THE WESTERN AMERICAN
Pag« Four
T h u r s d a y , J u n « 28, 1923
E very Day, In Every W ay, the K lan G ro w s B igger and Better
lücsicm
rt m u n o n i m n
; awaiting the w ord o f executive uuUiorky.
I f it i. given, the
aforesaid axo-w¡elders o f the State Hunt may kiae Weeping
W alter imodbye. for he w<mld go where the woodbine taineth.
where the whangdoodk» mourncth for its offspring.
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Mr. Fierce may vtljank the strict discipline o f the KUneaten
and their devotion to an honorable and able leader, for ht.s
escape front a State-wide rei'all movement during that leader a
absence yt the cast. The chief is at homo now aud w e are await-
ing his word.
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The klansmen don't want anything from Pierce, except a
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N o fair-minded person pay* any attention to the hypocritical
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crUK.iani of thw Klun became o f the white regalia, or the white
• * “ 1 * " V * i ^ w h i t .
I hkx I worn in ritual ¡«tie work as a symbol o f things whkli concern
, hu#w ikerire loyal poopto
oU|y ^
Klansmen. The KntirhU o f Columbus wear black robes Anil , ru itriyi„g tor Oiu night,
nnd
bU, k ^
um) their ritual is coarse, brutal. greU-squo
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{0 the beautiful and impressive ceremonial o f if l wore • K. K. KUnsmun
( |u, k jaM
i d put on my r»b,< mid i»o>«i.
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, '< l*d do at «ll good Kluusmen do
The two orders are opposltoe in everything
The Klan is M y > . t
dotag ,ood.
1 composed ot pretest ant, native-born Americans without exception,
good character, without any foreign attachments o f They »re reel American Rooster»,
The K C ia made up mostly o f adopted c iti-, Teaching everything that» Righi,
zona, born'in other countries, all Roman Catholics, all openly plac- * *r»>oy believe in v»uk»o Jueitco
more concrete service and less verbal verbosity and political
ing the authority o f the Pope uliove that o f the Constitution iind v' ‘lh lu'“n Mld *oul ““,1
•*bushwa.” A n d instead o f yawping about N ew Y o rk ’s Secession,
the President o f the United States, all having foreign attachments, Kvory KUnMI„ „ luw B du,y
we want him to put a real man on the “ dry” jo b at Portland who
prejudices and notion. The Klan is striving to Americanize the Anil (kat h„-„ ,,urely rU)>
knows how and has the w ill to clean up the bootleggers.
o i *hcna in our cxiuntry, which is like a huge lump of . Ho win n«ht lor our (rvutlom
Governor Pierce has been in office less than the probationary
biT Drorni^s "his *w,l‘f
*n Uncle Sam's stomach, and teaching the sublime prin-1 tntii in death ha t tiili.
six months. I f he won't clean house and keep
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limit I cJP,e* o f the Constitution In everything. The KC is striving to
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1 o u w i ^ » n t t » in jo the lawntnk hoi »w h ich ' inH'ntai,> the ethnic group divisions, teaching the supreme and in*
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ex p ires, and he can be lo w e re d g e r .tlj in to tn e j a w n in g nolo w n u n
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o r the over «tr vtna
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his coterie o f old cronies have digged for him.
faU bio authority o f the Roman Pope in everything, operating the
The Governor reminds us of a certain fat old night watch- PoUtwal roBcMnery o f the hierarchy against American welfare.
man in Astoria-Before-the-Fire. He was a loud and conspicuous * ''d
our country, to the extent that they can. a cockpit
and wideawake watchman as'long as his employers were around. or 1 e ^'Hlvment o f European feuds
Enticed ae second-olaas matter August 1, 1ft*. at tha peat o ff lea at Astoria,
Considering these facts, no one except an ass and a fool would
Oregon, under the Act of MarcM S. 1*7*.
