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Show ALLEN ATTACKS RELIGIOUS HATE Certain Types of Klan Members and Catholics Are Denounced GREAT BEXP. Kani , Oct 31 One pistol shot could prortueo a state of civil war In Kansas similar to that In Ireland, aocordlng to Governor Henry J. Allan, who continued hla attacks on the Ku Klux Klan here Monday His speech was a part of series of political addresses ho Is making In a pre-election tour of the state, but the latter portion of it was devoted to a acathlnp denunciation of religious I , 1 bigotry and community hatred. Tho governor denounced certain types of Catholics and members of th klan In tho some breath, telling them they ehould both be ashamed of themselves. them-selves. NEGROES FRIGHTENED. After drawing a comparison be- tween the conditions in Kansas and ihoso In Ireland and telling of requests re-quests his office had received from men to be allowed to arm to defend themselves, ' because they were frightened," fright-ened," tho governor asked, "Do you want turned loose in this state the . horrors of a civil war ." God forbid sueh a war' And yet what can you suggest to thi negroes of tho state, in some communities of which there are thousands, when tho old Ku Klux Klan that terrified them SG 'Cars ago Is again riding at night? Tan you expect ex-pect them no: to take any means whatever what-ever to protect themselves?" "I appear here In this town and 7 find men hating each other," continued contin-ued Governor Allen. "This man being haterl heraiisrt t: n On 1 hnl ii .mil this man because he Is Klunsman and jour community is torn by a thing our fathers gave their lives to g i rid of " BOTH SIDES BLAMED. "You both arc to blame. You Catholics Cath-olics who go out and say, 'I don't vote for a man that is not a Catholic, I am going to put my political activities bo-hind bo-hind my religion.' You ought to be ashamed of yourselves. And you men who Joined tho klan and sa, Here Is an order that exists for the protection of white supremacy and to save us from tho Catholic church, ought to be ashamed." "I am not against your organization becauso you don't like the Catholic church. I am not a Catholic. I am a! Methodist, a thirty-second degree Mason and a Knight Templar, l bb-long bb-long to all these organizations. 1 h r the 6lgn of distress nn.l l pay the In-ltiatlon In-ltiatlon fee. I belong to everything except tho Knights of Columbus and the Ku Klux Klan, and l wouldn't join either of them. BASIt LANGUAGE. "Ireland Is fighting over a quarrel that Is S00 years old, but wo curbed ft In America when we wrote into the constitution that all men should have the right to worship God according to their ideas. 1 don't know what is to blame. 1 know that you have man) Catholics in the community I know that tho Catholic church has been 1 guilty of some unwise duties against the school system because there shou'd be In this country, as the basis of our citizenship, the English language The first year of my term as governor Ahe.rc was written lino the statute's of) 0 this state a law saying that in thej primary schools, whether free or paro-1 -hlcal, the basic language should be English and DO langu ix- but the Eng-! lish language taught In the primary grades." nn |