The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1923-08-17

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bly, of Brother Klansmen; but, with
your forbearance, would like to dis
cuss just a few of them. Permit me
to say, before doing this, that having
assumed your sacred, solemn, binding
and patriotic obligation, am thor
oughly convinced that the is abso-
lutely nothing in its motives of meth
DDS, purposes, principles or practices,
aims or ambitions when properly un-
derstood, to which any truly loyal
American citizen could possibly OBJ
ject. I am positively sure that its
opponents either owe allegiance to
some foreign power, religious or polit-
ical; else they are grossly ignorant
of the tenets of this truly American
order, or they are lawless men, GRIM
inally bent, with no regard for Ameri-
can law, it's authority or its flag.
Back to my reasons for being here
tonight:
Khan Growth Proves Need for It
FIRST believe that any cause
that can marshal a force Of mil
lions of men, full-blooded, ma
tive-born, while Protestant, Amer
lean citizens under it's banners within
a few short years against the most
determined opposition and bitterest
fight, since the days of Rome's perse-
cution of the church, is entitled to the
serious and friendly consideration of
all minded, honest men. I do not
believe that so many men of that
type and character could be induced
to embrace an unjust cause, or to Or
ganize with criminal intent. I do not
believe that millions of such men
would ever endorse or approve, much
less commit and conceal, such crimes
and lawless atrocities as have been
charged to the Ku Klux Klan.
Courts Vindicate Khan
SECOND-After charging the Klan
with ever conceivable crime in the
catalog, and the declaration of law
yers, judges and courts, from New
York to San Francisco and from Gal
weston to Chicago, that the Klan is a
lawless mob, illegal and unconstitu-
tional, not a single one of these
sacredly constituted authorities, en-
trusted with the enforcement of law
and the suppression of lawlessness,
has ever beep able to prove their bale
full charges anywhere, from a justice
court to the congress of the United
States.
Federal Investigation of X. K. X.
THIRD have watched with no
small degree of interest, at least three
Federal Investigations of this order,
with view to stopping its illegal ac-
tivities and dispensing its membership.
The Post Office Department, the De-
partment of Justice and the Congress
Of the U. S. have each looked care
fully into its workings. Three times
the Federal government has said, as
Plate said of Christ, 1--WE find no
fault in them" But still the angry,
blood thirsty, lawless un-American
mob cries, outside the Halls of JUS
tice, Cruelty them. Cruelty them.
If you turn these white-robed, hood
ed monsters loose, you are no friend
of the Pope"
Criminals Do Not Ask for Charters
FOURTH have noted the further
fact that Georgia, my native state,
had chartered the Ku Klux Khan un-
der her state laws. did not believe
YEA, I KNEW, that she would not
charter secret order or band of men
to practice lawlessness, override the
courts, and take the reigns of govern
ment from the state and nation. I al
SO knew that men engaged in such
business do not seek a charter under
any state law. Criminals and mobs
do not ask for charters to do business.
The very suggestion is absurd.
Khan Against Politically Ambitious
Church
F1FTH-f the order stood for
nothing else on earth but opposition
to the political Entertainments of
Romanism, against our free institu-
lions, through the reasonable, un-
American oath of the Knights OF
Columbus, I would cast my lot with
it, and be where am tonight. For
the records of history confirm the
fact that this baneful power that has
ruthlessly destroyed all the nations Of
Europe seeks to lay it's Shiny, blood
stained, murderous hands upon on,
free schools, our sacred marriages
our freedom of speech and thought
and upon the very government itself
Invisible Empire Purely American
SIXTH-In the next l proudly as.
sert the glory Of my race, and the
pride of my American manhood. The
Invisible Empire of the Knights of the
Ku Klux Khan is the ONLY 100 pc,
cent American organization know
of in the whole world. All other or.
CARNATIONS, political parties, schools
and colleges, churches and lodges
states and nations. admit in one wa,