Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1922-12-16
CLAIMS KU KLUX TEARS
DOWN INSTEAD OF
BUILDS UP
HIS STATE TO AID
suNFLoWER DOMAIN WILL At
TEMPT TO KEEP ORDER FROM
FUNcTioNlNG-ARRAYS NEIGH
BoR AGAINST NEiGHBoR, HE
SAYS.

White Sulphur Springs. w. Va,
Dec. 16.--Kansas will not drive the
Ku Klux Khan out by force but will
expei II by refusing to permit 1t to
do business within the state, Cover.
nor Henry J. Allen declared in an
address prepared for delivery today
before the governors conference.
A writ being sought in the Kansas
supreme court, he said, would make
disappear the blazing cross and the
pasture parties, where the men mask
themselves and put on fantastic
ceremony In the open field and ter
rorize an entire neighborhood.
I'm Kansas We are seeking TO OK
pei the order from the state" Cover
nor Allen said. 81 note by the press
of the country that some mIsappre-
hensiop exists as TO just what we
mean by expellng the order and the
thought has been expressed that it
Is the intention OF the state to drive
ont OF the state the members of the
khan.
This is not al all what the action
in the supreme court presupposes.
tion doing business there must be
chartered. The khan has a charter
under the laws az Georgia and the
action pending in the state supreme
court is for purposes OF securing a
writ forbidding the klan TO do busi-
ness hereafter in Kansas
The essence of our opposition to
this organization Is not in the fact
that 1t fights the Catholic church or
expresses its antipathy to Jews orl
TO the negro but in the fact that 1t
does this under the protection Of a
mask and through the process Of ter.
rorism and violence.
1T is Incredible that this country
should have passed through its bap-
dsin of heroic devotion which called |
II into action four years ago, only to |
sag back now into this most lament. |
able species of disorder"
Speaking about the appeal made |
BY the maskers along the line of |
what they call 100 per cent American. |
ism, he said:
"In many places the appeal to |
creed has brought into the organiza. /
ton some excellent men who be-
Heve they are addressing themselves
to real problem when they draw
lines Of religious prejudice"
Sketching tho progress Of tho khan, |
he continued:
1t grows very rapidly when It'll
strikes q community and 1t requires |
about year Of experience to con-
vince its best members that the or
ganization has no real place Of use
fulness In America 1t arouses the
intensest bitterness
I'm some communities friends of q |
lifetime have become estranged, fam
lilies have been divided, men become
suspicious of their neighbors, big
otry and intolerance have thrived |
poisoned pens and serpent tongues
have been busy spreading scandals.
Women and children have been
taught to believe that their neighbors
of a different religious faith are
plotting their destruction.
THE old American spirit Of enter.
prise, cooperation and neighborly
good will passes away under the
blight of its bigoted teachings and
tuc 5puNt VI IctlBiUuS lulOIeidIISt,l
hatred and suspicious enter into ev-
cry civic ACTIVITY from the deibera-
tions of the chamber of commerce to
the political primaries. Sermons of
hate are Numbered from pulpits
where in other years was taught the
doctrine of the great commandment, !
love one another" !.
Z After referring to specific crimes
OF violence alleged to have been COM
mitted by members of the khan, he /
said:
THE organization is as dangerous
to the Protestant as it is to the Cath
olic. the Jew or the negro because
1t exists only when the authority of
government has been broken down
and destroyed. 1t brings chaos and |
hatred and menace to every lawabid- |
ing citizen who may fall victim of
the private quarrels and animosties
of the men who hide their identity
behind mask