Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-01-31

der to enable it to function efficient
ly, that is attacked by most writers
. It's name is freighted will
sinister meaning, and therefore, fol
the sake of race tranquility, it shoult
not be revived" And, also
The Knoxville (Tenn) Sentinel
which regards as ''foolishness" this
talk of "reviving the ghostly ans
grisly white-sheeted phantoms of the
past" And, again
The Savannah (Ga.) Press, which
| states, that ITO try to organize {
| mysterious body of night-riders and
hooded sleuths now, in the name of
! an organization that flourished once
when there was a genuine need for
it, is to take advantage Of the PEG
pie" And still another Georgia pa
per
The Cordele Dispatch, which is en-
phatically of the opinion that the
sacred memories" of the Ku Klux
Khan Of the sixties is being defiled"
in the use of its name by the pres
ent organization, which it correctly
says, ''is only a secret order with a
far different aspiration from that
which prevailed during the recon
struction period And this, too,
froil the always sane and sound
Dalton (Ga.) Citizen, which says:
we can see no good that Ku KIux
Klan can do in this country, even
if it is fraternaI in its operation The
old Ku Klux Khan served a good pur-
pose in its day, but that day for such
an organization is no longer here.
1t suggests night riding, and night
riding suggests lawlessness. And the
Lord knows we have enough of the
latter without doing anything to
stimulate it."
And, then, to step again across
state lines, into Florda-he have
already quoted from representative
newspapers Of Alabama, Tennessee
and Virginia-we find the Jackson
vile Times-Uni0n saying: enc one
can deny that lawlessness has increas-
ed since the organization of the or
der. The white men of the South
arc in control Of affairs, and no one
opposes; it is absolutely senseless to
reawaken the passions that have been
buried and forgotten. moth
ing worse was ever done for the
South than was done when this or
der with the old name and the old
signs was re-established without the
existence of any conditions to justify
it."
1t will be noted that the Enquirer
Sun has been careful not to quote
from certain Northern newspapers,
that know little and suspect a lot
about the South and its people
as the Americas Times-Recorder is
pleased to designate such national
journals as the New York Times,
New York Herald, New York Trib-
une, others, whose views and whose
services are national, not sectional
but only newspapers of the South,
that do know something about the
South, and, knowing, dare raise their
voices, at all times, in defense of its
highest traditions and interests.
Can then, our still esteemed young
Americas contemporary see any
thing of a "secret fight" or "church
interest" in this outspoken condem-
nation of a movement that, if per.
mitted to go on sowing its seeds Of
discord and race antagonism, BODIES
no good for any section of the South
or any part Of its citizenship?
Can it not see-whatever may be
said, for the sake of the argument
only, of the high aims and purposes"
of this so-called modern Ku KluX
Klan-that, even if its own members
strive to live up to its alleged law
abiding principles, it must inevitably
as did the KIan Of the sixties, to
quote again it's own historian, mem
Der of the original order, give oppor-
tunity for and encouragement to
such as this:
"Outrages were committed by
masked men in regions far remote
from Ku Klux organizations.
- IL VI OtNAlctCNJs GllN 4AltlIl DNS5tAil ~ ~
generate into a viIemears of wreckage
revenge for personal annimosities,
and in this way many outrages were
perpetrated, ultimately resulting in
casting odium on the whole concern;
all the good and brave men abandon
ing it in disgust
We have taken some pains, as will
be seen, and in the best of spirit, to
give our Americas contemporary this
further opportunity to inform itself
as to the real danger from, if not
the real purpose of, this sinister or
der; while, at the same time, giving
it opportunity to set the Enquirer
Sun right as to its own motives
which, in 50 doing, the Times-Re-
corder may, also, set itself right. As
we trust, and believe, it will.
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