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CHICAGO, ILI. SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 1922
No. 4
Tennessee Has the Honor of Being the First State in
the Union, to Enact Laws Through Its Legislature, to
Choke the Living Life Out of the Ku Klux Klan, or
"The Knights of the White Light." It Is a Penitentiary
Offense, in That State, for Any of It's Members to Ap
pear in Public with Their Hoods or Masks On. The
Legislature of Illinois, at It's Next Meeting, Should
Enact Similar Legislation.
THE AMERICAN UNITY LEAGUE IS
PLANNING TO WAGE A NATION
WIDE FIGHT AGAINST THE KU
KLUX KLAN. RT.-REV. BISHOP
SAMUEL FALLOWS IS HONORARY
CHAIRMAN OF THE LEAGUE AND
HON. PATRICK H. O'DONNELL
WELL SERVE AS ITS FIGHTING
CHAIRMAN. .
- - The-traratng- articfcr -which hare ap
peared in the columns of this news
paper August 5 and August 12, have
attracted wide attention and it is free
ly admitted on all sides that they
cannot be surpassed.
This week we will review some of
the actions or measures or laws which
some of the states haye resorted to in
the past in order to curb the activities
of the Ku Klux Klan or "the Knights
of the White Light."
It seems that Tennessee is the first
state so far to enact legislation strik
ing directly at the midnight red or
bloody handed prowlers the Laws of
Tennessee bearing on the subject as
follows:
The Tennessee Ku Klux Act (Sec
tions 6668, Shannons Code et ceq),
which reads:
"6668 If any person or persons,
masked or in disguise shall prowl or
travel, or ride or walk through the
country or towns of this state, to the
disturbance of the peace, or to the
alarming of the citizens of any portion
of thi state, on the conviction there
of they shall be fined not less than
one hundred dollars nor more than
five hundred dollars, and imprisoned
in the county jail of the county
wherein convicted, at the discretion of
the jury trying, the case.
"6669. If any person or persons,
disguised or in mask, by day or by
night, shall enter upon the premises
of another, or demand entrance or ad
mission into the house or inclosure of
any citizen of this State, it shall be
considered prima fade that, his or her
intention is to commit a felony, and
such a demand shall be deemed an as
sault with an intent to commit a fel
ony, and the person or persons so of
fending, shall, upon conviction, be
Punished by imprisonment in the
Penitentiary not less than ten years
nor more than twenty years.
"6670. If any person or persons, so
prowling, traveling, riding, or walk
ing through the towns or country .of
this State, masked or In disguise, shall
or may assault another -with a deadly'
weapon, he or they shall be deemed
guilty of an assault with intent to
commit murder in the first degree,
and, on conviction thereof, shall suffer
death by hanging; provided that the
jury trying the case may substitute
imprisonment in the penitentiary for
a period of not less than tea years
nor more than twenty-one years."
In connection with this Tennessee
statute, it is interesting to note that
based on the act fully sustained the
the leading case, reported in the State,
statute. In the case of Walpolc
against the State, 9 Baxter 369, de
livered in 1878 by a Supreme Court
composed entirely of Democrats, with
several Confederate soldiers the court
held:
"It is apparent that the object of
this statute was to repress a great evil
which arose in this country after the
war, and which grew to be an offense
of frequent occurrence, that of evil
ly minded and mischievous persons dis
guising themselves to terrify or to
wrong those who happened to be the
objects of their wrath or resentment.
This was a kind of mob law, enforced
sometimes by a multitude of vaga
bonds, who grew to be a great terror
to the people and placed human life
and property at the mercy of bad men
whose crimes could smrcety ever be
punished because of the disguise un
der which they were perpetrated.
In closing its opinion the Supreme
Court saidi
"The penalties of a violation of this
law are severe, but they have proved
themselves wholesome in the partial
suppression already of one of the
greatest of the disturbing elements of
social order in this state. (Affirm the
judgment)
If the legislature of Illinois and the
legislatures of the several other states
throughout the Union would follow
in the footsteps of Tennessee it would
not be long until the Kp Klux Klan
or "the Knights of the White Light"
would be driven from power in all
parts of this country and they would
become things of the past
One year ago, Hon. Edward F.
Dunne and a number of other prom
inent white and colored citizens start
ed a movement iri this city to fight
the Ku Klux Klan but they soon gave
up the ghost and this newspaper
single-handed and alone, bravely con
tinued the fight against them and
lately the American Unity League has
joined in the nation-wide fight against
them.
The Founders' Committee of the
American Unity League, 127 North
Dearborn street are as follows:
Rt Rev. Samuel. Fallows, presiding
bishop. Reformed Episcopal Church,
Honorary- Chairman; Hon. Patrick H.
O'DonnelL Chairman; Robert E.
