Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-10-03
THE KHAN is RIGHT
OR THE KHAN is WRONG.

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propaganda of the Ku Klux Khan
is right or it's wrong.
If it is right, it should receive
the support and endorsement of the
press, the pulpit, the civic bodies
and other thinking men and wo-
men.
If it is wrong, it should receive
the condemnation of press, pulpit
and civic club.
That there are good men who
are members of the Khan, we do
not deny; men who believe that
they have a mission to perform and
are acting in good faith to them
selves and their fellows.
That there are vicious men in the
ranks of the Khan, can not be de-
MED. The chaos that exists in
many communities is sufficient
proof to the minds of thinking men.
If the Khan is right, then why
should it work under mask? If it is
right, why should the members
conceal their identity?
If it is right and It's teachings
and PRACTICES will stand the search
ing glare of publicity, why should
its membership remain concealed
from all who are not sworn men,
bers?
The Mason, the odd Fellows, the
Elk, the Kiwahian all proclaim
their membership 10 the world. So
far as We. can recall, the Khan n II
the ONLY organization that con-
ceals its. membership and binds..its
members not to divulge their iden-
tity as Klansmen.
Why, is. that necessary? 1t is be-
cause the Khan thinks there are
those in a community that should
be waited on" and whose morals
should be corrected by masked
bands? 20 g 4Hi
Is it because. the Khan believes
that it should hold a big stick over
politicians and, in order to do so,
il hides its tenticles, so that no
man may know from whence he re-
ceives support or condemnation?
In Khan ranks are to- be found
lawyers, merchants, doctors, and
preachers, all leaders of men.
To the preacher, we ask this
question:: Can you square your
membership with the teachings of
the Holy Nazarene? Do you believe
that the Christ and His loyal and
devoted Companions Twelve, would
have worn mask? Would they have
dealt with certain community prob
lens with their faces hidden?
Would the Christ and His Apostles
have laid on the lash, when there
by existed constituted authority tc
deal with the immoral?
There is no place in Free Amer
iea@for masked band. There is
RaqL 'sonHod peYsem Io1 ooeId ou
is no place for masked Christian
ity.~
The preacher holding member
ship in the Khan is not a safe lead
er. The politician holding member.
ship is not free. He is a slave to
his masters.
# the teachings and practices
Of the Klan were right, the good
state of Oklahoma would not to.
day be on the verge of civil war,
fare. If the Khan was not seeking
the control of politics in Oklahoma
today, its Governor could not have
declared martial law.
We are free people. We de
mand absolute freedom of speech
of thought, of action. Whenever
and wherever a masked band at
tempts to circumscriBe that free
dom, to place limitation on us q
free men, there and then evil strif,
begins.
This question of right or wron,
of the teachings and practices o
the. Ku Klux Khan is one tina
should be faced by press and pul
pit.
No man has a right to retail
leadership in his community who
not ready and willing to declar
himself for or against this questio
that is of the most vital impol
lance to Free America.
Freedom of discussion wi
MAKE or BREAK the Ku Klu
Khan.