The Minnesota fiery cross. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1924-19??, 1924-03-14


sensions that would be worse than
the evils from which we may now be
suffering. You tell US that your Or
ganization is not anti-Catholic, and
you are dealing with only half the
truth. You think you have a secret
meeting. Fifty per cent Of Bayfield,
knows of this meeting and who are
attending it, and I'll take personal
responsibility for seeing that the 9TH
err so per cent knows all about it
before 6 o'clock tomorrow evening
We are presenting a major project
here this year, one that deals with
the early work of Catholic mission
aries in these islands. We are in no
sense a Catholic organization, but
one of leading citizens of northern
| Wisconsin. But more than so per
cent Of the citizens of Bayfield, are
of Catholic faith, and we do not pro-
pose to have any secret society with
an unsavory reputation bring about
dissensions that would be disastrous
to a civic program that affects all of
the middle west. If you organize
here. I'll conduct a wide-open fight
against the Khan that will bring out
great many facts you are not tell
Il =
Verify, this fellow Mac reminds us
of the weasel who sought to destroy
the mountain. The weasel stood at
the mountains base and said: "Moun-
tain, | am going to put you out of
| business" Then Mr.. Weasel began
gnawing at the mountains base. He
gnawed, and gnawed, and gnawed,
and after a while he had hole of
several feet in diameter in the noun
tain's base. He ceased in his labors
and looked at the mountain. He then
said: Mountain, your end is at hand"
Then he gnawed, and gnawed, and
gnawed, and the hole became bigger
in the mountains base. But as he
gnawed and gnawed a rock above was
loosened. The weasel again ceased
his labors. He viewed the gigantic
mountain. Mountain, you are not
going to last much longer" Then he
gnawed, and gnawed, and-"plop," the
loosened rock fattened Mr.. Weasel
like pancake.
In submitting this story, it is not
our purpose to infer that a rock will
flop on Macs head. Our sole pur-
pose is to show that Macs "chal-
lenge" to the millions of native-born
white, Protestant Gentle American
citizens, is so ridiculous that we
laugh out loud. Macs challenging
the Khan is practicable to the weasel
threatening to annihilate the noun
tain. Mac should profit by the deb.
acles staged by walton of Oklahoma,
Parker Of Louisiana, and O'Donnell
of Chicago.
He Fears and Fears
Mac admits that Bayfield, needs
cleaning up, but he seems to fear
that if the Khan organizes there, that
this may be accomplished. He also
fears that the Khan will bring about
religious and other dissensions. But
it seems that this dissension already
exists. And the Roman Catholics,
with Mac as their captain, are the
dissensionists. They have their own
secret societies to which Protestants
cannot belong. Why, then, should
not the Protestants of Bayfield, have
an organization to which Catholics
cannot belong? ooh, no." says Mac.
"Protestants shall not organize That
would bring on discussion" But
when the opposition organize, that
does not cause dissension, not at all. |
Such logic is like warmed-up Mac says,
although not in the same words, that
Protestants shall not organize in Bay
field, because more than so per cent |
of Bayheid's population is Roman
Catholic.
There are hundreds of communi-
ties in Wisconsin where so per cent
Of the population is Protestant, yet |
no one cared a continental if the |
Catholics organized. II the Khan is
not to organize in Bayfield, because |
more than so per cent Of the popula- |
tion is against it, then along the |
same line of logic every Catholic so
ciety in communities where the Prot |
estants are in the majority should |
disband forthwith.
Then Mac vociferates further that |
if the Khan is organized in Bayfield, |
the pageant and the corporation |
swinging the thing will suffer. Just |
why and how we do not know, as Mac |
failed to explain. Does he fear that |
the Bayfield, Klansmen would be so
devoid of honor as to wreck a "civic |
program that affects all of the mid
die west?" They wouldn't do that,
Brother Mckenzie. Just to prove
that, we submit proposition. We |
near LndI the Mans Oh WISCONSIN, are
planning on a great outdoor Klonvo-
cation this coming summer, which |
will be attended by several hundred
thousand. Why not extend an invi-
tation to the Khan to hold this great
gathering in the city Of Bayfield, dur
ing the time Of the pageant? Think
this over.
But to continue, The Ashland
Press, of Ashland, Wis, carried a
little squib in it's columns the day
after Mac delivered his grafton,
which read thusly:
The Indian Pageant has already
yielded returns to the Chequamegon
Bay region in the person of Mac
Mckenzie, manager Of the pageant,
who rid Bayfield, Of the presence Of
Ku Klux Khan organizers who were
attempting to start little Khan all
their own in our neighborhood.
Ashland is also promised visit by
John NJ, Of indianapolis, a minor
Of the Grand Mogui.'
Watch your washing, Dear Readers,
or you may see your favorite white
sheet parading down the street soon
with X. K. K. In large characters all