The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1922-03-23
XII KLUX ORATOR
TOLD AIMS AND
OBJECTS ORDER
Col. J. 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. O. 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 by 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 upholding of the constitu-
ton 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.
lie paid his respects to the New
York World and the editor Pulitzer,
who he chara cterized 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
a good negro was Georgia but it was
no place for a 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 w0man's virtue the Ku Klux
/ Klan is determined that man can new
1 eT repay the debt of gratitude due to
wOmanhocd 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 dsloyel citizens who could
not take the til of true fealty to the
/ government. Tina; the Khan had new.
er taken the law INFO their own hands
ant in Df-
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
i 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 uD the immigration uues-
ton and dwelt at length upon the
thousands Of Gorcign-born who are
coming over here not to become citi.
zens of the United States but to
Z make money and to carry on the pro
pagaHda Of anarchy and old world
IDEAS. that the colonies in the various
Dig cities did not aSsimilatc or affili-
ate with American people. did not ev-
en- speak our language and the Khan
stood Tor Americanism with all the
hyphens knocked out and if he was an
Italian or any other nationality let
nm 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
alioWed to form 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 eggs
ana let the other bird take care of the
little cuckoos and when they were
large enough they threw out the little
birds belonging to the original owner
Of the nest
fhe order is growing not inly in
the South but everywhere and the
Kan knew no north, south, east or
west but was for all Of America first
last and always. He spoke of the
great College of America that the or.
der is founding in Atlanta that will
teach religion and American citizen.
ship first. it will be the biggest uni.
versity in the world and every state in
the Union will build a building on the
grounds. There they will teach the
Bible and the constitution of the Unit
ed States as well as the arts and
sciences, it will be non-sectarian and
no pupil can get diploma until they
are able to recite the constitution of
the United States, be Christians and
100 per cont Americans
In closing he again recitod the
requisites for becoming a Klansman
ana said the membership embraced
men OF every walk of life from the
highest to the lowest and from United
States senator's. congressman, judges,
and officials of all kinds who were
real men" but only real men could
belong and he again emphasized the
! cardinal principles Of Americanism,
white supremacy, religion and the pro-
u A.