The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1923-10-24
''ANTI-PR0TESTANT FORCES
FIGHTING KLAN"-ANDERS0N
Machinery of Government Is Prostitu-
ted and Y. M. c. A. Is Maligned, =
Speaker Declares.

Binghamton, N. Y.-Tammany Hall
was bitterly attacked by Superinten-
dent Anderson of the Anti-Saloon
League, in a speech delivered here
before the mems organization of the
North Presbyterian church, in which
he said that the "politico-ecclesias-
teal combinations of Tammany and
the Catholic church were intent upon
discrediting the Ku Klux Khan as an
un-American institution" He de-
clared that the acts Of Tammany Hall
tended to increase membership in
the Klan and that if he was brought
to trial before election it will be the
last desperate card of the anti-pro-
hibition interests.
The Foreign Masters
"If I am brought to trial before
election in an effort to secure YER
dict of guilty from jury composed
of men formerly in the liquor business
or hangers-on of that business (of
course, purely through the accident
Of drawing), which jury is fixed or
tempered with by representatives OF
this Tammany politico-ecclesiastical
combination, it will be thoroughly un-
derstood that it is the last desperate
card being played by his bunch in
their effort to elect a Tammany as
sembly that will do things that may
put the entire state at the mercy Of
Tammany and its real foreign
masters for generation.
"This New York district attorney
claims to be Protestant, holds men,
bership in a reputable Protestant
church whose pastor he evidently
compelled to come to his feeble de-
tense, and yet he is doing the dirty
work of the anti Protestant gang
that is working through Tammany's
control and prostitution of the ma
chinery of justice. This Tammany
district attorney is high in Masonic
circles, and yet he allows himself to
be made in this matter the mere tool
and cats paw of the anti-Masonic in
fluences that are trying to tear down
most of what Masonry stands for. The
New York district attorneys ally in
this unsavory business is the Rookie
Teller representative who, as federal
official during the world war, double
crossed the Masons to advance the
Knights of Columbus.
Trying to Destroy Schools
"This same politico-ecclesiastical
combination that is trying to destroy
the public schools that taught the ef-
feet of alcohol, and that is trying to
cripple the Protestant churches by
disrupting their Anti-Saloon League
agency following the blow at the
churches by the vicious Knights OF
Columbus propaganda against the
Young Mems Christian association
is walking the echoes with its pro-
tests against the Ku Kux Klan on
the ground that it is an un-Americar
institution.
II know absolutely nothing about
the Ku Klux Khan from the inside
for I have never been, am not anc
never shall be a member. But il
does not take more than one eye, and
that not wide open, to see that most
of the enemies of the Ku Klux Klar
are mainly the enemies of the Prot
estant churches and Of prohibition
Of the public school, and of thu
American constitution generally.
Propaganda Against Y. M. c. A.
II do not approve of lawlessness
whether committed by Khan members
or anybody else. I think the Klar
will probably some day recognize thu