| h. Hawkins, Physician and Lecturer, defends Activities nf
Man while I. W. Bailey Flays Knights of the White Hood
Claiming They are a Menace to Nation.
We are always pleased to hear
from Polk ('aunty Hoys who are
at school and a rec
Chapel Hill written by P. E.
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swav at school and a recent letter
Head of Saluda Township who
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graduated from Stearns High in
^ class of '23 and who is now
in his second year at the Univer
gjtyof North Carolina is particu
rly interesting because it con
ined an account of a recent de
te between Dr. J. H. Hawkins
d J. W. Bailey for and against
,e Knights of the White Hood
hose influence has been general
ughout the entire country.
Head says: At the begin
of the present collegiate
ear the Dialectic Literary Socie
t the oldest student organiza
n on the campus of the Uni
/ of North Carolina, aban
,ned. by a unanimous vote, its
constitution and reorganized
the plan of the state senate,
ming the new appelation of
ectic Senate. Along with
new dignity this venerable
hization also assumed new
ties. One of these duties was
promotion of the discussion
important present-day ques
s not only for the benefit of
members of the Dialectic
nate, but also for the benefit
the entire University and the
neral public. The lecture com
ttee wisely considered the Ku
ux Klan a timely subject and
rdingly arranged to have
h sides of the question discuss
here. On Friday e v e n i n g,
nary 30, 1925, Dr. W. A.
lette was to have delivered
ture in behalf of the Klan,
due to Georgia floods he was
iBe to get here and Dr. J. H.
wkins, a physieian and lectur
or the Klan, was sent to take
place. One week later, Feb
6, this committee secured
minent North Carolinian,
Bailey, to present the ar
ents against the Klan. It is
purpose of the author to pre
in the following paragraphs
outstanding arguments for
against the Klan as they
given by the above named
lemen.
? Hawkins began his lecture
ting that unless an organi
could show sub s t a n t i a 1
for its existence it should
tolerated, but stated that
Wild show many reasons for
in s existence. He re
the history of the ?ound
he Klan in those terrible
?t reconstruction which fol
the Civil War, when the
L*as facing the most criti
n?d of its entire history,
grated the laudible deeds
Ku Klux Klan in helping
111 the South, to over
carpetbag rule, to bring
tote supremacy, and to
1 white womanhood. "No
the South will doubt that
? ^existence then, and
^Principles which guid
Clvi1 War Klan are the
jples upon which the pres
an is based, and it should
ported by every loyal and
"Jed American."
mted out in considerable
|the circumstances connect
h the denization of the
? Klar hTid said that it was
n the L'.ible, and stating*
a? it kept the teach
Chmt uppermost he be
t would Furvive. Then in
uchin^r manner he com
he troubles of the Klan
uose of Christ, saying,
nor any organization
ounted to anything with
t going through the fires
K tho chief doctrines c|
n as stated by Dr. Haw
that of absolute racial
said, "We are in
sapping all
immigra
^ Americanizing the
large foreign element we now
have as best we can. No per
son," he continued, "is a true
American until his heart throbs
for American ideals and for the
American flag, and these things
are what the Klan isN striving
for."
4,In the country at large there
are 15,000,000 persons born of
foreign parents, There are 6,
000,000 born of mixed parents.
At this rate, the 1928 population
of first and second generations
foreign born will be 36,000,000.
Add this to 11,000,000 negroes,
and we have left only 58,000,000
Americans. But from these
there must be subtracted the
physically and mentally unfit for
American citizenship, who will
number at least 10,000,000. )
"Thus we have only 48,000.
000 Americans. In fact, I am
convinced from a study of the
figures that we have not more
than 35,000,000 honest-to-God
American meri, * women, and
children in the United States. If
this continues, in 35 years Amer
ica will he as thoroughly Euro
pean as Southern Italy. North
Carolina will be facing the same
problems as the states further
north before long, unless we do
our duty now.
Dr. Hawkins said the Klan was
opposed to Catholics because
their oath of allegiance to the
Catholic church was held higher
than their allegiance to the gov
ernment of the United States. >
He admitted that there are
criminals and bad men in the
Klan "just as there are in any
other organization," but he said
they were being weeded out
wherever detected. He stated
that the entrance requirements
to the Klan are rough and rigid,
and that it is the intention of the
Klan to keep them so. He fur- 1
ther asserted that the Klan in
no instance would protect a
wrongdoer, and mentioned a
number of cases where men had
not only been expelled from the
Klan because they had been de
tected in crime, but had also
been exposed and prosecuted by
the Klan.
He said the first principle of
the Klan was to uphold the law
of the land. And as an illustra
tion of this point he said that in
some sections the Klan was op
posed by people because they
thought it a "dry" organization,
and in others ' because they
thought it a "wet" organization,
when in fact the Klan was
neither wet nor dry. But he
said the Klan was in favor of
strict law enforcement and that
so long as we had a prohibition
law, the Klan would do all in its
power to enforce it.
