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

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principally in the State Of Texas, a re-
markable crop Of mob outrages, all
by masked bands of men and, so similar
In technique as to suggest a common
origin. Among the persons attacked were
both blacks and whites, men and women,
and there was such variety of apparent
causes as to defy analysis. Responsibility
for two, at least, Of the mobbings was
publicly vowed by the Beaumont, Texas
branch Of the Khan and it was widely
assumed, in the absence Of local disa-
vowal, that such responsibility was
general Southern as we'll as Northern
newspapers became loud in their denun-
citation of the violence Of the Ku Kluxers
The Imperial Wizard apparently became
alarmed, and issued statements Gnserted
IN many papers as full-page paid adver-
tisemepts) denying that the lawlessness
was due to the Khan. He even revoked
the charter of the Beaumont branch,
which had indiscreetly written to the
papers, with the Klan's official seal, glory
ing in it's crimes. He also suspended the
charters Of the Mobile, Alabama, and
Pensacola, Florida, chapters, which also
were caught ia rather too fragrant and
public violence. But the cases of threats,
tar-and-featherings, and general roWdi-
ness by mysterious masked and white
capped men calling themselves Klansmen
continued. The Galveston Texas, Dolly
News for July 10 lists nineteen such in
cidents in Texas alone, beginning 90
April l. when "a band Of masked men.
took a Negro bellboy from a Dallas hotel,
carried him into & the country nearby,
whipped him. and branded the letters
K. K. K. with acid on his forehead. The.
last was on July is, 5atT Teuaha, when, a
young white woman was seized on a hotel
porch by masked men wearing white uni
forms, taken several miles into the c0un-
try, undressed, tarred and feathered, and
returned to town. "The sacred duty Of
protecting womanhood," no doubt! Pro
carnations and warnings signed "Ku Klux
Khan" and directed against grafters, idlers,
bootleggers, and agitators appeared in a
number Of places, including the State
Capitol In as far separated places as
Houston, Beaumont, Dallas, Waco, Bel
ton, Goose Greek, Fort WORTH Glidden,
Deweyville, and Timpson men were
seized by, masked bands and roughly
beaten. In others they were tarred and
feathered in addition Their abductors
GA some occasions acted anonymously. On
Others they acted ia. the name of the Ku
Klux sKlanE and now and then they pla-
carded their exploit upon the person of
their victim. The victims themselves
were sometimes bad. characters and some
times Of good repute. One was former
Marine who served at Chateau Thierry
Another, Sherwood Wilson, was the sou
of lifelong resident of Lufkin, Texas,
who writes to the American Civil Liber-
ties Union thus
My 19-year-old boy, Sherwood Vim
son received letter through our mail
ordering him to leave and advise his boot
logger friends to 60 with him. took
the letter to the grand jury and asked the
jury to tell my boy if he was violating
the law but they done nothing so far as
could tell. Later they caught the boy
on the streets Of Lufkin with a pistol
in the hand Of one Of them, put him in
a car, went to the woods, tarred and
feathered him, brought. him back to
the streets of Lufkin, set him out, and
our Sheriff paid 40 attention, SO far as ]
could tell, to the pistol or crime The
boy says he knows the men that doae the
work. I have lived here sixty four years,
not educated, but want right, want the
laws executed, and tried to getGthe grand
jury to do so. We can get the bunch if
we can get the law handed out honest.
Although the state of Texas has been
more favored than any other by these
manifestations Of desire to bless man
kind" they have also appeared else
where throughout the South. At Mi
ami, Florida, on July u, the British
rector Of a church in the, Negro quarter
was tarred and feathered by masked men.
The day before, an, elderly farmer was 81