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The Minnesota fiery cross. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1924-19??, 1924-05-16
KHAN is NOT PARTISAN IN POLITICS; SEEKS
ONLY GREATEST INTEREST OF ALL AMERICANS

You no doubt have noticed through
the press the propaganda that is be-
ing broadly disseminated throughout
the country that the Knights of the
Ku Klux Khan is engaged in a con-
spiracy to get control of the local,
state and national government. This
is but the beginning of propaganda
that is to be nationwide, and is in
tended to put the Klan in a whole in
the matter of political affairs, and
because of this fact, it is necessary
that our position be definitely stated
and understood. As American citi-
zens we are interested in matters per-
tanning to our government above ev-
erything else, and every real klans-
man must appreciate the value and
worth of citizenship with all that it
stands for, and for what it means, not
only to himself, but to his children
after him.
This is a Government of the peo-
pie, by the people and for the people"
and to that end we desire serious con-
sideration and action on the part of
every real American. The organiza-
tion is not partisan in any sense of
tthe word. 1t is made up of men Of
different political faiths, but, as
American citizens and members of
this great organization, we have a
right to demand of our political par
ties absolute loyalty and interest to
American principles and ideals, and
we have a duty to see that political
parties enunciate in their platforms
those principles so clearly and def
nitely that they can be understood
by all; and to that end we should be
constantly vigilant and active in par
ticipating in the conventions of the
several political parties. We should
see to it that principles embodied in
resolutions should find expression in
political platforms, so that when they
are enacted into the laws of our state
and nation they will adhere to the
benefit and welfare of our people in
the maintenance of Americanism.
We are not interested in the sue
cess of any particular party or indi-
vidual, but we are deeply interested
in the making Of just laws and in the
selection of men of such type and
character as will give us a guaranty
The Minnesota fiery cross. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1924-19??, 1924-05-16

Conferees on the soldier bonus bill
reached an agreement. Senate amend
ment extending from January 1, 1925
to July /, 1925, the date of issuance
Of policies, was eliminated
Bishop Brent, Of the Episcopal
church, Walker d. Hines, George w
Wickersham, A. L. Lowell, President
of Harvard University. and Mrs. James
l.. Laidlaw, OF New York, before the
Foreign Relations Committee, urged
American participation in the world
court and insisted entrance of this
country would not bind the United
States to the League OF Nations.
Testifying about antitrust cases be.
fore the Daugherty investigating com
mittee. Chairman Thompson, Of the
Federal Trade Commission, said Jail
sentence after criminal prosecution
lis the only thing that will change the
attitude Of the business world toward
price fixing"
The Public Buildings committee or.
dered favorable report on the bill
authorizing an appropriation Of $780,.
$1,000 for the erection in Washington
Of public buildings. OF that total, not
more than 100000 would be spent
in any fiscal year.
HOUSE-Met at noon: adjourned at
$50 p. M.
The Navy appropriation bill was re-
ceived from the Senate and sent to
conference.
BY a vote OF to Z the Postoffice
committee rejected an amendment to
the postal employees salary bill to pro-
vide for fiat annual pay increase of
s400 for clerks, carriers, supervisors
and inspectors.
Construction OF Federal Reserve
branch bank buildings In Omaha and
Denver at a cost. exclusive OF vaults,
fixtures and permanent equipment, not
to exceed $350.000 in each case is au.
thorized under a resolution favorably
reported.
Judge Klecka, OF the Baltimore city
peoples court. aroused the ire OF mem.
hers Of the judiciary committee at a
hearing on the 2.75 per cent. beer
bills by declaring that some of the
driest members OF Congress relish
their liquor"
The japanese exclusion section OF
the immigration hill was temporarily
PASSED over by the conferees.
The Military Affairs committee re-
yorted a bill under which the secre.
.ary OF the Interior would be required
The Minnesota fiery cross. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1924-19??, 1924-05-16

