SIX HUNDRED RESIGN FROM KU KLUX KLAN
Si* hundred members of the Ku-Klux-Klan of Connecticut have resigned. after denouncing the order a* a menace to tho XTuitod States* ohq it is believed their action foreshadows a general breaking-up of the Klan in the Northern States, >f not in the entire country. In notifying the national headquarters in Georgia of their action, 1 Mr Arthur Mann/ tho resigning “Kledgle,” alleged that th© order had degenerated into an organisation of greed, and Was a, “travesty upon patriotism and a blasphemous caricature of professing Protestantism., It is not only anti-Catholio and anti-Jew, hut anti-American arid anti-Protestant, and no American worthy of the name can belong to it and retain his aelfreepeet. Reel Americans, Mr Mann declared, must be awakened and made to rise every effort to “stamp out this slimy serpent that threatens the very life of our nation.”
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12394, 13 March 1926, Page 9
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