The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1922-03-22
XII KLUX ORATOR
TOLD AIMS AND
OBJECTS ORDER
Col. ]. Q. Nolan Addressed Large
Audience In Mum Park On
Tuesday Evening

Despite a chilly northwest wind that
swept across Mum Park on Tuesday
night. an audience estimated AT close
to one thousand persons. men and
women. listened with close attention
to Colonel J. Q. Nolan. an orator of
national reputation and prominence.
who is touring the country explaining
the aims and objects Of the famous Ku
Klux Khan. The speaker. who was
introduced bv Mayor Hubert c. Petite.
way. Immediately launched into his
subject and held the close attention Of
the crowd for more than an hour and
half. He reviewed the early history
of the original Ku KluX. sketching the
causes that brought into being the or
ganiZatiOn and venturing to assert
that in these later days there is just
as much reason, or even more. for
the existence of the Khan whose sole
object is the unfolding of the conStitu-
tion of the United States and the free
dom of the people of this country to
enjoy to the full all the benefits of
citizenship. The Khan stands for sep
aration of church and state and for
the right of every person to worship
God as he or she may see fit.
He paid his respecta to the New
York World and the editor. Pulitzer.
who he characterized as the greatest
Annanias of modern times. and Hearst
of the Journal as the chameleon who
changed his spots to suit each city in
which he controlled the paper. He
said the Khan had been called mig
ger beaters," but they were the best
friend of the negroes and the negroes
were all right if they were let alone.
that the best spot in the world for
good negro was Georgia but it was
no place for bad one.
He paid beautiful tribute to moth.
erhood and plead for the old time re-
spect for women. as he expressed it.
put grandma back on the pedestal
where grandpa placed her" For the
protection and the sanctity of the
home, of woman's virtue the Ku KluX
Khan is determined that man can nev-
er repay the debt of gratitude due to
womanhood and motherhood Mother
was SymboliZed as the picture of
Jesus Christ and her purity and sane.
tity upheld in the plea to place her
back on the throne and in the hands
of Jesus.
He said that the people who criti-
cized the ku klux Khan were either
ignorant of the teachings of the order
or were disloyel citizens who could
not take the oath of true fealty to the
government. That the Khan had new.
er taken the law into their own hands
except in rare cases and it was their
duty to uphold the law and the Off
GERS of the law. That they kept hid.
den in the folds of the white robes
and masks. not because they were
afraid or ashamed but in order that
no one would know them and they
could catch violators of the law and
report them to the officers. But in
the event the officers failed to do
their duty they would perform it and
put the officers out through the bal
lot box and the courts.
He took up the immigration Ques.
ton and dwelt at length upon the
thousands of foreign-born who are
coming over here not to become citi.
zens OF the United States but to
make money and to carry on the pro-
paganda Of anarchy and old world
ideas, that the colonies in the various
big cities did not assimilate or alIili-
ate with American people, did not ev-
en- speak our language and the Khan
stood for Americanism with all the
hyphens knocked out and if he was an
Italian or any other nationality let
him go back where he came from and
that all who remained here must be-
come real 100 per cent Americans or
leave and the Khan would see to it.
That nothing in the disarmament
line would ever be effective as long
as these people in Europe were al
lowed the latitude of today or were
allowed to form a Balkan state in
every American city. He likened the
foreigner who would not become nat
uralized to the cuckoo bird who took
up other birds nests to lay her egg
and let the other bird take care of the
little cuckOos 9ld when they were
large enough they threw out the little