Show 00 KU KLUX AND VIGILANTES They have hae had a parade ot of the th Kit Ku Klux Klan man In Waco W co Texas TeaB and the tho dispatches report that the pa- pa pil lade nas 1 as the tho largest hel held l there since the tragedy of o a II year ago io hen shea wh n the horl ot of C Lennan county attempted to break up A I demonstration ot or the masked marchers Th The south is a ft fertile erble Held field for the gi giOVo OVo th ot of the klan as the tho tb Ku Klan originated In la the tha south as at a II pro pro- protest pro protest test against gO gOern ern t tent ent by carpet carpet- carpetbaggers carpet carpet-baier sent down from rom the north at atthe attile atthe tile the end of the th Civil war ar I But Dut the th present Ku Iu Klux Klan has hasa R a mission quite quit different from Irom that ot of I fifty oars cars ago tto rile rhe organization to today day Is Ia founded on racial prejudices and hatred mixed with religious emcee crance I j What would happen to this country of ours our it if e ei cry body of ot men WIth lilt realI realor real I i or lr ir fancied ances against neigh neigh- neighbors neigh I bors was to form torm secret alliances and behind the tM mask proceed to corn com com I mit outrages r Within i 8 short period all semblance 01 o law and Older oidor would disappear tol to t Ibo bo be tollO cd by a reign feIgn ot of and anarchy In dIe earl early days day of ot the tile west est In Montana and nd California Vigilantes I 1 nero ero formed tormod to rid communities s of ot the clat class 1 Ill he guttman the tho the Iho holdup were hanged 10 the th limbs limb of ol trees tree tn In Dodio Bodle Call Call- California fornia ilie they had the Got which put halt a l dozen dOlen men to death The Tho Th work ot of the tb tb VIgilantes m as 8 swift And nd awful nd the th tb effect WOoS was as a thOUgh a plague spot had bad been swept by a tornado But tM th Vigilantes s tas as w an n uprIsing of oC the people and nd when the he th purifying fIres ot of wrath had bad ben been applied the neni ceased to opera Operate to ven venthon then thon the th Vigilantes were everel con con- condemned con denind by U who d desired to up uphold hold the orderly processes proc of ot the th law AS 11 tt do matter ol ot fact tact In those thor days law the tho he corn com thera was a dearth of ot as were nothing more nore than crudely organised assemblages of ot men fixed l d place plc Of Ot abode bod When the courts became beeme well welt e and the th police powers Were wr In the bands ol ot men Shea of ot moral mord worth and nd high Integrity the tho th Vl disappeared OccasionallY 11 a mob ope ted butot butof but ot of 18 late years the tho west Yest hu heM been b 0 almost tree free rom from this form torm of ot violence |