The Denver Jewish news., 1923-11-22
Weekly Current Euents By
Gershon Agronsky
The Klan Election GainThe Boston Transcript and "A
Descendant of the Race
BY GERsHoN AGRoNsKY

bad luck. lp tho whole. the 1OOWO
Elansmen of Ohio mny as well burn
100000 crosses. fer the Klan invasion
IF Ohio from Columbus. the capital
of the state. TO every town and village
lpucars To he complete. Ohio now vies
with in,linnn and Texas for the honor
If being The star state OF Klandom.
St!i6 as rock, the Klnn Is not dis
rupied or di>memberel by internal
fracascs leading up to the internecine
lcngcs the Imperial Wizard to come
out into the open and give the public
the facts in connection with the mur-
der committed by the publicity agent
pf the l<lan in Atlanta. But shooting
people to death seems to be an incl
dent in tie i<lan's read to conquest.
4 murder here and there by one Of his
hcnchmcn. leaves the Imperial Wizard
,ndistnrbed. WI II blood on his pup
pets hands, the Wizard still goes
nleut preaching the doctrine of pure
Amcricanism. excluding from the ranks
VI Americans tin-Protestant Americans
not Indigenous to the soil where mmr-
derers flourish.
Why should. the klcn worry, when
down in Eas rop. I.n.. Klansmcn are
fined so for taking the law into their
own hnnsls? Klansmen do not fear or
rcsrect the Inv. anl they have no re-
gard for public opinion. because they
not only override 1t. hut intimidate IT,.
Organizn ions with large sections Of
their membership opposed to the Kian
darc not come cut .ands disavow the
ISl.,n ,lxsu u,ssc the Khan minority Nitoo
I,&crflS TO t4 rrplaAis3fsl. Even ase
American Region dared not name the
Khan I'M its.. unc; ;posts pero,ution de-
nouncing inslividNals or organizations
fostering racial. religious or class
strife. II men who facrl hell in
France will not encounter the enemy
on the home ground. hut will content
themselves with finding the unnamed
organization Inconsistent with the
"ideals and purposes Of the American
Legion" who will dare defy the Klan?
There was no reported Klan activity
in New England during the recent elec-
tion, which Is surprising. With so
militant an organ as the "Beston Tran
script" for their support. the Klnns-
men could. If they would, sweep the
dry Protestant nativis.s into Office.
and Americans who are dry and ma
tive, hut who are not working Mt 1t.
ont of office For the Transcript
editorial finger moves ns II guided by
Wizard Evans. The Transcript" Is
impatient with aliens The Tran
script" hates Jews. Seeking to mOllify
its hatrcd Of the Jews. it speaks only
of "so-called Jews" And sO-called
Jews. according to the Transcript y
are aliens. sufficiently alien to be-
ieve that the capital of Massachusetts
ought not to receive officially a Polish
general who is accused of conniving ut
if not instigating. pogrOms.
ALLEN Jews Of Boston. among
whom there Is one who is sufficiently
American to have been made Deputy
! At. orney General for Massachusetts,,
have no right, the Transcript" fOams.
to protest against the freedom Of the
| city 10 the general OF Poland because
in 40 protesting they nre guilty of
abusing the hospitality of tOO-paticnt
and going people" The Tran
script" would make short shift Of
these so-called Jews who repeatedly
abuse the American hospitality of
which they are the greedy and ungrate-
| full recipients. and who are fit sub
| jects for deportation
The Klan publicity agent who has
been busy firing IA gun down in At
lanta should rest from this engaging
pastime to study the opportunities In
the newspaper field in Boston. where
n rcudy-made organ exists for the ds-
serinating of 100 percentism.
Eut This trick of drawing distinc-
tions between Jews and sO-called Jews
{, is older than the Transcript older than
the Khan Jews themselves have been
drawing that distinction for centuries
In Berlin. where the Voelkische holli-
gans early this week went on bloody
rampage. the Association of German
Citizens of the Mosaic Persuasion all
but condoned the pogrom because the
victims thus far are largely East
European Jews. and because the pres