New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1921-10-05

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lected TWEEN ty five cents dues each from
la large number Of his young friends,
There is occasional confusion Of purpose:
in Florida the Khan declares that it is
against blue laws, but in Texas it threatens
bootleggers. In one Florida town group
of alleged Klansmen even threatened a
judge guilty Of enforcing the speed laws.
Of late there have come serious
charges Of a financial nature against the
Khan. Major Craven, the Grand Dragon
|of the Invisible Empire for the Realm of
North Carolina, recently issued an order
|disbanding the Klan in that State, say
ing that as conducted in North Carolina
1T; is. an organization engaged exclusively
in collecting initiation fees under false
pretenses, without any legal standing in
the State, and is, in my opinion, fail
ure and fraud" He added that Hthe
most notorious criminal in the county
got in by paying for it and the organic
ers kept him in because he was bringing
ia others Of the same kind at SO much per
head" Major Craven's charges are dis
puted by the King Kleagle Of the Realm,
Mr.. w. V. Guerard, but they should
perhaps serve to make other public Off
Gals follow the example Of the Mayor of
Philadelphia who has directed that in
quiry be made as to the disposition Of
the fees for which membership in the
Order is bestowed These fees are large.
It costs $40 to be Initiated into the Khan,
plus $3.50 for white robe-and it is
Obvious that these robes can be produced
lat o. cost Of about one dollar. These fees
appear to go to the Grand Aulic Of the
Imperial Wizard at Atlanta. Local
branches charge further dues, usually
SIS. 90 or $40 annually What becomes
of all this money is not known. The I'm
perial Wizard says he pays himself only
500 per week, but an Atlanta paper re-
Gently announced the purchase by the
Klux Khan Of an entire block on Peach
tree Road which was to be made National
Headquarters at cost Of about one
million dollars" Landscape improve
ments," including an artificial lake and
"about 100000 worth of marble and plas-
ter statuary," were to be made. La
nier University" Atlanta "a school which
does not figure in the rather complete
list of academic institutions ia the World
|Almanac,) has also been taken over by
the Khan, and the Imperial Wizard him-
|self, it is announced, will be the new
president. 1t may be said that William
Allen, White was probably not justified IN
(exulting that it was ito the everlasting
credit Of Emporia that the organizer Of
this cheap clan found no suckers here
with SO each to squander." 5s.
It is, of course, unlikely that the re-
markable series Of mob outbreaks were
foreseen by the Imperial Wizard in 1915.
Such a program would have been too
hazardous to. have been deliberate. But
what should haveHbeen foreseen4 was that
table. The Klan springs from the mem
Dry of post-civil war laWlessness, when the
Negro was disfranchised by terror. It
proclainns its purpose to maintain white
supremacy and to protect wonanhood. Its
leader asserts it's purpose to protect the
security Of the people 1'in the absence or
inadequacy of the forces Of law and order
Its membership form discloses an unmis-
taxable 2nti-JeWish and nti-CathOlic bias.
It's organizers in the North admit at pri-
vate meetings that there it is to be main
|ly an instrument of anti-Semitism. Its
protestations Of 100 per cent Americanism
Iand its warnings to agitators suggest the
familiar tactics Of the conventional op-
ponents of organized labor. Indeed the
group Of rowdies at first described as
America Legion men who tore Mrs. Ida
Crouch. Hazlett from a Socialist platform
lin Mason City, Iowa, last month, and
drove her out Of town, were quoted by
the United Press correspondent as saying
that they preferred to be known as thu
Ku Klux Klan;" and the Kansas City
| Post frankly describes the Klan in that
part Of the world as an anti-N onpartisan
League organization. Over the whole has
been thrown an amazing haze Of mumbc
Jumbo with its Imperial Wizards, its King