The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1923-03-16
ANOTHER VIEW
OF THE KHAN
Fellowship Forum Makes Astound-
ing Statements

ing Statements
1t is always said that there are
two sides to every question. And be-
cause the Ku klux Klan is receiving
so much adverse criticism, it seems
fair to give some of the views on the
other side. This article, and the one
reprinted last week, are given in a
spirit of fair play,
The following is from the Fellow
ship Forum, weekly periodical pub
lished in Washington, d. c.. which,
according to it's own statement, is
devoted to the fraternal interpreted
ton of the world"
by Staff Correspondent
Bastrop, La, Jan .17.-That some
powerful influence, generally be-
heved to be the Roman Catholic
hierarchy, is shielding one of the
rottenest situations and most lawless
gangs that ever existed in an Amer
lean community in its attempt here
to stamp out the Ku Klux Khan thru
distortion of facts, is SO we'll known
that the people of Morehouse Parish
are completely disguised at the re-
fusal of the American press to print
the true facts of the case.
Your correspondent has found that
bootlegging, moonshining, gambling,
concubinage with negro women and
other forms of vice and violence have
for years been the watehword of the
Mer Rouge gang, and that the lead
ers there who are now being held up
to the world as martyrs at the hands
of the ku KluX Khan are nothing
more than moral lepers and testers
on the fair name of decency.
WHITES KEEP NEGRO WOMEN
A great many of the married men,
perhaps as much as fifty per cent of
them, not only have a family of
white children but also are respon-
sible for family of haf-negroes and
half-whites, maintaining what is
commonly termed hereabouts as II
negro harem,' in addition to their
own legal families.
Practically all Of the young, single
men, although there are few shin
ing exceptions, maintain young neg
no women in homes. In SOME instanc-
es where youth has plenty of mon
ely he is known to be supporting two
and three negro women. Others who
are not so Well off financially keep
only one.
This practice is SO general that is
is an open secret that a deacon in the
Baptist church of Mer Rouge keeps
Il negro woman in addition to his
white family Furthermore, this same
Deacon has taken widow under his
care in order that he may pay atten-
ton to her l7-year-old daughter. He
recently bought Ford for the girl.
The town marshall is known for
iiliito dbUut u w llit NHfihploii Poh'i
player of the parish.
DANIEL RAN GAMBLING HOUSE
j. l.. Daniel, father of Watt Dan
iel, operates a gambling house where
both whites and negroes eongregate
and gamble together.
Watt Daniel and Thomas Richard
who are said to have disappeared"
were "touts" for the gambling house.
Both were bootleggers and each kept
a negro woman.
The gambl re house of j. l.. Dan
iel is maintained at his home in Mer
Rouge and the states attorneys who
are here conducting this probe know
it, for one Of them was there Tues
day night gambling.
The people of Morehouse Parish
do not believe Watt Daniel and Thos.
Richard are dead. They believe that
thy left for parts unknown, prob
a5ly New Orleans, at the instance
of tie Catholic hierarchy and are be
ing kept there now in order to foster
their nefarious scheme of laying
crime that docs not exist on the
heads of innocent men.
BODIES ARE FOUND"
The bodies that were identified as
those of the missing men are believ-
"a to have been brought to Lake La
fourche by the enemies of the X. X.
K and found" by the Catholic Of
{. lrs Of the law in dragging the
lake. 1t is the general belief that the
5iies have been used as specimens
BY some medical college and were so
disfigured before being brought here
so as to make Identification positive.
1t is pointed out that articles belong
ing TO Watt Daniel that were found
an one Of the bodies could easily
have been given to the plotters by
Daniel and placed on the bodies in
that way
The IS arch for the torture mach
inc is being laughed at openly here
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