of the enforcement of the same in
the interest of good citizenship.
Therefore, il is altogether fitting
that those men who are affiliated
with the Republican party and the
Democratic party, or any other par
ty, are of the type and character that
can be depended upon to do their
whole duty without fear or favor
Therefore, we must give attention to
the primaries and conventions to the
end that we may have men to select
from as our officers who will meas
ure up to the highest standards Of
efficiency.
There are certain elements that we
have right to expect to find in those
men whom we select for service.
LIST. They shall be clean men in
their lives and habits.
End. They shall be honest and de-
pendable.
Bird. They shall be capable.
Attn. They must have knowledge
of the motives and purposes of our
government.
5th. They must know how to ap-
ply the principles of Americanism to
the problems Of America.
9th. They must have a thorough
understanding of the responsibilities
and obligations of the office which
they aspire to hold.
7th. They shall be loyal to the
great fundamental principles of our
government, our ideals and institu-
tions, and this loyalty shall be abso-
lutely beyond question.
If American citizens will give prop.
err attention to the above suggestions
we will have no reason to regret the
outcome at the polls.
The matter of government is the
most important thing that touches
our lives as citizens, and if we are
negligent, we cannot expect the best
from governmental administration
AS Klansmen, we have rights, duties
and obligations, and no real Klans-
man can afford to be indifferent OF
recreant to political affairs in his 10
cal community, state or nation. We
have no desire to dictate political
preferment when it comes to the mat
ter of political party; neither would
we have our members associate them.
The Minnesota fiery cross. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1924-19??, 1924-05-16
Sunday, May Is, Is
Education Day For
Iowa, Presbyterians

Christian Education Sunday will be
observed by the $4,000 Presbyterians
of Iowa on May Is. Four-minute
speakers will appear before the vari-
Gus congregations of the state on
that day. explaining the needs of
Christian institutions in the state.
Special attention will be given to
the work of Coe, Parsons and Buena
Vista colleges, all Presbyterian insti-
tutions, and the Presbyterian student
work at Ames, Iowa City, and Cedar
Falls.
The date will mark the close of the
intensive campaign for funds for the
colleges in many of the leading cit
les of the state.
SIn making May Is Christian edu-
cation Sunday for Iowa, we believe
that Iowa Presbyterians should be
given the opportunity for final sac
riticial gift toward the great goal of
the Iowa Presbyterian education
movement" said DIR. Milton w.
Brown, director of the work.
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The Minnesota fiery cross. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1924-19??, 1924-05-16

selves from the political parties Of
their choice to the extent that they
become non-partisan, as this would
make impossible participation in
those affairs that are Of supreme in
terest to US; on the other hand we
would have every Klansman to be so
jealous Of his party that he would not
suffer 1t to be used in any way against
the highest interest and greatest good
of his country, and we would have
him so determined that he would see
to it that men of the proper type and
character are the standard bearers of
his party. When these two elements
do not obtain in his party, a klans-
man should possess that hardness of
manhood and sturdy devotion to
Americanism that he would not hest
| tate one moment in casting his bal
lot in the interest of those ideals
which we believe and for which we
stand.
Under our present form of govern
ment, political parties are virtually
a necessity, but they are only instru-
ments to be used by the people of
our nation as means of service, and
as American citizens, we are inter
ested in seeing that that service is
rendered and the common good OBJ
tanned.
1t is not to early for US to begin
scanning the political horizon. In
fact, we should make a survey of the
situation and constantly bear in mind
the type and character of men that
we are going to call into service. We
want and must have men who can put
the common good above self and self
ish interests, and who will put the
common welfare of our people above
the mere matter of party success. II
we have and maintain this idea and
adhere to it as our ideal, we will rem
der a great service for all the people
| of our great country.
ENST0pIk OHIO Do, n tt o.,
The Minnesota fiery cross. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1924-19??, 1924-05-16