Shepherd, Artificial Slating CcTreas
urer; G. X Rutledge, Secretary; Rt,
Rev. Monsignor J. F. Noll Editor,
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nis. Real Estate: Robert M. Sweitzer,
County Clerk; Dr. Tobias Schanfar
ber. Rabbi, K. A. M. Temple; Rev.
E. A. Kelly, Pastor, St Anne's
Church; Samuel J. Andalman Master
in Chancery; Dr. Leon Fram, Rabbi,
Temple Judea: Samuel Micon, Attor
ney: David Levi, Real Estate, Loans;
Joseph G. Keller. Attorney; Benjamin
J. Samuels, Attorney; Thos. F. Mc
Donald, High Secretary. Catholic Or
der of Forresters; Rev. A. A. Goyke,
Quigley Preparatory Seminary; Hon.
Patrick J. Carr, Treasurer, Cook
County; Rev. W. J. McNamee, Pastor,
St Patrick's Church; Dr. Joseph
Stolz. Rabbi. Isiah Temple; Rev. Carl
Axtel! Poison. Pastor, Church of the
Redeemer (Universalist).
In the. near future the American
Unity League will hold a big meeting
on the South Side right in among the
colored folks.
Mrs. Mary Gardner of Muskegon,
Mich., spent the past week in this
city, visiting with her many friends.
She has never looked any better than
she does at the present time. For
more than sixteen years Mr. and Mrs
Gardner have been firm supporters of
this paper.
Dr. John W. Burrell, 201 E. 37th
street, corner of Indiana avenue will
maintain the rooms occupied by the
late Dr. D. E. Burrowes as well as
those which he has occupied in the
past and after undergoing a thorough
remodeling. Dr. Burrowes will have
elegant quarters.
HHBf wiiH
HON. PATRICK H. O'DONNELL
One of the Most Prominent Fighting Irish-American Lawyers
in This Country, Chairman of the American Unity League,
Which Will Battle Unto Death Against the Ku Klux Klan,
The Knights of the White Light."
FUNERAL OF THE LATE AT-1 guage at his command Mr. Mayer de
TORNEY LEVY MAYER WILL dared that he was not unfriendly to
BE HELD NEXT WEDNESDAY
Last Monday morning Mr. Levy
Mayer, who was one of the most
prominent lawyers in the world, and
one of its most wealthiest, suddenly
passed away in his rooms at
the
Blackstone Hotel. At the time of his
unexpected death his loving and con
stantly devoted wife. Mrs. Mayer, and
their daughter, Mrs. Walter Hirsch,
wcrr enjoying their vacation in the old
world, and with saddened hearts they
have departed for home from Paris,
and will arrive in this city in time
to hold funeral services over Mr May
er's remains this coming Wendesday.
Mr. Mayer, who could count his
wealth by untold millions, was always
a very pleasant person to meet In
1919, just before the delegates were
elected to the constitutional conven
tion of Illinois, the writer called on
him at the great law offices located
on the 20th floor of the Continental
Commercial National Bank Building.
On being ushered into his large pri
vate office, after informing the one in
charge of it that we wished to see him
on personal matters and notion legal
business, and on approaching his cir
cular desk he arose smiling, at the
same time extending his hand and re
quested us to be seated and make our
selves at home. During our conversa
tion with him we informed him that
"the first and most important , thing
on our mind was that in case he was
elected as one of the delegates to the
constitutional convention would he
vote against every measure which
would be proposed to strike' at the
civil and political rights of the col
ored people. In the plainest lan-
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the colored people. That in case he
was elected as one of the delegates,
that he would not turn his back upon
them; that the colored people and the
Jewish people must stand together. All
in
all, Mr. Mayer, who worked his
way on up from a very poor boy, was
one of America's foremost citizens,
and he will be greatly missed by his
hosts of warm friends in all parts of
the wide world.
WOMEN FIGHT TO WIN MEN,
HE SAYS
London. "Men no longer fight to
win women, but women fight to win
men." said Dr. Josiah Oldficld, well
known doctor and lawyer, in a lee
turc to the Eclectic Club.
AVomen put on bright colors to
win the favor of sober-hued and coy
men. Since woman cannot imitate
the sunreme radiance of a bird's
plumage, she does the next bet thing
and dons jazz jumpers, silk stockings,
surmounted by an indefinite variety
of hats of every hue."
It is stated somewhere in the Bible
that the time will come inthis grand
old world when seven women will
cleave to one man. If that time ever
comes the men will have their hands
full of women and for my part we
will want to fade away before that
fime comes. Editor.
Mrs. Mary Harsh, 2963 Federal
street, who is prominently connected
with all of the leading Secret Soci
eties in this city, this week attended
the meeting of the Grand Lodge of
.United Brothers of Friendship and
the Sisters of the Mysterious Ten at
Damrille, HL
BOOK CHAT BY MARY WHITE OVING
TON, CHAIRMAN OF THE EXECU
TIVE COMMITTEE OF THE NA
TIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE
ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED
PEOPLE.
