Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1922-07-24

from it as follows:
Additional proof that the
Knights of the Ku Klux Klan is be-
ing welcomed with enthusiasm by
the rank and file Of one hundred
per cent American citizens wherr
ever our representatives go Is
found in the report of Hugh B.
Cobb, one of the Imperial Officers,
who has just returned from trip
to Missouri and other states in that
territory.
"Mr. Cobb went to Joplin, No.
especially to deliver an address by
Invitation OF the Joplin Klan. He
saws he found interest in Khan
Kraft running high and the mem-
bers of the organization there are
among the highest type of citizens.
On his return to Atlanta, Mr.. Cobb
spent one day with Grand Goblin
Crippen in st. Louis. He was great
Ily pleased with Klansman Crippen
and the work he is doing for the
Organization.
'It is an inspiration to see the
class of citizens who are knocking
at the outer door and applying for
citizenship in the Invisible EN-
pire, said Mr.. Cobb. The best pub
licity or propagation our organiza-
ton can have is the criticism of
its enemies. No real American cit
izen is deceived for long, if at all,
by these critics, because when he
finds out who they are the fist
custom he naturally asks is: Why
are they criticizing2 And if he has
any brains at all it doesn't take
him long to find out
"Mr. Cobb's report is indeed very
encouraging since it deals with the
progress we are making in territory
outside of the South. The red-blood-
ed American men of the North and
West are accepting the Ku Klux
Klan as an American institution
because it is such, and because it
is the only one hundred per cent
American organization in the whole
United States. Think it over.
Another convincing proof that
is taking hold is found in the fact
that our enemies are so rapidly at
tacking us. We mean something to
them apparently although they
scoffed at us in the beginning.
There is very little scoffing going
on at the present time, but there
is considerable gnashing Of teeth.
We are glad to say, however, that
the bulk of the opposition with
which we are meeting now comes
from those whom we naturally
would expect opposition and with
whom it is impossible for the Ku
Klux Klan ever to have anything
in common.
Sat the outset we were opposed
by many newspapers who had no
idea Of our real aims and purposes.
They accepted the word Of negro
associations and Catholics Jews and
other foreigners that we were a
lawless gang and criticized US ac-
eordingly.
| There is considerable food for
thought in the above extract. In the
first place l have never heard, in an
experience of nearly twenty years,
OF fraternal order sending out a
communication in which it designat-
ed the outside public or any part
Of 1T as enemies"
1t will be noted in several Of the
"News-letters s. that one of the
points l am trying to bring out
in my argument is confirmed. 1t
is the classification of the white
Catholic and the white jew with
the negro, classification that can
have but one inevitable effect
the creating of discord and dissen-
sion among members of the white
race.
The last Newsletter" 1 have
read was the one dated June 25.
1t was read at meeting 1 attend
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