In short, some of the leading
principles of the Ku Klux Klan,
as stated by Dr. Hawkins, are:
100 per cent Americanism, high
respect for, and strict enforce
ment o?"~ law, absolute racial
purity, purity and protection of
womanhood, loyalty to protestant
Christian religion, and suprema
cy of the white race.
Now if an organization is sin
cere, and is striving toward such
worthy ideals as those just giv
en, it certainly deserves the sup
port of every thinking individ
ual.? So much for "The Knights
of the Hood." Let us now con
sider some of the arguments
against them as set forth by the
Honorable J. W. Bailey.
During the week which elapsed
between the time that Dr. Haw
kins made his appearance and
the coming of Mr. Bailey the
Klan was greatly discussed. One
would hear quite often such
questions as: How will Bailey
meet Hawkins' argument? What
can he say? and similar ques
tions. However, he mounted
the platform carrying a vast arm
load of documents containing
data oji the Klan from its consti
tution and by-laws to the latest
editorial from the official organ
of the Klan, the Kourier, and
soon convinced his hearers that
he was amply prepared to sup
port the views of the anti-klans
men. *
Mr. Bailey began by giving the
history of the Klan, stating that
it was organized in 1915 by Col
onel Simmons who wrote ite con
stitution, rituals, etc., and him
self became the Imperial Wizard.
The Klan did not make much
headway until about 1920. Con
gressional records which he pro
duced show statements that in
1920 there were between one and
two thousand Klansmen in the
country. About this time Col.
Simmons met Edward Young
Clark. Clark told Simmons that
he could make the Klan a going
concern, but stated that he would
have to sign a contract to give
him eight out of every ten dol
lars collected. So they signed a
contract to this effect, Clark be
coming King Kleagle. which
really means collector. A Klea
gle was to be appointed for each
state-and local kleagles for each
district Of the $10 initiation fee
collected from each man the local
Kleagle got $2. the state Kleagle
$2, Mr. Clark $4, and Colonel
Simmons $2.
The Klan was now thoroughly
I organized on a business basis
and in a short time it spread all
over the United Stages, and Sim
mons, Clark and other^ made
great fortunes. After amassing
over a million and a half dollars
Clark was obliged to flee from
justice as he was wanted on a
white slave charge. After Clark
was gone Simmons, who was a
notorious drunkard, was left to
manage the Klan and it vas get
ting in a bad way again. Finally,
however, the other officials of
the Klan bought out Simmons'
rights for $140,000 and reorgan
ized the Klan as it has continued
since. /
Mr, Bailey admitted that the
Klan had a certain appeal, but
said that it did not appeal to a
man of intelligence Its appeal,
he stated, is to the man with the
inferiority complex. "The re
galia and fiery cross are put on
tocover up a mysterious nonenity.
When I see a man who puts on a
helmet and says he is a dragon,
I know he is a being with boy's
brain in a man's body."
Mr. Bailey feave four main ob
jections to the Klan which were
as follows: (1) It is secret and
its secrecy is to avoid responsi
bility for crime committed
against non-Klansmen. (2) The
Klan favors a Gentile Christian
religion which is impossible. (3)
The Klan proposes to raise and
put forward a sectarian issue in
American politi9s; and (4) the
Klan's conception of 100 per cent
Americanism is 100 per cent
false.
? Mr. Bailey said he had no ob
jection to secret organizations
so long as they dealt with their
own members only. But he cited
instance after instance where
the Klansmen had inflicied se
vere punishment on non-Klans
men and showed that the Klan
had positively supported these
lawbreakers. He said: "They
judge in secret and punish in
secret, thereby escaping the re
sponsibility for their crimes."
He showed that the Klan's
plan of a Protestant Chris t i a n
religion was contrary to our fun
damental law, because it draws
a line against Jew ana Catholics.
Christianity includes all races,
tribes, and peoples, and not
merely Gentiles and Protestants.
He said, "Europe has been
drenched in blood for four hun
dred years because she has been
thinking in terms of religious
hate. ?Our peace and tranquil
ity has been due to the fact that
we have kept clear of sectarian
and racial conflict".
In speaking of 100 per cent.
Americanism he showed that it
was not necessary, as the Klan
holds, to be native born in order
to be 100 per cent American.
He named a number of very emi
nent men who were known to be
very loyal Americans despite the
fact that they were foreign -born.
Mr. Bailfcy is a very able speak
er and easily kept his audience
in sympathy with him. He gave
documental evidence for practic
ally every important statement
he made, appealing to the intel
ligence of Ms audience,' -rather
than making an emotional .ap
peal as Qr. Hawkins did.
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