Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-09-12
KU KLUX KHAN
WILL FALL OF ITS
OWN WEIGHT

OWN WEIGHT
There is no rightful place in our
scheme Of life for an Invisible
Government. The Ku Klux Khan
however lofty its professed ideals
are claimed to be, has no function
to perform, its existence endanger-
ing the safety, and peace of mind
of every non-member.
Every principle of Free America
is outraged when men take the
law into their own hands cover
their heads with a mask and 90
out to beat and whip and outrage.
This country was settled by
men seeking religious and politi-
cal freedom, men who left the old
countries that they migfie serve
their God and their fellowman ac-
cording to the dictates Of their
own conscience.
The arguments and reasons
given for the alleged necessity of
an invisible government do not ex-
list and never have existed in this
God-blessed America.
We believe there are many,
many men members of the Ku
Klux Khan who joined that organ.
ization because they felt that they
had a. mission to perform.
They are honest and sincere in
their belief; they. seek to remedy
what they believe an existing evil.
They were told that evils are be-
ing practiced by men who will not
or can not be reached by the
courts.
If there is sufficient evidence
to cause masked body of men to
whip or flog or flay another, then
there is evidence sufficient to
present grand jury and secure an
indictment.
The one is lawful. The other is
outlawry.. There can be no argu-
ment there. Once the laws of the
land are broken down, chaos
regins.
When the original Khan was
formed soon after the close of the
Civil War there was no consti-
tuted government in this section.
The South was in the grip of ig-
norant negroes, INSCRIPTIONS
Yankee camp followers and UNI
principled politicians, human buzz
yards who flocked to the south to
prey upon the PROSTATE form of
stricken land.
This body of men sought to re-
lieve intolerable conditions in the
only way open to them; they were
protecting the sanctity of their
homes from the whisky-crazed
mob that was the lawmakers and
law enforcers.
A very few years after its or
ganization, the Original Khan was
disbanded by its organizers be-
cause there had crept into. its
ranks unprincipled men who were
using the organization to vent
personal enmity and further their
own private ends.
The Original Khan fell of its
own weight. 1t was necessary for
time, but the principle on which
it was builded being faulty, it
could not live.
The same identical thing is to-
day being unfolded in the courts
of the practices of the present
ku Klux Khan. 1t, too, is topping
because it organization is based on
wrong principles.
The Klan today is being used
by some to secure political pre-
terment, and once the worm be-
gins to turn, they will be the first
to hunt for cover.
The Khan today is being used
- by money-grabbers for what they
e can get out Of it.
The Khan today is being used
by some to vent personal spleen
and enmity; by others to wreal
= vengeance.
We as a nation have spent bill
lions in money and sacrificed thou
sands of lives for a principle. w,
have met and successfully deal
with every foe that has set his foo
on our soil, seeking to break dow
our form of government, and a
surely as the sun rises and set
this nation will not tolerate an in
visible government whether fror
within or without.
There is no place in our politi
cal scheme for the mask. the flol