"Doesn't the Klan arouse race and religious hatred?"
"Certainly not, purposely."
"Does not the very fact that Catholics, Jews and Negroes cannot become members arouse racial and religious prejudices?"
"It should not any more than it ought to arouse religious and racial antipathies for the Knights of Columbus, the B'nai B'rith and the African Brotherhood to refuse to admit white Protestant Gentiles to their organization. I have never heard that those who were excluded from these organizations ever objected."
"Judge, isn't religious toleration one of the principles on which this government is based?"
"Yes, it is. The Klan believes in toleration. We believe that Catholics, Protestants and Jews have a right to worship God as they please; that the Catholics have a right to have the Knights of Columbus; the Jews the B'nai B'rith, and the Protestants the Ku Klux Klan."
"The Klan advocates the further restriction of immigration, does it not?"
"Yes."
"Does that not antagonize other races and nationalities? Were not our forefathers foreigners?"
"The Klan insists on further restriction of immigration in order to protect our American institutions, and not to arouse the opposition of other peoples. In America we have today twelve million of voting age who are foreign born. They came to America with different ideals and standards of living than ours. In the last one hundred years thirty-four million foreigners came to America. Many of them settled in colonies where they preserved their language, customs and ideals. America is now a land of many alien tongues. The foreigners have been coming faster than we can assimilate them."