The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1924-01-16
WHEN WILL IT end?
By SANBALLAT

3ALLAT
greater the cause, the more severe
the persecution. To temper mems
souls to do big things men must be
tried in the fire. Persecution is the
best of temper for Klansmen.
How Do You Know?
Ask me how I know that persecu-
ton is the best form of temper for
gNansmen, and I will tell you because
when the Khan has been prosecuted
the members of the Khan have rushed
together, regardless of any personal
differences. and have stood shoulder
to shoulder, man to man, and heart to
heart with each other in common de-
Tense of that great order to which
they have given solemn promise never
to permit it to perish from the earth
excepting at the dictation and under
The hand of Almighty God. Ask me
how 1 know persecution is the best
form of temper for the Klan, when I
ook about me and see the Klan being
}ersecuted in one form or another,
from the slightest of persecution to
he highest forms, in every village,
hamlet and city Of this universe; and
at the same time see men all over
his lane rushing to the Klaverns and
asking that their names be written
on the membership rolls of the Klan.
Ask me how I know persecution is
good for the Khan, when I see men
who were but sympathizers with the
Khan, coming to the Khan and saying,
Brother, I want to enroll under the
banner of the Knights of the Ku Klux
Klan."
Only Beginning To Grow
Ask me how I know persecution Of
The Khan is good for the Klan, when
on every side I see women's organiza-
tions espousing the same principles,
gathering momentum in leaps and
bounds, and membership by the hun
dreds of thousands. Ask me how l
know persecution is good for the Khan,
when I see junior order Of Klansmen
coming along with rush. Ask me
how the Khan will prosper on persecu-
ton, when I see the 100 per cent ma
turalized Americans, who hold to the
Protestant Christian faith, insistently
demanding that they be recognized
in an order of their own, affiliated with
and standing for the same principles
for which the Khan stands. Ask me
how I know that it is good for mems
souls to be tried, when talk to Pro-
testant Christians and find that not
one in ten is against the Khan, but
that all know it is high time that the
Protestant men and women of Amer
lea amalgamate themselves into one
great mobile, cooperative body, to
withstand the onslaughts of hell that
nave been made against their reli-
gions, their church, and the word Of
God. Ask me that question when I
can see that persecution has made it
possible for all to say the Klan is
only beginning to grow.
Persecution is the whip that has
done more to stiffen the backbones Of
Protestants than any other cause. It
has brought them together as nothing
else could have done. They recognized
the worthiness and the high principles
Of the Knights of the Ku Klux Khan,
and they welcomed that agency to
weld them together into one mass OF
militant men and women who desired
to march to higher things under tho
Cross of the Master. They recognize
that marching to the tune of "Onward,
Christian Soldiers" in defense Of the
things for which the Protestant
church holds sacred, and those things
for which "Old Glory" stands, they
would be irresistible.
Welcome, then, all forms of perse-
cution, whether it be an ordinance
passed by the narrow-minded officials
in Kansas town at the request and
upon the insistence of religious bigots
and intolerants, or whether it be the
assassination of Klansmen, as in the
case of Klansman Abbot at Carnegie
and many others throughout the coun-
try. Welcome it whether it be the at
tempt to subjugate the minute men Of
the Klan who reside in Topeka, or the
poor cripple who sold Khan papers on
the streets of Cincinatti. Welcome it
whether it be the fning of newsboy
in a Louisville police court for selling
a Khan newspaper, or the attempt of
5000 mobbers to snuff out the lives
of $50 Klansmen Of Perth Amboy, N.
]. Welcome it whether it be the
frame up" of a Louisiana governor
or that of the lawless governor of
Oklahoma.
Welcome it, for out Of it all we
shall see new man coming from the
Klans. We shall see a new forward
march of the religion those men repre-
sent. We shall see those men welded
to the great ideals of America. We
shall see the constitution of states and
that of the nation exalted, because of
that renewed man who has gone
through the fire as Klansman and
has sacrificed all to the principles on
which this Protestant Christian nation
is founded-that superstition and ig-
norance might perish from the earth.