The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1923-11-07

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1ThE W kIux kLAN
| WILL never DIE"
aThs Kn Klux KaAn will die only
whom the ann ceasss to shine. An
order colsseratsd 10 the things the
KAN stands for is not destined to
die. If our critics will keep. up their
unjust attacks, we will soon have
5000, 000 members. The Klan
stands for supremacy Of the white
race. When I say that I do not nee
!essarily refer to the Negro or to any
possibility of amalgamation with
that race. refer to the mongrel
hordes of Europe, those men from
Southern and Southeastern Europe
already a menace in Milwaukee and
other Northern and Eastern cities
who have been allowed to flock into
this country and who seek to marry
our children. :. -
"Jack Walton of Oklahoma is fin
ished. I tell you that when the leg
lislature of that state meets-and it
will meet-Walton will be impeached
on charges that even the newspapers
will have to print and they will have
no connection with the Khan, either.
Walton wanted to get in the Klan.
He wanted to use the Klan. When
I was in Oklahoma on official bust
ness I was taken to Walton's Office
and introduced to him. He told me
that conditions in certain county
were such that he wanted the Khan
to straighten them out. I told him
the Klan would never set itself above
legally constituted authority, that if
the sheriff of that county could not
clean up things and wanted to swear
in Klansmen to help him, they were
ready and willing to do their duty as
citizens. But Walton did not want
to do things in an orderly and legal
way.
"Then there is John M. Parker Of
Louisiana. You remember what he
tried to do there. He is done for.
He dug his own grave. And Thomas
Hardwick of Georgia. He solicited
the support of the Klan and when he
didn't get it, he called them a bunch
of outlaws. He is through. And
Gov. Henry Allen of Kansas. He
said the Khan would not be permitted
to enter Kansas, Well, two of the
largest Klans in the country are in
Topeka, the capital, and in Wichita,
Aliens home town-and Allen is a
dead duck politically.
$50 it goes. When will you peo-
pie in Wisconsin learn to send up
standing men to congress? Milwau-
kee should have Khan 10000 strong.
There should be 100000 Klansmen in
Wisconsin. Racine should have 15,-
900 members. GA voice interrupted
the speaker here to say: We'll soon
have them.') Our enemies say that
we defy the law. Anyone who says
that-Victor Berger or anyone else
is not telling the truth and / am
compelled to say to them that they
lie. I do not say that individual
Klansmen do not commit crimes. So
do individual ministers, individual
Masons, Oddfellows, men of all
classes. A man told me that he had
heard in New York from a man who
came from Louisville that this mans
brother-in-law had heard from his
uncle's first cousin that a X. C.. was
once arrested for crime.
"They point to the robes and hoods
and say, See, they hide their faces.
Did any Of you fellows ever take Ma
sonic work. There was a moments
silence and then a voice said: 4
have Amy lOddfellows?' Yes
shouted .agnumber of voices. ANY
Knights Of Pythias?' Yes, yes a
greater number shouted. Well con-
tinued the speaker, you know how
the work in secret orders is given.
The reason that Klansmen wear
masks is simply this: AS each can
didate progresses through the ritual,
he is asked seven times whether he
wishes to retire before receiving ad-
ditional obligations. Should he ac-
cept this offer, he leaves the Klavern
without knowing the names or faces
of the men who are there. This is
done for the reason that Klansmen
have to live and we know that jobs
will be lost and business boycotted
unless we preserve the secret Of
identity.
eve have no quarrel with any man
because of his religion. We do not
care how a man worships God. But
the Klan stands for Militant Pro-
testantism. We do not propose to let
the Catholics obtain control Of this
government and destroy the princi-
pies upon which it was founded.
Don't let them tell you that Klans-
men, the finest specimens of Ameri-
can manhood to be found anywhere,
are not followers Of the law. Why,