The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1923-11-28

/ Europe, or anywhere else, for Amer
Iica, WHETHER OR NOT THAT
IMAM WAS CALLED UPON TO DO
ISO-MAKES NO DIFFERENCE IN
iHIS PATRIOTISM.
j There are some men who got into
a uniform, and went straight into the
jaws Of hell and death, because they
stood for the principles that make
j America great, and out Of the jaws
of death, such came back, and WE
RESPECT THEM.
4 There were some men who never
'lgot further than a mule corral, in
some section of the country distant
from their home, and all they learned
about war was how to curry and cuss
mules, and WE RESPECT THEM.
j Some men went to encampment,
and then over seas, and then into
the trenches, and then over the top,
and then into the jaws of death, and
|then-"WESTWARD HOP and WE
RESPECT THEM.
No matter what their color, not
what their creed, they were Amer
leans, and as Klansmen,, WE RES
iPECT THEM.
/ No matter whether born in this
country or naturalized citizens, they
were Americans, and they proved it,
and all such WE RESPECT, because
1--we are Kansmen, and because we
love America and Americans.
| There is no man, who when the
time came for the testing, and who
did his part, no matter how small,
but what WE RESPECT HIM.
We Respect the American Legion
i We respect the American Legion,
because it is made up of all sorts of
men, who are Americans.
We respect the American Legion,
because in convention assembled it
fDID NOT ENDORSE THE KHAN.
There is no more reason that it
should endorse the Nan than it
should endorse any other secret fra
ternal organization.
We respect the American Legion,
because on that same occasion It did
not condemn the Khan. THERE is
mo MORE REASON FOR THE
| AMERICAN LEGION CONDEMN
ING THE KHAN THAN THERE
lis FOR 1T TO CONDEMN ANY
OTHER SECRET, FRATERNAL
ORGANIZATION.
We respect the American Legion,
because on that same occasion it
adopted a resolution, which reads:
Whereas, membership in the
American Legion is made up Of those
who served our country in time of
tgreat n tional stress without dis
tinction as to race, color, creed or
class; and
"Whereas, the American Legion is
pledged to the orderly enforcement
of our laws through lawful agencies;
lCnefeIOfe, De IL e--. -..---s~'
Resolved by the American Legion
in national convention assembled this
18th day of October, 1923, that we
consider any individual, group or in
dividuals or organization which >cre-
ates, or fosters racial, religious OF
|class strife among our people, or
which takes into their own hands the
enforcement of the law, determination
of guilt or infliction of punishment to
be un-American, menace to our
i fundamental law; and, be it further
Resolved, that we consider such
action by any individual, groups or
organizations to be inconsistent with
the ideals and purposes of the Amer
lean Legion" -
i Because the Legion stands for just
| the same things as advocated by the
| Khan for eight years, the Knights of
/ the Ku Klux Khan stand on the same
high ground that the Legion has
taken by resolution. 81, 90
i More Respects
/ But there are more respects that
we wish to pay, beside those to the
men who answered Americas call
in their hearts. -.
/ Those are to the men who have
Il gone off half cooked, and have, with
out trying to learn the truth, drawn
an incimtnet against the Ku Klux
Khan. ~
| Soft there were among those
hosts of the American Legion in con-
vention, men who voted for those
resolutions, who had in their mind
that there were a charge that the
4 Knights of the Ku Klux Khan was
doing the things that the resolution
condemned, for such men we have
the most thorough contempt, and
charge them with being hypocritical
liars and dastards, and to be men
who do not know the truth, who do
not want to know the truth.
| The Khan was mot organized to
take law into it's own hands, not to
lset creed against creed, nor race
against race, however false and
treacherous self-seeking demagogues
have tried to make it so appear.
1 The slightest investigation on the
part of anyone would prove that the
Khan is really the one great agency
that stands for the best interests Of
all men, and for the rights and guar.
antees Of all men, under the Consti.
I tuition.