A fter bedtime, however, tiring o f the gloom and chill o f the
Application made te Postmaster at Attarla far Iren efw of second.class privilege
disparage
the Klan for its constructive work, unless he be— what
In post office at Portland, Or*.
wharves* he would hie himself through alleyways to a favorite
so
many
are—
a servile tool o f the Homan machine.
picture show, and he took his punch, clock along with him. to
“NOT FOR SELF, BUT FOR OTHERS”
ONLV A WISH.
THE KLAN OVERSHADOWS ALL.
In constructive achievement for the common good, the Klun
gether with all o f the keys. There he sat, in an obscure corner,
stands
second to none. In ethical rank among the great frater-
absorbed in the lurid ‘•movie." F.very half hour, responding to
a subconscious kick, he would pull his eyes away from the silver nities it overshadows all uther orders, i \c<-pt mu-, in strict require-
screen and gnavely punch the clock. Outside it waa raining bull- meats as to qualifications o f membership. The exception ia— per
■ frogs and jackrabbits. and firebugs were prowling around. There haps to your surprise— the Knights o f Malta. For the informa-
o f the younger Klansmen, we wilt give tho full title o f this
| Breadth Escapes o f Bed-Headed Mabel.” Pierce allows others great fraternity: The Ancient and Illustrious and Military Order
o f Knight Hospitalers o f Saint John o f Jerusalem, otherwise
j to punch his clock, while he dozes.
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I f Governor Pierce wants a bill o f particulars upon which known as Knights o f Malta, founded at Jerusalem in 1048.
I we base, the proposal for the recall, he quickly can be accom-
He knows very well, every little item, aud this is to
inform him that* we are keeping cases on him. and that only O N E
M A N can tell us to shut up, and get away with it. H e’s listening
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OUR HEAD IS BUMPY BUT UNBOWED.
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A. ,h, y Wt.r.
p. trloU
olUrn ,,.y.
You havu »worn lo do your duty
Ami uphtitd tho grand old Plug,
Ho nlwayi In-Ip pr< tart It
In your duty do not lug.
Whon you meet aflrother Kianimuu
And y»« *»« bn i> in nw»d.
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And perform • KlknuUb ¿ml.
Ilv Ktunotib In «Vary manner
To a Klknmunn that U good.
ft>r he baa awnru afiogtaaoa
Aud weiira the Rol><< ami H im ,,!
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Clear the
Way
W e salute Mr. Frank L. Shull, Director o f the Portland School
Bjr CHARLES MACKAY
Board. He licked the w hey out o f the White F olk s.. It was a
Men
of
thought, he up amt »tirring
and mum, so far.
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short, sharp game and he pulled a Flush Royal. Stacked cards
Everybody wants the'Governor to make good, and nobody and n divided House caused the defeat.
W e hold no postmortems, l g « *
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{ wants a recall ju s t fb r the fun o f it. Plague taka the parasites h(nvc
Our head is bum¡ y. I ut unliowed.
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who have got him “haywire” j He, ought to take them, one. by
The saify; kind pf thing happened at the mouth o f the Cotóni- Men of action, »id ami sheer them,
be and should be a second Pennojer— a great Governor o f a great h ,f
State, worthy o f the confidence and esteem o f the people.
thin?3
DO YOU WANT TO RECALL PIERCE?
Replies to our query, “ Do you want to recall Pierce?” are
pouring in from every part o f the State, and the burden o f the
message is, “ Y O U T E L L ’E M . They are rarin’ to go— in every
county.
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Governor Pierce has ignored all kindly w arnings and has
listened to the whispers o f self-seeking axe-grinders. He has
acted like an old widdy-woman in her second beauhood, holding
her skirts high and dancing a tango. The victory o f November
went to his head. He has been reminded that he and his cronies
w eren’t elected, but that they were merely parasites upon the main
is s u e -t h e Compulsory Education Bill.
