Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-09-19

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American people are liberty
flowing and, law abiding people.
THE law of the land is respected
I in this country save perhaps in
the case Of the Volstead law,
which was written into law. with
tout the consent Of the majority
of Our citizens and at "a time; when
four million valiant defenders of
! the flag were three thousand
miles from home and which law
seems to command but seanti re-
gard from the ma jority. of good
citizens. everywhere We have.
nothing to fear except that an in-
fsidious lobby in the nationallca-
| ital might throw the good old
Constitution to the~four winds,
and if there. is such danger as
that no secret order will prevent
| it, but the voice of the people
must be heard.
A KukluN government could
not be established in Americaito-l
day 1t is a government of fright
and will not be tolerated. | know
Kentuckians will not submit to-
it. A Kentucky citizen knows
his legal rights and he knows he
has but one life to live. and he
will gladly give that life in de-
tense OF those rights and you can
not frighten him. He will be lead
but never driven.
I trust that | am not dong. an
injustice to this organization
when I ask for information. | am
advised that the new Klan head
quarters has been granted a char
ter by the state of Georgia. That
is not material. They tell me
that the leader styles himself the
Imperial Wlzard." Good enough.
"a rose by any other name would
smell. as SWEET | must confess
thatI am afraid that this organi-
cation will be like others | have
observed whose motives were APP
lparently aftrtiistic enough but
which accomplished only one
thing in particular and that was
the enrichment of its leaders. An
organization was promoted in
America whose membership rapid
ly spread to every state in this
country. Even preachers. good
and sanity men, But nevertheless
gullible, were ensnared into this
political fly trap. The apparent
objects and purposes Of that or
ganization were such that no
man could oppose them Today,
| its leaders are rich. iThey are
''pHHofessRnia aegulatofh' who
want Congress to tell His whether
we shall smoke or notlINhere we
shall. go to church and when,
wha nf4 shah drink, What we
shallav4aT and how we Shall think
they have an insidt1ous lobby
in Washington, well 3 paid and
backed. with as large a Corruption
fi,i15E Isl was eyer raised in the
poffficat history of this country
and the Hon. Wayne b: Wheeler,
member extraordinary of Unit
LED States Semitic, not elected by
r hespeopple, chairman plenipoten-
tiary of Congressional commit.
tees, not appointed by. anybody;
more nearly approaches Lenine
and Trotsky of Russia than any
other man in public or private
life today. With all that, we do
not need a secret society.
| am afraid of secret societies
| in America / want to belong to
but one ''Klan' and that the army
of the great and free citizenship
of America with the ballot in my
hand and the right to do as | like
with that ballot and to be ques-
toned by no man or set OF men
concerning my use of it.
! | submit this to YOU not know
| ing whether Or not it is the popu-
lar opinion and sentiment in the
community. | have never con
cerned myself with popular opin-
ion as long as / believed was
fright and, | assure YOU, | have no
/ desire to cater to it now.
With every expression of per-
sonal esteem and friendly regard.
am, cordially yours,
| D nT DTIA