The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-25
KHAN IS REFUGE
 OF AMERICANISM,
 WIZARD AYERS
Order Enjoys Divine Guidance In Its Mission,
 KlOnvOcation Hears
(By Associated Press.)


 KANSAS CITY, Sept. 24.-The Ku Klux KIan was held up as "the last refuge of American patriotism worthy Of the name" by Imperial Wizard Hiriam Wesley Evans, in addressing the second imperial klonvokation of the order here today. .
 "Klansmen and klanswomen are verify the salt of the earth upon whom depends the future of civiliza- tion," the imperial wizard declared.
 Asserting that the future of America and the white race hangs in the bal ance," MT. Evans said that "the blood which produces human leadership must be protected from inferior blood and from the competition which saps the vitality of leadership, because it makes the struggle for existence such a burden that people stagger under it"
 "You," he told his klan auditors, "are of this superior blood. You are more you are leaders in the only movement in the world at present, which exists solely to establish civilization that will insure these things"
 History has proved and is proving daily that only nordic and Anglo-Saxon peoples have reached high level of intelligence"
 Turning to immigration, the imperial wizard said
 Decries Alien Hordes
 "The undesirable hordes from other lands are driving to our sides the mill lions, who for one reason or another have been hesitating. Every attack upon the klan makes more clearcut the issue of Americanism against alienism. Amer jeans are sometimes slow, but they are plodding and discerning-and they are honest. Hence, they will eventually dis cover the klan-and recognize it as the refuge of American patriotism, worthy of the name.
 Unified at last with a purpose that is definite and holy, with a militant organization, with the zeal and courage and loyalty which made the nordic Anglo-Saxon peoples the greatest on earth, we are ready to stand as the French stood at Verdun and shout to the alien hordes, thou shalt not pass"
 Millions of Americans are in arduous quest of leadership toward better government, adequate law enforcement, the elevation of society and a more per feet national patriotism. The klan alone supplies that"
 Warns Of Opposition
 Warning klansmen not to under estimate the strength of the opposition ito the forward march of the klan," Mr. Evans said:
 When petty prosecutions failed, our enemies resOrted to direct terrorism. They started series of riots which have shed blood and disgraced our coun- try throughout the spring and summer and it is still in evidence-perhaps to remain for some time to come Most of the attacks were planned and directed by the same forces which were behind the early form of persecution. Some, it must be acknowledged, have been the product of racial instincts, hostile to Americans and everything American"
 The imperial wizard declared that the outside world twill eventually know that klansmen do not hate Roman Catholics, Jews, Negroes or aliens"
 s"The klan's fight" he. continued, "is not with the people, but with systems and instincts and principles which run counter to Anglo-Saxon instince, Amer icanism and protestant christianity. The klan does not exist to command people in their religious beliefs. Our watch cry is back to the Constitution
 "The Constitution of the United States tolerates creeds, but it favors none. Hence, the only demand the klan makes of the Roman Catholic church is that she cease meddling in American politics and that she come down from her self-erected pedestal of special privilege and take her place along side the Methodist, Baptist and other churches.
 'The klan believes in the upbuilding of the American nation-founded, as history empha tically declares. on the supremacy of the white race, the genius of the nordic and Anglo-Saxion peoples and the free private interpretation of Gods word.
 '"The Lord has guided us and shaped the vents in which we rejoice" said Imperial Wizard Evans. He has held us under his protection. The fact that we have this divine guidance and pro- lection should and must increase our faith in the klan, in it's growth in grace and power in its mission, in its final complete victory"