The Washington times., 1923-01-18
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to help them carry some of their
own troubles. They want me to
send my klansmen all over the
country to stop bad living and drive
out bad citizens. A good many urged
me to start klans In their home
| towns, and sent these letters to
khan headquarters. ! guess I'm get
ting kind of old to go rampaging
around. was just seventy-five .
little while ago." J.
The letters ran the garnut Of
emotions. Some were written with
vindictiveness; some with sorrow.
Almost all asked the captain to
take action.
From Miami, Fla, woman wrote
Of an affair" on the main street.
''This man runs a fruit store. who
| lures every respectable woman he
gets his hands on to do wrong while
his wife. and little baby is penred
Iup In a fruit grove" the letter read.
| It carried names and addresses.
Afraid Of 'sVamp."
al New Orleans woman asked a
Cleanup" In her city. II wish
klaremen would ~clean New Orleans,
because they are taking ell the hus-
bands from their wives she wrote,
describing one feminine rival: The
writer added, II am afraid she will
vainp my husband. ] wish she was
driven away"
A waterloo, Iowa, woman, after
telling of. her family problem, wrote
this pathetic appeal to the captain:
please save my husband"
"a u
the cYclOps 70 keep up your coi1r.
age and do not give up the ship"
Al message Of keep the faith"
came from Houston, Tex, and an
ether woman from the same. city
IOld Of q min i'who ID doing funny
things IN our ileikhbofhood In
the latter . name ana address were
Enclosed.
Wants Khan in Chicago.
The greatest appeal for action
probably came from Chicago, where
a woman. wrote: I'VE need the khan
here to clean up our terrible condf.
lions. Please bring your klansn1en
up here to make It right for our
women. IT isn't safe here for
young girls any more"
The mountain regions were repre-.
scented by Q letter from Denver,
which said: Matters are mighty
bad. Young school girls are going
wrong and there seems to be no
limit to how far these men will 20.
The women Of Denver want your
organization here for the protection
of their daughters"
A letter from st Louis carried
directions by which the Morehouse
khan could reach q certain house
where young girls are ruined. !" The
writer offered to s.feed free OF
charge" all the klansmen Skipwith
would send to the Missouri metrop-
oils.
A personal appeal was also sent
from Detroit, where Q woman told
of fashionable apartment ''in the
heart of the city" where her hus-
band stayed almost every night"
The writer declared young girls
were also taken there and asked
Captain Sldpwith to drive the pro.
prietors out OF Detroit.
Tell Life Secrets.
Another message came from Lin.
coin, Neb., where woman wrote
that her husband stayed out all
night" The names and address
were included.
A score of other letters the cap.
tain declared, were too personal to
| be published
Many OF these woman tell their
life secrets here" he said, waving
the packet in his hand. ''I can't
let anybody read them, Bud, because
its very. delicate matter"
Asked II he would accept any OF
the invitations to visit other cities,
! on clean up" tours, the khan leader
declared he was too old for that
sort of thing"