"THE NEGRO IN OUR HIS
TORY"
By Carter G. Woodson. Published
by The Associated Publishers
Inc., Washington, D. C. Price
$2.15 Postpaid
The publication of this booi": close
upon Benjamin Brawley's Social His
tory of the Negro leads one instinc
tively to compare the two. Both are
by eminent scholars and both cover
the same period the Negro's history
from his passage to America in the
slave ship to 1920. Each, however,
attacks the subject in a different man
ner. Mr. Brawley writes for the stu
dent who loves to handle a heavy vol
ume bearing the MacMillan stamp,
vhilc Mr. Woodson gives us' a con
cise, text-book that has already been
adopted in many schools. His book
is shorter, more condensed than Mr.
Brawley's, the emphasis sometimes
placed differently. Moreover it is
profusely illustrated. It has 126 pic
tures and maps, youthful pictures of
reformers like Beecher and Douglas,
(how Rood it is to see that these
men were great when they were
young), pictures of inventions by
Negroes, strange, old fashioned prints
of slave days. One can scarcely open
anywhere without seeing something of
interest
There is one among the many
points that the author brings out
that is of especial importance when
we consider the labor problem that
confronts us today. Better than any
one before him, Mr. Woodson shows
us how slavery went on from bad to
worse. We are fed on a false so
cal!:d revolutionary doctrine that the
world moves gradually but steadily
toward improvement But in the
great labor problem of the United
States before 1863 the country moVed
steadily-toward degradation. "There
was in America during the eighteenth
century, our author says, "a sort of
slavery differing materially from that
of the nineteenth. In fact the
Negroes were about as well provided
with schools as the whites in some of
OUST CORONER'S AID ACCUSED
OF -WHITEWASHING"
Coroner Peter M. Hoffman has in
definitely suspended Deputy Coroner
M. G. Walsh in connection with an
alleged "whitewash" given George G,
Florentine, 6959 South May street at
an- inquest into the death of Mrs.
Mary Brown, 5541 Ingteside avenue,
at which the deputy officiated.
Mrs. Brown, an aged nurse known
for more than forty years to promin
ent, families in the south side, was
struck by an automobile driven by
Florentine in Jackson Park. She died
in Illinois Central Hospital on' Tues
day last
Driver Fled
Florentine fled in. his car, leaving
the aged woman to ,be taken to the
hospital by Mrs. William H. Witter,
4506 Oakenwald avenue.
Mrs. Herbert Wood Smith, 554S
Dorchester avenue, 'prominent Hyde
the colonies." Again: "Up to the
closing years of the American Revo
lution never had there been such op
portunities for developing their pow
er to function as citizens." Then,
came the invention of the cotton gin,
and slavery from being a patriarchal
establishment became a business of
exploiting men. The slaves were
denied all education, colonization
was promoted to get rid of ambi
tious free blacks, and a brisk domes
tic slave trade made any real family
life well-nigh impossible. And then,
out of the greed of the slave owner
and the man who traded him came
the Civil War.
The catastrophe of the Civil War
and the Negro's part in it is admir
ably treated in this book. The recon
struction period is told from its po
litical and economic sides, and we
have short accounts, with their photo
graphs, of prominent Negro congress
menBruce, Elliott, Walls. DeLarge
and Cain. The author shows the
helplessness of the Negro in the
South after the withdrawal of fed
eral troops in 1876 and the murder
ous activities of the Ku Klux Klan.
Then came an exodus to the West
similar to the recent exodus to the
North. Then as now the southern
employer of labor tried to stop the
movement, did all he could to make
transit facilities impossible, and
threatened those who tried to leave.
Then as now the best elements of the
two races ot together and talked
and made promises, and when the .ex
odus stopped forgot what had been
promised:
Booker T. Washington and his
movement is carefully described and '
much emphasis is laid on the prog
ress of ihe Negro today. Yet
throughout the book one continually
feels the scholar who wishes to give
facts, not merely to sing the praises
of his race.
We are glad to have this volume
and hope that it will be used as a
text-book in both colored and white"
schools. We shall all find it inval
uable as a work of reference.
Park club woman, who witnessed th?
accident testified at the inquest, a&d
when the coroner's jury' exonerated
Florentine immediately requested Cofi
oner Hoffman to' reopen the (hottest.
stating that Deputy Walsh had not
allowed the witnesses to tell their
stones.
Rather than reopen the Inquest,
Coroner Hoffman stated he will lay
all the testimony and a list of nu
nesses before State's Attorney Crowe
and demand grand jury action against
Florentine.
Will Tell Story to Crowe
The suspension of the denotv fol
lowed a lonr conference twtw ,.-
oner Hoffmen- and Mrs". Smiti.
It a well indeed that CbrsserlHoff-
man decided to curb the power H old
Uncle Mike Walsh, for lately hVhax
nad a bad case of the big or swell
head and it will do him a whole lot
of good to at least separate him from
the payroll for a short time.
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