New-York tribune., 1922-11-27


Khan was being discussed. Dr. Hay
wood said that the matter had been
considered, but no definite steps yet
taken. One OF the irrepressibles sug-
gested that there would be difficulty in
telling the klsnswomen from the
klansmen, once both sexes were robed
in the traditional white nightgown
and perforated hood of the night
riders.
WE'LL" said the Klokard, "perhaps---
only perhaps, mind you--the Indies
might wear pajamas."
Upon the general policies OF the Ku-
Rlux Khan, so harshly arraigned from
SO rnany different sources, DR.. Hay
woods mind is mada UP, and his
position firmly established. He be-
lieves, sincerely, beyond question, that
the khan stands for all that Is good
and noble in American tradition.
Therefore, he is equally firmly con-
yinced that all tales Of happenings
which would indicate that upon oc-
casion khan members had acted in a
cowardly, unfair or reprehensible
manner, are necessarily untrue. All
suggestions of wrougdoing by the Ku-
klux Klsn, that organizations New
York representative meets with the
simple statement. '"That is not so.n
States Khan Platform
Under The INSTRUMENTATION of the
reportoriai inquisitors, the klokard re-
vealed without equivocation the klan's
attitude on q number Of national is
sues. His hearers learned, among
other things:
That the Khan is in favor of the
Eighteenth Amendment; also the Vol
stead act.
That the Klan is in close sympathy
with the Anti-Saloon League and its
manifold activities.
That the Klan is Violently opposed"
Go the practice of birth control
That the Klan Is opposed also to
feminism, holding that the highest
duty of women is to bear sons and
daughters for the glory of the nation.
That the Khan is opposed to divorce.
That the Klan is firmly opposed to
lynching, but also that the Klan Is
against The Dyer anti-lynching bill,
vides the remedy for the situation"
That the Klan does not threaten.
''There never has been" said DR.. Hay
wood, "a letter written by member
of the Klan which made q threat against
anybody"
DR.. Haywood said that the Klan "is
not anti Catholic or anti-Jew or anti
negro. 1t is merely d white American,
GENTLE Protestant organization.
"Its membership" he continued, "is
drawn largely from the memberships
of the Methodist, Baptist and Presby-
terian churches" In some districts,
he explained, there was a greater pre-
ponderance Of members of one sect; in
others another sect might predominaGe.
Contains Few Episcopalians
It was an organization for plain,
everyday, common American citizens,
he insisted, and his passing comment
was that there were probably fewer
Episcopalians in the Klan than mem
bers of any other Protestant denomi-
nation, "becauses Baptists and Metho-
dists are, as rule, mere closely re-
lated to the common people than Epis-
He added also that the Congrega-
tional Church's historic tradition Of
abolition probably accounted for the
lack OF Congregationalists in the klan's
M bership. "They confuse us with
the khan of the Reconstruction period"
he explained. He; knew, he added, two
ministers in Pennsylvania
who were lecturers for the khan.
When asked about the statement of
Colonel Ransom Gillett, counsel for
the Association Against the Prohibition
to. the effect that there
was an alliance between the Anti
Salon League and the Ku~Klux Klan,
he. said that he thought "there might
be good deal of truth in that" The
leaders Of the organization generally,
ne said, were supporters OF the Eight
zenith Amendment, because they be-
lieved that even bad law should be
enforced until such time as it can be
replaced by good one. This he said