Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 92, Number 308, 27 December 1922 — Page 10

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, RICHMOND, IND., WEDNESDAY, DEC. 27, 1 912

FOULKE RECALLS ROOSEVELT'S ATTITUDE OH RACE PREJUDICE IN TALK ONKLAN

INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 27. William Dudley "Foulke of Richmond, speaking before the Indianapolis Kiwanis club today on the klan, said: "After the election of Mr. Taft, Tresident Roosevelt brought -with him to a cabinet meeting the draft of a letter to be, sent to one J. C. Martin of Dayton, Ohio, -who had asked for a public statement concerning the faith of Mr. Taft. As usual, the president invited criticism and discussion. Several made suggestions, and Secretary Hoot made one -which the president asked him to write out so that he might incorporate it. When the corrected version of the letter was read, It was agreed that it was a remarkable document for effectively rebuking the spirit of bigotty and upholding the

basic principles of the American gov-j ernment. and that it should therefore be published. It appeared in the papers of the country three days later as follows: The White House, Washington, November 4, 1908. "My dear sir: "I have received your letter running in part as follows: " 'While it is claimed almost universally that religion should not enter into politics, yet there is no denying that it does, and the mass of the voters that are not Catholics will not support a man for any office, especially for president of the United States, who is a Roman Catholic. Since Taft has been nominated for president by the Republican party, it is being circulated and is constantly urged as a reason lor not voting for Taft that he is an infidel (Unitarian) and his wife and " brother Roman Catholics. ... If his feelings are in sympathy with the Roman Catholic church on account of his

wife and brother being Catholics, that would be objectionable to a sufficient number of voters to defeat him. On the other hand if he is an infidel, that would be sure to mean defeat . . . . I am writing this letter for the sole purpose of giving Mr. Taft an opportunity to let the world know what his religious belief is.' . Roosevelt's Answer. . . . ."To this President Roosevelt answered: The demand for a statement of a candidate's religious belief can have no meaning except that there may be discrimination for or against him because of thet belief. Discrimination against men of other faiths. The inevitable result of entering upon such a practice would be an abandonment of our real freedom of conscience and a reversion to the dreadful conlitions of religious dissensions which in so many lands have proved fatal to true liberty, to true religion, and to all advance in civilization. "To discriminate against a thoroughly upright citizen because he belongs to some particular church, or because, like Abraham Lincoln, he has not avowed his allegiance to any church, is an outrage against that liberty of conscience which is one of the foundations of American life "If it is proper or legitimate to oppose a man for being a Unitarian, as

was John Quincy Adams, for instance, as is the. Rev. Edward Everett Hale, at the present moment chaplain of the senate, and an American of whose life all good Americans are. proud then it would be equally proper to support or oppoe a man because of his views on justification by faith or the method of administering the sacrament, or the gospel or salvation 'by works. If you unce enter on such a career there is

absolutely no limit at which you can legitimately stop. . . . "you say that 'the mass of the voters that are not Catholics will not support a man for any office, especially for president of the United States, who is a Roman Catholic I Believe that when you say this you foully slander your fellow countrymen. I do not for one moment believe that the mass

of our fellow citizens or that any con

siderable number of our fellow citizens

can be influenced by such narrow bigotry as to refuse to vote for any thoroughly upright and fit man because he

happens to have a particular religious

creed. . Such a consideration should

never be treated as a reason for either

supporting or opposing a candidate for political office. Are you aware that

there are several states in this Union

where the majority of the people are now Catholics? I should reprobate in

the severest terms the Catholics who

in those states (or in any other states)

refused to vote for the most fit man

because he happened to be a Protest

ant and my condemnation would be ex

actly as severe for Protestants who

underreversed circumstances, refused to vote for a Catholic. . . . I know Catholics who have for many years

represented constituencies mainly Protestant, and Protestants who have for many years represented "constituencies

mainly Catholic; and among the con

gressmen whom I knew particularly

well was one man of Jewish faith who

represented a district in which there

were hardly any Jews at all. All of these mn by their very existence in political life refute the slander you

have uttered against your fellow Amer

icans.

