The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-09-26

written and probu bly, never VIII be. Judge
,rourgee, III 'the Fools 11rfnnd, and
a,rhoinas Nelson Page In Ills 'hed r ROCK On
told Of soiio things that inny have actu.
ally occurred iii those trying days anu
Mrs DIxon has doubtless told even more.
for his father and other kinsinen We were
sClansnen,S and may have laid aside t llt
awful oath Of secrecy, an oath tnlt Was
and should have been without q limit us
& to timc, long enough TO furnish MI. Dixon
with soine reul facts, but MIR. Dixoh,,s
novel carlos but very little Of tho rem
history or the order, ana the play much
less. n III {
''Cortnin 1T Is thnt no member of tho
order lius ever written the orders story,
and many or them WHO nre competent 70
write arc still living. The fact culi bo
established that competent members OF
the order have been ublo to see, us Mr.
Dixon has probably seen ut this late day,
Il profit III tho work Of writing UP tho
1tu AUX Khan. and the fact still remains
that none Of them have taken advantage
of such opportunities to turn iii honest
penny. vs., Ii
@E."Manifestly then the 1ncn who made the
history are now and ever have been Of
the opinion that 1t is u history thnt should
never be wrtctn. Not that they are
ashamed or 1t. for never IN the annals
Of time did men do Il greater service 70
the country nnd their homes, han DID tho
llu Illux klaii nnd with the shedding OF us
little blood, but what they did was IN
Violation OF the laws Of the lnnd, as they
then existed, and we'll they know that the
people OF more thnn half of the country
ana the generations to come III tho South
can never appreciate the conditions exist
Ing ut the time, conditions that made It
the white n1nn's patriotic duty to violate
In VIZ in the interest OF Ia wand homo and
wife ana daughter and sister.
Never Should Be Written.
.,Thcsc men are right The true history
OF tho Ixu Klux Khan has never been writ
ten, and It never should be, either IN INC
form OF history or novel. and much less
should It make an attempt 10 get on
the stage iii fragmentary story, IN SEN
sationnl situation and In all manner OF
stage setting and 5trappings b. sjt. y. !,
"Tho Ku5 Klux Khan nrose for q specific
patriotic purpose, accomplished that pnr-
nose in an incredibly short space OF time.
and then its patriotic members disbanded
ono OF the noblest orders that ever eNlst-
cd. and they again became lawabiding
citizens. with the disbanding Of their
order they buried its history in their Sc
cret hearts. lisa pity that book writer's,
striving to Nurn an honest penny had
not let It remain buried.
,,It is snd that Uncle Toms CABIN d'a
as much MS any other agency to bring on on
the civil strife In our land, because Is
aroused sectional feeling and created sec
tional hatred. It can be said for MIS- !.
Stoves novel and play, that they dealt
with an institution that then existed. me
institution with which the Cansman deals'
does no texist, and the men VINO arc
brought into 1t existed thlrty-fiye yenrs
ago do not require clndicatlon or DEFENSE
at the hands Of Mr. Dixon or any one
else, They do not feel that they need
any one to expain why they became VIC VIC
lators OF law ,toalnaintain lawcan order.
An explanation lis not necessary a,Sthls
late day and never, was i, I'll NJ.
1.-THE Clansman. as q novel, mas hire ey
unnecessarily aroused sectional 1cehllhs'
The Clansman as aAplay Is bound TO PC
more effective along this line ana may ,
prove as harmful in some ways as Uncle Uncle
Toms Cabin did q half a. century ago,
"1t would be better If the novel had
never been written. II would be still pc! pet
ter If the play were stranglcd in Its IN m
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