to acquire all the helium gas bearing
fields in the country.
Thursday, May I
SENATE-Met at noon: recessed a
sos P. M.
Continued consideration Of the ia,
revision bill. Senator Smoot, in charge
Of the measure. conceded that prob
ably there would not be votes enough
to approve the Mellon income tax rate
schedule.
Senator Bruce, Maryland. condemned
the Democratic program for income
tax rates and urged . greater cut In
surtax rates than was advocated BY
Secretary Mellon. He spoke in op
position to the general Democratic
position on the bill
Democrats held a conference and
with the possible exception of -four
members of the party, decided to sup
port the rates proposed by Senator
Simmons, ranking minority member oil
the Finance Committee.
Adopted the conference report on
the soldier bonus bill.
Adopted without dissent a resolu
ton requiring the President to direct
the Attorney General to defend the
cases against the committee investi
eating the Department of Justice by
H. s. Daugherty, Washington Court
House, Ohio, banker, who has been
cited for contempt.
Senator Harrison, Mississippi, an.
nounced the various Investigating com.
mittees would continue to function,
regardless OF what he characterized
as the opposition of President Cool
idge and Republican leaders.
Testifying before the oil investigat.
Ing committee, Assistant Secretary OF
the Interior Finney said q search OF
the records to disclose the necessary
presidential approval Of the lease OF
more than 5000 acres In naval oil re-
serve No. 2, in California. to the Homo
lulu OIL Company. and without such
approval, he said. the lease was In.
valid.
Before the committee investigating
the facts connected with the indict.
ment of Senator Wheeler. Montana.
witnesses who investigated allegations
submitted to the grand jury said
Wheeler had promised he would
handle land grants before the depart.
ment. but Commissioner Spry. of the
land once. testified the dies did not
The Minnesota fiery cross. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1924-19??, 1924-05-16

the revenue bill making all tax re-
turns matters of record and open TO
public inspection by a vote Of As to
"a.
Adopted the Mcclellan amendment
providing that claims for attachments
and refunds and decisions thereon
shall be open to the public by a vote
of AZ to 26.
Rejected by vote Of 81 to 26 an
amendment recommended by Secre-
tary Mellon limiting deductions from
net incomes derived from tax-exempt
securities.
Adopted an amendment by Senator
Norris, Nebraska, reducing the salary
of the members of the tax appeals
board form $4,000, as reported by the
committee to $500. Senator Norris
pointed out that the salary proposed
was higher than that of judges of
higher courts to which appeal could
be taken.
Urging economy in expenditures.
Chairman Warren, of the appropria-
tions committee, warned the senate
that the investigating committees of
the senate this session thus far have
spent $325,OOG.
A Sunday blue law was introduced
by Senator Jones, Washington, under
which it would be impossible to do
anything in the District of Columbia
sunday unless it pertained to relig-
ion or charity.
Another row was precipitated in
the committee investigating alleged
land frauds in Texas when the COM
mittee refused to permit the read
ing Of a mass of letters from dissat-
isfied land purchasers not submitted
under oath, and Senator Heflin
threatened to consume the time of
the Senate by speaking daily and
reading them into The Congressional
Record. The committee decided to
visit the Rio Grande valley as soon
as practicable and continue the in
vestigation there.
The senate adopted a rule by Sen
ator Howell, Nebraska, asking the
war and navy departments to ascer-
tain if it would be practicable to
broadcast the proceedings of the SEN
ate by radio through government
stations.
Senator Brookhart, Iowa, an
nounced that he would oppose confir-
nation of w. c. Harbach, nominated
to be postmaster at Des Moines on
the Recommendation of Senator Cum
Minis, on the ground that the NOM
inee was personally obnoxious" to
him.
E. G. Liebold, private secretary to
Henry Ford, before the agricultural
committee, denied any knowledge of
any telegram alleged to have been
sent by President Coolidge to Henry
Ford regarding the Muscle Shoals
project.
The Minnesota fiery cross. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1924-19??, 1924-05-16

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show that the Senator had appeared
in any cases.
Conferees on the immigration bill
made some progress at brief ses
sion, but the Japanese exclusion pro
visions went over.
The Senate passed q bill providing
for an engineering commission to con.
fer with Mexican authorities regarding
the equitable use of the waters Of the
Rio Grande.
, HOUSE-Met at noon: adjourned at
5:35 P. N.
Continued consideration Of the Dis.
trict appropriation bill. With no
quorum present and by vote OF rs
to 5 out of a total membership Of
435 the House in committee OF the
whole, adopted the Champion amend.
ment which would change the whole
system of financing the affairs Of the
District OF Columbia by providing a
fixed annual appropriation Of $4,000.
600 by the general government, the
District to raise by taxation what.
ever may be needed in excess OF that
sum.
Passed the Rogers bill providing 70,
reorganization of the diplomatic and
consular service and sent II to the
Senate.
Resolutions providing for early con.
sideration of bills for purchase of the
Cape Cod canal and for appointment
of two additional Federal judges for
the southern New York district we're
favorably reported by the Rules com
mittee
Charles NJ. Swift, president Of the
Manila Electric Railway and an Amer.
lean resident In the islands for twenty
years, told the Insular committee the
United States should not surrender its
guiding hand over the Philippines.
The committee investigating the
Shipping Board in executive session
considered matters connected with the
prosecution by the government OF an
81 .000,0 900 claim for alleged over
charges on wartime contracts against
the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Company
Increased compensation would be al
lowed third and fourth class postmas
ters and rural mail carriers under an
amendment to the postal salary bill
adopted by the Post once committee
Friday, May 2
The Minnesota fiery cross. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1924-19??, 1924-05-16

