Phoenix tribune., 1924-08-16
MENACE OF XII KLUX
TOLD BY White TEXAN
in BRIEF STATEMENT

strikingly brought out in statement
issued some time ago by R. D. Creag-
er, Republican National Committee
man from Texas, the hot-bed of Klan-
ism.
The meaning of the Khan in all of
its propaganda is brought to light in
this statement that che who runs may
read"
That the secret political organiz-
alton known as the Ku Klux Klan is
rapidly becoming menace to Ameri-
can Institutions, no informed man
can question.
By both secret and public propa-
ganda this order is arousing wave
of religious and racial intolerance,
passion and prejudice that is spread
ing with alarming rapidity.
Roman Catholics, Jews, foreign
born, sons and daughters of foreign
born parents and Negroes are the OBJ
ject of the Klan attack.
Those within any of these classes
are held to constitute no part of the
met worth" of the American people.
The preachment is that they are not
and cannot be 100 per cent American.
Membership in the Ku Klux Klan
is limited to white, native-born, prot
estants, and for them is claimed an
exclusive 100 per cent Americanism.
All others, the Klan teaches, consti-
tute an undesirable element" spoil.
luting stream" in our citizenship.
What the Wizard Says
H. w. Evans, Imperial Wizard of
the Klan, in an official and carefully
prepared speech delivered at the state
fair of Texas at Dallas on October
"a, 1928, and which has recently been
published by the Klan in pamphlet
form and mailed broadcast through
out the United States, has this to say
of the population of the United
States eve already have at least
three powerful and numerous ele-
ments that do now, and forever will,
defy every fundamental requirement
of assimilation. They cannot be
merged because of insurmountable So
cial, racial and religious barriers.
They will always stand apart from
our own people,"
Who They Are Against
He then list, first, the Negro; Sec
ond, the Jew of whom the says: "To
him, patriotism as the Anglo-Saxon
feels it, is impossible" and third, the
Roman and Greek Catholics of whom
he says: "whose assimilation is i'm
possible without the gravest danger
to our institutions; and again, they
demand, and increasingly seek to ex-
ercise dominion outside the spiritual.
To them the presidency at Washing
ton is subordinate to the priesthood
at Rome"
He states that "illiteracy of Eu-
rope is practically confined to Cath
olic countries" and asks: "Is it un-
fair to suggest that Catholicism, if
not actually desiring that condition,
thrives upon ignorance"
He says: "Let me give you birds
eye picture of the American people,
reduced to racial, national and social
values" He then gives the number
Of those in the United States who
(1st) were born abroad; (2nd) born
here of foreign parentage, and (3rd)
born here of mixed alien and native
stock: adds the number of Negroes,
Indians, Orientals and Asiatics-
summarizes the total and says "We
had, then, in 1920, alien and colored
peoples aggregating -."
Unreasonable and unbelievable as
it may seem, native born Americans
whose parents, one or both, were born
abroad, are classified as "alien."
Referring to the classes above emu
merated, including native born Ameri-
cans of foreign or mixed parentage,
DR.. Evans continues. There are sew
eral other substractions to be made
before arriving at the net worth
(italics are mine) of the American
people," and proceeds to list the in
sane, the paupers, the criminals and
others.
It is to be kept in mind that the
foregoing quotations are from a care
fully studied and prepared speech
printed and widely distributed by the
official head and spokesman OF this
order. The limits to which the un-
official, unreported and unpublished
propaganda of the Klan goes can be
imagined.
CoWard in Operations
No man of national prominence has
yet been found to openly defend or
advocate the principles and teachings
Of this masked and hooded, un-Ameri-
can and dangerous organization. New