The Governor promised time and again to play.fairly with
the Republican^, whose votes elected him. He has not kept that
promise. Instead, he* has taken up with these lean and hungry
Democrats particularly “ Doc” M orrow , Fred Curry, Johnson
Smith and Bill Moore, and they are directing him how to build a
partisan machine. Most o f them, if not all o f them, are official
workers in a certain fraternal insurance society, which staged
a banquet at Salem on January 12, and had the Governor there,
fed him and flattered him and cajoled him to make appointments,
One o f these was the wardenship o f the State Prison. This posi-
tion rightfully belonged to Henry Downing o f Shaw, who worked
like a hero and wore out his Buick Six, carrying Marion county
fo r Pierce and the School Bill. M r. Downing is only four years
older than Johnson Smith _gnd was well qualified for the place.
Besides :,‘ he w as promised the appointment and such pledges must
be kept, if the respect o f the people is to be retained.
u n c r T i N T U i: R in i f t m u r «
M O S E S IN 1 H E B U L L K U o n W .
indifferent and out o f training, anyway busy with other
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M r. Shull isq’t such a bad one. after all. The Western Ameri-
ca!1 8aid before the election that he was eminently qualified- for
Peccavi!
the position o f School Director, if ty ware only right on the main
Uh-huh, that's what a KC says w hen he overlooks a chance to i^ u e — Uie Public School B iU -w h ic h he previously had op,weed
do something mean to a Kiansman. The
The word
word means,
means, “
“ I 1 have
have moBt mistakenly. He’s a very fine man. and uncommonly good
sinned.” It is used in Catholic prayers.
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In our issue o f June 7, announcing the Big Carnival I>aU o f
looking, when he's asleep— and he was wide awake last Saturday
A s for the mem>nary fixera o f the 8pIit.the.ticket gang, we
June 12, we said:
His Imperial nnd Gracious Majesty. King - Tu- w i„ say for the White Folks, and all other good sportsmen, that
Tank-Amen, reincarnated I haraoh, whose daughter o f
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. > they tie8erve treatment au natural w ith a barrel stave with n
: tried to make the Gossips believe that she found her baby Mode, in , m n M e
the bullrushes,” ctt., and now a friend has taken it seriously and
Nohofh. ,ilrp!
Nobody likes a turncoat, a back-stahber, or a quitter.
i writes us a scorching rebuke, which we meekly accept as our
du e.
Peccavi!
THE FORD STUFF IS THE BUNK.
In the rather facetious reference to Pharaoh s daughter and
By high authority, Thè Western American warns all Klans-
her claim that she found little Moses tn a basket in the bullrushes,
vve had in mind a very small boy, when told that famous story, men to treat with deserved contempt the well organized clique
being a down-to-date five-year-old, sagely and jeen n gly remarked, that is advertising Henry Ford as a possible nominee for the
“A w , that’s what S H E said.” The letter follows:
Presidency. This modern Don Quixote, a rich flivver-maker of
“The Dalles, Ore., June 13, 1923. Editor The Western
>t -ioit, is about as well qualified for the Presidency as Beelzebub
Am erican: Dear S i r - I n your issue o f June 7 is a very mis- is for Sunday-school superintendent.
leading statement o f the Bible; it says, in part;
Pharaoh, whose
The advertising o f lo r d its a possible candidte is making
daughter o f other days tried to make the Gossips believe that she America the laughing-stock o f the world.
Ford is a L IT T L E
found her baby Moses in the bullrushes.’
fellow, little in every quality “ »at goes to make u statesman. First
“ Now, Moses’ father’s name was Anvram o f the tribe o f Levi of all, he is a yellow pacifist, and his dear son, Edsal, is a w ar
(a H ebrew ) ; his mother’s name was Jochebed. Num. 26th chap., j slacker who escajied service through his daddy’s financial pull,
59th v .). His Idrtbtis given in Ewodus 2: 1st to 10th verses. He
. Fonl w «nts to b < t »P the army and navy and lay America
vvas three months old before his mother hid him in the bullrushes, at the mercy o f Japan, a barbarian {tower that is plotting w ar
1 where he was found by Pharaoh s daughter, an Egyptian princess. against us.
A« you in»y.
Tlicrc’ i a fount abntii lt> utrcam.