FOSTORIA, OHIO.-Rev. c. II. Cru
Der, pastor of the United Brethren
church at Rising Sun, near here, de-
livered an address, why am a
klansman," at a recent service. The
sermon was the second in a series Of
six on Americanism.
The Minnesota fiery cross. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1924-19??, 1924-05-16

IRVINE, KY.-A group of Klans-
men last week visited Charles Reed
of Wisemantown, and presented him
purse containing $55. Mr.. Reed
has been i'll for some time.
The Minnesota fiery cross. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1924-19??, 1924-05-16

HOUSE-Met at noon; in session
the rest Of the afternoon.
Continued discussion of the Bark
ley bill to abolish the railroad labor
board. Representative Barkley, Of
Kentucky, author of the measure,
made an extended speech on the bill.
Rest Of the day devoted to consid-
Grafton of the District of Columbia
appropriation bill.
The Minnesota fiery cross. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1924-19??, 1924-05-16

HOUSE-Met at noon; adjourned at
SIP P. NJ
Adopted viva voce, the conference
report on the soldier bonus bill. Rep
resentative Mckenzie, Illinois, de-
nounced the granting of the bonus
to the female yeoman of the navy
and characterized it as "plain hold
up"
BY unanimous consent four hours
were devoted TO speeches on the
Barley bill TO abolish the railroad
labor board, Huddleston, Alabama,
favoring that proposal, and Winslow,
Massachusetts; Denison, Illinois;
Halves, Missouri; and Sanders, lndi-
ana, opposing the measure.
Continued consideration Of the
District Of Columbia appropriation
bill and completed IA of the 95 pag-
es of that measure.
Deficiency estimates for the Dis
trict of Columbia, amounting to $685.
373, were sent to congress from the
bureau of the budget.
District Attorney Brown, of the
northern district of West Virginia
has been refused by the judiciary
committee to submit affidavits to
support his charges of misconduct
against Federal Judge Baker, of that
district.
The Minnesota fiery cross. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1924-19??, 1924-05-16
Saturday. May 3

Saturday, May 3
SENATE-Met at noon; in session
the remainder of the day.
Continued consideration Of the tax
reduction bill. Senator Simmons, of
North Carolina, ranking member OF
the senate finance committee, made
long speech in behalf Of the minor
ity substitute for the bill itself.
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be. People were almost mad will
suffering. Comparisons between price!
and wages indicate the depth tx
which the standard of existence hat
fallen for most of the people engaged
in industry. Improvements were i'm.
perative, but improvements were al.
most impossible in view of the brutal
ignorance prevailing, of the legal re-
strictions and the cultivated antagon-
isms.
''If there is one thing above all
others which trade unionists ought to
rejoice over, and to celebrate, is the
centenary of the passing of an act
that repealed those laws which, for
so many years, prevented any collec-
tive expression of working class opin-
ion or any collective action on mat
ters connected with employment, with
wages and with conditions. The fact
of these laws is far from us. One
hundred years have interviewed. The
horrors and wickedness which these
laws made possible have passed, and
only few of US can now visualize
their effect upon the lives of the men
and women who worked.
"They were laws which silenced the
voice of the millions of men and wom-
en- and little children who suffered un-
der an expanding and rapidly chang
ing industrial system, the horrors of
which were intensified by the inhu-
manity of the accepted moral and
economic conceptions of the day"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-10-03
WOMEN WORKERS
Are Paid Low Rates, Sur
vey Shows

