PAID ADVERTISEMENT
Knights of the Ku Klux Klan
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
1. Considering the Klan movement as a crusade or reform effort, what are the conditions in American social
and political life which demand such a movement?
First, and foremost, because American citizens have neglected their public duty. Three out of ten of our
native-born citizens (and until I became a Klansman I was one of them) have taken the advantages of American
liberties and free government for granted. They did not either give them the thought or take the trouble regarding
them that are essential if they are to be maintained. Heretofore, the average American citizen has been born into
conditions and environments which were accepted without thought and regard to the fundamental principles involv
ed. Not so with a Klansman. He does not accept a given condition of affairs regardless of how long standing or
how great the authority therefor, but searches out the truth and facts. The need for the Klan is the same as the
need of America for this kind of thought.
In the second place, there is the immediate and alarming fact that American thought and life have been and are
being perverted from their true course by excessive alien mixtures. It is foolish to expect, and it has been proved
wrong by experience, to hope that people born of alien races, with different traditions, different education and dif
ferent ideals, which are bred into them both by inheritance and their entire training, can within a few years un
derstand America, the American spirit, or the American ideals. America stands for a definite form of government, of
social organization and of thought, which have been developed through centuries and which are, therefore, an
essential part of and are fitted to the American people. It is no reflection on other people that they are different, but
it is a fact that they are, and that the attempts which they make to subvert American thought to their own are
i threatening the most fundamental factors in American life.
We believe that those who have been born or educated in America to American ideals of society, government,
and home, can more intelligently conceive and apply Americanism in its true sense.
2. What specific reform is it hoped to make? In other words what are the detailed objectives of the Klan?
a) The Klan hopes to inculcate the fundamental principles of the Klan doctrine and the application thereof
into the minds of American people to the extent that all groups will become assimilated into a solidified American
electorate expressing the will of American people who will form their own curative remedies.
Specifically, the Klan plans the education of the great mass of its own members, and at the same time, all
American citizens, to the responsibilities as w'ell as the privileges of citizenship. The development of an operative
patriotism, which is nothing more or less than the full understanding and expression of the duties of citizens. Here
tofore, this education has been primarily within the organization, and has been reflected in a measure to the outside
world. No greater duty nor greater responsibility could be accepted by any group than the furtherance of these
principles, and the development of an educational program of enlightenment to all America.
(b) To protect the American electorate from further dilution by alien elements, wirich by racial and religious
barriers, resist assimilation, by restricting franchise to men and women w'ho are able through birth and education
to understand Americanism. This means practically a restriction to native-born children who have had the benefit
of the training given by the American educational system, and who are by breeding and education, fundamentally
equipped for the responsibilities for citizenship and the right of franchise.
(c) To protect the nation from any further evils of unassimilated and unassimilative elements through an im
mediate stopping of immigration; the stoppage to remain complete until such time as reason appears for again
accepting foreign immigration.
(d) There has been a widespread feeling among Klansmen that in the last few years the operation of the Na
tional government has shown weakness indicating a possible need of rather fundamental reforms. This is shown by
the fact that in election after election the decision has been based upon dissatisfaction and protest against the pre
vious workings of the government rather than upon any constructive thought, and a referendum upon specific
pledges for constructive and corrective governmental measures. The immediate program of the Klan is to point
out certain fundamental conditions in the government and bring before the American electorate definite construc
tive facts upon which they may predict an intelligent expression of the will of the American people.
Locally, the Klan stands for law' enforcement, the election of competent and conscientious officials, state and
city, the elimination of private graft and spoils hunting of all kinds, the immediate and vigorous improvement of
the public schools.
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3. Cannot a Jew, Roman Catholic or Negro be a Good Citizen?
According to their capabilities they could. The Klan has no bitterness toward any one of these people. The
Ivian is simply standing for certain principles and they think that these principles can best be exemplified and car
ried out by people possessing certain qualifications and beliefs. They feel that a man born and reared on American
soil, unuer the American flag, is moie likelj to be true to American principles if he is educated in the public schools.
