The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-16
DRIVE OUT KLAN!
VIII Not Be Permitted to Do
Business in Kansas.
Governor Allen Denies That
Force Will Be Used.
TELLS WHY FIGHT is MADE
Kansas Objects to Mask, Ter
rorism and Violence.
Church or Negro Question Not
Considered, He Says.
TELLS WHY FIGHT is MADE

White Sulphur Springs. w Va
Dec. 16.-Kansas will drive the h
Klux Klan from the state, not by 1orc'
but By refusing to permit it to do busl
ness within the states boundaries
Gov. Henry ]. Allen declared in an ao
dress prepared for delivery today be
fore the governors conference.
A writ being sought in the kansai
supreme court. he said. would MAKE
disappear the blazing cross and th'
pasture parties, where the men masF
themselves and put on fantastic cere
mony in the open field and terrorlz'
an entire neighborhood."
In Kansas we are seeking TO eXpe
the khan from the state" Governor
Allen said. II note by the press OF
the country that some misapprehen'
sion exists as to just what we mean
bv expelIing the order, and the
Thought has been expressed that 1t is
the intention of the state TO drive out
the members of the klan-
Action Civn in Nature
This is not at all what the action
before the supreme court presupposes-
Under the laws of Kansas every or
Canfzation doing business in the state
of Kansas must be chartered; the
Ku Klux Klan has a charter under
the law of Georgia, and the action
now pending in the supreme court OF
a writ forbidding the khan to do Dusl-
ness hereafter in Kansas
'sThe essence of our opposition to
this organization is not in the taet
that it fights the Catholic church. or
expresses its antipathy to the Jew
or to the negro, but in the fact that
It docs this under the protection or
mask and thru the process OF terror
ism and violence
Country Says Back.
cit is incredible that this country
should have passed thru its baptism
of heroic devotion which called 1t
into action four years ago, only to sag
back now into this most lamentable
species OF disorder.
Much human life has been sacrt-
feed to the cause of Christian civil
ization as America interprets it. L
could take you to a place l know IN
France, where the crosses rise row
on row. and after a While we would
stand before a cross which marks the
resting place Of James Fitzsimmons-
The record is that he was the first
of the American expedition
ary forces TO give his life in the COM
bat area Of Toul
IF I had the power to reincarnate
him. 1 would say. James F'itzsimmons.
-Ou think you are a one hundred per
,ent American. and L imagine he
would look at me with some surprise
nd say. / never thought much about
hat; I was born in America and when
hey told me this war was for the de-
ense of our ideals and our cNiliza-
ion, l did not wait for the selective
lraft, I hurried on to offer my life
or the defense of the principles which
america has adopted as her own
IF I should say. You are not a 100
,er cent man. There is an emperor
4 an invisible government at Atlanta,
ia, who declares you cannot be 100
,er cent American because you are
1 dare say he would say to
ne. They never told me anything like
7 -An IN vx-ff
'un, waiting to 90 over the top
Appeal to Creed.
Speaking of the appeal made by or
ran:zers of the klan along lines of
What they call 100 per cent Ameri- |
he said:
In many places the appeal to
reed has brought into the organiza-
hat they are addressing themselves to
u real problem when they draw lines /
f religious prejudice
Sketching the progress of the khan,
lie continued: 1t grows very rapidly
yheu it strikes a community and IL !
equires about a year of experience
o convince its best members that the
rgan.zation has no real place of use
illness in AmeFt1a- 1t arouses the in
ensest bitterness.
In some communities where I am
cquainted with its activities. friends
Z a lifetime have become estranged.
antilles have been divided, men be-
ONE suspicious of their neighbors,
-gotry and intolerance have thrived,
oisoned pens and serpent tongues
ave been busy spreading scandals.
Women and children have been taught
, believe that their neighbors of a
fferent religious faith are plotting
heir destruction.
American Spirit Passes.
The old American spirit of enter
rise, cooperation and neighborly
BOD will passes away under the blight
its bigoted teachings and the spirit
religious intolerance. hatred and
lspicions enter into every civic activ-
y from the deliberations of the
lamber of commerce to the political
-imaries- Sermons of hate are thun-
sred from pulpits where, in other
ears. was taught the doctrine of the
eat commandment"
After referring to specific crimes, of
olence. alleged to have been COM
tilted by members of the khan in the
nth and the southwest. he continued
This organization is as dangerous
the Protestant as il is to the Catho-
:. the Jew or the negro, because it
lists only when the authority of gov
nnent has been broken down and
stroyed- 1t brings chaos and hatred.
I'd menace to every law abiding citi-
n. who may fall victim OF the pri-
te quarrels and animosities of the
ask
Governors 90 Washington.
The chief executives of fifteen states
tending the conferences are prepar-
: 10 leave for Washington after the =.
lal session today for a luncheon con- :
renee with President Harding at the :
mite House. Monday. presumably on ,
subject of prohibition enforcement !
Dec. 16-The gov
1ors & who will be President Harding's i
ests at White House luncheon on =
onday. have been called to Wash =
Ston to discuss the enforcement of
prohi6ition laws. il was said Of
tally today. d.
The governors who will come to \
ashington Monday are: Sproul. of .
Allen. of Kansas: y
enny, OF Delaware; Richie. of Mary I
nd; McCray. of Indiana; Cox. of =.
assachusetts; Olcott. of Oregon: \
lrtneSs of Vermont: Preus of Min n
sofa; kilby of Alabama: HYDE. of il