Washington.-In survey of wom-
en- in Missouri industries, the United
States women's bureau reports that
in May and June, 1922, "one-half
of the 1864 white women in the
state for whom information was re-
ported earned less than $12.65 a
week. Even when consideration is
limited to those who had worked a
full week, one-half of these women
earned less than 1870"
The report classes Missouri as
"among the moderately progressive
states" because it has a nine-hour
daily standard and 54-hour week.
Earnings of negro women were low,
one-half of these workers earning un-
der Sc a week
The largest number of women
were employed in the manufacture of
shirts and overalls, in shoe factories
and in general mercantile establish
ments. The median wage for the
2,486 shirt and overall workers was
$1,000, for the shoe workers $3.50,
and for the 2,717 women employed in
general stores $1445. One-half of
the 4,404 women in the state working
outside st. Louis and Kansas City
earned less than $10.40 week. These
women are practically all native born,
as Missouri has no immigrant prob
lem.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-10-03

Brigadier-Gener Smedley Butler
was installed as the "Totem Pole" of
Philadelphia. The Sleepy City was
ruinous to the morals of the rest of
the state. 1t takes money, plenty of
it, to violate the so-called prohibit
ory laws. Workingmen in the "Sleepy
City do not get enough money to
hire the contraband agents. And
thus, Governor Pinchot and General
Butler have merry time-business
says hallelujah and the hypocrites
say amen! Four dollars quart for
bottled prescriptions. And the work
ingmen get less per day. Are you
going to join our hallelujah class
Sunday? If not, my private supplier
will take your subscription when you
Ire ready. Hallelujah and then few
amens.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-10-03
"MACNA CHARTA"
OF British Labor Recalled
By Trade UniOnist

London, England.-"One hundred
years ago British trade unionism be.
came legal possibility, but no meet
ings have been held, no demonstra-
tions, and no expressions of thankful,
the common people very much what
/ Magma Charta did for the mobiles"
writes w. A. Appleton, secretary of
the General Federation of Trade
Unions, in the quarterly report of that
organization
1 Secretary Appleton refers to this
oversight as "A Neglected Centen-
ary."
Perhaps this year of 1924 finds us
too busy trying to discover why the
millennium has not arrived-as the
result of the political changes which
have taken place-to leave any time
to celebrate the centenary of the
greatest liberating event of all time, !"
Secretary Appleton said.
II wonder whether many people
realize today how tragic were the in
dustrial conditions prior to the pass
ing of the act of 1924? Not only
were trade unions illegal institutions
whose existence were condemnable by
laws passed during centuries of feu-
dal control and antagonistic legisla-
ton, but the penalties against those
who attempted to form trade unions
were savagely drafted and savagely
executed.
1T was illegal even to hold a meet
ing to consider wages or to collec-
lively approach an employer for the
purpose of drawing his attention to
wages, or hours, or working condi-
tions., Whatever then existed in the
shape of trade unionism, existed
illicitly, in secret, and in fear. What
ever wages were agreed upon were
subject to wicked depreciation through
the truck system, which left the en-
ployed power to substitute rubbish for
cash.
Times were as bad as bad could
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-10-03
MORE MINERS KILLED

Kemmerer, Wyo.-An explosion at
mine No. 5, owned by the Kemmerer
Coal Company, caused the death of
nearly half hundred miners. The
bodies were charred beyond recogni-
ton. The only means of Identification
was the numbers on the electric lamps
carried by the victims. A number of
men were found sitting in cars in
which they were about to ride to the
surface for dinner. Some were on
their hands and knees, many with
their hands over their eyes. Death
was probably instantaneous in most
cases.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-10-03
THE KALEIDOSCOPE
By 1. C. McCUMBER

1t was longshoreman few
years since that accepted temporary
position with national political
party. His mission was to keep in
tact the regime of Mark Hanna. Now
Mark Hanna has been numbered with
the silent host for several years and
it is not up to the Kaleidoscope to
question his motives. But as in his
time, little lucre appears to draw
some so-called union labor men to
furnish the tissue paper for luncheons
and dinners. Some of these days
when liberty is pronounced dead;
when organized labor has the temer-
ity to kick out the Judas Iscariots,
then will come national election that
will not discredit the men and women
who pay their dues to the end that
may gain as a whole.