The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1923-12-05
business administration there.

business administration there.
Grand Dragon Johnson, a member
of the national finance committee
told of the Klan's splendid financial
condition and gave facts and figures
of intense value and interest.
A most helpful feature was a dem
onstration of Khan work. -,..
One of the most enjoyable ad-
dresses was that made by Charles G.
Palmer, Grand Dragon Of Illinois.
Praise for McCarron
After pleasant Introductory, re-
plete with mirth-provoking inuendos
inspired by the Imperial Represent
ative's good looks and taking ways
with the ladies'" in which the charm
ing Mrs. Palmer, of distinguished
American Protestant stock for many
generations, came in for some Of the
bantering, Mr.. Palmer launched into
an eloquent dissertation upon the re-
sponsibilities Of Klansmen.
Commenting upon the fact that No
vember 10 was the Goth anniversary
Of the delivery of Lincoln's Gettys-
burg address, the Grand Dragon said;
"Less than three score years age
our fathers brought forth in these
United States a new movement con-
ceived with Divine intuition and died.
icated to the Sublime principles and
lofty ideals of perpetuating our ma
ton. " .-
"Now we are engaged in great
crusade, testing whether that move
ment so conceived and so dedicated
shall be effective. We are face to
face with a great crisis. We have
come to a crucial time in the history
Of our fundamental institutions and
heritage must be safeguarded. We
have met today as leaders in that
great movement to intensity our &C
tivities in and about carrying on the
great crusade. It is imperative that
we should do this.
"And in larger sense our respon-
sibilities as citizens demand that we
should reconsecrate ourselves to the
fulfllment of those sublime principles
and ideals. We are Klansmen. The
faithful and valiant Klansmen of the
reconstruction days, who founded this
movement, created the very bulwark
of our nations safety. Some may
little understand what they did then,
but the alien who would destroy us
cannot forget them. And it is for
us modern Knights of the Ku Klux
Khan to reincarnate the spirit of
those early Klansmen and work out
the sublime principles and ideals in
Klankraft that they so valiantly
fought for. They were not specula-
tive Klansmen. They actually fought
for the right.
eve must be operative Klansmen.
We will not take the law into our
own hands, for we are law-abiding
citizens. Yet we will see to it that
our great institution shall continue
to make vital it's spiritual purposes;
achieve it's laudable objects, and at
tain its lofty ideals. We rededicate
ourselves to insure unity Of organiza-
ton, and guarantee an effective form
of government, and pledge our voice,
our loyalty, our manhood and our sa-
cred honor to enforce the same-that
justice and honor may be done the
sacred memory of those who wrought
throughout mystic society during
that early period, and that their va
liant accomplishments be not lost to
posterity; that this nation under GOO
shall have new birth of freedom
and that government of the people
by the people and for the people Of
our kind shall not perish from the
earth"
-K-K-K-
The Stars and Stripes and the fiery