The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-12-16

FOrDldding Alan 10 Act without stare
Charter - Opposing It as Terrorist
Tells of Antagonisns / Creates.
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, w.
Va, Dec. 16-Kansas win not drive the
Ku Klux Khan from the state by force
but will expel it by refusing to permit it
to do business within the states bound
aries. Governor Henry J. Allen declared
in an address prepared for delivery to-
day before the governors conference.
a writ being sought in the Kansas su-
preme court. he said, would make disap-
pear the blazing cross and the pasture
parties, where the men mask themselves
and put on a fantastic ceremony in the
open field and terrorize an entire neigh
borhood''
In Kansas we are seeking to expel the
Khan from the state, Governor Allen
said. Il note by the press of the country
that some mlsapprehension exists as 10
Just what We mean by expelling the or
der, and the thought has been expressed
that it Is the intention OF the state to
drive out of the state the members of the
hian.
This Is not at all what the action be,
lore the supreme court pre-Supposes. In
der the law OF Kansas, every organization
doing business within the state must be
chartered. The hu hlux hlan mas a
Quarter under the laws OF Georgia, and
Gne action now pending IN the supreme
court OF the state Is tor the purpose of
securing witt torDIddlng the Man to
40 business hereafter IN Kansas
The essence OF cur opposition to this
I III
nghts the Catholic churches, or expresses
ITS antipathy to the jew or to the Negro,
! but IN the tact that 1t does this under the
protection of a mask and through the
| process of terrorism and violence
1t is incredible that this country
should have passed through its baptism
| Of heroic devotion which called 1t into
action four years ago, only to Gag back
now INTO thlc most lamentable species OF
disorder.
Much human life has been sacrificed
to the cause of Christian civilization, as
| America lnterprets it. l could take you
/ to place / know in France, where the
/ crosses rise row on row, and after a While
we should stand before q cross which
marks the resting place of James FitZ-
| simmons The record is that he was the
| first member of the American Expedi-
/ ti0nary Forces to give his life IN the
| combat area of TOul. If had the power
| TO reincarnate him. / could say: James
1 L lIZSlLlulOIS. you LHllh you 3It Il 4UO
| per cent American, and | imagine be
| would look at me with some surprise and
say: L never thought much about that (;
| was born in America and when they
| told me this war was for the defense OF
our ideals and Of our civilization | didn't
wait for the selective draft. | hurried on
to offer my life for the defense of the
principles which America had adopted as
| her own
IF / should say you are not 100 per
cent American, there is an emperor Of
an invisible government at Atlanta
| Georgia. who declares you cannot be TOT
per cent American because you are q
Catholic / dare say he would say TO me
| they never told me anything like thu
when | stood in line with my gun, wait
| ing to go over the top
Sketching the progress of the Khan, ht
continued:
ut grows very rapidly when it strikes
2 community and it requires about year
| Of experience to convince IFS best mem
hers that the organization has no rec
place of usefulness in America
areuses the intensest bitterness.
| in some communities. where am &C
| ur-ainted with its activities. friends ~
life time have become estranged tamile'
| have been divided. men become SUSPICIOUS
~ their neirhhors. higotrv and intoler
orca have thrived. poisoned pens and scr
| nnnt tongues have been busy snread1n'
| saardaIe women and children have heel
| TAUGHT 70 believe that their neiEhbors @
different religious faith are plottH'
| fheir destruction"