The Denver star., 1915-06-05

FIVE CENTS A Cork
Circuit Court Columbia at the November term of 1871
1t oense against the idea of by law
that the order responsible for them should be gloied
represented day in of the country in favor
able light" i"
Albert Bushnell Hart of Harvard University perhaps
the foremost living history declares in the Boston
JOURNAL:
"A prime objection the whole thing
the Union army and the Union soldiers; and particularly its
absolutely series of pictures intended to leave up
on the mind the conviction that in Reconstruction times
Negro soldiers freely plundered and abused the white people
officers.
mo such thing occurred in whole history of Recon
struction'
The Boston TRAVELLER quotes from the of the
official investigation of the ku- Klux Klan and says:
Every witness of The Birth of Nation no matter how
we'll he know the historical fasy of action throbs
sympathy for the whe defed armed and
Negro militia for the protection of the of South
land Yet the hired attorneys defending the othe Ku-
kux kan in court in 1871 pleaded In making these
arks it is simply the desire that wise and
full discrimination should be of those
have been led seduced forced guilty
of such inhuman atrocities
"ln another case the Hon. Reverdy Johnson attorney
for the Klansmen sad' have with unmxed
of the testimony which has brought before
you he outrages proved shocking humanity they
admit of neither juscation they violate every
obligation which law and impose they show
that the parties engaged were brutes.
The of the organization is revealed in the
mony 81 members Of the Ku Klux KIan. One Klansman
told the 1t is for the of putting racial
rule and Negro suffrage Another that They
going carry this into effect by killing off the white rad
icas and whipping and intmdatng the Negroes
keep them from voting for who held radical Office
IA member of Westley Smiths Klan testified that the
head of the organization had said. kill and whip
niggers with my Klan than all the York
county, Another said the chief activity of his Klan
whipping those who belonged to the Union League
This witness told of raid organized against because
he taught nigger school and voted the radical ticket
all the S3e pages of testimony and argument
these York county against white
mentioned. Quite in passing and though it the
thing in the world witness speak of the murder
mstreatment OF Negro women and girls by members of
the klan. These crimes the records indicate,
by the low desires that mirored the animal
face the Negro Gus in The Birth of Nation They
were committed punishment husbands d
fathers who had voted the wrong ticket.
This is a testimony of a colored who hao
tell party of rading klansmen where her hus
band could be Well they splitting in my face
and throwing dirt in and when they had made
blind they bursed cupboard: had five pies
cupboard and they all pies and then took two
pieces Of then they made blow the light again
cursng and after while they of doors and
told all they wanted my old join the Demo
cratic ticket Joined the Democratic ticket they would
have no do with him; and after they had got
doo.s they dragged into the big road and they
ravished there
To testimony facts add strong opinions
Iof distinguished The Rev. DR.. Crohers says it is
mot work for arts sake be enjoyed; is
history impartial historian understands history is
deliberate and sklful bit of treachery.
Jacques Loeb calls the play insult and glorifi
cation of homcidal mania