The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1923-11-28
I-N-D-I-A-N-A
ATTAINS GOAL OF 100000 AC.
TIVE MEMBERS
Hoosiers Put On Huge Celebration At
Fort Wayne; $1,000 Kluxers In
Parade; 1,200 Cincinnati
Kluxers Attend
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The best of Klandom of Indiana,
the visiting delegation from Michi-
gan and Ohio gathered in Fl. Wayne
Saturday in celebration of ARMS
tice Day and to hear DR.. Hiram Wes-
ley Evans, Imperial Wizard, and
other Khan officials.
The meeting at Fort Wayne was
primarily in celebration of attaining
the goal of 100000 in Indiana. Fea-
ture of the affair was the night pa
rade with over $4,000 in line, and
conservative estimates Of newspaper
men of $4,000 spectators and visitors
from out Of state and Indiana, 1000
from Ohio and $4,000 from Michigan.
The feature that was unusual was
/ 200 Klansmen with 10O-piece band
from Cincinnati, Ohio, who made the
long trip in special train, only for
the privilege of participating in the
night parade. In his address, DR..
Evans declared that, ION this occa-
sion in celebration of Armistice Day,
that despite that holy purpose, the
manpower, the ornaments and the
resources of a combination Of the
mightiest nations on earth, all proved
powerless to bring peace on earth
and good will to men," He declared:
To-day the world is virtually an
armed camp. There is no fighting
only because, whole peoples are too
much exhausted, too terribly impov-
erished, to fight. There is no sign
of permanent peace; out of it have
come no instrumentalities, no insti-
tutions to make peace possible. There
is no thinking man or woman in all
Christendom who does not realize
that further warfare would wreck the
world. Nor is it possible anywhere
to find rational human beings who
are not agreed, and determined, that
a saner, safer, surer, more Christian
way Of ending war itself must be
found" Declaring that the only an
swer is a militant spirituality with
direct leadership, and that our own
American life is being gradually de-
stroyed by the infiltrations of the
forces of hate, greed" he emphasized
the problem of immigration, declar-
ing that "this nation is our home,
that we built it, that we protected
it and that we should and did cherish
it beyond all possibilities" DIR.
Evans declared that, "any immigrant,
to be desirable and to be an asset
to America, must come within an in
herent capacity for our kind Of citi-
zenship," and emphasized the neces-
sity for a Protestant, white, Ameri-
can, Anglo-Saxon for the spiritual
and political guidance of America and
the world.
Among others who made short
talks was Charles G. Palmer, Grand
Dragon of Ohio, and D. C. Stephen
son, formerly Grand Dragon of In
diana, and lovingly referred to by
Indiana and Ohio Klansmen as "the
old man." He decried the Federal
reserve system "as the organized be-
trayal of America" and condemned
them for their inadequacy and fail
ure to render farm relief measures,
and urged support of the "battle of
American citizenship to secure oper-
alive patriotism to drive selishness,
greed and corrupt politics from the
high places as we'll as the low places
in American government" He ad-
vocated conservation of natural re-
sources, government control of water
power and return to the funda-
mentals of the Constitution in all its
phases.