The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1924-01-16

ing," added Mystery in Ku Klux
Tragedy" etc. Quite mysterious,
this, isn't it? The mystery to this
writer is that Governor Parker of
Louisiana and his fellow conspirators
are not speedily arrested, and this
dastardly planting" of two bodies
in the lake near the Mer Rouge sift-
ed to the bottom.
Months and months ago, this mag
azine announced the fact that it was
scientific absurdity and a physical
.mpossibility for two bodies to re-
main in that semi-tropical lake for
months and come out in the state of
preservation which characterized the
two bodies in question. I knew then
that those bodies were shipped into
Mer Rouge in trunks, having been
furnished by a medical school within
the state, and so stated.
But here comes the proof. And
one Immediately wonders why the
statement of these two medical au-
thorities failed to reach the public
when the sensation was on the front
page, under heads two inches to the
letter. Who saw to it that the ver-
dict of these two gentlemen, promi-
nent pathologists, never reached the
readers of the daily news? There
were more than a hundred reporters
on the grounds, mostly Roman Catho-
lies, it is true, but reporters just the
same. Everybody was reading about
it, and excitement ran riot. How
does it happen that the proof of the
planting of these two bodies is an
nounced months after the facts of
that planting" were known to the
forces that were pulling" the frame
up" and their newspaper representa-
tives?
Mystery, indeed! There may have
been a mystery, but there is no mys-
terry left. This is the plainest thing
that sane men have been called up
on to face for many day. It is now
as clear as the sunlight of noon. All
that story of two bodies weighted
down in the mud of lagoon, fastened
with wires to some kind of torture
machine that had been used to break
their bones, inch by inch, and finally
blasted loose, tons of explosives hav-
ing been used for the purpose-all
that story was and is 100 per cent
premeditated falsehood.
There is no doubt left in any sane
mans mind but that the fiction pub
lished by way of propaganda all
over the nation was known to be fic-
tion by the very newspapers them
selves at the time of publication. It
is unthinkable that these reporters
should have been unaware of the
fact that two such eminent authori-
ties had declared it impossible for
these bodies to have remained in
those waters more than forty-eight
hours. That the whole thing was a
Roman conceived plot, deliberately
planned, az Rome always plans her
great deceptions; that the planting"
of these "stiffs" from the medical
school was deliberate and for the pur-
pose of making possible a nationwide
deception; that the Mer Rouge trag-
edy was only a tragedy in that the
public was misled purposely in
wholesale fashion-that this is the
and the only mystery is now
as clear as day.
Governor Parker deserves to spend
the rest of his life in the state peni-
tentiary for having headed such a
dastardly plot. His Romish confed-
crates and cohorts deserve the con-
tempt of all righteous, honorable and
just men for having stopped to such
a base and un-American campaign of
false propaganda. The daily papers
of the nation deserve the rebuke of
every man who holds the truth to be
worth while, for having permitted
their columns to be used by the plot
ting forces to thus deceive the peo-
pie Of America. Why should think
ing men ever again believe what they
read in the daily papers, following
this exposure, this statement of the
two great scientists who conducted
the autopsies, and announced then as
they announce now that those bodies
had been planted" in the lake with
in forty-eight hours Of their removal
therefrom.