# Christian Citizenship.

The Anglo-Saxon manhood and womanhood of America are awake today! You need not set your alarm clock any more. They have ceased trailing partisan bandwagons and have begun to seriously consider the public welfare.

They have for the first time discovered that the people were not made for political parties, but parties for the people.

There are millions in America today who refuse to sacrifice their patriotism on the altar of partisan slavery.

The shackles of thirty years of bondage to corrupt politicians are ended. The civic messiah, the Ku Klux Klan, falsely accused, misrepresented and lied about, is leading the nation into the clear, pure air of liberty.

Blind obedience to partisan politicians of two hostile camps—the bartering of the people's interests to partisan advantage—the placing of the crown of party servitude above the diadem of American sovereignty and placing party banners above Old Glory's star-gemmed promise of everlasting unity, have brought this great democracy near the rocks.

What have the political leaders been doing to avert the disaster?

Quarrelling over tariff, League of Nations or World Court, while the people were bowing before various pie-hunting political gods and electing men to Congress who couldn't tell the Federal Constitution from Calvin's Confession of Faith. Shall we continue to hang our hopes on a job-lot of politicians who carry their patriotism in their pockets—who are boasting of their allegiance to the "Grand Old Party," or prating of the principles of Jeffersonian Democracy?

The American people say, "No." We must go forward—we must press on to grander heights—to grander glories. The Klan may sometimes slip, the boulders may bruise our feet, shadows may obscure our path, there may be days of agony, but however dark the night, our faith in Christ's leadership will ever burn upon the night's horizon, like a fiery beacon leading us on. We may have trials and tribulations sore, but I say unto you, the American people, that while God reigns, this Nation, born of our father's blood and sanctified by our mother's tears, shall not pass away.