The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1923-11-14

the Khan has as much right to INVIS-
IBLE EMPIRE as any various lodges
have to call any of their rites by the
names that they do. This writer also
believes that the INVISIBLE EN-
PRE- of the Khan is an innocent thing
to which no man if he knew the in
side would object. Man on the out
side may have his objection, and in
this case, the case of the INVISIBLE
EMPIRE, he voices his objection in
no uncertain terms. He sees in it an
opportunity to do ill to his fellow man
and at his expense to make political
capital. So long as he can foster the
interests of his own religious society,
or his own political fortunes, it makes
little difference to him. He will stop
at no crime to bring an indictment
against his fellow citizens in their
harmless use of terms if it furthers
his interests.
ignorant and hence bigoted, and who
ignorant and hence higoted, and who
have been brought to believe that
great crowds of men and women can
be gathered into secret societies for
the doing of wrong. The teachings
of certain sect, and their adherence
to a certain form of education, would
compel US to know that there are
those so ignorant as to believe such
things.
However the great opposition that
is brought against the Klan, and the
untruthfully reiterated statement to
the effect that the INVISIBLE EN-
PRE- is a super government, which
intends, or does control the visible
government, does not come from the
ignorant and bigoted, who have been
held under the heel Of superstitious
religious society. BUT 1T COMES
FROM MEN WHO HAVE HAD
HIGHER ADVANTAGES, AND
WHO KNOW BETTER; WHOSE
VERY OPPORTUNITIES FOR
KNOWING THEIR FELLOW CITI-
ZENS OF ALL SORTS. WOULD
PRECLUDE THE POSSIBILITY OF
THEIR BEING DECEIVED. Those
men are using, as follows, those made
ignorant, and kept ignorant by that
religious sect, to make more weighty
their work in numbers.
Drop The Term
l had intended, in a friendly way,
to advise the powers at the head of
the Khan to drop the use of that
term to designate their Supreme
Realm, but thinking it over, 1 decid-
ed there were too many asses in the
world now, giving gratuitous advice.
l thought over the various other sug-
gestions made by officials and gather
ings of different sort. One asked
that the Khan disband. Another said
TAKE OFF YOUR MASKS" An
other said drop your OATH" just as
if they knew whether or not there
was such thing taken by Klansmen;
Another said this, and another said
that. Finally l came to the conclu
sion that if I were connected with
the Khan and so much free advice as
to WHAT THE KHAN OUGHT TO
DO WE'RE OFFERED ME-, 1 would
finally get me stock answer to
make to all,-which would read some
thing like this; "Oh-tell them to 60
well why don't you tell them? Tell
them that the Khan got along some
how before it received any sugges-
tions at all, and in spite of all sug-
gestions, the Klan is going to run its
affairs-in its own way, without ad-
vice or hindrance of any sort from
outsiders" Personally l should ap
plaud any man who answered med
dlers from the outside in that man
ner. As Mason, as an Elk, as
member of various other secret or
CARNATIONS, l am obliged, under a
solemn pledge of secrecy, never to
reveal what goes on within the lodge
room. Traitors have reveiled what
goes on in all of them. Some of those
secrets are in print and can be bought
for price, but having a sense of
honor l shall neer knowingly reveal
secret of any of my various orders,
AND WOULD, WITH MY BLOOD
PAY THE PRICE OF PREVENT
ING ANY SET OF MEN ATTEMPT
ING TO TREAT MY FELLOW
LODGEMEN, AS 1 KNOW 1T HAS
BEEN ATTEMPTED TO TREAT
KLANSMEN. Furthermore should
consider it an insult to the intellig-
ence of Masons or any of my orders,
for outsiders to presume to tell US
how to run them. When l turn to
the Encyclical Letters of Pope Leo
XIII and read what he has said of
alton, that a churchman, processing
to be so high in authority, could stoop
so low in his effort to falsify and to
misrepresent Masonry, into which he
nor any of his followers can ever hope
to enter.
The Deeper The Mystery
| have come to the conclusion that
the deeper the mystery the better
man likes it, and the more interesting
it becomes, therefore l tell you Klans-
men to run your order just the way
it suits you to run it. Hang on to
everyone of your names and your
rites and ceremonies. Make them