Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1921-09-13

Of all the pernicious and magn 100 cent
organizations promoted by unscrupuous gatrs tne
Ku Kux Kan recently resurected from the debris OF the
civil reconstruction PERIOD easily the worst according
to review of the secret soceys activities printed by the
New York World result Of nationwide lnyesgaton
extending over a considerable period.
We have had Know Nothing parties and its success
sors, the "a p A." and the Guardians Of Liberty who
warred upon the Cathoc have also had our JeWbaers
and Anemc zeaots we have had our negro matters ana
Prosecutors of which the old Ku Kx Kan was an example
have those who harass and the foreigner Du
the revived Ku Kux Kan combines the anacsm OF them
ALL preaching racial and religious hatred Of the Jew the
Roman Catholic, Of the negro and the foreign-born
How many fanatics there are in the United States shown
by the rapid spread of this secret order which has grown
from nucleus of thirty charter members to member
ship of than 100000 within five Its domains
and realms and Klans" have been extended until they
embrace every state in the Unon but Montana Utah ana
New Hampshire
This secret organization practices censorship of private
conduct behind the midnight anonymity OF mask and robe
with weapons of whips tar and feathers Its members are
not initiated but naturazed their oaths bind them to
obedience emperor chosen for e who happens to be-
the originator of the order.
The orders rapid growth due to the employment OF pro-
fessiona saesme whose first object is to enroll members
Judges public officials and policemen They net the country
Fin upodae sales organization and receive 81 OF every
$40 donation-there initiation fees paid n These
paid organizers known Keages and directed by
King Keage" who pockets another dollar, the balance
being sent to the imperial treasury of the order Their
every effort is to get the coin
The Klan the company manufacturing the regala OF
cotton robe and hooded cap which is sold to members for
$3.50 tcosts only $25 In the last five years membership
donations regaa sales have yielded at least $5o0000O
showing that Kuxing most profitable to those the
inside.
The Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Inc, organized in
Atlanta Georgia October &C. 1915, by William Joseph Sim
mons, exhorter later college instructor
and still later solicitor for Woodmen of the World Thirty
three of his friends signed the charter When organized it
claimed to be revival Of the old order of the
and it's slogan white Supremacy Now, however, the
negro has become side issue. appeals to local and
tona preudces and hatred In the South it is the negro
the Pacific Coast the Japs in the Central West radicals,
and everywhere the Jew and the Catholic.
The Klan calls itself the Invisible Empire, ruled by an
emperor and Imperial Wizard" the organizer The I'm
pera Keage is Edward Young Clarke professional pub
cy and drive promoter The third of the trumvirate
ruling the order Mrs Elizabeth Tyler, publisher of the
"Searchight" organ of the movement.
An adjunct order "The Invisible Planet Knights of the
Air. has been organized by the promoters of the Kan head
ed by Emperor Simmons, with membership to men,
and children $40 per head Only Klansmen be
officers and the knights of the Air furnish prospects
for the kans, we'll prosperity for the trumvirate.
The outrages already perperated by those wearing Ku
Kux Kan regaa summarized by the World follows:
Sxyour violations of legal rights 21 tar and feather
ties 25 individuals seized and beaten; two white women
stripped and matreated six specific warnings published III
general warnings posted enforce moral censorship of COM
munities killed by Ku Klux regulators two regulators
killed by intended victims.
All in ALL it that the Ku Kux Klan national nui
sance, if and should be driven out its prede
by constituted authority at the point of the
bayonet, If necessary.