Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1950-07-26
An Editorial
No Excuse For XXX

In this democratic country there's place for
an organization of the calibre of the Ku Klux Khan
which made a scheduled parade through our streets
last Saturday night. Any organization that has to
work outside the law is unfit for recognition in a
country of free men. Saturdays episode, although
without violence is deplorable, black eye to our
area and an admission that law enforcement is
inadequate.
Sanctioning of their methods of operation
practically as bad as if you rode in their midst 1t
takes united front to combat awlessness 1t takes
all the law abiding people unit to discourage and
combat Ku Klux Klan that is totally without law.
The Klan, despite it's Americanism plea, is the per-
sonificaton of Fascsm and Nazism. 1t is just such
ont side-the-aw operations that lead dictatorshp
through fear and insecurity.
The Khan bases its power fear and hate OF
ones feowman and not through love, understand
ing and the principles upon which God would have
ms live together We have some racial problem in this
country. That cannot be denied. However, we do
not have open warfare which will have it the
primitive methods of the xxx are applied. In every
of the word they endeavorng to force their
domination upon those whom they consider worthy
of punishment 1t is not for band OF hoodlums to
decide whether YOU or 1 need chastising. We grant
Won that there are cases in which it would seem IN
dividna1s need punishment when none comes through
the reouIar channels In which it is not up to
hooded gang to do the Furnishing. These cases must
like all others, keep within the bounds of the laws
which Won and / have made and have the power to
enlarge upon should we deem the present ones made
quate.
The recent democratic primary IN both North
and South Carolina did much to stir up trouble ana
build the xxx. Both states staged mud-sllnsns ana
abominable campaigns based racial hate, perhaps
the most un Cody campaigns ever waged IN the Gar
onas.
The racial issue in the South has been overstress-
ed There is little tangible evidence OF any struggle
he+ween races There's no basic truth to federal
government forcing us to mingle together. law OF
this nature would get further than the record
and YOU know it would and could not be enforc-
ed. Any non segregation that ever comes ABOUT Ill
the South will have to be natural movement
throu oh many generations of people, through
ton and the practice of Gods teaching.
The Klan also is big talker tor Protestantis1'
thereby being anti-Catholic and anti-Jewlsh. 1et'
America was founded by persons seeking country
of religious freedom where they could worship 0oo
IN their own way without fear. Would you have US
to resort to nation of people wishing there was an
other America to discover so could leave this one:
With the Kans frequent reference to Jesus,
God and religion they are being highly sacreligous
because their verybeing is to God and the
Rbe IF YOU had the names of those persons appear
mo here Saturday night and if you had church at
tendance slips for those persons it's opinion that
not five percent of them entered any church OF any
i denomination on Sunday morning.