KU KLUX KLAN.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16895, 21 November 1922, Page 5

KU KLUX KLAN.

I THE MENACE IN AMERICA A GRAVE SITUATION. rJ.r Telegraph-'- Prea* Associ'-:o*i Copyriglit Australiau and N.Z. GabU- A«-*»oiauoxi. N !*. V\ \ OKK . Nov umber IP. Ihe "Nw \ orii Times ” V\a>may; ion correspondent states that, owing; ‘ rho "Clivities o! tlie Ku-Klux KUn. n Inch ha. become so powerful tiun it hampers the activities ot the .Sia'c. Government. Governor Darker. nV Louisiana, will oouier with Fiesklent Harding and Mr Daugherty, A iiornoyGeneral. to-morrow, regarding ways an«l means ior combating tlie evil. Members oi the police tone . that it t« believed that memhern (•10 Ki;-Klii\- Klan extra-legally pun,sh mciiriduals for various iiilegvd nftonces ivliich the law does not reeogmse. Men who are believed to be guiliy ~t moral offences are compell I to leave the towns in which thev- live. Others are tarred and feathered. Jews. 1 negroes and Catholics* are .subjected v > Persecution. A large. mysterious, secret organisation seems to be swaying the lit i* ot the Stat^. It is understood that various Fo.l- ---‘ tnl officials, who were sent down '..» investigate tlie position, have disanpeared. IT port- that Governor Parker will P'k the President to have thT? Federal Government take over the Ktate Onveruinetit are discounted, hut the situation appears to he grave. The Ru-Klu.\ Klan is a secret, oatli- ■" un< 1 order. w hieli began in th« Southern States of Vmcrica. Km whin, lias latterly been attempting to ex ten ! ■ . J- is said to have liad its ot i .-in in tlie troublous times «.f the reconstruction period following the Gird whites and to oppose the policy of the -V rtli towards tlie South. It had at • i'■ •• head, with the title of Gr.nl V i:-;ard. General Nr than Bedford For. ''''■i. the former fVmfecJerr».to cavalry 1 rile Grand Wi'/.a ruled ft oi' the < ntire South. Kn.-I. sjlio r,v ' T'l' <ided over by • Grand Uni-mi “ Staff officers bore such tick', GWr. Hydras, Ft iries. * Goblins, Xi, t Hawk . Magi. Mon] - and Tut ks. • ' individual members were GhoulTh* <*ii;;cted laws intended fo break up th*'* Kukills and other secret snr-ict .-it.! ; - several hundred arrest*! were made. After a lapse of lifty year" the or-!*" hr- again heeome Tfia < purpose of the modern Kuklu.x Tv Ia :i , T i: o:n,l to be “to inculcate the s-icro ! 1 ! nrii:e;ple> and noble ideals of oliiralrv. \ Ihe development of <bnrreter. the pro ( i i iinn of the home and the chastifr ■ S of womanhood, the exern| lifif-ation f it pure and practical patriotism toward ‘ ■up •rlnri-ou-- country, the preservation ol Auk re-mi ideals and institution s :, b ■'oi! the maintenance of white >uiir.-* ° b"? r •(! from membership. Thev are negroes. Japanese and other Orient, b. Homan Oat holies. .Tows and i o reign - ho»*n nervous. Tlie TClan claim to V* assisting the police in exterminating bles Tn Jacksonville the method of a public parade was ■ - Several ’ un ir< d - - n - « the Kl.mi. garbed in robes ami hoods. c » |«> through the city, scattering print.- L '<l placards, which read: “Warning. ; t I’ndesirablep. both white and black. * ve know you. This loafing, thieving ' rnembere of the Klim are known on v ►n each other, and mar not discing tl. •