The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1924-01-25
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BILL IN CONGRESS

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Representative George w. Lindsay
of Brooklyn, N. Y, though nominally
a Protestant, has introduced in Con-
gress a bill designed to kill the Ku
Klux Khan. Coming from the po-
litieal atmosphere of Tamany Hall,
he shares the spirit of Roman Catho-
lie bigotry that has brought many
measures into Congress and other
legislative bodies in recent years to
make Professionalism criminal Of
tense as Papal Rome has uniformly
done when clothed with sufficient po-
litical power.
Like the Mer Rouge fiasco, the
Walton outlawry in Oklahoma and
the rioting and murders that Papal
minions have perpetrated to break up
Protestant meetings and parades in
recent months, the Lindsay measure
in Congress will simply add few
millions of members to the native
born Protestant organization whose
growth has been so marvellous under
such persecution. Omitting the pure
ly formal parts, the following is the
text of the Lindsay bill:
"Section 1. The term religion, as
used in this act, shall mean any be-
lief or profession of faith in a Su-
preme Being or Divinity, regardless
of forms Of worship, declarations of
faith, creed or custom.
"Section 2. If any corporation, as
ISOLATION, union, organization, group,
or aggregation of individuals by any
overt act, demonstration of force,
threat of personal bodily injury OF
physical force against person or prop
erty or possessions, or by intimi-
dations, real or attempted, or through
DOMINIC weird, unusual or uncanny
habiliments, including coverings of
head or face, shall ATTEMPT to bring
into disrepute, infringe, embarrass.
hamper, OF interfere with any re-
ligion or religious belief, or the prac-
tice thereof, or the civil, social OF
personal rights of any individual
member or believer of any religious
denomination, because thereof, OF
shall publish, or cause to be published
in a newspaper or magazine devoted
exclusively to that purpose, any
threatening, harmful, insidious or in
citing statements of comprehen-
sive and general nature, against any
religion, OF the profession and prac-
tice thereof, without including spe-
ciic names, dates and places, where
by an individual offended might have
recourse tC protection or redress un-
der state libel laws, such organiza-
ton shall be held to be unlawful, and
it shall be unlawful for any state
to issue charter or articles of incor-
poration, or other legal recognition to
such organization.
"Section 8. And any Individual
participating in the manner hereinbe-
fore mentioned shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor, and if found guilty.
shall be sentenced to not more than
one year in a federal prison, or
81 900 fine, or both.
Section 4. This act shall be cited
as the 'Anti-Intolerance Act
enforcement of this act shall de-
volve upon the United States District
Attorney"
Such is the spirit. of political Ro-
manism in this country. How It
would devour Professionalism if it had
the power! How it does itch to sup
press every Protestant periodical!
How it covets the legal right to send
to prison every Protestant minister
tina speaks from his pulpit on the
Reformation or even announces his
intention to do so! How wickedly
deceptive is all it's propaganda about
brotherly love and toleration!