The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1923-08-03

Seventy-five thousand Ohio Klans-
men with their wives and families
gathered Thursday, July IL, at Buck
eye lake, near Columbus, Ohio, for
the first state meeting of the Knights
uf tie Ku Klux Khan in that state.
Imperial Wizard DR.. H. w. Evans,
with his staff, was present as well as
the leaders of the Klan in Ohio and
adjoining states. The occasion was
one of unbounded enthusiasm and
plans were made for the advance
ment of Klankraft in this section of
the country where the order is al
ready of great strength.
The Imperial Wizard addressing
the huge gathering spoke of the pro-
gram confronting the Khan, outlining
the objects to be achieved by the Or
der. His address to the Klans Of
Ohio was as follows:
"In presenting a forward view for
our great organization, it is eminent
ly beftting that We should cast a
retrospective eye over the past and
mark the successive strides by which
we have come to this great day in
the history of our order. 1t is axio-
matte and true that from the achieve
ments of the past we may justly and
accurately form a conclusion as to
what is to come in the future.
"More than sixty years ago in the
hour of our nations greatest prob
lem, there arose an organization
which saved to a portion of our ma
ton a white mans civilization and
prevented another portion of our
great nation from being used, through
brutal passion, in a campaign of hat
red against their blood kin. After
a terrible fratricidal strife, the like
of which the world had never seen,
the American nation was preserved
as a unit.
The Birth of the Khan.
"The movement of the white citi-
zens of despoiled and broken South
land which preserved to many states
in our nation the white mans herit
age, passed into oblivion when the
purposes for which it had been born
were accomplished. The ideals and
principles upon which it had been
founded awaited another and a fur
Their need of the nation which knew
how to use the principles, to erect an
organization, and to function for God
and country thorugh it. When from
the selfshness and ambitions Of men
and nations, the World War began in
1914, civilization was again men,
aced and there was grave danger
that freedom would be crowded from
her standing place and the world
would retrace her steps down the
cycles of time and all the things for
which high-grade mankind has strug-
gled would again be lost in dark
ness.
"Among the students Of the old re-
construction, there was an itinerant
Methodist preacher who, living in the
atmosphere and under the shade of
the former greatness of the Kan,
dreamed by day and night of a re-
incarnation of the organization which
had saved white civilization to a
large portion of our country. Slow
ly under the dreamings of wonder
ing mind the Klan took some hazy
kind of form. AS this man wandered
in the streets of the Southern city
in which he lived, preaching the doc
trine of new Khan in his emotional
manner, there slowly came to the
standard men of dependable charac-
ter and sterling worth who were able
to lend some kind of concrete form to
the God-given idea destined to again
save a white mans civilization.
"The Khan as dreamed by the
dreamer, is a thing apart and differ
ent from the Klan as formed, aided,
supported, guided, and directed by
Almighty God in the working out Of
his invisible purposes and his mighty
DEGREES. Slowly, stone by stone, the
magnificent building of . the temple
of Klankraft was builded.
~"The Klan is an organization
founded upon the great fundamental
ideas of helpful service from man to
man, from man to country, and from
man to God. Under this banner, if
you will but keep your eyes ever on
your leadership, if you will but keep
your prayers ever ascending to Al
mighty God that strength be given to
your leadership, if you will but be
Klansmen as you yourself must in
terpret the true meaning of that sa-
cred word, the ultimate success Of
our cause will be certain and the
fruition of our utmost hopes will be
absolutely assured.
perhaps many Of you are going
to be concerned as to Where do we
go from here?' when we are fully
manned and properly trained and
ably led. The task ahead is great
enough to engage the minds and to
encompass the utmost efforts of
every citizen who loves his country
and is willing to serve. The ulti-
mate program must be divided into
at least two sections: The first of
which is the destruction of the insti-
buttons and the ideas that are clog
ging the progress and staying the de-