The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1922-06-15
Letters From The People

! DR. {. V. Kraft.
| Editor Algiers Herald.
/ Algiers, La.
( AlsierS. Louisiana. June >th. 1922.
! Dear Sir
Below please find COPY Of a letter
mailed To Hon. c. \. Buchler, the Dis
trirt Attorney OF the 18th Judicial
/ District, Gretna. La.
This letter is in answer to his dated
May >th. answering our RESOLUTION
. Of April 10Th, 1922.
This for your information, you may
use it a. you see fit.
Sincerely yours,
AL GRE HAIR, KHAN No. - REALM
OF LOUISIANA. KNIGHTS or
THE KU KLUX KHAN.
June >th, 1922.
| Honorable c. a. Buchler.
! District Attorney. 18th Judicial Dis
trict.
| Gretna. Louisiana.
Dear Sir
/ We have just received through our
/ IMPERIAL OFFICE your letter dated
May 18th in answer to our RESOLU-
/ TION. a copy of which was sent you
on May 9Th, 1922.
We note that you request us TO sub
nit TO the Grand Jury the evidence
We have of the many law violations
occurring in the Parish OF Jefferson.
! II YOU will refer 10 our RESOLU-
TION YOU will note that We did not
agree 10 furnish the Grand Jury with
the evidence we have, but aid agree TO
furnish Governor Parker with it and
will at the proper time, together with
that and other proofs and facts that
We are daily getting.
Why is it necessary for you TO ask
us to get evidence and come before
the Grand Jury. when you and the
other Officers of Jefferson are very
well paid for the efforts you are now
putting forth. to say nothing OF the
,ATH that you all took TO DO YOUR
DUTY as Law Officers?
II certainly appears to us, that il
We as CITIZENS can get this ENI-
DENCE most assuredly those en-
trusted with Law enforcement should
be able to do so.
Surely il does not require men with
the ability of a Sherlock Holmes nor
one with the reputation of Scotland
: Yard man to unearth some of the
many cases of Law Violation in JET
PERSON PARISH.
, our RESOLUTION was not intend
! ed to create any hard feelings nor dc
, We wish TO be antagOnistiC, however
we propose to make every effort 10
; have the Law Officers of Jefferson
SEE THEIR DUTY as we SEE it and
KNOW 1T TO BE.
Mr.. Buchler we are not counting
nor do we want long winded argu
ment with you or any other official
nor do we propose TO appear before
the Grand Jury, nevertheless as ClTl
ZENS of the Parish we cannot hell
but feel that we are entitled to some
small degree of protection at the
y hands OF the men we have entrusted
with the enforcement of our laws.
Can YOU cOnscientiOusly deny thai
GAMBLING in most hideOus forms il
the only means of support VISIBLE
of quite a large portion of the so
called residents OF the Parish, evel
ready to take the earnings by fair OIL
foul means from our wage Garner
and tempt OUR YOUTH?
Can YOU conscinetiously deny tina
men charged with MURDER or il
equivalent are allowed to roam tn
streets of Gretna in the shape o
TRUSTEES?
Do you know that hard working
men who love their families and wan
to give them respectable surrounding
in which to live. have had to leav
their bed in the middle of the nigh
and with a shot gun go to corne
BLIND TIGER that has sign II
front of il RESTAURANT and try t
stop a bunch of HOODLUMS from
cursing and holding the most vulga
conversations anyone ever heard, onl
TO be met by a DEPUTY SHERIFF
and by him threatened with Jail 70
carrying the gun?
Let us suggest that you use you
persuasive powers to get the mel
under you as Officers of the Law Z
pull OFF THEIR BLINKERS and re
port what they SEE, then do you
DUTY, We are sure that the resul
will not warrant OUR going befor
the Grand Jury.
AS 100 per cent AMERICANS, CIT
ZENS, and KLANSMEN. every on
OF whom is REGISTERED and ha
ample POLL TAX RECEIPTS, we pre-
pose to make JEFFERSON what /