The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1923-09-14

all of you here tonight, if you were
asked, would say that you belonged
to either the Democratic or the Rep
publican party. The Klan is COM
ing forth with a new gospel; it is
saying to Americans, "You are
greater than political parties. You
do not belong to political parties.
Political parties essentially are tools
with which to accomplish things,
and the tools with which Aemricans
must work at the poles, belong to
Americans" Hence, we are. going
to the poles, and we must pick up
whichever tools will cut the keenest
and accomplish the most. We will
use these tools to turn out the best
statesmen and the best laws.
We Are Here to Say 1t
We are here. to say to the Jew,
"You are welcome here; welcome to
open your stores and to have your
banks, but you must take your place
alongside other men, without politi-
cal preferences being thrown your
way" We are here to say to the
Negro, "You are welcome here, but
you must keep your place." Down
in the cotton-belt, the Negro keeps
his place. At cotton picking time,
when the negroes go on strike for
more money, shorter hours, or some
thing or other, and the cotton is go
ing to waste, and no hands can be
brought in to take their places, the
Klansman robe and march down
through town with their visors down,
and then they all go home
and 60 to bed, and the next
morning every Negro goes back to
work. We are here to say to him,
"Your slogan, social equality,
which in every Negroes mind means
inter-marriage of the black race
with the white race, shall cease t.
be uttered" We are here to say to
Roman Catholics: "You are wei
come in America; welcome to till
American soil, welcome to conduct
business enterprises, welcome to
have your churches, welcome to
worship God according to the die
tates of your consciences." We are
here to say to them, "You are well
come here with your religion, but,
while there is room for you in Amer
lea, there is no room in America for
the Pope-not even in the spirit of
political rule" Furthermore, the time
is coming when it will be proclaimed
from the house-tops, and those house
tops will be State Legislatures that
no one shall teach in public schools
who may be sent there to instruct
the children falsely concerning me-
dieval church history. Our public
school is one of our cherised institu-
lions. In various places it is being
Romanized. Right here in Mime
sofa, as we'll as elsewhere, Romanism
in certain places is being injected
into the public schools.
I say to you, without mental re-
|servation, that the Roman hierarchy
is temporal power, and the man or
woman who owes and avows an al
legiance to temporal power other
than the government of the United
States of America, is not only ELI
gible to hold Office in America, but
that person is not eligible to teach
in our public schools.
The Tree Teaches a Lesson
AS you ride along the side of a
forest that has been torn down by a
hurricane, you behold the bushes ly-
ing fiat, great trees snapped at their
roots, and your heart is sad. Those
trees have stood, some of them for
fifty years, perhaps for a century, and
in moment they were unable to
resist the storm. But as you ride
along, looking out the window, you
see tree standing, a majestic oak,
it's branches twisted and broken, but
it's trunk erect. That tree has lived
for century or more, the storms
have played with it, swinging its
branches to and fro, and have driven
its roots down deeper into the earth,
where they took frmer hold and
gathered from the earth more power.
which was sent up into its trunk
and when that mighty storm came,
twisting its fellows down and lay
ing things waste everywhere, that
tree braced itself against the ele-
ments, withstood the storm, although
it was wounded and twisted, and
when the storm passed, it still stood.
I would like to stop the train and
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