Reviving under the effects of artificial respiration, the Ku Klux Klan in the January number of the Klan Kourier, published here monthly by the Knights of the K. K. K., has launched a new offensive against its traditional enemies, Catholics, Jews, Internationalists, and others.
Bearing the brunt of the attack, Jews stand in the front lines of the new American defensive against the Klan. Both from the pulpit and through their limited press mediums, the Klan has begun its anti-Semitic activities.
Reporting a two-hour address by Gail Garter, Grand Dragon of the Nebraska Klan, in the Christian Church, the Kourier says, “Mr. Carter’s word picture of the place and power that is held by the International Jew in the affairs of this nation and the world and the domination that exists from this source of Soviet Russia, was particularly illuminating and left with his audience something that cannot lightly be cast away, for the effects of this influence, according to the speaker, is probably the strongest force which must be cast aside.”
The periodical reports that “there is a strong rumor of a change in the restrictive immigration law to permit the Jews to enter the United States from Germany, exclusive of all other German immigration to the United States. Other changes are anticipated that will materially change the 1924 laws adopted through our influence and activity.”
At the end of the list, Klansmen are warned, “Wide awake Klansmen should carefully watch further developments dealing with the above and similar matters and then ACT among their circles of friends to neutralize the effect of the propaganda put out.”
A contribution from Oklahoma announces that “true Americans are rushing to carry on under the banner of the Ku Klux Klan.” It says that “the Klan’s progress is evident in almost every city, county and state of the nation.”
“In reorganizing,” asserts the Kourier, “we are fortified with experience of the past.” Members are chosen with greater care, it says.
The Kourier recalls an incident in which a chapter found in its meeting place pamphlets allegedly left by the B’nai B’rith, in which the latter group announced its monthly dues as one dollar per member. “The Klan has so many enemies,” comments the Kourier, “in contrast to the one enemy of the B’nai B’rith.”
The Klan lists its enemies as the Roman Catholic Church, the newspapers, radio, magazines, Jews, most of the foreign population and more than fifty per cent. of the Protestants who are “afraid,” “tolerant” or “something.”
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