Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-02-01
SPEAKER TELLS
OF XII KLUX KHAN
Large Audience Out To
Hear OF Secret
Order
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fourishes human liberty ceases. The
organization stands proudly for the
protection of woman's honor and the
sanctity and piracy Of the home.
These are tbe fundamental corner
stones of the institution and upon
same will it be able to withstand any
storms which may beat upon it today,
tomorrow, or any time in the future.
The speaker who is with you to-
night will go fully into details of the
purposes and work of the organiza-
ton, and l commend him to you.
am sending this personal message
simply to most emphatically refute
the statements which have appeared
in the newspaper of your nerby city
to the effect that this organization
stood for lawlessness, or was guilty
of fostering or condoning race ha-
tired or religious prejudice Such
statements are absolutely false and
are made either maliciously or be-
cause of ignorance,
WILLIAM JOSEPH SIMMONS,
Imperial Wizard"
Following the reading of this letter
came a long statement prepared by a
prominent member of the order. 90
ing into the history of the Enquirer
Suns attacks on the Klan, starting
with ridicule at the order which it
characterized as of no Importance
and growing until it became a matter
of great and bitter concern to that
paper. He quoted extensively from
editorials in that paper and other
papers, with comments between pas
sages, and closed with the comment
that the stand of the Enquirer-Sun
aaginst the clan was the result
either of Colossal ignorance or NAL
ice"
Following is a brief synopsis of
the talk given by Mr. Nolan, after
reading the letters Of the Imperial
Wizard:
Il am member of the Masons, a
Royal Arch Mason and love that or
der better than any other, and I
know if | were here advocating an
order that stands for anything other
than law and order, as the Columbus
Enquirer-Sun states we do, and the
other principles that the Ku Klux
Khan stands for, | would be dismissed
from the Masons. The Ku Klux Khan
fills place no other order can.
The Ku KluX Khan is a memorial
to the Confederate soldier who
fought the greatest fight in the his
tory of the world. The veterans of
the World Wor, sons of the Vet
Grams of the Confederacy, fought
grand battle, but they were the best
equipped, best fed, best clothed and
best armed army that the world ever
saw.
"The Ku Klux Khan not only saved
the South during reconstruction days;
it saved the United States. 1t saw
ed them from the slaves who, at the
behest of the carpetbaggers and
scalawags, would have over-run the
South and the United States and
destroyed forever the supremacy of
the white Caucasian race on this con-
tinent.
"The new Ku Klux Khan was re-
organized December 5, 1915, on
Stone Mountain. The Ku Klux Khan
was built on four principles, and can
not be suppressed by ignorance or
prejudice. 1t stands for law and
order; for white supremacy; for
separation of church and state, and
for protection of woman's honor and
the sanctity and privacy of the
home.
Ready In Atlanta.
The first fundamental principle
it stands for is law and order. Any
one who asserts that the Ku Klux
Khan is a lawless organization is
plain liar. Three times since the
hlan was organized in 1915 this state
has very nearly had trouble. And at
the time 5000 hooded figures parad-
ed the streets. 1t had the desired
effect.
Governor Dorsey one time asked
the sheriff of Fulton county what