Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1922-10-11
ssEs lux, IN Cambridge.

sss q <klux'' ID Garnbrid ge. 81
1T must be true, we see it in the
Boston Trans script that the la tier
day Ku Klux Klan, with its kleagles
and other impediime menta, white robes
and fiery crosses, have e ntered Cam.
bridge, assachusetts, 60 set up q
Hodge, or klayern.' is.is f39.a
The Transcript is stirred about
these .Ku Klux" who, by the way,
are not the Ku; ;Klux Of 1870 and Etno
| kim to them. The Transcript is NOV mo-.
ed to use rather strong language
about them. !. q d u
The State, no more than The
Transcript, apr owes a secret ociety
that teaches proscript ption Of men On On
account Of race or religion, but when
|it speaks of the #EKu Klux pplying
here Gin tMassac achusetts) the same
sort Of pressure by means Of a Y per per-
vasiYe secret society, that they are
attempting in the South we make
bold to suggest that the Ku Klux
/ have a more inviting filed for opera
ton in its territory than in South
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Carolina. \
Not for long in the South cana
secret society thrive on prejudices
against Roman Catholics and Jews.
The Catholics and Jews are too few
in the South. Fires kindled against
|them, however, dilig ently, will die
down. TITS impossible to imagine the
people Of any state I'M persisting ex-
citement about / per cent Of the pop
ulation. Hostility against sects or
races may flare but it can mot
last in a land where the enemy is
SO lonely as almost to be an object
Of curiosity. In 40 Of the 46 counties
|of South Carolina are probably not
many more than a kundred Catholic
families. 3s.ss33 ,;5Isi 8S
AsSfor the prejudice against the
negroes in the South, it will not he
aroused to action by the Ku Klux.
|l[obs do not go to the trouble and
expense Of masking in the South
when a negro is the quarry. Numbers
Of lynchings, have occurred in Geor-
gia lately but not one Of them has
been attributed to Ku Klux or Ku
|Klux influence. .sst
While the State would not abe in
|terpreted as defending the new Ku
|Klux, its opinion, derived from scan
ty information about them, is that in
South Carolina, at least, they are not
rufians. There is little or no evi-
dence that they have been guilty Of
violence. There has certainly been,
no violence practced by them against
Catholics, Jews or negroes so far
and the sKu Klux are said ito be rath--
er numerous too. We believe their
doctrine nes mistaken but that can be
true without their being thugs and
criminals. The State has reason TO 70
believe that the membership is made
up Of rather good citizens than
otherwise--at any rate one can, not
point to misbehavior by them. 81.
There is much more likelihood that
the Ku Klux will be a factor in af-
fairs in Massachusetts, than in South
Carolina.
Meanwhile, if Massachusetts, and
other sy1npathizing commonwealth
had not sent soldiers to the South
after the close of the Confederaat'e:
War, the original Ku Klux would
never. have been organized-there
would have been no necessity or ex--
cuse for them.
Yes, singular as it may appear, the
atmosphere of Cambridge, Massa- e.
chusetts, and of Boston, is far more nor.
favorable to the growth of Mr. Mr.,
Simmons secret order than is that
Of South Carolina or Georgia The he
State.
May Get $4e5, 900 for