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Henry Justin Allen Henry Justin Allen EXCERPTS FROM GOVERNOR ALLEN'S ADDRESS UPON THE KU KLUX KLAN We are confronting in Kansas an astonishing development of prejudice which is racial and religious. It is seeking to establish the Un-American idea that we can improve the conditions in this state by turning the rights of government over to a masked organization which arrogates to itself the right to regulate the individual. It has taken the old Ku Klux Klan from its grave and revamped it for the profit of the organizers. They have set up the incredible philosophy that we require religious instruction from masked men whose characters and capacities are concealed by disguise. They have added to the old antipathy to the Catholic, the antipathy to the Negro and the antipathy to the Jew. In the South and in the Far West they have committed many crimes upon the individual and only recently they have invaded this state, which was builded strongly upon its respect for law and order, and have given us the shocking exhibition, at Liberty, of taking the mayor of the town by violence, carrying him to a secluded place and whipping him because he refused to allow this masked society to hold a meeting in his hall. They have introduced in Kansas the greatest curse that can come to any civilized people--the curse that arises out of the unrestrained passions of men governed by religious intolerance and racial hatred. By a flamboyant expression of the purity of their purposes they have attracted the support of men of standing and character who do not sympathize with the violence to which many of the more radical members of this masked government are committed. The organization is as dangerous to the Protestant as it is to the Catholic, the Jew or the Negro, because it exists only when the authority of government has been broken down and destroyed. It brings chaos and hatred and menace to every law-abiding citizen who may fall victim of the private quarrels and animosities of men who hide their identity behind a mask. In the very keenest fashion they raise the question of law and order. Men in a self-governed democracy must have a love of liberty, and this love must extend to the liberty of others. Self- governing people must have the spirit that makes them self-controlled. If we deliberately allow this organization to take the law into its own hands, then we break down all the safeguards of society which have been builded here through the sanctity of government; we allow the beginning of a feud that is racial and religious; we justify the establishment of a quarrel that leads to group formation, makes civil war upon each other in the name of racial and religious bigotry; we destroy the foundations of society. We teach to our young men and young women the dangerous doctrine that violence and hatred are justifiable, that mob law is consistent with freedom, that lawlessness is to be met by lawlessness, and that self-appointed guardians of other people's rights may set themselves above the sacred dignity of constitutional authority. When any organization breeds violence either by the deeds it does or by the opportunity it presents for lawlessness, it gives to the criminal element of the community opportunities which menace us all. One of the declarations of this masked organization is, "We stand for Christianity, for the protection of womanhood, and for white supremacy." In the name of God, why do they have to be masked to stand for that? When has womanhood in this state needed to be defended by men who work at night with their faces covered? When has any brave fight for religion ever been made by terrorists? All down the corridors of time, history has been enriched by the brave Anglo-Saxons who have fought for right and for liberty, but they have never fought in the Klan's regalia. They have fought openly for the right as they saw it. Think of Martin Luther nailing his theses to the door of Castle Church with a pillow case over his head. Think of John the Baptist standing by the roadside in the Roman province of Palestine preaching the freedom of a religious brotherhood with a hood upon his face and terror-inspiring regalia upon his body. Think of the Man of Galilee walking his Golgotha way hooded and skirted like a circus clown. Pick up history where you will, and find me a single man who ever fought a battle for the rights of religion or of freedom with his face hidden from those he fought. There is only one country in the world today where men go to punishment without trial and without the protection of justice and that's in Soviet Russia. I would as soon be tried and condemned by a Soviet decree of Lenin as I would be a decree of the Ku Klux Klan handed down by Simmons of Atlanta. Listen to their oath: "Mortal man cannot assume a more binding oath. Character and courage alone will enable you to keep it. Always remember that to keep this oath means to you honor, happiness and life. To violate it means disgrace, dishonor, death." Think of an American promising that he will render at all times "loyal respect and steadfast support" to the imperial authority that hides behind the un-American title of "his majesty," and binds himself abjectly to obey the orders of a masked emperor. Listen to this official document issued by the imperial wizard, notifying the Klan of an appointment: "To all genii, grand dragons and hydras of realms, grand goblins and kleagles of domains, grand titans and fairies of provinces, giants, exalted cyclops and terrors of klantons, and to all citizens of the invisible empire Knights of the Ku Klux Klan--in the name of our valiant and venerated dead, I affectionately greet you. "Done in the Aulic of his majesty, imperial wizard, emperor of the invisible empire, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, in the imperial city of Atlanta, commonwealth of Georgia, United States of America, on this the ninth day of the nine month of the year of our Lord 1921, and on the dreadful day of the weeping week of the mournful month of the year of the Klan LV." Read this gibberish and think of the brave men who wrote the constitution of these United States, guaranteed in it religious liberty and the right of every man to worship according to his conscience, and then went out and laid their lives openly upon the altar to pledge that we might have here the land of the free and the home of the brave. Think of the pioneers of Kansas who for five long years preceding the Civil War fought the battle of freedom of this state and wrote into the constitution the finest guaranty to liberty that existed in the land, and then think of the crowd of men who put on masks and robes and took the chief executive of an organized community out into the night, stripped him, tied him and lashed his body with whips. Does anybody believe that we have grown so indifferent to law and order in this state as that we shall allow this monstrous attack upon individual rights to continue in this state? Does anybody believe that we are going to allow the disorders of the South to be transplanted to Kansas, that a lot of organizers may be enriched by the collection of membership dues and by their sale of hoods and skirts to men who have unfortunately listened to the appeal to their racial and religious antipathies? I am here to tell you very frankly tonight that I have directed the attorney-general to bring an action against the officials of this Klan to expel them from this state. They have no charter to do business in Kansas. Their charter is granted at Atlanta, and to make this incredible organization legal in this state their charter must be given the sanction of the Kansas Charter Board. One of the difficulties which attends the carrying out of the attorney-general's order is that of finding the responsible head of this secret organization in this state. There is no other organization in Kansas doing business and boasting of its high purposes that has not had the moral decency to come frankly to the statehouse and place upon the records of the government the names of its responsible officers and to ask for the right to carry on its activities. The essence of our opposition to this order is not in the fact that it fights the Catholic Church or expresses its antipathy to the Jew or to the Negro, but in the fact that it does this under the protection of a mask and through the process of terrorism and violence. Much human life has been sacrificed for this sacred cause. I could take you to a place I know in France, where the crosses rise row on row, and after a while we'd stand before a cross which marks the resting place of James Fitzsimmons. The record is that he was the first man of the American Expeditionary Forces to fall in that combat area. If I had the power to reincarnate him I could say to him, "James Fitzsimmons, do you think you're a 100 per cent American?" And I imagine he would look at me with some surprise and say: "Well, I never thought much about that.
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