The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1924-02-01

Circls" (reorganized soon after the
Civil war as the knights Of Column
busy necessitated the declaration of
martial law in the states of Illinois,
Indiana, Ohio and possibly others.
England was hostile. France set up
a monarchy in Mexico. Stripped of
the countless issues involved in the
Civil War only one thing remained:
Lincoln and the Union were right and
must survive, while the South and
slavery were wrong and must perish.
Yet from its ashes there arose new
and greater South. The very high
est and the very lowest Of the nation
settled their little differences with
the sword, yet the Union survived be-
cause its principles were right.
We will pass over the Spanish
American War very briefly. Even
you and I can recall the bitter wran-
gle preceding our declaration of war.
Big men opposed Mckinley to the
last. Even the President was forced
into the war against his own will.
The United States deserves no espe-
cial credit or glory for licking Spain,
an explanation of which is not even
necessary.
This brings US to that time when
"der Kaiser unit Colt" crashed
through the Allies lines, knocking at
the very doors of Paris, threatening
the British Empire, while the fate of
civilization itself hung in the bal
ance. All eyes were turned toward
America, who, alone, could stem the
onrush of Prussianism. Papalism
joined with the Teutonic Allies, while
Wilson, of "Watchful-waiting" fame
in dealing with Mexico, called upon
the people of America to even refrain
from thinking in an unneutral vein.
Germany's naval policy resulted in
Wilson writing note after note, each
full of "high sounding phrases"
Col. Roosevelt exclaimed in anger,
"Our President is strong on words
and weak on action" Truly the lead
ers of our Republic We're fighting
among themselves for sure. Then
the Lusitania horror was followed by
another note. "There is such a thing
as being too proud to fight" tenn
ported Wilson. "He has met the
German policy of Blood and Iron
with policy of Milk and Water"
answered the Colonel. Yet the note
to the German government bristled
with teeth while from afar could be
heard the rafting of sabers. But
the Secretary of State, Mr.. Bryan,
mussed things up when he whispered
to DR.. Dumba, the Austrian ambassa-
dor, not to take the Lusitania note
too seriously, chat it was sent to the
Imperial German government as a
sop to public opinion in America"
Bryan was Immediately dismissed by
the President, to put it brutally. 1t
is clear that all was not serene even
within the inner councils of the Dem
ocratic administration.
CONSUMPTION was defeated in Que
bee and Australia because of the open
opposition of the Clerical party. Ire
land, the Judas, never let an oppor-
tunity pass to stab England in the
back. Yet America hesitated while
her leaders squabbled. Powerful
forces were at work to prevent our
entry into the war. The hand of
God decreed otherwise. In spite of
the mad efforts of the Vatican Amer
lea hurled her millions of men and
billions of wealth on the side of right
eousness and saved civilization. Ger
many caused the revolution in Rus
STA while the Pope all but succeeded
in causing the collapse of the entire
Italian armies. A "Willful Few
(among whom was Senator Kirby of
Arkansas-now EX-SENATOR made a
desperate, last-minute effort to block
our governments entry into the war
Our Episcopal brethren at the very
top are shifting one another hip and
thigh over Modernism and Funda-
mentalism," which is being re-echoed
in every pulpit in the land. The
world looks on and laughs, yet,
withal, that mighty host of real
Christian men and women of Ameri-
ca move serenely about their duties,
each one having settled for himself
that "the world is bad, and God is
good, and that He sent His only be-
gotten Son to save a lost world"
What matters it if the pygmies are
pickering when "God is on His throne
and all is we'll with the world"
If President Coolidge declares that
black is black, why his Republican
brother from the state of many screen
scandals at once screams, "Tain't so,
black is write" And so it goes. Yet
no one has the temerity to suggest
that the Republicans adjust their diff
ferences or disband-unless, perhaps,
it be the Democrats.
All this brings US back to the Khan.
It so happens that the fight that the
newspapers are so fond of exploiting
as being among the ranks of the
higher-ups, is really not a fight
among the high officials of the Ku
Klux Klan, but rather the warning
element is composed of a few dis
gruntled ex-officials who were kicked