“The Jew is interested in creating war between blacks and whites, not to benefit the negro, but to destroy our government. For the same reason, the Jew is interested in overthrowing Christian Russia. But remember, he does not intend to stop at Russia. Through his Third Internationale of Moscow he is working to overthrow all the Gentile governments of the world. I am enclosing an editorial clipped from the New York World of Saturday, July 23. You will keep in mind that the World is Jew-owned (as is also every newspaper in New York City except the Tribune).
“My investigation proved to me beyond a doubt that the negro situation is being made increasingly dangerous by Jewish agitators.
“In all my twenty-five years travelling over this continent, I have never met a disloyal American who failed to be either foreign born or a Semite.
“With the best wishes for the success of the Ku Klux Klan.”
CHAPTER X
The Original Ku Klux Klan
The destiny of the United States, like the destiny of the individual, lies not in dwelling upon the unpleasant things of the past but in a sane and correct solution of the problems of the present and of the future. We are all Americans; we live amid conditions that demand national unity and national sanity; and our principal thought should be the elimination of sectional discord and internal dissension. Experience has shown me that there is but little basic difference between average Americans, no matter in what part of the country they may have been born and reared. Aside from local customs, variations of accent, and minor provincialisms, the man from Tennessee is no different from the man from Massachusetts, and the man from New Jersey is a brother “under his skin” to the “native son” of the Golden West. To remove the causes of friction, to eliminate sectional and class hatred, and to inculcate the principles of unified Americanism among people of diversified interests are the real ideals of this Republic.
Believing, therefore, that constant dwelling upon the evil of the past is unhealthful, both to the individual and to the nation, it is neither my intention nor purpose, in discussing the historical side of the original Ku Klux Klan to give vent to the passions and prejudices of the South of the days immediately following the Civil War. In dealing with it, I am merely narrating facts as set forth by men recognized as authorities of American history, and these facts can, if need be, be verified by the reader.