The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-12-17
KLAN IS DOOMED,
ALLEN DECLARES
IN BITTER TALK
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animosities of the men who hide
their identity behind a mask
The organization would be alb
surd, of course, II II were not for the
undoubted hold which it has secured
in many communities and where 1t
operates. according TO the character
of it's membership in that local COM
munity. In many places the appeal
to creed has brought into the or
ganization some excellent men who
believe that they are addressing
themselves 10 the real problem when
they draw lines OF religious prelu-
dice.
TT grows very rapidly when II
strikes a community, and II requires
about a year Of experience to con-
vince it's best members that the or
gani1atiun has no real place OF use
fulness in America. 1t arOuses the
most intense bitterness; in some or
the communities where l am RC-
quainted with it's activities, friends OF
a lifetime have been estranged;
families have been divided men be-
come suspicious Of their neighbors;
bigotry and intolerance have ar
rived; poisoned pens and serpent
tongues have been busy spreading
scandals.
Cites Liberty Incident
IN the south and in the far west
they have committed many actual
/ crimes upon individuals, and only re-
Gently they have invaded Kansas.
! There they have given US the shock
/ ing exhibition at Liberty. small
town in the central portion OF the
state, OF taking the mayor of the
/ town by violence, carrying him 20 a
. v,Iu a p1 sol INNING h i'm he
cause he refused TO allow this
masked society 10 hold a meeting In
/ a hall which he owned in this COM
munity.
'In/other parts OF the state this
| khan was used during the rail strike.
/ The strikers in communities where
| cOlored men were employed, put on
the garb OF this organization for the
purpose OF Tightening those VINO
were employed in the essential in
dustry Of transportation, away from
their work. They have introduced
lin Kansas, the greatest curse that
can come to any civilized people
that which arises out of the uurc-
strained passions of men, governed
either by their religious intolerance
or by their racial hatreds.
The Oklahoma True Blues
I'm Kansas we are seeking 70 eNpel
il from the state, Under the laws
Of Kansas every organization doing
business within the state must be
chartered. The Ku-KluX Klan has
a charter under the laws OF Georgia,
lbut its charter has not been approved
under the Kansas laws, and the ac-
don now pending in the supreme
court Of the state rs for the purpose
of seeking a writ fOrbidding the k'an
Ito do business hereafter in Kansas.
As soon as this writ is issued, then
the blazing cross and the pasture
parties where men mask themselves
land nut on a fantastic ceremony IN
the open field ana terrorIze an en-
tire ncighbUrhoOd will disappear.
In Oklahoma, new masked or
4 der has grGWn up. called The True
Blue It's Yotaries wear blue masks
land only rfcently they made an at
tempt to abduct the constable OF Ada
township, and after the fight was
over. two members OF the True Blue
were ready for the funeral and the
| constable was on his way 70 the hos
. pItaL ,-.,- 1T. =.
The Fast Black. The Atlanta EN-
peror has no right TO presume that
. he has monopoly upon these indi-
viduals who Wills wish TO organize a
p masked government OF their own.
mo more grOtesque abuse Of the
. term 'Americanism' could he used
shan to call this organization Amer
o. cam. Americanism Is tolerant and
his is organized intolerance; Amer
: canism Is law-abiding, and this
J. arried to its final conclusion, Il
organized outlaWry."
ST. LOUIS. Dec. l6,-Within sil
, hours after the Ku-Klux Klan Of
4 cred the local Boy Scouts organiza
9 tion a donation OF S25,000 II wa
refused by officials OF that organ
izatlon and this stand has not beer