This is no reflection on others who may be very patriotic but the Klan thinks that for obvious reasons, persons
born and educated under true American ideals and in the American public schools, who think more of this country
and typify a higher degree of patriotism than others. The Klan has no monopoly on patriotism any more than any
other person or organization has a monopoly on any other good thing, but it is selecting men with certain good
qualifications, and this is done every day by other organizations without object or comment. This right to select
seems to draw the inference that Catholics, Jews, and Negroes are not equally good citizens. This is not true.
The same right to select by qualification is exercised by families, churches, political parties, government busi
ness concerns and associations of persons generally. So why ask the question? The Klan will condemn no man or
set of men so long as he, or they, are obedient to the law and uphold the principles of Americanism and the princi
ples of Christian religion.
4. What is the basis, then, for the distinction which the Klan draws against members of these races and reli
gions? m
Simply this, that one places a limitation on his citizenship, on a religious principle, that precludes possibility i
of a separation of church and state, while the other for two thousand years has rigidly adhered to a racial limitation !
of intermarriage which prevents their assimilation into an American life, wholly and unreservedly. Americans i
must face the fact that God Almighty never intended for a social equality of the Negro and the white man. The i
Negro is America's problem and it should give him all of the privileges of citizenship that it can give, but face i
squarely the issue that intermarriage and social equality is impossible.
Now that the passions and prejudices of our war between the states are so long past, America must frankly
face the fact that the Negro is separated from the white man by a profound racial barrier and many centuries of
civilization. The racial difference is profound and completely bars any thought of social equality because that
would be impossible without intermingling; the lack of development cannot possibly be overcome by any immediate
process of education. America owes it to the Negro to give him every privilege, protection and every opportunity
consistent with national safety, but dare not risk the destruction of our civilization that might come if its control
should ever fall into their hands.
f would say that individual members of any of the classes mentioned might be patriotic citizens and that there
nftelv 1H msta0c*s“ they have shown very high patriotism, but America today is threatened very defl
orLani^ere ,°r "T” T orfnizatlo“ to meet the danger, and the surest way of making certain that our
n ght before Th , ' 7 ‘ “"T™ mentionea' ^ to issue the same order that Washington issued on the
night before the battle of Trenton: "Put none but Americans on guard tonight.” '
MAJOR L. R. POWELL,
Imperial Representative
SEWARD, ALASKA
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Although he pleaded that her father
had an income of $15,000 a yeai,
Thomas Phillips of St. Paul was or
dered by the court to support his
wife.
During the recent hot wave many
swarms of bees were drowned by the
melting of their own honey in Fresno
county, California.
After lives of toil, Mr. and Mrs.
James Bogart of South Amherst, O.,
aged 71 and G7, have been left $600,000
by Mrs. Bogart’s second cousin.
Join the Chamber of Commerce.
The Alaska Railroad
TRAINS LEAVE SEWARD
7:30 A. M.
Mon.—Wed.—Fri.
A train leaves Seward at 8:00 a. m.
Sundays for Anchorage and interme
diate points. Arrives Seward at 2:15
p. m. from Anchorage.
TRAINS ARRIVE SEWARD
7:00 P. M.
Tues.—Thurs.—Sat.
STEAMSHIP STARR
NEXT SAILING TO WESTWARD SEPT. 10
San Juan Fishing and Packing Co.
G. C. HENDERSON, Agent
PHONE MADISON 6 SEWARD, ALASKA
R^gular^y and .Dependably
S. S. ADMIRAL EVANS
Sails from
Seattle—
July 28
Arrives at
Seward—
August 4
South from
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Aug 11, 9 p.m.
S. S. ADMIRAL WATSON
August 11 August 18 Aug. 25, 9 p. m.
Calling at all regular Southeastern and South
western Alaska ports including Seldovia and
Kodiak.
WAYNE BLUE, Agent
Telephone Main 81 Res., Madison 40
Pacific Coastwise Jervice
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