The bulk of the “Kloran” is taken up with the “ceremony of naturalization.” In the entire ritual the alleged fraternal order is called the “Invisible Empire,” with only an occasional reference to its legal incorporated title. The candidate is an “alien” until he has been bored to death to the extent of about thirty pages, whereupon he is made “a citizen” of the “Invisible Empire” through the process of “naturalization.” It is rather a curious anomaly that an American citizen, who does not need to be naturalized to enjoy the privileges of American citizenship has to be “naturalized” as a Ku Klux, while the foreign born, the Catholics and the Jews cannot be naturalized at all. They are forever “aliens.”
The ceremony of naturalization consists in walking the candidate from station to station, causing him to listen to verbose passages, swearing him to the obligation previously referred to, threatening him with death if he ever reveals any of the secrets, and finally making him go through a parody on the solemn and sacred rite of baptism.
As a matter of comparison with the original Prescript of the Old Ku Klux Klan, there are ten questions which are asked the “alien” upon his first entrance into the “outer Den” of the “Klavern.” These ten questions unmistakably show an intention on the part of the “Invisible Empire” to turn the United States in a country controlled by a “class” as opposed to several “classes,” and are so utterly at variance with the requirements of the original Ku Klux Klan, as to add stronger proof that the present organization is a historical fraud with no right to use even the name of the former organization. These questions which can be found on pages 25 and 26 of the “Kloran” are as follows:
“1. Is the motive prompting your ambition to be a Klansman serious and unselfish?
“2. Are you a native born, white, Gentile American citizen?
“3. Are you absolutely opposed to and free of any allegiance of any nature to any cause, government, people, sect or ruler that is foreign to the United States of America?
“4. Do you believe in the tenets of the Christian religion?
“5. Do you esteem the United States of America and its institutions above any other government, civil, political or ecclesiastical, in the whole world?
“6. Will you, without mental reservation, take a solemn oath to defend, preserve and enforce same?
“7. Do you believe in clanishness and will you faithfully practice same toward Klansmen?