The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-12-10
He ATTACKS STREET
Says Brokers, Financiers and
Manufacturers, With Eng
land, Sent U. S. to War
GROUPS CONTROL NATION
Political Control Perfected to
Point Where Few Rule
Millions Destinies
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
CHICAGO, Dec. 9.-Mayor John
+. Hylan OF New York tonight
brought his attack on the existing
political and economic order to the
middle west in a speech before the
Cook county real estate board.
He assailed both the republican
and democratic parties, the powers
of greed and corruption" IN Wall
street, denounced the Ku-Kiux Khan
and all other organizations, which,
he said, seek to divide the electorate
on radical or religious Lines, blamed
our entry into the war on British
misrepresentation and wall street
greed, scored the tariff law and paid
warm tribute to william Randolph
Hearst.
The speech was under the spon-
sorship Of Mayor William Hale
Thompson with whom no conferred
at French Lick, Ind, recently over
| tho political outlook for 1924.
A small group OF excessively
wealthy individuals" control both
the major political parties, he told
the realtors. and through the exer-
cises OF powerful. sinister and too
often unlawful Influence have he
come the virtual dictators OF the
destinies of more than 10, 900, 900
people"
They have dictated nominations
for the presidency. he said. written
| the platforms and party pledges, and
because of their campaign fund
contributions arrogated to them
selves the right to dictate govern
mental policies.
Public officials who dare to op-
pose this power. Mayor Hylan said.
are driven to IAN earthly as wen as
No loo frv,
compromise with their conscience
and become subservlent tools
Great Britain and the allies, he
charged. misled Americans by their
censorship and ediNd and doctored
newspaper dispatches to make them
conform to their cause.
America went into the war, he
said, TO protect the foreign invest
ments OF the Wall street bankers,
and because the great munitions
manufacturers wanted the addi-
tional profits that would accrue to
them. Turning to the tariff law,
Mayor Hylan declared the ALUMNI
mum Company Of America, OF which
Andrew Mellon. secretary of the
! treasury. is head, received a gift
OF approximately $23,0O0,O00 a
year" through the tariff act.
The Ku-Klux Klan, he continued,
probably was engineered by the
ruling minority Of money lenders of
! America to create dssensions
among the different creeds and
races of our people. thus diverting
attention from theiB own sinister
Vaccinations"
NEW YORK, Dec. e.--"Ths Ku-
Klux Klan is not intlmidated by the
attitude OF Mayor Hylan nor will
any activities which It may be
carrying on in New York City be
curtailed as a result of any talk
with Acting District Attorney Pc
cora" declared Rev. DR.. Oscar Hay
wood, national lecturer for the Ku-
Klux Klan, today. He was ques-
| tion by the acting district attorney
, for almost three hours yesterday
II do not kno-y" Doctor Hay
wood declared, whether the klan
| is at present engaged In propaganda
or recruiting here at this time, but
l am certain that It will not halt
any work II may be doing because
! of the hostility OF certain quarters"
Questioned regarding the action
| taken by a special aldermanic COM
mittee meeting in Chicago, at
(which the klan was denounced as
american ana secret inquiry
! CONTINUED on PAGE TWESTY-SIX