The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1923-11-21

CT, dStIluc lie pluISluS IuoIouSuDIe'
steed of Right and lighting my be-
loved land with his Fiery Cross helt
high, rode into my heart-a signal
sacred, God-sent honor.
He was the personifcation of al
righteousness, coming to leave the
impress of zealousness, which was
his, on this old heart of mine. I will
forever remember him and hold hin
in sublime reverence, for he is my
Criterion of Character as our Lore
Christ is his.
Beneath his hood, I knew the
Great Conscience of God was craven
giving him to see all, know all, fer.
ret out all mal-odorous deeds of man.
kind, and, too, to smack of the good.
nesses and hear of the songs of man
Wisdom his robed body embraced
together with the embodiment of the
ideals and principles and aims of the
forefaothers who gave to US that
classic vehicle by which our lives are
nodded: the Constitution of the Unit.
ed States of America. His fervid Wis.
cera held intact that power of ou1
American institutions and that power
of construction for the building Of
those temples of right scattered
everywhere over the country. His
heart? It was the symbol of the
American home.
His mighty, Protestant right arm
waved aloft his hand, which was
Spirit, it's fingers closing about his
Sacred Cresset, the Fiery Cross, anc
were synonymous of Truth, Love
Purity, Righteousness, Immortality
His just Klannish left arm drew in his
steed with that hand, which was Life
to halt inside me, it's fingers holding
secure the reins-fngers which meant
Honor, Chivalry, Nobility of Charac'
ter, the preservation of the Sanctity
of the Home and of the Chastity Of
Pure Womanhood.
His stead was ready, eager to gel
on, but the rider dismounted, his no.
BILE limbs, Church and State, striding
fearlessly toward my vital spark, ir
the paths of His making, on feet Of
Solidarity and Power. He stopped
his feet planted firmly in my heart
the toes of Solidarity, which repre-.
sented Christianity, Benevolence, 10y
atty, Education, Liberty, gripping the
tendrils of my heart ventricle, and
those of Power, which were Law
White Supremacy, Gentle, Patriot,
ism, Klankraft, entwining themselves
in the valves of my hearts auricle.
His keen Eye of Scrutiny, blazing
through the eyeholes of his clean
white hood, held me enthralled.
saw the Light of Wisdom there. He
spoke-clearly and imperiously calm
81 am the Ku Klux Klan," he said
and 1 leaned forward to catch his
every word. ~ am riding over GU,
land from it's Core of Inherent Purity
to its Scrofulous Skin-from its warm
Heart of Brotherly Love, through its
tainted Blood-Stream, to it's minut-
est Questionable Capillary-from its
God-given Brain of Justice and Law
and Order to its most twisted Peri
pheral Nerve-endings-ever on the
alert, never sleeping. There is much
for me to do. am doing it. Over
mountains and valleys I 60, through
states, cities and hamlets, bringing
along my own American-born Revival
of Righteousness. The ravaging
forest-ires, stuffing into its gorging
mouth everything obstructing its
passage is as naught to the ardo1
of my sweep of the nation. I am
building Temples and Pyramids OF
Love, Charity and Justice, far great
er to US than to the ancient Egypt
ians were those material ones. built
by Khufa the Cheops of the Greeks
in the Fourth Egyptian Dynasty.
"The period of moral retrogression
even turpitude, which came upon US
like an avalanche with the great
World War, and which is still RAM
pant in our midst, is fast being
crushed by this revival. These Shiny
reeking, hideous, hell-beings who are
pecuniarily profting by the errors
and sins of those weak creatures
writing and wriggling in the slough
of meretricious despond-those human
vultures preying upon the unfortunate
and helpless alike-those insidious
influences in the determined perpe-
tration of undermining our American
institutions by melting acts, PREACHER
Gus and criminal, and, when commit
ted, try to foist them onto me by way
of imputation and even false accu-
sation-those insignificant, encepha-
lie, despotic, gubernatorial creatures
who, through intimidation, bribery
and the eager susceptibility of the
ignorant and vicious-all, who cast
willy innuendoes, malicious lies and
vilifcations on my character are
slowly, though none the less positive
y