Evening star., 1937-09-16
PLEA FOR CONTROL
BYKLAN RECORDED
Black Said to Have Heard
Evans Demand ProteS-
tant Domination.

After receiving his solid gold pass
port signifying life membership il
the Ku Klux Klan, Hugo L. Black, no,
associate justice of the Supreme Cour,
took his seat in the Klan meeting hal
In Birmingham Ala, on the evenin
Of September 2, 1926, and listened t
an impassioned speech by Hiram Yves
ley Evans, imperial wizard of the Klan
according to series of copyrighte.
articles by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazett
and the North American Newspape
Alliance of which this is the fourth.
Ray Sprigle, Post-Gazette reporter
obtained the following verbatim ac.
count of Evans speech from the tran
script of the official report of the pro.
ceedings by the Klan stenographer:
Boys" Evans said. ''the Klan has
hard fight ahead. The time has come
to deliver. We have passed through &
mobilization period We have passee
through an organization period. We
have the confidence of Americas peo-
pie. We have possession of the ma
chinery of government over great
deal of American territory, and the
time has come when the Ku Klux Klar
must deliver, or else. The time has
come to deliver performance.
Great Program Simple"
Nov it is simple thing, after all
the great program ahead of us. 1t Is
a simple thing. Here it is-just as easy
An examination of those who have
been instrumental in making America
originally as a Nation on the plair
(plane?) it was made upon, setting
1t up upon that plain (plane?)
and those who have kept it on
ward and led it upward ever as a
Nation and country--an examination
Of their particular traits, of their Pc
culiar customs, of their peculiar habits
and practices will afford us much light
In setting out-a program for the future
And here is what we find We find
that America up to now has done all
that has been worth while under the
leadership of native-born white, gen.
tile, Protestant men.
II am not out to propose any man
FOR public Office, but I am out to pro-
pose this kind of slogan, that we get
our affairs into the hands-in this
Nation-into the hands of native
born, white, gentle, Protestant Amer
leans and the sooner we make it Sc
government will be well controlled and
will be secured to succeeding genera
tions.
Vote Groups Cited
you say, why the necessity? You
say that would normally be-with So
per cent of us. But it wasn't when the
klan started out against it. We had
the German vote. We had the Cath
olic vote. We had the Italian vote and
the Irish and the Negro vote Every
other kind of vote was organized in
the world by (but?) the regular Amer
lean vote.
If they had just one ounce more
sense than woodpecker they would
have known when they started or
ganizing all of these blocs the first
thing somebody knew somebody would
come along and organize a he bloc
and it would be all over. You just
can't organize ~ per cent and make it
control SO per cent of a corporation,
aggregation or congregation. 1t just
won't work
I'VE have organized the So per cent.
We represent the So per cent, the
native-born, white, gentle Protestants.
1t is good business for men to put the
control of the government in the hands
of people who think along those lines,
those who will preserve American
ideals and customs and practices and
will make no apologies for it.
Now I have but one hope as a
Klansman for you this year, and
through the coming year, and that is
this, that without thinking about in
dividuals, be they wizards, dragons or
exalted cyclops or yourselves; without
thinking as individuals, you think
about great cause-aiming to pro-
duce a general set of circumstances
that will measure up to the cause.
Entitled to leadership"
THAT is the program of the Klan,
The fact that We are native born,
to supremacy and to lead
80 let's get the country into the
hands OF that kind of people, but not
certain mana type of men. And
we want to go back to our forefathers
slogan, that this was TO be a country
where man might worship God ac-
cording to the dictates Of his own
conscience.
That is the slogan that made this
country originally. The only reason
on earth why the Puritans landed on
Plymouth Rock was that they wanted
country where they could worship
God according TO their own beliefs
The only reason why the cavaliers
made that wonderful settlement down
In Virginia was because they wanted
. place where they could worship Coo
according to their own consciences
And the cavalier of Virginia and the
Puritan that landed on Plymouth Rock
builded Protestant civilization tha'
is the envy of the world There ha.
been no statesman able up TO now t
suggest in the form of a government 9
single improvement upon the govern.
ment laid down by our Protestant
forefathers.
do you know they vote the Roman
Catholic in New York? They yott
him exactly like you number horse,
out here. Do you know what the,
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