The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-01

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the meeting to ascertain what,
if any, were the objects to ac-
complish which this aggrega-
ton of mortals were gathered
together.
The visitors, after listening
carefully to a preacher from
New Jersey and the local
Klokard held a heated discus
sion one claiming that the Khan
was a dry goods company pri-
marily engaged in the business
Of selling underwear and specialize
ing in night shirts, another claimed
that It was collection Of morons
managed by a few clever gold brick
artists, while a third, who reads the
Liberator, claimed that it represents
an economic upsurge and was re-
lated, tho somewhat distantly, to
the third party sentiment that por-
ton of it which was conducted into
the White House by Henry Ford in
return for a shot at Muscle Shoals.
Each Party Right; All Wrong
The writer claims that the three,
like the nine blind men of Hindustan
who went to see the elephant, were
partly in the right and all were in
the wrong.
Undoubtedly the Khan sells night
shirts and night caps, hundreds of
thousands of morons are in the or
ganization and 1t represents a pro-
test against the economic condition
in which the middle class rabbits of
America, find themselves in. But
that is not a 1909 explanation.
On our arrival at the meeting hall,
exactly IS persons were there, in
GLIDING the speaker and the chair
man. A large American flag hung
back of the speakers stand and sew
eral flags were furied in the corners
Of the hall. The chairman, or the
Klokard turned out afterwards to be
either a juggler or an animated nag
pole. But this comes later on.
The Numbers Are Meager
The Klokard advised the audience
that owing to the antics Of an fallen"
(that is a non-member Of the Klan)
hundreds Of potential nightie wearers
were switched away from the hall,
INC Ire Ts2zSsS 1kSslnefs. Accord
ing to description given of the cul-
prit, he must have been a member
Of the Knights Of Columbus or one
of the chosen people. Fortunately
however, by the time we arrived at
the meeting place, he was invisible
and In his place was a 1907 Ameri-
can, carrying an umbrella to protect
himself from a hundred per cent
American drizzle which fell on sub
ject, citizen and alien alike. Ex-
cuses such as were given by our
friend the Klokard are used quite
frequently even by radicals in ex-
planning scanty audiences so we did
not blame the poor fellow for it.
In fact the representative of a great
news gathering agency who accom-
panied me, rather sympathized with
him.
After seven more persons had
passed the prying eyes Of Kluds,
Koons and Kukoos that were stationed
by the very dirty entrance, the Klo-
kard summed up sufficient courage to
open the meeting. Everybody was
requested to stand and sing some
thing or other which excited much
enthusiasm in the Klokard. AS the
Irish penitent said, 81 sang God for
give me; sang like the rest" Pray
or was also moderately INDUCED in
after which dissipation the Klokard
proceeded to address himself to the
SO subjects and the vast open spaces
where men were not men.
He attacked the detractors of the
Ku Klux Khan, declared that it was
regrettsble that great organization
like the United Mine Workers Of
America, should discriminate against
them and that the Khan really
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