The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-26
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gro race" declares Brewster IN his


negro race" declares Brewster in his
answer.
Attacks the Name
Then the attorney general discusses
at length the issues as to the his
torlcal value of the picture. Even The
name of the photo-play is attacked
by Brewster in his answer
The inference from the title is that
the nation had its birth from the con-
ditions depicted in said play and such
scenes must therefore be depicted as
typical and not as extraordinary, -
urges the attorney general. The in
ference from said title is that the ma
ton had its birth from the acts of the
hu hluXhlan, an unlawful aggregation
of outlaws and criminals and murder
ers, who are depicted in said photo
play as in all instances in the right
land from the nefarious acts of the
senators and other officials and rep
resentatives of the federal government
in the north, whose acts are shown
to be influenced by the basest motives
That almost without exception the
northern soldiers are depicted as
'scallawags' or brutes, while the south
ern soldiers are pictured as the flow
er of chivalry.''
Brewster attacks the scenes showing
an attack of a white girl by negro.
the picture of northern mulatto in
his effort to force a marriage with a
white girl and other sections of the
sensational film. These scenes, he
declares, tend but to arouse strife and
race feeling and are not true to his
tory.
Objects to X. X IA.
Ku Klux Klan scenes are also OBJ
jectionable to Brewster.
| The said photo-play is further I'M
true, argues the attorney general, in
| that it pictures the Ku Klux Khan as
/ an organization of high minded gal
| lent southern gentlemen, bent only on
missions of mercy, protection and JUS
tice, although history and the rec
| ordS of the United States courts prove
them to have been in many instances
| bands of midnight assassins, intini-
| dating. abusing and numbering inno-
cent and defenseless negroes by the
| hundreds; there having been over 3
| 600 instances of cold blooded murder
| by this organization
SANDER ON Stevens.
Again Brewster is aroused to wrath
in the scene showing a designing,
northern senator. This picture Brew
ster declares, is a slanderous repre-
sentation of the life and acts of Thad-
deus Stevens.
| said picture Brewster continues.
lis further untrue to history in that it
! represents northern senator who,
from physical and facial appearances,
! from his dubbed foot and connection
with the events portrayed, as well as
/ from admissions of those in charge
of the exhibition of said play, is Thad-
deus Stevens. That as Thaddeus Stew
ems is intended by this representation,
it is slanderous, not only from repre-
sensations Of his life and acts, which
! it shows, inasmuch as it shows him
living openly and notoriously with a
mulatto mistress and advocating mixed
marriages, and refusing to let his
/ daughter marry mulatto, while as a
matter of fact the said Thaddeus
Stevens was never married and never
! had a daughter"
! The attorney general quotes from a
number of newspaper and magazine
articles, as well as statements from
public men in his argument for a ban
| on the Birth of a Nation picture in
| this state. He also quotes historical
references concerning events surround
ing the Civil war and reconstruction
period and uses historical references
| in his effort to discredit the pictures
shown in the famous film.