T b c n ’* » light atu>ut to I- cmih ,
Then-'# a warmth about to glow,
• There’» a flower about to blow,
Thrrc*i a midnight riarkhm
Changing into gray.
M m of thought; and iui»n o f action,
dgar-thc w jyJ
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Oucc llu- welcome light baa broke«.
Who »hall «;>y
What tTic'iinitnagined gloriea
O f the day»
What the.evil that »hall perith
In it» ray?
Aid the dawning, tongue and pen;
Aid it. hope» o j honest men;
Aid it, paper.;Aid it. type;
Aid it,"for the hour ¡» ripe;
And nur earnest mint not slacken
Into {day.
Men of thought, and men of action,
Clear the way!
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From the Uay;
to crumble
And a hraten
Into clay!
Lo! the right'» about to tonqur?; ,
Clear the w ayf
WitB the right »hall many more •
Enter smiling at the door; .
With the
wrong shall (all
Many other», great and smalt.
That (or age» long have held us
For their prey.
Men of Ihought^nm! men of action,
Clear the Rrayt
f- "
Riant
lo r d s peace ship during the war, loaded down with the M aria BEWARE!
— __The Klansmen won’t tolerate a double-cross. Defeat is pre- i (Acts 7: v. 20 to 22.)
All yi> people of the earth:
ferable to dishonor. The first duty o f a politician is to keep his
“ I have heard this same error argued by a Roman Catholic Lchw’immers and Judge Lindsevta and a job-lot assortment o f
Tliefe K but one unit only
word. W e dotyt care who manages the State’s great penal summer
infidel pit is part of-their propaganda work, so it behooves every long-haired men and short-haired women, surely was enough to
Kn K I i H Klan, mid one
resort at Salem, which now has become a refuge for political has- Protestant to stand guard, for,this is very far from the truth we j settle his hash forever, politically speaking,
and only Wilfci n of the
beens and chairwarm ers, but we do demand and w ill enforce a want taught in our public schools when that time comes, but rather
l ord is no friend o f the Klan, and he is currying favor, In
klnni therefore,
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square deal fo r persons who most deserve consideration, “ not fo r shall we teach ourselves and children that the Protestant Bible a little man’s way, with the Roman Catholic hierarchy. W e have
S ili N
as na polsonons serpent
self, but fo r others.”
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doesn’t lie, and give it the honor and loyalty that belongs to it, abundant proof o f it.
any other organisations
The Governor can square himself, to a great extent, by firin g and hold it sacred in the heart o f every Kiansman and Protestant
W e know’ that it is a waste o f lather to shave an ass, but
of hlmllar nume. We warn
the trio o f would-be dictators, namely: Curry, Smith and M o o re .; American. Yen-respectfully,
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remember that our national population is composed o f an hundred
you.
1IKWARE!
The Governor has surrounded himself w ith a coterie o f old
The name is that o f an estimable lady, who is assured o f ; million, ‘ mostly fools,” who are easily led by noisy demagogues,
v/ith
the
sinews
o
f
publicity
behind
them.
cronies in the Modern Woodmen o f America, o f which he is State our penitence for, making a jest o f the Moses story. I f the baby
Fraetk-e klannkbaen* la all things.
Pay no attention to the Ford stuff. It is bunk, pure and
Lecturer. Fred Curry, his form er tillikum in the Hot Lake Sani- w as three months old and his true mamma and papa were known
tarium enterprise, is State Manager, or deputy o f the M. W . A .;
Johnson Smith is solicitor; Mr. Tate, an obscure preacher recently
elevated to be chairman o f the Child W elfare Commission, is head
o f the board o f auditors; Bill Moore is something-or-other, and
all the minor factotums employed through these men are, for the
most part, Modern Woodmen. Don’t overlook Crews. The M. W .
o f A . is all right, fine and dandy, an excellent and admirable in-
surance order, having 9000 members in the State, but the people
demand V A R I E T Y in their government.
