The Minnesota fiery cross. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1924-19??, 1924-04-11
Sparks from the Fiery Cross
By JOHN EIGHT POINT
'The noblest motive is the public good"-VRGn

Neglect, Kiansmen, bolts the door
Of your great opportunity.
stop. Professor, Ii Is our Bible-we
don't want IL tinkered with so much,
We need not be civil to the devil
merely to prove that Klansmen are
not bigots.
1t is remarkable how bad the wealth
err is the evening you go to lodge or
have distasteful task to perform.
You may carve your name as famous
Win applause non-partisan,
But you're nobler when your name is
On the roll of the Ku klux Khan;
Clear-eyed then, nor vague nor Eighty,
Breaking superstition's bars,
For our purpose, true and mighty
Lifts US nearer to the stars.
Must Face CHASTITY Facts
History presents in lurid red Ger.
tain CHASTITY facts which Klansmen
can only read with horror. If popery
wins, our liberties are gone and the
facts that once famed in lurid lights
may repeat themselves. The 1924
race for the presidency will be ire
mendous run against organized pop
cry and red propaganda. But we
may well remember that the Protest
ant steeds, exercised and reared for
the trail, will race away to victory
with these banners flying in the wind:
Absolute law enforcement; safe
guarded constitution; a real public
school bill that will assure each child
in America at least a grammar school
education; an immigration bill, with
closely woven steel meshes.
The difficulties in getting full
cooperation with Canada to stop
liquor-smuggling are caused by
Canada's lax ideas toward prohi-
ton. This attitude is the re-
suit of provincial rather than
federal action. There seems to be
no real cure for the Canadian
side of the distemper until Can
ada acts strongly in the right di-
rection.
The whirlpool of Anger
Even the enemies of the Khan point
out that in the battle between the
"drys" and the "wets" at Herrin, the
Klansmen have been unalterably OPP
posed to the "wets." We do not mind,
therefore, that high-brow professors
refer to secret societies as "phase
of elementary human nature" and
consciencelessly call our action "gang
force as opposed to the operation of
law" We know that whatever "gang
force" we possess is not opposed to
the operation of law but is a conser-
vator and helper Of law itself. To the
child-mind of certain universities and
the malicious mind of foreign relig-
ionists, we may possibly classify with
the Tagalogrs of the Philippines and
| the tongs of China, but we are will
| ing to labor and to wait, content if
the nation shall emerge, as emerge
it must, from the whirlpool of an
angry and complex national situation
into a stranger and nobler interpre-
tation of the free government toward
which our founders always labored.
History VIII Prove 1t
The chief difficulty faced by the
Khan will always be the effort of sub
tie opponents to join with it and I'M
dermine it's highest purposes for the
sake of presenting the organization
to the world as a warped and faction
al impulse. By this plan these clever
enemies will seek to discredit the or
der with the easily-gulled, improper
| UNIFORMED and specifically edu-
Gated. But there will always be an
unrelenting public opinion in Ameri-
ca which will care for those who have
unselfshly strived toward good and
noble ends. At the final count the
Khan will be understood and it's rela-
tion to true American growth will
be seen. 1t will then be observed that
instead of being a spiteful demon in
fairy story, the Khan will be
guardian angel on the pages of his
toric record.
WashingtOn's wisdom
The wisdom of George Washington
and his colleagues in warning this
country away from political and so
cial entanglements becomes clearer
every day. France has strengthened
herself in the Mediterranean by the
Tangier settlement and she has allied
the Slav by her Czecho-Slovakia un-
Outstanding. 1t requires no prophet
ic vision to see Slav-bloc in alliance
with France. England cannot but re-
alize that she wasted great deal of
sentiment upon France during the
war. She must feel deeply disqui-
eted. Meanwhile America sails on
gracefully and the warnings of Wash
ington thunder helpfully upon our
national ear. The Khan need not wor-
ry, provided 1t can get all true Ameri-
cans to understand where our treas
ures lie.
The Emerging Influence
There is implanted in the heart Of
man, particularly that Of the white
Aryan, an ethical feeling which has
grown up as the result Of historical
experience, clarified and intensified
by operative religion. This feeling
is the best product of centuries of eff
fort on the part Of the best men of
the race. It regulates our acts toward