal property at a patriotlo rally In the Methodist church, As a large audience heard three ministers of the gospel speak on the cause of Americanism, vandals outside were stripping twenty-two automobiles of accessories, ripping tires to ehreda and otherwise destroying property, Radiator caps, motemeters, eella and other accessories were stripped from the machines, Soma of the machines, especially the larger types, had five tirea out, while some of the smaller types had from eight to twelve hole3 in each tire, Immediately upon the diseovery, the Klan offered a reward of $100

for the capture or Information lead-?

ing to the arrest of the vandals,

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