Diversity is Deity’s
delight. They w on’t tolerate a clique o f Democratic old cronies,
who undertake to boss everything and evervlxtdy in an admin-
istration that w as pledged to be bi-partisan 50-50 in every way,
and o f record, the story o f the great ^ind by Pharaoh’s daughter 1 simple hunk. The Ford o f publicity and the Ford in real life are
USURY.
j w ill not be doubted by the average believer, least o f all by the two vastly different characters, more different than Dr. Jekyll
By C. L. Lack«.
' editor o f The Western American, who accepts the Bible on faith and Dr. Hyde.
It isn’t a Ford that the nation needs, but a great adminis- a sordid, Hearing, scorching flame,
“ from kiver to kiver.”
trator and military Jeader, preferably General Wood. Black Jack Tiiut mar* all good for aeiriah gain;
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The Jews o f Portland are not prone to abuse their special Pershing or Hunter Liggett might dp in a pinch, but the man of j ^ make» of virtue but a tool
fool;
privilege o f obtaining liquor under their sacramental booze per- the hour must be a man on horseback, for the nation is approach- iTo furthOT bllnd Ul®
greed and luat
ing
a
world
crisis.
It
is
coming
with
the
speed
o
f
a
meteor.
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mit, the District Attorney’s office is quoted as declaring, in de
And give» the toilers but a crust;
fense o f a rabbinical bootlegger. Y e gods! Truth crushed to will arrive suddenly and tho world will b&xme vast roar. America Flaunts the law ot power ot might
earth ! A bold-faced statement like this, when the Portland myst be prepared for any eventuality, and every public man who To crush out Justice, Truth and Right;
Jews are bathing in booze; when the daily newspapers are tell- tries to befool the people, either through ignorance or design, It makes our Women Walk the street
And burter Souls for food to cat;
ing, too, o f the. “ Oceans o f W ine” that is being sold by rabbinical should be tagged for the foolkiller.
It robs tho Widow of her homo
bootleggers under special privilege permits all over the country.
Republicans and Democrats.
And turns hor children dut to roam;
The M. W . o f A . didn’t elect Pierce, and a fraternal insurance The condition— the special privilege— is bad enough, God knows,
_ THE PURPOSE OF THE KLAN.
It fills tho mad-house and tho fall
but it is worse still fo r the District Attorney’s office to lie about
society ought to be kept-ent p f politics.
Tha purpose of the Klan la to promote patriotism toward our civil gov And acaltara death along its trail.
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ernment, honorable peace among men and nations; protection for und happi
Here’s the situation: I f fhe Governor persists in his partisan it in defense o f a notorious bootlegger.
ness in the liorn- s of onr people; manhood, brotherhood and love among our Damned Is he who doth spread
'cijuiMe.'ttRf 7WSÏ1 ' can be and wit! be launched, with 60,000 signa
selves, nnd liberty. Justice and fraternity far aR-manklnd. Tha Klansmen An usurers' shroud 'round the dead;
“
Rattler
bites
priest,”
says
an
Oakland
dispatch
in
The
Ore
tures within 60 days, and it can oust the whole kit and bilin’ o f
believe they can help greatly to accomplish these n otite purposes through a Damned aro all who play In part
them, bpg and baggage, axes and dolos. There’s a three to one gonian. A five-foot battlesnake bit the Rev. Father So-and-So of mystic, social, patriotic, benevolent association, having a perfected lodge
Knave (ITTool to tho usury mart.
vote in this state against the Governor’s present policy and he Antioch. W e aren’t glad, God forbijjr Jmt some suspicious; sounds system, with an exalted ritualistic form of work and an effective form of
Portland, Ore., July 11, 1921.
like propaganda, probably to justify a bigger shipment o f "sacra government, not for »elfish profit, but for the mutual betterment, benefit
is going to be made to understand it.
¿and protection of our as«oclat#a and their toyed ones.
The promoters o f the recall among the Klansmen are now mental” booze. Bet the snake died.
Trade oalj wdfh j o w friends.