"I believe that this republic will en

dure for many centuries. If so there will doubtless be among its presidents

Protestants fana (jatnolics, and very probably at some time Jews. I have

consistently tried while president to act in relation to my fellow Americans of Catholic faith as I hope that any future president who happens to be a Catholic will act towards his fellow Americans of Protestant faith. Had I followed any other course I should have felt that I was unfit to represent the American people. "Yours truly. THEODORE ROOSEVELT." Two Grave Evils. "Two grave evils infect the Ku Klux Klan organization; first, it assumes to act directly without reference to the law, taking in its own hands the punishment of offenses against the law. This thing itself may be a greater offense against the law than anything it attempts to punish; it means as it

meant in reconstruction days the overriding and the overthrow of all law. So far as the Ku Klux have power, their rule is anarchy and we ought to oppse them just as we oppose the anarchist. But the worst feature of all is their secrecy, not simply of what is done in their conclaves but the mask and gown and the oath not to reveal their membership, which clothes them (so far as they can make it effective) with perfect irresponsibility. When

ever they do anything that is praiseworthy, like contributions to charity or to churches they are very far from following the precept not to let the left hand know what the right hand doeth; they come in with hood and gown to proclaim their charity to the world. But when outrages are perpetrated by men in their uniform (as now in Louisiana), where threats are sent by anonymous letter in their name or on their behalf they say, 'This is not

CANADA HONORS EX-PREMIER AND WIFE

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GAMP KI-RO REUNION WEDNESDAY NIGHT

Camp KI-Ro reunion will be held

Welnesday night at the gymnasium of the Y. M. C. A. at 7:30 o'clock. About

168 boys are expeoted to be present at

this reunion and all the leaders are

also expected to be there. I

One hundred Honor emblems will be

given out at tne reunion, tnese em

blems being presented for excellency in work at the camp this summer. The honor emblem is a blue triangle with

white lettering, K. R. C. and the blue triangle is intersected by a white feather. This emblem was earned by effic

iency in mental, muscle and moral

work and a perfect score on conduct

at the camp.

Camp songs and a regular Indian

pow-wow will be held by members of

Kichapoos, Iroquis, Rottawas, Ottawas

and Yukis tribes. These tribes were

formed last summer during the camping period and they contested against

each other in diiferent events through out the camping period.

Parents are invited V witness the

reunion, but it will be necessaray that

they go to the gallery while the program is being given due to limited space in the gymnasium. This reunion will be a great treat for every boy as

it will give him an opportunity to renew friendship obtained at the camp.

Hi-Y Program Postponed

From Jan. 1 Until Jan. 8 There will be mi Hi-Y meeting next Monday due to the New Year's program in the gymnasium. The club will meet Monday, Jan. 8. Many things are planned to be accomplished by the club during the new vear. and. according to members of

the club, they will do their share to

ward Et&rtiner the new year rignt at

the first meeting. Every member is urged to be present at the first meeting of the year. j

NEW ZEALAND QUAKE HEAVY WELLINGTAN. N. Z, Dec. 27 The

earthquake of Christmas afternoon was confined to the upper and middle portions of the Island. The shock was especially severe In north Canterbury, and recalled memories of the quake in Cheviot county in 190L

The memorial placed over the graves of Sir Wilfred and Lady Laurier. This memorial to the late Sir Wilfred Laurier, former prime minister of Canada, and Lady Laurier has been erected over their graves in the cemetery at Ottawa by Canadians.

the Ku Klux Klan. some impostersj have done it; prove it if you can.' "It is a wholesome presumption of the law that where a man prevents an inquiry as to his conduct, his conduct will not bear inquiry, and if guilt be

involved this presumption may be evidence of his guilt. If Tie destroy documents, it is presumed to be because these documents would tell against him, if he keep witnesses away it is because they would testify to what would hurt him in the case; if he conceal marks of identity, it is because he could not afford to have that identity

revealed. . The concealment of evidence is one of the badges of fraud or of other improper conduct. Cannot Conceal Arms. "Every man according to the Indiana constitution must be permitted to bear arms in his own defense. But if he conceal those .arms he is a criminal.

When the members of the K. K. conceal their identity by the hood and gown and oath of secrecy they thereby create the presumption that threats made in their behalf and acts of violence committed in their disguise are their acts because they prevent the rest of the world from knowing whether such acts of lawlessness are theirs or not. They cannot maintain their credit as a reputable organization un

til their names are known and their

faces are seen. One hundred percent Americans never hide behind a mask.

"If we had excluded ail our citizens who are foreign born from our political life we would have excluded one of the greatest statesman the nation has ever had, Alexander Hamilton whom Washington appointed his secretary of the treasury and who, more than any other man created that superb federal constitution under which we live today, Alexander Hamilton was foreignborn a native of the West Indies, the

son of a Scottish father and a French mother. "So we must exclude from office not

only the negro but the Catholic and the Jew we are willing to have these men die for us, their bones lie upon the fields of France to preserve that democracy which we are not willing that they should share. Shame on the man who will let another die for him fighting for a common cause in whose benefits he will not allow him to participate."

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